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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
The Trump/Musk firehose of folly continues, and it’s impossible to review all but the most egregious outrages here. The Associated Press, NBC, Aljazeera, and The Guardian are my picks for keeping up to date. Check out one or two, take a look, and come back here when you’ve had enough.
Science triumphs again: gene editing eliminates bananas that go bad.
A “period of transition”… Dow falls nearly 900 points and Nasdaq dives 4% as stock sell-off gathers steam.
The first quarter is on track for negative GDP growth, Atlanta Fed indicator says. The real question: how can Biden be blamed for this?
Musk melts down as Tesla stock price plunges. the stock has lost more than 50 percent of its value — the equivalent of some $800 billion — since cresting in mid-December.
Highly intelligent people often have these four habits that reflect their intelligence. Funny- my doctor calls them neuroses.
Saturn’s rings will disappear from the Earth’s view next week. They’re up to 50,000 miles wide but only 30 feet deep.
'Winter is far from over': Polar vortex reversal could bring springtime snow to US. Remember- 1993’s “Storm of the Century” started on March 13. Also, a new storm could spawn tornadoes in the South and whip up a blizzard in northern states.
Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination. He wasn’t smart enough to write code that covered its tracks.
A real team player: ‘He didn’t fully trust FBI agents’: FBI Director Kash Patel wants private security and direct hotline to Trump.
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KGB Quote of the Day:
“The problem is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth are sometimes three different things.”
--Sam Donaldson (Wikipedia link)
(More Sam Donaldson quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Among other things, today is- in no particular order of importance-
National "Eat Your Noodles" Day
KGB REPORT STUFF! (Click on link) On This Day:
1669 – The largest-recorded historical eruption of Mount Etna kills 15,000. (Video)
1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, was published for the first time. (Video)
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1779 – Congress authorized a corps of engineers for the United States. (The Corps as it is known today came into being on March 16, 1802).
1850 – Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania opened, first American medical college dedicated to teaching women medicine and allowing them to earn the Doctor of Medicine degree. (Video)
1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi took place in Venice. (Video)
1862 – Abraham Lincoln removed George McClellan as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: the collapse of the Dale Dyke Dam killed at least 240 people and damaged or destroyed more than 600 houses. (Video)
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 began along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people. (Video)
1927 – First robbery of an armored car in the US at Bethel Park, PA (Pittsburgh suburb.) (Video)
1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. (Video)
1941 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. (Video)
1957 – Charles Van Doren finally lost on the game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000. It was later revealed producers provided answers to Van Doren. (Video)
1958 – An American B-47 accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. (Video)
1964 – Gene Roddenberry drafted a short treatment for the original Star Trek series.
1968 – Otis Redding became the first person in the US to posthumously receive a gold record for his single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". (Video)
1971 – Jim Morrison left for Paris to re-orient himself emotionally and creatively, and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami, Florida. On July 3, 1971, he was found dead in the bathtub of his apartment.
1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev was elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude struck 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. (Video)
2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus a pandemic.
2020 Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for a criminal sex act and rape in New York
2021 – US President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.
Read for free with Kindle Unlimited! Quotes by or about persons born on this date (Click on link after name for quotes):
1890 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (d. 1974)
1915 – J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and psychologist (d. 1990)
1916 – Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (d. 1990)
1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and media magnate
1936 – Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2016).
1952 – Douglas Adams, English author and playwright (d. 2001)
Other birthdays:1903 – Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (d. 1992) (Video)
1945 – Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008) (Video)
1950 – Bobby McFerrin, American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor (Video)
1954 – David Newman, American composer and conductor (Video)
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