Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Conspiracy theories, like history, may/may not always repeat, but they sure do rhyme.

And we learn nothing. Rinse and repeat, throughout eternity.

Maybe we are in a simulation. Trapped in a loop, with no way out, as long as we are living.

Then we bounce back from the guff after we pass on.

It's possible and I haven't ruled that out. Also, I think human behavior was figured out thousands of years ago by those ancient philosophers and apparently hasn't changed much. Certainly not with politicians.

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July 15, 971: According to the legend of St. Swithun, if it rains today there will be 40 days of rain. If not, a good midsummer is likely. Sorry England.




July 15, 1518: in the city of Strasbourg, a woman named Frau Troffea woke to begin the 2nd day of her manic and mysterious dance. Soon she would be joined by hundreds of others, compelled to dance for seemingly no reason at all.

In full view of the public, this is the apogee of the choreomania that tormented Strasbourg for a midsummer month in 1518. Also known as the “dancing plague”, it was the most fatal and best documented of the more than ten such contagions which had broken out along the Rhine and Moselle rivers since 1374. Numerous accounts of the bizarre events that unfolded that summer can be found scattered across various contemporary documents and chronicles compiled in the subsequent decades and centuries. One seventeenth-century chronicle by the Strasbourg jurist Johann Schilter quotes a now lost manuscript poem:

    Many hundreds in Strassburg began
    To dance and hop, women and men,
    In the public market, in alleys and streets,
    Day and night; and many of them ate nothing
    Until at last the sickness left them.
    This affliction was called St Vitus’ dance.

Another chronicle from 1636 relates a less happy ending:

    In the year 1518 AD . . . there occurred among men a remarkable and terrible disease called St Vitus’ dance, in which men in their madness began to dance day and night until finally they fell down unconscious and succumbed to death.

The physician and alchemist Paracelsus visited Strasbourg eight years after the plague and became fascinated by its causes. According to his Opus Paramirum, and various chronicles agree, it all started with one woman. Frau Troffea had started dancing on July 14th on the narrow cobbled street outside her half-timbered home. As far as we can tell she had no musical accompaniment but simply “began to dance”.

The Dancing Plague of 1518


July 15, 1959: NASA announced its first logo, better known as the Meatball. Design by James Modarelli.




Lt. Hunter tries to sell Belker on his end-of-the-world gated community ("First Strike Estates") on HILL STREET BLUES. R.I.P. James B. Sikking, dies at 90, reportedly due to complications from dementia.




William Burrows, a science reporter and author who warned against the peril of asteroids and urged Earthlings to colonize other planets, has died at 87. Reportedly due to kidney failure.


William Burrows Obit


Trump weighs in on Judge Cannon ruling dismissing Trump classified documents case based on the corrupt Jack Smith appointment is unconstitutional. Judge Cannon’s ruling, which would invalidate the appointment of any special counsel, is unlikely to get five votes in the Supreme Court, but the delay will push any resolution of this case well past this year’s presidential election.



In the span of 48 hours:
- Trump assassination attempt
- Classified docs case dismissed
- VP pick to be announced
- RFK Jr. finally gets Secret Service protection.
- Trump seeks RFK's endorsement.

The fact that Homeland Security doesn't want to cover for the Secret Service is very telling...

Mayorkas: Trump rally shooting was ‘failure’ by Secret Service


SUBJECT: Libyan Assassination Teams: Some Patterns (1980)




Once again, totally historically inaccurate in a way that’s totally creepy considering where we are and what is happening right now. Seeing some of the same people who decried Alex Jones over Sandy Hook saying the same things about what happened yesterday at Trump’s rally.  One of the things the world needs now more than ever is self-awareness.




His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros delivered the invocation to open the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we ask our Lord to grant unto the nominee, President Trump, and to his advisors, wisdom, grace, and the spirit of service to embrace the needs of all Americans ”for every person’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.”


What does the Orthodox Church have in common with the republican party?  I probably won't read his book, but I may watch the movie.


His call for national unity didn’t last 24 hours...


Temperature lowered. Unity achieved. Where’s Waldo, but it's finding a single American flag in a left wing protest. Oh well, this too will pass, eventually.