Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Typo on 1947 ad for the atomic bomb film THE BEGINNING *OR* THE END anticipates the Peter Graves grasshopper film by ten years.




1950: Portly short character actor Eugene Pallette (July 8, 1889 – Sept 3, 1954) denies he built a "ranch fortress" in Oregon to escape an atomic war.


In 1946, convinced that there was going to be a "world blow-up" by atomic bombs, the hawkish Pallette received considerable publicity when he set up a "mountain fortress" on a 3,500-acre ranch near Imnaha, Oregon, as a hideaway from universal catastrophe. The "fortress" reportedly was stocked with a sizable herd of prize cattle, enormous supplies of food, and had its own canning plant and lumber mill. When the "blow-up" he anticipated failed to materialize after two years, he began disposing of the Oregon ranch and returned to Los Angeles and his movie colony friends. He never appeared in another movie, again.

One summer we decided to go explore remote northeastern Oregon and do some camping with my kids. We drove to Imnaha, Oregon on our way to Hells Canyon at the Snake River. This place is eXtreme as in you better be prepared for life in the remote high desert, though very scenic landscapes. My kids called it "the dead zone" because no WiFi, no cell service. LOL. The very few people we did meet were friendly and of course absolutely knew we were from a city suburbia. Best keep an eye on your kids out here...Nobody will ever find you out here if you wanted to disappear we were told by the few townsfolk.

The Spiritual Science Mother Church

The history of the Mother Church was never set down in any writing in the past. When the founder, Rev. Julia Forrest, passed away, her family burnt her personal and church papers. In 1978-79 Rev. Laura Smith, Pastor of the Second Spiritual Science Church of Rochester, NY,, attempted to write a history but Rev. Glenn Argoe (who succeeded Rev. Forrest) and the senior ministers at the time, refused to cooperate with Rev. Smith and give her any information. When Rev. Lillian Corbin (who succeeded Rev. Argoe) passed, the persons who were living in her house at that time destroyed the existing church records that were stored there.

April 2, 1968: "2001: A Space Odyssey" premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, DC. Premiered the following day in NYC. Arthur C. Clarke pictured in May 1968:




April 2, 1972: Captain Badass John W. Ripley, US Marine, single-handedly halted an NVA offensive by destroying Dong Ha Bridge. Facing heavy enemy fire, he spent 3 hours swinging under the bridge to place 500 lbs of TNT. He received this "bill" from Hanoi for the cost to replace the bridge. Seriously, von Fluffy? lol




April 2, 1982: HMS Iwo Jima? In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falklands.  Revealed years later, Reagan had secretly prepared to give Margaret Thatcher the USS Iwo Jima if the Royal Navy needed it. The crew would have included U.S. "contract advisors" to operate the systems.




Drones...



Mellon's article referral:
Mysterious Drone Incursions Have Occurred Over U.S. THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Battery In Guam - "It’s yet another reminder of just how vulnerable highly strategic assets, even air defense systems, are to low-end drones." by Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick | UPDATED Nov 27, 2020.

More drones...




New/old words for April...




Nicole Shanahan: American technologist and attorney. Championed unconventional research that she believes might allow women to have children into their 50s, suggesting, for example, that exposure to sunlight might aid fertility. A Gaia-Worshipping Pagan, Silicon Valley investor, Soros DA-funder, DNC Philanthropist, Member of the Carbon Royalty Corporation, married in a Druid NeoPagan ceremony to second husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Divorced in 2023. Rumor she had an affair with Elon Musk.


She is the running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his 2024 independent presidential campaign. Can't make this shit up.


Final words...

"Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

“This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."

— William Shatner




Are we there yet? "I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected..."