Monday OT: 03/15/21 is the Ides of March

Today is day 74 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
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And let us not forget 13.0.8.6.6 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

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argentina 2-5; Largo di Torre Argentina

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On this day in 44 BCE, Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Curia of Pompey in Rome.  The exact site of his assassination lies within the square in central Rome known as the Largo di Torre Argentina.  We went there specifically to see the Gatti, not being aware at the time that it was exactamente where he bought it.  It is mors likely within the picture above, though the picture doesn't quite show the full square, which is hard to shoot.  This event, as we all know spawned some truly classic theater:

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On this day in history:

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44 BC – Julius Caesar (aka Julie Baby) was assassinated

1493 – Christopher Columbus returned to Spain from his first trip to the "Indies".

1672 – Charles II issued the Declaration of Indulgence decriminalizing non-C of E religions

1781 – Battle of Guilford Court House near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina

1916 – Woodrow Wilson sent 4,800 troops into Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa

1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated
 

1939 – Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
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1951 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized guaranteeing a CIA overthrow of its government

1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War, leaving only the US at war with Somalia

1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.

2011 – Beginning of the so-called Civil War on Syria by foreign fighters, jihadis, al-quada, and other proxy forces

2019 – Fifty-one people were killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.

2019 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries went on strike to protest global inaction on climate change

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Born this day in:

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

~~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1754 – Archibald Menzies, surgeon and botanist
1790 – Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, mathematician and academic
1809 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts,  historian and politician, 1st President of Liberia
1813 – John Snow, physician and seminal epidemiologist
1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist
1830 – Paul Heyse, author, poet, and playwright
1830 – Élisée Reclus, geographer, anarchist, and academic
1835 – Eduard Strauss, composer and conductor
1838 – Karl Davydov, cellist, composer, and conductor
1851 – William Mitchell Ramsay, archaeologist and scholar
1852 – Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, playwright, and translator
1854 – Emil von Behring, physiologist and physician
1858 – Liberty Hyde Bailey, botanist and academic
1860 – Waldemar Haffkine, bacteriologist and microbiologist
1864 – Johan Halvorsen, violinist, composer, and conductor
1868 – Grace Chisholm Young, mathematician
1874 – Harold L. Ickes, journalist and politician
1900 – Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer
1912 – Lightnin' Hopkins, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1916 – Harry James, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor
1920 – E. Donnall Thomas, physician and academic
1922 – Eddie Calvert, trumpeter
1926 – Ben Johnston, composer and academic
1927 – Carl Smith, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1928 – Bob Wilber, clarinetist and saxophonist
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, legendary lawyer and judge
1936 – Howard Greenfield, songwriter
1938 – Charles Lloyd, saxophonist and flute player
1940 – Phil Lesh, bassist
1941 – Mike Love, pop singer, songwriter, and musician (no comment)
1943 – Sly Stone, singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
1947 – Ry Cooder, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1950 – Jørgen Olsen, singer & songwriter
1991 – Nigel Ng, Uncle Roger, Haiyaa.

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Died this day in:

 The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

~~ H.P. Lovecraft

44 BC – Julius Caesar, general and statesman
1575 – Annibale Padovano, organist and composer
1673 – Salvator Rosa, painter and poet
1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, engineer and academic
1897 – James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician and academic
1898 – Henry Bessemer, engineer and businessman
1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, short story writer, editor, and novelist
1938 – Nikolai Bukharin, journalist and politician
1942 – Rachel Field, author and poet
1959 – Lester Young, saxophonist and clarinet player
1962 – Arthur Compton, physicist and academic
1991 – Bud Freeman, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1998 – Tim Maia, Brazilian singer & songwriter
1998 – Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author
2004 – John Pople, chemist and academic
2008 – Mikey Dread,  singer,songwriter, and producer
2008 – Vytautas Kernagis, singer, songwriter, and actor
2011 – Smiley Culture, singer and DJ
2013 – Hardrock Gunter, singer, songwriter. and guitarist (b. 1925)
2013 – Terry Lightfoot, clarinet player
2014 – Scott Asheton, drummer
2014 – Cees Veerman,  singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2015 – Mike Porcaro, bass player

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

Act Happy Day (hoax yourself if need be, that's an order)

The following are not recognized or celebrated in the US except by individuals and cliques or organizations

World Consumer Rights Day (International) yeah, like it would be
International Day Against Police Brutality (ditto)
National Workplace Napping Day (Day after DST ends, appropriate, but subversive)
National Peanut Lovers Day - This is actually a bait and switch promotion site

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

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Lightnin Hopkins

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Harry James

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Eddie Calvert

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Bob Wilbur

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Howard Greenfield

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Charles Lloyd

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Phil Lesh

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Mike Love

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Sly Stone

Ry Cooder

Lester Young

Bud Freeman

Mikey Dread

Terry Lightfoot

Mike Pocaro

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Introducing Uncle Roger, haiyaa

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I'm not going to be here today, you're all on your own, play nice.

