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Jan 12, 1966: the TV series BATMAN premiered featuring Cesar Romero as The Joker. During WWII, Romero served in the U.S. Coast Guard aboard the attack transport USS Cavalier (APA-37), seeing action during the invasions of Tinian and Saipan. He was later promoted to the rating of chief boatswain's mate...meaning he was a super tough bad ass.




Shocker: there's a bill in Congress right now to give retroactive pension-style payouts to former employees of the CIA's drug-trafficking airline Air America.

H.R.6049 - Air America Act of 2023 - To award payments to employees of Air America who provided support to the United States from 1950 to 1976, and for other purposes.


Air America: The History of the CIA’s Covert Airline


Hold on honey, I’m just betting the entire Pacific Fleet on my GAI not having a hallucination. Screencaps from a wild defense presentation...


...from a 3 min video at C3 Generative AI for Defense


Think deeply about this:


The purpose of a system is what it does

If a system constantly produces a different outcome than the one it is "intended" for, then it's perfectly reasonable to assume the actual intention is the outcome it continues to produce.

Cybernetics. Applying this to American governance is quite illuminating.

The whole of modern leftism is built on "good intentions" that have bad outcomes.
The purpose of a system is what it does.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

The map is not the territory.

The word is not the thing.

The medium is the message.




The Spice must flow!!


The US gave the Houthis a final warning


Alex Schomburg cover art for Science Fiction Stories #1, June 1953:


You can read the stories here (PDF)


"World Doomed, States Dying President." - Chatsburg Herald. In other news, "Court Seeks Adjournment" and "Governor Returns."


Harry Belafonte and Mel Ferrer in The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959).
A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.




Jan 12, 1962: on CBS, The Twilight Zone episode (S3E17) "One More Pallbearer" airs. Joseph Wiseman plays a millionaire with a grudge who tells three people from his past that the world is coming to an end.
Joseph Wiseman aka "Dr. No" that was released the same year.




Charles Bronson saying "nuclear war" in TELEFON (1977).

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Another beautiful day on ARPANET.




All day, everyday. LOL.




Jan 12, 1967: DRAGNET '67 premiered on NBC with "The LSD Story" episode written, directed and produced by Jack Webb and guest starring Michael Burns as Benjamin "Blue Boy" Carver. It appears that Burns is cracking Webb up in this b&w production photo.




Jan 12, 1992: "I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you."




The backpack now allows soldiers to detect and analyze nuclear sites without an eight-hour cooldown period. Wow, sounds wunderful!


Soldiers build nuke-detecting backpack


After 727Sky retired we got this...LOL

CHICAGO, IL — In a historic move for the aviation industry, United Airlines proudly announced today that they have assembled the world's first all-Dachshund flight crew. The groundbreaking decision, hailed as a triumph for diversity, was made as part of a bold initiative by United to promote an unprecedented level of inclusion in its company.

The all-Dachsund crew, manning a flight from Chicago to Dallas, served as an important milestone in the airline industry's ongoing quest to simultaneously diversify its flight crews and create fear and trepidation among its customers.

"This is a momentous day," said United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby. "We've always felt that the crew of an aircraft is intended to be a passenger's best friend, and now we've officially entrusted this flight to man's best friend. To the members of this history-making crew — Trixie, Biscuit, Rascal, Cucumber, Ralphie, and Spud — we salute you. Treats will be waiting for you at the gate when you reach your destination."

Passengers booked on the crew's maiden flight expressed a mixture of pride and unease. "I guess it's a cool thing," one passenger said. "I mean, these planes basically fly themselves these days, right? I'm a little worried they'll eat all the snacks themselves and not provide the best customer service, but that's not anything new. At least it's not all women, so I don't feel completely doomed."

At publishing time, passengers had settled in and fastened their seatbelts for takeoff after the captain gave a welcome message and advised everyone on board that expected turbulence may lead to the flight being "rough, rough, rough."
The Babylon Bee

Skunk Works & NASA unveiled their new X-59 supersonic X-plane. That's a helluva long ass nose!


NASA will fly the X-59 above four to six U.S. communities and ask residents to share their response to the aircraft’s sonic thump.

Skunk Works® Rolls Out X-59, NASA's Newest X-Plane

Glamour Shots

X-59 Manufacturing Footage Video

X-59 Glamour Footage Video

Video password: X-59ROC

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Today is National Rubber Ducky Day! In 2014, the battleship USS Iowa encountered the world's largest rubber ducky at the Port of Los Angeles during the Tall Ships Festival. The floating duck sculpture was created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman.




Jan 13, 2018: a ballistic missile alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and the Commercial Mobile Alert System over television, radio, and cellphones in Hawaii.





Jan 13, 1985: TBS Network broadcast Mick Jackson's UK nuclear war film THREADS. This was the first airing of the movie in the United States.



WTBS (Atlanta, Georgia), Ted Turner's intro to the film.




English science fiction illustrator Peter Elson was born Jan 13, 1947.
Fantastic Planet, 1977:



"The Embedding" is a story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication.

The Embedding by Ian Watson

[This post is part of an occasional series about linguistics in science fiction.  Fair warnings: this bloomed into a very long post, and there are spoilers throughout.]

Ian Watson's 1973 novel The Embedding is, of all the science fiction about linguistics that I've written about so far, the story that most directly addressed ideas from theoretical linguistics.  Where most SF authors have been content with simple ideas from the shallow end of the field, Watson dives right into the deep end, displaying some familiarity with then-current ideas about Universal Grammar and the phenomenon of center-embeddings in syntax.

The Embedding consists of three interwoven plot threads, each of which deals with a different aspect of the idea of center-embedding.  These three threads are often quite separate, although there are certainly characters and events that cross over between them.  I'm going to summarize the three threads separately, then discuss the linguistic speculations they contain together at the end.

