Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

It's Appreciate A Dragon Day. In 1960, the crew of USS Seadragon (SSN-584) played softball at the North Pole. The pitcher's mound was on the Pole so batters who hit a home run could circumnavigate the world as they passed through all time zones while rounding the bases.

Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady with SYERS 2 pod & Raytheon High Frequency radios for collective dream mining & analysis.

Melanija Knavs, Germanized as Melania Knauss who later became Melania Trump, went to high school in Ljubljana, Slovenia, City of dragons.

In the West, a dragon symbolizes evil from ancient times, but in the East it represents wisdom, spirituality and protection – something more pleasant. It also symbolizes strength and courage.



Dragon Blood Tree (Dracaena cinnabari) native to Socotra archipelago, aka "lost world" and is part of Yemen. It is so called due to red sap that trees produce and is an evergreen plant. "Dragon Blood" was used as a source of varnish for 18th-century Italian violin-makers. It was also used as tooth-paste in the 18th century. 37% of Socotra’s 825 plant species, 90% of its reptile species and 95% of its land snail species do NOT occur anywhere else in the world. More info here.

Because of the belief that it is the blood of the dragon it is also used in ritual magick and alchemy.

The German text is from a 1534 book Stahel und Eyssen [Steel and Iron]. (German, pg 8)

Chartres Cathedral: The book is closed and to gain the knowledge one first has to figure out the code to unlock the book by asking the right questions. The first clue, what is Jesus standing on? Dragons. The snouts are not touching, implying the circuit is not closed. How is the circuit closed? Through Jesus. Jesus was the transitional element closing the circuit between the Age of Aries and Pisces. Understanding the mythology in symbology is important or so I've read.

Did you know... the 17-story Wat Samphran Temple in Thailand has this incredible dragon wrapped around it. When the sun sets/rises, it gives the illusion that it's breathing fire.

For All Mankind - Sea Dragon Rocket Launch



The largest rocket ever conceived, that was never launched. The Sea Dragon was a 1962 conceptualized design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet, one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean. Although there was some interest at both NASA and Todd Shipyards, the project was not implemented.


January 16, 1843: The New York State Lunatic Asylum opened as the first state institution (second in the country) designed solely for the confinement and care of the insane. Two hundred seventy-six patients were admitted during the first year of operation. In 1844 and 1846 additional funds were approved by the legislature for enlargement of the grounds, erection of additional buildings, and provision of a suitable water supply.


The infamous Utica Crib would hold severe patients in its caged confinement. The asylum would average 2700 visitors a year in the 1850's making it among the most visited locations in the United States. Laws of 1890 designated the State Lunatic Asylum as "The Utica State Hospital."

Old Main closed on September 28, 1978. The building, with its iconic Greek Doric columns, was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Old Main still attracts large crowds and is considered one of the most haunted buildings in the United States.

In 1931, the Marcy Division of the Utica State Hospital was established by the legislature (Laws of 1931, Chapter 106) as a separate institution within the Department of Mental Hygiene, to be known as Marcy State Hospital. The facility became Utica Psychiatric Center according to the Laws of 1974. In 1985, an act (Chapter 913) amended the Mental Hygiene Law to consolidate the Utica Psychiatric Center and the Marcy Psychiatric Center into one facility, to be known as the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center.




The New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica: A History of Old Main (2021) By Dennis Webster.


In a new Manhattan Institute report, evidence for universal mental health screening in schools are finding these efforts as harmful.


Key takeaways:

- universal screening doesn’t reduce mental health conditions or improve academic outcomes

- it produces wildly high false positive rates, leading to overmedicalization

- it gives a false impression of prevention while misdirecting resources away from kids most at risk of harm to themselves or others

- parental consent is a myth: there’s no real enforcement mechanisms

- school-based mental health is unregulated by behavioral health authorities

Bottom line: schools are not clinical settings and are poorly equipped to turn screening results into meaningful intervention.

Universal Mental Health Screening in Schools A Critical Assessment


Night of January 16th is a theatrical play by Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, inspired by the death of Swedish industrialist Ivar Kreuger. The play was produced by Al Woods in 1934. Set in a courtroom during a murder trial, and an unusual feature is that members of the audience are chosen to play the jury. The court hears the case of Karen Andre, a former secretary and lover of businessman Bjorn Faulkner who is accused of his murder. The play does not directly portray the events leading to Faulkner's death; instead the jury must rely on character testimony to decide whether Andre is guilty. The play's ending depends on the verdict. Rand's intention was to dramatize a conflict between individualism and conformity, with the jury's verdict revealing which viewpoint they preferred.




Jan 16, 1965: USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) name means "the lonely one," was launched at Mare Island. She was the longest serving 41 for Freedom boat. After conversion in 1992 to a SPECOPS boat in the 90s, Kamehameha became the first recipient of the Richard “Dick” O’Kane cribbage board, the only former boomer to ever hold it.




In 1971, Texas democrat lawmaker Tom Moore (1918-2017) tried to prank the Texas legislature by introducing a resolution to commend the Boston Strangler for population control and applied psychology. The resolution passed unanimously. Some use this as a criticism that legislators don't read what they vote on. That is a fact.

From 1952–1959, as McLennan County district attorney, Moore prosecuted "the first criminal trial to be televised in the United States."


Albert DeSalvo escaped from Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane and via his lawyer turned himself in at Lynn, Massachusetts in 1967.

Albert DeSalvo was killed in a maximum security prison on Nov 25, 1973 for purportedly selling amphetamines in the prison for less than the inmate-enforced syndicate price.


Jan 16, 1980: CIA agent Tony Mendez, gaining inspiration from Battle for the Planet of the Apes, begins working on a sci-fi movie backstory, to help extract the six US embassy staff hiding in Tehran.




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Jan 16, 1991: Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as Saddam Hussein failed to meet the UN deadline for withdrawing Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The coalition launched a massive air campaign, prompting Hussein to declare that "the mother of all battles has begun." President George HW Bush announced the beginning of the first Gulf War.



Desert Storm Package Q was launched on January 19, 1991 - The Largest F-16 Strike Ever.