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It's National Cereal Day! Cap'n Crunch was at the center of a stolen valor scandal in 2013 when the media noted his three stripes indicating he was only a commander. The Navy jokingly responded that he was being investigated by NCIS. Now forgotten is his 1970's shipmate Harry S. Hippo. Sometime later he was promoted to full bird captain.

A Little Cereal History:

Ferdinand Schumacher, a German immigrant, began the cereal revolution in 1854 with a hand oats grinder in the back room of a small store in Akron, Ohio. His German Mills American Oatmeal Company was the nation’s first commercial oatmeal manufacturer.  In 1877, Schumacher adopted the Quaker symbol, the first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal.

Granula, the first breakfast cereal, was invented in the United States in 1863by James Caleb Jackson, operator of Our Home on the Hillside, which was later replaced by the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, New York.  The cereal never became popular since it was inconvenient as the heavy bran nuggets needed soaking overnight before they were tender enough to eat.

The cereal industry rose from a combination of sincere religious beliefs and commercial interest in healthy foods. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg experimented with granola.  He boiled some wheat, rolled it into thin films, and baked the resulting flakes in the oven; he acquired a patent in 1891.  In1895 he launched Cornflakes, which overnight captured a national market.

In 1906, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s brother, William K. Kellogg, after working for John, broke away, bought the corn flakes rights from his brother, and set up the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.  His signature on every package became the company trademark and insurance of quality.

Charles W. Post introduced Grape-nuts in 1898 and soon followed with Post Toasties.

Because of Kellogg and Post, the city of Battle Creek, Michigan is nicknamed the "Cereal Capital of the World."

March 7, 1778: Irish-born Captain John Barry (March 25, 1745 – Sept 13, 1803) led 27 men in row boats to capture two British supply ships and an armed schooner in the Delaware River. The Americans also took 116 prisoners. Barry sent a captured jar of pickled oysters and a large wheel of cheese to George Washington.



Captain Shepard was the carrier of the Presidential Emergency Satchel of which JFK called it the "black bag" and later to present known as the nuclear football. Capt Shepard made the second phone call (after FBI J. Edgar Hoover) to RFK informing him his brother is dead. Capt Shepard retired as a two-star Admiral; died June 21, 2013 age 92. His son Tazewell Taylor Shepard III died October 10, 2022, age 68.

More JFK related trip to Europe: Ireland, Wexford, June 27, 1963 photos at JFK Library

John Barry has been credited by some as "The Father of the American Navy", sharing that moniker with John Paul Jones and John Adams, and was appointed as a captain in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775. Barry was the first captain placed in command of an American warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag. After the Revolutionary War, he became the first commissioned American naval officer, at the rank of commodore, receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797.


March 7, 1973: Robert Altman's THE LONG GOODBYE premiered in Los Angeles.


The comeback film for Elliott Gould who was blackballed by Hollywood for 2 years.

Both Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman have said that Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove) and Elliott Gould's dialogue during the drinking scenes was improvised. This was because Hayden was drunk and stoned on marijuana most of the time. However, Hayden wrote his own scenes. Ha!

In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

This is just the second screen role for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had no lines in this film. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Arnold's famous line "... on August 29, 1997, Skynet becomes self-aware at 02:14 am Eastern Time." Just so happens to be Elliott Gould's birthday.


I guess Kevin Shields is vindicated!


The Guardian  |  Kevin Shields via Pitchfork


The British Conspiracy Iceberg version 2:




Research in Motion (RIM), a Canadian company was founded on March 7, 1984. Its flagship product, the Blackberry, was created 15 years later in 1999.




All the stars are here...



I'm so excited...







Fencing going up around the Capitol ahead of bumbling clown, Bai Den Dzhao's State of the Union speech.



Does anyone know? Has it ever been determined who, if anyone, from the Trump administration served as "designated survivor" for the Biden inauguration on January 20, 2021? According to Military.com, outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the highest-ranking official in the line of succession who did not attend the inauguration, but it was never officially reported whether he, or anyone else, served as designated survivor. Maybe it was Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland).




Betty Boop for President 1932 - not much has changed in near 100 years.