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Biased American media race baiting....
... Today, on a talking head show, an alt-lefty reporterette was interviewing a nice young Black man, concerning gun violence in his community. It seems some likely gang banger cretin was passing by where this fellow and his mom were sitting on the stoop, and the lowlife shot both of them, fortunately with no life threatening injuries. The point of the program was youth's solutions to gun violence, and this well spolen 17 year old did a great job giving his thoughtful views on the subject. But the lady had to introduce race into it, pressing him on how special his situation was, give his race. I saw where this was headed, having seen this sort of thing many times. I turned it off before she predictably lead into how our brilliant President might just as well have pulled the trigger himself on that scary day. These media folks are a major reason it is so hard for all of us to try our best to relate to others in human, but not racist, ways. Wish I had a dollar for each time I've seen this sort of thing. Outrageous.
Remembering WWI's Hill 80
Archeologists are gingerly and respectfully exploring what is known as Dig Hill 80 in Flanders, Belgium today.
In 1914 invading Germans and Bulgarians surrounded a tiny, bucolic, village on a hill 80 meters high and and occupied it. The name of the village was Wytschaete. This village was defended by British & French forces as well as the civilian male occupants and their families. The civilians were very unfriendly to the invaders too. Letters home from the victorious Bulgarian and German soldiers described how they were often repulsed or took heavy losses from the defenders when they tried to clear the village house by house. So they barricaded the houses and other buildings, then set them all afire with the various occupants still inside. The fighting, screaming and dying lasted for 3 days. Afterwards the Germans and Bulgarians built a fortress wall around the smouldering village
The site offered an excellent observation of nearby Ypres and the German forces wasted no time bringing in their best optics and using the site as both an artillery observation point and also their fortress. Elaborate trenches and underground structures were built as part of the defense.
For the next 4 years every day artillery shells landed there or were launched from there. There were repeated major unsuccessful attempts to recapture the area. By 7 June 1917 British sappers had succeeded in tunneling secret tunnels under the German walls and they then placed 900,000 pounds (450 tons) of high explosives in their man made caverns 75 feet down under the fortress. At 3pm that day they detonated them and made the largest (until then) conventional explosive blast in history. The fortress vanished along with many of the occupants and the British moved in and occupied the torn earth and rubble.
Fighting continued and in April of 1918 the Germans succeeded in retaking the site and began re-fortifying it. Only in September 1918 when the Germans pulled back did the fighting there end when the British again reoccupied the site.
At least a full regiment of men who died fighting inside those walls to capture or defend it on behalf of one side or another now lay where they fell (along with whatever villagers who were been trapped there by the events) or were buried or burnt alive. Over 100 years later still nothing remains above ground except a few bricks. The bones, artifacts and unexploded artillery shells lay below.
the site today.
A cloud funded, multi national group of archaeologists, both amateur and professional is now very carefully and respectfully excavating the old fortress grounds to preserve for history whatever they can about the people who died there.
Here is a release at seminar of their first report.
In 1914 invading Germans and Bulgarians surrounded a tiny, bucolic, village on a hill 80 meters high and and occupied it. The name of the village was Wytschaete. This village was defended by British & French forces as well as the civilian male occupants and their families. The civilians were very unfriendly to the invaders too. Letters home from the victorious Bulgarian and German soldiers described how they were often repulsed or took heavy losses from the defenders when they tried to clear the village house by house. So they barricaded the houses and other buildings, then set them all afire with the various occupants still inside. The fighting, screaming and dying lasted for 3 days. Afterwards the Germans and Bulgarians built a fortress wall around the smouldering village
The site offered an excellent observation of nearby Ypres and the German forces wasted no time bringing in their best optics and using the site as both an artillery observation point and also their fortress. Elaborate trenches and underground structures were built as part of the defense.
For the next 4 years every day artillery shells landed there or were launched from there. There were repeated major unsuccessful attempts to recapture the area. By 7 June 1917 British sappers had succeeded in tunneling secret tunnels under the German walls and they then placed 900,000 pounds (450 tons) of high explosives in their man made caverns 75 feet down under the fortress. At 3pm that day they detonated them and made the largest (until then) conventional explosive blast in history. The fortress vanished along with many of the occupants and the British moved in and occupied the torn earth and rubble.
