Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

June 23, 1943: Rep. (D-Kentucky) Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – Sept 6, 1959) bragged to reporters that the Japanese were setting depth charges too shallow because they didn't know how deep U.S. subs could dive. VADM Charles Lockwood said the revelation caused the Japanese to adjust, costing the Navy 10 subs and 800 sailors.


Assuming Lockwood was correct in his claim, Rep. May should of been tarred & feather, whipped, then forced to walk the plank with cinder blocks over the Mariana Trench.

However, in a 1945 letter to Congressman May, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet wrote: "Everyone in general appreciates the superb job you have done for your country in connection with Army legislation, and Naval officers appreciate in particular the cooperation you have given the Navy."

May was convicted by a federal jury on July 3, 1947, on charges of accepting bribes to use his position as Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee to secure munitions contracts during the Second World War. Murray and Henry Garsson also received prison terms. May would appeal his verdict all the way up to Supreme Court which refused to hear his case. May was forced into prison at the age of 74 and served nine months in federal prison.

President Truman decided to grant May a full pardon in 1952.

Nothing has changed since...only got much, much worse.


If you thought the many Oceangate comments have been mean & rude on social media...think again. They were roasting the shit out of the Titanic in the newspapers right after it sank.



Effin brutal.


More mean tweets from 1912


Part of the ruling-class for 250 years.


NY Times (archived)


May 1995
"The mechanism used blocked brain centres to make its subjects incapable of feeling sympathy."

Russians test a gun that turns people into zombies

It's been widely speculated that the U.S. military has been developing weapons with the capacity to scramble brain activity and basically turn your mind into mush. If so, we might be seeing a new kind of arms race as a new report claims that the Russia government has been testing a gun that does exactly that.

The weapon in question uses electromagnetic technology, such as microwave beams, to disrupt the central nervous system. Indeed, previous research has shown that certain kinds of low-frequency radiation can cause "a sensation of buzzing, clicking or hissing in the head," according to a report by MSNBC. So along that line of logic, taking it up a few notches would lead to weapons that can potentially fry eyeballs, stop the heart from beating and even turn people into zombies.

Right now there's no indication that anyone's perfected anything close to an actual "zombie gun," although the Australian publication The Herald Sun reports that Russia's main man, President Vladimir Putin, plans to have them ready within a decade as a defensive measure against enemies of the state or unruly dissidents, such as protesters.

According to their report:

    Plans to introduce the super-weapons were announced by Russian defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov. While the technology has been around for some time, Mr. Tsyganok said the guns were recently tested for crowd control purposes.

    “When it was used for dispersing a crowd and it was focused on a man, his body temperature went up immediately as if he was thrown into a hot frying pan," Mr Tsyganok said. "Still, we know very little about this weapon and even special forces guys can hardly cope with it,'' he said.

But the effort to come up with something that can enable bona fide mind control has proven immensely challenging, despite decades of work by some of the brightest mad scientists. For instance, while the U.S. military has harnessed similar technology to produce a heat ray that creates a burning sensation hot enough to break up crowds, it still takes hours to power up and is a lot less effective when it rains.

MSNBC's science editor Alan Boyle says he's skeptical of Russia's claims and that we probably shouldn't expect a brain-frying gun for a very long time:

The bottom line is that Russia certainly seems to be on track to set up its own DARPA-like "Department of Mad Scientists,"working on heat rays, mind-altering electromagnetic beams and heaven knows what else. But there's nothing in the comments from Putin and Serdyukov to suggest that the Russians are anywhere close to having psychotronic weapons. In fact, Putin makes it sound as if the next frontier in warfare won't be the zombie ray gun but the coordinated cyber-attack. And that's scary enough for me.

Fox Hole Shelter, 1961: Approved by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization... your very own fallout shelter. "Equipped for survival (and fun, too!)"


Shelter business booming


Operation Crossroads.



Certificate of Grand Council, Exclusive Order of Guinea Pigs, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands : Certificate 1946

1st Lt Anthony Iovino, while stationed at Roswell, 509th bombardment Group.

"Having through an exaggerated sense of patriotism subjected his body to the rigors attendant to atomic bombs, hundred-foot tidal waves, mermaids, vampires, sandfleas, typhoons, cannibals, canned beer, etc. is by this writing accorded full status as a Brother Pig and all brothers are hereby commanded to give him due recognition as same under penalty of being driven from the common trough.
Given under my hands this 4th day of May 1946."

Attested by William Blanchard, Little Guinea Swine



On July 8, 1947, then-colonel Blanchard issued an official Army Air Force press release stating that the base intelligence office had recovered a so-called "flying disc" or "flying saucer" from a nearby ranch, it had been found "sometime last week," and they were flying it to "higher headquarters". The press release and the media feeding frenzy that followed it triggered the so-called Roswell UFO incident.




Birthday followed by 10 year on the run anniversary.