Quote: 

 

 

Have Fun With This Little Oldies Test

 
 

1. When did ''Little Suzie'' finally wake up?

 

(a) The movie's over, it's 2 o'clock

(b) The movie's over, it's 3 o'clock

© The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock

 

 

2. ''Rock Around The Clock'' was used in what movie?

 

(a) Rebel Without A Cause

(b) Blackboard Jungle

© The Wild Ones

 

 

3. What's missing from a Rock & Roll standpoint?

Earth _____

 

(a) Angel

(b) Mother

© Worm

 

 

4. ''I found my thrill...'' where?

 

(a) Kansas City

(b) Heartbreak Hotel

© Blueberry Hill

 

 

5. ''Please turn on your magic beam

_____ _____ bring me a dream,''

 

(a) Mr. Sandman

(b) Earth Angel

© Dream Lover

 

 

6. For which label did Elvis Presley first record?

 

(a) Atlantic

(b) RCA

© Sun

 

 

7. He asked, ''Why's everybody always pickin' on me?'' Who was he?

 

(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

(b) Charlie Brown

© Buster Brown

 

 

8. In Bobby Darin's ''Mack The Knife,'' the one with the knife, was named:

 

(a) Mac Heath

(b) Mac Cloud

© McNamara

 

 

9. Name the song with

''A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.''

(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly
(b) Be-Bop-A-Lula
© Tutti Fruitti


10. Who is generally given credit for originating the term ''Rock And Roll''?

(a) Dick Clark
(b) Wolfman Jack
© Alan Freed

11. In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:

(a) Little Richard
(b) Frankie Lymon
© Tony Orlando


12. Paul Anka's ''Puppy Love'' is written to what star?

(a) Brenda Lee
(b) Connie Francis
© Annette Funicello


13. The Everly Brothers were.....

(a) Pete and Dick
(b) Don and Phil
© Bob and Bill


14. The Big Bopper's real name was:

(a) Jiles P. Richardson
(b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
© Marion Michael Morrison


15. In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr., started a small record company called...

(a) Decca
(b) Cameo
© Motown


16. Edd Brynes had a hit with ''Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb''. What TV show was he on?

(a) 77 Sunset Strip
(b) Hawaiian Eye
© Surfside Six


17. In 1960 Bobby Darin married:

(a) Carol Lynley
(b) Sandra Dee
© Natalie Wood


18. They were a one hit wonder with ''Book Of Love''

(a) The Penguins
(b) The Monotones
© The Moonglows


19. The Everly Brothers sang a song called
''Till I ______ You.''

(a) Loved
(b) Kissed
© Screwed..i wish it was this one
(d) Met


20. Chuck Berry sang
''Oh, ___________, why can't you be true?''

(a) Suzie Q
(b) Peggy Sue
© Maybelline


21. ''Wooly _______''

(a) Mammouth
(b) Bully
© Pully


22. ''I'm like a one-eyed cat....."

(a) can't go into town no more
(b) sleepin' on a cold hard floor
© peepin' in a seafood store


23. ''Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do........''

(a) cause there ain't no answer for a life without booze
(b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
© cause my car's gassed up and I'm ready to cruise


24. ''They often call me Speedo, but my real name is......''

(a) Mr. Earl
(b) Jackie Pearl
© Milton Berle


25. ''Be Bop A Lula ....''

(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
© she loves me, maybe


26. ''Fine Love, Fine Kissing …..''

(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
© just for you


27. ''He wore black denim trousers and …..''

(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
© motorcycle boots

28. ''I got a gal named……....''

 

(a) Jenny Zamboni

(b) Gerri Mahoney

© Boney Maroney

 

 

Answers:

 
                                                                        
 

 

 

 

 

Scroll Down so you aren't tempted to cheat (as if cheating were needed here).

