Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004; aged 79) was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth press secretary for United States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. After leaving politics, Salinger became known for his work as an ABC News correspondent.
An affable cigar smoker with his bushy eyebrows who he became the first presidential spokesman to become a celebrity in his own right. A piano prodigy, who spoke fluent French, had a zest for music, art, poetry, wine, women and fine food. A real cultured and classy guy who’d probably love to be broken down properly by an uncultured guy like me. And by “broken down properly”, I mean giving Salinger THE DICK. HARD. Because I so would.
Born, raised, and educated in San Francisco. He interrupted his undergraduate studies at San Francisco State College in 1943 to enlist in the U.S. Navy and command a "subchaser" in the Pacific Theater. After completing his service in 1946, he joined the editorial staff of The San Francisco Chronicle and the journalism faculty at nearby Mills College.
Married four times with four children (3 with his first wife and 1 with his third one), Salinger died from heart failure at the age of 79 on October 16, 2004 in Le Thor, Vaucluse, France. Apparently, President Kennedy and Salinger enjoyed a close relationship. Nothing salacious, but I like to image a sorid version where Kennedy was fucking Salinger on the DL.
Leati Sika Amituana'i Anoaʻi (April 5, 1945 – June 25, 2024), better known as Sika, was an American Samoan professional wrestler. He is best known as one-half of the tag team the Wild Samoans with his brother Afa. They held the WWF World Tag Team Championship three times, were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2012. He was a member of the Anoaʻi family and the father of professional wrestlers Rosey (Matthew Anoa'i) and Roman Reigns (Joe Anoa'i).
Anoaʻi was born in the village of Leone on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa on April 5, 1945, one of Amituana and Tovale Anoaʻi's thirteen children. In 1959, at the age of 14, he moved with his family to San Francisco, California in the United States. Shortly after, he enlisted in the United States Merchant Marine, working on ships sailing to the Philippines and Japan. He demobilized in 1969 and worked as a stevedore before leaving that to join his brother Afa in pro wrestling.
Anoaʻi was trained as a wrestler by his brother Afa and Kurt Von Steiger, debuting in 1973 in Stampede Wrestling as "Sika". Calling themselves "The Wild Samoans", the brothers and gained notoriety due to their large, wild afros, sarongs, and habit of wrestling barefoot and eating raw fish in the ring. Throughout the 1970s, The Wild Samoans appeared with promotions including Big Time Wrestling, the Continental Wrestling Association, Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling, NWA All-Star Wrestling, NWA Mid-America, Stampede Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Council, winning multiple tag team championships. From 1977 to 1979, the Samoans made repeated tours of Japan with International Wrestling Enterprise; in January 1978, they briefly held the IWA World Tag Team Championship.
On April 12, 1980, The Wild Samoans defeated Ivan Putski and Tito Santana to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship. Their reign lasted until August 9, 1980, when they lost to Backlund and Pedro Morales at Showdown at Shea. As Backlund was the then-WWF Champion, he and Morales were forced to vacate the championship, and The Wild Samoans regained the championship on the September 9, 1980, episode of WWF Championship episode of WWF Championship Wrestling, defeating Tony Garea and Rene Goulet in the finals of a tournament. Their second reign lasted until November 8, 1980, when they lost to Garea and Rick The Wild Samoans left the WWF in December 1980.
Following his retirement, Anoaʻi remained active in wrestling. He trained wrestlers at the Wild Samoan Training Center, a professional wrestling school run by Afa in Minneola, Florida.
On August 15, 1997, both men reunited for one night teaming with Disco Inferno, Gene Ligon and the Big Cheese as they defeated Ken Timbs, George Love, Jay Love, Gary Royal and Kane Adams at IWA Night Of The Legends in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
In 1999, he founded XW 2000, an independent wrestling promotion based in Pensacola, Florida.
On March 31, 2007, The Wild Samoans were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Sika's son Matt and Afa's son Samu.
The Wild Samoans appeared at Hell in a Cell to celebrate Roman Reigns' victory.
Anoaʻi died on June 25, 2024 at the age of 79. An Instagram post by his nephew Jahrus Anoa’i reads: "It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the passing of Former Hall of Famer, Polaivao Leati Sika Anoa’i. He passed away peacefully on June 25th. Sika was a celebrated figure whose contributions and legacy have left an indelible mark. His memory will live on through his achievements and the many lives he touched. He was many things: a hard working father, a caring brother, a supportive uncle, and a proud grandfather. He was a cherished friend to many, a loving family member whose warmth and kindness knew no bounds, and an inspiration to countless individuals. His legacy will continue to inspire and uplift future generations, reminding us of the impact one person’s life can have on so many.
Rest in love Uncle Sika.
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There are so many wrestlers that have stories about the OGs of the Samoan Dynasty being generous to them when they started wrestling. They went above and beyond to train and help the younger generations. Sika is known as a tough, strong man but also a fair, kind and generous man. He will definitely be missed by the wrestling community, the fans and his family.
The wrestling world and fans lost one of the best today, a legend and most importantly The Anoaʻi/Fatu Family lost a brother, father, grandfather, uncle, husband and cousin.
Sad news this morning. The legendary Kinky Friedman has died. He was 79. Irreverent, iconoclastic, but with a heart as big as Texas, he lived on his own terms. Truly one of a kind.
I'm trying to figure out what my favorite Kinky quote is. Among them:
1) "If elected, the first thing I'll do is demand a recount."
