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Posted on 1/2/25 at 3:49 am to Arksulli
Posted on 1/2/25 at 3:49 am to Arksulli
Today in History: January 2
1492 Catholic forces under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella take the town of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Spain.
1839 Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the moon.
1903 President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to hire a Black postmistress.
1936 In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations.
1966 American G.I.s move into the Mekong Delta for the first time.
1980 President Jimmy Carter asks the U.S. Senate to delay the arms treaty ratification in response to Soviet action in Afghanistan.
1981 British police arrest the "Yorkshire Ripper" serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe.
1999 A severe winter storm hits the Midwestern US; in Chicago temperatures plunge to -13 ºF and19 inches of snow fell; 68 deaths are blamed on the storm.
2022 Israel becomes one of the first countries to offer a fourth vaccine dose against COVID-19 amid an Omicron surge
2022 US epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci says focus should be on hospitalizations not case numbers amid huge surge in Omicron COVID-19 cases. Cases up 202%, hospitalizations up 30% in US.
Born on January 2
1920 Isaac Asimov, American writer of over 300 books including Foundation and I, Robot.
JOTD
Two women were playing golf
The first woman teed off and watched in horror as her ball headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the next hole.
The ball hit one of the men. He immediately clasped his hands together at his groin, fell to the ground and proceeded to roll around in agony.
The woman rushed down to the man, and immediately began to apologize. 'Please allow me to help. I'm a Physical Therapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you'd allow me,' she told him.
'Oh, no, I'll be all right. I'll be fine in a few minutes,' the man replied. He was in obvious agony, lying in the fetal position, still clasping his hands at his groin.
At her persistence, however, he finally allowed her to help. She gently took his hands away and laid them to the side, loosened his pants and put her hands slowly and carefully inside. She then administered a tender and skillful massage for several long moments and softly asked 'How does that feel'?
Feels wonderful, he replied; but I still think my thumb's broken!
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Posted on 1/2/25 at 4:08 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 1/2/25 at 4:16 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 1/2/25 at 8:46 am to Armymann50
Good morning everyone!
Teddy had an odd relationship with black people. Personally he didn't care for them and was quite fond of racist jokes. He didn't hate them, that would be Woodrow Wilson, but Teddy certainly held them in low regard.
However, they were a very important voting bloc for the Republican Party and Roosevelt was ferociously a man of his word. He opened up government jobs that had previously barred black applicants, ensured they would receive equal pay, and had plans to fully integrate the military if he had won election as the head of the Bull Moose Party.
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1903 President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to hire a Black postmistress.
Teddy had an odd relationship with black people. Personally he didn't care for them and was quite fond of racist jokes. He didn't hate them, that would be Woodrow Wilson, but Teddy certainly held them in low regard.
However, they were a very important voting bloc for the Republican Party and Roosevelt was ferociously a man of his word. He opened up government jobs that had previously barred black applicants, ensured they would receive equal pay, and had plans to fully integrate the military if he had won election as the head of the Bull Moose Party.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 3:49 am to Arksulli
Today in History: January 3
1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777 General George Washington defeats the British led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis, at Princeton, New Jersey.
1912 Plans are announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team.
1916 Three armored Japanese cruisers are ordered to guard the Suez Canal.
1920 The last of the U.S. troops depart France.
1921 Italy halts the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States.
1930 The second conference on Germany's war reparations begins at the Hague, in the Netherlands.
1959 Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
1977 Apple Computers incorporates.
1985 President Ronald Reagan condemns a rash of arson attacks on abortion clinics.
1990 Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to US forces.
1996The first mobile flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale.
2000 The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published after a 50-year run, following the death of the strip's creator, Charles Schultz.
2022 America records one million new COVID-19 cases for the first time, Omicron accounting for an estimated 95% of these [1]
2022 Apple becomes the first US company to be worth $3 trillion in value, after tripling its price in under four years
Born on January 3
1923Bud Adams, owner of Houston Oilers (later Tennessee Titans) football team; instrumental in founding the former American Football League.
1929 Sergio Leone, Italian director, instrumental in creating the "Spaghetti Western" genre (A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
1956 Mel Gibson, actor, director, producer, screenwriter (Mad Max, Passion of the Christ).
JOTD
What does the word 'gay' mean?
asked a son to his father.
"It means 'happy,'" replied the father.
"Oh," contested the son, "so are you gay, then?"
