Sunday Open Thread: February 4 is Rosa Parks Day, but only in CA and MO
Feb 4 is also World Cancer Day.
World History this day
0960 -- The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song started the Song Dynasty
1703 -- Forty-Six of the Forty-seven Ronin committed seppuku
1794 -- The French First Republic's legislature abolished slavery
1945 -- The Yalta Conference began
1948 -- Ceylon became independent (within the Commonwealth)
1961 -- The Angolan War of Independence started
1969 -- Arafat became chairman of the PLO
US History this day
1789 -- George Washington was elected President
1801 -- Chief Justice John Marshall was sworn in
1846 -- The first Mormon pioneers left Nauvoo, Illinois
1861 -- The Confederate States of America was formed
1899 -- The Battle of Manila began the Philippine--American War
1999 -- Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times by NYC's finest because they could, and they walked ***
*** The perps (Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss) subsequently claimed that they thought that he was a previous year's rape suspect or a lookoout or something. Suspicion of having committed rape and being a lookout are both punishable by summary execution in NYC, but only for members of certain ethnic groups. This also applies to suspicion of being a previous suspect and suspicion of being maybe some kind of lookout or somehing, again, depending upon ethnicity.
Science & Technology this day
1967 -- Lunar Orbiter 3 was launched to scope out possible landing sites on the moon
2004 -- Facebook was founded
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
1555 -- Bloody Mary's first victim, John Rogers, was burned at the stake
Birthdays of Note this day
1676 -- Giacomo Facco, violinist and composer
1875 -- Ludwig Prandtl, physicist and engineer
1881 -- Fernand Leger, painter and sculptor
1902 -- Charles Lindbergh, pilot and explorer
1906 -- Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer who discovered Pluto
1913 -- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
1921 -- Betty Friedan, author and feminist
1921 -- Lotfi Zadeh, mathematician and computer scientist, founder of fuzzy logic
1929 -- Paul Burlison, rockabilly guitarist
1941 -- John Steel, drummer
1944 -- Florence LaRue, singer from the 5th dimension
1948 -- Alice Cooper, singer and songwriter
1951 -- Phil Ehart, drummer and songwriter
1962 -- Clint Black, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1977 -- Gavin DeGraw, singer and songwriter
Deaths of Note this day
1894 -- Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, invented the saxophone (you know its coming)
1928 -- Hendrik Lorentz, physicist
1968 -- Neal Cassady, novelist and poet
1974 -- Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist
1975 -- Louis Jordan, singer, songwriter and saxophonist
1983 -- Karen Carpenter, singer
1987 -- Liberace, singer, songwriter and pianist
2006 -- Betty Friedan, author and activist
2007 -- Barbara McNair, singer and actress
2013 -- Donald Byrd, trumpet player
2013 -- Reg Presley, singer and songwriter
So now some music
Amadou Diallo
Rosa Parks
Paul Burlison
John Steel
Florence LaRue
Alice Cooper
Phil Ehart
Adolphe Sax
Louis Jordan
Karen Carpenter
Barbara McNair
Donald Byrd
Reg Presley
Photo: by Tullio Saba; BE031622 (Rosa Parks riding the bus 12/21/1956 after the Supremes ruled)
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
Morning EL and all
Oh boy! A day to dig up my favorite 'Benny Hill' episodes!
Today begs the question: Aren't we all being forced to sit in the back of the economic bus?
Trying to have a good day is both an act of #resilience and real #resistance. So have a good day all!
I want a Pony!
Any act of resilience is an act of resistance because it
weakens our dependency of the system and its control over us. Their game depends on the existence of a permanent underclass kept needy, hungry and dependent, which they audent by creating false needs to the best of their ability. Anybody who can and does get along and drops out, to any degree, reduces the competition among the masses for jobs and wherewithal, and by lowering the desperation level reduces the ability of the elites to control and manipulate us.
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 forgot to say good monring and how are you, especially
the how are you part. Is the treatment going well? Are you sir crazy yet? When do you go home?
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 --
EL
Well everyone says 'I'm crazy' so I own that..
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Still upin the air how it's going.
I want a Pony!
A needed rainy morning
here in the corner of Alabama. I met Rosa a couple of times. I don't think Alabama wants to recognized her with a "day". No their focus will be on football...you know modern day gladiators.
Hope you all have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout, lucky you. Both for meeting Rosa
and for rain. We need it or soon will, but I do wish it would do it at night so we can get stuff done during the daytime. Time to start planting here, but aphids just heavily attacked the winter kale.
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 --
First garlic, now this: Sonoma County temperature records fall
as warm, dry winter days take hold. Yikes! yesterday after noon got hot on the deck. Another f-bombing warm dry winter takes hold. Fuuuuuuuuudge. Let's grow more weed why not
At least consumption won't feel so bad while furniture rearranges up top again. Happy Sunday, have a nice day!
Thanks EL and Bloody Mary for the best word today: Catoptromancy. I love following the links around here. It "is divination using a mirror", for those who don't love following links. heh
Celebrate Rosa Parks, sit down! Take a knee. Be loud in gratitude. Thanks.
Good morning, eyo. Thanks for dropping in. In ancient Rome
practitioners of Catoptromancy and also of other forms of scrying were called "specularii". Today's specularii study "charts" and "invest" in stocks, bonds, currencies and real estate.
Have a great day.
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 --
open season
we must seem like target practice. Remember being arrested in a hospital waiting area after bringing a friend to the emergency room for some viral infection. They claimed I looked like "the rooftop robber" suspect? wtf. Had to prove my innocence before they let me go. Murkin justice.
Out of control and completely bogus.
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 --