On this day:1758
The first American Indian Reservation is established at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1786
Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1825
Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831
Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1833
The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1842
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
1910
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1911
Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1915
US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
1949
Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1966
The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1970
Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
1982
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991
Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1991
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
2005
Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
2007
2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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"You're not broke because you don't make enough. You're broke because you give your income to everyone else." --Ramsey
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Is there a slippery slope here? First, a sandwich, then fries and coleslaw, then a leg of lamb?
And whatever happened to the adage that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich?,
Ham sandwiches don't throw, people do.
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"You're not broke because you don't make enough. You're broke because you give your income to everyone else." --Ramsey
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A troubled young man sought solace and advice from an AI program, which, apparently, led to his suicide.
Will the machine be held responsible?
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The burdens of leadership: A Thai court removed suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday, ruling that her controversial phone call with Cambodia’s former leader breached ethics rules, in a move that plunges the kingdom into fresh political turmoil.
You would expect the world's leadership cabal to show better control.
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So, a white federal employee throws a sandwich at a federal officer and is not indicted in D.C. There is all sorts of debate whether or not this is good for law and order. But, as an aside, what do you think a jury in Peoria would have done if the thrower had been Black?
So, a white federal employee throws a sandwich at a federal officer and is not indicted in D.C. There is all sorts of debate whether or not this is good for law and order. But, as an aside, what do you think a jury in Peoria would have done if the thrower had been Black?
Is there a slippery slope here? First, a sandwich, then fries and coleslaw, then a leg of lamb?
And whatever happened to the adage that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich?,
Ham sandwiches don't throw, people do.
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What Is Going On?
Has the world changed? Is the human population reflecting some new, undiagnosed illness? The evil in the world seems so modern, its violence against children so particularly strange and savage. Has there been a change? Is there something new afoot?
We are the new shark in old, dangerous waters. We have settled into the comfort of reliable old tribal, hierarchical, and religious conflicts. But our violence seems to have become more individual and deranged, less confrontational and more asymmetric. Adult vs. child, armed vs. unarmed, impassioned vs. disinterested.
Has the world changed? Is the human population reflecting some new, undiagnosed illness? The evil in the world seems so modern, its violence against children so particularly strange and savage. Has there been a change? Is there something new afoot?
We are the new shark in old, dangerous waters. We have settled into the comfort of reliable old tribal, hierarchical, and religious conflicts. But our violence seems to have become more individual and deranged, less confrontational and more asymmetric. Adult vs. child, armed vs. unarmed, impassioned vs. disinterested.
Attacks on nightclubs, grade schools, churches. No armed African group worth its salt hasn't attacked and obliterated a nunnery. And don't forget the Heroes of Beslan. These aren't spasms of rage; they are pointed, meticulous, and planned. Many have manifestos, albeit crazy.
Is it reasonable to wonder what is going on?
Or is that shortsighted? Is this savagery different, just longer and fiercer, beginning, say, with the First War and going through the last century with homicidal social revolutions, and two world wars, and deaths of over 100 million people? 100 million humans murdered over the last 100 years!
Are the attacks on schools just a minor symptom of a greater emerging evil?
Or is that shortsighted? Is this savagery different, just longer and fiercer, beginning, say, with the First War and going through the last century with homicidal social revolutions, and two world wars, and deaths of over 100 million people? 100 million humans murdered over the last 100 years!
Are the attacks on schools just a minor symptom of a greater emerging evil?
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