2) "A fool and his money are soon elected."
3) "There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction, and I believe I snorted it in 1976."
4) "I believe musicians can run this state a lot better than politicians. We just won't get much done in the morning."
5) "Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive."
6) “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”
7) "Friedman's just another word for nothing left to lose."
Kinky was not a native Texan, but he once said that he had to come to Texas because we were the only state that would put up with his nonsense. It was here that he caught up to his future. There will never be another like him.
I was a volunteer on his 2006 Texas Gubernatorial campaign. Would have been much better off with him than with George W Bush/Rick Perry/Greg Abbott these past 30 years.
So I went to see the Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) - This is Not a Drill tour in Birmingham Wednesday. He spoke at length about the press trying to cancel him and being in the papers in Germany, Germany trying to cancel his tours, calling him a Nazi sympathizer. He was visibly upset, even on the verge of tears at points because of these claims he's anti-Semitic.
He argued if you've ever seen a single show you'd know he's anti-war, pro equality, that the leather jacket with red arm band has been a part of his shows for years as he parody's a power mad fascist and that it's nothing new.
Listening to the music, I'm always amazed at how (at 50years old) the songs still ring true today. Uncomfortably Numb with the visuals of a grey society, walking the same street but arguably alone, isolated had me in tears. Time with 'No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...' always makes me question my life and marvel that everytime I hear those lyrics I always feel the same.
The lyrics are so universal, clearly popular because of the album's lasted for 50 years and still people relate to these songs.
It has me thinking of the lyrics to some of The Wall songs and mainly the visuals. He did not shy away from branding George Bush, Trump and Biden war criminals, the graphics for a lot of this section included masked soldiers shooting at point blank range innocent blank faced mask children. He highlighted deaths that were unnecessary and hinted that it was the state of regime at the times fault for their deaths such as Anne Frank, sentence: Death, reason: being Jewish or George Floyd, reason: being black, sentence: death.
His show was very striking and I'd say negative too. I'd argue you need to show people hope in how to gain change. But he is clearly steadfast in his beliefs, more so than the average performance.
And why is this. I know he was alive at the time of the end of the second world war, I believe his father died in the war. It's interesting to me that he's still performing and vocal at 79, he ~remembers~ this time period and the scars left after the war. He's literally from a different generation. This has been strongly funneled into his art then and today. It makes me question his publicist because in this age of internet receipts, if you have strong views, you're going to stand out. If you're of a younger generation, are you fully going to understand these deep roots that thread through his work. He says people make decisions based on fear but I'd argue his work is a reflection of that fear, and why he strives so much for people to think for themselves.
On the King estate was a wild ravine where a stream known by the name “Awiehawken” dashed over a part of the famous duel ground, “which has been called the most interesting spot in the county of Hudson.” There handsome young Philip Hamilton in the dawn of his manhood fell by the hand of George Eacker three years before his father met a like fate from Aaron Burr. His second on that occasion was his cousin Philip Church, who had recently returned from England with his father, where he had been studying at Eton. These two grand-sons of General Philip Schuyler are said to have been strikingly alike in personal appearance, and their remarkable attachment, which led them to be seen constantly together, is one of the pleasantest memories in the annals of the society of the period.
Source — Mills, Weymer Jay. Historic Houses of New Jersey. United Kingdom, J. B. Lippincott, 1902.
I find this description interesting because it's one of the very few descriptions we get of Philip's appearance, aside the general elucidation of “handsome”, and Hamilton who once described him as having common, basic, infant attributes—Additionally, he was only eight months old, and any of these said features he very well could and likely did grow out of;
It is agreed on all hands, that he is handsome, his features are good, his eye is not only sprightly and expressive but it is full of benignity. His attitude in sitting is by connoisseurs esteemed graceful and he has a method of waving his hand that announces the future orator. He stands however rather awkwardly and his legs have not all the delicate slimness of his fathers.
Source — From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Kidder Meade, [27 August 1782], Founders Online, National Archives. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 150–151.]
Also particularly because this edition was published in 1902, before Allan McLane made the grave mistake of titling William's painting as Philip's in 1910. [x] Which would then spur others to make the same mistake like Ron Chernow, and even Phillip Thomas Tucker, who wrote; “A healthy and handsome dark-haired son Philip Hamilton was destined to be born on January 22, 1781.” [x] The presumption of dark hair likely originating due to William's shaded portrait.
But at the same time, Weymer Jay Mill was born in 1880 in Jersey City, and died in 1939. So, he was hardly talking from firsthand experience considering this would have been a whole 79 years after Philip's death, and P. Church who died in 1861. He also doesn't bring up any source material to this particular claim, so it can only be defined as hearsay. Although his claim isn't entirely far-fetched as a whole, P. Church visited his Hamilton relatives often and did seem to be close with his similar namesake cousin. He was definitely close to his Uncle Hamilton, He also served as an Aide-de-camp to for him between 1798-1800, while he was Major General and Inspector General of the Army during the Quasi-war. And both he and his cousin Philip were part of a literature society. It was a Literature Society composed mainly of boys in their early twenties. It looks as though the members belonged to the same generational group, and were all rather acquainted with each other. A reappearing pattern being that; most of them were from New York, studied law, and graduated from Columbia in the 1790s.