Fighting continued and in April of 1918 the Germans succeeded in retaking the site and began re-fortifying it. Only in September 1918 when the Germans pulled back did the fighting there end when the British again reoccupied the site.
At least a full regiment of men who died fighting inside those walls to capture or defend it on behalf of one side or another now lay where they fell (along with whatever villagers who were been trapped there by the events) or were buried or burnt alive. Over 100 years later still nothing remains above ground except a few bricks. The bones, artifacts and unexploded artillery shells lay below.
the site today.
A cloud funded, multi national group of archaeologists, both amateur and professional is now very carefully and respectfully excavating the old fortress grounds to preserve for history whatever they can about the people who died there.
Here is a release at seminar of their first report.
Monday the 13th & history of Friday the 13th
I notice on the calendar, that tomorrow is Monday, May 13th.
and began to wonder why a Friday the 13th was chosen as the supposed unlucky day.
Seeing how many working people TGIF ! and hate the idea of having to go to work,
it would make more sense that Monday the 13th would be chosen as the unlucky day.
Well, while it is popularly accepted in the USA, other countries have other 'unlucky' days.
From Wikipedia;
So, that leaves one question. Do you feel lucky punk ? Do ya ?
and began to wonder why a Friday the 13th was chosen as the supposed unlucky day.
Seeing how many working people TGIF ! and hate the idea of having to go to work,
it would make more sense that Monday the 13th would be chosen as the unlucky day.
Well, while it is popularly accepted in the USA, other countries have other 'unlucky' days.
From Wikipedia;
In response to:
History
The irrational fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name: "triskaidekaphobia"; and on analogy to this the fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the Greek words Paraskeví (?a?as?e??, meaning "Friday"), and dekatreís (de?at?e??, meaning "thirteen").
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
The superstition surrounding this day may have arisen in the Middle Ages, "originating from the story of Jesus' last supper and crucifixion" in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his death on Good Friday. While there is evidence of both Friday and the number 13 being considered unlucky, there is no record of the two items being referred to as especially unlucky in conjunction before the 19th century.
An early documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th:
He was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday 13th of November he passed away.
Rossini by Henri Grevedon
It is possible that the publication in 1907 of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, contributed to disseminating the superstition. In the novel, an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.
A suggested origin of the superstition—Friday, 13 October 1307, the date Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the Knights Templar—may not have been formulated until the 20th century. It is mentioned in the 1955 Maurice Druon historical novel The Iron King (Le Roi de fer), John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and Steve Berry's The Templar Legacy (2006).
Tuesday the 13th in Hispanic and Greek culture
In Spanish-speaking countries, instead of Friday, Tuesday the 13th (martes trece) is considered a day of bad luck.
The Greeks also consider Tuesday (and especially the 13th) an unlucky day.
Tuesday is considered dominated by the influence of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology). The fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade occurred on Tuesday, April 13, 1204, and the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans happened on Tuesday, 29 May 1453, events that strengthen the superstition about Tuesday. In addition, in Greek the name of the day is Triti (???t?) meaning the third (day of the week), adding weight to the superstition, since bad luck is said to "come in threes".
Tuesday the 13th occurs in a month that begins on a Thursday.
Friday the 17th in Italy
In Italian popular culture, Friday the 17th (and not the 13th) is considered a day of bad luck. The origin of this belief could be traced in the writing of number 17, in Roman numerals: XVII. By shuffling the digits of the number one can easily get the word VIXI ("I have lived", implying death in the present), an omen of bad luck. In fact, in Italy, 13 is generally considered a lucky number. However, due to Americanization, young people consider Friday the 13th unlucky as well.
History
The irrational fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name: "triskaidekaphobia"; and on analogy to this the fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the Greek words Paraskeví (?a?as?e??, meaning "Friday"), and dekatreís (de?at?e??, meaning "thirteen").
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
The superstition surrounding this day may have arisen in the Middle Ages, "originating from the story of Jesus' last supper and crucifixion" in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his death on Good Friday. While there is evidence of both Friday and the number 13 being considered unlucky, there is no record of the two items being referred to as especially unlucky in conjunction before the 19th century.
An early documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th:
He was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday 13th of November he passed away.
Rossini by Henri Grevedon
It is possible that the publication in 1907 of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, contributed to disseminating the superstition. In the novel, an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.
