09/06 is Labor Day (US & Canada only)

Today is day 249 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Bureaucracy 30, 3187 YOLD And let us not forget 13.0.8.15.1 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

HEY! It's Labor Day. After decades, almost centuries, of the suppression and repression of labor, unions, union organizers, union members and the like through strikebreaking, assassinations, murders, massacres and forced internal expulsions and exile by organized mob violence and armed force involving police, sheriffs, private armies, Pinkertons and the National Guard, we celebrate Labor for a Day, except for maybe Wobblies and Commies, no doubt even in Lattimer, Ludlow, Bisbee and other such places as well as, no doubt, in all of our "right to work" states. It is a great day and a tradition to feast on some union made picnic chow. Here's one list of such products: https://teamsters332.com/union-made/ . There are others; that list, for example, omits Annabelle Candy Company a family owned firm in Hayward, CA, famous for Rocky Road, Abba-Zaba, Look, Big Hunk, U-No and Annabelle Candy Co., Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent, 314 F.2d 1 (9th Cir. 1962)

Unions gave us the 5 day week, 40 hour week, 8 hour work day and much more. In fact, according to George Meany:

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

So, when in doubt,

HUELGA!

Exercise Spade Fork was a sinister Government Training Exercise conducted from September 6 to September 27 in 1962. The premise was that a foreign first strike nuclear attack had taken out the White House and the Pentagon and seriously incapacitated most emergency relocation facilities. The NSA would pretty much take over the country with the assistance of the FBI, assorted pre-written executive orders would be signed by the President, including detention of everybody on the Feebs' no doubt enormous target list, given that Jedgar the Nazi was running it, publication of the Federal Register would be "suspended" and who knows what else.

On this day in history:

1492 – Christopher Columbus departed La Gomera, Canary Islands, for "the"Indies" 1522 – The Victoria, Magellan's only ship to return from circumnavigating the globe, returned to Spain 1620 – The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower 1803 – John Dalton began using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. 1870 – Louisa Ann Swain became the first woman in the US to legally vote in a general election 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, fatally wounded US President William McKinley 1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed 1936 – The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León was established. 1943 – Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology was founded 1946 – US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that the U.S. would engage in economic reconstruction in Germany. 1955 – Istanbul's Greeks, Jews, and Armenians were the victims of a government-sponsored pogrom 1962 – The US government began Exercise Spade Fork 1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovered the first of the Blackfriars Ships . 1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York were hijacked members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan. 1972 – Munich massacre occurred 1976 – Viktor Belenko defected from Russia in a MiG-25 1983 – The Soviet Union admitted shooting down KAL 007, claiming its people did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace. 1991 – The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigned from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister. 2007 – Israel bombed Syrian without any provocation 2013 – Forty one elephants were poisoned by poachers in Hwange National Park. 2018 – The Indian Supreme Court legalized all private consensual sex among adults

Born this day in:

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it

~~ Fanny Wright

1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, general 1766 – John Dalton, chemist, meteorologist, and physicist 1795 – Frances (Fanny) Wright, author and activist 1800 – Catharine Beecher, educator and activist 1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist 1857 – Zelia Nuttall, archaeologist and historian 1860 – Jane Addams, sociologist and author 1860 – May Jordan McConnel, trade unionist and suffragist 1863 – Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator 1876 – John Macleod, physician and physiologist 1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, physicist and academic 1899 – Billy Rose, composer and manager 1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, physician and biochemist 1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial 1911 – Charles Deutsch, aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker 1920 – Elvira Pagã, actress, singer, and author 1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, inventor, co-created the bar code 1925 – Jimmy Reed, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher 1938 – Joan Tower, pianist, composer, and conductor 1939 – Brigid Berlin, actress, painter, and photographer 1939 – David Allan Coe, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, biologist and immunologist 1940 – John M. Hayes, scientist 1940 – Elizabeth Murray, painter and illustrator 1940 – Jackie Trent, singer, songwriter, and actress 1942 – Dave Bargeron, trombonist and tuba player 1942 – Mel McDaniel, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1943 – Richard J. Roberts, biochemist and biologist 1943 – Roger Waters, English singer, songwriter, and bass player 1944 – Donna Haraway, author, academic, and activist 1946 – Shirley M. Malcom, scientist, academic and educator 1947 – Sylvester, singer and songwriter 1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, guitarist 1952 – Buddy Miller, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1954 – Patrick O'Hearn, bassist and composer 1954 – John Sauven, economist and environmentalist 1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, singer and songwriter 1961 – Scott Travis, drummer 1963 – Mark Chesnutt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1965 – Terry Bickers, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1967 – William DuVall, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1967 – Macy Gray, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress 1969 – CeCe Peniston, singer, songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner 1970 – Cheyne Coates, singer, songwriter, and producer 1970 – Rhett Miller, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, singer and songwriter 1974 – Nina Persson, singer, songwriter, and musician 1978 – Cisco Adler, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Died this day in:“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”

~~ Michael S. Hart

1625 – Thomas Dempster, historian and scholar 1635 – Metius, mathematician and astronomer 1902 – Frederick Abel, chemist and engineer 1907 – Sully Prudhomme, poet and critic 1966 – Margaret Sanger, nurse, educator, and activist 1978 – Tom Wilson, record producer 1982 – Azra Erhat, archaeologist, author, and academic 1984 – Ernest Tubb, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1990 – Tom Fogerty, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1994 – James Clavell, director, producer, and screenwriter 1994 – Nicky Hopkins, pianist 1994 – Max Kaminsky, trumpet player and bandleader 1998 – Akira Kurosawa, director, producer, and screenwriter 2011 – Michael S. Hart, author who founded Project Gutenberg 2017 – Kate Millett, feminist author and activist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Labor Day Fight Procrastination Day Barbie Doll Day Read a Book Day Great Egg Toss Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)

Labor Day

HUELGA!

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