Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 16, 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute who was perhaps the best known African American of his day, to a meeting in the White House. When the meeting went long, the President asked Washington to stay for dinner, the first Black American to do so. The President’s act drew harsh criticism from many white Americans.

“The outrage was just unbelievable,” said Deborah Davis, author of “Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation.” “‘Dining,’ and I put it in quotation marks, was really a code word for social equality.”

That outrage continued, she said. “There was hell to pay, first weeks, then months, then years, then decades. This story did not go away. And, you know, an assassin was hired to go to Tuskegee to kill Booker T. Washington. He was pursued wherever he went. Theodore Roosevelt was criticized in ways that presidents were not criticized. There were vulgar cartoons of Mrs. Roosevelt that had never been done before. This was all new territory.”


Booker T. Washington dinner at the White House  | Book excerpt


October 16, 1958: Britain’s most popular children’s television programme, Blue Peter, was 1st broadcast on BBC TV. Its first presenters were Christopher Trace (1933-1992), a relatively unknown actor, and the model, Leila Williams (born 1937-still with us), best known for winning the 1957 Miss Great Britain contest. It has the status as the country’s longest-running beauty pageant.





She was the cover girl on Tit-bits (famous British magazine) May 12, 1962.

British children's-magazine program is aimed at 6-to-14-year-olds. 40 seasons, 67 years later the show is still running. It is the longest running children's television show in the world. Of the period 16th October 1958 to 5th November 1962, only two clips from the show are known to be archived.

The series was used by the BBC as a platform to launch several upcoming programs aimed at children, in particular Doctor Who (1963). Long-running presenter Peter Purves had played a companion to William Hartnell's Doctor before joining Blue Peter and Janet Ellis had also acted in a Doctor Who (1963) serial starring Tom Baker before joining as a presenter.

The "Blue Peter" referred to in the title is a flag flown by Royal Navy ships to indicate they are about to leave port.

Blue Peter became the children's programme most watched, copied, studied, parodied and pilloried. The young audience was encouraged to be active - to make, to care for animals and help others. It was also an early adopter of environmental issues in the late 1980s ('green' badges were issued). Despite this, critics complained about its 'bourgeois ideologies'.


As ships in the mothball fleet began to become obsolete in the 1960s, NY wanted to convert them into drug rehab centers, MA planned to use them as garbage incinerators, and California proposed they become sewage treatment plants. The plans proved to be too expensive. Aerial photo of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco unit, in early 1958:


By 1962, the entire assemblage (except for two) were stricken from Navy List and subsequently sold for scrap.


Nice to see the (mis)administration of Bai Den Jao and cackling Kamalarkey have their priorities in order. How do we cancel them?



Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule


In 1990, neither the federal government or any liberal organization would help the newly-freed Nelson Mandela visit the United States. And just like that, point made about Trump's historic lack of racism.


Trump Takes Mandela Under His Wing


Another military training abduction got 'zapped' over Mount Rainier...


Navy Growler crashes near Mount Rainier; 2 crew members missing


The launch tower that SpaceX used to catch the heavy booster was built in a matter of months. NASA is trying to build a much more simpler launch tower in Florida, which doesn't catch rockets, and hired Bechtel Corporation to do it. The latest estimate is $2.7 billion and it won't be ready until 2027 or maybe 2029. When the incentive is to maximize cost, cost will surely be maximized. Bechtel as the second largest construction company in the USA. The super billionaire Bechtel construction dynasty deeply rooted in the military industrial complex has a very shady deep state past.


Space Launch System is still a national disgrace


Our resident Space Force Guardians are thirsty for praise.




The NY Times vulpine virulent newspeak disseminate propatainment across the globe like no other.




C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) or simply Comet A3 from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023.
ATLAS = The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System

Here's a few better shots I scrapped out of the millions...


If humans are still around we'll see it again in about 80,000 years.