The Sp'thra are linguistic typologists on a grand scale.  They have converted a natural satellite, the Language Moon, into a titanic library of information about languages from all over the galaxy—the WALS project on an astronomical scale.  They maintain a strong version of Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, believing that each language represents a way of seeing the world:

American B-movie actress, dancer, Ziegfeld Girl, and one of the original Rockettes, Suzanne Kaaren (1912-2004), in her elder years refused to leave her NYC condo, frustrating Donald Trump's plan to evict everyone. She got $750,000 out of him in the settlement. What’s old is new again today:




The London-listed company, Kazatomprom, the world’s biggest uranium miner, warned that it’s likely to fall short of its production targets over the next two years, adding another risk to supply as demand for the nuclear fuel rebounds.


Kazatomprom, the world’s biggest uranium miner


The FBI just uploaded part of its file on CIA whistleblower Philip Agee (Jan 19, 1935 – Jan 7, 2008 in Havana, Cuba). There appear to be differences in the records from the one uploaded by BlackVault in 2018 - different page count, different periods covered, etc.


Due to legal problems in the United States, Inside the Company was first published in 1975 in Britain, while Agee was living in London. In a Playboy magazine interview after the book's publication, Agee said: "Millions of people all over the world had been killed or at least had their lives destroyed by the CIA ... I couldn't just sit by and do nothing."

FBI Agee file (Lots of redactions per usual)  |  The Agee file obtained by the Black Vault


Why not just give Ukraine Nukes and get this over with already!

So while NATO nations and her tax-paying citizens seem to be growing fatigued with the fiscal requirements of supporting Ukraine, expect some form of aid to keep trickling in – lest NATO appear to be abandoning Ukraine.

I’m being mildly facetious, but the simple fact is that no weapon would aid the Ukrainians as immediately and convincingly as a nuclear weapon.

Now, I’m not advocating that Ukraine should receive nuclear weapons from her Western allies. Quite the opposite.

Nukes to Ukraine would be bad. But as far as getting the Russians out of the Donbas, nuclear weapons are your most efficient weapons system.

The National Interest

Interesting NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) over Kwajalein Atoll


20th Space Surveillance Squadron

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In this 1974 Herblock cartoon, Nixon says, "Listen, are you going to be loyal to me or to that (expletive deleted) Constitution?"




Joyce Randolph (1924-2024), last surviving star of "The Honeymooners" has passed at age 99:




Russell Hamler, the last survivor of Merrill’s Marauders, an Army troop that endured a harrowing mission in Asia during World War II, has died at 99.


Russell Hamler, Last of World War II’s Merrill’s Marauders, Dies at 99


‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

"Much of the food we tried in London -- and in England generally -- was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we'd been told it would be. Saying no to it was easy." LOL


More at the FLASHBAK Photo Story




https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/statu...1996156404
..."comprehensive long-term deal with Iran to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon."





Do you ever feel like you're a...







David Ayer's The Beekeeper Hits No. 1 at Worldwide Box Office, beating out "Mean Girls". It has Jeremy Irons in it so might have a few good lines.


Jason Statham: It's the bee's knees!

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Jan 14, 1969: an overheated Zuni rocket exploded on the deck of USS Enterprise, causing a major fire that killed 28 sailors and injured another 314. The cost to repair the damage and replace 15 destroyed aircraft was over $126 million (equivalent to over $1 billion in 2024).



Two more factors relevant to this accident: Enterprise was powered by 8 nuclear reactors & carried an estimated 100 nuclear weapons. The captain later said: “If the fire had spread to the hangar deck [below], we could have very easily lost the ship.”


Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea


USS America (CV-66) 1965-1996. Motto: Don't Tread on Me.
The largest warship ever to be sunk (intentionally scuttled) on May 14, 2005.

1. USS Enterprise (1775), a Continental Navy sloop captured from the British, burned to prevent recapture in 1777.
   
2. USS Enterprise (1799), a schooner that fired the first shots in the First Barbary War.
   
3. USS Enterprise (1831), a schooner, stationed primarily in South America to patrol and protect commerce.
   
4. USS Enterprise (1874), a steam-powered sloop-of-war used for surveying, patrolling, and training until 1909.
   
5. USS Enterprise (SP-790), a motorboat (1917–1919) used in World War I as a non-commissioned section patrol craft.
   
6. USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier (1938–1947), the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II
   
7. USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (1961–2017).
   
8. USS Enterprise (CVN-80), a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, under construction and scheduled to enter service by 2028.
   

BTW, Tom Cruise is returning in TOP GUN 3, in development now.


USS George Washington (CVN 73) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving Norfolk, Virginia - January 14, 2024:




Stay cozy me Rogues...

On a Storyteller's Night

Perhaps one of Matthews' best-loved images? Commissioned in 1985 by FM Records on behalf of Magnum. The content suggestion came from Magnum’s Tony Clarkin. The Tavern’s interior is reminiscent of The George Inn at Norton St. Phillip, near Matthews' former home in Somerset. Background details include two of Matthews' previous album covers for the band, whilst his own dog Patch is under the table. The artwork, which was required urgently, was completed in just 10 days!

Night cap to keep you warm tonight.

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I concur, one of Mathews' best works -along with his 'Formidable Four' image.

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Jan 15, 1943, construction of the Pentagon was completed in the area of Virginia formerly known as Hell's Bottom. The size of the complex led to many jokes such as the one about a Western Union messenger boy who got lost and then emerged weeks later as a lieutenant colonel.


My aunt's Pentagon office was impacted by a large object of unknown origin on 9/11. The day before her husband (super-spook linguist & archeologist) who also worked at the Pentagon said we are going to take tomorrow off and spend a day out in the countryside. Needless to say they both got to live another day and later retire in the wealthiest county in America with super whopper pensions. They never talk about that day, which I guess was part of the payout deal. Meh, probably not, but who knows.


Jan 15, 1974: HAPPY DAYS premiered on ABC. First episode "All the Way," was co-written by Rob Reiner, starring Ron Howard, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Henry Winkler, Donny Most. The show ran 11 seasons till 1984. Never missed a re-run after school. LOL.



