For almost 400 years the Ottoman Empire took slaves from the Western hemisphere because white slaves were the most prized. The line "Britons never never never shall be slaves" in the song "Rule Britannia" refers to this politically-erased era of British history.
In May 1998, “Saturday Night Live” star and voice actor Phil Hartman went to sleep inside his home in California.
He never woke up.
Late that night, after an argument, his wife, Brynn, walked into their bedroom and shot him three times while he slept. Their two young children were asleep down the hall.
She then drove to a friend’s house and told him what she had done. He did not believe her. So she brought him home and showed him the body.
The friend immediately called 911. As police arrived and led the children out of the house, Brynn locked herself in the bedroom with her husband’s body and shot herself.
At the time of his death, Phil had just been cast to voice a major character in the upcoming animated series “Futurama.” He never got the chance to record a single line.
Billy West, the actor who took over the role, later said the show’s main character was given his first name in Phil’s honor.
That character is Philip J. Fry.
Gentle reminder that this would mean the Aztecs continued with human sacrifices fueled by the ongoing conquest and colonization of their neighbors, and then somewhere along the way leaped from the Stone Age to this for no given reason.
JUST IN: U.S. & China are rapidly preparing for potential warfare in space, developing maneuverable “hunter” satellites & other orbital weapons. — Reuters
testing a new gun, I called it Magnetic Missile Launcher (MML), The rocket has a pull effect that attracts enemies toward it. placeholder effects. #retro#UZDoom#boomershooter#gamedev#scifi
🚨 JUST IN: Sheridan Gorman's angel mom just dropped this raw truth nuke straight to Democrat members of Congress
"I don't understand why it's only the REPUBLICAN side that cares about our American children!"
"Basically what you just did, what you said was, 'I'm so sorry for your loss. I have a daughter too. I have a son. I feel your pain...'"
"You DON'T feel my pain. Because the next words out of your mouth were, 'BUT.'"
"There's no 'BUT' when your child is in a coffin!"
"And I need you to understand that. And if you ever want to talk about it, I'm here, I'm going to buy you a bench. I'm going to buy. You can put that on the record. I'm going to buy Congress the bench. And they can come and sit and hold my hand and look me in the eye and explain to me why illegal immigrants are more important than my daughter. I really want to know what because I don't understand!"
JUST IN: Woman accused of following & photographing jurors outside the Lindsay Clancy trial could face up to 20 years in prison for jury intimidation.
First look at ‘OPTIMUS PRIME AWAKENING’, starring Peter Cullen in his final performance as Optimus Prime.
The 12-minute animated short is described as a love letter to the Transformers community & Peter Cullen.
(Source: https://t.co/A0jF3owm1k)
A reminder that Hayek dedicated The Road to Serfdom to “the socialists of all parties.”
The danger lies in central planning and coercive control, regardless of the party or ideology behind them.
Adam Smith warned against this “chess pieces fallacy” in his 1759 book The Theory of Moral Sentiments:
“The man of system... is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess–board.
He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess–board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess–board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.”