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May 8 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-8

The REAL reason public media funding is being cut. Somebody has a huge grudge

When a performance that included "singin and dancin" in the rain turned into a nerd fest https://neorsd.medium.com/what-tom-hollands-historic-lip-sync-showcase-taught-us-about-stormwater-management-9dead8680143 This is primarily what my son tells me he does...design wastewater runoff areas

Not only did the dodge the bullet. McKinstry caught it

Says the guy who ruled that Presidents are immune from prosecution and corporations are people.

The Ono move has been discussed in the College Football thread. Instead of it getting more political (but isn't everything political these days) I'll put this here.

There's an ECHL team in Salt Lake's suburbs (West Valley City) that traces its lineage back to a hockey team in Roanoke, Va (Lancers and one time Rebels) with a nice logo. They also at one time sported my favorite team name, Macon Whoopies

There are but very few who are permitted to come out in a day. They delay giving passes, make them wait from hour to hour, and their counsels are not two hours together alike. One day they shall come out with their Effects, the next Day merchandise are not Effects. “One day their household furtinuture is to come out, the next only weareing apparrel, and the next Pharaohs heart is hardned, and he refuseth to hearken unto them and will not let the people go. May their deliverence be wrought out for them as it was for the Children of Israel.”

“It is a lamentable circumstance that the only mediatory power acknoleged by both parties, instead of leading to a reconciliation his divided people, should pursue the incendiary purpose of still blowing up the flames as we find him constantly doing in every speech and public declaration. “This may perhaps be intended to intimidate into acquiescence, but the effect has been most unfortunately otherwise. … This accident has cut off our last hopes of reconciliation, and a phrenzy of revenge seems to have seized all ranks of people. “A little knolege of human nature and attention to it’s ordinary workings might have foreseen that the spirits of the people here were in a state in which they were more likely to be provoked than frightened by haughty deportment.”

Defunding public media, including things like VOA to promote the new Ministry of Propaganda

That will mean even more old movies and fewer programs like Nature and Independent Lens. If you want that great. (I realize you were tongue in cheek) but take a look at what your local station does behind the scenes from things like early learning to Michigan Learning Channel to even PBS Books (PBS Books is online) Most of this doesn’t receive national funding directly but from other avenues that do so

I don't know whether anyone has been following this farse. How much NC taxpayer money had the GOP wasted here?

This is an interesting take, true and some of it holds today...

‪Revolutionary War 250‬ ‪@revwar250.bsky.social‬ “I could for myself wish to see your Friends Washington and [Charles] L[ee] at the Head of it and yet dare not propose it tho’ I have it in Contemplation. “I hope that matter will be Considered with more propriety in your Body [the Continental Congress] than ours [the Massachusetts provincial congress]. If you Establish a Continental army of which this will be only a part, you will place the direction as you please.”

May 7 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-7

Evidently Trump got his Alcatraz idea from watching reruns of the Birdman From Alcatraz on the local PBS station in Palm Beach. Maybe they should start rerunning Mr Smith goes to Washington a few late Saturday nights. Or possibly All the King's Men

This is sounding more and more like my brother in law after his fifth or sixth beer of the day

Isn't that part of the qualifications for a Regime position?

May 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-6 Happy 80th Birth Anniversary to Bob Seger

Sorry, unfortunately as a wise man once said “Water always wins”

Hopefully this doesn’t venture to close to the political spectrum but when Field of Dreams first came out a minister friend did a sermon aligning one of the main themes in the movie to the Prodigal Son story. He was maligned by some members of the congregation for not preaching on the scripture that Sunday As an aside, anyone notice that three of the films mentioned starred Kevin Costner?

The same folks applauding Trump were the ones appalled at the parody of the Last Supper in Paris last year

I don’t understand your math 1) 73 million not eligible should not even even be in the equation 2) How did you conclude all 73 non eligible voters would vote the same way?

May 5 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-5/allies-end-occupation-of-west-germany On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). On May 5, 1904, 37-year-old Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern Major League Baseball history as the Boston Americans defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0. Young strikes out eight of the 27 batters he faces and benefits from excellent defense in a game that is completed in only 83 minutes. "Unparalleled feat,” a newspaper calls the achievement. A perfect game is achieved when a pitcher retires all the batters he faces in order, with no one reaching base. Two other pitchers—Lee Richmond and John Ward—recorded perfect games in 1880, but the rules then were significantly different from modern baseball rules, which were established in 1893. Before the modern rules, it took eight balls to walk a batter and the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate was 45 feet. (The distance is 60 feet, 6 inches today.) 1955 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) becomes a sovereign state when the United States, France and Great Britain end their military occupation, which had begun in 1945. With this action, West Germany was given the right to rearm and become a full-fledged member of the western alliance against the Soviet Union.