Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 20, 1908: 500,000 Aussies turned out to welcome the arrival of the Great White Fleet to Sydney. The reception was so warm that hundreds of sailors went on unauthorized absence. USS Kansas stayed extra days to round up stragglers, offering a $10 bounty on every sailor returned. That's about $341 today!!



The lure of Sydney has continued. In November 1970, a sailor who was late returning from liberty pleaded with an Australian boat captain to take him out to the USS Shangri-La as the carrier was sailing out of Sydney. The sailor's shipmates threw him a line and managed to haul him aboard.

The fleet's welcome began before daylight on the morning of Thursday, August 20th with site-seers coming out on steamers as far as 30 miles to meet the fleet in the dark. By the time they reached the headlands of Botany Bay, they had an escort of many excursion vessels. Off Coogee Bay they Could see thousands upon thousands of people on the bluffs. From there to the harbor, on the high cliffs, rocks and headlands, it was simply a mass of humans.

The Great White Fleet Visits Sydney, Australia

The "Great White Fleet" sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The battleships were painted white except for gilded scrollwork on their bows. The Atlantic Fleet battleships only later came to be known as the "Great White Fleet."

Initiating a novice into the mysteries of father Neptune


August 20, 1969: Tragedy strikes, Woodstock sets world record and from Jan 21, 1961: Eisenhower Warns of Military-Industrial-Oedipal Complex...plus Bettie Page spanked by Authorities...


The Onion’s Front Page Historical Archive - Experience decades of greatness, virtue, and moral rectitude from America’s Finest News Source.



August 20, 1977: Voyager 2 lifted off and continues its mission today from crossing where no spacecraft has gone before on November 5, 2018 into interstellar space. Its twin, V’ger 1 crossed in August 2012. The Voyager program "promises to outlive its inventors. Like a great painting or an abiding institution, it has acquired an existence of its own." —Stephen J. Pyne


Where Are They Now?

The Golden Record

One of the track's that ET may one day hear is...





Super moons always look extra super over Las Vegas...




A European first timer getting his mind blown in Sin City. LOL. We Americans thank you for your comments, just be advised not all are so friendly in the dry desert, stay away from the east side. Only visit casinos with 5 dollars in your pocket and NO credit cards.
"Everything is designed to hijack your dopamine" should be the new tourism slogan.


He has more Euro surprise observations in his X thread


60 Minutes (S52 E33) interview with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that aired May 17, 2020:

SCOTT PELLEY: Fair to say you simply flooded the system with money?

POWELL: Yes. We did. That's another way to think about it. We did.

PELLEY: Where does it come from? Do you just print it?

POWELL: We print it digitally. So as a central bank, we have the ability to create money digitally. And we do that by buying Treasury Bills or bonds for other government guaranteed securities. And that actually increases the money supply. We also print actual currency and we distribute that through the Federal Reserve banks.


Full Transcript: Fed Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes interview on economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic

Another way to think about it is magical unicorns from the unseen realm poofed all that money into existence via the mysterious ancient technology of rainbow glitter & gold farts.





Tis the season of high seas fraud & bribery. We Rogues are mildly amused, but not surprised. An American or British screenwriter could make a 5 season series. I mean, look there is plenty of every fraud flavor known to man to script a good mockumentary or even a decent docu mixed with some ice cold satire sprinkled with some British humour.

"George Santos pleads guilty to fraud charges...The charges carry a minimum of 2 years in prison and a maximum of 22 years...Judge Joanna Seybert told Santos that sentencing guidelines call for him to serve 6 to 8 years. He'll be sentenced Feb. 7." NBC news


Orlando Whitfield’s All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art




Somewhere lying under all that fraud, bribery, corruption, lies, statistics, layers of human despot filth that would make a billy goat puke...is uncomfortable facts.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

While this movie released August 21, 1964 was cited by the Hollywood Reporter as being the "first" to feature a woman president, however, Project Moon Base (1953) actually preceded it. AFAIK this is the first.


Ernestine Barrier is noted for playing the first female president in an American film: Project Moon Base. Barrier’s appearance seems to be written as more of a device to shock audiences; her gender is only revealed at the very end of the movie. A relatively obscure actress with no leading roles, ever.



Storyline: In the not-too-distant future of 1970, the United States is considering building bases on the Moon, and send a female colonel and two men to investigate. One of the men turns out to be a foreign spy, and the entire operation--and the future of the free world--is in danger.

The film is unusual for its time in both attempting to portray space travel in a "realistic" manner, and for depicting a future in which women hold positions of authority and responsibility equal to men; in the script Martell's character, Briteis (pronounced "bright-eyes"), is a colonel who has made the first orbital flight around the Earth four years earlier and outranks her fellow male astronaut, a major. Colonel Briteis' given name is never stated.



This was initially intended as a pilot film for a TV series to be called "Ring Around the Moon." When science-fiction movies suddenly became popular, producer Jack Seaman added enough footage to the film to bring it up to feature length. This was done without the knowledge of writer Robert A. Heinlein, and he disowned the result. Also, this film predicted the creation of a United States Space Force military branch by about 65 years.

Fiery, dark-haired, exotic-looking Donna Kay Martell was born December 24, 1927 in Los Angeles of Italian ancestry Irene Palma de Maria, the daughter of a master tailor for a major clothing manufacturing company. She attended L.A. City College where she excelled at athletics, especially baseball. [Ok now, sounds like my kind of girl] During this time, Donna was persuaded by a classmate to audition for a theatrical agent from the Donaldson-Middleton Agency.

An Interview With DONNA MARTELL

From 1953, she was married to the baseball player Gene Corso (of the Pittsburgh Pirates) who died in 1996. She is a lifelong conservative Republican and at age 96 she is still with us.

Copies of the 63 minute film are scattered all over the web. 
Here's one on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWeD8uFq8Y


In perhaps one of her greatest performances, Meryl Streep reenacts Duck and Cover.


From a April 15, 1982 20/20 report on continuity of government. At approximately the 3 min. 20 sec. mark:

Life After Doomsday - Tom Jarriel, Reporting - 1982



August 21, 1996: Democrats discover a new tool. At the Democratic National Convention, a demonstration of how the Internet will improve political communications. DNC General Chairman Don Fowler and Debra DeLee, CEO of the Democratic Convention, demonstrated the communications services available to delegates at the convention to reporters. They also took some questions from them.



"Every one of our speakers all of our activities from this podium. Will be accessible on the Internet with live video and also live audio. We believe that this is a first for any convention. Would you like to begin your demonstration. Certainly we're going to do now is talk to some state chairs around the country in this chair. I don't know exactly how many are own but there we have quite a few in the chat room I think I did this Monday with the general audience around the country for an hour and it doesn't really work well we have some video people as well as just citizens it's a it's a new way to communicate with literally tens of thousands of people instantaneously without any guidelines or filters you just sit there and do it it's a fairly stimulating you get some interesting questions."
Democratic Convention Internet Services (CSPAN)


RFK Jr. and Donald Trump...it all comes together on Friday, a political Earthquake...

Robert Kennedy Jr. is planning to drop out of the presidential race by the end of this week. Kennedy campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy asks staff to “hold tight” until Friday speech. “What I can tell you is this. Bobby has been in a period of deep discernment,” she wrote. “I ask you to keep an open mind. Do not believe everything you hear. There are several paths forward — not only two. And I can bear witness to the care and examination that Bobby is investing in consideration of each.” (WaPo)


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moves closer to Trump endorsement (WaPo) or RFK Jr. to address his candidacy on Friday in Arizona, where Trump is set to hold a rally (NY Post)


Coincidence? Both movies open on August 30th...




Quietly. Until now...


Florida quietly removes LGBTQ+ travel info from state website


The incident took place on Day 2 of the DNC (August 27, 1968). From the Secret Service report the next day.

“The security people put me on the deck. I didn’t do very well.”

”I think we’ve got a bunch of thugs here, Dan.”

— Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 27, 1968.


The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

The whole world is watching

In Part 1 of this 1988 documentary, CBS 2's Bill Kurtis has a look back at the tension and unrest that boiled over during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, along with a montage of video from that time.

Part 1: 'The Whole World's Watching: 20 Years Later,' A 1988 CBS 2 Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DC4KCff4zQ


Movie dates August 21st...Dr. Alec Lentz was murdered. Dr. Richard Kimble and Lentz had been researching a potential new drug, that was discovered to cause liver damage. 1932 - Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of attacking a young white girl, Mayella Ewell. Aug 21st 1969 - The date of birth on one of Jason Bourne's many passports.




Are you feelin' hyphy? Need a smack upside the head? Wednesday is for W...ords


Aside from many, many who desperately need it hard, whisterpoop sounds like what Obama figuratively gave Trump last night.

The last time Obama did that, the Donald went on and won the presidency! Just sayin is all.

Ossify your status beyond a doubt
Roots planted deep in the ground
So sure of yourself; there’s no turning around.
No second guesses, we’re just doubling down.

By the Three Lochans

I sit, trying to look like a heather bush -

hoping to see

a mewing buzzard or a vole or a dragonfly.

How quickly the days slide away

into where they came from.

It's hard to change anything. I look into my hand to see

if there's an idea there

giving birth to a strenuous baby.

Only a life-line that's not long enough.

An obstinate old rowan tree

stands on a tiny island.

So many storms, yet there it is

with only a few berries, each determined

to be the last one to drop into the water.

And the light floods down

revealing mountains and flowers

and so many shadows. If only

a merlin would hurtle past, that atom

of speed, that molecule of life.

— Norman MacCaig

The Three Lochs Way is one of Scotland's Great Trails

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 23, 1944: A US B-24 Liberator bomber during a test flight crashed into a school in Freckleton, Lancashire, England killing all 3 crew on board and 58 civilians on the ground, including 38 children aged 4 to 6. The crash occurred during a thunderstorm in poor visibility. This aviation accident would prove to be the deadliest to occur in Britain during World War II.


