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just another day after Tax Day
Today is the 4th day of the 16th week, the 19th day of the 4th month, the 109th day of 2017, and:
- Bicycle Day
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day
- Education & Sharing Day
- Humorous Day
- John Parker Day – the quintessential Minuteman, John Parker was an American farmer and mechanic who commanded the Massachusetts militia at Lexington during the Battle of Lexington and Concord on this day in 1775 who told his troops "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
- National Amaretto Day
- National Garlic Day
- National Hanging Out Day
- National Stress Awareness Day (First Workday After Income Taxes Are Due)
- National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day
- Oklahoma City Bombing Day
ON THIS DAY: In 65 the freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested. In 1770 Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sighted the eastern coast of what is now Australia. In 1884 Ottawa amended theIndian Act to outlaw the potlatch ceremony, practiced by the tribes of the Northwest Coast to mourn the dead or to celebrate the initiation of a chief because BC officials and missionaries said it interfered with work, and wasted goods such as blankets, food, and canoes, given away or destroyed to demonstrate the status and power of a clan -- ceremonies continued in secret, until the ban was finally lifted in 1951. In 1892 Charles Duryea claimed to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1971 Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched. In 1987 The Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show starting with Good Night.
A favorite read and re-read of mine is Taylor Caldwell’s The Devil’s Advocate in which America is country who is perpetually at war with sacrifices demanded of all its citizens except the privileged. While I don’t agree with much of the meandering philosophical tirades that the characters spout at regular intervals [Caldwell was ultra-conservative and sees every liberal program as a progressive or socialist plot], but it draws me back again and again with the picture of a nation fallen into dictatorship and oligarchy because the novel traces the steps that happened, pointing out that it all came about so gradually that “We the people” were blindsided or gaslighted into complacency.
This morning I read two articles that were posted online by a foreign newspaper. The first made the statement that :
The rest of the article proceeded to support that contention. The second article made the argument that corruption, nepotism and ostentatious opulence has always been a hallmark of American politics and chortled at the apparently clueless public who seems to be just now discovering it.
I find the similarity of that perspective to the book bone chilling…..
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