Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Feb 24, 1885, Chester Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas.




Feb 24, 1945: Cowboy Sheriff Warren Hyde of Utah chased down a Japanese balloon bomb that then took him on a wild ride. He grabbed hold and rode the balloon for almost an hour as it dragged him through barbed wire and reached heights of 30 ft before he was able to tie it down. Apropos photo given the military was chasing a balloon over Utah yesterday.



"It just reached a point where anything like that never surprised me. That was just in his nature. If the job had to be done, he would go ahead and do it." –Marion Hyde, son

Utah sheriff stopped 1945 Japanese hydrogen-filled balloon attack



Dr. Ash's Fallout Shelter Sweets. Perhaps of some interest to our UK friends. Published Feb 24, 1963 in the London Observer. Dr. Michael Ash (1916-1991) - not to be confused with the Dr. Ash who invented nitro beer for Guinness.




The universe is not without a sense of humor... "Joe Biden who'll make history because of his age..." ABC News, Nov 21, 1972.




"Throughout the Eisenhower Administration - and for years after - a vault held tape-recorded addresses by both Eisenhower and celebrity Arthur Godfrey." - Ted Gup, TIME, 8/10/92. The famous vault?


TIME, The Doomsday Blueprints

One of the medium's early master commercial pitchmen, he was strongly identified with many of his sponsors, especially Chesterfield cigarettes and Lipton Tea. Having advertised Chesterfield for many years, during which time he devised the slogan "Buy 'em by the carton", Godfrey terminated his relationship with the company after he quit smoking, five years before he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1959. Subsequently, he became a prominent spokesman for anti-smoking education. His granddaughter is Mary Schmidt Amons, a cast member on The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.
Arthur Godfrey



The AEICC (Alternate Emergency Information Coordination Center) is Mount Weather.

CIA / FEMA, Oct 31, 1984



Einstein and the Bomb







A little birdy tells me China is flooding the US fiberglass market.

Unrelated - Owens Corning is thinking about selling their US fiber reinforcement manufacturing assets. A US based Fortune 500, with $1.3B in reinforcements alone.

We love our global trade don't we folks.




Five years ago, this would have been unthinkable. The latest example how much the world has changed since Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Amidst the largest military exercises in western Europe since the Cold War in response to Russian aggression in the east, and weeks before Sweden is expected to become the 32nd member of NATO, US B-1 bombers land in northern Sweden.


Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, arrived in Luleå-Kallax Air Base, Sweden, for Bomber Task Force 24-2, Feb. 23, 2024.

Rockwell B1-B Lancer - Fear the B-ONE! Take-off from RAF Fairford. Volume up!