Freckleton Air Disaster marked 80 years on  | The Freckleton Air Disaster: The Story Behind the Tragedy in Lancashire  | Casualty List  |  Freckleton School Air Disaster Memorial


August 23, 1954: the C-130 Hercules made its first flight. The versatile plane is the longest continuously produced military aircraft in history. This is the Blue Angels' “Fat Albert” C-130J performing a fly over at MCAS Yuma for a photoshoot with the Silent Drill Platoon.




August 23, 1991: Tim Berners-Lee opened the World Wide Web to new users. It was a key moment in the development of the Internet. He was honored as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" (not Al Gore) during the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.


I was going to caption it, but I'll leave it up to your imagination...


Amara Harris, daughter of Meenakshi Ashley Harris, niece of Kamala Harris. Photo by Todd Heisler of The New York Times.


They waved American flags and chanted "U-S-A! U-S-A!" What 'proved' so exhilarating about the Chicago DNC was watching Kamala Harris, Dems redefine liberal values as real 'patriotism'. When they chant "We're not going back!" they mean to the 1950s. Yep, gonna be fooled, again.


In Chicago, Dems redefined what it means to be American

The more the globalist state hollows out, the more it clings to the appearance of nationalism despite no real connection to it.

- flags abound,
- calls for a defense of democracy and the country become rituals,
- uniformed military, police, etc., are marshaled for every event while anthems play in the background,
- enemies of the state are routinely vilified,
- on and on.
Despite this, its actions are designed to gut the nation it enshrouds itself with.

Politics is all such a fake religion and nothing demonstrates that more than Kamala Harris. Six weeks ago nobody would have pretended she was anything impressive, but now she is a phenomenon, rockstar, beckon of joy. These people are in a cult and they worship the machine.

4 years ago Kamala Harris polled 1% in the primaries.

3 years ago she was the least popular VP ever.

8 weeks ago Joe Biden didn't have dementia & was going to run again.

Now Kamala is the nominee & everyone loves her.

Welcome to "reality", they make it up as they go.

Kamala is an unteachable idiot who has no real ideology. Walz I think is a Maoist true believer who hides it behind an aw-shucks Forrest Gump veneer.

Walz Praised Chinese Communism as a System Where 'Everyone Shares'


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially drops out of the presidential race and endorses Donald Trump on stage at the Arizona rally. While sweating away in sawdust workin the sabertooth grinder, I bet Freija paid no attention.

"We were the party of labor of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment."

"Our party was the bulwark against big money, interests, and corporate power. True to its name. It was the party of democracy."

"I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big Ag, and big money."  — Robert F. Kennedy Jr

If I were RFK Jr. I wouldn’t go within 100 miles of a plane or a helicopter or a convertible or luxury yachts for the rest of my life.




King Donald I of America. Seems to be some kind of RFK Jr/DJT alliance.




It’s wild how many electrical glitches new trucks have nowadays. Good thing the UAW is laser focused on...Palestinian rights.





Sorry Mr. Stanford Professor, but Twitter 1.0, and "free-speech X" being praised by many as some "bastion of free speech" and Meta, and the other corporations, and the US government (State Dept.), and the British & German governments, and other governments, are all interchangeable, collaborative, coequal elements of one supranational censorship network.

Kingdom Holding was a shareholder before Musk and we knew they increased their stake with the takeover.

List of X investors shows Saudi Arabia is an investor via Kingdom Holding Company, along with HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. Kingdom Holding is run by Prince Waleed bin Talal, who's mentioned two other times in the list. I suspect Prince MbS controls everything that Prince Waleed nominally owns since the Ritz Carlton torture camp experience back in 2017 right after the Las Vegas massacre.


"Bandera Fund"? Ukraine neo-Nazis?? Probably not, just popped in my head.

Elon loves free speech because it's valuable to government agencies and police departments.


The Intercept


My twitter feed, every day:




The weekend is here! While the Dems chicken dance around their newfangled pseudoprophet I shall tiffle in my backyard pond.


Blown By Sacred Winds
The boglet weeps, a low voice, alone
Tears like petroglyphs etched deep in the stone.
A tiffle with shadows, where roots used to grow,
Darshan takes form in the fierce winds that blow.

[BIAD]

The evening of 23rd August finds a re-run of a favourite series from the sixties on a TV channel
called 'True Entertainment'. The Avengers. (1967)

This evening's episode -'The Joker', where Emma Peel is invited to a bridge party at a house on
Exmoor but when she arrives she discovers that she has been lured there by a man known as
'The joker'.

She had once helped to put him in prison, but he has now escaped and with his two crazy
accomplices, subjects Mrs. Peel to a series of lethal tricks and traps as Steed arrives to help
her. Luckily, she has time to read a book...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

BIAD - I dig that apropos image you chose.

August 24th in history includes King Alaric of the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410AD, 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, Germany after being blamed for the bubonic plague in 1349; Washington DC was burned in the War of 1812; Panic of 1857 begins. NATO was founded this day in 1949. Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. Cat5 Hurricane Andrew wipes out Florida, Microsoft dumps a turd on the world, First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the UK, and...


Seems like a significant day!!

Did you know the Waffle House Index is the U.S. government's (FEMA) alternative measure of disaster impact.

In 1920, a U.S Marine defeated a U.S Army soldier and earned the title "Champion Waffle Eater in the World" by consuming 26 of the corrugated pastries in 30 minutes. He warmed up for the match by having a porterhouse steak, fries, doughnuts, and coffee. Beat that Royal Marines!!


August 24, 1814: British troops led by Major-General Robert Ross invaded Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. The Burning of Washington ensued, with British forces setting fire to key government buildings, including the Presidential Mansion (White House), United States Capitol, and Washington Navy Yard. Less than four days after the attack began, God decided to save Washington and drive out the British troops by sending a heavy thunderstorm, possibly a hurricane and a tornado (the facts seem to have been muddied in the midst of chaos) which extinguished the fires, though it caused further destruction, but it did send the British packing back to their storm beaten ships. The British occupation of Washington only lasted for roughly 26 hours. This event marked a significant episode in the war, leaving the US capital in ruins. Today, some delusional wacky commie politicians believe the J6 insurrection circus was worse.


Also, the assassination of UK PM Spencer Perceval had taken place in 1812 on the floor of the UK Parliament and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The UK had lots going on.

Tony Blair: "In 1814, British burnt the Congress Library. I know this is kind of late, but: Sorry." (2003)




August 24, 1923: The Somerset, PA., PTA is bitterly divided over a proposed school dress code banning short skirts and bobbed hair. "Flappers" walk out of the meeting, chanting:

"I can show my shoulders,
I can show my knees.
I’m a free-born American
And can show what I please."




August 24, 1954: The Communist Control Act went into effect in the USA. It called for the outlawing of the Communist Party in the USA, but the Communist Party of the USA continued to exist, though the law was used to provide to the FBI and the Department of Justice 'much more effective weapons' to help destroy the Communist menace.



Communist Control Act of 1954

Weird how this mixed bag of commie/marxist/socialist party still exists in the USA.

How to Spot a Communist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkYl_AH-qyk


August 24, 1991: following the day after the Soviet coup ended, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union // Ukraine Independence Day Declared. Recognized by the USA on Christmas day, 1991.

On August 24, 33 years ago, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Act on State Independence and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state. The Ukrainian edition of Radio Liberty was one of the first to inform this news.

On December 1, 1991, a referendum was held in Ukraine to confirm the Independence Act. The bulletin had only one question “Do you confirm the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine” and more than 90% of Ukrainians answered yes. Ukraine has gained independence in a peaceful, legal way.

The first state sovereignty of Ukraine was recognized by Poland. Why was the neighbor so dependent on being first? Who was the final decision for? Was Poland afraid of the Kremlin’s reaction? How Poland recognized Ukrainian independence of Radio Liberty was told by direct participants in this historical process.

Ukraine’s declaration of independence for Poland was no surprise, then Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Belecki says. The politician recalls the secret meeting initiated by the Ukrainian side.

The Secret Meeting

“In the first days of January 1991, we met in Davos at the economic forum with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Kravchuk and this meeting, the meeting of our delegation was not planned. One evening, our deputy minister came to me and said that the Ukrainian delegation wants to meet. And we had such a secret meeting. During the conversation, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Leonid Kravchuk asked us if we are ready to recognize the independence of Ukraine. Then, I admit, I was a little surprised, because nothing like this has happened yet, and then there was a conversation about what conditions, what will be the calendar of events,” Beletsky recalls.

Already in the summer, on August 24, 1991, when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Act on State Independence, Poland was ready and only waited for the results of the referendum to be the first in the world to recognize Ukraine's state sovereignty.

“Why is it important to be first? Because it was in line with the way people think from Solidarity, because our first governments of independent Poland since 1989 left the Solidarity movement and I think we are still proud of them,” says former Polish Prime Minister.

Jan Belecki recalls how in 1981 at the Solidarity Congress, a message was adopted to the working people in Eastern Europe, which said that all people of labor in Eastern Europe have the right to freedom and fundamental rights.

According to the former prime minister, it was then announced in the Soviet Union that Solidarity is “a revisionist organization that wants to destabilize the situation throughout Eastern Europe.”

“We were very proud, and then this message to the people of Eastern Europe became the main slogan of the activities of the first governments of Solidarity. So as soon as this chain reaction began to declare freedom and independence by the countries of Eastern Europe, we were very sensitive to this that our neighbor, a great neighbor, which is Ukraine and not a simple neighbor with whom we historically had many misunderstandings and even dramas to see that the people of Solidarity with hope and optimism welcome the expansion of the zone of freedom in Eastern Europe, expansion to such a great country.