"No, son, I have a wife."
Posted on 1/3/25 at 4:19 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 1/3/25 at 6:01 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 1/3/25 at 7:18 am to Armymann50
Another gent who was born on the 3rd of January was JRR Tolkien.
Tolkien gets slammed by many for being a "classist, Ivy Tower professor" who knew nothing of the lower classes struggle. Which is horse shite of the highest order. His father died when he was 3. His mother slowly wasted away from diabetes (insulin wasn't discovered until 2 decades after her death). His mother's side of the family disowned her and her children for converting to Catholicism. JRR and his brother grew up in a ratty old boarding house, which was the best his church's congregation could scrap together the money to afford.
He was, however a brilliant scholar so he had that going for him. Except, somehow, things got even worse. He fell head over heels in love with the daughter of a local family that he would later base the character Luthien on. Her family, however, refused to let her see him because his prospects seemed poor. Fortunately a minor event happened to shine a beam of sunshine into Tolkien's life. Nah, I'm just kidding you. World War I broke out and Tolkien nearly died in the conflict.
He did marry her after the war and being an exceptional scholar landed a position as a professors of languages. Professors were paid partly based on the amount of students they had in their classes... and it turns out Tolkien, a naturally shy and soft spoken man, was a fairly lousy teacher. A handful of writers did manage to be taught by Tolkien, and described his teaching style as mumbling to himself while writing on the chalkboard and refusing to make eye contact with this students. But, if you did listen or manage to catch his attention, Tolkien was brilliant at breaking down stories and teaching people how to create them. You just had to be very, very patient.
Tolkien wrote The Hobbit initially as more of a extended bed time story for his children and later published it after friends like CS Lewis pestered him to send it in. That gave him a little breathing room financially for the first time in his life.
Books have been written about the tortuous process Tolkien went through writing the Lord of the Rings, during World War 2, while his beloved oldest son was serving the military, and one thing that sticks out to me is that Tolkien was such a perfectionist that he junked the entire project several times and restarted from scratch. The end result is the series we all know.
Which, finally, made Tolkien a wealthy man. For someone who valued their privacy this was certainly a mixed blessing. Tolkien, bless him, still thought his great work wasn't finished and tinkered with improving the story for the rest of his life. In the months before his death he had been struggling to find a way to explain how all the orcs were evil and had considered rewriting their sections to either present them in a more sympathetic light or explain how they were utterly corrupted by Morgoth (the god of evil in Tolkien's universe),
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Tolkien gets slammed by many for being a "classist, Ivy Tower professor" who knew nothing of the lower classes struggle. Which is horse shite of the highest order. His father died when he was 3. His mother slowly wasted away from diabetes (insulin wasn't discovered until 2 decades after her death). His mother's side of the family disowned her and her children for converting to Catholicism. JRR and his brother grew up in a ratty old boarding house, which was the best his church's congregation could scrap together the money to afford.
He was, however a brilliant scholar so he had that going for him. Except, somehow, things got even worse. He fell head over heels in love with the daughter of a local family that he would later base the character Luthien on. Her family, however, refused to let her see him because his prospects seemed poor. Fortunately a minor event happened to shine a beam of sunshine into Tolkien's life. Nah, I'm just kidding you. World War I broke out and Tolkien nearly died in the conflict.
He did marry her after the war and being an exceptional scholar landed a position as a professors of languages. Professors were paid partly based on the amount of students they had in their classes... and it turns out Tolkien, a naturally shy and soft spoken man, was a fairly lousy teacher. A handful of writers did manage to be taught by Tolkien, and described his teaching style as mumbling to himself while writing on the chalkboard and refusing to make eye contact with this students. But, if you did listen or manage to catch his attention, Tolkien was brilliant at breaking down stories and teaching people how to create them. You just had to be very, very patient.
Tolkien wrote The Hobbit initially as more of a extended bed time story for his children and later published it after friends like CS Lewis pestered him to send it in. That gave him a little breathing room financially for the first time in his life.
Books have been written about the tortuous process Tolkien went through writing the Lord of the Rings, during World War 2, while his beloved oldest son was serving the military, and one thing that sticks out to me is that Tolkien was such a perfectionist that he junked the entire project several times and restarted from scratch. The end result is the series we all know.
