Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy 250th Birthday to the U.S. Navy!

“In October of 1775, the Continental Congress ordered the construction of two swift-sailing vessels, each carrying 10 cannons and 80 men, to sail eastward.

Our young fleet tested their sea legs against the most powerful navy the world had ever seen.

John Paul Jones, America’s first great naval hero, said: ‘I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.’

He got his wish many times when his ship was shot into pieces off the coast of England by a British vessel and her four dozen guns. 

When demanded to surrender, Jones very famously declared...

I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!”

- President Donald Trump, July 4, 2019





Oct 13, 1936: Peace in Palestine



Israel has been at war with the Arabs since 1948. I see no reason for it to just suddenly end.

Statement by PM Netanyahu – 12 October 2025


THE SEVENTH SEAL was opened on this day in 1958, in US theaters.

"Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call."




Oct 13, 1961: Robot Soldier Trains Marksmen
"The self-propelled, life-like, life-sized "man" has just been introduced at the Naval Training Device Center at Port Washington, NY. Its only job for the present is to stand up and be shot down."






Oct 13, 1945: Norman Rockwell’s iconic "Homecoming Marine" graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.




Oct 13, 1975: all commissioned U.S. Navy vessels were directed to fly the First Navy Jack for one year to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial. The jack again was adopted from 2002 to 2019 during the Global War on Terrorism. The Navy has returned to the blue Union Jack but reserves the First Navy Jack for the longest active status warship, currently USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), commissioned in 1970 and the flag ship of Seventh Fleet, Homeport Yokosuka, Japan.




The last crew member of the German submarine U-96, Friedrich Grade, died at the ripe old age of 107 on October 13, 2023. Friedrich was the chief engineer on U-96, which became widely known thanks to the 1973 novel "Das Boot" by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and the 1981 film.  Buchheim was a Sonderführer in a propaganda unit of the Kriegsmarine in WWII, writing as a war correspondent about his experiences on minesweepers, destroyers and submarines including drawings and photographs. U-96 sunk 27 merchant ships, mostly British. In her entire career of eleven patrols, she suffered no casualties to her crew. The boat was also known for her emblem, a green laughing sawfish.




October 13, 1994: The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator.




A story of the lost BISCUIT.
According to General Hugh Shelton in his book, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, during the Clinton Administration the Nuclear Codes were LOST.






Brewing to be a potential thermonuclear reset. But AI will save us. Ha.