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11 September 2001 – REMEMBER ALWAYS
Wednesday, 11 September 2019Державне підприємство “Антонов” 1961
Thursday, 5 September 2019
“In the mid twentieth century there was made a series of photographs advertising Soviet “An” planes to western buyers. Some of these photos have been revealed just recently. Party leaders didn’t allow them to be used abroad and the photos were kept in the archives of “Antonov” company.”
[Image and caption found in here. More about the Ukraine-based company here.]
Happy Labor Day!
Monday, 2 September 2019I’m not an historian, but here’s the gist.
In 1894 there was a recession in the US, and Chicago engineer, industrialist and developer George Pullman had to lay off a large chunk of his workforce (yet he kept about 2/3rds on the payroll).
Some of those laid off were anarchists, socialists and Marxists (the Progressive Movement was on the march) and they organized a strike, not only for the layoffs, but because Pullman wouldn’t reduce the rent for the housing he built and owned. But they did more than protest. They turned to violence and arson.
They burned the buildings and product of their employer (The Pullman Car Company) and others. The damage affected the rail commerce of 27 states, the US Postal Service, and thousands of workers and their families not directly affected by the layoffs. Dozens were killed during the riots.
Note that the arson and violence didn’t affect Pullman nearly as much as it did to the thousands of people who benefited from Pullman’s brilliance, including engineering underground sewage systems for the city of Chicago.
In that year, democrats controlled the House, the Senate AND the Presidency. What did President Cleveland do? He gave the “strikers” an Official Holiday. Then a few days later, he sent in the U.S. Military to kick ass on his own constituents.
Even as Pullman Company and railroad workers were striking, Congress passed legislation in June 1894 making the first Monday in September a federal legal holiday to recognize and celebrate labor. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law June 28, 1894, a few days before sending federal troops to Chicago.
“It was a way of being supportive of labor. Labor unions were a constituency of the Democrat Party at the time, and it didn’t look good for Cleveland, who was a Democrat, to be putting down this strike.”
[Richard Schneirov, professor of history, founder of the local chapter of the SDS, 1966, Grinnel University.]Federal troops were recalled from Chicago on July 20, and the Pullman strike was declared over in early August. Eugene V. Debs, arrested at the height of the violence along with several other ARU leaders, was charged with violating the injunction and served six months in jail. Though the ARU disbanded, Debs would emerge as the leader of the nation’s growing socialist movement, running for president five times on the Socialist Party ticket.
And Karl Marx smiled.
HOLY CRAP! I MISSED OUR 11th BLOGOVERSARY!
Monday, 26 August 2019
Yeah, I missed it by almost a month.
On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less. It’s our 11th Anniversary, because this:
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2019 – 11th year Blogoversary!
As of that (missed) date, there were 4,731 posts in our archives.
Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.
We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different. There are some surprises, and I still don’t know why some get an exorbitant amount of hits while others fade.
–Previous Top 11 hits linked here—
The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2019).
“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11/NR/563 – The Stomach Contents Of A Giant Isopod
No. 10/NR/901 – The .GIF Friday Post No. 472 – Cooler Pwnd, Dance Hard & Warehouse Windsurfing
No. 9/NR/148 – Here’s the Grub, Bub.
No. 8/3/94 – Hello. I Am Mr. Google.
No. 7/NR/850 – A Humble Request.
This was a complete surprise to me. Thanks to all for your generous donations. -Bunk
No. 6/5/82 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!
No. 5/2/52 – Meet The Beetles
No. 4/4/151 – The Kluck Klams
No. 3/8/250 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
No 2/1/43 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 445 – Demolition Demon, Roll Survivor & Rock This Way
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
The .Gif Friday Post No. 191 – Zombie Squid, Rain Bird, Parakeet Dance
Posted on 2 September 2011, this wins with a score of 1/NR/40 for completely unknown reasons (and yeah, the zombie squid is kinda disturbing, so you’re forewarned).
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13,000 Years BC Hot Links
Sunday, 4 August 2019
When a post hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie,
That’s a Moire.
