Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

But, but it's a dry heat, damn it!!! What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. LOL

I don't mind 100-105 but starting around 107-108 and the body begins to feel the strain and 109+ really wears on me. Spent 3 brutal days in 124-127F in Death Valley (July 2017) while rescuing some dumb lost French tourists who were near dead. So long as I'm drinking a gallon of water per hour while working outside I'm fine. After 5pm I'd be downing beers followed by a quart of water before bedtime. Next day, repeat. Don't do it anymore though. Heavy hot humidity makes you miserable while that hot dry heat can kill you right quick.


June 17, 1939: In the last "public" guillotining in France, Eugen Weidmann, was executed outside a prison in Versailles. The German serial killer had been convicted of multiple kidnappings and murders, including that of a young 22 year old American socialite, Jean de Koven on July 23, 1937. The "hysterical behaviour" by spectators was so scandalous that French President Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions.


In the crowd watching was 17 year old Christopher Lee (later Dracula). Lee said he could not bring himself to watch Weidmann’s execution. "I turned my head, but I heard," he told a documentary in 1998. Footage of the execution with him in the frame was restored and used in Faces of Death III, released on VHS in 1986.

The Last Public Execution by Guillotine

LIFE magazine (Jan 3, 1938)


June 17, 1972: five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

"Wills on duty"

Watergate office building, Washington, D.C.

And so it begins.

On the night of June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills was making his usual rounds when he noticed a piece of duct tape covering the lock of the back parking lot door to the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C. As noted in the Security Officer’s Log (NAID 304970), he removed the tape, only to return thirty minutes later to find that another piece of tape had reappeared. Wills quickly contacted authorities about his strange observation. The local police arrived at the building and searched each office suite. The police, along with Wills, found five men hiding in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Headquarters office. These men were identified as Bernard L. Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, James W. McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis. All of these men had connections to Richard M. Nixon’s reelection campaign.

“Wills on Duty:” The Guard that Discovered the Watergate Break-in

June 17, 1983: The Police released their 5th and final studio album "Synchronicity".




On the night of June 17, 1994, an estimated 95 million people watched as O.J. Simpson, riding in a white Ford Bronco, led the LAPD and California Highway Patrol on a low-speed snail chase along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles, California.




"Americans cannot keep a secret. Or so it increasingly seems to frustrated Government officials who decry what retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former deputy director of the CIA, terms the "hemorrhaging" of classified information." - "The Xerox machine is one of the biggest threats to national security ever devised," says retired Admiral Thomas Moorer...




1st time the Pope has ever attended a G7 summit and he leads the talk about AI...


Pope attends G7 summit in historic first, warns of dangers of AI

The G7 ITALIA Summit


Why did the Gaza Pier fail. Why can't we reopen the Red Sea. Why do these desert nomads keep harassing the most powerful navy? Why can't we build more Navy ships? Yada, yada.

Answer:




If Blinken is sincere here, it’s a testament about how detrimental having "democracy brain" is to thinking about the world. Disaster.

QUESTION:  Well, you said yesterday at some point if one side continues to change its demands, you have to question whether they’re proceeding in good faith.  So let’s be direct: Is Hamas negotiating in good faith?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  The proof will be in whether we can bring this to a conclusion, and bring it to a conclusion quickly, fast. From our perspective, it’s time for the haggling to stop; it’s time for a ceasefire to start.  And you have one man who’s probably somewhere deep underground in Gaza for Hamas, Mr. Sinwar, who’s making all of these decisions.  Well, he’s relatively safe underground.  The people that he purports to represent, they’re suffering every day.  So if he has their interests at heart, he will come to a conclusion to bring this to a conclusion.

Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Savannah Guthrie of The Today Show on NBC (June 13, 2024)

Flashback: "Or, more likely, the world will descend into chaos & conflict, & the jungle will overtake us, as it did in the 1930s. ‘America First’ is only making the world worse. Here’s a better approach..." essay by Antony J. Blinken and Robert Kagan (January 4, 2019) for the Brookings think-tank.


‘America First’ is only making the world worse. Here’s a better approach - Blinken's foreign policy has been a dumpster fire of epic proportions.


These social media clips ALWAYS miss (intentional cut-out) the context.


Full vid & transcript: Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at a Joint Press Availability (Feb 15, 2024)



Activist Gilbert Baker created the original pride flag in 1978. Baker was urged by Harvey Milk to create a symbol for the LGBT community and he chose a flag, which he saw as the most powerful symbol of pride.


A Guide to LGBTQ+ Pride Flags - I think Britannica missed one as Baker added a nine-stripe version of his original 1977 flag, adding in 2017 a lavender stripe to symbolize diversity. Meh, who can keep up anymore.


LOL, par for the course...


Gov. Hochul considering a face mask ban on New York City subways
State overlords: Those damn masks are blocking our biometric surveillance on the sheeple.
Witch Hochul: I'll make all masks illegal with stiff fines.


New week, new words...



The Poet's Struggle

The lallycodler, pen in hand, prepares to spill his soul.
Şafak's first blush, already gone, the hours take their toll.
Opiferous inspiration, calms his inner rage.
Nubivagant thoughts come flooding in, scrawls across the page.