Monday Open Thread: November 5 is Bank Transfer Day


November 5 is the 309th day of the year
It is also Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 17, 3184 YOLD (discordian)
And 13.0.5.17.9 by the Mayan Long Count


Wanted Poster at Holburn Station (London, UK)



Bank Transfer Day was a call for everybody to move their banking activities from commercial banks to credit unions by November 5, 2011. It was posted on Facebook(tm) and is allegedly still up there. It clearly did not happen, so I presume that it is still there for the purpose of exhorting folks to move their funds regardless of the lapsed due date. The Wiki says it has 54,900 likes, which means that a relatively tiny fraction of the populace has even bothered to click like, yet alone do anything about it. I don't do Facebook(tm), but I'm pretty sure that there ate cat pictures with more likes than that. All the same, it is a good idea, so go for it.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid,
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On this day in history:

1605 – Guy Fawkes was arrested, ending The Gunpowder Plot and eventually leading to Guy Fawkes Night and Guy Fawkes Day. Though originally arguably somewhat patriotic, celebrating the survival of King James I, it rapidly degenerated into an anti-Catholic hate fest. Not that I have any use for the Catholic Church, but that is all part of all of those European religious wars, and something that we should all try to leave behind.

1872 – Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, eventually being fined $100 for her temerity.

1916 – The Everett massacre: vigilantes, hired dicks and the local cops attacked a boatload of Wobblies with gunfire, murdring many as a followup to their prior attack on striking wobblies with axe handles and such. Naturlly, they blamed the victims themselves.

1940 – FDR was elected to a third term, resulting in the passage and ratification of the 22nd Amendment, limiting Presidents to 2 terms.

1943 – The Vatican was bombed, but nobody was killed. Nobody admitted doing it either.

2007 – Google rolled out the Android operating system.

Born this day in:

1701 – Pietro Longhi, a painter

1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet

1855 – Eugene V. Debs, union leader and politician imprisoned for speaking his mind.

1857 – Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist, educator, and reformist

885 – Will Durant, historian and philosopher

1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, biologist and geneticist

1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer and inventor of the Whipple Shield to protect spacecraft

1911 – Roy Rogers, actor, singer and guitarist who named his horse "trigger" and his pistol "hoof"

1919 – Myron Floren, Lawrence Welk's accordianist

1921 – Georges Cziffra, pianist and composer

1923 – Rudolf Augstein, journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel

1923 – 1931 – Ike Turner, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer

1941 – Art Garfunkel, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1946 – Gram Parsons, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1947 – Peter Noone, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

1948 – Peter Hammill, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer

1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, singer and songwriter

Died this day in:

1459 – John Fastolf, somewhat the prototype of Shakespeare's Falstaff

1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, physicist and mathematician

1942 – George M. Cohan, vaudvillian, singer, dncer, composer, songwriter, playwright, producer

1956 – Art Tatum, pianist and composer

1960 – Johnny Horton, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1964 – Buddy Cole, pianist and conductor

1977 – Guy Lumbago Lombardo, violinist and conductor

1980 – Louis Alter, pianist, songwriter and composer

1986 – Bobby Nunn, singer (doo wop), Robins, Coasters

1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, pianist and composser

1996 – Eddie Harris, saxophonist

2003 – Bobby Hatfield, singer and songwriter

2005 – Link Wray, singer, songwriter and guitarist

2015 – George Barris, engineer and car designer; engineer? who knew?

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Bank Transfer Day
Guy Fawkes Day/Night
All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds (Seriously?)

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Music goes here, iirc

Bank Transfer Day

Everett Massacre

Ike Turner

Art Garfunkel

Gram Parsons

Peter Noone

James Clerk Maxwell

Art Tatum

Buddy Cole

Bobby Nunn

Eddie Harris

Link Wray


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Lookout's picture

another rain last night (about 3/4 inch). More due tomorrow. Seems we're in our winter pattern here.

I've printed out my sample ballot and filled it in ready for tomorrow. I'm not hearing much excitement here in AL, but next door in GA there's a buzz. Looking forward to Wed. AM results - a wave? a trickle? stalemate?

Interesting how Anonymous uses Guy Fawkes mask
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anonymous-how-the-guy-fa...

Today...
This Guy Fawkes Day in Denver on November 5th we invite you to come join us for a peaceful assembly! Our march times are 12:30, 3:30 and 5:30.
2 min into the clip they tell about the march...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ridJszkSkc

Have a good day. I've got a plumbing project to tackle....working toward a new well house. All the best!

