Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the redemptive power of their sacrifice. Placing the common soldier at the center of the struggle for equality, Lincoln reminded his listeners of the higher purpose for which blood was shed. The words of the speech are carved in stone on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

    Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.

In composing the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln must have been reminded of the words of David Wills, a prominent citizen of Gettysburg charged with cleaning up after the grisly battle of July 1-3, 1863. Wills asked the president to attend the ceremony and make a “few appropriate remarks,” stating in his letter of invitation that Lincoln’s presence would:

…kindle anew in the breasts of the Comrades of those brave dead, who are now in the tented field or nobly meeting the foe in the field, a confidence that they who sleep in death on the Battle Field are not forgotten by those highest in Authority; and they will feel that, should their fate be the same, their remains will not be uncared for.

Edward Everett, perhaps the most popular orator of the day, spoke for two hours at the ceremony. Yet, Everett admitted to Lincoln, “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” In spite of Lincoln’s disclaimer that “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,” his brief speech continues to resonate in the American memory.

Gettysburg Address


100 Year Front Page News on this day: "Politicians Are Wondering How Long Before Feminine President Rules Nation" and "SURE CURE FOR SPEEDERS" and "Political Pedestrian Traffic Troubles".




It's National Play Monopoly Day! The battleship token in the classic version of Monopoly was modeled after USS Indiana (BB-1). The game piece was also used in the board games Conflict and Diplomacy. The Indiana was commissioned in 1895 and decommissioned in 1919.


The 1935 die-cast metal battleship token is actually somewhat of a game piece celebrity. The piece was originally used by Parker Brothers in a game called Conflict. When that game failed, it was easy enough for the company to take the pieces and use them in Monopoly.


Stargaze was an event Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly first held privately on the eve of his annual golf tournament, but then invited the public beginning in 1992. That year the event was held at then Pilot Field in downtown Buffalo and among the celebrities and NFL stars was Donald Trump and girl friend Marla Maples. In this video Trump makes a qualifying throw for the million dollar toss, one of a select few to throw the football through the target. Some of the stars competing included Dan Marino, John Elway, Don Makowski, Warren Moon, Randall Cunningham, Paul Maguire, Chris Collingsworth, Frank Reich, Don Beebe and Kirk Cameron.




Vintage image from a world that does not exist anymore.





El Capitan dethrones Frontier to become the world’s fastest supercomputer


H.P. Lovecraft on Big Data...




First step in War: Disable communications & lots of sabotage






Happy birthday to the 911 of radiological incident response!


NNSA celebrating 50 years of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team – NEST


Ahaha yes! The perfect day to cut across a field without permission.




Trump's pick for the four horses of transportation - Road, Rail, Air and Maritime. Serious upgrade from that fruitcake Buttigieg.

Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971 in Hayward, Wisconsin) the tenth of 11 children is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator, and reality television personality who is currently a co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business, as well as a contributor on Fox News. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. Duffy resigned his seat effective September 23, 2019, to care for a newborn daughter with a heart defect & Down syndrome.


Duffy also spent time as a professional lumberjack and competed in several events ranging from tree-climbing to logrolling.

Before shifting to politics, Duffy was a cast member on MTV's "The Real World Boston" in 1997. A year later he competed on "Road Rules: All Stars" in 1998, where he met his future wife, Rachel Campos.

His wife is Rachel Campos-Duffy (born Oct 22, 1971; Arizona native) Fox News/co-host on Fox & Friends Weekend. Grew up in a military family. Rachel's father, Miguel, was a CMSgt in the Air Force. Both Sean & Rachel are actors so let's hope for a much better show that actually takes useful action.


If you're freezing your buns off in London, this might warm ya up a bit...or not.

Antarctica

‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’

The others nod, pretending not to know.
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

He leaves them reading and begins to climb,
Goading his ghost into the howling snow;
He is just going outside and may be some time.

The tent recedes beneath its crust of rime
And frostbite is replaced by vertigo:
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

Need we consider it some sort of crime,
This numb self-sacrifice of the weakest? No,
He is just going outside and may be some time

In fact, for ever. Solitary enzyme,
Though the night yield no glimmer there will glow,
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

He takes leave of the earthly pantomime
Quietly, knowing it is time to go.
‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

– Derek Mahon