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A voice like no other, a true legend in the movie business. Fair winds and following seas to my favorite, on-screen Admiral.




Nobuo Fujita holds the rare distinction of being the only foreign pilot to ever have dropped bombs on the continental United States, near Brookings, Oregon after being launched from submarine I-25 in a Yokosuka "Glen". He arrived on Sept. 9, 1942, just after the Doolittle Raid left Tokyo in shambles. After the war, he presented Brookings with his 400-year-old katana to express his regret.


The Time When The Only Foreign Pilot To Drop Bombs On The Continental U.S. Came Back To Visit


The first operational use was on Aug. 29, 1943 over the Mediterranean and the most famous employment of "Fritz X" was the sinking of the Italian battleship Roma off Sardinia on Sept. 9, 1943, to prevent its surrender to the Allies.


German "Fritz X" Guided Bomb


An excerpt from George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946) that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time. Published in April 1946 in the Horizon journal.





Sept 9, 1947: a team working on the Mark II aka Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University, financed by the US Navy, recorded the first actual "computer bug" when an error was discovered to be caused by a moth stuck to a relay component. The team included RADM Grace Hopper who helped popularize the terms "computer bug" and "debug".


Mark II photos: Guide to the Grace Murray Hopper Collection


Sept 9, 1955: The first episode of the BBC children's series, The Woodentops, was broadcast. The main characters were the members of a family who live on a farm with their dog Spotty. It was created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird with Gordon Murray amongst the puppeteers. There were 26 episodes until 2 March 1956. 'Sawdust and hay for dinner today.'




Sept 9, 1966: The first episode of the science fiction series, Time Tunnel, was broadcast on US channel ABC-TV. It explored the possibilities of time travel. There were 30 episodes pruduced, ending on 7 April 1967.


Sept 9, 1967: Spider-Man debuted on the ABC network.

Theme intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z8N9TTvKeQ


Sept 9, 1988: Sidney Lumet's RUNNING ON EMPTY premiered. It was the better of the two River Phoenix undercover family films released that year (the other being LITTLE NIKITA).




Sept 9, 2020: Apocalyptic Oregon...


Robin Loznak Photography


You know what Port-Au-Prince and New York have in common?



Largest School In Haiti To Be Built With The Support Of The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation backs Mayor Bloomberg's pledge to finance four new charter schools in NYC

How far down the Haiti rabbit hole have you gone?


Kamala doing debate prep with Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton’s "Trump whisperer". LOL.


Meet the man who pretends to be Trump for Kamala Harris’s debate prep

Hillary Clinton Aide Philippe Reines Calls Reporter Names

Note: Michael Hastings was a War correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. On June 18, 2013, Hastings died in a highly suspicious, very horrorific single-vehicle car crash in his Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupé in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. His body was burned beyond recognition. The crash was said to be "consistent with a car cyber attack."


Do you find yourself bambsquabbled every time you logon to the Internet or watch the news?


Angry Boy
A lentiginous boy, fists burning with rage,
Bambsquabbled, he throws down the ink-darkened page.
Storms down the trab, feet pounding the soil,
Curglaff stabbing his lungs, as his world starts to boil.


Good night and USA #1 on this day in 1983: