Highlights of this day in history: Dawn of the UN; Dwight Eisenhower vows to end the Korean War; Suspects caught in D.C.-area sniper shootings; Concorde makes last trans-Atlantic flight; Civil rights activist Rosa Parks dies; Gene Roddenberry dies.
Other notable October 24th events include:
1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1917 – The day of the October revolution, The Red Revolution.
1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
1947 – Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1980 – Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union.
2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
Woo Hooo. Foist!!1. Found this great link at cracked. Bad ass soldiers. :)
ReplyDeletePeople need to wake up. It's TIME!
ReplyDeleteI am awake but not yet alive. Where the hell did I leave that damn IV caffeine thingy.
ReplyDeleteHey 2P. Guess where I am going today? I am going to exercise a right that unfortunately you are unable to do in Canada.
ReplyDeleteGood morning Erik. What are you doing up so early?
ReplyDelete/I know why I am....
It's on the buffet, Erik. ---->
ReplyDelete/hope you have change because it now costs a quarter to use.
//that was then; this is now
Oh? What's that Erik? Buy a handgun with out a fist full of permits? :)
ReplyDeleteThat Annie Taylor story is very sad.
ReplyDeleterepost from thread below for PaladinPhil
Paladin
Personally I think most scientists are too full of ego to think that our ancient ancestors were smart enough to do stuff like that.
Well, I was married to a physicist/computer science guy who worked on the space shuttle at NASA so I hung out with a lot of science-types and I can testify to the ego part. But that really is a slam against them - it's not the whole story. Their curiousity is their saving grace. And trust me on this - that 'ego' thing is a shield against all the insecurities. I have met only one truly repugnant egoist - Donald Johanson who discovered Lucy. I had just read Stephen Jay Gould's idea about Punctuated Equilibrium and asked his opinion.
His response was lacking in factual rebuttal - it was all ad hominem.
I've met truly GREAT scientists descended from the giants - the Bohrs, etc. Between marriages I dated a guy who is related to the person who won the Nobel in chemistry for discovering vitaman C - in paprika. I spent weekends at a lab at NIH while he worked with yeast cells and RNA/DNA machines.
It is very heady stuff. So, I am a bit forgiving about the ego part.
Okay, Atilla. It was a gross exaggeration on my part.
ReplyDeleteOnly because I saw her at the same concert as the Chambers Brothers..
ReplyDeletevitaman C - in paprika.
ReplyDeleteHungarian?
PaladinPhil said...
ReplyDeleteOh? What's that Erik? Buy a handgun with out a fist full of permits? :)
LOL yep that was pretty easy. I don't know if I am going to buy today or not. There is a big show coming up next month that I will wait for. I am going to see what I need to do to get my carry permit today.
Yawn, scratch, belch - I need coffee. Darn roofers said they'd be on the job at 7 this morning so I set the alarm and got everything unlocked at 6:45. No roofers yet. You got change for a $20 lol?
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDeleteYes, he was Hungarian. Lemme see if I can find a link.
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteIt's on the buffet, Erik. ---->
Worth every penny.
Erik, since you're not ex US military you'll have to take the course that will be offered at the gun show. About 2 hours and you'll get a certificate. Get 2 passport photos and fill out the aplication, take to your local LEOs and pay around $140.00. Applications are really backlogged so expect a several month wait.
ReplyDeletePanhandler said... Applications are really backlogged so expect a several month wait.
ReplyDeleteThanks Panhandler, the wait sucks. I have heard that it is very easy, in fact to easy, to get the permit. They seem to be more interested that you know the law and not how well you handle the firearm.
Got it.
ReplyDeleteAlbert Szent Gyorgyi
You can read a bit more about this science and this family in a book published a while back - The Eigth Day of Creation
Panhandler
ReplyDeleteApplications are really backlogged so expect a several month wait.
Seriously? Are you talking about just getting a weapon or concealed carry? It took all of 5 minutes to get a permit for my gun.
Reason number 257 why I love Virginia.
They seem to be more interested that you know the law and not how well you handle the firearm.
ReplyDeleteYou will have to demonstrate that you know your wayaround a firearm and understand firearm safety,not too strenuous though.
I should clarify - I did have to take a state-certified firearms course.
ReplyDeleteAtillaTheHoney said... Seriously? Are you talking about just getting a weapon or concealed carry?
ReplyDeleteWe are talking about the CC permit. Good Morning ATH. :)
You guys don't want to know what I would have to go through to own a hand gun. If I started today, I would be looking at minimum one year. :p
ReplyDeleteAillla, we're talking about getting a CC permit in the state of Florida. Background check for handgun purchase from a licensed dealer involves a 5 day wait period before you can pick up your new toy. The private guys just take your check and hand you the gun, no permit, no wait. No wait on long guns, private or licensed.