About this time, Mr. Jones was a member of a literary society, (of which the late Peter A. Jay was president,) composed, among others, of Nathan Sandford, Charles Baldwin, John Ferguson, Jas. Alexander, Rudolph Bunner, Goveurneur Ogden, the first Philip Hamilton, William Bard, Wm. A. Duer, Philip Church, John Duer, and Beverley Robinson; of whom the last five are the only survivors.
Source — Jones, William Alfred. Memorial of the Late Honorable David S. Jones: With an Appendix, Containing Notices of the Jones Family, of Queen's County. United States, Stanford and Swords, 1849.
But I still have yet to see any claims that could be more solid about Philip looking similar to P. Church. Either way, it is interesting and could be plausible. Although judging by the common depictions of P. Church, I wouldn't consider that a compliment!
Clara Brown (c. 1800 –October, 1885) was a kind-hearted, generous woman whose determination led her on a life-long quest to be reunited with her daughter. Born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1803, her earliest memory was of being sold on the auction block. She grew up in Logan County, Kentucky, married at age 18, and had four children. At age 36 her master, Ambrose Smith, d.ied and her family was sold off to settle his estate. Despite her continued enslavement, Clara Brown vowed to search for her ten-year-old daughter, Eliza Jane. For twenty years Clara worked for George Brown raising her new master’s children instead of her own.
In 1856 she was freed upon Master Brown’s d.eath allowing her, at age 53, to set out to find her daughter. Three years of searching in Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas proved fruitless. Clara thought that perhaps Eliza Jane had joined the multitude of people that had gone to Pikes Peak hoping to find gold. Thus Clara’s search took her 700 miles west to the Colorado Territory gold fields. She had secured a job as a cook on a wagon train in exchange for the free transportation of her laundry pots. Her wagon train arrived in Cherry Creek, which was comprised of the rival twin cities of Denver and Auraria. There she set up a laundry business to serve the miners. After six months Clara left Denver and set up business in Mountain City (later Central City). Brown invested her earnings in real estate and acquired a small fortune. She became known in the community as “Aunt Clara” as she provided food, shelter, and nursing care to the townspeople.
When the Civil http://W.ar ended in 1865 Clara Brown returned east, first to Logan County, Kentucky and then, Sumner County, Tennessee in search of her daughter Eliza Jane. Brown offered her $10,000 in savings and earnings as a reward for news of her daughter. When her search proved unsuccessful Brown returned to Gilpin County, Colorado, bringing with her impoverished freed people she had befriended. In 1879, at the age of 76, Brown traveled to Kansas as an official representative of Colorado’s Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin who had offered to assist thousands of destitute “Exodusters” to relocate in Colorado. Clara Brown’s continual search for her daughter, her support for local churches and charities, and her financial assistance to young women who were educated at Oberlin College in Ohio eliminated most of her wealth.
In February 1882, however, when Brown was almost 80 years old, she received news that her daughter, Eliza Jane had been located in Iowa. In 1884 79-year-old Brown traveled to Iowa to reunite with her 56-year-old daughter. The same year Brown became the first woman member of the Colorado Pioneer Association which also provided a stipend for her lifetime of good works. Clara Brown died in Denver, Colorado in 1885. Slightly over a century later Brown was inducted into the Colorado Woman’s Hall of Fame in 1989.
100 of my favorite beat tapes. by no means an all inclusive list but these are just some recommendations in no particular order in case you're looking for something to bump. let me know what you think and if you have any favorite beat tapes or instrumental albums that i should check out. you can click on the name of one of the projects below and it'll take you to bandcamp/youtube/soundcloud or wherever you can hear it. i could also do another one of these in the future if anyone is interested. peace.
Chart with names included
1. Oh No - Oh No Vs. Now-Again
2. 10th Letter - Primitive Shapes
3. cOlD sElTzEr - AHOY/LANDHO
4. Vik - (sub)conscious
5. Ohbliv - Lewse Joints VI
6. Dak - youstandit / leftrecord
7. Adventure Time - Of Beyond
8. Dutchy - Traversal
9. Delofi - CLOAK
10. Whoarei - Thoughts Blunted
11. foisey - NowOrNvr.
12. Grap Luva - Neva Done
13. Maker - Maker vs. Now-Again
14. Dday One - Heavy Migration
15. Budamunk - Baker's Dozen: Budamunk
16. brainorchestra - Labrynth Winds
17. ewonee - Molecular Structure
18. Dirty Art Club - Basement Seance
19. Rah Zen - Midnight Satori
20. Devonwho - Betaloops
21. Dr. Quandary - Wayfarers
22. SadhuGold - The Gold Room
23. Dimlite - Runbox Weathers
24. spacemayor - guilt milk
25. S.Maharba - Pure Eternal Light
26. Dr. Who Dat? - Beat Journey
27. A.M. Breakups - Out of Four Came Many Soldiers
28. Dibia$e - Sound Palace
29. Paul Hares - Blurred
30. Dil Withers - Studies
31. Sir Froderick - The Eclectic Spanking of War Babies
32. Paul White - Paul White And The Purple Brain
33. DJ Rozwell - NONE OF THIS IS REAL
34. EAR.DRUM aka QTHREE - DEAF RAY
35. GrayMatteR - Tao Te Gray
36. Damu The Fudgemunk - Vignettes
37. Kankick - Warped Dis Strict Project, Vol. 1
38. The Midnight Eez - The Midnight Eez
39. dakim - sleeptight
40. K, Le Maestro - Lab Sounds
41. aaronmaxwell - aaronmaxwell
42. Mecca:83 - NinetyFour
43. EvillDewer - Caliginous Sky 1.5
44. Swarvy – Shadows Remixes
45. Dirty Tapes - DT002: OHBLIV / DIL WITHERS
46. Spectacular Diagnostics - Raw Visions
47. EDAC - DITTOS
48. George Fields - Beyond Realm
49. Bluestaeb - Everything Is Always a Process
50. Massimo e Massimo - Massimo e Massimo
51. Tuamie - Masta Killa
52. LuvJonez - Messengers
53. Ill Sugi & Tajima Hal - Illmahal
54. olasegun - JUST A SLICE
55. Ahwlee - dead[ist]
56. EYTREG. - Chasma.
57. Eludem - A.dvanced B.alcony M.aneuvers
58. Elder Orange - All My Friends Believe in Ghosts
59. Small Professor - A Jawn Supreme
60. Bugseed - Quiet Times
61. Kutmah - A Tribute to Brother Ras G
62. Shamana - To All Hell
63. ΔKTR - LALA
64. AshTreJinkins - Zone of the Enders
65. SPELLWRKS - Transitions
66. Wowflower - feverdream
67. Jansport J - Soulfidelity
68. Jitwam - selftitled
69. Kenja & RXN - C O Z Y
70. ELWD - TOO MANY DAYS
71. lo_tek - It Will All Make Sense One Day
72. z. - torn
73. Astro Mega - WARP LOUNGE
74. phedee - i hope you're doing okay
75. TMCT - LAND CRUISER
76. Poptartpete - 8 cavities
77. Jemapur - Dok Springs
78. D-Styles - Noises in The Right Order
79. Nosmo King - Drawn Out
80. Fuzzoscope - Earwax Shelf Life
81. Javier Santiago - Javi's Beats Vol. 4
82. AKEEDRO - House Of Spirits
83. Odeeno - Diamond Sand
84. ILLingsworth - Worth the Wait
85. PRGMAT - HAPPY HERBAL HARVEST
86. Kent_Williams & iLL SCOTT - Golden Coast
87. TOSHIKI HAYASHI(%C) - b(ackr)oom sounds
88. Kenny Keys - Everything Must Change
89. Emapea - Zoning Out Volume 2
90. Dpee - Garbage Day
91. Letherette - Brown Lounge, Vol. 1
92. Fuzzoscope - Earwax Daydream
93. Elusive - Headspace
94. nipple tapes - aaa
95. Randal Bravery - Hamaon
96. RND1 - Brain Clustrs
97. Scruffnuk Dust - Moods
98. Meaty Ogre - Grenades!
99. yungmorpheus - A Glimpse Of Power
100. Nothing_Neue - RE: Collections
On November 15th 1746, James Reid was executed at York for being a part of the Jacobite uprising.
Reid, a native of Angus, was among many Jacobites captured at Carlisle and as per usual dates are a bit iffy with this post.
The following is an extract from Grattan Flood’s Story of the Bagpipe. “So powerful a factor was the Scotch bagpipe in working up enthusiasm for the Stuart cause that it was regarded as an instrument of war. This point is amply proved by the fact that James Reid, a Scotch piper, was tried at York for high treason, the capital offence being that as no Highland Regiment ever marched without a piper; therefore, his bagpipe in the eye of the law was an instrument of war.
“Reid suffered death at York on November 6, 1746, as is reported in the contemporary Caledonian Mercury.”
On checking this information in the National Library [in Edinburgh] it was noted that this information was given in the Caledonian Mercury of November 25, 1746. The following is the extract:
“On Saturday 15th James Reid was executed for high treason at York. He was of the Shire of Angus and a private man in Lord Ogilvy’s regiment”.
Lord Ogilvy was only 21 years old and commanded two battalions. He had held a commission in the French Army and was very popular with his men. The Angus men were supposed to be the best equipped and according to some accounts the best disciplined in the Prince’s army. They kept the retreating right wing at Culloden from being cut to pieces. Lord Ogilvy escaped to France via Norway and became a general in the French army. He eventually regained his estates. He died in 1803.
In the three volumes of Prisoners of The ’45 by Sir Bruce Seton and Jean Gordon Arnot (published in 1929) there are several hundred names of soldiers of Charles Edward Stuart. Some of the pipers listed are as follows:
John Sinclair. Piper in Ogilvy’s regiment. Town piper of Arbroath. Discharged March 4, 1747.
John Ballantyne. Piper in Lord George Murray’s regiment. Taken at Carlisle. Tried at York on October 2, 1746 and acquitted.
Nicholas Carr. Piper in Glenbucket’s regiment; acquitted October 1746.
Robert Jamieson. Piper in the Duke of Perth’s regiment; captured at Carlisle and transported.
Allan MacDougall of Duke of Atholl’s and Lord Nairn’s regiments; served as a blind Highland piper and was taken at Falkirk. He was pardoned in 1747. What a blind man could do in an army had only one reason. He must have been an exceptionally talented and well known piper. Could this have been Blind MacDougall mentioned in Angus MacKay’s MS? His name is associated with the following tunes: The King’s Taxes, Farewell Donald, Lament For Captain MacDougall, the Nameless tune (Book 4 of the Piobaireachd Society Collection (three Nameless tunes are shown but which one is MacDougalls is not clear), Cumha Iain Cheir, The Duke of Perth’s Lament and Lachlan MacNeill of Kintarbert. Angus MacKay states that this MacDougall is Ronald MacDougall and it is not likely that there are two blind MacDougalls. It could be reasonable to assume that this blind MacDougall piper is the same man.
And the main subject of this post;
James Reid. Piper in Ogilvy’s regiment. Executed York on November 15, 1746. The relevant entry is:
2800. Reid, James. Piper, Ogilvy’s. 30.12.45 Carlisle; Lancaster Castle, York. Executed York 15/11/46. Angus. Taken at capture of Carlisle. It was pointed out at his trial at York on 2nd Oct. that he was only a piper, but he was found guilty but recommended to mercy. Nevertheless he was executed. The Court ruled that ‘no regiment ever marched without musical instruments such as drums, trumpets and the like; and that a Highland regiment never marched without a piper; and therefore his bagpipe, in the eye of the law, was an instrument of war.” – Baga, lxix. 193; S.P.D., 79-26, 91-77.
Also listed were several drummers and fiddlers.
Manson, in his book The Highland Bagpipe, states that Charles Edward had 32 pipers playing before his tent at meal times. The relevant papers a decisions about hanging Reid have been checked up in the [National] Library in Edinburgh and in London and I have yet to find any government decision to hang rebel pipers. James Reid was not the only piper – he was just the unlucky one as the rest got off or were transported.
It would appear that the decision to hang Reid was made by the court at York in isolation and not under any official directive. There is little record of pipers being harassed, imprisoned, or hanged for playing the pipes after the ’45 and we know that Joseph MacDonald compiled his Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe in 1760, 14 years after the troubles. It would be reasonable to assume that piping did not suffer unduly.
James Reid must be unique in piping history as the only one who lost his life because he was a piper.
Black Watch museum in Perth also hold information on Jacobite prisoners, including James Reid, they appear to records taken directly from the hearings;
“John Porteous was tried next, who appeared to be Deferter from one of our Regiments: He alledged, in Excufe of his Offence, and as a Plea to ftop Sentence, that he had the Promife of his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland for his Pardon – Guilty.
“James Reid was then tried, whom the Witneffes for the Crown plainly proved to have engaged with the Rebels, and to have acted as a Piper to a Rebel Regiment, tho’ it did not appear that he had ever carried any Arms; upon which he was recommended to Mercy by the Jury. The Court obferved upon this, that every Perfon who joined any Set of People engaged in an open Rebellion, tho’ they did not bear Arms, they were guilty of High Treafon; that no Regiments ever marched without Mufical Inftruments, as Drums, Trumpets, or the like; and that in an Highland Regiment there was no Moving without a Piper, and therefore his Bagpipe, in the Eye of the Law, was an Inftrument of War. The Jury upon this would have retracted their Recommendation, but the Court told them, it muft not now be permitted — Guilty. Then the Court adjourned to Saturday.
“On Saturday, James Main was firft brought to the Bar; but his Counfel moving for farther Time, upon Account of fome of his Witneffes being on the Road, the Court was fo favourable, as to poftpone his Trial.
“Then John Long was brought upon his Trial, and fix Witneffes were examined for the Crown, to prove that he had acted as a Surgeon’s mate in the Rebel Army; but the Proof not coming up to the Species of High Treafon laid in the Indictment, he was acquitted on the Motion of the King’s Counfel.
“James McColley was tried next, and was proved by four Witneffes to have appeared in Arms at feveral Places: He did not attempt to contradict this in his Defence, but examined fome Witneffes to fhew that his Cafe was the fame with Charles Robinfon’s — Guilty.”
In total there were 22 Jacobites executed at York in the wake of the ‘45 Crann Tara held a commemorate event in York in their memory ib 2007, a simple stones marks where they met their end. You can watch the commemoration on Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a05QSzs_u60
I am often asked why I don't post more comics from the former Yugoslavia so I've finally relented. Denis No. 79, dated 16 November 1977. The cover re-used the splash page from Marvel's Logan Run No. 1 (1977) by George Perez and Klaus Janson.
Wonder did they base they colour scheme on the Cinefantastique cover by Vincent Di Fate?
THE 100 MOST POPULAR AMERICAN ACTORS OF ALL TIME ! (BASED ON INDIES SUBCONSCIOUS ASSESSMENT OF THE HIGHEST INFLATION-ADJUSTED WORLDWIDE GROSSING AMERICAN FILMS OF ALL TIME !) (1900-2022)
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president, died at age 79 in Dubai on Sunday after a long illness, according to a statement by the Pakistani military.
Musharraf’s military colleagues in Pakistan often praised him as daring, forthright, and brave—yet the primary legacy he leaves behind will feature none of those adjectives. Pakistan’s 10th president since independence will be remembered instead as a divisive, constitution-shredding military dictator who set Pakistan back decades.
When Musharraf took charge after a military coup in October 1999, Pakistan was not dissimilar from its neighbors China and India—countries with large populations but little economic vitality at the time. China and India, however, soon enjoyed massive growth as their economies opened up to the world and investments poured in and exports flowed out. Pakistan grew too—but not because of any changes in how Musharraf managed the economy. Instead, infusions of cash from the United States to help finance the so-called global war on terrorism bolstered solid (though unspectacular) macroeconomic numbers.
