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06/12 - Loving Day [1]

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Date: 2023-06-12

Loving Day commemorates Loving v Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), a 1967 Supreme Court case wherein the court struck down the state of Virginia's anti-miscegination statute and, in the process, rendered all other laws prohibiting interracial marriages unenforceable. This was 191 years to the day from the date of the Adoption of the famous "Virginia Declaration of Rights" the predecessor and model for the US Declaration of Rights. It seems that the Virginia Declaration, despite some prefatory verbiage, only applied to an elite minority of its citizens, as, similarly, did the US declaration of rights itself.

It is also World Day Against Child Labour, heh. Silly furriners. We, of course, are exceptional and stand tall and see further and hence see multiple states pushing to legalize child labor and a substantial increase in the number of violations of child labor laws by employers. Per the Economic Policy Institute (https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/):

In the past two years, at least 10 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back child labor protections

Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin, for those keeping score. Also

Child labor violations are on the rise

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according to DOL, the number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws in fiscal year 2022 increased 37% over FY2021 and 283% over FY2015

I saw an article recently claiming that this was due to a labor shortage, but we all know that to be code for "a shortage of people willing to work for next to nothing". The point is, that the drop in labor costs from using child labor will definitely raise share prices, and that is what life is all about, n'est ce pas?

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On this day in history:

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1381 – Rebels arrived at Blackheath in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.

1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights was adopted (Heh, B.S. much guys?)

1798 – British troops began shelling the town of Ballynahinch.

1898 – The Philippines declared their independence from Spain. (but not the U.S., heh)

1942 – Anne Frank received a diary as a birthday present

1944 – Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secured the town of Carentan

1963 – Medgar Evers was murdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith

1964 – Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison

1967 – Loving v. Virginia was decided, voiding all laws that prohibited interracial marriage

1990 – Russia Day: The Russian Federation's parliament declared its sovereignty

1991 – Russians elected Boris Yeltsin president

1999 – A NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) entered Kosovo

2016 – A mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fl, killed 49.

2018 – Trump and Kim Jong-un had a first ever meeting between rulers of US & DPRK

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Some people who were born on this day:

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

~~ Djuna Barnes

1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1577 – Paul Guldin, astronomer and mathematician

1802 – Harriet Martineau, sociologist and author

1806 – John A. Roebling, engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge

1827 – Johanna Spyri, author, best known for Heidi

1843 – David Gill, astronomer and author

1851 – Oliver Lodge, physicist and academic

1864 – Frank Chapman, ornithologist, photographer, and author

1890 – Egon Schiele, painter

1892 – Djuna Barnes, novelist, journalist, and playwright; wrote Nightwood

1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, biochemist, received a Nobel for coenzyme A

1899 – Weegee, photographer and photojournalist

1908 – Marina Semyonova, soviet ballerina and educator

1910 – Bill Naughton, playwright and author

1918 – Georgia Louise Harris Brown, architect

1920 – Dave Berg, (mostly mad) cartoonist

1922 – Margherita Hack, astrophysicist and author

1928 – Vic Damone, actor, singer and songwriter

1929 – Anne Frank, diarist

1930 – Jim Nabors, actor and singer

1931 – Trevanian, author

1931 – Rona Jaffe, author

1932 – Mimi Coertse, singer

1933 – Eddie Adams, photographer and photojournalist

1937 – Vladimir Arnold, mathematician

1941 – Chick Corea, pianist and composer

1941 – Roy Harper, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor

1941 – Reg Presley, singer and songwriter

1942 – Len Barry, singer and songwriter

1949 – John Wetton, singer, songwriter and bassist

1950 – Bun E. Carlos, drummer

1951 – Brad Delp, musician and singer

1952 – Junior Brown, country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1952 – Pete Farndon, bass player and songwriter

1953 – Rocky Burnette, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1958 – Meredith Brooks, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1959 – John Linnell, singer, songwriter, and musician

1968 – Bobby Sheehan, bassist and songwriter

1977 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1979 – Robyn, singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer

1985 – Blake Ross, programmer & co-creator of Firefox

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Some people who died on this day:

No two persons ever read the same book.

~~ Edmund Wilson

1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, "explorer"

1778 – Philip Livingston, American slaver & politician who wanted to impose economic sanctions on Great Britain

1900 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, journalist and author

1917 – Teresa Carreño, singer, songwriter, pianist, and conductor

1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

1963 – Medgar Evers, activist

1972 – Edmund Wilson, critic, essayist, and editor

1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist

2011 – Carl Gardner, singer (The Coasters)

2012 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, psychoanalyst and author

2018 – Jon Hiseman, English drummer

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Loving Day

World Day Against Child Labour





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Today's Tunes



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Halley's Comet

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Medgar Evers

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Vic Damone

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Jim Nabors

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Mimi Coertse

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Chick Corea

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Roy Harper

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Reg Presley

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Len Barry

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John Wetton

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Bun E. Carlos

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Brad Delp

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Pete Farndon

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Meredith Brooks

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John Linnell

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Bobby Sheehan

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd

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Jimmy Dorsey

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Carl Gardner

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Jon Hiseman

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Bonus #1

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Bonus #2

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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?

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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com



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