Sunday Open Thread:June 10 is Howlin' Wolf's Birthday
and it is also Sweetmorn, Confusion 15, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
World History this day
1793 – The Jacobins gained control of the French Committee of Public Safety
1871 – US Marines attacked Korean Han River forts after provoking defensive fire by invading the Han
1898 – US Marines invaded the Spanish colony of Cuba
1916 – Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca declared the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire *
1935 – A truce between Bolivia and Paraguay ended the Chaco War
1940 – Italy declared war on France and the UK
1940 – Norway surrendered to German troops
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay
1967 – Israel and Syria signed a cease-fire, ending the Six-Day War
1980 – The South African ANC published a call to fight from Nelson Mandela
1999 – NATO suspended its bombing after Slobodan Milocevic agreed to pull Serbian forces out of Kosovo
* For which he and his people got screwed by the British
US History this day
1692 – Bridget Bishop was hanged on a hill near Salem for witchcraft
1963 – JFK signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at ending wage differences based on sex
1964 – The Senate broke a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Science & Technology this day
2003 – The Spirit rover was launched
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
Birthdays of Note this day
1804 – Hermann Schlegel, ornithologist and herpetologist, yay
1819 – Gustave Courbet, painter and sculptor
1832 – Nikolaus Otto, engineer, developed internal combustion engine aka Otto cycle engine
1854 – Sarah Grand, feminist writer
1880 – André Derain, painter who invented fauvism
1901 – Frederick Loewe, composer, half of Lerner & Lorwe
1910 – Howlin' Wolf, singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player
1911 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichordist and musicologist
1915 – Saul Bellow, author
1922 – Judy Garland, singer and actress
1931 – João Gilberto, singer, songwriter, guitarist and inventor of Bossa Nova
1941 - Mickey Jones, drummer
1941 - Shirley Owens, singer (Shirelles)
Deaths of Note this day
323 BCE - Alexander the Great, king
1799 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, fencer, composer, violinist and conductor
1836 - Andre-Marie Ampere, physicist and mathematician
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, author, poet, minister
1926 - Antoni Gaudi, architect
1940 - Marcus Garvey, journalist and activist
1946 - Jack Johnson, world heavyweight champion.
1949 - Sigrid Undset, author
1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, playwright and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
2002 - John Gotti, businessman
2004 - Ray Charles, singer, pianist and actor
So now some music
Hermann Schlagel
Howlin Wolf
Joao Gilberto
Mickey Jones
Shirley Owens
Jack Johnson
Ray Charles
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Comments
North Coast’s ‘Great Redwood Trail’ wins approval in California
... Senate, but lacks funding.
Imagine homes for the homeless? NOPE please proceed governor, public/private selloff until death do us part. Kick granny when she's in the ditch. Outta sight, outta mind. Instead, show a picture of the empty train station in Cloverdale now that the tent people have all been "moved along" to "somewhere else". D-Values on the ballot have consequences.
good luck
Good morning, eyo, thanks for the news item. Now I'm
pondering the fact that there is an existing freight run from Napa to Windsor, like, What's the route and what the heck do they haul?
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 --
Freight rail service returns to county
it was a BFD in 2011.
I kinda regret voting SMART all those years. The CEOs make a killing, that stinks. PU. Also, SMART decided to lay new track that freight cars don't fit on, just the commuter boxes that go from Santa Rosa to San Rafael, or maybe they reach Larkspur by now. "Concessions" are run by disabled, if I recall correctly. Public/private contract of course, there always has to be some "program" to get "funded", always a commerce company, never a collective. blech
nattering nabobs of negativism
"Do you see a way out of this?" --Lookout, The Weekly Watch
See that bummer comment I made up there about The Redwood Trail? To answer Lookout, why yes, yes I do "see a way out of this" and that way is to build campgrounds with facilities the whole way along, and to make them free for the homeless but make tourists pay a lot, enough to cover facilities maintenance, clean water, showers, toilets. NO private investment, NO non-profit bullshit either.
Worker co-operatives can run the services, etc.. In fact there already exists a lot of "bike repair" shops in the homeless camps, and hair cutters, and delivery people, and medics, and everything. No stinking program can replace the kind of survivor spirit that lives in the tent camps of California.
