Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Marking the anniversary of the passing of Eisenhower administration staffer Bradley H. Patterson Jr. born Dec 5, 1921 - March 19, 2020. Mr. Patterson was involved in the Cold War Operation Alert '55 AND was deeply involved in COG matters.


He was a tough old goat, Brad summited five of America's 14,000 foot mountains. At 74 years old, Brad trekked to 17,500 ft to see Mount Everest.

He served in the Department of State from 1945 to 1954, and as the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet under President Eisenhower from 1954 to 1960. In 1960, Brad won the Arthur S. Flemming Award as One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in Federal Service. During the Kennedy Administration, from 1961 to 1962, he became the first Executive Secretary of the Peace Corps under Sargent Shriver. Brad then served, from 1962 to 1966, as National Security Assistant at the Treasury Department, graduating from the National War College in 1966. From 1966 to 1967, he was the Executive Director of the presidential National Advisory Commission on the Selective Service. In 1969, Brad returned to the White House to serve as an Executive Assistant to Leonard Garment under President Nixon. During his tenure under Garment, Brad helped to implement President Nixon's policy of Indian Self-Determination. He was instrumental in returning Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblo, restoring fishing rights to the Yakima, and passing the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. He personally intervened in the AIM takeover of the BIA building, the occupation of Alcatraz, and the standoff at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Beginning in 1974, Brad served as staff aide to First Lady Betty Ford, and from 1975 to 1976, he was President Ford's Assistant Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel. From 1977 to 1988, Brad joined the Brookings Institution as a Senior Staff Member of their Center for Public Policy Education. Brad was elected National President of the American Society for Public Administration from 1984 to 1985. He served as a member of the American Political Science Association and an associate of the Center for the Study of the Presidency. For over 30 years he was also a member of the Potomac Corral of the Westerners.

Brad authored three books about the White House Staff, Ring of Power: The White House Staff and Its Expanding Role in Government (Basic Books, 1988), The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond (Brookings Press, 2000), and To Serve the President: Continuity and Innovation in The White House Staff (Brookings Press, 2008). Washington Post Columnist, David Broder wrote that Brad "has made a specialty of examining the workings of the White House and probably knows as much as anyone about how to organize the presidency." In 2004 he was awarded the University of Chicago National Alumni Association's Professional Achievement Citation.

Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. Obituary

Note that Dr. Anthony Fauci's entrance into the permanent bureaucracy club when he received the Flemming award in 1979 and 5 yrs later becomes the director of NIAID in 1984.


Raise a glass (or two or three or...) to Patrick McGoohan, March 19, 1928 - Jan 13, 2009.




Larry Blake, the auteur behind the 1961 civil defense scare album, "The Complacent Americans," was born March 19, 1915 - died in 1971.



Tracklist:
This Side Is Not Pleasant... Nor Is Nuclear Warfare... Hear
It Is Suggested That This Side Not Be Played For At Least 10 Minutes, Following Side One. "You Will Survive"

The Complacent Americans Clip 1: Civil Defense Scare LP:




March 19, 1955: Former CIA black ops agent Frank Moses (and Bruce Willis himself), were born.





Your Daily Exclusive 'kinetic' encounters with UFOs!


Veteran paratrooper reveals British special forces recovered a downed 'non-human' craft in northern England in late 1980s



March 19, 2012: Amazon acquired the robot maker Kiva. Within a year, it had 1,000 robots and by 2015 had 15,000. In August 2015, the company officially changed its name from Kiva Systems LLC to Amazon Robotics LLC. Today, it has more than 750,000 robots. In July 2022, Amazon unveiled its first-ever autonomous mobile robot (AMR) Proteus.

In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea". Some who ascribe a specific domain to Proteus call him the god of "elusive sea change", which suggests the changeable nature of the sea or the liquid quality of water. He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid doing so; he answers only to those who are capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, meaning "versatile", "mutable", or "capable of assuming many forms". "Protean" has positive connotations of flexibility, versatility and adaptability.

Proteus syndrome is a horrible genetic disorder that is also named after the Greek sea-god Proteus, who could change his shape. The techno billionaire nerds want to turn us into disfigured mindless zombie slaves. With help from the AI fake media world of course. Black mirror horrors beyond your wildest nightmares.


Wow, would ya look at that...


NY Gassin Times Clickbait headline and that's the whole article captured, with a video mocking the term. Parody times given they're not even using/defining the term correctly.






Foundation for Economic Education


Not sure how a sequel would work, but here we go...


Michael Mann confirms "HEAT 2" will be his next film & that he is deep into pre-production.
Radio France and IMDB


First look at a Wookie Jedi in...