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It's an open thread, so do your thing, got it? Below this point this is a public forum, your forum, nothing is off topic, so go for it


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Lookout's picture

Beware the ides ... Just act happy. I would prefer to be happy rather than act happy.

Rain due today. We need it. Looks like most of west needs some rain too.
Screenshot_2021-03-15 Current Map United States Drought Monitor.png

Hope you all have a good day!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Lily O Lady's picture

@Lookout

It stretched into the teens, too. Every time a high pressure system comes and sits on us I’m afraid it’ll never leave. So far I have been wrong lately. I worry that I will be right.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

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@Lily O Lady

and still see trees dying from all those dry years.

However, last summer was a pleasant respite.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout
PNW flush with rain and snow. Cascades of Wa. well over 100% snow pack.
Oregon too. Southern and Eastern Or. could use some more rain ( 70-90% ).
More rain coming this week.
Welcome the Ides of Happy!
Have a great day, Lookout.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Lookout's picture

@earthling1

you too.

Have a great day

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

lotlizard's picture

* Paké = kama‘aina kine Chinee peopo live Hawai‘i = people of Chinese ancestry whose roots in Hawai‘i go way, way back, mostly to even before annexation — since after annexation, the U.S. applied the Chinese Exclusion Acts to the Islands… (sound of doors slamming shut and voices shouting “Build the wall!”)

Funny character, I’m very entertained by the code-switching (i.e., he can also speak perfect standard English without the exaggerated Chinese accent). Various accents are also part of the persona I myself adopt for fun with certain friends.

Box of Rain — sure brings back the memories and the feelings, as do Brokedown Palace and Attics of My Life from that same album…

Whoa, the German Greens really smoked Merkel’s party in yesterday’s state election…

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/wahl/bw/landtagswahl-2021/wahlkreisergebni...

And: Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein were close friends?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-woody-allens-close-friendship-with-...

Hey, say what you will about Mike Love and the Beach Boys, if Sir Ringo Starr (who is 80!) rates a knighthood…

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lotlizard's picture

National Workplace Napping Day (Day after DST ends, appropriate, but subversive)

In Europe, DST (or, as it is usually called, “Summer Time”) doesn’t begin for another two weeks yet.

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@lotlizard

they try to make it as complicated as possible.
It works for that. Otherwise, not so much.
There are a handful of states trying to nix the whole deal.
It takes us a month to re-adjust and that ain't right.

my $.02 worth

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26.5" of snow Saturday through this morning. I guess it ended up being a righteous snow after all. I'm not even gonna fire up the snowblower until they plow out the street: nothing is moving here right now... The joys of living in the foothills of the Rockies in the spring!

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

Jen's picture

Just to add a forgotten birthday...

1963 - Bret Michaels - Singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor

Poison
[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G5uamDMoW4o]

Bret Michaels Band
[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYS6LxSev8]

Times seen in concert - 2. Once with Poison and once with BMB.

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Is it great yet?

This is something I feel quite passionate about. I did not know where else to post this question, so I came here.

Where is the antiwar movement in the Democratic party? For years I have been uncomfortable with the Democrats' foreign policy / national security stance. Now, with a Democratic President finally in office along with a hawkish foreign policy team, this question has become very sharp. Has anyone organized on this in the party? I know there are individuals here and there in Congress, but is there an actual movement? I'm finally ready to support such with actions and money. I'm tired of being limited to an occasional letter to Congress of the President.

Does anyone know of someone I can contact?

Thank you for your attention.

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@Walker

https://www.answercoalition.org

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/stop-war-now/

https://peace-activism.org

https://www.ranker.com/list/notable-peace-activist_s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peace_activists

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@Walker  
https://www.codepink.org/

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Lookout's picture

@Walker

Here's some sites I use.

http://www.antiwar.com/

https://thegrayzone.com/

https://popularresistance.org/ is good as well

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Walker Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the responses.

I was hoping for a movement within the Democratic Party. I tried to contact Ilhan Omar via her Congressional website, but didn't have a proper zip code for her district.

The Democratic Party was the peace party back in 1970. It has changed.

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@Walker

long ago and supported every one of Bush’s wars, but the small anti war movement formed during Bush went to sleep after Obama continued them plus added 5 more of his own. We came from a site that was anti war during Bush and was called racist if we dared criticize Obama. Hillary? Got banned. Obama killed the anti war movement because people wouldn’t see him for what he was.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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I never knew that; look at that timeline - 3/15 is quite the foreboding day!

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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hmmmm.... okay, then, have a good one y'all

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Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation

Hot Air Website, Twitter, Facebook

Lily O Lady's picture

@magiamma

Dubya Bush I believe. I don’t remember seeing it before then. Now they all do it. Yuck!

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"