May 29, 2017 Open Thread; World Digestive Health Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 5:00am

May 29 is the 149nd day of the year. There are 216 days left.

Today's number is 29

Today's number is Twenty-Nine

29 is a prime
29 is copper
29 is a song by Steve Earle
29 Palms is a small town in the California Desert
29 Palms is a large US Marine Corps Base in the California Desert
The Chattanooga Choo Choo departed from Track 29
I-29 connects Missouri & North Dakota. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however.
Route 29 connects Maryland to Florida. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however.

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Title 29 of the US Code is LABOR.

29 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius
Horace wrote the Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen (an ode) and Virgil started the Aeneid

29 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus

On this day in:

1453 -- Fall of Constantinople and end of the Byzantine Empire.
1660 -- Charles II was restored to the throne of England, Ireland and Scotland
1733 -- The right of Canadians to enslave Native Americans was upheld
1790 -- Rhode Island became the 13th state of the US
1798 -- Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen were massacred by the British Army
1852 -- Jenny Lind left the US to return to Britain
1864 -- Emperor Maximilian I arrived in Mexico
1867 -- The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 created the Austro-Hungarian Empire
1886 -- The first advertisement for Coca-Cola was placed
1913 -- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered
1918 -- Armenia defeated the Ottoman Army at Sardarabad
1919 -- Einstein's theory of general relativity was tested by Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1932 -- The Bonus Army began to assemble in DC
1953 -- Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summited Everest
1973 -- Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of L.A. without deflating any footballs
1990 -- The Russian parliament elected Yeltsin President
1999 -- The Discovery successfully docked with the ISS

Born this day in:

1630 -- Charles II of England (freaky, see above at 1660)
1736 -- Patrick Henry, politician
1823 -- John H. Balsley, inventor of the safety step-ladder
1860 -- Isaac Albeniz, pianist and composer
1874 -- G. K. Chesterton, writer, father Brown's dad.
1880 -- Oswald Spengler, historian and philopopher
1893 -- Max Brand, author
1906 -- T. H. White, writer
1914 -- Tenzing Norgay, who summited Everest on his 39th birthday in 1953
1917 -- John F. Kennedy, politician
1929 -- Peter Higgs, physicist, the boson dude.
1932 -- Paul R. Ehrlich, biologist and writer
1945 -- Gary Brooker, singer, songwriter, pianist, founding member of Procul Harum
1945 -- Catherine Lara, violinist, composer and singer
1947 -- Joey Levine, singer, songwriter, producer & jingle writer
1949 -- Francis Rossi, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1953 -- Danny Elfman, singer, songwriter, producer and actor (Oingo Boingo)
1955 -- Mike Porcaro, bassist
1956 -- La Toya Jackson, singer, songwriter, actress
1959 -- Steve Hanley, bassist
1961 -- Melissa Etheridge, singer, songwriter, activist and guitarist
1961 -- John Miceli, drummer
1963 -- Blaze Bayley, singer and songwriter
1967 -- Noel Gallagher, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1969 -- Chan Kinchla, guitarist (Blues Treveler)

As to Spengler -- Quoting Wikipedia

He predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre - death emergency whose countering would necessitate Caesarism (extraconstitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of the central government).

Died this day in:

1453 -- Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor who went down with his empire
1500 -- Bartolomeu Dias, explorer
1691 -- Cornelis Tromp, an admiral of renown
1829 -- Humphry Davy, chemist
1847 -- Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, overpursued von Thielmann and Bonaparte fell.
1866 -- Winfield Scott, committer of great wrongs against the Cherokee and others
1892 -- Bahaullah, founder of Bahai religions
1911 -- W. S. Gilbert, Sullivan's partner
1953 -- Morgan Russell, painter
1998 -- Barry Goldwater, politician
2012 -- Doc Watson, singer, songwriter, legend, and guitarist
2014 -- Walter Jakob Gehring, biologist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Ascension of Bahaullah
Oak Apple Day (England), celebrates the end of Roundhead rule.
World Digestive Health Day
Memorial Day (US)

So, for music 

29
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Isaac Albeniz
Gary Brooker
Catherine Lara
Joey Levine
Francis Rossi
Danny Elfman
Mike Porcaro
La Toya Jackson
Steve Hanley
Melissa Etheridge
John Miceli
Blaze Bayley
Noel Gallagher
Chan Kinchla
W.S. Gilbert
Doc Watson






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Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Isaac Albeniz

Gary Brooker

Catherine Lara

Joey Levine

Francis Rossi

Danny Elfman

Mike Porcaro

La Toya Jackson

Steve Hanley (bass)

Melissa Etheridge

John Miceli

Blaze Bayley

Noel Gallagher

Chan Kinchla

W.S. Gilbert

Doc Watson

There are about 90 more Doc Watson songs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQMQ7qHfqQ&list=PL48446023595864E7, won't embed
it has some scattered ads.

OK, what's on your minds?

Bonus:

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Comments

Submitted by lotlizard on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 7:41am

Manchester bomber tied to exile network UK sent to fight Gaddafi

‘Sorted’ by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi

The above is just one source among several cited by website The Automatic Earth in this article:

Manchester, or Innocence Long Lost

Submitted by dkmich on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 11:36am

Did you see where the surviving hero of the Portland attack

had to set up a go fund me account to pay for his medical bills? Are we great yet?

