Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Nov 20, 1946: Let the Las Vegas gluttony begin! The El Rancho Vegas opened the first ALL YOU CAN EAT Chuck Wagon buffet. Conceived by Herb McDonald, the Buckaroo Buffet cost $1 and promised every possible variety of hot and cold entrees to appease the howling coyote in your innards. Later a lunch buffet was added.

McDonald was a Strip visionary. He was instrumental in bringing the Beatles to Vegas, created major golf tournaments and convinced the National Finals Rodeo to move from Oklahoma in 1984. His greatest accomplishment was in the 50s, when he backed a special Nevada census that proved Las Vegas -not Reno- was the state's largest city...which led to a shift in the balance of economic power.

Bon Appétit...

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1919, McDonald attended Pasadena Junior College and Stanford University prior to serving three years as a Navy pilot during World War II. After the war, he became promotion and publicity manager for Music Corporation of America in Beverly Hills, California. In that position he booked acts for Las Vegas resorts. When he booked Peggy Lee for an engagement at the El Rancho Vegas in January 1946, she invited him to the opening, and when the owner offered him a position as entertainment director, Las Vegas became his lifelong home.

McDonald worked at a number of Strip properties besides the El Rancho: the Club Bingo, Silver Slipper and Last Frontier Village, and the Sahara, where he remained for over two decades. His work brought him into contact with some of the biggest names to visit Las Vegas. He played gin rummy with Bugsy Siegel when the mobster stayed at the El Rancho Vegas while contemplating his takeover of Billy Wilkerson's development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, picked up Howard Hughes at the airport when the famed aviator visited Las Vegas in the late 1940s, and hosted the Beatles at the Sahara when they performed in Las Vegas in 1964.

McDonald eventually became a senior vice president of Del Webb International, which purchased the Sahara Hotel, and he formed his own company, Herb McDonald Consultants, to produce golf tournaments.

Perhaps Herb McDonald's most lasting contribution was his development of a new generation of publicists. He developed a large publicity department at the Sahara and hired many college graduates and served as a valuable mentor to them as they developed their craft as Las Vegas publicists.

Online Nevada Encyclopedia

Nov 20, 1947: Balao-class submarine USS Greenfish (SS-351) sinking ex-German submarine U-234. The U-boat surfaced & surrendered one week after Germany's unconditional surrender with some high profile passengers & advanced weapons meant for Japan, allegedly including enriched uranium-235.


A possible scenario of the "escape of the Unholy Trinity," Martin Bormann (the money man), Heinrich "Gestapo" Müller (Black projects security) and the elusive Hans Kammler (administrative requirements of handling an advanced research project like the Bell) as extensively detailed in chapter 4 of Joseph P. Farrell's book "Nazi International".

Bormann and Müller arranged for body doubles to be planted and an escape-and-death scenario cultivated for postwar Allied and Soviet investigators, while arranging their flight from Berlin by air, and thence to Hamburg where the two boarded the U-234 which Bormann knew, by dint of a secret arrangement negotiated directly with the Americans very likely through OSS station chief in Zurich, Allen Dulles – that the U-234 would receive quiet and covert protection from them in order to secure the safe arrival of its nuclear cargo in the United States. This implies further that Bormann at least, and Müller and Kammler most likely, were accurately apprised on the actual state of affairs in the Manhattan Project, and knew of its crucial shortages of fissile uranium-235 as well as of its difficulties in making a plutonium bomb workable without the infusion that the U-234’s infrared proximity fuses could provide.

Nov 20, 1950: Stockpile depletion / A Few Atomic Secrets To Be Made Public


George R. Strauss [1901-1993] was the Minister of Supply in 1950, serving from October 1946 to October 1951.


Nov 20, 1951: We Give Thanks...
"We have free speech & freedom of the press, as we demonstrated in vehemenent protests against recent press censorship orders out of Washington."




Nov 20, 1952: "Current reports on the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific are like those old ones on flying saucers... My own calculations on the cleavage factor of hydrogen atom variables are done with a second hand Sears & Roebuck slide rule." Funny piece...




November 20, 1983: The Day After aired on ABC, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. It was watched by 100 million people — half of all American adults and remains the most-watched made-for-TV movie of all time. It is still the fifth-most watched non-Super Bowl American TV broadcast in history after the series finale of M*A*S*H*, the episode of Dallas where they revealed who shot J.R., the series finale of Cheers, and the 1994 Olympic Ladies’ figure skating contest (which drew interest due to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan controversy).


