Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

This photo taken in Nixon, Nevada on Oct 15, 1960, includes Mark Jones (Chief Thundercloud), Carol Frazier, Lt Governor Rex Bell, and Harry Winnemucca. They were commemorating "100 years of peace." Frazier and Winnemucca were descendants of Chief Winnemucca.




Victory Over Communism board game (1964)

October 1965 Issue

A man in Arizona has decided that Americans should be playing a new game called Victory Over Communism. It is described by its creator, a Phoenix businessman, as “America’s first anti-Communist game for children and adults,” and is intended as the all-purpose birthday, Christmas, or graduation gift.

Victory Over Communism is played on a smallish cardboard rectangle bearing a map of the world —with twenty-five “slave” countries etched in red — and a timetable demonstrating that the world will be wholly Communistic by 1973, “the date set by most authorities on the subject of Communism, that the Communists will complete their goal of World Communism, if they are not stopped.”

The players roll dice and, accordingly, grapple with a set of questions designed to test their knowledge of the history and method of the international Communist conspiracy (for example: “Are Communists more interested in adults or children?”; “Are we as a nation and as individuals really in trouble because of the Communist conspiracy and internal infiltration of Communists in our country?”; “What president campaigned that he would ‘clean up the mess in Washington,’ but after elected actually made the job of uncovering security risks almost impossible?”). For the benefit of doubting Thomases, each question and answer is documented, with a page reference to John A. Stormer’s definitive work None Dare Call It Treason.

Closing the Game Gap

Newsweek covered the game too...


Make a great Christmas present for the kiddies, if I can only find one for sale.


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Oct 15: the 2,500-room Egyptian-themed Luxor Hotel & Casino (1993) and Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Bellagio (1998) opened on the Las Vegas Strip. Concept art of Luxor with no Sphinx & multicolored pyramid. Bellagio was initially to be named "Beau Rivage", with a huge ("don't worry we have our own wells") lake. Steve Wynn swore the lake would use less water than the Dunes golf course it replaced. He had to keep reducing the size of the lake until that promise was kept in the final Bellagio design. However, logistics played a huge part in the redesign. Wynn was informed of the cost to build and maintain a huge underwater tunnel system to get semi-trucks, etc to the hotel "island" delivering daily supplies. That, above all, killed the concept.

Two weeks ahead of the roll-out Mirage Resorts' $475 million Treasure Island Casino and two months before the debut of the $1 billion MGM Grand hotel-casino-theme park, largest hotel in the world at the time.

When the Luxor Sky Beam built by G-Force International Entertainment Corporation first pierced the night sky, it was then and remains to this day, an instantly identifiable world-class landmark for the Luxor Hotel Resort and Casino. As seen from the International Space Station (NASA/NOAA night-time Earth studies), the brightest place on the planet is considered to be the Las Vegas Strip. The brightest light on the Strip is the Luxor Sky Beam! Simply put, the Luxor Sky Beam is the brightest single visible light on Earth, 25 years after its creation.

Starting in 2005, when Steve Wynn launched the latest and largest building-boom Vegas has ever seen. More than 80 high-rise, condo, hotel, mixed-use and other major projects in the Las Vegas area are in various stages of planning, development and construction.


Note the Beau Rivage ('beautiful shore') is a Steve Wynn waterfront casino resort with 1,740 rooms in Biloxi, Mississippi and the tallest building in Mississippi.


Pentagon reporters quit because they refuse to follow a few simple rules that have been in place for 80 years. Good riddens. Maybe that will reduce the leaks. Covering DoD for decades is not a silver bullet unless you forget that coverage’s result: the Pentagon press corps lead the way as fluffers for the Iraq war & elevated monsters like Petraeus: wars mean good ratings, wars sell newspapers, only one decent reporter on that wall anyhow.




The Road to Iraq - The Making of a Neoconservative

Media coverage of the Iraq War


While time is speeding up, presidential terms are slowing down. Biden's four years felt like eight. It feels like a few years since I seen Greenland trending. Weird, but it's just a perception thing.




UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture by Reece, Gregory L. (2007)




B-52s now orbiting off the Venezuelan coast today with the innocuous call signs of "Bunny 1" and "Bunny 2."