ReplyDeleteGood morning Erik.
ReplyDeleteOh, here in VA the forms for CC look like they were divised by the IRS!
After the Heller case was accepted by SCOTUS, the Washington Post ran an article about rural Virginians who gathered at a local coffee shop for the morning gossip gripe while wearing their weapons openly.
BOO!
Of course, they ran it in the Style section.
Honey,
ReplyDeleteHe got a Nobel for his work with paprika?
Bwahahaha! Only a Hungarian!
'Morning, Panhandler! :-)
ReplyDeleteI gave our big gun (44 magnum) to my husband's cousin who said he's going to trade it for a little-girl-gun.
He said the one we had would have sent me backwards into the next county.
lol
ReplyDeleteYes he did!
As the article notes, that vitamin C existed had been 'suspected' for awhile. Scurvey and all that.
According to the family member I knew, paprika wasn't big on Albert's list - one night he just had a 'hunch'.
Apparently, he did some seriously good work with the Kreb's cycle also.
check yer email - I'm sending you a funny story about the family.
You guys don't want to know what I would have to go through to own a hand gun. If I started today, I would be looking at minimum one year. :p
ReplyDeleteWell, you Canadians don't heve a long and varied historey of carrying weapons to ward off irritated Aboriginals or protect the herd. If only you had a history of gun culture like we do in the US, things would be different. What's that you say? The RCMP? Didn't they make a singing movie about those guys? " I'll be calling yooooouuyooo"?/
He said the one we had would have sent me backwards into the next county.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but the bad guy would have made it to the next level of Nirvana, fair trade.
Here is what I am looking at buying. I hope to test it this morning. Kimber
ReplyDeleteGUNS ARE EVIL!
ReplyDelete/child abuse
Erik
ReplyDeleteI think OR knows that weapon. Talk to him.
Family is awake - see you guys later.
Panhandler, we do have a rural gun culture. Trouble is that we have had a lot of governments that felt possession of firearms led to all sorts of dangerous things. Trouble is that illegal hand gun usage these days doesn't mean a damned thing in the courts. Believe it or not most possession charges are bargained away. Or judges will give minimal sentences.
ReplyDeleteThanks ATH. We have had it already. Hard to go wrong with a 1911.
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil said...
ReplyDeleteEr, mayhaps I should have emphasized the / a little more. Grew up on the Montana/Alberta border.
Erik The Red said...
ReplyDeleteHard to go wrong with a 1911.
/Wimp!
I picked up a Taurus 24/Pro C in 9mm and it is easy to carry and use. Most of the time though it's a S&W Model 547 3"". Not too many 9mm revolvers out there and you can swap out cylinders for 357/38SP.
ReplyDeletePanhandler: Ah hell, those western Canadians are all gun toting red necks anyway. Nothing like us civilized Ontarians.
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/I wish I was an Albertan. :)
That is just soooo wrong KB.
ReplyDeleteKillian,
ReplyDeleteAt least she didn't get a concussion!
/wowsers!
Later all. I am off to exercise my Second Amendment right. BBL.
ReplyDeleteDepartment of Dumbfounding toneDeafness: 0bama to tax ICDs, pacemakers,...:
ReplyDelete"The more the fiscal details of the healthcare bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, replacement hips and knees, surgical gurneys, laparoscopic equipment and the like."
Well looks like I have to get a little busy here myself. See you folks off and on.
ReplyDelete/cooking, baking, shopping, laundry....
Nathan Myrvold on SuperFreakonomics, hysterical attacks on deviations (real or imagined) climate "orthodoxy", and whether mass adoption of solar panel "farms" would perversely exacerbate AGW. Must-read, even for anti-Microsoft bigots :-)
ReplyDelete/Myrvold is the former CTO of Microsoft
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ReplyDeleteAnd on this morning/afternoon, we are all
ReplyDeleteLooking around
/My favorite early Yes tune
Well good morning y'all - from a moderate (70 degrees gong DOWN to 65 degrees today) but rainy Charlotte!
ReplyDeleteI'm doing ok, though have a LOT of chores to do today!
How is everyone else doing today?
And I just want to say, in defense of the Pony Express (this would make more sense if my avatar showed up!) that for it's 18 month existence, it helped to provide Atlantic to Pacific Mail service in 10 days!
ReplyDeleteHell, last time I checked the US Postal Service still takes 5 days! And we didn't take off for Sunday's or holidays, either!
Good morning! Saturday Bullldog is up ------>
ReplyDeleteHey JCM!! WTH is this - I put up a post and WHAM we go to a new post!
ReplyDeleteDamnit!