By the end of Musharraf’s tenure in 2008, Pakistan was a regional economic laggard. The country took yet another massive loan from the International Monetary Fund just weeks after he resigned. More importantly, however, insurgencies and violent political crises had engulfed three of Pakistan’s four provinces.
Democratic-minded Pakistanis often blame the United States for bolstering the country’s military dictators, and for good reason. Throughout the three extended periods when generals have run Pakistan—the 1960s, the 1980s, and the 2000s—they did so with vital political and economic support from Washington. That is what helped shore up every military dictator Pakistan has ever had to endure.
But Musharraf’s assistance to U.S. President George W. Bush’s war efforts reached a whole new level and made him something of a celebrity in the United States. In 2006, he became the first foreign head of state to appear on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. It was a somewhat awkward appearance. Asked how he balanced the wishes of the United States and Pakistan, Musharraf said, “I’ve had to learn the art of tightrope-walking many times, and I think I’ve become quite an expert of that.”
He got a few laughs. But there was nothing funny about the mess he was trying to hide back home as he sought to further secure his grip on power by marketing himself as the sole Pakistani counterterrorism partner whom Americans could count on.
Born in 1943 to a middle-class household that migrated to Pakistan from India just four years later, Musharraf benefited from being in a well-educated and socially prominent family. His father worked for the government and eventually became a diplomat posted to Ankara, Turkey, where Musharraf spent seven years learning Turkish and growing fond of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of a sovereign and secular Turkey. At age 18, Musharraf joined the Pakistan Military Academy, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1964.
He saw his first combat in Pakistan’s 1965 war with India, and he was also involved in combat operations in the 1971 war that led to the breakup of Pakistan (and the founding of Bangladesh). Musharraf came to be seen as a star officer and became a member of the elite Special Services Group of commandos in the Pakistan Army. He later taught at the Command and Staff College in Quetta and in the War Wing of the National Defence College.
In 1998, Musharraf was appointed head of the armed forces, only to be fired in October 1999 when he was traveling abroad. The armed forces, never keen to obey even the most benign orders of elected civilian leaders, refused to carry out the decision. In scenes more fitting for a cheap thriller one might buy at an airport bookshop, the Army took control of Karachi’s airport, helped land Musharraf’s plane as he returned from his foreign trip, and conducted a coup. Musharraf then appointed himself the head of yet another military government.
As president, his straight-talking, unvarnished style was welcomed by Pakistanis unaccustomed to that kind of candor from a public official. For Pakistan’s rising urban middle class, he became a patron of music, television, film, and fashion. But for the rest of the country—the vast majority—Musharraf’s rule was a time of violence, diminished control over their own lives, and the absence of democratic representation.
Musharraf’s most memorable reform effort was Local Government Ordinance 2001, which aimed to transfer many local services from higher tiers of government to more local authorities. The idea was to empower ordinary citizens and make the authorities overseeing municipal water, sanitation, and education services more responsive to the people using those services. For the first few years after it was enacted, the ordinance and the new systems it created seemed to be improving those services across the country.
As with so many of Musharraf’s promises, though, there was no follow-through. Musharraf never delivered the necessary fiscal and political freedoms that would have ensured his reforms would last. He deliberately kept the four provincial governments weak and fiscally dependent on the largesse of the federal government. This ended up embittering ethnic minorities and deepening the suspicions of democrats already wary of Musharraf’s intentions. Both at the provincial and the national levels, Pakistan’s democratic institutions remained weak. And in 2006, Musharraf helped dismantle some of his own reforms to prolong his time as president—conceding changes to Local Government Ordinance 2001 as part of a deal with “elected” civilians who were actually installed to do his bidding. Despite Musharraf’s many protestations to the contrary, he never really favored democracy.
Nor did he respect the rights and multiple identities of his diverse citizenry. In Balochistan—the sparsely populated, poor, yet mineral-rich province that is now the site of some of China’s key investments in Pakistan’s infrastructure—Musharraf laid the foundation for a raging separatist insurgency. He responded to long-standing Baloch demands for greater access to the natural resources extracted from the province with contemptuous rejections. Key political leaders who articulated those demands were branded as traitors.
The tipping point probably came in 2006 when Nawab Akbar Bugti, a onetime government minister in Islamabad and former chief minister of the province, was killed in a standoff with the military. Bugti’s family accused Musharraf of having him assassinated. A 2016 court judgment cleared Musharraf of the charge, but many continue to believe that he was responsible. Even those with a tendency to align themselves with Musharraf blamed him for plunging the entire province into violence.
Meanwhile, the cost of fighting al Qaeda was not borne by Musharraf but by the thousands of Pakistani citizens, police officers, spies, and soldiers who were killed in reprisal attacks that metastasized into a full-blown terrorist insurgency in the north and northwest of the country. Bush understandably praised Musharraf for helping to fight his war, calling Musharraf “a leader with great courage and vision.” But for Pakistan, the fruits of that relationship were ruinous. From the home district of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan’s northwest to the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, full-scale military operations displaced and dislocated millions of Pakistani citizens throughout the decade that followed the Musharraf era—operations that were a response to restive and violent conditions that Musharraf, in trying to please Washington, had fostered or created.
Musharraf and his many supporters often cite the absence of better options—suggesting it would have been impossible to support U.S. counterterrorism campaigns in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks without fueling a terrorist insurgency. And, yes, the challenge of being squeezed between U.S. pressure to conduct a war on terrorism and the domestic complexities of managing that war without igniting internal conflicts and tensions would have been difficult for any leader. Still, Pakistan never had a chance to debate or contemplate how to find a proper balance—Musharraf decided for the whole country.