Anson Williams and Ron Howard read a paperback edition of Mickey Spillane's I, THE JURY that was published well after the decade of 1950s.


Laurence Paul Fox (born 26 May 1978) is an English actor, broadcaster, musician, and political activist. A member of the British entertainment industry's Fox family. He is the founder of right-wing populist political party "Reclaim" in 2020.



I don't know if he created the image (at left), but he did publish/promote it back in 2022.

The police, whether they know it or not, are protecting paedophiles

The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party is a 1995 pseudohistorical book by Scott Lively [American activist with Oregon Citizens Alliance (loosely affiliated with the Christian Coalition of America), author, and attorney] and Kevin Abrams [Orthodox Jew]. Drawing on Samuel Igra's 1945 book Germany's National Vice, Lively and Abrams argue that the crimes committed by homosexuals in the Nazi Party exceed the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and that homosexuality contributed to the extreme militarism of Nazi Germany. They contend that only feminine homosexuals were persecuted by the Nazis, while "butch" homosexuals formed the leadership cadre of the Nazi party. Historian Andrew Wackerfuss criticized the book for lack of accuracy and "outright homophobic charges". The claim advanced by Igra, Lively, and Abrams that homosexuals were responsible for Nazi atrocities is rejected by most historians.

The book was published after Measure 9, an unsuccessful Oregon ballot measure to repeal gay rights.

In 2017, the authors released the fifth edition, published by Veritas Aeterna Press. They state that their motivation for writing the book is to respond to the "myth of the 'pink triangle'" and the "gay political agenda".

In his book Stormtrooper Families about homosexuality in the Sturmabteilung, American historian Andrew Wackerfuss described the authors as "a pair of anti-gay political activists" who "tried to rebrand the brown shirt as a pink swastika". He situates the book within 1990's culture wars in the United States and noted that Lively's allegations of "gay fascism" have gained "wide popularity on the American right" as well as in Russia and Uganda.

Wackerfuss considers that there are "numerous and persuasive criticisms of [Lively and Abrams'] misuse of the historical method". He criticized The Pink Swastika's "outright homophobic charges" and recommended The Annotated Pink Swastika (an internet publication of the Citizens Allied for Civic Action) as "a useful guide to the errors and inaccuracies ... the text is deconstructed page by page to reveal its many flaws". German historian Martin Göllnitz called the book's argument "completely untenable" because it relies on fabrications like the claim that Röhm's SA was the product of the Weimar homosexual movement.

Lively said that the book "indirectly forc[ed] the 'gays' to abandon the pink triangle as the primary symbol of their movement" and replace it with the rainbow flag. In fact, the rainbow flag has been in use since 1978. The book has been promoted by some conservative Christian groups and conversion therapy advocates.

The Pink Swastika

That is some wild wacky mind-bending stuff! It's reminiscent of the conservative Christian coalition groups/evangelical's during the satanic panic 1980s.




Davos-Fox club: "Listen up sheeple, We don't want you flying anywhere, at any time, ever."



Fox News



Wow, the replies are brutal.
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/...3701813557



Off-Guardian


In a properly functioning nation, this would be impossible...


Chicom Billionaire buys 200K Acres Oregon Forest land

It is very scenic landscape out there just west of Bend, Oregon.


Ranchland Company

Let's face it, We are saturated with Chicom billionaires, Techno apotheosis nerd billionaires, Russian oligarchs, and European aristocrats. We need a president who knows how to do some serious house cleaning.

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Jan 16, 1924: Young women today are deforming their bodies for a slim figure, warns physician-nutritionist Caroline Hedger. She calls their poor posture “the debutante crouch.” “Things that should be on the first floor are in the basement and the girls’ stomachs are not home.”



Jan 16, 1924: Licerio Gerónimo, a hero of the Philippine independence movement and a general in the 1899-1902 insurgency against U.S. rule, dies at 68. In one battle, his troops killed Major General Henry Lawton. His claim to fame as the general who brought down Henry Ware Lawton is considered ironic, as Lawton had been previously credited with the capture of the Apache leader Geronimo.




Jan 16, 1924: A serum has been discovered that cures scarlet fever, a killer of thousands of children in recent decades. Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochez (April 21, 1882 – June 30, 1964) American physician and microbiologist at Rockefeller Institute (1908-1919) and of Presbyterian Hospital in New York announces his breakthrough after six years of research.



The cause of scarlet fever, which brings a rash and fever and in some places had a 25% mortality rate, had been recently determined to be a streptococcal infection. Improved hygiene and public health was already reducing the disease’s prevalence before the serum’s discovery. The development of antibiotics during WWII will all but eradicate scarlet fever throughout the Western world. Dochez devotes much of the rest of his career to virology, and is the first to theorize that the common cold is caused by a virus.


Front of a flyer advertising the Broadway production of "Night of January 16th," a play written by Ayn Rand and produced by Al Woods, 1934. Advertisements invited patrons to join the play's jury.




Jan 16, 1943, Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves officially endorsed the Hanford Site for Manhattan Project plutonium production.




Jan 16, 1969: Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.




Jan 16, 1991: Operation Desert Storm begins. President George HW Bush announced the beginning of the first Gulf War. In his televised address to the nation, Mr. Bush quoted a gung ho Marine named "Hollywood" Huddleston. In 2012 ex Marine Bourne P. "Hollywood" Huddleston was convicted of murdering his wife.


“Our strategy to go after this [Iraqi] army is very simple. First we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going to kill it.”
– General Colin Powell, 23 February 1991

The coalition launched a massive air campaign, prompting Hussein to declare that "the mother of all battles has begun."

Actual Footage of Desert Storm's First Apache Strikes


My dad developed/enhanced/enlarged/printed some of the Desert Storm Apache tango still-shots which were hand delivered to General Colin Powell.


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.




Jan 16, 2015: Elon Musk reveals space internet plan.

Jan 16, 2022: Elon says 1469 Starlink satellites active, 272 moving to operational orbits, Laser links activate soon.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I mean, it's mostly paved with bad intentions, but there is some good intention paving stones in there too." — @elonmusk





So wonderful for our beloved DHS masters to celebrate this day with us. sarc!

