Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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It's National Camera Day. This Navy photographer on USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), has an impressive rig as he prepares for a reconnaissance mission in a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in 1944. He can shoot with the massive aerial camera or with the Helldiver's rear twin .30 caliber machine guns. Chief Petty Officer Hitchcock used this one over Germany in 1944.






June 29, 1927: For the first time in 200 years, a total eclipse of the sun was seen in Britain. Few people were lucky enough to witness the spectacle, but those in Giggleswick in Yorkshire were able to see a perfect, full eclipse, which lasted for less than 30 seconds.




June 29, 1956: Marilyn Monroe married the esteemed US playright, Arthur Miller, in a 4-minute civil ceremony in Westchester County Court House in White Plains, New York State. The bride was 30 and the groom 40. The marriage lasted until 20 January 1961, when John F. Kennedy was sworn in Office as 35th president. No coincidence.




June 29, 1967: Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield (aged 34), was killed in a car accident at 2:25AM on her way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Her boyfriend/attorney Sam Brody and Ronnie Harrison were killed as well. Jayne's three children, Mickey Hargitay, Zoltan Hargitay and Mariska Hargitay survived the crash.

Contrary to media reports that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she did suffer severe (scalping) head trauma. Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde" was allegedly intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, her attorney Samuel S. Brody, and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli.



In America the barriers on the back of all tractor-trailers today are known as Mansfield bars...a safety feature fitted to trucks & lorries after her accident which took the trucking industry years of gov't litigation before finally implementing through years of trial & failure. The crashed car was saved by a private collector in Florida, where it became a roadside attraction in the 1970s, then was on display by the Dearly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum in LA until the COVID-19 pandemic, when it went into storage, and was never seen again. However, you can get a virtual tour. If interested see this Dearly Departed Tours history vid which has a re-enactment of the fatal crash scenario:




Homeless in Texas...

USS Texas Might Be Homeless in Texas

Summary and Key Points: Efforts to preserve the USS Texas, the only surviving battleship to have served in both world wars, are ongoing, but finding a permanent home for the ship remains a challenge.

-The Battleship Texas Foundation has ruled out Seawolf Park due to high dredging costs. Instead, the ship is considered for relocation to Pier 21 in Galveston, though this faces opposition from a local restaurant concerned about obstructing harbor views.

-Despite these hurdles, restoration work continues on the USS Texas, which had previously been docked at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site for over 70 years.

USS Texas: The Historic Battleship's Search for a New Home

Efforts to restore and help preserve the only surviving battleship to see service in both world wars continue—and while the New York-class battleship USS Texas (BB-35) has apparently successfully fended off its greatest post-World War II enemies (time and the elements) for now, another fight continues.

That is, namely, where the honorary flagship of the Texas Navy will next call home.

The Houston Chronicle reported this week that a fight from a popular restaurant could derail plans to see the warship relocated to Pier 21 in Galveston. The "award-winning" Katie's Seafood House launched a viral social media campaign that warned how BB-35's presence would block the postcard-worthy view of the harbor that includes Pelican Island and a "mosquito fleet" of shrimping boats.

The eatery—which is reported to be a Texas institution—even drafted a Change.org petition that urged Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees, the public entity that manages the port including Pier 21, to block the relocation of USS Texas. Apparently, food and a few of the boats that Forrest Gump might own seem more important than finding a home for a historically significant warship.

A couple of 14" or 16" shells could eliminate the restaurant problem. Just sayin.



Several hundred vintage photos of mighty Texas at  Battleship Photo Archive


US Naval tradition dictates that when a pilot mistakenly lands on the wrong aircraft carrier... fellow crew members do their absolute best to remain discreet so as not to embarrass the pilot. Or not! An A-7 from JFK trapped aboard Saratoga that had Hornets.


It happens now & then. When there used to be more than one carrier in a task group, if an aircraft landed accidentally on the wrong ship, some fun was had before sending him "home". In addition, there was always a ransom payment before getting the jet back. Usually tens of gallons of ice cream and the latest reel-to-real 16mm movies.

Remember this? Note how casually they lie...


US cites AI deepfakes as reason to keep Biden recording with Robert Hur secret

No serious person believes what DOJ says here. That’s a problem. Each time the DOJ does things like this, its institutional capital decays a little more. Bit by bit, eventually the balance of the nation has no faith in its Department of Justice. Obviously many people already came to that conclusion years ago, but not yet everyone. That is cancerous in a republic.


Jump in the water’s fine...


LOL, my kids ate apples on his apple farm.


Congo to bongos...