A suggested origin of the superstition—Friday, 13 October 1307, the date Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the Knights Templar—may not have been formulated until the 20th century. It is mentioned in the 1955 Maurice Druon historical novel The Iron King (Le Roi de fer), John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and Steve Berry's The Templar Legacy (2006).
Tuesday the 13th in Hispanic and Greek culture
In Spanish-speaking countries, instead of Friday, Tuesday the 13th (martes trece) is considered a day of bad luck.
The Greeks also consider Tuesday (and especially the 13th) an unlucky day.
Tuesday is considered dominated by the influence of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology). The fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade occurred on Tuesday, April 13, 1204, and the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans happened on Tuesday, 29 May 1453, events that strengthen the superstition about Tuesday. In addition, in Greek the name of the day is Triti (???t?) meaning the third (day of the week), adding weight to the superstition, since bad luck is said to "come in threes".
Tuesday the 13th occurs in a month that begins on a Thursday.
Friday the 17th in Italy
In Italian popular culture, Friday the 17th (and not the 13th) is considered a day of bad luck. The origin of this belief could be traced in the writing of number 17, in Roman numerals: XVII. By shuffling the digits of the number one can easily get the word VIXI ("I have lived", implying death in the present), an omen of bad luck. In fact, in Italy, 13 is generally considered a lucky number. However, due to Americanization, young people consider Friday the 13th unlucky as well.
So, that leaves one question. Do you feel lucky punk ? Do ya ?
Masters of Reality: Into The Void
The space/tech age, the hunt for hospitable planets, and the heavy (doom) metal prophets that were talking about it 50 years ago.
That familiar itch was begging to be scratched again. The Amazon fires, SpaceX, plastic sealife, trade wars, racial tensions, you know every-day-kinda shit in the year 2019 brought it on.
Then it hit me. I bought the album when I was 13 years old. The words now ringing more clear than ever before (aside from references to Satan). I'd practically forgotten.
Sure, there were many protest songs. Eve of destruction, Big Yellow Taxi, etc. But this one really grasped the present day in a way not many others did, imo. This is prophecy! Or not, but it scratched the itch goddammit!
Black Sabbath: Into The Void
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the night sky they blast
Through the universe the engines whine
Could it be the end of man and time?
Back on earth the flame of life burns low
Everywhere is misery and woe
Pollution kills the air, the land, the sea
Man prepares to meet his destiny, yeah
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the black sky so vast
Burning metal through the atmosphere
Earth remains in worry, hate and fear
With the hateful battles raging on
Rockets flying to the glowing sun
Through the empires of eternal void
Freedom from the final suicide
Freedom fighters sent out to the sun
Escape from brainwashed winds and pollution
Leave the earth to all it's sin and hate
Find another world where freedom waits, yeah
Past the stars in fields of ancient void
Through the shields of darkness where they find
Love upon a land a world unknown
Where the sons of freedom make their home
Leave the earth to Satan and his slaves
Leave them to their future in their graves
Make a home where love is there to stay
Peace and happiness in every day
That familiar itch was begging to be scratched again. The Amazon fires, SpaceX, plastic sealife, trade wars, racial tensions, you know every-day-kinda shit in the year 2019 brought it on.
Then it hit me. I bought the album when I was 13 years old. The words now ringing more clear than ever before (aside from references to Satan). I'd practically forgotten.
Sure, there were many protest songs. Eve of destruction, Big Yellow Taxi, etc. But this one really grasped the present day in a way not many others did, imo. This is prophecy! Or not, but it scratched the itch goddammit!
Black Sabbath: Into The Void
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the night sky they blast
Through the universe the engines whine
Could it be the end of man and time?
Back on earth the flame of life burns low
Everywhere is misery and woe
Pollution kills the air, the land, the sea
Man prepares to meet his destiny, yeah
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the black sky so vast
Burning metal through the atmosphere
Earth remains in worry, hate and fear
With the hateful battles raging on
Rockets flying to the glowing sun
Through the empires of eternal void
Freedom from the final suicide
Freedom fighters sent out to the sun
Escape from brainwashed winds and pollution
Leave the earth to all it's sin and hate
Find another world where freedom waits, yeah
Past the stars in fields of ancient void
Through the shields of darkness where they find
Love upon a land a world unknown
Where the sons of freedom make their home
Leave the earth to Satan and his slaves
Leave them to their future in their graves
Make a home where love is there to stay
Peace and happiness in every day
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