The California Conservation Corps should be expanded to do this right now, all the politicians said it's a crisis before the primary. Declaring it a crisis usually means it gets money, but no lobbyist is paying to build campgrounds or cheap shelters that's for sure. Embed health services in every camp, build a 300 mile solar powered grid, water catchment systems, community gardens, food forests, etc.. Low tech development for the win. Disarm the California Sheriffs and make it a secure weapons free zone. 300 miles of peace and prosperity for all, especially wildlife. Reduce, reduce, reduce, human footprints.
What are some kind words I could send to my rep McGuire, the guy who spent hours and hours across many different departments in Sacramento arranging unanimous support for this tourist trail bill? "Please put the basic needs of your constituents first?" I don't think that would penetrate, it has to make money somehow, and not benefit us useless eaters. meh
Oooooo, ooooo,oooo, I know!
What about: "Please put the basic needs of your constituents first?" and we won't sue you personally for all of the costs incurred by all of your victims by your not doing so?
Though I suppose that wouldn't be legal and he'd never have the money to cover all those costs of all of those stunted and ruined lives anyway... I wonder if his donors could be sued... or held up at pitchfork-point.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Good thinking eyo
Thanks for putting it up there. Inspiring ideas.
question everything
Going to say again that I love Judo...
Because it's really been a positive aspect to my life the last couple months. It's really helping me gain a bit of perspective, which is helping with my writing as well.
Plus, it's good old fashioned hard physical labor. Not too much, and not too long, but work that is in the pursuit of an eventual goal. I think that kind of daily achievement is something that far too many of my fellows are missing. They get lost in trying to just live another day and lose track of the horizon.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilv60ka1Qgo]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Good morning, detroit. Good to hear that the Judo is good. I
get my workout doing home repair, I think you've got a better way.
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 --
Heh, well, we have 70 year olds in my Dojo...
So it's never too late.
Honestly, the thing I'm loving the most is just the feeling of lying in bed happily exhausted and clean after the workout. That feeling of knowing that you have succeeded just a little for the day is incredibly wonderful. (I'm starting to get why Gymnasiums were so popular with the Greeks. The social part is incredibly helpful as well.)
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Oh, good, we all need to learn
how to throw the bums out of office!
Seriously, so happy to hear you so positive, and hoping some'll rub off on the rest of us, lol.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Trying to BE positive.
There's a lot of negative out there, and I have to laugh about how taking a historical point of view has also greatly improved my mental health.
Reading philosophy has also helped a lot, because the mental exercise also does a world of good. I honestly feel like I've gotten back onto a path I left behind a long time ago to chase dreams that were not my own. (Was recently given a Signed copy of the History of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale, and that is giving me a great deal of insight into the workings of the US government. Then I read a little Roman Propaganda... and laugh my head off...)
Just feels right. And this point I've found something that I love. (Yes, I'm going to promote my American Empire Series, and my Judo because it's Fun, and I love it.)
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
And they/you're both also doing the rest of us good, lol.
So, thanks - and congrats on having both found and made a path to sanity.
Maybe we'll (meaning me, lol,) follow not only your essays but follow you there, and some of us (see previous interjection) become more positive as well; keep checking your good karma rating to see when it passes roof level!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Sir Marcus Sez, Rally Round
Heya jbob, thanks mucho. 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 --
Just Dropped In
To see what condition my condition was in. Always deserves a hat tip... folks if you don't know the song, do check it out... before Kenny Rogers went country and pop, he almost got psychedelic. There are a few versions of it at utube. This has good lead guitar w/wahwah. I saw them do it on TV a few times as a kid when it was a hit, my year-older bro and I loved it. A few sample lines... not connected as shown, just 5 great ones from the song...
a) woke up this morning with the sundown shinin' in
b) Found my mind in a brown paper bag
c) Tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high
d) Had my foot on the gas as I left the road
e) Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
great poetry
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What is not to love?????
Great blues masters too... thanks!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Shingles, and not the kind on your roof :,(
They? It? SUCK(S) ASSHOLE!
Sorry I didn't warn anyone about the language; but, I'm pretty damn sure anyone who's had this god forsaken shit, can relate.
Sigh . . . Dios mio. :,(
Sorry to hear it, hope you recover soon.
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 --