In a cruel twist to a devastating story about bravery in the face of hate, friends of Micah Fletcher, the sole survivor of the Oregon transit stabbing on Friday, are now trying to raise funds to pay for his life-saving medical treatment.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/28/after-heroic-intervention-f...

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Submitted by lotlizard on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 12:26pm

Crushing. And here’s another GoFundMe heartbreaker

@dkmich
https://www.gofundme.com/reese-bowman-our-angel

Baby Reese was in daycare and for some unfathomable reason, the woman who worked there decided to kill her.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-daycare-infant-...

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 8:23am

29

Hey E L, thanks for the numbers! Isn't 29 some kind of time correction for our funny calandar on leap years?

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 9:24am

Indeed it is, February 29 in the catch-up day.

@QMS

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by lotlizard on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 12:35pm

Yup. When the year is “bissextile,” 2/29 is the bissextile day.

@QMS
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bissextile&t=ffsb&ia=definition

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 5:08pm

yuk, yuk

@lotlizard bissextile sounds like a fabric which goes both ways

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 9:17am

Good holiday morning, el~

There's an explosive article on The Intercept about DAPL that is required reading girl everyone. Take the time. We need to learn to infiltrate the likes of TigerSwan, et.al., now. It's the only way to win.

Have a beautiful day, everyone!

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 9:41am

We need to do something. Private militias

@Raggedy Ann
working for corporations committed horrible crimes trying to prevent labor organizing, suppress labor and the like. Mercenaries are, by nature, odious, but when they serve as private armies, they are anethema. One major reason for having a government is to give it a monopoly on armed policing power so as to prevent chaos and incessant localized gang warfare. Theoretically these forces work for the public good and provide a secure and stable environment for the people, protecting them and enforcing their will. Having a government that condones and even hires thug armies off of the street, lacking any goals or purpose other than profit at the top and paychecks at the bottom, with no ethics or moral code, for whom any and every tactic is acceptable in pursuit of any and every conceivable goal or mission is unacceptable and unconscionable.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by riverlover on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 10:18am

I guess the lesson from #NoDAPL is that resistance

@enhydra lutris will be treated as an enemy incursion, by US citizens in the USA. The ante is being upped. But now we are warned.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 12:21pm

We faced live ammo, fixed bayonets, military grade

@riverlover
tear gas and pepper fog, vehicles mounted with twin machine gun mounts and such in Berkeley in '69, but that was under Governor Ronnie Raygun, and was pretty uncommon across the country. Since Ferguson, however, it's pretty clear that they will run pacification campaigns on protestors at the drop of a hat.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 5:34pm

civil defense

@enhydra lutris Perhaps we can re-define an old cold war concept with a new meaning...civil defense as in protecting citizens rights...

https://caucus99percent.com/sites/default/files/user%20images/CivilDefen...

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 9:21pm

Great idea.

@QMS

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by lotlizard on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 10:29am

DoD sez May was “Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month”

http://www.deomi.org/

I didn’t know that.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 12:10pm

According to Wikipedia

@lotlizard

In June 1977 Reps. Frank Horton of New York and Norman Y. Mineta of California introduced a United States House of Representatives resolution to proclaim the first ten days of May as Asian-Pacific Heritage Week.[2][3][4] A similar bill was introduced in the Senate a month later by Daniel Inouye and Spark Matsunaga.[2] "The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants."[2][5][6] President Jimmy Carter signed a joint resolution for the celebration on October 5, 1978.[2]

House Resolution 540[edit]
"A joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim annually a week during the first 10 days in May as Pacific/Asian American Heritage Week." This resolution as well as Senate Joint Resolution 72 did not pass through however, did lead to the passing of Rep. Horton's House Joint Resolution 1007 which passed through both the House and the Senate and ultimately signed by President Jimmy Carter on October 5, 1978 to become Public Law 95-419. In 1990, George H.W. Bush signed a bill passed by Congress to extend Asian-American Heritage Week to a month;[7][8][9] May was officially designated as Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month two years later.[5][10][11][12] On May 1, 2009 President Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation which recalls the challenges faced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and celebrates their great and significant contributions to our society.[13]

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by Arrow on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 12:07pm

Greetings Comrades

Coming to you for a while from the glorious 'Land of Lenin'(Tm).
No not 'that' Lenin, Lenin Moreno the new President of Ecuador.
I'm outside the belly of the beast and enjoying it in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Free at last...Free at lest...Great god almighty...I'm free at last.

Nice compilation as usual EL. Always look forward to it.

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I want a Pony!

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 1:15pm

You are in hummingbird heaven, they

@Arrow
have roughly eleventy grabillion species there and a big ass statue of one in Quito. Watch out for the sun, however, you're on the equator and burn much more rapidly than you might suspect.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by Arrow on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 2:32pm

I.ll watch it

@enhydra lutris @enhydra lutris sunny out on roof top patio. Got to fe felling a little hot. Yes.,have to watch it.

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I want a Pony!