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August 20, 1908: 500,000 Aussies turned out to welcome the arrival of the Great White Fleet to Sydney. The reception was so warm that hundreds of sailors went on unauthorized absence. USS Kansas stayed extra days to round up stragglers, offering a $10 bounty on every sailor returned. That's about $341 today!!



The lure of Sydney has continued. In November 1970, a sailor who was late returning from liberty pleaded with an Australian boat captain to take him out to the USS Shangri-La as the carrier was sailing out of Sydney. The sailor's shipmates threw him a line and managed to haul him aboard.

The fleet's welcome began before daylight on the morning of Thursday, August 20th with site-seers coming out on steamers as far as 30 miles to meet the fleet in the dark. By the time they reached the headlands of Botany Bay, they had an escort of many excursion vessels. Off Coogee Bay they Could see thousands upon thousands of people on the bluffs. From there to the harbor, on the high cliffs, rocks and headlands, it was simply a mass of humans.

The Great White Fleet Visits Sydney, Australia

The "Great White Fleet" sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The battleships were painted white except for gilded scrollwork on their bows. The Atlantic Fleet battleships only later came to be known as the "Great White Fleet."

Initiating a novice into the mysteries of father Neptune


August 20, 1969: Tragedy strikes, Woodstock sets world record and from Jan 21, 1961: Eisenhower Warns of Military-Industrial-Oedipal Complex...plus Bettie Page spanked by Authorities...


The Onion’s Front Page Historical Archive - Experience decades of greatness, virtue, and moral rectitude from America’s Finest News Source.



August 20, 1977: Voyager 2 lifted off and continues its mission today from crossing where no spacecraft has gone before on November 5, 2018 into interstellar space. Its twin, V’ger 1 crossed in August 2012. The Voyager program "promises to outlive its inventors. Like a great painting or an abiding institution, it has acquired an existence of its own." —Stephen J. Pyne


Where Are They Now?

The Golden Record

One of the track's that ET may one day hear is...





Super moons always look extra super over Las Vegas...




A European first timer getting his mind blown in Sin City. LOL. We Americans thank you for your comments, just be advised not all are so friendly in the dry desert, stay away from the east side. Only visit casinos with 5 dollars in your pocket and NO credit cards.
"Everything is designed to hijack your dopamine" should be the new tourism slogan.


He has more Euro surprise observations in his X thread


60 Minutes (S52 E33) interview with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that aired May 17, 2020:

SCOTT PELLEY: Fair to say you simply flooded the system with money?

POWELL: Yes. We did. That's another way to think about it. We did.

PELLEY: Where does it come from? Do you just print it?

POWELL: We print it digitally. So as a central bank, we have the ability to create money digitally. And we do that by buying Treasury Bills or bonds for other government guaranteed securities. And that actually increases the money supply. We also print actual currency and we distribute that through the Federal Reserve banks.


Full Transcript: Fed Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes interview on economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic

Another way to think about it is magical unicorns from the unseen realm poofed all that money into existence via the mysterious ancient technology of rainbow glitter & gold farts.





Tis the season of high seas fraud & bribery. We Rogues are mildly amused, but not surprised. An American or British screenwriter could make a 5 season series. I mean, look there is plenty of every fraud flavor known to man to script a good mockumentary or even a decent docu mixed with some ice cold satire sprinkled with some British humour.

"George Santos pleads guilty to fraud charges...The charges carry a minimum of 2 years in prison and a maximum of 22 years...Judge Joanna Seybert told Santos that sentencing guidelines call for him to serve 6 to 8 years. He'll be sentenced Feb. 7." NBC news


Orlando Whitfield’s All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art




Somewhere lying under all that fraud, bribery, corruption, lies, statistics, layers of human despot filth that would make a billy goat puke...is uncomfortable facts.