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[EndtheMadnessNow]

June 28, 1961: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE opened (with William Castle's HOMICIDAL) in Los Angeles.


Debra Paget born Debralee Griffin on August 19, 1933 in Denver Colorado.
Her sultry, seductive gaze got her a starring role in Princess of The Nile and had a supporting role in the Oscar winning The Ten Commandments. In 1956 she worked with Elvis Presley in the musical Love Me Tender. Elvis called Debra "the most beautiful girl in the world" but her mother would not allow them to date. (mom knows best!) Debra's first marriage, to singer David Street, was annulled after four months. She married director Budd Boetticher in 1960 but they divorced a year later. By this time her career had stalled and she decided to leave Hollywood. Her last role was in the 1963 horror film The Haunted Palace. Debra married Chinese-American oil executive Ling-chieh (Louis) K'ung aka Louis C. Kung, in 1964 and had a son named Gregory. Kung is a nephew of Madame Chiang Kai-shek who married Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ('Kai-shek Chiang') in 1927. Madame Chiang died in 2003 at the age of 105!!

The couple divorced in 1980. Debra became a born again Christian and came out of retirement to host a religious show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. As of 2004 she lives a quiet life in Texas. Huh. AFAIK, she's still alive.

The other starlet, Elaine Stewart born Elsy Henrietta Maria Steinberg (1930-2011):



Movie mogul Hal B. Wallis offered the wannabe starlet the small, unbilled role of a nurse in the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis slapstick comedy Sailor Beware (1952). MGM subsequently signed the glamour girl to a contract with the intention of building her up as a dark-haired Marilyn Monroe type. The build-up was gradual with window-dressing bits as a chorine, stewardess and the like in such MGM films as Singin' in the Rain (1952), You for Me (1952) and Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). She then moved up the movie ladder to more visible parts in Sky Full of Moon (1952) and, most pointedly, as Lila, the sexy lush and opportunist who has a marvelous "descending staircase" bit in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). During this time, she became a popular pin-up and made the cover of Life Magazine.


June 28, 1969: The Stonewall Uprising began at the Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NYC. They were a series of demonstrations by the gay community, triggered by a police raid on gay bars. The rebellions are now seen as a pivotal moment in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the USA.

The crime syndicate saw profit in catering to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genovese crime family controlled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and restaurant), cheaply renovated it, and reopened it the next year as a gay bar.

Stonewall Inn was registered as a type of private “bottle bar,” which did not require a liquor license because patrons were supposed to bring their own liquor. Club attendees had to sign their names in a book upon entry to maintain the club’s false exclusivity. The Genovese family bribed New York’s Sixth Police Precinct to ignore the activities occurring within the club.

1969: The Stonewall Uprising

While the events of Stonewall are often referred to as "riots," Stonewall veterans have explicitly stated that they prefer the term Stonewall uprising or rebellion. The reference to these events as riots was initially used by police to justify their use of force.

"The rebellion (it was never a 'riot') lasted five inconsecutive nights (they were not 'riots')..." -STONEWALL Veterans' Association

It is important to note that there were a number of uprisings against police & state brutality, harassment and entrapment of the LGBT+ communities in the U.S. in the years before Stonewall. These events and the people involved have not received as much historical attention as Stonewall, but are just as central to understandings of U.S. LGBTQIA+ histories.

June 28, 1972: LCDR Emory Brown made the first carrier landing of an F-14 Tomcat #13 (158613) aboard USS Forrestal (CVA-59). The last F-14 carrier landing would take place 34 years later when LT Chris Rattigan landed aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) on July 28, 2006.


Tomcat #10 (157989) was delivered to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland for structural trials and carrier compatibility work. On June 30, 1972, it crashed into the water while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, killing test pilot Bob Millar, who had survived the crash of the first F-14.

The Tomcat was retired by U.S. Navy on 22 September 2006, supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

The remaining intact F-14 aircraft in the U.S. were flown to and stored at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group "Boneyard", at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; in 2007 the U.S. Navy announced plans to shred the remaining F-14s to prevent any components from being acquired by Iran. In August 2009, the 309th AMARG stated that the last aircraft were taken to HVF West, Tucson, Arizona for shredding. At that time only 11 F-14s remained in desert storage.

LTJG Royal Polk Gordon IV and LT Joesph Pommerer decided to compose and sing this "song" to their KC-135 crew while taking fuel on their Tomcat for the last time Feb. 7 2006. LOL, worth a listen...



His dad was "Flash" Gordon who also flew the F-14 in the 80's.


June 28, 1979: the Australian television drama series PATROL BOAT premiered. The series focused on the activities of the crew of a Royal Australian Navy Attack-class patrol boat. For the second season, the crew was transferred to a newer Fremantle-class patrol boat.



PATROL BOAT Theme clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTkCCn4g5cM


June 28, 2005: 19 U.S. special operators were killed during Operation Red Wings. Lt. Michael Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant actions during an engagement with the Taliban. SEAL OF HONOR from US Naval Institute Books tells his story.


The only surviving member of the initial SEAL team was Marcus Luttrell.


The austere media has decided that Biden is OUT, and therefore Biden is outta the race. Between now and early August this decision could flip many times. For now it's like watching a Weekend at Bernies.

[Planned] panic in DC clear across the country right now.

Everyone watching the debate last night...


As the old adage goes, Careful what you wish for AND on the flip-side could end up like 2020. Why so many acting surprised? This was by design, not a coincidence. A weak and incompetent government is exactly what big greedy corporations and rich Americans want.

Now they're making up conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories. We have reached conspiracy theory inception. WIRED flood of cope...


Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Even Bothering With Biden’s Debate Performance (WIRED)


Tom Friedman, who Biden reads and respects: “I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in presidential politics in my lifetime — precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election”. Wow, a double lie conjugated with a truth in a single sentence. But, he does make a few good points, imo.


Full piece archived: Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race (It's short 'n sweet, err bitter sad)



Congo keen on joining BRICS

"In the Congo you made a promise to me..."