In the nearly decade and a half between his resignation in 2008 and his death, Musharraf showed little capacity for reflection or remorse. When he did show glimpses of regret, they were transparently self-serving. At the launch of his own political party in October 2010, when questioned about what he did to counter corruption during his time in power, he apologized for having made a 2007 deal to enable former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to return to Pakistan. (She was assassinated on his watch as president.) Later that year, during an interview with Indian television, when confronted about how he left Pakistan in political and financial ruin, he expressed regret at having given up the position of chief of army staff too soon. In an interview in December 2013, as momentum was building for a Pakistani Supreme Court case in which he would have been tried for treason, Musharraf said, “Whatever I did, I did it for the country. It could be wrong, but there was no bad intention in it. Even then, if someone thinks that I have committed a mistake, I seek forgiveness for it.”
Those who wonder about the sincerity of his halting contrition need look no further than his actions toward the end of 2007. Growing increasingly weary of the upsurge in political, legal, and social challenges to his rule that had arisen throughout 2006, he tried to fire the country’s chief justice in March 2007. That decision backfired in July of that year when a 13-judge panel from the Supreme Court reinstated the justice. In response, Musharraf arranged to be elected as president by parliament in October. When that gambit backfired—with almost all opposition members either abstaining or resigning from parliament to protest the behavior of the Musharraf regime—he suspended the constitution altogether, declaring a state of emergency. In keeping with the global post-9/11 tradition of using terrorism as a basis for violating laws, he justified the emergency declaration on the basis of the “visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and incidents of terrorist attacks.”
It’s not only his actions as the leader of the country after 1999 that will leave his legacy in tatters. Perhaps the most egregious violation of his oath as a soldier was not the coup he conducted in 1999, or the sham election he held in 2002, or the judges he tried to fire in 2007, or the emergency he declared in 2007. Rather, it was the Kargil War of 1999—a military entanglement that his supporters laud for its tactical robustness, yet whose strategic cost Pakistan continues to bear to this day.
Contingency plans for taking vulnerable parts of Indian-occupied Kashmir had been part of Pakistani military thinking for decades. In the late 1990s, several senior officers had sought to implement those plans, yet calmer heads had always prevailed, including the army chief who preceded Musharraf, a thoughtful and widely respected general named Jehangir Karamat. But in 1998, then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif fell out with Karamat and fast-tracked Musharraf’s appointment as chief of army staff. Among Musharraf’s first acts as military boss was to greenlight the covert infiltration that sparked the Kargil War.
The war was supposed to liberate Kashmir from Indian occupation. Instead, hundreds of Pakistani soldiers were killed, and after an initial shock, India was able to push back and regain the territory it had held. Back home, Pakistan’s elected civilian leadership claimed to have been kept in the dark about the Kargil misadventure—and the resulting bitterness is what eventually led to Musharraf’s coup. At one point, U.S. President Bill Clinton was pulled into the crossfire, both between Musharraf and Sharif and between India and Pakistan. Bitterness and disappointment from Kargil in both Washington (for the dangerous escalation the intervention represented) and Pakistan (for the United States having refused to support Pakistan) led to a strategic falling-out between the United States and Pakistan. Those tensions never fully disappeared.
Recent political upheaval in Pakistan is essentially part of the toxicity that began with the disastrous Kargil misadventure. When disagreements between Pakistani politicians and generals boil over, the United States is the baton they use to beat each other up with. Unpredictability in Pakistani governance now seems like a given—but it wasn’t always this way. Gen. Pervez Musharraf was the gardener who planted and harvested those seeds.
To his credit perhaps, despite all his failings, Musharraf remained to the end a relatable figure for the vast middle class of Pakistan. Unlike so many other Pakistani leaders, including military dictators, his family seemed immune to the voracious appetite for money and power such people tend to have. Neither of his two children is a public figure, and neither stands accused of having benefited from the long period when their father enjoyed unlimited power in Pakistan. Previous dictators have left behind multiple generations of very wealthy, politically active offspring.
Musharraf, who had been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai since 2016, leaves behind an empty home in Islamabad and a few apartments in the Middle East and London. All empty. Just like his contrition, and his promises of uniting and reforming the nation.
#and a moment later jack said that his whole chat was saying 'hair' in response to his question about what did tommy have that he didn't
My Top Posts in 2022:
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ya’ll need to go check out Eryn’s last stream
it’s well made, gives a look at c!Eryn’s backstory that will tug at your heart strings (including how his parents met and living with c!Tommy before the dsmp !!), and makes me really excited for future lore
really curious how his story will entertwine with BadBoyHalo and the Egg too
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Mumza in an epic dsmp animation
we love to see it
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do yourself a favor and go watch this
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i really want to see this fandom just start sharing blurry pictures of random utah-esque deserts with some vaguely human shape in it with a caption like “new c!wilbur sighting!!”
like bigfoot
i want c!wilbur to be treated like some cryptid and whenever you’re driving across the desert and see something in the corner of your eye, that’s him
he’s just scrounging around the desert somewhere
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guys pls, if you’ve watched the manhunt, make sure you go watch the extra scenes video just to see George explain why he died so many times in the nether and show the path he had to take; he had that memorized like muscle memory 😭
Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday!