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Jan 16, and/or Jan 17, 2020 - the mystery Snohomish County man aka Patient Zero goes to work, but miraculously avoids all contact with people, and has a private office or closed cubicle...

Inside the Race to Contain America’s First Coronavirus Case


It's a shame that John Houseman never played L. Ron Hubbard. He would have been perfect.


The 1976 Charles Bronson film ST. IVES is a great time capsule of '70s Los Angeles.

Another potential doppelganger is Michael McKean.




“Your favourite movie might be on Netflix [or any corporate digital platform] today, but will it still be there in a month, when you want to show it to someone you care about?” “Physical media is a constant, unlike digital, where movies are subject to the whims of corporate overlords. No one is going to break into your house and take your Arrow 4K of Blackhat.”


The death of the DVD has been greatly exaggerated


Catch me if you can...


I always looked for dolphins when I sailed out of Pearl Harbor for another long mission. In sailor traditional lore, if you see dolphins speeding ahead of you it's a sign of good luck and you'll return alive. I'm living proof so I guess it's true. LOL.


Allianz CEO: "We have an increasing detachment of the political elite from the working class." "Societies are polarizing because the leaders are not addressing the needs of the people… We need to be sure they vote for the right things and are not just venting anger."

We know exactly what we are doing but we are not going to stop, so now it is democracy that is dangerous.


https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/17...7957065143

Allianz, founded in 1890 by a German banker, is the world's largest insurance company and one of the largest financial services groups, largest in Europe. And as you may of guessed, yes they voluntarily partnered with the Nazi Regime from early 1930s all the way to the end.


WARNING: Disgruntled voters in your area may be voting for the wrong people. While there may be a level of responsibility for repeatedly ignoring their wishes and failing to serve the public good and needs. We have determined that they, not we, are the true threat to democracy.


Lots of People Will Vote This Year

Economic bad times are here and even the good cop scenario suggests a period of authoritarianism will be needed to get us through the turbulent period ahead. Meanwhile, resistance to the industrial state dynamic is futile, and the best approach is not to directly confront the obscene level of control
these multinationals exercise in the world but engage in some vaguely defined withdrawal of "legitimacy" to the worst offenders.


Yes. Next question?


Imagine an asteroid hitting Davos. Even if one did we'd all probably still be played.


Remember the path of totality eclipse makes a X from October. X is the 24th letter. 2024 is the Year of the X. That’s why musk was told by his paymasters to make his app a part of the ritual.



All these current WEF clips (being spewed out by WEF) are almost poignant, the jet-set salonists in them are so out of touch, so trapped in a failing, dated mutual admiration society. Their creaky vision of a sci-fi superstate dates to the 1970s, perhaps the 50s; actually the late 19th to early 20th century. It's the wizardly futurism of yore. The gleam is gone.

In 1910, nine European sovereigns posed for a final “family photo” before the Great War. They gathered for the funeral of King Edward VII, appropriately enough. Within ten years, the majority had lost power via abdication, assassination, revolution, or death.



The image came to mind after seeing this week’s photo of the current masters of the international order who gathered in Cornwall for the G7 summit.

G7: Repeating Dead Rituals from a Former Age

The WEF has Fletcher Memorial Home vibes...




Get ready Leafs...You have one year...


All we wanted to do was buy Greenland. But no, you mocked us. Now, the stakes just got raised. LOL.


A nightmarish wicked creepy 90s public service announcement encouraging New Yorkers not to litter the streets, directed by DAVID LYNCH.

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Almost forgot word of the day...




Meanwhile, Rogues Workin' Hard (Day and Night)





The Beatles Bible

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The picture in that ad is from episode #369 of "Insight": And The Walls Came Tumblin' Down, (1974). Episode here. A wonderful fantasy about God (Martin Sheen) who gives an aging tailor (Jack Albertson) the gift of understanding.

INSIGHT was an American Roman Catholic religious-themed weekly anthology series shedding light on the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love that aired in syndication from October 1960 to 1984. Produced by Paulist Productions in Los Angeles, the series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love. Insight was an anthology series, using an eclectic set of story telling forms including comedy, melodrama, and fantasy to explore moral dilemmas.  The series was created by Fr. Ellwood E. "Bud" Kieser, the founder of Paulist Productions. 


The anthology format and the religious nature of the program attracted a wide variety of actors, including Ed Asner, Jack Albertson, Beau Bridges, Carol Burnett, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Patty Duke, Ann Jillian, Cicely Tyson, James Doohan, Jack Klugman, Walter Matthau, Bob Newhart, William Shatner, Bill Bixby, John Ritter, Mark Hamill, Laura Dern, Barbara Hersey, Flip Wilson, and Martin Sheen, and dozens more.

Episode #388 aired July 17, 1976, the host of a sadistic daytime game show called "All Out" asks contestants to make horrifying choices such as playing a version of Russian Roulette with their loved ones. This chilling episode (at the time) would later be realized as a prophecy of what Reality TV was to become decades later.




Jan 18, 1957: "Operation Power Flite" - Three US Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses (Lucky Lady I, Lucky Lady II, Lucky Lady III) completed the first around-the-world nonstop flight by a jet aircraft to prove it could drop a thermoNuclear Bomb Anywhere. General Curtis LeMay was among the 1,000 on hand to greet the three planes, and he awarded all 27 crew members the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The flight took 45 hours and 19 minutes, writes Bethel, and in the words of a Life magazine article from later that month, “shrank the world.”

With nukes in the air 24/7 for decades there is bound to be a few Broken Arrow incidents and at least one mega disaster...

