THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”

— H.L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1585 Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer. Lobe den Herren, meine Seele SWV 39, and Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, and Selig sind die Toten

1626 John Ferrabosco, composer. Fantasia à4 VdGS no. 7

1830 Harriet Hosmer, American neoclassical sculptor.

1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. Danse Macabre, Dance of Death Op. 40, and The Carnival Of The Animals

1840 Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter.

1858 Mihajlo “Micheal” Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and telephone pioneer.

1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer of Alsatian origin and Jewish ethnicity and faith.

1879 Max von Laue, German physicist who discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals

1895 Eugene Bullard, was one of the first African-American military pilots, although Bullard flew for France, not the United States.

1943 Mike Peters, American cartoonist (Mother Goose and Grimm).

MISCELLANEOUS:

CALL AHEAD: DON’T JUST SHOW UP. More from North Caroline.

THANK YOU. Dr. Phil

THAT’S ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH MAJOR BUREAUCRACIES. FEMA has a major bureaucracy problem: Tulsi Gabbard

SPEAKING OF WHICH. We are on the mountaintop in Little Switzerland collecting airlifted donations and distributing them to homes that have no power or are inaccessible.

GREEN ENERGY UPDATE. The Possibility Of Grid scale battery fires loom large

HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.