* * * * * * * * * * * *

1. © The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock
2. (b) Blackboard Jungle
3. (a) Angel
4. © Blueberry Hill
5. (a) Mr. Sandman
6. © Sun
7. (b) Charlie Brown
8. (a) Mac Heath
9. © Tutti Fruitti
10. © Alan Freed
11. (a) Little Richard
12. © Annette Funicello
13. (b) Don and Phil
14. (a) Jiles P. Richardson
15. © Motown
16. (a) 77 Sunset Strip
17. (b) Sandra Dee
18. (b) The Monotones
19. (b) Kissed
20. © Maybelline
21. (b) Bully
22. © peepin' in a sea food store
23. (b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
24. (a) Mr. Earl
25. (b) she's my baby
26. (a) right here
27. © motorcycle boots
28. © Boney Maroney
 

Quote:Pentagon’s 2023 Report on China’s Military and Security Developments (October 19, 2023)

From the report

The 2022 National Security Strategy states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the only competitor to the United States with the intent and, increasingly, the capacity to reshape the international order. As a result, the 2022 National Defense Strategy identifies the PRC as the “pacing challenge” for the Department of Defense. As the PRC seeks to achieve “national rejuvenation” by its centenary in 2049, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders view a modern, capable, and “world class” military as essential to overcoming what Beijing sees as an increasingly turbulent international environment.

The DoD annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China charts the current course of the PRC’s national, economic, and military strategy, and offers insight on the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) strategy, current capabilities and activities, as well as its future modernization goals.

In 2022, the PRC turned to the PLA as an increasingly capable instrument of statecraft. Throughout the year, the PLA adopted more coercive actions in the Indo-Pacific region, while accelerating its development of capabilities and concepts to strengthen the PRC’s ability to “fight and win wars” against a “strong enemy,” counter an intervention by a third party in a conflict along the PRC’s periphery, and to project power globally. At the same time, the PRC largely denied, cancelled, and ignored recurring bilateral defense engagements, as well as DoD requests for military-to-military communication at multiple levels.


This report illustrates the importance of meeting the pacing challenge presented by the PRC’s increasingly capable military.

Report Scope: This report covers security and military developments involving the PRC until the end of 2022.

Quote:CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI)

The PRC uses BRI to support its strategy of national rejuvenation by seeking to expand global transportation and trade linkages to support its development and deepen its economic integration with nations along its periphery and beyond.

In 2022, BRI projects saw mixed economic outcomes, experiencing both growth and decline. However, overall spending on BRI projects remained consistent with the previous year and Beijing continued to prioritize public health, digital infrastructure, and green energy opportunities.

Overseas development and security interests under BRI will drive the PRC towards expanding its overseas security relationships and presence to protect those interests.

Quote:People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). The PRC has numerically the largest navy in the world with an overall battle force of over 370 ships and submarines, including more than 140 major surface combatants. The PLAN is largely composed of modern multi-mission ships and submarines. In 2022, the PLAN launched its third aircraft carrier, CV-18 Fujian.

• It also commissioned its third YUSHEN class Amphibious Assault Ships (LHA) and has likely begun construction on a fourth as of early 2023. In the near-term, the PLAN will have the ability to conduct long-range precision strikes against land targets from its submarine and surface combatants using land-attack cruise missiles, notably enhancing the PRC’s power projection capability.
  

• The PRC continues to challenge foreign military activities in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in a manner that is inconsistent with the rules of customary international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. At the same time, the PLAN conducts activities in the EEZs of other countries, including the United States, Australia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
  

Quote:SPECIAL TOPIC: PLA SELF-ASSESSMENT

The PLA highlights some self-assessed shortcomings publicly, likely to guide and accelerate force- wide modernization efforts. The PLA routinely use set slogans or phrases to describe these self- assessments to exhort the force to carry out specific campaigns. These evaluations also likely represent genuine anxieties among PRC leaders about the PLA’s readiness and ability to conduct joint operations if tested under real combat conditions. The five PLA slogans are described on the next page.

What an Idiot !

I haven't digested this 3-part series paper, so just passing along if anyone interested. First link is a summary article.


Comet Airburst Initiated Transition to Agriculture 12,800 Years Ago



Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 1: Shock-fractured quartz grains support 12,800-year-old cosmic airburst at the Younger Dryas onset.

Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 2: Additional evidence supporting the catastrophic destruction of this prehistoric village by a cosmic airburst ~12,800 years ago.

Quote:Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 3: Comet airbursts triggered major climate change 12,800 years ago that initiated the transition to agriculture.

