Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If you’re a rifleman, and you lose your rifle, they’re throwing the book at you. If you’re a general who loses a war, you get a promotion."
— Pete Hegseth (Senate confirmation hearing, Jan 14, 2024)




January 15, 1790: Fletcher Christian and 8 crew members from the ship, HMS Bounty, landed on the isolated Pacific island of Pitcairn, in perhaps the most famous naval mutiny in history. A British ship searched for Christian, but did not find him. Most of the mutineers were captured on Tahiti but Christian and several of the crew evaded capture and settled on Pitcairn Island where their descendants still live today.


Claudene Christian perished in the tragic sinking of a replica HMS Bounty, after the ship went down in hurricane Sandy-swept seas. She had claimed a a family tie to Fletcher Christian, chief mutineer on the original ship.


January 15, 1919: revolutionary socialists & orthodox Marxists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were both murdered by the right-wing para-military Freikorps in Berlin. By then, the 2 socialists had left the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to pursue more closely with Bolshevik ideals, and co-founded the Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), AND then the Communist Party (KPD). Their deaths demoralized the socialist and communist factions, leading to a loss of momentum for the Spartacist movement and the broader socialist cause.


The Freikorps were irregular German paramilitary volunteer units active from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. After World War I, the term referred to loosely affiliated paramilitary organizations established in Germany to combat communist uprisings and support the government. Notable members included Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Höss, and Ernst Röhm, who later became significant figures in Nazi Germany.


Jan 15, 1943: construction of the Pentagon was completed in just 16 months in the area of Virginia formerly known as Hell's Bottom. More than 15,000 workers were on site around the clock. It has 6,500,000 square feet of office space (three times the floor space in the Empire State Building), 7,754 windows and 17.5 miles of corridors. Yet, its spoke-and-ring design allows just a 7 minute walk between the furthest two points in the building. The size of the complex led to many jokes such as the one about a Western Union messenger boy who got lost and then emerged weeks later as a lieutenant colonel.



At the time, then Colonel Leslie Groves, an Army Corps of Engineer officer, took charge of the Pentagon's construction in August 1941. Excavation began on 9/11/1941. He worked six days a week in his office in Washington. Then on Sundays, he would visit the project he felt most needed his personal attention. Groves later said of his time at the Pentagon that he was "hoping to get to a war theater so I could find a little peace." Instead, he was assigned to direct the Manhattan Project – America's effort to build an atomic bomb.


Jan 15, 1947: the mutilated dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short, dubbed The Black Dahlia by the media was discovered in a vacant lot in Leimert Park district of Los Angeles. She was 22 years old. The media nickname was inspired by the 1946 film The Blue Dahlia. Short, an aspiring actress, embodied the postwar dreams and tragedies of Hollywood, drawing massive media attention.

78 years later and the cold case remains a mystery who done it. Despite the lack of closure, the case birthed countless books, films, and TV series. From James Ellroy's 1987 novel The Black Dahlia to conspiracy theories involving suspects like Dr. George Hodel, her story endures in pop culture.


George Hodel has a very bizarre & interesting background. His son Steve Hodel (former LAPD homicide detective) argued a circumstantial case that his father was also the Zodiac Killer based upon a police sketch, the similarity of the style of the Zodiac letters to the Black Dahlia Avenger letters. In a later interview he said he's convinced his father was the Zodiac killer.


1960: Making of the President, ZMan Games 1st edition.




January 15, 1965: The Who released their 1st UK single, I Can’t Explain. It was written by Pete Townshend, and produced by Shel Talmy. A previous single, Zoot Suit, had been released under the group’s previous name, High Numbers, but this was the 1st single using The Who name.




January 15, 1968: Man From U.N.C.L.E. was broadcast for the last time on NBC-TV. It follows 2 secret agents played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for the spy agency UNCLE (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement). There had been 4 series and 105 episodes since 22 September 1964.


Very early on, Ian Fleming assisted in the creation of the series. The show was originally to have been called "Solo", but in the year it was due to come out, "Goldfinger" (1964) was released with a villain called "Solo".

The meaning of the acronym T.H.R.U.S.H. was never spelled out in the series, though a meaning was created for one of the U.N.C.L.E. novels published at the time ("Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity"). Today, it is known as the F.B.I. LOL.

The end credits for every episode included "We wish to thank the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement without whose assistance this program would not be possible."

This led many people at the time to believe that the statement referred to a legitimate agency. Thousands applied to the United Nations, the US government and agencies in various other countries to become agents. No doubt this gave a certain alphabet agency psychological ideas to pursue or rather was already pursuing.


Jan 15, 1967: The Gene Hackman episode of Quinn Martin's THE F.B.I. "The Courier," ABC, S2:E17.




January 15, 1974: The popular 1950s retro American sitcom Happy Days featuring, Henry Winkler as Fonzie (Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli) and Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham premiered on ABC-TV. It ran for 255 half-hour episodes until 24 September 1984. It was one of the most successful US TV shows of the 1970s.



Johnny Marvin - Happy Days Are Here Again 1929
Recorded 10/23/1929 New York City.
Jack Yellen (lyricist)
Milton Ager (composer)
Johnny Marvin (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Leonard W. Joy (director)



The song appeared in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows and was the campaign song for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign. It is the unofficial anthem of Roosevelt's Democratic Party. Its copyright was renewed in 1956, and it entered the American public domain on January 1, 2025.



The "Democrat to Republican grifter" pipeline is such an effective career path. LOL!


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