Beautiful day. At 0730, it’s sixty-five outside under blue skies. There’s a little spotty ground fog, and off to the east I can see a thin, broken cloud layer, but it’s peaceful.
No birth announcements in today’s paper. I guess they burnt ’em all u in the mid-week dump.
I’m looking at a pretty good week at work, mostly paperwork, closing out projects before the end of the year. Next week I have to traipse up to Tennessee to finish one up there.
Right now I’m kicking back, enjoying the morning.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles recognizing American independence. (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1886 – First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, New York.
1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph.
1941 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano and rubberstamps the Pearl Harbor attack plan.
1988 – UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO’s Arafat visa. At this time we should have given then a two-week notice to vacate the premises.
1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law. Thousands of criminals immediately turn in their handguns. Wait… They didn’t? You’re kidding, right?!?!?
So a couple of brave, hard-charging New York times reporters published Darren Wilson’s home address, because, yaknow, “We’re reporters and we speak truth to power ‘n’ shit.”
Apparently you can become an NYT reporter without ever hearing about consequences or even “What’s sauce for the goose is gravy for the gander” or things like that. Or maybe consequences are for the little people.
BREAKING: COPS: NYT Reporter Who Published #DarrenWilson Address Calling Cops Nonstop
November 29, 2014 by Charles C. JohnsonThe New York Times journalist who published Darren Wilson’s home address wants police protection and has been calling the police nonstop, Gotnews.com has learned.
Seriously, lady? Calling the cops?!? I mean, according to YOU, the cops are the BAD guys.
Julie Bosman “keeps calling the 020th District station complaining about people harassing and threatening her,” our source told us. She’s also “complaining about numerous food deliveries being sent to her residence.”
Maybe should give up on the cops and call up a drug-addled, mesomorph black guy to protect her.
How about a Scarlatti sonata? Sonata f minor k 466. Save this one for a day of delicious melancholia.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine. City council immediately sets a fine for running one.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1944 – Johns Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery. Today it’s almost a yawner.
1947 – UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews, leading to the legal formation of the nation of Israel, restoring a nation that was torn apart by the Romans in 70 AD. But skip forward to 1978…
1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. Nuking Red China to a cinder would’ve worked…
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is like Al Capone investigating crime in Chicago…
1978 – UN observes “international day of solidarity with Palestinian people,” boycotted by US & about 20 other countries. The UN has been dead useless for twenty years when this happens.
1972 – Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. And with this shot, a revolution begins.
1520 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. And THAT’S why it’s called the “Straits of Magellan”. The other route is around Cape Horn through an unpleasant stretch of the Southern Ocean.
1811 – Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, was premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig without a lightshow and backup dancers.
1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. Today, newspapers are sucking sludge trying to keep in business.
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. He’s one of the “M’s” in MGM… A scrap metal dealer. Mean ol’ America, holding folks down and all that…
1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people. The exact number of dead varies in different reports, but it’s a lot.
1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community, go on to become standards of fairness, security and prosperity.
1994 – In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium. Justice is served and for a brief moment harmony is found in the universe.
The obligatory Ferguson post.
Fred Reed, of Fred on Everything has a view that I’m wondering about.
I just don’t know. I’m a relic. I remember “Whites Only” drinking fountains and separate waiting rooms at a doctor’s offices. I was a junior in high school when the first black students came to my formerly all-white school.
I served nine years in a completely integrated Army. I have worked alongside black men and women ever since I left the Army. some of those people were GOOD people, some were sad excuses for humanity, JUST LIKE THE WHITE PEOPLE.
So I don’t know… I listened to the announcement of the grand jury findings Monday night and went to bed after watching RIOTS that everybody knew about.
Got news. If you cluster a big bunch of people up and have speaker after speaker warn that there’s gonna be a riot if things don’t go the right way, you won’t have to initiate violence. That’ll start the first time an unwanted foot touched my property. I may die, but I’ll die in a pile of my own hot brass.
It seems to me that we treat the ‘African-American’ community as if it’s a little mentally challenged child who cannot be trusted to act with a maturity commensurate with the age level, and just like when I was a kid, if a kid acted out, Momma was swift to jerk him up and paddle that ass, today we expect to reason and ‘time out’ and appease in hopes that the tantrum will end with a minimum of damage.
Momma didn’t tolerate tantrums. With the acceptance of the black community as socially retarded, the nation accepts the tantrums, and indeed, in the case of Ferguson, clears the floor so they won’t hurt themselves when the tantrums come.
it is interesting to note that the tantrums take place in the liberal anthills. You won’t see any tantrums in small-town, flyover-country America because out here that pile of hot brass is likely to ensue.