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@Lookout
Today here is planting a newly acquired Toyon somewhere in the back yard for the birds, start serious prepping for our coming camping trip and our weekly Monday walk at the lake.

Have a good one.

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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 --

that Jack built". Not only are we living in it but there is a lack of understanding about what it took to build that house and so lack of respect for the achievement. Propaganda keeps us running in circles.
Good morning to you e.l. and thanks. Lots of "stuff" here to look at and listen to. I'm shaken this morning after watching the latest Chomsky interview on A. Goodman's show that Lookout posted in his roundup. It is an extremely pointed summary on the complicity of the U.S. in the collapse of social order around the world and in turn the destruction of the planet. We all know this, but this interview is astonishingly powerful in hammering home these simple facts.

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@randtntx
that Jack built, and respect and admire it, but I had a widely varied set of life experiences and job history from junior high school on. Yes, propaganda, marketing, and the overall noise machine does keep us blind. I haven't go to Lookout's round-up yet, so thanks for the reminder and the tip on the Interview.

Have a good one.

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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 --

@enhydra lutris referring to you, it's just my two cents on how in general, our society isn't made aware of the history that is relevant to working people. You know, H. Zinn and all that. No disrespect intended to you Smile I was quoting the Joe Jenks spoken word piece which I had not heard before and did not know about myself!

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@randtntx
both on the spoken word piece and on your comment about our blindness and its causes.

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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 --

I hope everyone had a good enough weekend to see them through Blue Monday to Hump Day, and then some.

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@HenryAWallace
yourself.

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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 --

@enhydra lutris

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morning el...

Rescued many persimmons from the rats and now must process them in some way. Ideas?

Thanks for the (indirect) reminder to watch to lo's videos, randtntx.

Compilation day for me. No rain in the western skies. Yet. Smoke from up Highway 9 way. Fire in the steeply inclined woods. Wanting to throw a monkey wrench into the machine. Ideas.

Thanks for the OT and have a very good one... Smile

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@magiamma @magiamma

A favorite treat. If you have a chinois, cone strainer, press the persimmons first; i've just mashed them into a puree before, works OK.

There are several recipes online: i basically do this:

Persimmons after puree: 2 cups

1 and 1/2 cups sugar or to taste; most online recipes call for too much sugar for me.

2 cups milk

2 cups flower

3/4 teaspoon baking powder and 3/4 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs beaten

6 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

half a lemon juice or splash of apple cider vinegar

combine ingredients, i just stir it really well

grease a glass baking dish

bake for around an hour at 325

done when it has pulled away from the sides of the pan and a knife comes out clean, but it should not be cake-like, a consistency between a soft pudding and brownies.

Or maybe, to be safe, follow an online recipe; just take care not to use too much sugar.

bon appétit

PS: Thanks for the Lisa Fischer, splendid.

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@smiley7
probably honey, very little, and more eggs and some vanilla. Yum. Smile

Will freeze the rest, per randtntx, as I would be swimming in pudding if I used them all.

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@magiamma @magiamma about persimmons but in a book called Canning For a New Generation by Liana Krissoff, there is a suggestion to freeze them if you have too many at one time.

Freezing persimmon pulp:
Remove the green-brown tops, Mash up whole wild persimmons, then push the pulp through a sieve to remove the seeds. Freeze up to six months.

She says that ripe persimmon is delicious as an apricot but unripe, they are awful.
She has a recipe for persimmon pudding using the thawed pulp. If you like I can pm that to you. Oh, and that Chomsky link is worth a watch.

Mark Bittman has a fresh fruit and nut bread recipe with persimmon, walnuts, and nutmeg. I can send that as well.

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@magiamma
sourdough starter, ate lunch and ready to get back at it.
Grill needs a wash and it looks like my wife's new binos need a repair to the lens cap.
Can't help with persimmons, sorry. Good luck there.

Have a good one.

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Looks like winter arrives in force around Thursday; so i've lots of things to get done.

Thanks for today's OT and have a good one.

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@smiley7 miley, didn't see you up there as I was typing away.

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@smiley7

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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 --

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in town today at a campaign rally here in NY-21 for our congress critter candidate. Our lovely Sheriff did the intros, and did them very well, (sad that she won't run for higher office). It was short and sweet, maybe 25 minutes, but I got to meet her up close and shake hands. Not a big deal, but it's not every day you get to meet your U.S. Senator. Hell, it's been years since I've met my state Senator, I don't think she ever leaves Albany. Kirsten looks just like she does on the tv, think she's running unopposed.
Kirsten doesn't need a gps thingy to find NY State

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