Due to the time difference, the Poles were several hours ahead of Canada with a diplomatic note, which had already "steppermed five".

“Because we managed to get ahead of Canadians for a few hours, we still remember this. The then Prime Minister Malruni remembered that there is Poland and Belecki,” adds the former Polish Prime Minister.

According to Beletsy, Poland was no longer afraid of the reaction of the Kremlin:

“We were waiting for this moment with great hope, as well as with great determination that no matter what the Kremlin says, no matter how much Gorbachev has been grunting, we are firmly set.”

...

“Despite the Soviet propaganda, which constantly mentioned Lviv, trying to quarrel us, we had no territorial claims. To this day, Russian propaganda is trying to use territorial resynthetics, they, of course, fail. For several decades of our relations, we have never been a problem and that Poland shows its openness to Ukraine recognizes its independence,” Zhochovsky said.

How Poland was the first in the world to recognize Ukrainian independence

Lviv Now Media


August 24, 1991: Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Soviet Communist Party (CPSU). Five days later, the Supreme Soviet indefinitely suspended all CPSU activity on Soviet territory, effectively ending Communist rule in the Soviet Union.



3 years earlier TIME named him...


Re-occurring pattern with TIME and dictators.


August 24, 1995: BSOD was unleashed on the public. Microsoft released Windows 95.




How about No & NOooooooooooooooo!


FDA OK's new COVID vaccine shots for fall 2024 from Pfizer and Moderna

Meanwhile...


Universal Flu Vaccine

Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney for Philip Hobsbaum

Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking.
Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full,
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too.
Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Who drove it best? Hackman, THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971); Hackman, THE PACKAGE (released August 25, 1989).


Her early films such as Roger Corman's Women in Cages (1971) and The Big Doll House (1971) were shot in The Philippines. While there she contracted a deadly tropical disease and nearly died. She lost her hair and was temporarily blind for almost a month. It took nearly a year for her to recover. Never married, no kids. A woman not to be messed with...she trained in martial arts since childhood and has studied Karate, Aikido, Kung Fu and Jiujitsu.


The most bloated agency in the world with a whopping 260,000-member workforce put out its Information Technology Strategic Plan for 2024-2028. Guess what DHS #1 goal is...

It’s not to protect America and it’s not to advance our capabilities to beat our enemies. Nope.

Their #1 stated goal is advancing DIE, I mean DEI. Insane in the membrane.
It sounds like WEF newspeak and Obama cronyism.


"The Way Forward" mantra sounds familiar doesn't it. If we have a Department of Defense, and its mission is to defend us, why do we need a Department of Homeland Security?

DHS Information Technology (IT) Strategic Plan (PDF)


Why do our agencies have to be so retarded. Why.


Peanut butter is technically a Bingham Plastic (a subset of non-Newtonian fluids), but under ASTM D4359-90 (PDF) it is classified as a liquid, not a solid. The TSA considers the nut spread a liquid, but is unrestricted if it is a sandwich ingredient.

Viscosity measurements are the realm of a field of science called rheology

@AskTSA


RFK on his journey to Hyperborea...


RFK humbled to climb Mt. Kennedy with Whittaker party


$3500 for Tartaria map?


Antique map of Tartaria


Opposite of the West...


https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1827418468813017441


I like the hypothesis that the grey aliens are in fact humans from a future where iPhones have been around for fourteen or fifteen generations and they all had to move underground because of nuclear fallout.




August 25, 1975: Bruce Springsteen’s classic album, Born To Run, was released and reached No.3 on the US Billboard Album chart, selling 6 million copies. It has since been ranked by rock critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.





Fun fact: the movie version of Logan’s Run invented Tinder (dating app).


For when you're on the run...




I'm on the run, grandma is making me a midnight snack.




The Flowerpot Men - "Beat City"
From the 1986 promotional single given out at certain screenings of the John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Roll into America, Roll your hands in policies...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 27, 1883: Krakatoa in Indonesia erupted in four explosions, releasing energy comparable to 200 megatons of TNT. The sound traveled 3,100 miles, the pressure wave circled the earth 3 times and is considered the loudest sound in recorded history. It resulted in tsunamis and climate effects, including distinct sunsets, blue moons, and others that persisted for years.




August 27, 1896: Anglo-Zanzibar War, the Royal Navy bombarded Stone Town and sank the only ship in the Zanzibar Navy after Sultan Khalid bin Barghash rebelled against British rule. The Sultan surrendered 38 minutes after the conflict began, making the Anglo-Zanzibar War the shortest war in history. The sultan's forces sustained roughly 500 casualties, while only one British sailor was injured. Sultan Khalid received asylum in the German consulate before escaping to German East Africa (in the mainland part of present Tanzania). The British quickly placed Sultan Hamoud in power at the head of a puppet government. The war marked the end of the Zanzibar Sultanate as a sovereign state and the start of a period of heavy British influence.




August 27, 1900: Britain’s 1st long distance bus service between London and Leeds began. The journey took 2 days. How was your arse after that journey?!




August 27, 1966: Astoria-Megler Bridge from the Oregon side, was formally dedicated , stretching 4.1 miles from Astoria, Oregon, across the mouth of the Columbia River, to Point Ellice, Washington. The bridge’s main span is 1,232 feet in length, the longest "continuous truss" bridge in North America.




U.S. top 40 for August 27, 1966:






Obscure YT of the day: Rod Serling wrote THE MAN (1972), about the first black president. James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Barbara Rush & Janet Maclachlan star. Directed by Joseph Sargent (TAKING OF PELHAM 123!) James Earl Jones is THE MAN (1972)


Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeINMIJaaXA


August 27, 2004: the keel was laid for The War Canoe, USS Hawaii (SSN 776). Hawaii, is currently at HMAS Stirling where Australian Navy personnel will perform maintenance on a nuclear submarine for the first time in Australia.






Black Sea Fleet Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette Amur (646), ex-Passat, was commissioned on August 26, 2024 in Kaspiysk.


Small missile ship "Amur" commissioned by the Russian Navy

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Well, that would be interesting...


Manila Times (sorry, paywalled)



The Polish Winged hussars from 1503 to 1776 were a legendary elite, most feared cavalry in the world. They were far outnumbered but they massacred the Ottoman Empire troops in the Battle of Vienna, effectively keeping them out of Europe. 9/11/1683 marks the anniversary of the epic Battle of Vienna, at a city the Islamic troops called "The Golden Apple."




Oh No...


Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit

Don't worry about it son, the real one is locked safely away in the basement.


Alicante, Spain or Lake Louise...



Dr. Hannah Straight's life adventures in Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZb-gDRy5kk


As me & Capt Kirk have been saying for years, the first step is to make Space Force use naval (Admiral, Captain, Commander, Lieutenant, Ensign, Chief, etc.) ranks, like in Star Trek as opposed to land based component ranks (Generals, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, etc.


William Shatner wants to know: What the heck is wrong with you, Space Force?


Comedy Central Daily Show put this out a year ago:



On a side note, I'm becoming convinced some of these shows is not really a comedy and probably more of just a portrayal of exactly how things are in Swampington DC.


Starting an eschatological battle against beings from beyond to force the return of Christ. Prince Hans Adam II of Lichtenstein in conversation with Steven Greer. It's amazing what some of these elites actually believe and the charlatans they keep close.




Many gems in this 1999 email thread about Laurance Rockefeller and Prince Hans Adam bankrolling the entire UFO/parapsychology research movement.

Cult of National Security Trolls

Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein - why was he interested in UFOs?


Words... Show me the Propinquity between the Halls of Congress, Big Tech, MSM & Social Media and I'll show you how deep the corruption rabbit hole goes.



Peace
In the quiet eweleaze pasture where time can bend and fold,
Gongoozle thoughts drift skyward, shivering and cold.
Kanso floats through the minds fields, serenity buried deep,
A final, graceful paraph, as I drift off to sleep.


Good night.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Three years and eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the appropriately-named USS Revenge (AM-110) became one of the first U.S. Navy ships to enter Tokyo Bay August 28, 1945. The Auk-class minesweeper led efforts to clear the bay for the incoming occupation fleet.




August 28, 1957: A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, US Senator James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was a senator for South Carolina from 1954 to Jan 2003. He retired in 2003 as the only member of either chamber of Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office and the oldest-serving senator. He died 6 months later and was succeeded by Lindsey Graham. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware delivered a eulogy.




August 28, 1963: Crowd at Lincoln Memorial as Martin Luther King, says, "I have a dream."




"Kimble Is Innocent." London bumper sticker story from 1965.




Time magazine, August 28, 1972. Note the similarity to the Coca-Cola logo introduced three years earlier.




August 28, 1981: the Australian war film GALLIPOLI starring Mel Gibson was released in the US. The Navy Motion Picture Service declined to distribute GALLIPOLI to USN ships and bases because it believed the film's negative portrayal of officers was bad for sailors' morale. Oh, we can't have that! On one of my tours my collateral duty was to broadcast movies from 5pm to 10pm. Per Captain's guidelines I was in charge of censoring movies/TV shows if I 'felt' any would demoralize the crew or violate Navy rules. I was the only enlisted sailor that could disobey an officer and deny the movie to be shown. There were only a few that I did not air.




August 28, 1987: If the Fourth Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a nuclear explosion from a bedsitter...The unthinkable has just begun...
On August 28, the Fourth Protocol will be broken in a deadly game of seduction, conspiracy, sabotage...and beyond. The countdown to terror has begun...




Day before the deluge, The Hurricane Hunters took this image inside the eye of Hurricane KATRINA 19 years ago today. At this time, KATRINA was near peak intensity, with winds of 175 mph.