January 17, 1966: A US Air Force B-52 bomber and a KC-135 tanker aircraft collided over Palomares, Spain, while attempting inflight refueling at 31,000 feet. The collision caused four B28FI Mod 2 Y1 thermonuclear bombs to be released. The Y1 nomenclature indicates a W28 warhead with a yield of 1.1 megatonnes of TNT! Two of the weapons were damaged when they hit the ground, releasing plutonium, but there was no nuclear detonation. The fourth, fell into the Mediterranean Sea, and was recovered intact after a search lasting two and a half months. The KC-135 was destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: "If you took part in cleanup of the Air Force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons off the coast of Palomares, Spain, from January 17, 1966, through March 31, 1967, VA presumes that you had exposure to radiation."


Top photo: The recovered thermonuclear bomb displayed on the fantail of the submarine rescue ship USS Petrel.

Bottom photo: this B28FI nuclear bomb was recovered from 2,850 feet (869 meters) of water and lifted aboard the USS Petrel (note the missing tail fins and badly dented "false nose"). This photograph was among the first ever published of a U.S. hydrogen bomb. Left to right are Sr. Don Antonio Velilla Manteca, chief of the Spanish Nuclear Energy Board in Palomares; Brigadier General Arturo Montel Touzet, Spanish coordinator for the search and recovery operation; Rear Admiral William S. Guest, commander of U.S. Navy Task Force 65; and Major General Delmar E. Wilson, commander of the Sixteenth Air Force. The B28 had a maximum yield of 1.45 megatons!!

Once the bomb was located, Simó Orts appeared at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York with his lawyer, Herbert Brownell, formerly Attorney General of the United States under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, claiming salvage rights on the recovered thermonuclear bomb. According to Craven:

    It is customary maritime law that the person who identifies the location of a ship to be salved has the right to a salvage award if that identification leads to a successful recovery. The amount is nominal, usually 1 or 2 percent, sometimes a bit more, of the intrinsic value to the owner of the thing salved. But the thing salved off Palomares was a thermonuclear bomb, the same bomb valued by no less an authority than the Secretary of Defense at $2 billion—each percent of which is, of course, $20 million.

The Air Force settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. In later years, Simó Orts was heard to complain that the Americans had promised him financial compensation but had not kept their promise.

1966 Palomares B-52 crash

Ha, that sounds about right given what we know today about denial of gov't (VA) compensation!

Over 55 years later and the nuclear clean-up debacle still goes on...

On 19 October 2015, Spain and the United States signed an agreement to further discuss the cleanup and removal of contaminated land. Under a statement of intent signed by Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the two countries were to negotiate a binding agreement to further restore and clear up the Palomares site and arrange for the disposal of the contaminated soil at an appropriate site in the U.S.
U.S. and Spain Agree to Nuclear Deal

No doubt Spain got screwed over and silenced by Skull & Bones Kerry.

Barbara Moran wrote the definitive book on the Palomares incident.


The Day We Lost the H-Bomb

AFAIK, this docu has never had a USA distribution...

Madrid-based Onza Distribution, producer of “The Department of Time,” has acquired international distribution rights to four-part doc series “Palomares: The Atomic Bomb Fiasco,” a stranger than fiction doc thriller about how in 1966 the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs on Spain.

“The story of ‘Palomares’ is too incredible to be true and perhaps the best way to tell it was through a documentary series. If we had done a scripted series, people would think we were making it up,” Ron said.

He added: “This is a piece of U.S. and Spanish history that had never been told in all its complexity and this ‘golden age’ of documentary series has given us the opportunity to finally do so.”

For Onza, which recently opened a Miami office, the Movistar Plus deal is another strategic step-up, here via its alliance with Movistar Plus, as the pay-TV/SVOD arm of giant European telco Telefonica drives energetically into non-fiction.

Last July, Onza Distribution signed a strategic alliance with Movistar,  Telefonica’s label in Latin America, to represent worldwide sales on Movistar’s first four original series.

Palomares: The Atomic Bomb Fiasco

Decades later I was sitting on the grassy knoll watching my elder cousin take-off in Strategic Air Command's annual Global Shield exercise summer of '85. The noise level was so loud the ground literally shakes, your heart starts beating faster & faster and it's beyond accurately describing unless you've experienced such a sight. He's piloting the 3rd B-52 in this vid:




Never missed an episode, LOL... years later I got plenty of tickets from the CHiP boy's.

TV Guide - Jan 12 - Jan 18, 1980



Introducing the Apple Sleep Paralysis Demon. Sleek, modern, captivating and hauntingly beautiful.




It's almost like an article from the 50s. They even threw in Jaques Vallée in the sidebar just for good measure...

Daily Fallen Angels Mail

That part about the "Pentagon faction" I believe is true. Been reading about that since the 80s. Modern Ufology is a mystery school. These days the rites are performed over social media and YouTube. The end result is the spiritualisation of a society that generally lacks any spiritual depth. I'm trying to figure out if this is a positive thing or not in the long run.



Somewere over the cybernetic rainbow, Memetic psychologist (PhD in parapsychology) Dr. Susan J. Blackmore is smiling. Author of "The Meme Machine and Seeing Myself".
Who Am I?



"Each individual experiences life in two worlds. There is the outer world and there is the inner world. One is the realm of the effect while the other is the realm of the cause. When we surrender to the sensory impressions of the outer world, then life is in the realm of effect, and we continually find ourselves in situations and predicaments that feel beyond our control. However, if we live from the inside out, we then live as masters. The interior, inner world, is the essence and the cause of the outer.”
— Rav DovBer Pinson (world-renowned Rabbi, scholar, author, teacher)

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Posting from here tonight...




Edgar Allan Poe joined the US Army at 18 in Boston. This enlistment paper, at National Archives shows he used a false name, Edgar Perry, and added four years to his real age.

Poe joined the Army at the age of 18 in an act of desperation after suffering the strain of surviving on his own for two months without money. This enlistment paper shows that Poe was in Boston when he signed up, that he used a false name, Edgar Perry, and a false age, adding four years to his real age. The paper also described him as being 5 feet 8 inches tall, with brown hair, gray eyes, and a fair complexion. Although Poe did well in the Army and was promoted to the highest rank possible for an enlisted man, he decided to leave the Army 3 1/2 years short of his full enlistment. He was released on April 15, 1829, having obtained the consent of his foster father, and paid a substitute to take his place.

