Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In 1958, a young Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger calmly and quietly explained why America should be willing to enter nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

"We base our policy on a threat that will involve the destruction of all mankind."

If the U.S. was unwilling to run the risk of annihilating its enemy, and the enemy knew this, then, he argued, "we are lost."

"And I think we ought to face that fact."



Henry Kissinger - The Mike Wallace Interview (7/13/1958)




The shortest run game show on TV. The show was originally a game show called "You're in the Picture". Celebrity guests put their heads into oversized cardboard cutout pictures, like those at amusement parks, and had to guess what the picture was. Jackie Gleason felt the premiere went so badly that he spent the entire next episode apologizing to the viewers and studio audience for "that bomb". "I've seen bombs in my day, but the H-bomb was a two-inch salute compared to this." He filled the time slot with a celebrity-interview format under a new title, but the show was canceled after two months.



Jackie Gleason - Apology episode:



Nov 29, 1982: 40 miles east of Subic Bay, Philippines, Thomas A. Edison (ex-SSBN-610) collided with USS Leftwich (DD-984) while conducting Anti Sub Warfare (ASW) exercises. Edison's motto: Power to Repel the Darkness. First & only submarine to have an elevator & piano.


A Steinway piano spent 22 years (1961-1983) aboard the EDISON, the only full size piano ever installed aboard a submarine conducting nuclear deterrent patrols. Part of the artifact collection of the Naval Historical Center on the Washington Navy Yard, it was temporarily loaned back to Steinway in return for a complete restoration. During the Summer of 2003, the piano was displayed at the Steinway Company Museum in New York in an exhibit celebrating the 150 years of the famous piano company.

Thomas A. Edison was the first and only submarine to have an elevator. In 1962, an elevator was added to the sub so that President Kennedy could access the submarine. Kennedy had a back injury which prevented him from using vertical ladders. The addition was known as the "JFK Submarine Access Elevator" and allowed the President to enter the submarine through one of its deck hatches while standing.



Nov 29, 1941: Navy defeated Army in football. The game program featured a photo of USS Arizona with the caption "despite the claims of air enthusiasts no battleship has yet been sunk by bombs." The Arizona would be sunk one week later by Japanese bombers at Pearl Harbor.




This is the battleship HMS Rodney (Pennant number: 29) showing a bit of firepower flair by fanning her 16" guns. Rodney was damaged by her own guns while firing 378 16" shells and 706 six-inch shells at the German battleship Bismarck in 1941. Rodney's own main guns firing at low elevation and at point blank range had damaged her more extensively than had Bismarck. This was a brutal battle almost beyond imagination. The shockwaves broke water mains and loosened plates, causing flooding, but she survived and went on to fire more shells at Normandy, France during the D-Day landings.


Motto: Non Generant Aquilae Columbas / "Eagles do not breed doves"
Sold for scrap in 1948



Back before he fried his brain...


When Disclosure Serves Secrecy


Perfect place for the Biden crime family...


https://x.com/ACKCurrent/status/1862577107341017301

Gotta wonder who in the hell is running the White House till Jan 20th???
Actually, the past 4 damn years.




PM Justin Trudeau has arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida, and is due to meet President-Elect Trump tonight at Mar-a-Lago.




Weekend words...