I believe The Daily Show has the definitive history..on Tan-Gate.




Mid-week words...



In UK and Irish folklore, curlews have often been seen as a bird of 'bad omen'. Their distinctive sound - a rising, haunting call that echoes the eeriness of estuaries or moors - has no doubt contributed to associations with the otherworld.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Logging on...

August 29, 1997: Judgment Day cometh...




They are getting closer to the singularity...


Thought-to-text chip smaller than Neuralink achieves 91% accuracy


Year 1 in the Coptic calendar started on August 29, 284 in the Julian calendar. It was the year that Diocletian became Roman Emperor. In commemoration of the widespread prosecution of Christians during that era, years in the Coptic calendar are designated A.M., which is short for Anno Martyrum, Year of the Martyrs.

In this system of counting, the beginning of Diocletian's reign in 284 was used as the epoch, making Diocletian's first year in power into the Year 1 of that calendar. Western Christians were aware of this count but did not use it; Dionysius Exiguus replaced the anno Diocletiani era with his anno Domini (AD) era because he did not wish to continue the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians.


August 29, 1786: Shays' Rebellion started – an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. American Revolutionary War veteran Capt. Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against economic and civil rights injustices.



Some four thousand people signed confessions acknowledging participation in the events of the rebellion in exchange for amnesty. Several hundred participants were eventually indicted on charges relating to the rebellion, but most of these were pardoned under a general amnesty that excluded only a few ringleaders. Eighteen men were convicted and sentenced to death, but most of these had their sentences commuted or overturned on appeal, or were pardoned. John Bly and Charles Rose, however, were hanged on December 6, 1787. They were also accused of a common-law crime, as both were looters.

Thomas Jefferson was serving as ambassador to France at the time and refused to be alarmed by Shays' Rebellion. He argued in a letter to James Madison on January 30, 1787, that occasional rebellion serves to preserve freedoms. In a letter to William Stephens Smith on November 13, 1787, Jefferson wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

One of the leaders of the pro government faction included names that continued to appear in the early Federalist history of Lenox and Berkshire County: David Ingersoll

Shays' was pardoned in 1788 and he returned to Massachusetts briefly then moved to Sparta, New York, where his legend made him a popular attraction for visitors.

Re-dedicated replacement gravestone on August 12, 2016 (corrected name spelling) for Captain Daniel Shays, 5th Massachusetts Infantry, Continental Army and leader of Shays' Rebellion.



However, recent scholarship has suggested that Shays' role in the protests was significantly and strategically exaggerated by Massachusetts elites, who had a political interest in shifting blame for bad economic conditions away from themselves. Certainly sounds familiar!

Sources::

Shays' Rebellion

Shays' Rebellion (US History)

Constitution Daily

Letter To George Washington from Henry Knox, 23 October 1786

Aug. 29, 1786: Shays’ Rebellion

The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon

The people's history of the world, Edward Sylvester Ellis; vol. VI

Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays’s Erroneous Legacy in American Political History (Sept 2021)


Last Battle of Shays' Rebellion: (song starts @ 1:48)





August 29, 1882: the mighty Aussies tasted their first victory on English soil against a full strength England team in the Ashes series. And this inspired a young London journalist to write this mock "obituary" which appeared in the Sporting Times, and announced its cremation. Ever since the England vs Australia test series has been called "The Ashes".




August 29, 1915: The first commissioned US Navy submarine lost at sea, USS F-4 (SS 23), sank 25 March 1915 was raised to the surface on this day. The successful salvage revealed the accident's cause — a hull failure caused by leaky battery acid — which led to design changes in future sub classes. All 21 aboard perished just outside Pearl Harbor.


USS F-4 (SS-23) | On Eternal Patrol - USS F-4 (SS-23)

I wonder how many humans have been killed in the last 109 years by faulty/leaky BATTERIES?



August 29, 1948: NBC produced a live broadcast of a simulated attack on USS Leyte. It was considered a major feat, requiring one of the largest engineering crews assigned to a single telecast at that point in TV history. One million viewers on the East Coast tuned in to watch Corsairs fight Hellcats. Operation TV was deemed a success, with an admiral stating that radar had given the Navy the ability to find the enemy, and "some time in the future, television may enable us to see the enemy."



The video signal was sent from the deck of the Leyte to the roof of the Empire State Building in New York City. From there it was relayed to Radio City for mixing with the audio, then was relayed to the Empire State Building for telecasting to the viewing audience. The audio signal was sent from the Leyte to RCA at Riverhead, Long Island where the program material was relayed to the RCA Communications Building in New York City from where it was carried to Radio City to be mixed with the video carrier and thus on to the Empire State Building where the program finally took to the air. The possibility of error naturally increased as each new link was added to the chain.

RADIO & Television News (Feb 1949)

In Sept 1942, RCA began a top secret weapons project for the US Navy called Madame X technology. It was described as second only to the atomic bomb. This project cost was staggering, at $800 million back then.

The secret project was Madame X vacuum tubes, which included a proximity fuse used to electronically detonate its payload when it was in range of its target, as opposed to relying on a direct hit. James V. Forrestal, former secretary of the Navy said, "The proximity fuse had helped blaze the trail to Japan. Without the protection this ingenious device has given the surface ships of the fleet, our westward push could not have been so swift and the cost in men and ships would have been immeasurably greater."


August 29, 1967: the final episode of THE FUGITIVE aired on ABC.




Shiny Metal Sphere and Occupants, August 29, 1967 case from the Cussac Plateau in France. The occupants then flew up above the sphere and dived into it. They were described as bearded little people in black silky shiny suits with no eyes or mouth...floating up and diving into a brilliant silvery luminous sphere. Did those kids have too much wine? Strange story.


THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN (TUCSON, ARIZONA- JULY-AUGUST, 1968)



Vignettes of early radiation workers with John G. Trump, who has been involved in the "development of high-voltage radiation producing machines making them available for research applications such as medicine." August 29, 1978.




August 29, 2005: AGREEMENT between the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Concerning Cooperation in the Area of Prevention of Proliferation of Technology, Pathogens and Expertise that could be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons. Signed & Entered into force.


DOD & Ukraine Biological Weapons Agreement

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Hot August 29th continued...

August 29, 1935: Legendary director WILLIAM FRIEDKIN was born.




On August 29, 1949, at 7:00 a.m., the first Soviet atomic bomb known as First Lightning or Joe-1 by the Americans was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. The USSR became the world's second nuclear weapon state.


The Americans had thought the Soviets would take 20 years to develop a nuclear weapon, and when this detonated only 4 years after the US, it shocked Swampington, DC. Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960) was the 'Oppenheimer' for the USSR. He died early due to a radiation accident.


August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina just after landfall, and that morning’s Times-Picayune newspaper.




United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) was officially reestablished on August 29, 2019 during a ceremony at the White House with a reemphasized focus on space as a warfighting domain.




iOS 18.1 - now with Stalin Mode. Apple said so...


iOS 18.1 beta adds photo 'Clean Up' AI tool

Original Stalin photo


Russian Navy Project 6363 Improved Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine northbound under the Storebaelt (The Great Belt) Bridge in Denmark - August 29, 2024.


Nicknamed the "Black Hole" submarine by the U.S. Navy, the Improved Kilos are extremely quiet. According to...  Black Sea Fleet.


Oh no, who would have guessed, sigh...


Newsweek


Four JOEL SCHUMACHER films, One choice. Which do you choose?


I gotta go with Falling Down.



William James (1842-1910) philosopher & "Father of American psychology".
We humans find many reasons to separate ourselves from each other and from nature, we must realize that we are all part of the same creation to become our best selves.

Theologian Sallie McFague, Dean Emerita of the Vanderbilt Divinity School, writes: “Once the scales have fallen from one’s eyes, once one has seen and believed that reality is put together in such a fashion that one is profoundly united to and interdependent with all other beings, everything is changed. One has a sense of belonging to the earth, having a place in it along with all other creatures, and loving it more than one ever thought possible.”


"To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. Because by going out of your mind, you come to your senses."
— Alan Watts

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy birthday to the Mother of Gods and Monsters, author of the iconic "Frankenstein" or "The Modern Prometheus", the legendary Mary Shelley.




August 30, 1146: Supposedly, "A European conference outlawed the use of the crossbow." It was hoped this might stop wars, but the ban proved ineffective, as it was interpreted as not applying to Christians. Oh the irony after nearly 900 years.

If you search the above quote you'll find yourself going down an endless circular rabbit hole.

This page is ordinarily reserved for a date tie-in - an interesting tidbit of historic information which sometimes is even actually connected to the topic being examined, and sometimes just calls out to me that it wants to be commemorated on the specific date of the uploading of this column. This time the event I've chosen has limited historic significance, but is interesting just the same. About 120 web sources tell us that on this date, in 1146,

    A conference of European leaders outlawed the crossbow, thinking to end wars for all time.

Needless to say, that perhaps well intentioned attempt wasn't successful. Wars are still with us. Also still with us is a tendency to keep the information flowing, regardless of its accuracy.

I'm not questioning the accuracy of the claim that on August 30, 1146 the crossbow was outlawed. For all I know, that may be true. But I don't know, and none of the perhaps 120 web pages that relate this information seem to know either. The vast majority of them simply copy and distribute the information, and none of them offer a source, either printed or electronic.

Who were these European leaders? Were they kings, princes, tribal chiefs? Did they represent different countries, different clans, different tribes? Where did they meet? For how long? Did they sign a written agreement, and if so, where can we find a copy of it? When dealing with an event that took place 850 years ago it's understandable that the information available about it is rather sparse, but still, one would expect a bit more detail.

