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Bugs and Beasts Before the Law


February 21, 1916: Battle of Verdun, one of the longest and bloodiest engagements of WWI, began in France. It went on until December 18, 1916. It was planned by the German Army to secure victory for Germany on the Western Front, but the French Army repelled the German assault.

It took place in northeastern France between German and French forces, centered around the fortified city of Verdun. The German strategy, led by General Erich von Falkenhayn, aimed to "bleed France white" by targeting a symbolically important location, forcing the French to commit massive resources to its defense. The battle began with a massive German artillery bombardment, followed by intense infantry assaults. Despite initial German gains, the French, under General Philippe Pétain, mounted a determined defense, bolstered by reinforcements and a robust supply line along the "Sacred Way." The fighting devolved into a grueling war of attrition, with both sides suffering staggering losses—estimated at over 700,000 casualties combined, including roughly 300,000 deaths. The battle ended with French forces recapturing most of the lost ground, though at an immense cost. Verdun became a symbol of French resilience and the horrors of industrial warfare.


Heroic Stand at Verdun


The Garden of Enchantment by Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1914) from 'Parsifal' 1882 (the opera by Richard Wagner).

... on Good Friday I awoke to find the sun shining brightly for the first time in this house: the little garden was radiant with green, the birds sang, and at last I could sit on the roof and enjoy the long-yearned-for peace with its message of promise. Full of this sentiment, I suddenly remembered that the day was Good Friday, and I called to mind the significance this omen had already once assumed for me when I was reading Wolfram's Parzival. Since the sojourn in Marienbad [in the summer of 1845], where I had conceived Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin, I had never occupied myself again with that poem; now its noble possibilities struck me with overwhelming force, and out of my thoughts about Good Friday I rapidly conceived a whole drama, of which I made a rough sketch with a few dashes of the pen, dividing the whole into three acts.

Act 2, Scene 1:

Klingsor's castle and enchanted garden. Waking her from her sleep, Klingsor conjures up Kundry, now transformed into an incredibly alluring woman. He calls her by many names: First Sorceress (Urteufelin), Hell's Rose (Höllenrose), Herodias, Gundryggia and, lastly, Kundry. She mocks his self-castrated condition but cannot resist his power. He resolves to send her to seduce Parsifal and ruin him as she ruined Amfortas before.

Feb 20, 2012: SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team (SDVT) 1 training in the South Pacific with USS Michigan (SSGN 727), one of the four horsemen of Ohio-class Tomahawkalypse. The container behind the sail is a Dry Deck Shelter (DDS) which is used for SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV), launching UUVs, launching combat rubber raiding craft (CRRC), and diver lockout. In 2027, 727 is set to retire.





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Time to shut down the global economy again and unleash the stimulus checks, again. Oh no, Batwoman is on it, again...


New coronavirus with potential to cause pandemic discovered in China



"One quintillion, sixty-six billiard, six hundred billion and one". Do you know this demon number? It's the amount of $$$ the congress-critters stole from us.

Kidding. (I think)

1000000000000066600000000000001 is a prime number and it is also a palindrome...a number which reads the same both backwards and forwards and is only divisible by itself and one.

It’s called Belphegor's prime.

'Belphegor' refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell (due to the ‘666’ in the middle & the 13 zeroes on either side).

The name "Belphegor's prime" was coined by superbrain author Clifford A. Pickover in 2012. Belphegor is one of the Seven Princes of Hell; specifically, "the demon of inventiveness". In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Belphegor is one of the "Principalities of the Prime." The number itself contains superstitious elements that have given it its name: the number 666 at the heart of Belphegor's prime is widely associated as being the number of the beast, used in symbolism to represent one of the creatures in the apocalypse or, more commonly, the devil. This number is surrounded on either side by thirteen zeroes and is 31 digits in length (thirteen reversed), with thirteen itself long regarded superstitiously as an unlucky number in Western culture.




February 21, 2004: Glam rock star Les Gray died at age 57. He’s best known as the lead singer for the 1970s hitmakers, Mud, who had 14 UK Top 20 hits between 1973 and 1976, including 3 UK #1s, with Tiger Feet, Lonely This Christmas and Oh Boy.




TGIF words... I'm blutterbunged by our political leaders on the world stage.



The "X-echolalia" platform has a tendency for any given trending topic to quickly devolve into an echo chamber of jabberwocky. Be advised the echolalia syndrome is an infectious, highly contagious illness that affects the human brain, specifically cognitive abilities rendering a person batshit crazy. The digital meth virus has learned to jump from the digital screen into biological humans in mere hours with many reported cases of just minutes. Beware! The good news is there happens to be a simple remedy, called fresh air & sunshine.

Also, a quick dip will shock you back to reality, rendering your fingers immobile to work a keyboard.