Conclusions

Previous investigations at Abu Hureyra, Syria, reported that the YDB stratum contains abundance peaks in high-temperature meltglass, nanodiamonds, magnetic spherules, carbon spherules, platinum, iridium, nickel, and chromium. This contribution builds on those investigations and presents an integrated suite of high-resolution quantitative data and novel interpretations for transitioning from hunting-gathering to hunting-cultivating at the Abu Hureyra site. Our investigation reveals slow changes in site utilization by humans for centuries up until and just after the YD onset, punctuated by a significant, abrupt change immediately at the YD onset. Thus, our investigation provides substantial additional support for the hypothesis that a cometary airburst occurred close to Abu Hureyra, proposed as one of many nearly simultaneous airbursts broadly distributed over five continents. We suggest that fragments producing these airbursts were derived from a disintegrating, ~100-km-wide large comet. This encounter is proposed to have triggered hemispheric YD climate change. Locally, this abruptly and fundamentally changed the lifestyles of Abu Hureyra villagers, as reflected in the adoption of persistent selective cultivation of domestic-type wild grains and legumes and initial control of wild animals leading to domestication. This change was a vital initial step in transitioning from exclusive hunting-gathering to sustained agriculture and herding.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companie...1268&ei=64

I have never understood why we have allowed other countries to buy up land in the US, especially China.
I'm glad they are making them sell the land and wish other states would do the same.

But it does sound like farmers have had enough, and are raising concerns, but is it too late?

For the first time in History, the Iranians have placed the black flag over the Imam Reza Shrine in Khorasan.

   

https://bnn.network/world/iran/black-fla...-khorasan/

From the article:

"This is not a standard flag; it resonates deeply with Islamic prophecy, echoing a Hadith about Khorasan."

At approximately the same time as the raising of the flag, an official tweet from the Iranian embassy in Syria said  "Time is up" in Hebrew.

   

A couple important things to note, this shrine is IN Khorasan and is a mosque that Mohammed prophecied would be a shrine of pilgrimage. (And Shi'i do make pilgrimage to this shrine)

Khorasan in particular is also the place where it is said Imam Mahdi will be from when he engages in the final wars...

Ahadith says:

تَخْرُجُ مِنْ خُرَاسَانَ رَايَاتٌ سُودٌ لَا يَرُدُّهَا شَيْءٌ حَتَّى تُنْصَبَ بِإِيلِيَاءَ

"Black standards will come from Khorasan, nothing shall turn them back until they are planted in Jerusalem."
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2269

Another tradition attributed to Thawban in which Mohammed said:

يَقْتَتِلُ عِنْدَ كَنْزِكُمْ ثَلاَثَةٌ كُلُّهُمُ ابْنُ خَلِيفَةٍ ثُمَّ لاَ يَصِيرُ إِلَى وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ تَطْلُعُ الرَّايَاتُ السُّودُ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَشْرِقِ فَيَقْتُلُونَكُمْ قَتْلاً لَمْ يُقْتَلْهُ قَوْمٌ

Three will fight one another for your treasure, each one of them the son of a caliph, but none of them will gain it. Then the black banners will come from the east, and they will kill you in an unprecedented manner.

Then he said:

فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فَبَايِعُوهُ وَلَوْ حَبْوًا عَلَى الثَّلْجِ فَإِنَّهُ خَلِيفَةُ اللَّهِ الْمَهْدِيُّ

"When you see them, then pledge your allegiance to them even if you have to crawl over the snow, for that is the caliph of Allah, Al-Mahdi."

Source: Sunan Ibn Mājah 4084

Even the Muslim apologists note the Khorasan symbolism and I personally see this as a call from Iran to arms.

I think everyone sees it the same way as western Embassies all over the middle east are under attack at this present moment.

In Turkey the American Embassy and military base are under attack. (Being NATO allies is a joke, we should have left NATO when Turkey joined). In Jordan the Israeli Embassy is under attack, In Iraq the US embassy is under attack, and also the French and British Embassies are all under attack in Lebanon.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...assy-iran/


I believe the black flag and the tweet from the Syrian embassy was a particular call to attack embassies, and people listened.

I believe Iran is 100% in it at this point, if they weren't in it from the start. They have a plan in place, and we would be wise to see it as a larger threat than we currently might imagine it to be.

I enjoyed this take on Libya's history

Quote:Space Force Pauses All Use of Generative AI

Space Bots

The brave Guardians of Space Force, the American military unit created to protect us feeble terrestrial Americans from various space-related threats, has announced a new and Earthly foe: generative AI.

As Bloomberg reports, Space Force leaders have forbidden their Guardians — the unfortunate name given to the military branch's members — from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT on government devices, arguing that the web-based AI tools present security risks, among other concerns.

In an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg, Space Force chief technology and innovation officer Linda Costa reportedly told Guardians that while generative AI "will undoubtedly revolutionize our workforce and enhance Guardian's ability to operate at speed," she emphasized that the tech must be integrated responsibly. Which, at least for now, seems to mean abstaining from using generative AI tools at all, with Costa citing "concerns over cybersecurity, data handling, and procurement requirement" in the September 29 memo, according to Bloomberg.

Angry Guy

Costa's reservations, particularly her concerns regarding sensitive US military data, are fair. When we use products like ChatGPT, our interactions are swallowed up into the ever-data-hungry models, stored and saved for training purposes; thus, if a Space Force Guardian were to, say, ask ChatGPT to drum up a report embedded with sensitive government information, said sensitive data could get vacuumed into OpenAI's system and out of the department's control.

Our glorious Space Force also isn't the only prominent entity to ban generative AI. Companies including Apple and Verizon have prohibited the tech from corporate systems over similar data and privacy fears, and at least one major company, Samsung, has already experienced an embarrassing, chatbot-assisted data leak.

But according to the Bloomberg report, some folks are apparently pretty peeved by Space Force's decision — namely, a guy named Nicolas Chaillan, the former chief software officer in the Defense Department and current founder and CEO of a chatbot company called Ask Sage.

Claiming that his bot meets Space Force's security requirements, Challain told Bloomberg that the Guardians' decision is "short-sighted," adding that his tool has around 10,000 customers in the Defense Department alone. (Per Bloomberg, in a September email to Costa and other defense officials, Challain declared that not using his tech would "put us years behind China," though it's unclear how abstaining from using one dude's chatbot might have such an effect.)

It's weird to imagine Defense Department employees using chatbots to write their reports. We never thought we'd say this, but: hats off to the Guardians. Responsible, thoughtful adoption of AI, especially when it comes to our government institutions, is and will continue to be incredibly important — and right now, it feels like they're doing things right.

Quote:ChatGPT Sparks U.S. Debate Over Military Use of AI

The Defense Department currently is modernizing its nuclear command, control, and communications systems, including through the widespread integration of advanced AI systems. Some analysts fear that this process will dilute human control over nuclear launch decision-making. (See ACT, April 2020.)

To ensure that machines never replace humans in this momentous role, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced the Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Act on April 26. If enacted, the law would prohibit the use of federal funds to “use an autonomous weapons system that is not subject to meaningful human control…to launch a nuclear weapon; or…to select or engage targets for the purposes of launching a nuclear weapon.”

Quote:Hangar 18 as a Department of the Air Force software factory

Matthew Jacobsen, director of Hangar 18, cited Roper’s articles “There is no spoon” and “Bending the spoon” as significant in the formation of the software factories and Hangar 18’s charter.

Chaillan abruptly left his role as Chief Software Officer Sept. 2, 2021, citing disappointment with Air Force software development.

“I think that Mr. Chaillan saw a lot of potential in the cloud, DevSecOps and Agile space, and, ultimately, we see his departure as, what will hopefully be, a forcing function for Air Force leadership and DOD leadership to change how they mean to address this problem.”

Quote:The Air Force’s chief software officer Nic Chaillan announced his departure in a blistering online post Thursday that criticized senior leaders for not taking IT modernization seriously and hamstringing senior IT leaders.

I am actually shocked that NBC is reporting this. They found Hamas documents on some of them with their "instructions".

Gather hostages from schools, daycares, dining facilities, etc. with how to move the children out to Gaza.

The Children WERE the main target!