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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Jan 18, 1911: American aviation pioneer, Eugene Burton Ely credited with the first aircraft takeoff and landing from USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. This Curtiss Pusher biplane flight was also the first-ever using a tailhook system, designed and built by circus performer and aviator Hugh Robinson.

A nasty 15-mph quartering wind blew across the makeshift landing deck on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania. Spotters on board the ship, anchored in San Francisco Bay, believed the adverse weather conditions would prohibit the landing of the small Curtiss biplane. Spying the aircraft at 1,200 feet they concluded the pilot “would never attempt the landing.” Then the aviator descended to about 400 feet and flew past an observing admiral’s flagship, tipping his wings in salute. The airplane turned and headed toward the Pennsylvania. The disbelieving spotters assumed the pilot would “sheer off after one or two circles.” As one newspaper later reported, “nobody thought for an instant that he would attempt to land.” It was 18 January 1911.

The wind from the starboard, pilot Eugene Ely reported, “swung me wide of the landing platform, and it was not until I was within 30 yards of the vessel that I straightened out.” His direct-in approach brought him squarely to the platform, over which he traveled about 20 feet before touching down.

Ely, 26, thus became the first man to land an airplane on the deck of a warship. Italian and French aviators had made similar attempts without success. Ely crowed that he was proud of the feat because “it reflects credit on my own country,” adding that “it was my chief desire that the United States should win over all other nations in this particular piece of aviating work.”

What Goes Up . . .

Remembering that time when America Banned Sliced Bread.

The year was 1943, and Americans were in crisis. Across the Atlantic, war with Germany was raging. On the home front, homemakers were facing a very different sort of challenge: a nationwide ban on sliced bread!!!

“To U.S. housewives it was almost as bad as gas rationing—and a whale of a lot more trouble,” announced Time magazine on February 1, 1943.



So by January 18, 1943, when Claude R. Wickard, the secretary of agriculture and head of the War Foods Administration, declared the selling of sliced bread illegal, patience was already running thin. Since sliced bread required thicker wrapping to stay fresh, Wickard reasoned that the move would save wax paper, not to mention tons of alloyed steel used to make bread-slicing machines.

Damn, tough times for barefoot & pregnant housewives! Come hell or high water by March 8, the government decided to abandon the wildly unpopular measure. “Housewives who have risked thumbs and tempers slicing bread at home for nearly two months will find sliced loaves back on the grocery store shelves tomorrow in most places,” noted the Associated Press. Wickard refused to acknowledge the ire of both housewives and bakers, saying simply that the savings were less than anticipated and that it turned out there was enough wax paper to go around after all.

Can you imagine the gubermint doing that today? How many women today can perform this gentle art? Epic meltdown, end of the world, commence operation Mad Max, Martial law declared, America nukes its citizens, order restored.


ATOMIC CAN - "Latest to join parade of "least expected" cannable items is the tube used in the Geiger counter, which has come into wide use as a detector of radioactivity." The "Geiger cans" by Tracerlab, Inc.




Jan 18, 1959: Hunt for Flying Saucers Costs U.S. $200 Million. The article estimates the U.S. government, primarily the Air Force, has spent approximately $200 million on UFO investigations. Of this amount, $75 million was allocated to the examination of around 7,500 UFO sightings since 1947, at an estimated cost of $10,000 per sighting.



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The London Times or are they the AI Times...


"Ontological shock" LOL. Anytime you hear a current or former or deceased banker come into the UFO realm, especially when promoting an alt currency you know that you are being played. Other red flag words they often spew out to be highly suspicious:

Cosmological
Epistemological
Existential
Metaphysical
Philosophical
Speculative
Abstract
Unanswerable
Intellectual
Ultimate
Essential
Universal
Eternal
Fundamental
Esoteric
Mystical

MULDER: All this conjecture - the "ontological shock" that you speak of, for which we are so ill-equipped - is not only false but dangerous. This woman ... this woman presents no good or credible testimony apart from the feel-good message that she promotes.

FAZIO: You think she's lying?

MULDER: No, I don't think she's lying. I think that if you prepare people well enough to believe a lie, they will believe it as if it were true. And if you tell them a really big lie, like there are aliens from outer space, much more than a small one, they will believe in it. And if you suggest to them these aliens are doing bad things to them, the ... the power of the suggestion will be to make people believe that certain psychopathologies and neuroses that they're suffering from can now be attributed to that.

LAGERQVIST: Mr. Mulder ... Agent Mulder, she has physical ailments.

WOMAN: Are you discounting any belief in the existence of extraterrestrials?

MULDER: No. I just question mindless belief.

FAZIO: But you've cited evidence. You've made claims yourself.

MULDER: What I've seen, I've seen because I wanted to believe. I ... if you look too hard, you can go mad, but if you continue to look, you become liberated. And you become awake, as if from a dream, realizing that ... that the lies are there simply to protect what they're advertising: a government which knows its greatest strength is not in defense, but in attack. It's strongly held by believers in UFO phenomena that there is military complicity or involvement in abductions, but what if there is no complicity? What if there is simply just the military, seeking to develop an arsenal against which there is no defense: biological warfare, which justifies - in their eyes - making an ass out of the nation with stories of little green men - a conspiracy wrapped in a plot inside a government agenda.

[Several people shake their heads in disbelief. Later, when the conference is over, Mulder goes to leave. But a man in the audience catches his eye - his regression hypnotherapist, DR. HEITZ WERBER.]

The X Files Transcripts Archive


Ah, the "Circus Circus Geisa Girls" are on my Las Vegas history bingo card... (early 70s)




Sunday movie night on the state of the art wonder...




Jonathan Goldsmith on his return as The Most Interesting Man in the World for Dos Equis.


Exclusive: The Most Interesting Man in the World Jumped When Dos Equis Asked Him Back

Links in article are to classic vid commercials. Stay thirsty, my Rogue friends.

Least Most Interesting Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mti-QZrFax8  and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQxd9Nvv38

Best of The Most Interesting Man In The World Dos Equis Commercials:



Classic Saturday Night Live sketch:




Is Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful still building that new AI gold rush data center in remote Alberta?


https://x.com/RiseOfAlberta/status/2012750773646749771

Stephen Miller right now: "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."

Sure, just fork over $38 Trillion dollars in Gold...