Bear necessities [h/t bekitschig].
Twilight Zone Radio Show Episode 61.
Gillette lost billions after a bigoted ad campaign.
It’s only 4th Grade Science. (Brilliant captions, too.)
Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922).
“We spoke with many people today who say that the President should consider coming here to Baltimore … to see for himself.” [via]
READ CHAPTER X and explain to me how the U.S. Democrat Party (and Bernie Sanders’) platform differs from that of mass murderer Josef Stalin. Describe the results.
[Top image from here: “One unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a slight, malnourished teenager missed her footing and tumbled to the bottom of a 100-foot pit deep inside a cave in Mexico’s Yucatán. Rising seas flooded the cave and cut it off from the outside world—until a team of divers chanced upon her nearly complete skeleton in 2007.”]
99 & 44/100% Pure Hot Links
Sunday, 14 July 2019
THIS SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME.
What a happy otter sounds like [via].
What a sleeping dog sounds like [via]
Coast Guard seized 4000 lbs. of what?
In 1860, 10 of the 4.9% were Republicans.
The Irish banshee and the Scottish bean nighe [via].
Best TR Search Phrase yet: カモンエブリバディ ジョーンジェット
I hope he/she found this and this.
Antifa Portland Class of 2019. What a waste of white privilege.
Renowned economist Art Laffer didn’t invent the curve named after him, but he explains the concept here.
Former ICE Director Thomas Homan explains immigration law to AOC.
Only three people in the world can beat Chuck Norris.
One of them is Chuck Norris.
Another is also Chuck Norris.
The third one is Cüneyt Arkın [via].
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
A Humble Request [Updated 13 July 2019].
[Top image cropped from here.]
Well-Heeled Hot Links
Sunday, 7 July 2019
L.A. Earthquake vs. L.A. Rain.
A story about an S-Ho found here. [Language]
How To Solve The Homeless Problem Dept:
Force them to listen to this every day, like we have to.
President Thomas Jefferson, at 64 and in declining health, was NOT the likely father of any of Sally Heming‘s children. More here.
Betsy Ross’ flag was never the official flag of the United States of America. The USA did not exist until she won her independence in 1783.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image: Shame on Nike.]
Independence Day 2019
Thursday, 4 July 2019
On 9 November 1781, British General Cornwallis formally surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing the American Revolution to a close.
The United States Constitution was ratified eight years later in 1789, and a New Nation was born, conceived in Liberty. The US Constitution is the world’s oldest written constitution still in effect.
The flag in the painting is the 1st adopted flag of the United States of America as approved by the Continental Congress of 1777. It postdates the ones sewn by Betsy Ross and others, and predates the defeat of the British.
The irony that’s not taught in schools is that the Founding Fathers were British and The American Revolution was fought by the British against the British. TRUE.
That’s the first known recording of John Philip Sousa‘s “The Stars And Stripes Forever March.” It was recorded by Kendle’s First Regiment Band on 29 December 1901 and published by Victor Records [source]. Sousa wrote in his autobiography that he composed the march on Christmas Day, 1896, while crossing the Atlantic, after he learned of the death of his band’s manager.
In 1987, an Act of Congress declared the song to be the Official National March of the United States of America.
[Top image from here. More Independence Day posts here. Don’t miss this.]
P.S. For the under-educated Kaepernick types who believe that this Great Nation was founded upon slavery:
Name one other nation in history (at the formation of This Great Nation) that did not practice and condone slavery.
Name one other nation in history that blockaded slave ships within 18 years of its founding.
Name one other nation in history that made slavery illegal within 75 years of its founding.
Don’t bother. You can’t.
Auto Parking Towers
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
6 June 1944- A Calculated Risk
Thursday, 6 June 2019
In 1944, and against the odds, General Dwight D. Eisenhower accepted the risk and subsequent bloodshed in order to prevent more of it. His leadership freed France from Nazi Germany occupation and was the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.
General Eisenhower was mocked by the left, portrayed as a dullard, stupid and ignorant. He wasn’t. Not by a long shot.
