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08/14 is Social Security's Birthday [1]
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Date: 2023-08-14
Social Security is an administration, The Social Security Administration, as well as the program which it administers. It was created by the Social Security Act of 1935 which FDR signed into law on August 14, 1935. It is funded by a payroll tax commonly known as FICA ( Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and administered/enforced by the Internal Revenue Service. It was initially highly discriminatory in addition to its other flaws and has been amended several times. The 1956 amendments, in particular, created Medicare and Medicaid. It has also survived two Supreme Court Challenges. The original legislation was Pub. Law 74-241 and the US Code is 42 USC ch.7.
There really was a Macbeth, who really killed a king named Duncan
On this date in 1967, the UK passed extraterritorial legislation banning offshore "pirate" radio, far in excess of any semblance of legitimate authority against all of the jurisdictions and areas they were seizing effective control over.
Today is called Victory Day in the US. It used to be called VJ Day aka Victory over Japan Day, but they're now an important ally in our planned war on China. Besides, Honda, Nintendo, Nissan, Sony, Toshiba, Toyota, etc.
We also shouldn't forget National Navajo Code Talkers Day, especially in respect of the above, but, then again, damn near everybody does, for the obvious reasons.
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On this day in history:
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1040 King Duncan I fell in battle against Macbeth
1720 The Villasur military expedition was wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe
1842 Many Seminole were forced to move from Florida to Oklahoma.
1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead
1912 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua
1935 FDR signed the Social Security Act
1941 Churchill and FDR signed the Atlantic Charter
1945 The Viet Minh launched the August Revolution against the French colonial government
1967 The UK outlawed participation in offshore "pirate" radio, a blatant extra-territorial power grab.
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened in London
1980 Walensa leds strikes at Gdansk shipyards
2003 A major electrical blackout hit the northeast US and Canada.
2013 Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of pro-Morsi demonstrators
2015 The US Embassy in Havana re-opened after 54 years
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Some people who were born on this day:
Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally.
~~ Frank Oppenheimer
1530 Giambattista Benedetti, mathematician and physicist
1642 Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, high toned jackass
1714 Claude Joseph Vernet, painter
1777 Hans Christian Orsted, physicist and chemist
1840 Richard von Krafft-Ebing, professional voyeur, wrote Psychopathia Sexualis
1848 Margaret Lindsay Huggins, astronomer
1851 Doc Holliday, dentist, gambler, gunman
1912 Frank Oppenheimer, physicist
1926 Buddy Greco, singer and pianist
1940 Darrell "Dash" Crofts, singer, songwriter, musician
1941 David Crosby, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1942 Willie Dunn, singer and songwriter
1947 Maddy Prior, singer for Steeleye Span
1947 Danielle Steel, author
1950 Gary Larson, cartoonist
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Some people who died on this day:
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
~~ Bertolt Brecht
1870 David Farragut, admiral
1890 Michael J. McGivney, priest, founded the homophobic Knights of Columbus, candidate for sainthood because same
1951 William Randolph Hearst, yellow journalist, pushed to outlaw pot
1956 Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, director
1988 Roy Buchanan, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1988 Enzo Ferrari
2004 Czeslaw Milosz, novelist, essayist, and poet
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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National Creamsicle Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Social Security Day
Victory Day fka VJ Day
Partition Horrors Remembrance (India).
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Today's Tunes
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1912 US Invasion of Nicaragua
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Rocky Horror
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Havana Embassy: and yet they persevered
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Buddy Greco
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Darrell Crofts
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David Crosby
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Willie Dunn
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Maddy Prior
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Bertolt Brecht
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Roy Buchanan
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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
Open Thread, social security, Rocky Horror, nicaragua, Havana, Kraft-Ebbing, David Crosby, Tom Lehrer, Bertolt Brecht, Roy Buchanan
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