A couple of the sites that note the date try and do a bit more. One of these links to a picture and to a short explanation of what a crossbow is - a commendable practice. Another, a school site, uses the date as a jumping off point to suggest to teachers what might be done with the information:

    Make a class list of the wars that were fought since then!

though there are probably numerous better catalysts for such an activity, and of course judging by the number of wars fought since then, the class activity sounds more like busy work in order to give the teacher a rest for perhaps a week.

So? I'll readily admit that the event has a certain ring to it. I'd even like it to be true. Sadly, even if it is, as a one-shot non-commital sentence stuck somewhere in an innocuous web site (or a hundred of them) it's rather useless information. If anyone wants to use the date, go right ahead, but please don't say you found it here.

Over and over and over again

Senior Policy Director John Erath wrote an op-ed in Geopolitical Monitor about arms control throughout history.

Around 1096, the Pope issued a decree banning crossbows as murderous and un-Christian weapons.  Although a later Pope clarified that it was still allowable to kill heathens with crossbows, all Christian nations were supposed to refrain from the use of such devices in warfare or suffer eternal damnation.  Unsurprisingly, the Pope’s attempt at medieval arms control failed, and Swiss action hero William Tell became a legend. In 12th century Europe, the primary threat to security came from armored warriors, and a crossbow could penetrate the armor of the time.  If one wanted to secure one’s castle from being stormed by armored enemies, a few crossbows on the walls would have been an effective deterrent.

Op-ed: From Crossbows to Nuclear Weapons: Arms Control in an Imperfect World

Vid description:

Genoese crossbowmen were some of the most sought-after mercenaries in Europe for much of the Middle Ages. They earned a reputation as fierce, reliable and effective warriors by defending their home republic and by serving in many of Europe’s armies. When their emblem, the banner of St. George, appeared on the horizon, many brave soldiers trembled and quite a few commanders changed their strategy at the last moment. Their most famous battle as well as their greatest defeat was the Battle of Crécy in 1346.

August 30, 1955: an Australian pilot cranked the propeller of an Auster Autocar J-5G training aircraft but was unable to get in the plane before it rolled down the runway and took off. The pilotless plane flew around Sydney for 3 hours before two Royal Australian Navy Sea Fury pilots shot it down. A jolly good show...



Vid description:

THE BATTLE OF SYDNEY: Sabres, Meteors, Sea Furies And Two Blokes With A Bren Gun Battle A Runaway

On the morning of the 30th of August, Anthony Thrower of Lavinia Street, Granville was out for a pleasure flight when his Auster Archer decided to make a break for freedom. What followed was a madcap three hour chase involving four jet fighters, two Hawker Sea Furies and two blokes with a Bren Gun.

Given that this incident pre-dated the more famous Battle Of Palmdale by a year, I thought it was interesting to compare how more conventionally armed aircraft fared against a slow, but determined piston-engined intruder. I hope you find it entertaining. I have to admit that as a Brit, I enjoyed poking a little fun at my Australian friends... hopefully they can take it in the spirit it's intended.

Huge iPhone monolith in space.




Happy Bell Riots Day to all who celebrate.

"Past Tense" today ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," season 3, episodes 11 & 12) of the Bell Riots result in a political/cultural shift in the US, paving the way for the values which the Federation are founded upon. And sure, a lot of bad stuff happens later; like a nuclear war that would have been even worse without the uprising's influence. Sisko, Bashir, & Dax are wandering around San Fran right now.


Bell Riots


Interesting in hindsight that the Pentagon carried out a Mass Casualty Exercise (a tabletop simulation) of a plane hitting the Pentagon that took place in Secretary of Defense William Cohen's office in October 2000.

Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 — The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas.

Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was a simulated one.

The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26 in the Office of the Secretaries of Defense conference room.

On Oct. 24, there was a mock terrorist incident at the Pentagon Metro stop and a construction accident to name just some of the scenarios that were practiced to better prepare local agencies for real incidents.


To conduct the exercise, emergency personnel hold radios that are used to rush help to the proper places, while toy trucks representing rescue equipment are pushed around the exercise table.

Cards are then passed out to the various players designating the number of casualties and where they should be sent in a given scenario.

To conduct the exercise, a medic reports to Army nurse Maj. Lorie Brown a list of 28 casualties so far. Brown then contacts her superior on the radio, Col. James Geiling, a doctor in the command room across the hall.

Geiling approves Brown's request for helicopters to evacuate the wounded. A policeman in the room recommends not moving bodies and Abbott, playing the role of referee, nods his head in agreement.

"If you have to move dead bodies to get to live bodies, that's okay," Abbott says as the situation unfolds.

Geiling remarked on the importance of such exercises.

"The most important thing is who are the players?" Geiling said. "And what is their modus operandi?"

Brown thought the exercise was excellent preparation for any potential disasters.

"This is important so that we're better prepared," Brown said. "This is to work out the bugs. Hopefully it will never happen, but this way we're prepared."

An Army medic found the practice realistic.

"You get to see the people that we'll be dealing with and to think about the scenarios and what you would do," Sgt. Kelly Brown said. "It's a real good scenario and one that could happen easily."

A major player in the exercise was the Arlington Fire Department.

"Our role is fire and rescue," Battalion Chief R.W. Cornwell said. "We get to see how each other operates and the roles and responsibilities of each. You have to plan for this. Look at all the air traffic around here."

Each participant was required to fill out an evaluation form after the training exercise.

"We go over scenarios that are germane to the Pentagon," Jake Burrell of the Pentagon Emergency Management Team said. 'You play the way you practice. We want people to go back to their organizations and look at their S.O.P. (standard operating procedure) and see how they responded to any of the incidents."

Burrell has coordinated these exercises for four years and he remarked that his team gets better each year.

Abbott, in his after action critique, reminded the participants that the actual disaster is only one-fifth of the incident and that the whole emergency would run for seven to 20 days and might involve as many as 17 agencies.

"The emergency to a certain extent is the easiest part," Abbott said. He reminded the group of the personal side of a disaster. "Families wanting to come to the crash site for closure."

In this particular crash there would have been 341 victims.

Contingency planning Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates scenarios in preparing for emergencies

Hinckley is following Reagan again...




Potential solution for BIAD. This company will put sunlight on your location...at night. LOL!




Imagine working for a major bank and dying in your cubicle and no one finds your body for FOUR DAYS...


NBC News

When I worked in a corporate labyrinth of cubicles there was this older guy a few rows over from me that would often burst out in anger when his computer acted up, followed by a screaming phone call to IT. One day he had a battle with his keyboard (he went through many keyboards) and about 30 minutes later a few of us heard a dull THUMP on the floor. Nobody thought anything of it until someone walked by his cube and noticed he was lying face down on the floor. He had a heart attack and died right there with the keyboard on the floor beside his body. We inferred the keyboard had enough abuse and took drastic action.


Weekend words...




C.S. Lewis wrapping up The Chronicles of Narnia...

[Bally002]

@"EndtheMadnessNow"#18 

"The battle of Sydney"

As an Aussie.  I resemble that jibe.  

lol.

Kind regards,

Bally

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 31, 1688: Writer and Puritan preacher John Bunyan died (aged 59). He’s best known as the author of the classic 1678 Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come, which is regarded as one of the most important religious novels of all time. It has been translated into more than 200 languages and has never been out of print.


Wiki  | Public domain audiobook

This documentary reveals the story of John Bunyan's life, his personal struggles, his triumphs, and his remarkable legacy.


BIAD got a new mower!


August 31, 1830: Edwin Beard Budding (25 August 1796 – 25 Sept 1846) of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England was granted a patent for his new invention, the Lawn Mower, to go into production. His mower was designed to cut the grass on sports grounds and extensive gardens, described as the "Great British Object" as a superior alternative to the scythe.

The Old Lawnmower Club  | Edwin Budding: The Birth of the Lawn Mower


August 31, 1888: Mary Ann “Polly” Walker Nichols (aged 43), considered the 1st victim of the Victorian serial killer nicknamed by the press as "Jack the Ripper" was found dead in Buck’s Row, London.




August 31, 1900: Coca Cola went on sale in Britain for the first time. It was first sold in chemist shops as Cola Syrup, an over-the-counter dietary supplement for an upset stomach. It was not until the 1920s that the bottled version became generally available in the UK.


Coca-Cola lost plaque


August 31, 1940: Hollywood stars Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were married. Though they would stay married for 20 years their relationship was extremely tempestuous. In his autobiography, Olivier claimed Leigh’s mental illness caused the breakdown of the marriage.


Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s Turbulent Relationship, Retold With Compassion


August 31, 1997: This is how ITV News announced Diana, Princess of Wales, had died - 20 years ago today.




August 31, 2012: Popular singer and comedian, Max Bygraves, died (aged 89). He had his own TV shows and was a regular guest on other TV variety shows. He made 20 Royal Variety Show appearances. He introduced his comic monologues with the catchphrase: "I wanna’ tell you a story."

 (wait for the ending, LOL)





What all parents can learn from the troubled AI in Los Angeles schools



L.A. Schools Probe Charges its Hyped, Now-Defunct AI Chatbot Misused Student Data

While some AI proponents are true believers, I'm beginning to believe its mostly vocal evangelists that know the tech is faulty and are pushing it on schools and health systems because they think it will hasten their collapse, while also giving them access to valuable consumer info which is used to feed the private defense corporations.




Thanks for the giant NSA super center in Utah that spies on everything we do, Dubya. Also thanks for the retarded agency that still pretends to make flying safe and the giant bloated Homeland Security...and endorsing Kamala. Oh and thanks for all the new intifada immigrants.



“We can do what we have accomplished thus far.”  —Kamala Harris

That’s precisely what we’re afraid of.

