Open Thread: Monday, April 4, 2016

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 7:00am

Happy 4/4/16

Today's number is 4

4 is the second squared number

4 is the smallest squared prime

4 is the only even squared prime

4 is both 2 doubled and 2 squared

A number is divisible by 4 if its last two digits are divisible by 4. For example 1632 is divisible by 4 because 32 is divisible by 4 (4 x 8 = 32)

A Tetrahedron has 4 sides and 4 vertices. It is the simplest Platonic solid

4 is the first positive non-Fibonacci number

4 pops up quite frequently in religions, magik, divination & superstitions

4 is beryllium

The four states of matter are: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.

There are four fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravitation, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force)

There are 4 forms in the logical "square of Opposition": A ("All S is R"), I ("Some S is R"), E ("No S is R"), and O ("Some S is not R")

It takes 4 Supreme Court Justices to grant a writ of cert.

There were 4 classical Greek elements (earth, water, air & fire)

There are 4 seasons

There are 4 suits in a standard deck of playing cards

There are 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse, plus Basement Cat.

4 BC was Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Rufus

Herod the Great died

Publius Quintilius Varus, then Governon of Syria (YES, that damn Varus again), took three of his four legions from Antioch to Jerusalem to restore order and crucified 2,000 Jewish rebels.

Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist was born

4 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Catus and Saturninus

Augustus adopted Tiberius to be his heir

On this date in
1147	The first historical record of Moscow, 345 years before 1492
1581	Francis Drake was knighted for circumnavigating the world
1796	Georges Cuvier gave his first paleontological lecture, founding the science of paleontology
1818	The US Congress adopted the US flag, later to be fetishised
1850	Los Angeles was incorporated as a city
1887	Susanna M. Salter became the first female mayor in the United States in Argonia, Kansas .
1949	12 Nations formed NATO
1958	The CND peace symbol was first displayed
1964	The Beatles had the top 5 songs on the Billboard Top 100
1967	Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech
1968	Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray

Born this day in
1802	Dorothea Dix, an activist, a nurse & an activist nurse
1869	Mary Colter, an awesome architect,
1906	John Cameron Swayze, a journalist
1913	Muddy Waters, a singer, songwriter & guitarist
1932	Clive Davis, who founded Arista Records and J Records
1936	Hugh Masekela, a singer, songwriter & trumpet player
1948	Berry Oakley, a bass player (The Allman Brothers Band)
1948	Pick Withers, a drummer (Dire Straits and Magna Carta).
1949	Junior Braithwaite, a singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
1952	Gary Moore, a singer, songwriter, guitarist, & producer (Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, and Colosseum II)
1971	Josh Todd,, a singer & songwriter,(Buckcherry)

John Cameron Whom?

Died this day in
1617	John Napier, a mathematician, physicist, & astronomer
1774	Oliver Goldsmith, an author, poet & playwright
1912	Isaac K. Funk, a co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls
1919	William Crookes, a chemist and physicist
1923	John Venn, a mathematician and philosopher who liked to diagram stuff
1929	Karl Benz, who started a car company
1958	Johnny Stompanato, a thug who was killed by a teenage girl
1968	Martin Luther King Jr., a minister, activist, & Nobel Prize laureate
2001	Ed (Big Daddy) Roth, an illustrator and engineer

Holidays, Holy Days, Feasts, Observances and such

Today is the Feast of Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA))

  
So it looks like we gots  ...
The Beatles 1964
Muddy Waters
Arista Records
Hugh Masekela
Berry Oakley (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1972)
Pick Withers (Dire Straits and Magna Carta)
Junior Braithwaite (Bob Marley and the Wailers)Junior Braithwaite (Bob Marley and the Wailers) 
Gary Moore (Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, and Colosseum II)
Josh Todd (Buckcherry)

The Beatles

No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love"

No. 2, "Twist and Shout"

No. 3, "She Loves You"

No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

No. 5, "Please Please Me"

Muddy Waters

Arista Records

Two sides of Hugh Masakela:

pop

serious

Berry Oakley

Pick Withers

Junior Braithwaite (Bob Marley and the Wailers)

Gary Moore (Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, and Colosseum II)

Josh Todd (Buckcherry)

OK, it is an open thread, so go for it

Ahhhhhhh Arista

When this posts I’ll still be be in the Anza-Borrego desert, but in the Palm Canyon area and there might be cell coverage out there, so I could maybe drop in. All the same, play nicely among yourselves.

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Comments

Submitted by Haikukitty on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 3:23pm

Totally OT

But your kitty in the pic has beautiful eyes!

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 2:22pm

Good day, EL and 99%'ers!

Hubby said that today is square root day. Fun with numbers!

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 3:37pm

Yeah, I call 'me square days. See comment above for next one.

Comment by Shahryar, that is.

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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 Thumb on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 2:23pm

And this one

Diarist is full on bojo, and diary disappeared from the list with 379 recs.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/04/1509988/-There-is-a-Concerted-E...

They're in full on freak out to protect Hillary down the stretch headed into NY.

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"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me

Submitted by FreakFlagFly on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 2:30pm

I had a bit of a rant about 'cleros' on a few occasions

Had one this morning, in fact:

http://caucus99percent.com/comment/54786#comment-54786

I'm just not sure who is on who's side anymore. All the crap with Greenpeace being lying extremists. WTMFF???

I don't get it. Like my comment above, it's mass suicide what is going on right now. I'm baffled how any of it helps anyone but the Republicans.

Submitted by riverlover on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 4:32pm

Eh, I get a sniff of psy-ops now

but that diary OT is amusing, in an appalling way. The good news is that the Republican side is in such disarray now, no one may notice. Why does the pro-HRC faction sound so stupid? I can't use that word there.

Gloves are off, but with much ineffectual slapping.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 1:21pm

Anti-Greenpeace edits are popping up even at TV Tropes

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics

Since I last saw it, this topic on TV Tropes has been totally reworked to reflect a decidedly pro-nuke political slant.

Note that there’s no actual link to any Greenpeace flyer to document that supposed illustrative quote.

Submitted by dennis1958 on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 2:33pm

I see that diary at the top of rec list

but the author is banned.

I'm thinking that when the PCI APO said he took money from both campaigns and that Sanders had paid more, that he just got confused about who's money he put in what account.
nothing to see there of course.

*PCI APO = probable CIA psyops operative = markos.

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With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU

Submitted by stevej on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 3:41pm