Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Today is Portuguese Navy Day. Founded in 1317, the Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa) is the oldest continuously serving navy in the world. May 20 was established as Navy Day to honor the date Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached Calicut, India in 1498 to link Europe and Asia by sea.


Manuel Pessanha of Genoa is appointed as the first Chief Admiral of Portugal (Almirante-mor) by King Denis on Feb 1, 1317, and charged with organizing a permanent navy for the kingdom, with 20 warships and hiring Genoese captains to recruit sailors. The organization of the Portuguese Royal Navy is completed by December 12.

And former US Navy sailor and writer Herman Melville referred to "The Lusiads" a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões which recounts da Gamma’s voyage in mythical verse as "the man-of-war epic of the world." Melville also wrote one of the most famous American novel's first published in 1851, titled, Moby-Dick.


May 20, 1959: THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL opened at the Capitol in New York City. Starring Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer.

A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.



As the film's final credits cut-in, the film states "The Beginning" rather than "The End."


May 20, 1967: The BBC announced a ban on Beatles song, A Day In The Life, from the Sgt Pepper album. The Beatles record company EMI received a letter from the BBC director of sound broadcasting, Frank Gillard, dated 23 May 1967, which suggested the lyrics encouraged drug taking. Allegedly based on the death of a Guinness heir Tara Browne (4 March 1945 – 18 December 1966) in South Kensington. His uninjured British girlfriend model, Suki Potier died in a car crash 14 years later.




Yet another austere religious scholar gone. Women, Children Hardest Hit.

Although Pol Pot was dogged by many controversies, it’s beyond dispute that he had a loyal following.


BBC World

US sanctioned Raisi for being “involved in the regime’s brutal crackdown on Iran’s Green Movement protests. Raisi participated in a so-called death commission that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.”


Biden’s regime joining the "chorus of condolences" for the Butcher of Tehran is shameful.


The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

State Sponsors of Terrorism > IRAN since January 19, 1984.

Here are the sanctions from 2019. Read for yourself.

I hereby declare 5 days of helicopter jokes.



There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down...




Madness I tell ya...


Pope Francis denounces attempts to close southern border as ‘madness’

Attention all Refugees: Follow me, EndTheMadness to Vatican City to end the madness.


Who did not see this coming...




Went to a military surplus auction and bought me one of these for my perimeter defense...


Actually this C-RAM system is being used at the floating pier off the beach in Gaza to protect Merchant Marine ships.


New week, new words...


I feel the need, the need for a Gytrash banner with a touch of Bishy-Barnaby and a sprinkle of Sirimiri on a Parterre setting.

Nature’s Battlefield
Across the parterre, insect regiments march,
Sly sirimir soaks a ceremonial arch.
A bishy-barnaby scuttles to find a safe place.
Gytrash whispers leave their chilling trace.