In the 1830s, tomato ketchup was sold as a cure for diarrhoea.
People who play the didgeridoo snore less.
Your inner monologue runs at 67 words per second.
Your lips are 1000 times more sensitive than your fingers.
94% of Parisians live within a five minute walk of a bakery.
79% of Britons would be happy to receive socks for Christmas.
In Tennessee, it is illegal to share your Netflix password.
Pablo Escobar – once dubbed The King Of Cocaine – once started a fire with $2 million because his daughter was cold.
Because he was so poor, Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm.
In 1966, the Procrastinators' Club of America held a protest against the War of 1812.
In 2018, scientists accidentally created a mutant bacterium that eats plastic. “Accidentally created”? Covid-19, anyone?
The world’s first nudist colony, founded in India in 1891, was called The Fellowship Of The Naked Trust.
Only about three in ten Britons feel rested when they wake up in the morning.
'Playing chess with the pope' is an Icelandic euphemism for taking a dump.
The most common book people lie about having read is George Orwell's ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
There is a village in France named 'Pussy'. People who live there are referred to as ‘Pussies’.
Brazilian prisons reduce sentences by four days for every book prisoners read and write a report on.
In 2014, a pine tree planted in memory of George Harrison died after an infestation of beetles.
From 1966 to 1987, Iceland banned TV on Thursdays to encourage people to go out and socialise more.
Hangovers cost the U.S. economy an estimated $220 billion in lost productivity every year.
Music is so influential on the brain, that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world
No need to play Six Degrees Of Separation anymore. In 2016, Facebook found that, on average, any two people are only 3.57 degrees of separation apart.
Treating a wound with maggots can save a limb from amputation. However, almost 10 percent of people would rather have their limb amputated than maggots applied to it.
‘Lord Of The Rings’ was an act of procrastination. J.R.R. Tolkien was supposed to be doing some academic work but … just didn’t feel like doing it, so he wrote ‘Lord Of The Rings’ instead!
Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as "pets". The spiders keep the frogs safe from potential predators, while the frogs eat insects that could harm the tarantula's eggs.
In 2017, a Kiwi tourist was detained in Kazakhstan because the immigration authorities refused to believe there was a country called New Zealand.
Braess’ Paradox says that, if you add more lanes to a road, congestion increases. For instance, in 2008, a Houston freeway was expanded to 26 lanes, and travel times increased by 30%.
In the 1980s, you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire in the average American home but, because of the flammability of modern furniture, it’s now closer to three minutes!
In 1945, following VE Day, the crew of the Canadian HMCS Uganda were asked if they wanted to continue fighting the Japanese. They became the only boat in WWII to vote to go home and leave the war.
In 2010, a couple purchased an entire town (Wauconda, Washington) on eBay for $360,000. The town came with a gas pump, a restaurant, a small store and a four-bedroom home.
In 1874, Max Planck's teacher told him not to go into physics, because the field was almost completely known and “will arguably soon take its final form”. Planck went on to make enormous contributions to quantum theory and won a Nobel Prize.
When Bill Shakespeare, the first man to receive the Pfizer vaccine, died in 2021, one Argentinian news channel got confused and announced the death of ‘one of the most important writers in the English language.’
According to a 2008 survey of sex therapists, sex is too short when it lasts one to two minutes, adequate is three to seven minutes, and desirable is seven to 13 minutes. If you’re still going at 30 minutes, most people will think it’s too long.
A hospital in Toulon, France had to be evacuated when an 88-year-old man turned up with a World War I bomb lodged in his anal passage! It was an eye-watering 18cm long and 9cm wide. The patient made a full recovery, after it was surgically removed.
In 2014, a man in China bought a first class ticket on China Eastern Airlines. He cancelled the ticket and re-booked for a different day over 300 times. The reason? So, he could eat free in the VIP lounge on each of those days.
Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.
This one hurts. Legendary guitarist Denny Laine has died at 79. He was in The Moody Blues from 1966-1966 and was inducted with them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. But his best work IMHO was with Wings from 1971-1981. After The Beatles' break-up, Paul McCartney formed Wings with wife Linda McCartney and Laine. So much great work that Laine played on (he played a number of other instruments in addition to guitar), backing vocals, and some songwriting including "No Words" on Band on the Run which he did lead vocals on and the epic "Mull of Kintyre", and lead vocals on "Picasso's Last Words", "The Note You Never Wrote", "Time to Hide", "Children's Children", and numerous others. Wings had a great run in the 70s and I've been collecting many of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection editions of those albums in recent years. Laine was quite a collaborator for Sir Paul during that era and his music is still being enjoyed today (they just announced an anniversary edition of Band on the Run coming in February 2024). He also played with George Harrison in 1981 on "All Those Years Ago" and on some of Sir Paul's solo albums in the 80s, Tug of War and Pipes of Peace.
Linda, Sir Paul and Denny Laine circa mid-70s
On this blog, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Laine in January 2019 via phone a week before his City Winery concert in Boston. He was very cool and charming and made me forget he was such a legend for a few minutes.
Laine and the Moody Wings Band at City Winery in Jan. 2019
I also got to cover that City Winery concert, where he played all of The Moody Blues' The Magnificent Moodies and Wings' Band on the Run. I even included that in my Best Concerts of 2019 list.
In October when it was announced on his social media that he wasn't doing well and needed help with medical assistance, I donated to his GoFundMe.