Which, finally, made Tolkien a wealthy man. For someone who valued their privacy this was certainly a mixed blessing. Tolkien, bless him, still thought his great work wasn't finished and tinkered with improving the story for the rest of his life. In the months before his death he had been struggling to find a way to explain how all the orcs were evil and had considered rewriting their sections to either present them in a more sympathetic light or explain how they were utterly corrupted by Morgoth (the god of evil in Tolkien's universe),
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Posted on 1/4/25 at 3:07 am to Arksulli
Today in History January 4
46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina
1863--Union General Henry Halleck, by direction of President Abraham Lincoln, orders General Ulysses Grant to revoke his infamous General Order No. 11 that expelled Jews from his operational area.
1896--Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union.
1902--France offers to sell their Nicaraguan Canal rights to the United States.
1904--The U.S. Supreme Court decides in the Gonzales v. Williams case that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and can enter the United States freely, yet stops short of awarding citizenship.
1920--The Negro National League, the first black baseball league, is organized by Rube Foster.
1923--The Paris Conference on war reparations hits a deadlock as the French insist on the hard line and the British insist on Reconstruction.
1935--President Franklin D. Roosevelt claims in his State of the Union message that the federal government will provide jobs for 3.5 million Americans on welfare.
1936--Billboard magazine publishes its first music Hit Parade.
1942--Japanese forces begin the evacuation of Guadalcanal.
1951--UN forces abandon Seoul, Korea, to the Chinese Communist Army.
1952--The French Army in Indochina launches Operation Nenuphar in hopes of ejecting a Viet Minh division from the Ba Tai forest.
1969--Spain returns the Ifni province to Morocco.
1970--A 7.7 earthquake kills 15,000+ people in Tonghai County, China.
1972--Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
1974--President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1975--The Khmer Rouge launches its newest assault in its five-year war in Phnom Penh. The war in Cambodia would go on until the spring of 1975.
1976--The Ulster Volunteer Force kills six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day 10 Protestant civilians are murdered in retaliation.
1979--Ohio officials approve an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.
1990--Over 300 people die and more than 700 are injured in Pakistan's deadliest train accident, when an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train.
1999--Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former professional wrestler, is sworn in as populist governor of Minnesota.
1999--The euro, the new money of 11 European nations, goes into effect on the continent of Europe.
2004--NASA Mars rover Spirit successfully lands on Mars.
2007--Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) becomes the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2010--Burj Khalifa (Khalifa tower) officially opens in Dubai, UAE. At 2,722 ft (829.8 m) it is the world's tallest man-made structure.
2021 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed
2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown for England following Scotland, as COVID-19 variant spreads rapidly with hospitalizations now higher than the first wave
Born on January 4
1643--Sir Isaac Newton, scientist who developed the laws of gravity and planetary relations.
1809--Louis Braille, developer of a reading system for the blind.
1914--Jane Wyman, American film actress, received Academy Award for Johnny Belinda; she was the first wife of future US President Ronald Reagan.
1957--Patty Loveless, country singer; her multiple awards include Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist 1996, 1997.
JOKE OF THE DAY
A teacher is teaching a class and she sees that Johnny isn't paying attention, so she asks him, "If there are three ducks sitting on a fence, and you shoot one, how many are left?" Johnny says, "None." The teacher asks, "Why?" Johnny says, "Because the shot scared them all off." The teacher says, "No, two, but I like how you're thinking." Johnny asks the teacher, "If you see three women walking out of an ice cream parlor, one is licking her ice cream, one is sucking her ice cream, and one is biting her ice cream, which one is married?" The teacher says, "The one sucking her ice cream." Johnny says, "No, the one with the wedding ring, but I like how you're thinking!"
Posted on 1/4/25 at 5:28 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 1/4/25 at 5:31 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 1/4/25 at 9:25 am to Armymann50
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1942--Japanese forces begin the evacuation of Guadalcanal.
The Island campaign in the Pacific in a nutshell. The Japanese grabbed as many islands as possible but quickly discovered they lacked the logistical capability to support their garrisons.
On the smaller islands the Japanese were simply blasted out in short order but on the larger islands, such as New Guinea or Guadalcanal, they were defeated more by starvation and lack of ammunition than anything.
The Japanese were like locusts, they ate everything they could, and in some isolated incidents even resorted to cannibalism.
