Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
The Republic of Dubrovnik was founded today (1358). Also, the 13 Stratford Martyrs were executed near London for their protestant beliefs (1556), Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail (1844), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue made her inaugural run from Washington D.C. to New York City (1895), Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe (1898), 13-year-old cricketer A.E.J. Collins scored a record 628 runs not out (1899), Russian sailors aboard the battleship Potemkin mutinied to protest autocracy and war (1905), the Canadian Parliament passed the Canadian Citizenship Act (1946), the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution to send troops to defend South Korea (1950), the Guatemalan Congress passed the Agrarian Reform Law known as Decree 900 that sought to move the nation from feudalism to capitalism (1952), three players were sent off with red cards and fighting continued in the dressing rooms after Hungary defeated Brazil in a World Cup quarterfinal dubbed the “Battle of Berne” (1954), 400 people died as Hurricane Aubrey made landfall on the Texas-Louisiana border (1957), Uruguayan President Juan María Bordaberry suspended his nation’s Parliament and Constitution, establishing himself as dictator (1973), President Richard Nixon visited the Soviet Union (1974), Djibouti gained independence (1977), 81 people died when Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously exploded en route from Italy to Sicily (1980), the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China blamed former Premier Mao Zedong for the Cultural Revolution in their “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China” (1981), Route 66 was closed (1985), 56 people died when an incoming train struck a stopped train at Paris’ Gare de Lyon terminal (1988), British Prime Minister Tony Blair resigned, on the same day 19 people died as Brazilian police fought drug dealers in the favelas of Complexo de Alemão (2007), and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was reelected in a runoff, a week after first-round winner Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew amidst rising violence against Tsvangirai’s supporters (2008). And NASA launched the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph to study the Sun (2013).
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Yesterday on Campus
Morning Feature – “Remember Charleston!” Part II: This Is White Supremacy
Midday Matinee – triciawyse with Friedai Critters
Campus Question – Will this week’s Supreme Court decisions drive aggrieved entitlement rage even higher?
Today on Campus
Morning Feature – “Remember Charleston!” Part III: Light, Heat, and Persistence (Non-Cynical Saturday)
Campus Question at 6pm ET
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Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Good morning! It’s a clear and sunny 48 degrees here, with predicted highs in the upper 60’s. Unfortunately, that won’t last, we’re expected to get a lot of rain overnight, and into tomorrow. 🙁 The lake still hasn’t really caught up with the last rainstorm, so we’re expecting flooding (again.) In the news, some sighs of relief as one of the escaped prisoners is now dead. They think they’re close to the other one. Hopefully, today is the last day for this. Yesterday was a busy news day, mostly good news in terms of the Supreme Court decisions, and the President’s eulogy. It was busy day here. Lots of people coming through, lots of questions, the phone never stopped ringing. One example of “don’t trust GPS,” as someone showed up at 9:30, after they got “lost.” Considering that they told me they’d been in a town a little under an hour away at 6:30, yeah, they got really lost on the way here. Today looks to be a bit “more of the same,” so it’ll be interesting.
Non-political and fun stuff. Forget sharks with fricking lasers on their heads!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHmNSAtqZE
So uh … umm … hrmm. I guess it was easy to film that BBC2 documentary. Just look for a river in Australia where the trees are all singed by laser cannon fire and set up the super-slo-mo trap cameras….
Good morning! ::hugggggs::
No, it wasn’t easy … many brave cameramen were lost bringing us back this information. 😛
That was an amusing vid, Norbrook. My word, someone has some wild imagination, probably generated by Star Wars. LOL.
Yesterday was a great day in so many ways. 🙂
People who trust GPS a different breed but two extra hours? Wow.
I hope the free fishing creates some new fishers.
Linda shared this with me the other day, and I finally got to watch it. It’s well worth a few minutes of your time because it makes such an essential point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lpPASWlnZIA
Need I say that when yesterday’s SCOTUS decision finally sank in, I wept tears of joy?
Hugggs and good morning to all. 🙂
Wow! Fantastic!
Good Morning. What a week for emotional news. It is hard to keep processing stuff. I sat down on my couch about 3 yesterday and was taken over by a nap. A sitting up nap. A camper knocking on my door startled me awake . I might have been tired from a mowing to keep up schedule but I think it was also the sheer amount of emotion flowing.
