Sunday Open Thread: November 5 is Bank Transfer Day

World History this day

1605 -- Guy Fawkes was arrested. 1911 -- Italy annexed Tripoli and Cyrenaica (to help them, no doubt) 2006 -- Saddam Hussein, deposed by a US war of aggression, was sentenced to death

US History this day

1831 -- Nat Turner was tried, convicted and sentenced to death 1872 -- Susan B. Anthony illegally voted and was eventually fined 100 bucks 1916 -- The Everett massacre 1940 -- FDR was elected to a third term

Science & Technology this day

1895 -- George B. Selden recieved a U.S. patent for the automobile, despite all the prior ones *** 2007 -- China's first lunar satellite went into lunar orbit 2007 -- The Android operating system was released

*** A problem that the USPTO has to this day

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

Birthdays of Note this day

1607 -- Anna Maria van Schurman, painter 1666 -- Attilio Ariosti, composer 1705 -- Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, violinist and composer 1850 -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet 1855 -- Eugene V. Debs, union leader, socialist, political prisoner 1857 -- Ida Tarbell, teacher, journalist and muckraker 1885 -- Will Durant, historian and philosopher 1900 -- Martin Dies, Jr., fascist pig Democrat, created the predecessor of HUAC anbd ran it 1901 -- Etta Moten Barnett, singer, Bess 1911 -- Roy Rogers, TV cowboy  *** 1921 -- Georges Cziffra, pianist 1931 -- Harold McNair, saxophonist and flautist 1931 -- Ike Turner, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer 1941 -- Art Garfunkel, guitarist, bassist, singer, songwriter 1946 -- Gram Parsons, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1947 -- Peter Noone, Herman 1954 -- Jeffrey Sachs, economist

***of  “Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?” fame 

Deaths of Note this day

1879 -- James Clerk Maxwell, physicist and mathematician 1956 -- Art Tatum, pianist and composer 1960 -- Johnny Horton, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1977 -- Guy Lombardo, violinist and composer 1979 -- Al Capp, cartoonist 1986 -- Bobby Nunn, singer, Robins, Coasters 1996 -- Eddie Harris, saxophonist 2003 -- Bobby Hatfield, a Righteous Brother 2005 -- Link Wray, singer, songwriter, suitarist

This bank transfer day, please recall that the banks do not need your largesse, the government takes care of that on your behalf. They are parasitic, even Jesus hated them (when it suited his followers rhetoric to so assert). The ultimate rent seekers need no direct help, put your money someplace without shereholders and "investors" and other rentiers and speculatore"

A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members.[1][2]                       teh wiki

Pssst - the more things change ...

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So now some music

Guy Fawkes

The Everett Massacre

George B. Selden

China's Moon Orbiter

Justleaves ya wanting this, I fear

And now, in Living Color

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And really, isn't "Android" just PC for Robot?

Attilio Ariosti

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain

Debs gets no melody, just his own prose

Etta Moten Barnett

Roy Rogers (NOT the blues dude)

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Georges Cziffra

Harold Mcnair

Ike Turner

Art Garfunkel

Gram Parsons

Peter Noone

James Clerk Maxwell, better known for his equations and his laws, but

Johnny Horton

Guy Lumbago Lombardo

Bobby Nunn

Wddie Harris

Bobby Hatfield

Link Wray

Well, I did play Roy & Dale's Happy Trails above, nest ce pas? That means this is a "reprise", nein? I mean, lookit the title--

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Photo: US Government Work

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