Almost obvious is that you can equate ‘tantrum country’ with those blue spots on the map showing where dimmocrat votes come from.
So I just don’t know. Fred has some interesting points, some of which would produce untold tragedy if they come to pass, and folks, one or several will eventually come to pass, and what follows will not be the America we love.
I awoke (let that sink in — it’s a blessing in its own right) in my house, anchored securely by the kitties lying on the covers around me. I got a good night’s sleep (another blessing) with only the tiniest twinges hanging over from my knee repair.
I walked into the kitchen and got breakfast started. Everything I needed was in the fridge or the pantry. To be honest, MORE than I need. I haven’t missed a meal since those dark days on the DMZ in 1970.
I have a job that, despite some belly-aching and moaning, is way more than adequate, working with good people doing things that I (mostly) love.
It’s been six years since the place was whacked by the last hurricane.
G_d is good. I have friends spread across the globe from this Internet thing, and I’ve got Sweetie, whom I will join for a feast with her family in just a little bit.
There! Positive? It’s there, people. Sometimes we lose track, the good being obscured by the aggravations of daily life, but this is a day to reflect.
602 AD – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople. How did this come about? He disrespected the army and they revolted.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. 2014 – Barack Obama celebrates Thanksgiving by receiving the thanks of his adoring friends in the mainstream media..
1826 – John Walker invents friction match in England.
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded. “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, da*n lies, and statistics.”
1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. He didn’t envision it becoming a propaganda tool, but parts of it have done just that.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. They used animals from the zoo in the first couple of parades. In 1927, the first big balloon, Felix the Cat, made its debut.
1967 – Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price. It’s at $1400 in 2010, and around $1200 right now.
So it’s the day before Thanksgiving. Senior (real SENIOR) management gave us the word to take off at noon (with pay – the very best ‘take off’) and so I get home and pop a can of soup for a quick lunch while a read the news paper. Lo and behold, there’s a set of birth announcements – middle of the week.
The big hospital across the river posts twenty-four new births, twelve to unwed parents, and one new mommy is still wondering which bean made her fart.
They saved us some goodies, too! Let’s look:
Tyler A. & Lacy D. tag their son with a job description and an energy source, showing us little Mason Coal.
Matthew & Nikki W. pick a random last name and toss it at their daughter, little Oakley Nicole.
Hopping on that ‘random last name’ bus, Kelly J. Jr. & Tayla(!) B. tag a little girl with Addison Jolie.
Andrew & Rebekah B. focus on a body part on their son, little Earon Leo.
But ail that is passé compared to Deontez(!) ‘n’ Shonique(!) M. who get all punctuational on their daughter, little De’Licia Da-Lauren. Poor kid never stood a chance.
Another apostrophe shows up when James T. & Alexandra M. put one on their daughter Kamryn Jenae’ so people will know when to stop making noises when they try to pronounce her name.
Miss LaVera(!) Y. tags her daughter with Amylynn Naeome.
Montana(!) H. & Emalie(!) N. do a son up with Blaon Foy.
Eric D. & Khadijah(!) J. follow Deontez & Shonique down the punctuation road with their son, little E’Zlyeous-Zaccheaus Keith.
Corey ‘n’ Meghan K. bestow Indigo Mehgan and Atlas Corey.
And now let’s just get ready for Thanksgiving.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook and company become the first Europeans to visit Maui.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later. Tiny, out-numbered, under-armed, gutsy Finland gives the Russians more fight than they bargained for.
1942 – Holocaust: Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews are deported to Auschwitz on the cargo vessel Donau. This was the first step on the journey to the death camp Auschwitz. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767, 25 of the deported survived. If the Bush Administration were Nazis as the Left has screamed during his eight years, THIS is what you’d have seen. The Left couldn’t FIND a Nazi if one bit them on the ass.
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe using a radio-guided bomb in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. Of the 1,138 men lost, 1,015 were American. The attack constitutes the largest loss of U.S. troops at sea in a single incident.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers. If one would’ve hit a Wal-Mart on any Black Friday, it would’ve raised the state’s average IQ a dozen points.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch’ongch’on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
2008 – The first shots of many attacks on Mumbai, India are fired. These ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 300 people in Mumbai. Included among the victims are members of Mumbai’s tiny Jewish community, specifically targeted, lest you mistakenly think terrorists have forgotten the Jews.