Open Thread for June 27, Helen Keller Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 7:00am

June 27 is the 178th day of the year, there are 187 days left in 2016

27 is a perfect cube, 3^3.
27 is the atomic number of cobalt.
27 is the weight of the only stable isotope of aluminum.
A-27 was a WWII American attack aircraft
27 is the number of bones in the human hand.[6]
27 is the average crowd funded contribution to Bernie Sanders.
I-27) is an Interstate Highway, entirely within Texas, from Lubbock to Amarillo. Interstate, hello?

Title 27 of the US Code is INTOXICATING LIQUORS

27 BCE
Was the Year of the Second Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa
Octavian returned full power to the Senate which, in exchange, granted him the titles of Princeps and Augustus. As Augustus, he bacame the first Roman Emperor.
Emperor Ai of Han, was born
Marcus Terentius Varro died.

27 CE
Was the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Frugi
Apricots were transported from Asia to Rome
Petronius was born

On this day in:
1895 -- The first run of the B & O RR's Royal Blue from D.C., to NYC, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 -- The first solo circumnavigation of the globe, by Joshua Slocum.
1905 -- The Battleship Potemkin uprising
1941 -- A pogrom by Romanian governmental forces, in Iasi, Romania killed at least 13,266 Jews.
1950 -- The U.S. decided to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1952 -- Guatemala passed Decree 900, redistributing uncultivated land & pissing off United Fruit and the U.S., leading to the 1954 coup d'etat
1971 -- Rock promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East in New York
1977 -- France granted independence to Djibouti.
1981 -- The Chinese Communist Party issued a "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", blaming the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
1985 -- U.S. Route 66 was officially removed from the U.S. Highway System.
2007 -- Tony Blair resigned as British Prime Minister7.
2007 -- The Brazilian Military Police committed the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

Born this day in:
1806 -- Augustus De Morgan, mathematician and logician
1846 -- Charles Stewart Parnell, politician
1850 -- Lafcadio Hearn, historian and author
1869 -- Emma Goldman, philosopher and activist
1880 -- Helen Keller, author, academic, and activist
1913 -- Elton Britt, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1913 -- Willie Mosconi, pool player
1916 -- Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist
1923 -- Elmo Hope, pianist and composer
1925 -- Doc Pomus, singer, songwriter
1930 -- Ross Perot, businessman and politician
1942 -- Bruce Johnston, singer, songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys)
1945 -- Joey Covington, drummer, songwriter, and producer (Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna)
1949 -- Vera Wang, fashion designer
1958 -- Lisa Germano, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1958 -- Jeffrey Lee Pierce, singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club)
1959 -- Lorrie Morgan, singer
1960 -- Robert King, harpsichord player and conductor
1968 -- Kelly Ayotte, politician,
1969 -- Draco Rosa, singer, songwriter and producer (Menudo and Maggie's Dream)
1972 -- Dawud Wharnsby, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1976 -- Leigh Nash, singer, songwriter (Sixpence None the Richer)
1986 -- Drake Bell, singer,songwriter, guitarist, and actor

De Morgan's Laws:
The negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.
"not (A and B)" is the same as "(not A) or (not B)"
also,
The negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations.
"not (A or B)" is the same as "(not A) and (not B)".

Died this day in:
1831 -- Sophie Germain, mathematician and physicist
1989 -- A. J. Ayer, philosopher and academic Read his "Language, Truth & Logic"
2002 -- John Entwistle, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Who)
2004 -- George Patton IV, soldier
2009 -- Fayette Pinkney, singer (The Three Degrees)
2014 -- Bobby Womack, singer, songwriter (The Valentinos)
2015 -- Chris Squire, guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Yes)

A Sophie Germain prime is a prime p such that 2p + 1 is also prime

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Helen Keller Day (United States)
Mixed Race Day (Brazil)
National HIV Testing Day (United States)
National PTSD Awareness Day (United States)

So, for music we gots --
Elton Britt
Robert Normann
Elmo Hope
Doc Pomus
Bruce Johnston
Joey Covington
Lisa Germano
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Lorrie Morgan
Robert King
Draco Rosa
Dawud Wharnsby
Leigh Nash
John Warne
Jennifer Goodridge
Drake Bell
John Entwistle
Fayette Pinkney
Bobby Womack
Chris Squire

Elton Britt

Robert Normann

Elmo Hope

Doc Pomus

Bruce Johnston

Joey Covington

Lisa Germano

Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Lorrie Morgan

Robert King

Draco Rosa

Dawud Wharnsby

Leigh Nash

Drake Bell

John Entwistle

Fayette Pinkney

Bobby Womack

Chris Squire

OK folks, open thread, you know what to do.

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Comments

Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 7:49am

Helen Keller

is Alabama's most famous socialist. Our impoverished state recently put a bronze cast statue in DC, and I'm sure TPTB have no idea of her adult story...they never got past the miracle worker.

wiki:

A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes.

This statue of Helen Keller was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Alabama in 2009.
Helen Keller.jpg

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:37am

One wonders;

Do they suppress her socio-political activism lest others emulate it, since she is such a classic "American Hero" and hence role model? Do they instead think they are benevolently concealing her later errors lest they tarnish her reputation? Then again, they are perhaps simply blind to the import of those other activities because they have a limited and twisted frame of reference through which they dimly perceive reality.

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:50am

I think it is ignorance

really they saw the Miracle worker as a movie or play, and are totally ignorant of her adult efforts. What is funny is Rove buddy Gov. Bob Riley and his wife promoted the project (and used an artist from SD instead of Alabama).

