October 12th is
World Arthritis Day *
Emergency Nurses Day *
Free Thought Day *
National Fossil Day *
U.N. Spanish Language Day *
International Top Spinning Day
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ON THIS DAY: October 12, 2016
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Tagged Edith Cavell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Macintosh Raincoat, Original Oktoberfest, Salem Witch Trials, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The White House
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ON THIS DAY: October 11, 2016
October 11th is
Ada Lovelace Day *
International Day of the Girl Child *
Face Your Fears Day
General Pulaski Memorial Day *
National Coming Out Day *
National Food Truck Day *
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Tagged Ada Lovelace, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Frideric Handel, International Day of the Girl Child, Meriweather Lewis, Saturday Night Live
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Cadet Trump Mongers War: more George C. Scott & Gregory Peck than Patton & MacArthur
By ann summers
Why Trump only mentions two generals: Patton and MacArthur. Did he lose it at the movies: Patton (1970) and MacArthur (1977).
Trump’s generational fascination with the Playboy lifestyle centers on mediated forms of reality that have influenced his martial discourse. His paramilitary high school and draft deferments represent the armchair, airbrushed militarism that infects a nation never invaded in the modern industrial era.
Similarly, Red Dawn fantasies animate those US snack secessionists trying to grab land from native peoples on the back of revisionist histories. Apparently oath keeping is a NIMBY thing and not even a Monroe Doctrine.
Commander-In-Waiting Trump’s strategic decision making is now guided by Steve Bannon, that land-locked admiral of a losing campaign riddled with PR stunts like trying to confront Bill Clinton with some of his ex-lovers on national TV. What a pitch-session that must have been, doing a Jerry Springer remake of This is Your Life at a presidential debate.
Hack movie producers and their bit players have made the Citizens United decision a godsend for amateur RWNJ screeds in what may be a continuing Weimar crisis of culture.
2016 has been the year of central casting with Trump the James Bond wannabee and Bannon the Scott Evil to every studio mogul’s Dr.Evil.
So many sharks to jump, so many lasers to attach. Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Bill Clinton, Media, Presidential Elections, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged Donald Trump, Media
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ON THIS DAY: October 10, 2016
October 10th is
Angel Food Cake Day
Native American Day
Naval Academy Day *
Shift10 Day *
World Mental Health Day
World Homeless Day
International Stage Management Day
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Tagged Angela Merkel, Emmeline Pankhurst, Giuseppe Verdi, Peanuts Snoopy vs Red Baron, The Monster Mash, Tuxedo, U2 Rattle and Hum
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TCS: Mad Englishman Near the Midnight Sun – Part 10
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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Posted in Music, Photography, Short Video, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Alan Hovhaness, Bertie Gregory, British Columbia, NatGeo, Vancouver Island, Whales, Wildlife Photography
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ON THIS DAY: October 9, 2016
October 9th is
Curious Events Day
Fire Prevention Day *
Leif Erikson Day *
Nautilus Night *
Pizza and Beer Day
World Post Day *
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ON THIS DAY: October 8, 2016
October 8th is
Fall Astronomy Day *
Fluffernutter Day
Mind Your Manners Day *
Pierogi Day
World Octopus Day/
1st Day – Cephalopod Awareness Days*
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ON THIS DAY: October 7, 2016
October 7th is
Frappé Day
National Diversity Day *
World Smiley Day *
You Matter to Me Day *
International Personal Safety Day *
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Word Cloud: FIRE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
FIRE – the twin-tempered element, comfort and terror, enemy and friend. It has warmed us, cooked our food, and lit our way in the dark since we lived in caves. But it has also murdered us, laying waste our homes, our orchards and crops, our many-towered cities, turning all into ashes.
And we are fascinated, mesmerized by its changing faces. Not a love-hate relationship, but love-fear.
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Humans have always looked at the sky, and wondered. It is our nature to try to explain the unknowable, to relate the incomprehensible to the familiar. Everywhere on Earth, people have myths and legends of the stars being fire in the sky, and they all contain truth – in ways we are only beginning to see.
The Song of the Stars
– northern Algonquin
We are the stars which sing,
We sing with our light;
We are the birds of fire,
We fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice.
We make a road for spirits,
For the spirits to pass over.
Among us are three hunters
Who chase a bear;
There never was a time
When they were not hunting.
We look down on the mountains.
This is the Song of the Stars.
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged 1919 Lynchings, Fire, Haiku, Lord Byron, May Sarton, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rudyard Kipling, Rumi, The Elements, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: October 6, 2106
October 6th is
American Libraries Day *
Ecological Debt Day *
Mad Hatter Day *
Physician Assistant Day
National Depression Screening Day *
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