Kamala’s CRINGE Interview On CNN Was A Disaster! (The Jimmy Dore Show)


Gone, Gone Again By Edward Thomas

Gone, gone again,
May, June, July,
And August gone,
Again gone by,

Not memorable
Save that I saw them go,
As past the empty quays
The rivers flow.

And now again,
In the harvest rain,
The Blenheim oranges
Fall grubby from the trees,

As when I was young—
And when the lost one was here—
And when the war began
To turn young men to dung.

Look at the old house,
Outmoded, dignified,
Dark and untenanted,
With grass growing instead

Of the footsteps of life,
The friendliness, the strife;
In its beds have lain
Youth, love, age, and pain:

I am something like that;
Only I am not dead,
Still breathing and interested
In the house that is not dark:—

I am something like that:
Not one pane to reflect the sun,
For the schoolboys to throw at—
They have broken every one.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 1, 1902: A Trip to the Moon, which is considered the 1st science fiction film, was released in France. It follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon, in a cannon-propelled capsule, escape from an underground group of lunar inhabitants and return to Earth. Released in the USA on Oct 4, 1902. Remains the best-known of the 520 films made by Georges Méliès; the moment in which the capsule lands in the Moon's eye remains one of the most iconic and frequently referenced images in the history of cinema.


Film maker/Director/Writer Georges Méliès rose to prominence creating "trick films" and became well known for his innovative use of special effects such as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards in film. His works are used in the 2011 movie "Hugo" directed by Martin Scorcese.

Because of rampant film piracy, Méliès never received most of the profits of the popular film. One account reports that Méliès sold a print of the film to the Paris photographer Charles Gerschel for use in an Algiers theatre, under strict stipulation that the print only be shown in Algeria. Gerschel sold the print, and various other Méliès films, to the Edison Manufacturing Company employee Alfred C. Abadie, who sent them directly to Edison's laboratories to be duplicated and sold by Vitagraph. Copies of the print spread to other firms, and by 1904 Siegmund Lubin, the Selig Polyscope Company, and Edison were all redistributing it. Edison's print of the film was even offered in a hand-colored version available at a higher price, just as Méliès had done. Méliès was often uncredited altogether; for the first six months of the film's distribution, the only American exhibitor to credit Méliès in advertisements for the film was Thomas Lincoln Tally, who chose the film as the inaugural presentation of his Electric Theater. Human greed knows no bounds.

In order to combat the problem of film piracy that became clear during the release of A Trip to the Moon, Méliès opened an American branch of the Star Film Company, directed by his brother Gaston Méliès, in New York in 1903. The office was designed to sell Méliès's films directly and to protect them by registering them under United States copyright. The introduction to the English-language edition of the Star Film Company catalogue announced: "In opening a factory and office in New York we are prepared and determined energetically to pursue all counterfeiters and pirates. We will not speak twice, we will act!" | Wiki

In Jan 2024 Peregrine Lunar Lander flight 01 (Peregrine Mission One) had a few dozen time capsules as part of its payload. One was the Arch Mission Foundation’s Lunar Library II: the largest archive of Earth, on the Moon.

A disc packed with more than 60 million pages of information, including English Wikipedia, selected records from the Internet Archive, a linguistic key to 5,000 languages, various private collections, and movies, one of which I heard is the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, but I can't find a definitive source listing anywhere. The library is printed onto nickel NanoFiche, an “ultra-durable analog nano storage medium,” according to Astrobotic.


Unfortunately, Peregrine, the silvery lander that shot for the moon, burned up over the Pacific ocean due to a faulty pressure helium control valve.


Sept 1, 1920: The Fountain of Time statue opened within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois. Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches (38.66 m) in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago. The sculpture is inspired by Henry Austin Dobson's poem "Paradox of Time". Its 100 figures passing before Father Time were created as a monument to the 100 years of peace between the United States and the United Kingdom following the Treaty of Ghent in 1814.


Time was intended to be matched by a sister fountain, Fountain of Creation, on the opposite end of the Midway. Work began but was never completed. The finished portions of Fountain of Creation, depicting figures from the Greek legend of the repopulation of Earth after the great flood, are considered Taft's final work, and were given to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his alma mater.

Wiki | Fountain of Time Website (a few hundred photos)


September 1, 1939: At dawn, the German Army invaded Poland to begin the Second World War in Europe. The attack came without any declaration of war by Germany, though it had been obvious since March 1939 that Poland was Hitler’s next military target.


Also, the USSR was mobilizing to invade Poland on Sept 17, 1939 with the aim to divide a conquered Poland in two. Unfortunately Britain and France mobilizing didn't amount to much until it was too late for Poland. No one at this point knew about the secret clause in the Nazi-Soviet Pact. The big disgrace was France and UK didn’t lift a finger to help Poland.

With all of the German forces in Poland, there was nothing stopping especially France to invade western Germany. Germany had so few divisions in the west, France could have possibly won the war, but the French were weak. Instead they hid in their Maginot Line and once Poland was conquered, the Germans simply went around it and conquered France. Two days later, on Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war. Poland has never forgotten which is probably why for the past few years they been significantly building up their military and buying US weapons like there is no tomorrow.



Sept 1, 1939: Operation Pied Piper - in anticipation of the outbreak of the Second World War, the great evacuation of children from British cities began. I can't imagine how difficult & sad that must have been.

Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper

Photographs of the evacuation of British children in 1939, excitedly waving from packed trains or with name tags round their necks, have become some of the most emblematic images of the Second World War. The children’s forced move represented the nature of total war, a conflict that involved even the youngest members of British society.

But the origins of childhood evacuation in fact lie much further back. It was in the early twentieth century that governments and populations across Europe first began to speculate on the dangers of aerial bombardment. H.G. Wells’ 1907 novel 'War in the Air' predicted the growing threat of attack from the air and governments worried how cities and urban crowds in particular would respond. The First World War saw some of these fears realised: although often forgotten in popular memory, British cities were bombed by zeppelins throughout the 1914-1918 conflict, resulting in the deaths of 1,239 civilians, half of whom were women and children.

Sept 1, 1967: Siegfried Sassoon died at age 80. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirised jingoism.




Sept 1, 1974: The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at an average speed of 1,806.964 miles per hour. It was jointly operated by the United States Air Force and NASA.




Sept 1, 1982: The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.




A confused 13 year old Roman Catholic alcoholic obsessed with death was sent to a Episcopalian boarding school to dry out and ends up a waitress on Long Island and then picks up a guitar and becomes a star. One of my younger cousins went to elementary school with her back in the 90s. Aside from death she has a fascination with SpaceX & Tesla, and apparently playful acting in Witchcraft. Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is the one true Romantic produced by this country in the modern age.



Most people know her as...




Today is the 40th anniversary of C.H.U.D.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

On this day in history, September 1, 1777, McCulloch's Leap goes down as one of the greatest escapes of the American Revolution, when Major Samuel McCulloch jumps over a 300 foot cliff from attacking Indians to safety.



Fort Henry had guarded the small village of Wheeling from Indian attack, in what was then part of Virginia, since 1774. The Ohio Valley tribes, aligned with the British, began a new campaign against the frontier settlements in the summer of 1777. Fort Henry was fortified and prepared, having received intelligence that it would be a target. On August 31, a party of 200 Mingo, Wyandot and Shawnee attacked the village and the fort. Most of the 25 or so families from Wheeling got to the fort safely.

Several messengers were able to get away and inform other nearby forts that Fort Henry was under attack. Captain Van Swearingen soon arrived from nearby Cross Creek with forty men on horses. They successfully fought their way to the fort, swelling its number of defenders. Other reinforcements arrived from Fort Shepherd and Fort Holliday.


On September 1, Major Samuel McCulloch arrived from Fort Van Metre with another 40 men. As they raced to the gate of the fort, the Indians attacked in full force. As some of the men were forced into hand-to-hand combat, McCulloch waited till the last to make sure they were all inside the fort. With the Indians getting very near the open doors, the settlers inside were finally forced to close the gates, leaving McCulloch alone on the outside.



McCulloch took off in the direction of nearby Wheeling Hill being pursued by the Indians. He was not fired upon because the Indians wanted to take him alive. Every Indian knew McCulloch, who was a notorious and feared Indian fighter on the frontier.


As McCulloch galloped along the crest of the hill, a 300 foot precipice on one side and a band of Indians chasing him from behind, he was confronted with another group of Indians to his front, who were just arriving to help with the siege of the fort. Now surrounded and with no way of escape, McCulloch knew his capture would mean the most excruciating torture. He made an instant decision to go over the edge of the precipice. Dying on the way down would be easier than being tortured at the hands of the Indians.

McCulloch held the reigns with his left hand and his gun in his right hand and spurred his horse over the edge. It is said that they did not hit ground until half way down the hill, which is nearly vertical. The rest of the way, they slid down the almost 90 degree hill, being pummeled with branches and stones until they hit bottom, but McCulloch's horse never lost his footing.

At the bottom of the hill lie Wheeling Creek. The stunned Indians watched McCulloch cross the creek and ride away in amazement. The Indians continued the siege of Fort Henry only for another day or so. With the reinforcements that had already arrived and those that McCulloch would likely bring back with him, continuing was futile and they gave up the mission. McCulloch's Leap has gone down as one of the bravest escapes of the American Revolution and, indeed, in all of the history of warfare.

https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond...ml#gallery[pageGallery]/0/

Looks Kubrickian...


USSR economic development map in the Central Pavilion of VDNKh national exhibition. Photo by Vitaly Sozinov, Moscow, 1970.


As above, so below. Full spectrum dominance.






I bet none of you thought this was ending with Carthage in space.



Consider how the Bithynian snake bomb technique might be replicated using modern technology in both the physical realm (i.e. micro drones with x y z) and the realm of consciousness, i.e., a tweet as a sort of digital serpent that gets into your head through your eyeballs. Starlink!