Enlistment Papers for Edgar A. Perry [Poe]

RIP SI. Aged 69 years.



How it started according to shouting voices on the social platforms:

Sports Illustrated put a trans person in a swimsuit on the cover of their 2023 annual swimsuit edition.

SI how it's going:

All of the staff at Sports Illustrated was fired today.

Go woke, Go broke ... strikes again.??

Of course social media going crazy & blaming the trans person for the magazine downfall. I think it was more, but anyways on Jan 5, 2024, the Arena Group missed a $3.75 million quarterly licensing payment to Authentic Brands Group. Two weeks later, on January 19, Authentic Brand Group terminated its licensing agreement. As a result, the Arena Group announced it would be laying off the entire Sports Illustrated staff. At least that is the story according to Front Office Sports.

On the flip-side, swimsuits are now trending in the USA. LOL.


Queen...


Variety


"He had to know, for example, the significance of the satchel..." - Eisenhower describing his Jan 19, 1961 meeting w/President-elect JFK. And Brig. Gen. Andrew Goodpaster's memo for the record on the nuclear football briefing. Photo of Ike & JFK is from Dec 6, 1960...



Eisenhower's mention of the "satchel" comes from page 617 of "Waging Peace, 1956-1961: The White House Years," 1965. The Goodpaster top secret memo was found at the National Security Archive.



FBI files on Kenneth Goff - The Denver FBI office assessed him as being a "borderline psychopath". LOL.


Jan 19, 1991: USS Louisville (SSN-724) became the first submarine to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles in combat. The Tomahawks were launched against Iraqi targets during Desert Storm. A special Louisville Slugger baseball bat was made to commemorate the sub's role in the war.




You get one chance to go back in time and warn one President about anything.

An assassination
A war
An attack

Whatever you pick, history gets changed...unless you decide to not change anything?





The proverbial intel Octopus has evolved into something more like a cthulhu/hydra fungi hybrid with many more tentacles & spores of deception engulfing planet Earth. Orgs & secret societies that remain nameless.





"I hear secrets that you keep when you're talking in your sleep"

[EndtheMadnessNow]

A sawbuck or sawhorse resembles "X," which is also the Roman numeral for "10." The first $10 bills issued by the U.S. government in the 1860s prominently featured the Roman numeral 10; the huge Xs looked like sawbucks' side. So "sawbuck" became a way to refer to a 10-dollar bill.




Here's a great Classic Film about how living conditions were for the very young and old. It clearly shows how the Depression Years affected everyone in America and were very bad times for people of all races. Wild Boys of the Road (1933) chronicles the hard-luck life of literally hundreds of thousands of teens (boys and girls alike) who were forced out into the world at large when their family life at home collapsed during the Great Depression.




US bandleader, trumpeter & actor Ray Anthony celebrates his 102nd birthday today. Pictured here in 1956 with former wife (divorced in 1961), Hollywood vixen Mamie Van Doren (1931-) & their son Perry Ray (1956-), and together again in 2019. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.


Hard to believe she is 88 in that 2019 photo. What's her secret? A whole lotta sex? Maybe it's the wine.

First 3 films from 1951 produced by Howard Hughes RKO Radio Pictures.




One of these things is not like the other...









LMAO!!!!!!!!!




One for the ladies..Happy Birthday ultimate ‘40’s beefcake hunk, GUY MADSON! (Jan 19, 1922-1996) Seen here in the movie that made him a star, David O. Selznick’s WWII extravaganza, SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (1944). Yeowza!


ICYMI, WAVES (for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), was the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

Elizabeth Ender and Betty St. Clair wrote "WAVES of the Navy" in 1943. It was written to harmonize with "Anchors Aweigh".

        WAVES of the Navy

    WAVES of the Navy,

    There's a ship sailing down the bay

    And she won't slip into port again

    Until that Victory Day.

    Carry on for that gallant ship

    And for every hero brave

    Who will find ashore, his man-sized chore

    Was done by a Navy WAVE.

The Wiki actually has a decent page on the WAVES. In a past life I'm betting NightskyeB4Dawn was a WAVE.




Big Ooops!!!


https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1...6842487289

HMS Chiddingfold (M37) is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel launched in 1983. HMS Bangor is a Sandown-class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1999. She has a fibreglass hull, designed to minimise risk to magnetic mines, but not collisions with her sister Chiddingfold.

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On the night of Jan 20th, 1993 - Dr Richard Kimble's wife was murdered by a one armed man.




So, are we really going here, again?!!


Futurism


Who restarted this old buzz term in the 21st century?



Astounding Stories - The Skylark of Valeron (Aug 1934) PDF copy


Well, a country like good 'ole USA with a strong history of Christianity with many factions responds to things like "angels" deep in the psyche. Right leaning mindsets know that faith (like democracy) can be manipulated as a tool in which to control or herd large numbers of people. "Demon est Deus inversus".

It's a safer, metaphysical, more vague and nebulous concept. The Aviary are all about keeping things vague, foggy, confusing and mysterious. If you keep the narrative fluid and confusing enough it will never solidify into something resembling the truth of our world & history.








Magazine covers from 19xx




Forever wars are back on the menu in 2024.


As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign


Music from another realm, played on a spirit organ—otherworldly, heavenly, etheric, transcendental.


You can listen to it here: Transmutation

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Big Ooops!!!


https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1...6842487289

HMS Chiddingfold (M37) is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel launched in 1983. HMS Bangor is a Sandown-class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1999. She has a fibreglass hull, designed to minimise risk to magnetic mines, but not collisions with her sister Chiddingfold.

Sadly, it wasn't the first!

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Re: "The Battle of May Island" - huh, new to me and with over 12,000 comments guess I need to watch it!


Two years ago today during a Pentagon press briefing we learned of the "RED JANUARY" incident thanks to Pentagon reporter Jeff Schogol. One ping only.