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

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Submitted by KyleGNally on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 7:58am

Not at all related to Helen Keller, but

an anagram for "Hillary Rodham Clinton" is

"I'd only thrill a monarch ".

Also, an anagram for" the Bush administration" is

"bandits in this tame hour" (which would make an excellent documentary title, actually).

Have a great day, everyone!

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:38am

Thanks. Have a great day yourself.

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Submitted by riverlover on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 8:33am

I remember those proofs!

so...Not (Hillary or Trump).

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:40am

A+; a perfect usage.

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Submitted by ghotiphaze on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:17am

Once heard a story about Willie Mosconi

Once in a match he pocketed a hundred thirty some balls in a row. When asked how he accomplished such a feat he replied he had no hard shots.
You may need to be a pool player to understand that.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:44am

I think that I just barely get it, thanks.

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Submitted by hecate on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:38am

hi, el

Charles Parnell was a major infuence on James Joyce. A prominent proponent of a free Ireland, Parnell was brought down when his penis was implicated in a divorce proceeding, which caused the Catholic Church to commence the dance of St. Vitus. When Parnell soon thereafter died, the nine-year-old Joyce penned a poem, Et Tu, Healy, now lost, but descibed as "a diatribe against Tim Healy, Parnell's supposed betrayer to the Catholic Church." Parnell is referenced in every one of Joyce's works. Under the influence of his Parnell outrage, Joyce told the Church to bugger off, and then refused for 27 years to marry his lifelong inamorata, Nora Barnacle. When Joyce died, and a priest offered his services for a funeral, she said "I couldn't do that to him."

Emma Goldman was born in Lithuania, which was then swallowed up in the Russian empire. Her father was a larval mutant who whipped her, threw her books into the fire, and shouted at her to sit down, shut her mouth, and get married. She escaped that horror, into the American empire, where she was thrown into the prison for distributing birth control and encouraging draft resistance. The Americans deported her back to the Russian empire, now known as the Soviet Union. After Kronstadt, she denounced the Bolsheviks as a fraud and a failure. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. As ever.

Goldman never said "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." That was a contraction, by a t-shirt maker, of this:

I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.

I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world—prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

Goldman, she did not like stick-butts.

Here is Van Morrison doing a Doc Pomus number. And about 19 other songs.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuhSMIx7WEU]

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 10:49am

I thhink my reply to you wound up other than a reply, a

few messages down, sorry.

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Submitted by mimi on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:47am

Hi, C99p friends, it's fun to watch the

live broadcast of dw.com of the british parliament. Corbyn is speaking now.
Live TV DW.COM

Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 10:02am

That was fun

Thanks for the link (here,here).

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 10:47am

Thanks for the tip.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 10:46am

Good morning, hecate. Emma was a very special and able

person, surrounded by the usual crew. I well remember the joyless puritans of the left who felt, for whatever reason, that one had to emulate some perpetually constipated dyspeptic deacon lest "they" think that one was only in it for fun and games, pinched and dour persons incapabler of any awakening because it would fracture that visage and demeanor that determined every aspect of their existence.
Ah well ....

Thanks for the Van Morrison.

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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 --

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 11:01am

So the Supremes handed the religiofascists a defeat on

the women's rights front. This might be a good time to provide enhanced security for those working in the female reproductive health arena.

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Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 11:10am

What? Details? Linky?

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:27pm

Texas anti-choice law struck down:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/654afc839388440f8a4efc2eb22ca41a/supreme-...

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Submitted by Haikukitty on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 11:29am

Yes, and also set up nicely for the corrupt Clinton presidency

with their throwing out of the conviction of McDonnell's corruption conviction:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/27/politics/bob-mcdonnell-supreme-court/index.html

"In sum, an 'official act' is a decision or action on a 'question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy," Roberts wrote. "Setting up a meeting, talking to another official, or organizing an event (or agreeing to do so) -- without more -- does not fit that definition of an official act."

He later added, "There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that," Roberts wrote. "But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government's boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute. A more limited interpretation of the term 'official act' leaves ample room for prosecuting corruption, while comporting with the text of the statute and the precedent of this court."

"Today's ruling should clarify -- and dramatically narrow --the scope of federal anti-corruption law, and could open the door to challenges from a number of other former public officials convicted under these federal laws, including Governor McDonnell's wife, Maureen, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, and others."

I tend to disagree with the court, as setting up a meeting or an event, and thus using your official power to endorse an action that will benefit someone who gave you "Ferraris and Rolexes" and what not should count as an official action....

Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:01pm

surely I misunderstand the Court's decision on McDonnell

it seems they're saying he took what he could get but they don't have evidence that he then did anything in return....and that's ok.

That can't be right. I must have it wrong.

Submitted by terriertribe on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:15pm

Roberts is saying

That McDonnell didn't do anything that amounted to an "official" act in return for all that stuff.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:24pm

Your version is long established law. There must not only

be a quid pro quo, but it must have been understood, intended and expected by both parties throughout, otherwise, no bribe.

This goes further and says that some quid pro quo acts don't count, such as using your official offices to promote stuff or calling in a few favors.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 2:26pm

Yuck.

...and there was Roberts saying he expected corruption cases would be overturned. Lordy.

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Submitted by terriertribe on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:30pm

My employer

Makes it very clear that if I accept so much as a hot dog at the corner pushcart from a client, that I will be subject to discipline including dismissal because of the perception that that hot dog is too likely to sway my judgment. Obviously I need to get into politics, where the ethical standards are lower and the hot dogs are replaced by Rolexes and Ferraris.

Apparently I also need to have a talk with my employer about their perception of my judgment.

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 4:02pm