This technicality appears not to have crossed the mind of Cornelius Nepos (110 BCE – circa 25 BCE), the Roman biographer who many years after the battle penned De Viris Illustribus, a compendium recording the lives of “illustrious men” and an important source of information on this ancient maritime punch-up (see https://bit.ly/3kekoMx). In his chapter on Hannibal, Nepos informs that a few days before the battle, the now-Bithynian general, knowing his forces inferior, ordered his men to collect as many poisonous serpents as possible to be put into a large number of clay pots, enough to easily defend themselves against the enemy fleet (425 vessels strong!).

Having located Eumenes’ ship, Hannibal’s flotilla attacked, and with the aid of their vast number of serpents, pulled off the impossible. Eumenes fled, and when [the Pergamenians] saw their ships [i]filled with serpents, and, startled at the strangeness of the occurrence, knew not what to avoid first, they put about their ships, and retreated to their camp upon the coast[/i].


But is there really any way Hannibal could have collected a “vast number” of poisonous snakes? Certainly, it would have been easier if ancient western Turkey was crawling with them, like on the Ilha da Queimada Grande, a 0.43-km2 island 34 km off the coast of Itanhaém, Brazil, where some 2000–4000 venomous golden lanceheads (Bothrops insularis), mostly squashed into a 0.25-km2 patch of forest, make a living preying on visiting migratory birds. And certainly, where there are a lot of venomous snakes, a lot of dedicated people – given adequate time – might catch a bundle: every year thousands of rattlesnakes are captured across the southern US to eventually feature in ecologically destructive “rattlesnake round-up” fairs. But there are no rattlesnakes or golden lanceheads in Turkey, and according to Nepos, Hannibal’s men had little time to get their ophidian stash together.

“It would have been impossible to collect that many poisonous snakes”, says Emin Bozkurt, a herpetologist at Çankiri Karatekin University (Çankiri, Turkey). “I did once see six Ottoman vipers (Montivipera xanthina) together, but that hardly allows for collecting ‘vast numbers’.”

But what if they collected any old snake? After all, Hannibal’s warriors were probably not herpetologists. And rag-tag snake bombs could likely have been just as disconcerting as true viper ordnance to the sailors on the receiving end, who were probably not herpetologists either. And what if these creatures got together in large conglomerations?

In Canada and the northern US, for example, thousands of nonvenomous red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) famously huddle in dens throughout the winter months, providing an early spring mass-mating spectacle when they wake up from hibernation. Unfortunately, there are no red-sided garter snakes in Turkey – but there are dice snakes (Natrix tessellata; Figure 1), which locally can reach very high densities. “This harmless snake could have been collected in the hundreds and perhaps the thousands if it was spring”, says Konrad Mebert (Global Biology; Birr, Switzerland).

“I once collected up to 140 of these in 4 hours with 20 inexperienced pupils at a lake in Switzerland. Similarly high densities exist in fish-rich lakes [across to] Central Asia. In Bithynia, high densities were likely around the [Sea of Marmara] and its adjacent wetlands. So if Hannibal had 30–50 men on the job in a habitat where this species was particularly dense, he could have got a lot of dice snakes together in a week.”

Bithynian snake bombs

Sept 1, 2000: Nokia 3310 was released. The 3310 was produced at factories in Finland and Hungary. Has a reputation of great durability, and many Internet memes have been made calling the phone "indestructible" or "the Nokia Brick" and praising its durability compared to modern smartphones. In November 2015, the Nokia 3310 was chosen as one of the first three "National Emojis" for Finland. The emoji is referred to as "The Unbreakable"!





1. What goes up, must come down. I'd make sure I have some overhead cover.

2. If you don't see how this will come home to the USA sooner more than later, you're not paying attention.


https://x.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1830259124690714957


The Starliner astronauts aren’t just stuck in space until 2025... now they’re hearing... strange noises.

"Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only."


https://x.com/SpaceBasedFox/status/1830180273130242223

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 2, 1752: Britain and its colonies got a new timeline. They replaced the Julian calendar with the Gregorian one, which was used in most of Europe. The following day was 14 September 1752, meaning 11 days were cut from the 1752 calendar. These days simply floated out to the aether. However, the four countries which have not adopted the Gregorian calendar are Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran and Afghanistan.


Claims of civil unrest and rioters demanding “Give us our eleven days” may have arisen through a misinterpretation of a contemporary painting by William Hogarth. His 1755 painting entitled: “An Election Entertainment” refers to the elections of 1754 and depicts a tavern dinner organised by Whig candidates. A stolen Tory campaign banner with the slogan, “Give us our Eleven Days” can be seen lower right (on the black banner on the floor under the seated gentleman’s foot). The Tories can be seen outside the window, demonstrating.

When you wake up tomorrow, you'll be on an alternate timeline and maybe things will be better... or not.



Just to be safe I live in a Van Gogh down by the river...




September 2, 1945: Japanese officials, aboard the USS Missouri, signed the “Unconditional Surrender” to officially end the Second World War in the Pacific. The colorized photo shows Yoshijirō Umezu, Chief of the Japanese Army General Staff, signing the documents.


Eager to witness history, the crew of USS Missouri perched wherever they could to watch the Japanese surrender ceremony. However, many Missouri sailors missed the proceedings because they were manning anti-aircraft batteries in case there was a final kamikaze attack.

An embittered ADM Halsey ordered that no courtesies be provided to the Japanese delegation as they were being transported to USS Missouri for the surrender ceremony. Not even coffee or cigarettes were to be offered. FADM Nimitz directed him to revoke the order.

Gen. MacArthur wanted his flag to fly on USS Missouri during the Japanese surrender ceremony, but tradition held that the flag of the senior naval official onboard was to be flown. Nimitz compromised. It was the only time that two five-star flags flew on the same mast.


Witnesses to the surrender on USS Missouri on this day in 1945 received a souvenir card. Some officials in the U.S. requested the extra copies, but CAPT Stuart Murray insisted they were only for those present. The unused cards were burned, and the printing plates were thrown overboard. My grandfather had one of these cards with his name on it.

Surrender of Japan (1945)

Ceremonial Surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri

A Ceremony of Surrender: The Formal End to a Brutal War (LIFE magazine, lots of photos)



Originally, this 1966 film was to star Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Among the proposed titles for this film were "Beach Party in a Haunted House," "Slumber Party in a Horror House," "The Ghost in the Glass Bikini," and "Pajama Party in a Haunted House".



Susan Hart stars as "The Ghost" and she was also in the 1965 film "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" with Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello. A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad sex-bots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets. It sounds like a real life world plot today.




From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art & literature. Mike Jay on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland.

The first recorded mushroom trip in Britain took place in London’s Green Park on October 3, 1799. Like many such experiences before and since, it was accidental. A man identified in the subsequent medical report as “J. S.” was in the habit of gathering small mushrooms from the park on autumn mornings and cooking them up into a breakfast broth for his wife and young family. But this particular morning, an hour after they had finished it, everything began to turn very strange. J. S. noticed black spots and odd flashes of colour interrupting his vision; he became disorientated and had difficulty in standing and moving around. His family were complaining of stomach cramps and cold, numb extremities. The notion of poisonous toadstools leapt to his mind, and he staggered out into the streets to seek help, but within a hundred yards he had forgotten where he was going, or why, and was found wandering in a confused state.

By chance a physician named Everard Brande was passing through this part of town, and he was summoned to treat J. S. and his family. The scene he witnessed was so unusual that he wrote it up at length and published it in The Medical and Physical Journal a few months later.1 The family’s symptoms were rising and falling in giddy waves, their pupils dilated, their pulses fluttering, and their breathing laboured, periodically returning to normal before accelerating into another crisis. All were fixated on the fear that they were dying except for the youngest, the eight-year-old son named as “Edward S.”, whose symptoms were the strangest of all. He had eaten a large portion of the mushrooms and was “attacked with fits of immoderate laughter” which his parents’ threats could not subdue. He seemed to have been transported into another world, from which he would only return under duress to speak nonsense: “when roused and interrogated as to it, he answered indifferently, yes or no, as he did to every other question, evidently without any relation to what was asked”.

Dr Brande diagnosed the family’s condition as the “deleterious effects of a very common species of agaric [mushroom], not hitherto suspected to be poisonous”. Today, we can be more specific: this was intoxication by liberty caps (Psilocybe semilanceata), the “magic mushrooms” that grow plentifully across the hills, moors, commons, golf courses, and playing fields of Britain every autumn.

Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland

CIA repo agents seize a prize...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830651223722119223


"After hearing talks by a Jesuit who directs the Vatican observatory and Steven Dick of the Naval Observatory, we were invited by some junior US Naval officers here to join them for a “LAN party” of the computer game StarCraft. A curious game." — Jacques Vallée (25 October 2003)

SEPTEMBER

by

Helen Hunt Jackson

The golden-rod is yellow;

The corn is turning brown;

The trees in apple orchards

With fruit are bending down.

The gentian's bluest fringes

Are curling in the sun;

In dusty pods the milkweed

Its hidden silk has spun.

The sedges flaunt their harvest,

In every meadow nook;

And asters by the brook-side

Make asters in the brook.

From dewy lanes at morning

the grapes' sweet odors rise;

At noon the roads all flutter

With yellow butterflies.

By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer's best of weather,

And autumn's best of cheer.

But none of all this beauty

Which floods the earth and air

Is unto me the secret

Which makes September fair.

'T is a thing which I remember;

To name it thrills me yet:

One day of one September

I never can forget.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 2, 1944: the crew of USS Finback (SS-230) rescued a young lanky pilot who had bailed out of his flaming Grumman TBM Avenger after the plane was hit by flak while attacking Japanese installations. LTJG George H. W. Bush would go on to be the 41st president of the United States.



40 years later, Bush visited the second USS Finback SSN-670.




September 2, 1969: Chemical Bank installed the first automated teller machine in the United States at its branch in Rockville Centre, New York.




Envisioning an AI future in 1981...


BYTE Sept 1981


R.I.P. James Darren


James Darren, ‘Gidget’ and ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ and T.J. Hooker, dies at 88


Aka 10 Downing Street...




Keanu Reeves turns 60 today.




Babe, get me a snack.




Ok, word...




Monday is finally over, the excitement builds...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 3, 1935:  British racing motorist and motoring journalist Malcolm Campbell clocked a speed of 301:337 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, to become the 1st motor driver to drive an automobile at a speed of over 300 MPH. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England on Jan 4, 1967.

Mr Whoppit, Campbell's teddy bear mascot, was found among the floating debris and the pilot's helmet was recovered. Royal Navy divers made efforts to find and recover the body but, although the wreck of K7 was found, they called off the search, after two weeks, without locating his body. Campbell's body was finally located in 2001.

The remains of Campbell's body were located just over two months later and recovered from the lake on 28 May 2001, still wearing his blue nylon overalls. On the night before his death, while playing cards he had drawn the queen and the ace of spades. Reflecting upon the fact that Mary, Queen of Scots had drawn the same two cards the night before she was beheaded, he told his mechanics, who were playing cards with him, that he had a fearful premonition that he was going to "get the chop". It was not possible to determine the cause of Campbell's death, though a consultant engineer giving evidence to the inquest said that the force of the impact could have caused him to be decapitated. Wiki

Sept 3, 1939: British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced on BBC radio at 11:15 AM that Germany had not responded to the British ultimatum to remove its troops from Poland, and so "this country is at war with Germany".




That was quick...same day...

Sept 3, 1939: The Citizens Advice Bureau was established. It aimed to help people understand the many rules and regulations introduced at start of the Second World War. Nice touch with the Owl mascot!




Following the formal surrender of Japan in 1945, FADM Chester Nimitz planned to go ashore at Yokosuka without his Marine orderly, reasoning that he was safe because any fanatical holdout would target Gen. MacArthur instead of him. An intel officer warned that the Admiral was more likely to be attacked because the Japanese believed they had been defeated by Nimitz and the U.S. Navy rather than MacArthur and the Army. An excellent marksman himself, Nimitz ordered his aide to the pistol range to practice shooting a .45 Colt before leaving for Yokosuka.


Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the United States Pacific Fleet, practicing on the pistol range in Pearl Harbor, Dec 15, 1942.


Sept 3, 1950: Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina became the 1st Formula One World Champion, after winning the Italian Grand Prix. He was killed in a car accident on his way to watch the 1966 French Grand Prix as a spectator.




USA #1 on this day in 1966: Donovan - Sunshine Superman




Sept 3, 1976: The Viking 2 lander touched down on the surface of Mars.


While Viking 1 and 2 were on Mars, this third vehicle was used on Earth to simulate their behavior and to test their responses to radio commands. Earlier, it had been used to demonstrate that the landers could survive the stresses they would encounter during the mission.


Do you like missiles?

Do you like *nuclear powered* missiles?

Do you like finding out where the nuclear-powered missiles of questionable utility are stored?

If so, Mr. Reuters has a story for you:

Two U.S. researchers say they have identified the probable deployment site in Russia of the 9M730 Burevestnik, a new nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile touted by President Vladimir Putin as "invincible."

Putin has said the weapon - dubbed the SSC-X-9 Skyfall by NATO - has an almost unlimited range and can evade U.S. missile defenses. But some Western experts dispute his claims and the Burevestnik's strategic value, saying it will not add capabilities that Moscow does not already have and risks a radiation-spewing mishap.

Using images taken on July 26 by Planet Labs, a commercial satellite firm, the two researchers identified a construction project abutting a nuclear warhead storage facility known by two names - Vologda-20 and Chebsara - as the new missile's potential deployment site. The facility is 295 miles (475 km) north of Moscow.

Reuters is the first to report this development.

Decker Eveleth, an analyst with the CNA research and analysis organization, found the satellite imagery and identified what he assessed are nine horizontal launch pads under construction. They are located in three groups inside high berms to shield them from attack or to prevent an accidental blast in one from detonating missiles in the others, he said.

The U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center declined to comment.

The identification of the missile's probable launch site suggests that Russia is proceeding with its deployment after a series of tests in recent years marred by problems, said Eveleth and the second researcher, Jeffery Lewis, of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Lewis agreed with Eveleth's assessment after reviewing the imagery at his request. The imagery "suggests something very unique, very different. And obviously, we know that Russia is developing this nuclear-powered missile," he said.

Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists, who also studied the Vologda imagery at Eveleth's request, said that it appears to show launch pads and other features "possibly" related to Burevestnik. But he said he could not make a definitive assessment because Moscow does not typically place missile launchers next to nuclear warhead storage.

Eveleth, Lewis, Kristensen and three other experts said Moscow's normal practice has been stockpiling nuclear payloads for land-based missiles far from launch sites - except for those on its deployed Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) force.

But deploying the Burevestnik at Vologda would allow the Russian military to stockpile the nuclear-armed missiles in its bunkers, making them available to launch quickly, said Lewis and Eveleth.

U.S. researchers find probable launch site of Russia's new nuclear-powered missile

There are no depths that Putin won't plunge -- to go after defectors from Mother Russia.


Russian ‘Spy Whale’ Hvaldimir Found Dead Near Norway


Commander Yaste of USS John S. McCain relieved and replaced by Captain Christy after posting a photo of himself "firing a rifle with the scope mounted backward."


Commander of Navy warship relieved of duty months after backward rifle scope photo flap

If you embarrass the Navy your ass gets sent to the meat grinder.

I’m not gonna make any claims about the new commander of the USS John McCain but what’s a fact is they were a featured speaker at an "LGBT Experiences in the Navy" event back in 2021.


LGBT Experiences in the Forward Deployed Navy

On the flip-side it's rather funny that this happened specifically to the USS John S. McCain. Hopefully, she is actually qualified to be a destroyer captain. That ship has had a number of misfortunes with bad captains. Good luck crew!


To recap. The captain of the USS John McCain puts a rifle scope on backwards, and posts pictures of himself shooting it.

He gets relieved of command.

The new captain is most definitely LGBT, but we’re not sure which letter. It’s ambiguous.

All empires fall, bubby.


"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." — Charles Dickens

Painting reminded me of NightskyeB4Dawn.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Darzona!!

September 5, 1860: The first weather forecast appeared in The Times. The reports were supplied to the newspaper by the meteorological department of the Board of Trade (later the Meteorological Office).




In 1945, the escort carrier HMS Reaper (ex-USS Winjah) was allocated to the U.S. for the naval part of Operation LUSTY ("Luftwaffe Secret Technology"). LUSTY was the allied effort to recover top secret German aircraft. The planes shipped to New Jersey included Me 262 and Arado Ar 234 jets.


On July 18, 1942 the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter.

Watson's "Whizzers"

In 1944 intelligence experts at Wright Field had developed lists of advanced aviation equipment they wanted to examine. Watson and his crew, nicknamed "Watson's Whizzers," comprised of pilots, engineers and maintenance men, used these "Black Lists" to collect aircraft. Watson organized his Whizzers into two sections. One collected jet aircraft and the other procured piston engine aircraft and nonflyable jet and rocket equipment.

After the war, the Whizzers added Luftwaffe test pilots to their team. One was Hauptman Heinz Braur. On May 8, 1945, Braur flew 70 women, children and wounded troops to Munich-Riem airport. After he landed, Braur was approached by one of Watson's men who gave him the choice of either going to a prison camp or flying with the Whizzers. Braur thought flying more preferable. Three Messerschmitt employees also joined the Whizzers: Karl Baur, the Chief Test Pilot of Experimental Aircraft, test pilot Ludwig "Willie" Huffman, and engineering superintendent Gerhard Coulis. Test pilot Herman Kersting joined later. When the Whizzers located nine Me 262 jet aircraft at Lechfeld airfield, these German test pilots had the expertise to fly them.

National Museum of the US Air Force

September 5, 1965: Theological scholar and poverty & famine campaigner, Albert Schweitzer, died (aged 90). He thought that Western civilization was decaying because it had abandoned affirmation of life as its ethical foundation. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine what he'd be saying if he were alive today!




Sept 4, 1970: Dr. Manhattan lied to Janey, then met Laurie Jupiter aka Silk Spectre II.




Sept 3, 1975: SPACE: 1999 premiered in the UK. Sound up for this cracker of an intro theme track...




Sept 4, 2005: "Don't Mess With Texas!" An angry USS Texas (SSN 775) blowing main ballast tanks while a cowboy tries to hold on for at least 8 seconds.


She was christened on 31 July 2004 by Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States. Launched into the James River on 9 April 2005, and commissioned as a US Navy warship in Galveston, Texas on 9 September 2006.


VICTA-class surface-submersible diver delivery unit on trials in Portsmouth, England - September 4, 2024.




Call it a $2 billion anomaly...


White House Wants an Extra $2B for FY24 Virginia-class Subs, Attack Boats Pair Cost $11.3B


It cracks me up that these kids went home to summer vacation in Nantucket or where ever with their wealthy parents and go yachting with their Yale and Harvard friends then went right back into commie cosplay without missing a beat. LOL.


https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/183...3113237887


Sweet Home Alabama, keeping the tradition. Where's the outrage from BLM and all those equality ground pounders?


https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1831032807981977955




Mid week words...

SILVER
SLOWLY, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

                                                                                    Walter de la Mare