C-SPAN (Kirby smugged it off as a nothinburger)


Damn!! Hate it when that happens!


Air Force Times


Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (Jan 21, 1922 – Jan 22, 1994) aka Ernst Stavro Blofeld (1969) aka Sergeant Big Joe (1970), aka "Kojak" (1973–1978)



Telly Savalas recorded a mostly-spoken interpretation which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1975,] and has the shortest title of any song to reach No. 1 in the UK.




Not only was she explosively sexy, but her voice could blow you away.


The nuclear themed 45 sleeve for an ABBE LANE four song disc from RCA Española and was released in Spain in 1958 with the offerings: "Que será será, ¡Ay! Que Me Vuelvo Loca, Banana Boat (Day-O), and Very Satisfied, the last track written by her then husband Xavier Cugat, who was 32 years older.
In New York City, he was the leader of the resident orchestra at the Waldorf–Astoria before and after World War II. He was also a cartoonist and a restaurateur. The personal papers of Xavier Cugat are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya (Library of Catalonia). Abbe Lane was his 4th marriage (1952–64), and his 5th to Spanish guitarist and comic actress Charo (1966–78). He died 27 October 1990 (aged 90) in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Born Abigail Francine Lassman on December 14, 1932, American singer and actress established herself as the "femme fatale". Lane was known in the 1950s and 1960s for her revealing outfits and sultry style of performing.

Lane attracted attention for her suggestive comments, such as "Jayne Mansfield may turn boys into men, but I take them from there." She was the first female star of the Italian television, where she appeared in various shows starting from 1955. She said she was considered "too sexy in Italy". She has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame and she's still alive.

"The Swingingest Sexpot In Show Business"

Abbe Lane - Que Será Será




The greatest trick he ever pulled was convincing the world he was national defense.

Are we still here? We haven't been reduced to incandescent plasma yet? Above is one of the most manifestly revealing nuclear test photos ever made. It was produced May 25, 1952 during a blast code-named Fox, in exercise Desert Rock IV under Operation Tumbler–Snapper, and captures the essence of what atomic weapons really are—a demonic force unleashed that can't be shoved back into its pit.

Shot FOX, a 300-foot tower detonation, was fired in Area 4 of Yucca Flat at 4 a.m. on May 25, 1952. During Shot FOX, the largest single activity was the Army troop observer program, part of Exercise Desert Rock IV. Approximately 950 exercise troops from the 701st Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas, witnessed the shot from trenches 6.4 kilometers (4 miles) southeast of ground zero. An additional 500 observers from the six continental armies and the service schools also witnessed the shot from the same location. The observer program included psychological testing before and after the shot and a tour of the equipment display area.
Operation TUMBLER-SNAPPER (9 page PDF)


The decline and incineration of Western civilization.


Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel of an early example of post-nuclear apocalyptic fiction and has an entry in David Pringle's book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels. The novel deals with the effects of a nuclear war on the fictional small town of Fort Repose, Florida, which is based upon the actual city of Mount Dora, Florida, approximately 35 miles northwest of Orlando, Florida. The novel's title is derived from the Book of Revelation: "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."

In the story, a missile from a fighter jet causes an explosion in Syria that the Soviets mistake for a full scale NATO nuclear strike. They retaliate with a full strike, the U.S. retaliates with a full strike, and that's all she wrote. The End.  Actually, not really. That's the first act. Frank wrote plenty more, none of it fun.

John Lennon, known for his pacifist views, was given a copy of Alas, Babylon by journalist Larry Kane in 1965. Lennon spent all night reading the book, fueling his anti-war fervor and envisioning the world's population attempting to crawl their way back from the horrors of a nuclear catastrophe.

An adaptation of Alas, Babylon was broadcast on April 3, 1960, as the 131st episode of the Playhouse 90 dramatic television series. It starred Don Murray, Barbara Rush, Burt Reynolds, and Rita Moreno.



The attention from True Detective resulted in increased sales for The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, to the point that it began to outsell Atlas Shrugged.


The UFO file, the great Enigma.


"Where are we headed? Who knows? We hardly recall where we come from."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dichtung und Wahrheit.


"When the Soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it."
— Medieval Mystic, Meister Eckhart


Sculpture of Meister Eckhart and John I, Duke of Brabant at Town Hall Tower, Cologne by Elisabeth Perger.
Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328), The Order of Preachers, commonly known as Meister Eckhart or Master Eckhart was a German Catholic theologian, philosopher and mystic.


MAGA - Make Aliens Hunky Again.

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Telly Savalas recorded a mostly-spoken interpretation which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1975, and has the shortest title of any song to reach No. 1 in the UK.

Have to say, "Kind'a creepy if you ask me." 

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Jan 22, 1942: the Salmon-class submarine USS Sturgeon (SS-187) reported that she had torpedoed her first ship. The skipper sent the message "Sturgeon no longer virgin." However, post-war records indicate the torpedoes were duds that failed to sink the target. Sturgeon was moored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 during the Japanese attack, but suffered no damage.


Her June 29, 1944 sinking of the Japanese troopship Toyama Maru, killing more than 5,000 Japanese, was one of the highest death tolls from the sinking of a single ship in history. However, her July 1, 1942 sinking of the Montevideo Maru which, unknown to crew on the Sturgeon, was carrying over 1,000 POWs (mostly Australians), was the worst maritime disaster in Australian history. The wreck of the Montevideo Maru was discovered on  April 18, 2023 at a depth of over 4,000m (13,000 ft) in the South China Sea, off the northwest coast of Luzon, Philippines.

‘Measure of comfort’: Wreckage from Australia’s worst maritime disaster found | Wiki


LOL, RIP: Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army, even from countries outside of the EU.


Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army

If non citizens can vote, why not let them serve? In fact, why have countries & borders at all? Let's just have one giant world government and one giant global military force run by a small unelected group of shadow people whose names we don't even know.


Happy 40th Birthday, Airwolf. First episode aired Jan 22, 1984.
I liked this show even though it had an odd ball cast, the theme song was addicting, and the plot lines were just as weird as me.




