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October 23, 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, published in 1650, the world was created on this day. The book was a chronology of the history of the world, compiled by James Ussher (4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656), the Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland. The claim of course has not been accepted.


Ussher's work is now used to support Young Earth Creationism (YEC), which holds that the universe was created thousands of years ago (rather than billions). Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology.


October 23, 1973: ABC Movie of the Week: The President's Plane Is Missing. Based on the 1967 novel of the same title by Robert J. Serling.


While on the brink of a military confrontation with China, Air Force One crashes in the desert, killing the President. This brings incompetent Vice-President Kermit Madigan to power who, having been left in the dark by the president, must now rely on his predecessor's aides to guide him. But they have markedly different viewpoints and hidden agendas. Will he blunder his way into a nuclear exchange with the Chinese?

Filmed in 1971 but delayed for airing by ABC because that was the year of President Nixon's trip to China and they didn't want to show the Chinese as villains.


The Canadian Conspiracy (1986) CBC Television mockumentary fashioned into a spoof of '50s commie-paranoia of American Cold War propaganda films and tabloid journalism, using archival clips and interviews with notable Canadian entertainers to build a narrative that the Canadian government has for decades been training agents to infiltrate and take over the American entertainment industry for the purpose of subverting American culture in preparation for a Canadian invasion of the United States.


The film stars numerous celebrities as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Eugene Levy, Lorne Greene, Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner, Margot Kidder, Steve Martin, Donald Sutherland, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Anne Murray, Martin Short, Monty Hall, Peter Jennings, Morley Safer and Tommy Chong. It won two Gemini Awards and was nominated for an International Emmy Award. As far as I know it was never aired by American mainstream TV networks, but HBO-Max acquired the rights to it.


Veep 'I'm so desperate' President Psittacistic Harris: "So, yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had."


"It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler...this is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best."

Vice President Harris Reacts to John Kelly's Comments About Former President Trump

Classic DC swamp playbook. Plant a fake story with a captured journalist/media outlet, then site the fake story in a political attack. Similar to the fabricated Steele dossier story. Holding a daytime presser in front of the VP residence to discuss an Atlantic article feels a bit like abusing the Walmart intercom to make jokes. As we get closer to election day the palaver grows ever thicker & nuttier.

The political rhetoric & lies is only going to build & build for next few weeks. Next week Steve Bannon gets released from prison. Spicy week coming up next.



7 ‘October Surprises’ That Disrupted US Presidential Elections



Today it's Demons hypnotizing the general public by posing as politicians.



Trove of ancient silver coins unearthed by metal detectorists sells for $5.6 million

BIAD, start metal-detecting! I'll be right over with shovels.





Bill Watterson (the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes) gave a commencement speech in 1990 and I thought it's quite profound in hindsight.


Full Speech


The world is being run by far too many quockerwodgers (KWOK-er-wod-jer).
Mid-Week words...



The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term "Mondegreen" in a 1954 essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" in Harper's Magazine, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray", and mishearing the words "laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen".

Lady Mondegreen, Ann Warren, and Sylvia Wright