Monday Open Thread: October 1 is International Day of Older Persons (older than what?)

October 1 is the 274th day of the year; as well as Boomtime, Bureaucracy 48, 3184 YOLD to discordians. One is Unity. It may be significant here that only one out of an infinitude of numbers represents unity. Math mirroring ife, it seems. Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ... On this day in: 1861 – Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was published. It went on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and is still in print today. I haven't read it myself, and dislike the word "management" except when used as in "I'll manage somehow", but that's just me 1887 – The British conquered Balochistan because it's just what imperialists do. It isn't like Balochistan cut off their access to the sea or something. 1931 – Spain adopted women's suffrage. 1936 – Francisco Franco became head of the Nationalist government of Spain. This eliminated women's suffrage, male suffrage and any other suffrage, imposing suffering instead, but the US loved his Fascist ass. 1946 – Assorted Nazi leaders were sentenced in the Nuremberg trials. These trials established certain precepts such as: 1) The most heinous war crime of all is starting a war.This does not apply to or within the US or to any of its presidents, generals, War Defense Department wallahs, or the like. 2) "I was only following orders" is a totally fallacious and non-viable defense for otherwise unacceptable behavior. As above, this does not apply within the US, especially to the President's own war criminals, the CIA (see, eg. Panetta's memo.) 1957 – The phrase "In God we trust" was first printed on U.S. paper currency.The US became officially and openly (as opposed to covertly and sekretly) deist and theocratic, though still sporadically paying lip service to the First Amendment and other relics of reason. 1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was formed. This putatively established the country's first centralized military espionage organization, but we still somehow needed the fascist "Patriot Act" and the HeimlandSekuritatsPolizei Homeland Security Department. 1964 – The Free Speech Movement was launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. (Go Bears!) It was necessary for students to take up this particular cudgel because the adult population of the US either forgot or ignored the First Amendment, excepting those who openly opposed and sought to suppress it. This seems to still be pretty much the case even though we won, twice.

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Thanks, Mario, from all of us. 1975 – Al Jackson, Jr. was murdered. 1979 – The United States Officially "returned" sovereignty over the Panama Canal to Panama. Of course, we created Panama and can destroy it too, as we reminded them when our first CIA President, Bush the Elder, decided to depose long-time CIA asset and tool Noreiga. We weren't even willing to accept a peaceful handover, but rejected such offer in order to invade and kill a lot of Panamanians in order to remind all of Central and South America who was boss in this hemisphere

Born this day in: 1832 – Henry Clay Work, composer and songwriter 1865 – Paul Dukas, composer 1885 – Louis Untermeyer, poet, critic and anthologist hounded by the right 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, pianist and composer 1904 – Otto Robert Frisch, physicist 1910 – Bonnie Parker, noted businesswoman 1913 – Harry Lookofsky, violinist and producer 1924 – Roger Williams, pianist 1929 – Grady Chapman, singer 1929 – Bonnie Owens, singer and songwriter 1932 – Albert Collins, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1940 – Marc Savoy, accordianist and purported creator of the Cajun Accordian 1942 – Herb Fame, peach fancier 1943 – Jerry Martini, sly saxophonist 1945 – Donny Hathaway, singer, songwriter, organist, pianist, and arranger 1945 – Dave Holland, jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader. 1947 – Dave Arneson, game designer and co-creator of D&D 1947 – Mariska Veres, singer 1948 – Cub Koda, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1950 – Mark Helias, jazz bassist and composer 1952 – Earl Slick, guitarist and songwriter 1959 – Youssou N'Dour, singer, songwriter, musician, and politician

Died this day in: 1975 – Al Jackson, Jr., drummer, songwriter, and producer 2004 – Bruce Palmer, bassist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: International Day of Older Persons World Vegetarian Day

Roger Williams

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Albert Collins

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Mark Savoy (at Down Home Music)

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Herb Fame

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Jerry Martini

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