Even the socialists are laying off. We are running out of other people’s money. That’s how bad things are.


Fox news


"I don’t like British people so screwing them over is funny, lol." There, saved you the trouble...And open borders for Israel. lol


In praise of mass immigration | Wiki


The new season of True Detective not only lifts bits from The XFiles: I Want to Believe, the whole idea of the corpsicle is lifted from the X-Files comic book, 30 Days of Night.


AI vs new Gen lazy writers?

Number of AI acquisitions since 2010:

Apple:  32 acquisitions
Google: 21 acquisitions
Meta:  18 acquisitions
M$FT:  17 acquisitions
Amazon: 10 acquisitions

AI means that computers are learning our language, rather than us having to learn theirs.




VR pioneer Jonathan Waldern inside one of his virtual environments, 1991:



Chief Technology Officer at Meta Materials Inc. (META®), Diablo, California, and...



Luminit Names Jonathan Waldern as Chief Technology Officer


If you want to see UFOs, Aliens, and shadowy spooks on those dark starry nights you need one of these...


Anything less will just show you clown world. Coined in 1992 by Neal Stephenson in his dystopian novel “Snow Crash”, the word “metaverse” referred to a persistent virtual world, accessible via "special goggles", where people could meet, flirt, play games, buy and sell things, and much more in the 'consumer' grade goggles.


9/11 Incoming from 1979...



Film trivia:
Several visual effects production teams were fired during the course of the lengthy production for failing to produce adequate effects on a very limited budget. The final company was forced to provide the effects seen in this movie for what money remained, seriously compromising the results.

The movie was inspired by the 1967 "Project Icarus" report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The shots containing the buildings collapsing in the NYC destruction scene, were taken from footage of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis, Missouri...which has quite the Atomic dark experiments history.
In 1972, three Pruitt-Igoe buildings were condemned and demolished, famously, on TV. The rest followed shortly after, televised on the nightly news, harkening the “end of modernism.”

Principal photography was shut down for two days when Sir Sean Connery contracted a respiratory condition during the filming of the mud sequence. The mud also knocked Connery off his feet, buried Karl Malden twice, while Natalie Wood was almost sucked into one of the pumps. During the mud filming, the actors and actresses would stuff their ears with cotton-wool, and had to have their eyes washed out, at the completion of each take.

Some of the background radio chatter in the Hercules control room is taken from recordings of Apollo missions.

Several of this movie's story elements were taken from Fail Safe (1964). Similarly, several story elements from this movie were re-used for Armageddon (1998) and Deep Impact (1998).

Ronald Neame was chosen to direct this because he had previously helped one of the biggest box office hits of the disaster movie genre, Irwin Allen's Poseidon Adventure. Unfortunately, "Meteor" was a dumpster fire at the box office.

If interested, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5lwtDPWBQ


"Have You Seen the Saucers?"

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R.I.P. Norman Jewison, WWII veteran and 12-time Oscar winner, the filmmaker behind Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night, and The Thomas Crown Affair, has died at age 97. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy (1944–1945) during World War II.

Before making his way into cinema and film production, Jewison served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. When Jewison was just 13 years old, he saw the war effort first-hand in Canada. "The whole production of the country, from food to material to clothing, everything was being built and focused toward the war," he told Canadian Encyclopedia. "There weren't even silk stockings, so women were painting their legs. It was unbelievable. Everybody was involved and totally committed to winning this war and supporting the troops. I've never seen a society so focused."

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, "Jewison's relatives almost all served as army reservists during the war. His uncle Charlie was a sergeant major in the 48th Highlanders, and his father was a sharpshooter with the Queen's Own Rifles. Jewison, however, had joined the Sea Cadets in high school — 'one way to get the attention of girls' — and at 17 he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy.

"After basic training in Québec City he was shipped to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the largest naval training base in the British Empire, where three giant words painted on the side of a building beside the parade square, expressed the sentiment of the time: "Learn to Serve."

"The war was in its final months by the time Jewison made it to sea, working as a signalman on a Canadian corvette, escorting merchant ships up the east coast from Maine to Newfoundland, where the freighters and oil tankers would gather for convoys across to England. The Battle of the Atlantic had largely been won by 1945, and Jewison himself never saw direct combat.

'I was disappointed that I never got to cross the Atlantic and shoot up some U-boats,' he said. 'That's what I really wanted to do.' The U-boats, however, were still sniffing around American and Canadian ports, occasionally sinking ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 'You were aware of the danger, aware that the war was going on,' says Jewison. But his only glimpse of the enemy came after Germany's surrender in May, When his ship escorted 'a bunch of sorry-looking German prisoners from a submarine that had sailed into a Canadian port to give themselves up. They were tired; their fearsome white turtleneck sweaters were filthy with oil and sweat. They stank. When we herded them into a train bound for an internment camp somewhere up North, I gave one of them a pack of cigarettes.'"

WE ARE THE MIGHTY

Jan 23, 1974: PRAY FOR THE WILDCATS premiered on ABC. Filmed in Tucson, Arizona with street scenes in bordertown Nogales, and dirt bike trip through Baja California, Mexico.




Nine years ago today, MORTDECAI happened.


@PartTimeRogue hasn't really tweeted since. LOL.


One cause just doesn't seem to fit...




The 5th Defense against the Dark Arts professor on his way to Hogwarts after the last 4 died in freak accidents.




Babylon Gurdjieff goes mainstream...


The Enneagram Institute  |  The Enneagram Personality Test


Habsburg says wut?




RFK Jr. runs a campaign ad for the UFO File...




It's getting ugly out there, folks...





Daily Chems

Author "Cassidy Morrison" anagram = Coronary Dismiss 


1969: James Burke tried a futuristic office, devoid of pesky human interaction. He seems fine...(first 3 1/2 minutes)



"Just me and the work. Alone and efficient. Alone."
This clip is from Tomorrow's World.
He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".

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James Burke, a legend in our time.
The Washington Post called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".