Monday OT: March 9 is Bang-Clang Day
March 9 is day 69 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Chaos 40, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.5.15 by the Mayan Long Count
On this day in history:
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1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral left Lisbon eventually to discover Brazil
1776 – Adam Smith's Pseudo-scientific propaganda tract, The Wealth of Nations, was publiched.
1815 – Francis Ronalds described the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. (United States v. The Amistad)
1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, premiered
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occured at Rancho San Francisco. (Now NE L.A. county).
1862 – The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike started, with 15,000 coal miners represented by the UMW .
1933 – FDR submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
1945 – The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1954 – CBS television broadcast the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy"
1959 – The Barbie doll made its debut
1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implanted a shunt he invented into a patient, allowing the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
Born this day in:
1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, cartographer and explorer
1863 – Mary Harris Armor, suffragist
1892 – Vita Sackville-West, author, poet, and gardener
1918 – Mickey Spillane, crime novelist
1923 – Walter Kohn, physicist and academic
1928 – Keely Smith, singer and actress
1930 – Ornette Coleman, saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer
1933 – Lloyd Price, R&B singer and songwriter
1936 – Mickey Gilley, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1941 – Ernesto Miranda, criminal and police torture victim
1942 – Mark Lindsay, singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
1943 – Bobby Fischer, chess player and author
1945 – Robin Trower, rock guitarist and vocalist
1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, singer and drummer
1959 – Takaaki Kajita, physicist
Deaths[edit]
Deaths
Died this day in:
1444 – Leonardo Bruni, humanist
1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, author, and critic
1847 – Mary Anning, paleontologist
1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist
1895 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, journalist and author
1974 – Harry Womack, singer
1983 – Ulf von Euler, physiologist and pharmacologist
1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, historian and author
1994 – Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, and short story writer
2010 – Doris Haddock, activist and politician
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Amerigo Vespucci Day
Bang Clang Day
Barbie Day
Get Over It Day
National Meatball Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Ornette Coleman
Lloyd Price
Mickey Gilley
Mark Lindsay
Robin Trower
Jeffrey Osborne
Harry Womack
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Get over it day?
Sounds interesting. Based on a lost love evidently...
https://thewhatevernetwork.com/pages/get-over-it-day
I see bang clang refers to 1862 – The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the first battle between two ironclad warships.
Regardless of what you call it, hope you all have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. I thought about get over it day for
the headline, but the graphic would've been more difficult than for bang-clang day. There is also a certain cleverness to bang-clang day, imagining what it must've been like to a participant or observer from an auditory standpoint and the fact that it was a draw.
Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Merkel MIA, Merz plays rough and enjoys it
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Macron is too embarrassed and a half-
assedcharmed, more elegant intellectual Merkel clone. Roettgen sees an opening for himself, but is a Merkel 2.0 edition.I think Merkel doesn't want to lead, because she has some doubts of the usefulness idiot leaders. I think that's what she experienced from her upbringing.
It is hard for me to listen to the Duran. Merkel is treacherous. Merkel a practicioner of the dark arts. Aha, interesting, don't you love the dark arts, at least a little bit, kind of get your juices flowing under the surface?
Just for the record, though Merkels non-leadership preference is playing out in the open, I distrust AKK, Merz, van der Leyen, and Roettgen. Laschet is more trusted than the rest of the bunch. He is also the cute guy like 'cutsy' GWBush or an uncle Joe Biden type at their early days.
Forget about all of them.
Musings about cowardness ...
In the defense of equal rights this quote is true for women too, amirite?
It is not fun to make up ones mind about the 'political gang' in Germany these days. Nothing to see here for you, but I had the desire to be of service for those who want to torture themselves to understand those 'Germanic' leading tribal competitors.
Good morning mimi, thanks for that rundown. Foreign
politics is global politics is, in turn, just the more distant reaches of current politics. The perspective of those local thereto is necessary for comprehension, and ergo always welcome. My high school German teacher said, in light of our local, parochial, xenophobit, militaristic and jingoist newspaper monopoly that understanding world events required also reading Die Zeit and at least one British paper. For me, this required trips to the library and, accordingly, always being a few days behind, but it was definitely broadening. So, thanks.
Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
You had to read "Die Zeit" in highschool? Wow.
I imagine that would be round about the same as asking me in 11th grade to read the "Harper's Magazine' or the 'Atlantic Magazine' or the "New Yorker". But usually it is easier for a German to learn English than for an English speaker to learn German.
Kudos that you actually tried to read it. That is quite demanding for a highschool student, I would say. What a teacher.
Get over it day
is a nice thought as I head to court.
I look forward to introducing some specific statutes to a young hipster lawyer from Dallas that he has evidently never seen. I hope to shut him up, and hope he just gets over it.
Everyone stay safe and healthy!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning OTC, I wish you luck and success and do help
that your counterpart is able to get over it.
Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Well,
He didn't back off, we had a short trial, and he wishes he had backed off,and it is on him to get over it. Too fun!
He represented the wife in a divorce case, but her Dad was funding it. I took the wife/paying Dad's daughter on the stand for cross-examination, and Dad got so angry and noisy as my questions continued, he was removed from the courthouse grounds, forced to stay completely off the premises.
He is also going to have to get over it.
At least he didn't make any physical threats to me, and I exited the courthouse with armed escort.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Why so hard on Adam Smith ?
I don't think he ever thought of himself as doing science, his chair was Moral Philosophy.
I believe the notion that economics is science, which it is not, is much more modern.
A couple of insights from Wealth of Nations:
If governments couldn't borrow, and had to make war with taxation only, there would be no wars.
If the Crown manages to hold on to its American colonies, the capital will have to move from London to New York.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning Az, sorry about that. I see references to that
and reflexively think of all the stupid uses to which it has been put, the myriad dumb arguments based on it and the fact that certain bits of it have become ingrained as part of both our culture and the mythification of our history and go off on it. Then there's the fact that it had a lot to do with the growth and creation of "econ" as we know it today. Not his fault, I know.
Thanks for reading and for coming to his defense.
Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
science and philosophy
In Adam Smith's day (1723 - 1790), the terms "science" and "philosophy" were synonymous. Use of the terms as we use them today was pretty much a 19th Century development.
And you're right: Smith himself would be the first to agree that economics is no science, as we use the term today.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
National Meatball Day
Who knew?
Speaking of which, have always been a big fan of the meatball. Although in my house, we rarely used them in the traditional Italian way. Instead, my Mother used to make this wonderful stroganoff meatball dish with homemade egg noodles. Mmmm....the memory of it still sounds rather marvelous.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Good morning Anja. That looks wonderful. When I make
meatballs, the output is invariably too many for one meal for two. I'm pretty sure that, as a result, I still have two servings worth stuffed in the freezer somewhere, and I make a mean homemade egg noodle. I just finished my week to cook, but come next Monday I know what I'm making,
Thanks and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I say go for it
And that's the great thing about making meatballs. The leftovers!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Does pot sticker filling count?
You know, pork + cabbage, carrots, water chestnuts, ginger, green onion, soy sauce and sesame oil? It's basically a ball inside the wrapper.
If so, my timing is unintentionally spot on, because I'll be making a big batch to mostly freeze later today.
Your mom's dish sounds delicious!
Not sure if it would be considered a meatball
But, gosh, does it sound wonderfully yummy!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Good afternoon Deja. Sounds delicious and makes me think
think that I need to make some. Not sure that I want to take the time to make my own wrappers, but it would be fun.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Cruzin’ in fir an afternoon howdy doo
Low pressure here. Rain tomorrow. Division of labor. That’s what I most remember about Adam. Wondering how Tuesday will go. How will they fuck with it ?? Oh, let me count the ways. Thanks for the ot. Have a good one...
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Hola magi, tuesday am now. No rain here, I think they said
last light that it would be a) a tiny amount and b) down in the South Bay, which, of course, is you all southernors, heh.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Stagger Lee -- the rest of the story
Turns out the wife wasn't so sickly after all.....
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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
That's alternate version 3; alternate 2 has verses where he
goes to hell and lays a bunch of whup-ass on the devil.
Thanks for reading and for the great tune,
have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --