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Dean and Troy, Philadelphia Electric Factory
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Eurasian Green-winged Teal
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Eurasian Green-winged Teal, with a horizontal light stripe, and without a vertical stripe on its side. I found it on the Columbia River down from Priest Rapids Dam. For county listers, it ventured between Yakima, Grant, and Benton Counties.
Here's my post to Tweeters, a birding listserv for Washington:
[edit notes: I think that Wanapum Village should have been written Wanapum village; and Simon Martinez Cattle should be Simon Martinez Livestock.]
Eurasian Green-winged Teal
Friday I found what looks to me like a Eurasian Green-winged Teal, the first I've ever seen. It was pretty exciting, but I couldn't share the find immediately, because I found it near a place where two prominent local bird listers have told me they trespass. I tried Friday, and over the holiday weekend, but this morning was finally able to reach the Grant County PUD head of security to alert him that birders with scopes and binoculars and such might be around, and that some might try to stop and bird on the dam. He was very polite and helpful. He made it clear that doing so continues to be prohibited. It is National Critical Infrastructure. Across the dam on the Yakima County side is the Wanapum village, Simon Martinez Livestock Company private land, and Yakima Training Center military site. Visiting without express prior permission continues to be prohibited. Security at Priest Rapids Dam, and the security camera monitor crew have been alerted.
There are plenty of good reasons to not trespass including simple decency, avoiding scaring or angering residents and property owners, avoiding hindering heavy construction and endangering the workers, respecting Yakama Nation sovereignty, and being able to "count" the birds you "get" if you're a lister. From ABA Listing Central -- Code of Birding Ethics listing.aba.org/ethics/ : "Do not enter private property without the owner’s explicit permission. Follow all laws, rules, and regulations governing use of roads and public areas, both at home and abroad."
Another good reason is bird watcher access -- for the rest of us. I was working on getting birders access permission to viewing from the dam embankment a couple of years ago. I stupidly told a local prominent lister that birders are not allowed to stop on the dam and are not allowed to go into the Wanapum village without consent of local residents, and that similarly the Simon Martinez Livestock Company land is private and requires permission from the landowner. Despite reiterating that to him and getting him to acknowledge it, he proceeded to bird on the dam and got kicked off -- politely. The person at Grant PUD with whom I was working on birder access ended the discussion. I'm not a birding expert, but I don't think that listing a Common Tern flitting back and forth across the Yakima / Grant County line, or any other sighting, was worth that. Birding ethics are not defined by what you can get away with.
I once again am working on getting birders access to a viewing location on the dam. It's a dream of mine that I'd value greater than any rare bird find. Please, please, do not muck that up.
If you witness any trespassing or security concerns near Priest Rapids Dam or Wanapum Dam, they ask you call (509) 766-2538 any day at any hour. In the ABA Code of Birding Ethics: "If you witness unethical birding behavior, assess the situation and intervene if you think it prudent. When interceding, inform the person(s) of the inappropriate action and attempt, within reason, to have it stopped. If the behavior continues, document it and notify appropriate individuals or organizations."
My wife Mary Giovanini, Nori dog, and I returned Saturday and relocated the Eurasian Green-winged Teal. This time there were pintails and Mallards, but no American GWTE with it as there'd been on Friday. It was tucked close to shore on the Yakima/Benton side of the Columbia River below Priest Rapids Dam dam. I saw it from the Jackson Creek Fish Camp, at the junction of Grant, Yakima, and Benton Counties, clearly venturing well into each. For listers, if you look across from the day use area, at mid-river you're looking into Benton County. Looking across and upstream a bit to the rocks jutting into the river, Yakima County is to the right, and Benton County is to the left. The Yakima/Benton county line goes from shore there, north upstream at an angle to mid river, where it meets Grant county. The Yakima/Grant line continues mid-river up to the dam. The Priest Rapids Dam spillways are in Yakima. The generators are in Grant. Google Earth shows county lines quite well.
I apologize for not being able to share the find sooner. I hope you can understand and respect my concerns.
I wish I could share this post on BirdYak, a Yakima County bird-related list-serve, but am blocked by Denny Granstrand. Just the same, I'll keep up my efforts to discourage unethical birding. Please don't share a censored or edited version of this on BirdYak.
Red-breasted Mergansers, both Goldeneyes, Buffleheads, and plenty of others were there to see too." [end Tweeters post]
Good birding -- Enjoying observing birds, and trying to give eBird and Washington Birder accurate data.
Please always consider the sensitivity of birds, nearby humans, and the environment.
Don't pish or use playback on rare or sensitive birds or in heavily birded areas.
Please Follow this Code and Distribute and Teach it to Others ABA Code of Birding Ethics.
Site has expanded since I last passed by, offering 24-hour food, clothing & support for homeless people.
Of course it's an eyesore and public nuisance. Homeless people should have the decency to stay out of sight, so as to not offend the sensibilities of affluent middle class people and politicians.
On September 11, 1902, a letter headlined “Wants Reform at the Public Library” appeared in The Denver Republican newspaper. The customer wrote, “I was very much surprised; not to say shocked; on visiting your public library to see men readers in the newspaper room sitting with their hats on. It seems to me this very flagrant breech of good manners should be rectified at once. During many journeyings I have visited scores of libraries, but never before have I witnessed such a lack of deference not only to the house of books itself, but also to the women readers who were present. In making plans for the new library, would it not be well for the trustees in behalf of common decency, to adopt some stringent rule prohibiting the continuance of such vulgar exhibitions? I wonder what Mr. Carnegie’s opinion of the matter would be!” signed, A Visiting New Yorker. The picture shows the Library newspaper room in 1937 with men in…ahem…hats! #120years003
See more information about the Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy Department's Digital Image Collection at: history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html
Life. Is about taking chances. Choosing to take those chances.
Some people search high and low to define themselves.
Mysterious. Private. Personal. Seclusive.
Some people let it all out. And be happy with it.
Some chose to be distant. Some chose to leave.
Some were given second chances. Some grab any given opportunities.
Me. I was insecure. I am still very insecure. But I'm not afraid to try things. To meet people. To say I love you and mean it. To say I can't love you and mean it as well.
I want to live my life and be remembered as someone who provided that much love regardless being reciprocated or not.
I want to be that person who admits to my bitchiness mistakes and have the decency of apologising for it.
I want to be that person who explains herself not out of defense, but out of clarification and justification.
I want to be someone who is honest and frank enough to not lead people to false assumptions.
I want to take chances. Not because I want to prove myself to others. But because I am open what it may lead to happen.
I want to be on top of a castle and jump as high as I can. And I'm not afraid to fall down on the ground, bruise myself to hurt and pain.
I want to be immortal. And then die in the end.
Photo Credit: Hafiz Latif
Camera Credit: Muid Latif
Location: Rooftop of Kellie's Castle, Batu Gajah, Perak.
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p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
Wikipedia. Informative. Pointly. And by the people who really know it!
Think about it.. You are with the job of spreading information, making the knowledge cheaper, searchable, taggable, fast, easily available. Just a site on the world network does the trick. But really if you have to do it alone, how fast can you do it really? So much of topics, so much information, so little time, so little experience with each topic. The internet is now turning to better ways. If you think you got what it takes to be the best, or the topic you are on the research best describes you, then go ahead, explain it to the computer in HTML tags. You hardly know how many people are frantically searching for what you know, you are explaining the world, your knowledge! Think about a age, a civilization from where men of knowledge emmerge.. People know everything they are looking at.. can explain anything happening round you, be it the mobile being called, or a rocket being launched, or perhaps why it is raining. We are the men of knowledge, we are the most intellectually advanced men, we should be the men of knowledge therefore.. Do some justice, don't write stupid stuffs on the net, or erase things there, and laugh.. you are certainly foolish then.. you don't even have the simplest knowledge of decency. Stop the spam, stop the harm, the internet is for greater good!
Agir
Entre tendresse et émotion.
Respiration sensitive,
Doux contact.
Se sentir vivre
Brûlante et charmante pudeur
Langage du corps
Entre plaisir et désir
S’apprivoiser, s’improviser
Dans un jeu de séduction
Entre sauvage et câline
S’enivrer
"Souvenir"
To act. Between tenderness and emotion. Sensitive breathing, Soft contact. To feel to live. Extreme and charming decency Language of the body. Between pleasure and desire. To tame down, improvise themselves, In a play of seduction. Between savage and câline, enivrer.
"Souvenir"
Voila! New arms! YAY! And the best part is Squirrel still has "her" body with tattoo, foot stains, history, etc. ♥
Factory owners in Banlgadesh are proposing a new minimum wage of just 14 cents an hour.
The workers are asking for 43 cents an hour, which would allow them to climb out of misery and at least into poverty--where they could hang on by the fingertips and live with a modicum of decency.
Click here to read more and sign the petition to help Bangladeshi garment workers.
I found this shot compelling for two distinct reasons. The first is that it highlights the linguistic complexity of Finland's situation. As a nation that was variously ruled by the Swedes and Russians for much of its history, it now finds itself (even nearly a century after its independence in 1917) with many speakers of both. In the case of the Swedes, this resulted in Swedish being made an official language of the country, and thus all public (and much private) signage --from street names to informational placards -- has both Finnish and Swedish. This is a boon to someone like me, who can generally muddle through the Danish-like Swedish toponyms, but finds the Finno-Ugric languages (Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian) completely incomprehensible. Throwing in English for good measure as the global lingua franca (and oh, how the French must hate that English is that), we have the sort of signage pictured above. Vendace, incidentally, is a particularly widespread and delicious species of whitefish endemic to the North.
Secondarily, those three birds had the decency to plop down on the sign, standing in careful and motionless tandem, spaced across the signage almost perfectly. And as any longtime viewer of my photography knows, I'm a sucker for found syzygies.
Oh, as for where this is? The open-air market adjacent Helsinki's harbour, at the base of the Esplanadin Puisto, one of the more lovely esplanades I've had the privilege of strolling idly down.
Clifton Gardens is a grassed reserve with a netted bathing area in Chowder Bay, on the south-west side of Mosman in Sydney Harbour. Adjacent to the historic Submarine Miners’ Depot, the idyllic picnic area with barbecues, children’s playground, basketball court and fishing jetty was once a bustling tourist destination featuring a huge swimming arena and two luxury hotels.
Piers of the realm
There was a time in recent history when jetties – those long walkways mounted on pillars and extending over the sea – were a major social attraction. From the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, jetties (or piers as they were more commonly known in Britain, Europe and the USA), often featured theatres, pleasure rides and amusement arcades.
In Australia – as in the case of Clifton Gardens in Chowder Bay and historic Manly Harbour Pool (1931-74) – people were drawn not to novelty attractions along the boardwalk, but the bathing areas beneath. Protected by shark nets, here they could swim safely without fear of losing their legs – or their lives.
At their peak, when trains and ferries made cross-country travel more affordable for the masses, seaside jetties – often repurposed cargo wharfs - attracted tourists across all social classes, from the gentry to commoners.
These tidal pools were enclosed by timber walkways, sometimes consisting of upper and lower levels, from which the public could dive, sunbathe or stroll around.
Sea bathing in Australia accelerated in the early 1900s when social swimming became popular after the repeal of repressive ‘public decency’ laws that previously forbade swimming in daylight hours. (However, gender segregation was enforced or encouraged until the mid-20th century).
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News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard with a divided back.
The Korean Gat
The man in the photograph is wearing the traditional Korean gat (Korean: Hunminjeongeum 갓)
A gat is a traditional hat worn by men along with hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) during the Joseon period. It is made from bamboo or horsehair with a bamboo frame, and is partly transparent.
Most gats are cylindrical in shape with a wide brim on a bamboo frame. Before the late 19th. century, only noble class men could wear gat, which represented their social status and protected their topknots.
Robert Neff of the Korean Times has written the following about Korean male headware:
'One of the most important articles of clothing for Koreans in the late 19th. century was the hat. The elderly man with his majestic black horse hair hat, often seen in pictures, is the iconic image of Korean male society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910).
According to Percival Lowell, an American who stayed in Seoul in the winter of 1883-84:
"No Korean can in decency appear
without it [hat], except only to make
room for some other hat."
It was a sign of manhood, "the most essential of attributes," and a badge of one's position in Korean society.
Lowell seemed amused with the difference between Korean and American culture. In the United States it was considered poor manners to wear a hat indoors, and one would rarely remove one's shoes, but the opposite was true in Korea:
"A man would part with any or all of
his clothing sooner than take off his
hat. On entering a house, he leaves
his shoes outside to await his return,
but he and his hat go in together.
As he sits down to eat, he divests
himself of his outer garments that he
may eat with greater freedom, but his
hat stays on; and so it sticks to him
through life ― a permanent black halo."
There were many types of hats. The iconic hat, the gat, was made from horse hair and bamboo and was black and somewhat transparent.
It had a fairly wide brim that in the past, according to popular legend, was much wider as a means of preventing unrest. Because of its wide brim, conspirators were kept apart, and were unable to whisper their plans to one another.
There was also a large mourning hat made from bamboo. It was designed to hide the face of mourners from others they might encounter on the streets. It was considered a grievous breach of etiquette to look into the face of the mourner.
Early French missionaries used the mourning hat to disguise themselves as they traveled the Korean peninsula before the 1880's. They were able to move about in relative secrecy for no one would attempt to communicate with a mourner.
Court officials' hats had slightly bent-forward ear-shaped horizontal wings. It was said they symbolized the wearer's attentiveness and willingness to "catch every word of command that the King may utter."
As Korea entered the 20th. century, there were many reforms forced on the population. Some were readily accepted and appreciated, but others, especially those that dealt with hair styles and hats, were vehemently opposed.
"A man is much more firmly bound to
his hat than he is attached to his wife.
He may put away the latter; without
the hat, life becomes a hollow mockery,
for the hat makes the man. Without it
he remains forever a boy."
Hats remained a part of male culture throughout the first half of the 20th. century, but have since disappeared. The only exceptions are those worn by elderly males in the Jongno area, or the bright colorful caps that young teens and adults wear while out with their friends. The "permanent black halo" is no more.'
How Japan Took Control of Korea
Erin Blakemore has written the following for history.com in 2018, and updated it in 2023:
In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945. In order to establish control over its new protectorate, the Empire of Japan waged an all-out war on Korean culture.
Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean, and emphasized manual labor and loyalty to the Emperor. Public places adopted Japanese, too, and an edict to make films in Japanese soon followed.
Topographical and other postcards of Korea were published with descriptions in Japanese text.
It also became a crime to teach history from non-approved texts, and authorities burned over 200,000 Korean historical documents, essentially wiping out the historical memory of Korea.
During the occupation, Japan took over Korea’s labor and land. Nearly 100,000 Japanese families settled in Korea with the land they had been given; they chopped down trees by the million and planted non-native species, transforming a familiar landscape into something many Koreans didn’t recognize.
Nearly 725,000 Korean workers were made to work in Japan and its other colonies, and as World War II loomed, Japan forced hundreds of thousands of Korean women into life as “comfort women”—sexual slaves who served in military brothels.
Korea’s people weren’t the only thing that was plundered during Japan’s colonization—its cultural symbols were considered fair game, too. One of the most powerful symbols of Korean sovereignty and independence was its royal palace, Gyeongbokgung, which was built in Seoul in 1395 by the mighty Joseon dynasty.
Soon after assuming power, the Japanese colonial government tore down over a third of the complex’s historic buildings, and the remaining structures were turned into tourist attractions for Japanese visitors.
As historian Heejung Kang notes, the imperial government also attempted to preserve treasures of Korean art history and culture—but then used them to uphold imperial Japan’s image of itself as a civilizing and modern force.
This view of Korea as backward and primitive compared to Japan made it into textbooks, museums and even Koreans’ own perceptions of themselves.
The occupation government also worked to assimilate Koreans with the help of language, religion and education. Shinto shrines originally intended for Japanese families became places of forced worship.
Historian Donald N. Clark explains:
"The colonial government made Koreans
worship the gods of imperial Japan,
including dead emperors and the spirits
of war heroes who had helped them
conquer Korea earlier in the century.”
This forced worship was viewed as an act of cultural genocide by many Koreans, but for the colonists, it was seen as evidence that Koreans and Japanese were a single, unified people.
Though some families got around the Shinto edict by simply visiting the shrines and not praying there, others grudgingly adopted the new religious practices out of fear.
By the end of its occupation of Korea, Japan had even waged war on people’s family names. At first, the colonial government made it illegal for people to adopt Japanese-style names, ostensibly to prevent confusion in family registries.
But in 1939, the government made changing names an official policy. Under the law, Korean families were “graciously allowed” to choose Japanese surnames.
At least 84 percent of all Koreans took on the names since people who lacked Japanese names were not recognized by the colonial bureaucracy, and were shut out of everything from mail delivery to ration cards. Historian Hildi Kang writes:
“The whole point was for the government
to be able to say that the people had
changed their names ‘voluntarily.’”
The Plundering of Korea by Japan
(a) Historic Korean Artifacts
Koreans accuse the Japanese of plundering hundreds of thousands of ancient Korean artifacts, mostly during their 36-year occupation of the peninsula. Most Japanese consider the issue a dead one, resolved by the 1965 Japan-Korea Treaty, which led to the return of some 1,400 items.
However the treaty was not definitive, as it neglected artifacts in Japanese private collections, as well as those originating in North Korea.
The size of the haul is astounding. Eighty percent of all Korean Buddhist paintings are believed to be in Japan. And, says Seoul art historian Kwon Cheeyun:
"35,000 Korean art objects and
30,000 rare books have been
confirmed to be there, too."
However that is only the tip of the iceberg: vastly more is believed to be hidden away in private collections.
Determining legal ownership is far more difficult than with the art looted by the Nazis. Toshiyuki Kono, a law professor at Kyushu University. states:
"It's almost impossible to trace the
provenance of centuries-old artifacts."
Besides, the Japanese annexation was internationally recognized in 1910, meaning that relocating Korean artifacts within "Japanese territory" was lawful at the time.
To Korea's annoyance, Japan holds many items of particular value. More than 1,000 bronze, gold and celadon pieces owned by the late businessman Takenosuke Ogura now make up the core of the Tokyo National Museum's Korean section.
A lot of precious Korean artifacts are now owned by private Japanese citizens or organizations, which means that the Japanese government can’t just acquire them and hand them back to Korea. So, unless the Korean government offers to actually spend millions of dollars to buy back the artifacts, it is unlikely they will ever be returned.
As well as removing cultural artifacts to Japan, the Japanese also burned countless Korean government buildings and palaces.
(b) Natural Resources
The Japanese also removed vast amounts of Korea's natural resources, including lumber, rice, coal, iron ore and many other minerals.
The land itself was also appropriated by the Japanese; by 1910 an estimated 8% of all arable land in Korea had come under Japanese control. This ratio increased steadily, and by 1932, the ratio of Japanese land ownership had grown to 53%.
Japanese landlords included both individuals and corporations. Many former Korean landowners became tenant farmers, having lost their entitlements almost overnight because they could not pay for the land reclamation and irrigation improvements forced upon them. As often occurred in Japan itself, tenants had to pay over half their crop in rent.
Der Fasan vergisst unsichtbare Menschen aus der Dose, wenn die laenger geparkt sind. Also maschierte dieser brav zu uns her und zeigte seinen eleganten Federanzug /
Pheasants are initially wary, but forget canned people if the car does not move for some minutes. This guy had the decency to walk up to my rolled down window and pose in his sunday suit.
Biffy Clyro supporting Queens Of The Stone Age, Wintertur, Switzerland
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Aman down on his luck begging on the streets of Edinbrugh. For a man who has nothing, he takes amazing care of his dog, Bruno who is the picture of health and happniess. Its difficult to see people in this place in life, but good to see the decency it brings out also.
On Hyde Park Corner.
I struggled with this statue. He seems to have a desire to have his scrap without his kit on, which is fine, but he could have had the decency to leave the armour out of frame. It definitely spoils the leg line!
Public nudity! At least we had the decency to cover our bits with magnolia leaves... This was a hot summer day at Nana and Papa's house - That's Eric (or Ryan), me, my cousin Travis, and Ryan (or Eric)
A shot I took during the cold snap in January at St Stephen's Green
Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Countess Markiewicz (4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
During the Easter Rising of 1916, a group of insurgents made up mainly of members of the Irish Citizen Army, under the command of Commandant Michael Mallin and his second-in-command Constance Markiewicz, established a position in St Stephen's Green. After the failure of the rising, they were taken to Kilmainham Gaol. At her court-martial she told the court, "I did what was right and I stand by it." She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to life in prison on; "account of the prisoner's sex." She told the court, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me".
The Countess was released from prison in 1917 after a general amnesty.
Artwork by dbase.
Not by Banksy. News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
Hi Guys please share comment and let me know what you think. These 3 images are 1 My original copyrighted image. The second is a NEXT T Shirt. And the last is my image layered over the T shirt with a 50% opacity so you can see the shirt through my image. Next have NOT even had the decency to ask to use the shot or offered anything for the shot they have just taken the image from online and used it. The shirt is so popular if you look on the website it has already sold out in many sizes
I realise while uploading this that I've taken a very similar shot before, so apologies for that.
This is one of the soap bottles in work which has once again turned into a layered cocktail as they've been topped up from a five litre bottle of a different colour.
This one at least has the decency to be blue and white in honour of a great result for the Blues tonight.
"Decency in speech and conduct is the key to being a successful spiritual candidate.'' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
Small stage = earache
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communal views. when Left leaders defend 'dress codes' in the name feminine 'decency', or imply that a woman's ideology? Do they not end up giving a boost to the fascist Right-wing, that quotes the CPI(M)'s anti-woman .
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In this JNUSU elections, AISA appeals to you to stand by those who consistently defend gender justice right-wing forces. .
and women's rights, and reject the political proponents of patriarchy and their representatives on campus! .
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How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the impoverishment and suffering of Gaza’s children – more than 50 per cent of the population – benefit anyone? International law as well as human decency demands their protection. If Gaza falls, the West Bank will be next. - Sara Roy
The cover illustration takes a new meaning today with Osama Bin Laden's finishing off news!
Tariq Ali's comprehensive and eye-opening account of fundamentalisms of american, afghan, Arab and pakistani varieties enmeshed with religions of people of the Book(s)!
Oh and he calls American Imperialism the mother of all fundamentalisms! As a people/region who has experienced the best and worst of both British and American Imperialisms, it indeed is true. After all, British Empire had the decency to eyewash its loot and pillaging with all the architecture, systems and infrastructure development. American Imperialism alas just has wars, bomb blasts, ruins and F16s to show for.
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Recently refurbished at great cost, a lovely park. Very quickly the turf was torn up, rubber protective matting has been removed, litter everywhere - beer cans, cigarette packets, condoms, sweet packets.
It's common decency to look after property, to think of others. Why is this lacking?
Supporters of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) produced this matchbook circa 1953 at a time when the senator was under fire for his baseless accusations and smears charging that the U.S. government was rife with communists.
Joseph R. McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, November 14, 1908, on his Irish Catholic parents' dairy farm. A restless student, he dropped out of high school at sixteen to start his own poultry farm on land he had rented from a friend.
After a brutal winter killed all his flock, he returned to school in 1929, focused and determined to graduate with his class, which required completing four years of course work in half that time. In 1930, he enrolled in Marquette University and developed a reputation as a card shark and heavyweight boxer.
After earning a law degree in 1935 (financed by gambling winnings and wages from odd jobs), he returned home to open his practice and begin a career in politics.
When McCarthy lost his first campaign as the Democratic nominee for district attorney, he decided to seek a nonpartisan position. He soon sought a circuit judgeship and challenged a twenty-year incumbent who dismissed McCarthy as a long shot, an unelectable rookie.
McCarthy campaigned with a vengeance and over the course of the election deliberately inflated his opponent's age and salary. His tactics worked and, in 1937, the twenty-nine year old McCarthy became the youngest judge in Wisconsin history.
Five years later, even though his service on the bench excluded him for military service, McCarthy joined the Marines, hoping that his combat experience would enhance his political stature.
As an intelligence officer stationed in the Pacific, he spent the war debriefing pilots after they returned from bombing raids over Japan.
Yet, when he returned to campaign at home, he transformed himself into "tail-gunner Joe," the battle-scarred veteran who survived hazardous missions over Japanese-held territory and, in the process, "fired more bullets than any marine in history" during his fourteen (a figure he later changed to seventeen and then thirty-two) engagements with the enemy.
To prove his courage, he asked to receive (and was awarded) the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Capitalizing on his war record, McCarthy narrowly defeated the overconfident Senator Robert La Follette in the 1946 Republican senatorial primary and assailed his Democratic opponent, Howard McMurray, as a man so desperate for election that he would accept communist support.
The baseless charge worked. McCarthy trounced McMurray and, in 1947, became the junior U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
He quickly alienated his colleagues (especially after he tried to court the German-American vote by criticizing the prosecution of Nazis accused of slaughtering American troops during the Battle of the Bulge) and he soon feared that he could not be re-elected without a major issue to improve his political standing.
Consequently, on February 7, 1950, he told a group of Republican women assembled in Wheeling, West Virginia, that there was serious "communist influence" in the Truman administration, declaring, " I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . names that were known to the Secretary of State and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."
Even though no such list existed, McCarthy's accusations gripped the media and he soon became a national figure, promoted on the covers of national news magazines.
Alleged communist infiltration of government agencies became McCarthy's political calling card. By the 1952 election, he had called Sinologist Owen Lattimore America's "top Russian spy," labeled Secretary of State George C. Marshall "a traitor," nicknamed Secretary of State Dean Acheson the "Red Dean of Fashion," attacked President Truman as a drunkard and "a son of a bitch [who] should be impeached," and repeatedly referred to Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson as "Alger . . . I mean Adlai."
His tactics worked and, when reelected, McCarthy gained the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, a position he used, according to biographer David Oshinksy, "to undermine government morale, damage numerous reputations, and make America look sinister in the eyes of the world."
In 1953, McCarthy announced that he would investigate alleged communist infiltration of the U.S. Army and savaged the Army for "coddling Communists."
On March 11, 1954 McCarthy called Annie Lee Moss, a black civilian clerk in the Army Signal Corps, and accused her of having communist ties while handling classified information.
McCarthy left the hearing leaving the questioning to his hatchet-man Roy Cohn who quickly bungled the interrogation. Moss came across as an honest, victimized government worker while Cohn came across as someone caught without facts making unsubstantiated accusations in a vicious manner.
In truth, Moss handled only encrypted documents and not readable classified information. Her only contact with communists seemed to come through her former union Cafeteria Local 471, CIO.
The episode was filmed by the television show See It Now produced by renowned journalist Edward Murrow and broadcast nationwide the following week. The public began to turn against McCarthy after the show and an unflattering portrait of McCarthy broadcast the previous week by Murrow.
Disturbed by McCarthy's staccato accusations and worried that he had unjustly damaged the reputation of innocent civilians (as well as the image of the Senate), his senatorial colleagues coalesced to investigate both McCarthy and his allegations.
Agreeing with Eisenhower that televised hearings would expose the real McCarthy in a way that print coverage could not, Republican leaders decided to let the cameras inside the chambers to televise the thirty-six day Army hearings.
Forty million viewers watched the Army-McCarthy hearings and the national mood began to turn against the senator when, on June 9, 1954, the audience in the Senate Caucus room applauded army counsel Louis Welch's outburst ("Have you no sense of decency, sir?") after the senator tried to attack Welch's young assistant.
Six months later, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure McCarthy.
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McCarthy ended his career, lonely and out of the political limelight. It was revealed later he had been a morphine addict throughout the 1940s. He died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital May 2, 1957 at age 48 from complications due to alcoholism and hepatitis.
--McCarthy biography largely excerpted from George Washington University Eleanor Roosevelt website.
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EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany
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Pissigt väder ju. Sitter i Södertälje hamn, detta skithål, och inväntar avgång. På bänken bredvid mig sitter världens äckligaste småstadssvin, två killar och en tjej. Finniga, lurkiga, med för mkt texturising wax från Garnier i håret. Ni vet, kidsen som rör sig i stadens yttersta utkanter (asså typ Järna och Gnesta) har ej ännu fått informationen om att spikes är så jävla '98. Vill döda. 30-something kvinnor med kopparfärgade highlights (måtte det ej vara hårmascara) i sitt råttfärgade hår lommar förbi, kånkandes på shoppingpåsar från Joy och Flash. Ja, ni hajar. Ett ungt par begår kardinalsynden; de tunghånglar i mitt öra, slask, slafs, smack. De har inte ens the decency att vara snygga. Jag har nu uppgivit tre anledningar till att skaffa körkort, köpa en bil och bara sluta åka kollektivt. Det är antagligen det jag skulle njuta allra mest av om jag tog bilen överallt; att bli fredad av mänskligheten. Detta virus. Men asså det är så himla dyrt och miljöovänligt att köra bil så jag ska nog lägga mina slantar på att gå i terapi istället. Jag måste lära mig att se det vackra i människor! Alla människor.
Cars, fucking cars everywhere!! Don't you sods have enough room in Helsinki already, have some decency ffs!
The Postcard
A Comic Series postcard that was published by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The card was printed in England.
The card was posted in Shanklin, Isle-of-Wight using a 2d. stamp on Wednesday the 9th. June 1954.
The recipient's name and address and the message have faded to the point that they are illegible.
McCarthyism
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 9th. June 1954, Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashed out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism had infiltrated the Army. He asked:
"Have you no sense of decency?"
George Perez
The day also marked the birth in The Bronx, New York of the
American comic book artist George Perez.
George worked primarily as a penciller. He came to prominence in the 1970's penciling Fantastic Four and The Avengers for Marvel Comics. In the 1980's he penciled The New Teen Titans, which became one of DC Comics' top-selling series.
George penciled DC's landmark series Crisis on Infinite Earths, followed by relaunching Wonder Woman as both writer and penciller for the rebooted series.
In the meantime, he worked on other comics published by Marvel, DC, and other companies into the 2010s. He was known for his detailed and realistic rendering, and his facility with complex crowd scenes.
George died in Sanford, Florida at the age of 67 on the 6th. May 2022.
'Cara Mia'
Also on the 9th. June 1954, the Number One chart hit record in the UK was Cara Mia by David Whitfield and the Mantovani Orchestra.
David Whitfield (2nd. February 1925 – 15th. January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist from Hull. He became the first British artist to have a UK No. 1 single in the UK and in the United States with Cara Mia.
David died from a brain haemorrhage in Sydney, Australia, while on tour at the age of 54.
supporting Queens Of The Stone Age at Palm Desert Benefit show, CA
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Queens Of The Stone Age @ Lupos, Providence, RI
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Another shot for a group that does not yet exist. Here's the skinny: hot_tea has a very cool idea to start a group called "Leave a Penny." A random act of decency for the superstitious among us -- yes, I do count myself in that group! So, just document the act & voila... please comment if you'd be interested in such a group. I'll be sure to pass your thoughts along to h.t. ^_^
Tuesdays are yoga nights. I come home, hop in the shower, eat foods: Amy's Kitchen cheese pizza pocket, and a glass of milk. Mmm.
I wanted to do my FDT facing the other way, but there were certain decency issues with that + a short robe, it turns out!
When I've had powerful cars in the past I too have driven around everyone - the difference being that I always use my signals. Always.
When Frontier Airlines obliterated absorbed the Midwest Airlines brand, they at least had the decency to continue the Midwest tradition of warm cookies, baked (or at least warmed) onboard. Alas, Frontier announced last week that upon the depletion of remaining stocks of cookie dough, fresh cookie service would cease. Animal crackers will replace the trademark snack item of a once-great airline.
This is very likely the last baked-onboard cookie I'll likely eat on an US commercial airliner. This one was served en route Denver to San Francisco.
Waiting, just waiting for his people to have a little common decency, outside San Francisco's Ferry Plaza shopping center.
Some of the weird things you find at garage sales
A portion of the profits from this product will be donated to the "Small Animal Decency Fund, which seeks to rid our neighborhoods of any potentially offensive naturally occurring indecent exposures.
"The poor little things don't even know they are naked! We've got to educate the animals and protect our children."
- Worried Mother