I have one camper (she’s here every summer) who is a school teacher and a single mom with two adopted black sons, 7 and 12. She had also heard Obama’s eulogy. We hugged and cried. What this President means to her and her sons was beyond her ability to express.
On a more trivial note, I relearned the lesson of leaving the butter out of the frog on an 80 degree day.
I am simply hoping for a calm day today. 🙂
Well, when the weather leaves you melted butter, there’s only one thing to do. Have lobster.
What a great thought! 🙂
Melted butter. We served it with fresh picked corn on the cob.
Love it!
It was a very emotional day. 🙂 Somehow I think today will be calmer… If I avoid the news, anyway.
ACA Upheld – check
Fair housing rights upheld – check
Marriage equality in 50 states – check
White House in Rainbow colors – check. What! wait! The White House bathed in rainbow colors signifying LGBT equality.
Oh man, that last one must have the righties really frothing. I’m sure I’ll hear this: The worst thing to happen to the WH since the War of 1812.
The only thing that would have made the last few days better would have been if the T at Trump Towers cracked and fell off his vanity edifice.
Ha! Nice thought on the T at Trump Towers. When I see polls saying Trump is moving up, I remind myself of just how many candidates were ‘leading in the polls’ last go around. Heck even Michele Bachmann was leading for a couple of weeks.
Cruz already said it, Mike. Darkest 24 hours in U.S. history. Seems his history books must have begun a few years ago….
These Republican Pres candidates vie for whose hyperbole can sound the dumbest.
Republican Candidates are recalling this:
https://youtu.be/kfrC0h_X5EE
We need a wider background if we are to understand and evaluate the Republican dog whistles. the press is not doing it for us.
Hoo boy. Okay. Now how are they gonna explain climate change? Providence judging them while their kids starve?
They need to keep their base mad enough to vote. We need to keep ours so grateful for the changes we’ve seen that they vote to protect progress.
Good morning! Wet day today. Now 65 degrees 0.2 inches of rain so far. High of 76 predicted. Lots more rain on the way. I am glad they run the forecast model frequently. The model can almost keep up with what is out the window.
Good news – “A former Baptist minister, who reportedly vowed to set himself on fire if the high court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, is still alive.” http://www.nbc12.com/story/29421168/pastor-vows-to-burn-over-same-sex-marriage “[He] will accept any sanction from the government for resisting today’s Supreme Court decision.”
Short of self-immolation, I suppose. The ruling specifically protected the First Amendment right of religions. They don’t have to perform gay marriages. Oh well…
You Go Girl!
Played golf yesterday and the assistant pro asked if I wouldn’t mind playing with the kids. The “kids” being his 10-yr-old son, a middle school student and a H.S. Sophomore, Mercedes. Mercedes plays on her golf team. Yeah, why not, I love kids.
Mercedes knocked my socks off. She’s 15, about 5’4″, maybe, 120 lbs, maybe.
On the two par 5s she drove the ball way out there (EEKs, farther than me – 6’2″, 200). But it was the second shot to the green giving her an eagle putt on both holes that really had me going, “Wow!
I told her that she drives the ball farther than 90% of the guys I play with. Maybe 95%. Nice kid, too. And, she had the extra obligation of keeping the other kids behaved and teaching them golf etiquette.
Did you take a selfie with Mercedes and/or get her autograph? Like planning ahead for when she is an LPGA star?
Dang! Should have done that!
Wow, what an experience. 🙂 You must have enjoyed it. Just think, you might have played with a future pro, and some day you’ll be tossing off, “Yeah, I went a round with her back in 2015…” 😀
In other news, last night the U.S. Women’s team defeated China 1-0 to advance to the semifinals in the World Cup. That is, of course, completely irrelevant, said Fox sports commentator Alexi Lawless (quote is from memory so approximate):
Au contraire. Last night was all about beating China, because that’s who was on the pitch last night. There was no way to defeat China so overwhelmingly that we could skip right over Tuesday’s semifinal vs. Germany. They’ll have to beat Germany … when Germany are on the pitch.
By the way, the U.S. Women are now the only team to reach the semis in all seven Women’s World Cups. They shut out their last four opponents and haven’t allowed a goal in over 420 minutes. Indeed last night China never got a shot from closer than 28 yards.
Enough whining, Alexi. Go U.S. Women! 🙂