A "war" that gets little focus is the Japanese vs the massive Saltwater Crocodiles endemic to the area. The Japanese would hunt the crocs for food, but the crocs wound up "winning." As the Japanese forces were forced to retreat they had to forsake the high ground and go through the swamps. Starved and sick soldiers were no match for a big Saltie. No one is sure how many soldiers died from croc attacks, estimates range from a few hundred to several thousand. I suspect the latter number is closer to the truth because soldiers to weak or sick to keep up would be left behind... and the crocs were always there, always patient.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 10:13 am to kywildcatfanone
quote:Good morning, you stalking POS. Still want to play this game?
Morning all
Posted on 1/4/25 at 11:48 am to Arksulli
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On the smaller islands the Japanese were simply blasted out in short order but on the larger islands, such as New Guinea or Guadalcanal, they were defeated more by starvation and lack of ammunition than anything.
I've always wondered why there was any fighting on these islands at all. Most of the smaller islands had no military significance at all. Why wouldn't they just use a naval blockade and let the Japanese just sit there and starve to death while they used the military to fight somewhere else?
Posted on 1/4/25 at 12:02 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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I've always wondered why there was any fighting on these islands at all. Most of the smaller islands had no military significance at all. Why wouldn't they just use a naval blockade and let the Japanese just sit there and starve to death while they used the military to fight somewhere else?
For a lot of them they did. "Let 'em starve" was a major operational concept. But some islands they wanted gone either because the Japanese had a major air base present, or the US wanted to seize and develop an air base on. Some smaller islands were too close to where we wanted to build... so they had to go. It got real ugly on those small islands because it was a knife fight in a broom closet. Nowhere to run or hide.
A major part of the island campaign was to creep strategic bombers closer and closer to the main islands of Japan. The British, bless them, fought a largely forgotten blood and guts war with Japan in SE Asia. We fought a largely logistical war where our goal was to squeeze Japan's industry.
We had a submarine campaign that made the Nazis in the Atlantic seem like a pee wee football team playing the Kansas City Chiefs and since most Japanese buildings were made from wood... well... I'll let you guess what firebombing raids were like.
Posted on 1/4/25 at 5:53 pm to Arksulli
Evening U All'ns 
Posted on 1/5/25 at 4:23 am to OK Roughneck
Good morning
Posted on 1/5/25 at 4:37 am to Rockbrc
Today in History: January 5
1477 Battle of Nancy: Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeats the Duchy of Burgundy, 7,000+ killed including the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold
1709 The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe's coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.
1815 Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.
1914 Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.
1923 The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.
1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.
1942 U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula.
1951 Inchon, South Korea, the site of General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army.
1968 U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.
1982 A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.
2005 Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.
2020 Chinese professor Zhang Yongzhen publishes the first SARS-CoV-2 genome map online, allowing health professionals worldwide to identify COVID-19
2021 Daily new cases of COVID-19 top 60,000 in the UK as data reveals one in fifty in England had COVID-19 within the last week
2022 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying whites-only train ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896)
Born on January 5
1779 Stephen Decatur, American naval hero during actions against the Barbay pirates and the War of 1812.
1928 Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States, Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1984, and Ambassador to Japan.
JOTD
A young man moved out from home and into a new apartment complex on his own. He proudly went down to the foyer to put his name on his mailbox.
While he was there, a stunning young blonde came out of the apartment and walked down to the mailboxes, wearing only a bathrobe.
The young man smiled at the woman and she started up a conversation with him.
As they talked......her robe slipped open, and it was obvious that she had nothing else on. The poor kid broke into a sweat trying with all his effort to maintain eye contact.
After a few minutes, she placed her hand on his arm and said, 'Let's go to my apartment, I hear someone coming.'
Nervously he followed her into her apartment; she closed the door and leaned against it, allowing her bathrobe to fall off completely.
Now nude, she purred at him......... 'What would you say is my best feature?'
Flustered and embarrassed, he finally squeaked, 'It's got to be your ears!!!'
Astounded, and a little hurt she asked, 'My ears?!?!?'
'Look at these breasts; they are a full 39 inches and 100% natural...... I work out every day and my arse is firm and solid.......i have a 28 inch waist....... Look at my skin - not a blemish anywhere!!!!'
How can you think that the best part of my body is my ears!?!'
Clearing his throat, he stammered ....
'Outside, when you said you heard someone coming that was me.'
Posted on 1/5/25 at 5:32 am to Armymann50
Morning all,
Snowmageddon is coming
Snowmageddon is coming
Posted on 1/5/25 at 5:46 am to kywildcatfanone
milk, bread and TP
run is coming
run is coming
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