“The Day After, ABC‘s much-discussed vision of nuclear Armageddon, is no longer only a television film, of course; it has become an event, a rally and a controversy, much of it orchestrated.”
— The New York Times, November 20, 1983

In real life, a week later the US military shipped 41 nuclear tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles to be placed in Britain, Italy and West Germany.


Stacey Plaskett says she was texting with Epstein in a 2019 congressional hearing because he was just a constituent with concerns.

The endless saga is like an abyss that will go on & on for another 7, 8, 9 years...


https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1991179122341507261



A Chinese woman who became Philippine mayor with fake citizenship papers and ran a scam compound full of slaves, flees to Indonesia; finally extradited and sentenced to life. Thankfully this could never happen in America.

BONUS: Marcos plans to lock up half the government for corruption by Christmas listing 37 powerful senators, members of Congress and wealthy business people implicated in a massive flood control scandal.


Ex-Mayor Is Sentenced to Life for Human Trafficking Tied to Southeast Asia Scam Centers

Last year the ex-mayor seemed shaken when another Chicom spy facing similar charges in a third country warned her that Beijing had sold them out.  Actual moment: Alice Guo sees message from self-confessed Chinese spy: Video

Philippine politicians in jail by Christmas for corruption scandal, pres. says


While in prison give them the gift of TVeee for Christmas...



One way to understand the turmoil is a falling out among thieves. They are fighting for the loot. The system is collapsing but everyone does not want to be the last man standing to be gobbled up by the monster...

There's nothing hotter than a little blue-on-blue action, and things are getting steamy at Chicago's City Hall as Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies go to war with other Democrats over the scraps of the Windy City's finances.

We're in the endgame now.

Jim Talamonti reported for Center Square on Tuesday that Johnson's allies "launched a seven-figure campaign" to support the mayor's budget because opponents argue that "the mayor’s tax plans will send the city into an economic death spiral and could bring about costly litigation."

As of today, Chicago's political position is probably best described as paralysis.

The city council's finance commission rejected Johnson's tax package on Monday, leaving the council with no budget to vote on yesterday. But that's just the start.

While they have until Dec. 31 to approve a budget, the two sides — maybe best described as the Johnson Democrats and the Slightly Less Insane Democrats — are fighting over billions.

Chicago Board of Education member Norma Rios Sierra, a Johnson appointee, "threatened layoffs if aldermen did not approve Johnson’s plan to divert $1 billion in tax-increment financing funds to Chicago Public Schools."

The sticking point is Johnson's "head tax" on Chicago business, originally proposed as $21-per-month tax for every worker at a business with 100 or more employees. Under pressure, Johnson revised the head tax to firms with 200+ employees, but also offset revenue shortfalls by hiking the city's "cloud tax" on software/streaming services further (from 11% to 15%).

"Nice server farm you have there. Be a shame if something was to happen to it."

Here's the thing: Johnson's head tax isn't meant to provide property tax relief for families stuck with bigger bills — more on that in a moment — or pay for vital city services like police and fire. Instead, he hopes to raise $100 million for "violence prevention and mental health." In other words, a nine-figure slush fund for progressive nonprofits.

More than half the city's aldermen (aka city council members) oppose the head tax. 3rd Ward's Pat Dowell — the Finance Committee chair and a Johnson appointee — declared his opposition to a head tax "at any level."

Good lord, even Gov. JB Pritzker thinks it's a bad idea.

Then there's Johnson's proposal to tax social media, which might not even be legal. YOLO, right?

And Another Thing: Commercial real estate reportedly lost $400 million in value since the previous assessment, putting a bigger property tax burden on homeowners. Johnson doesn't seem to have a plan for that, maybe because he never saw a tax he wanted to cut.

Meanwhile, the city's pension system is an underfunded wreck that taxes can't fix, because there won't be any sheep left to shear — er, people and businesses left to tax — if the city imposed taxes big enough.

"What about the Republicans?" I can hear you ask. "Where are they in this fight?"

Let me crack the jokes, OK?

No Republican has been mayor or held city clerk, treasurer, or similar roles in decades. There isn't a single registered Republican on the city council. Everybody knows that Chicago is the most reliably Democratic big city in the country, with Republicans basically shut out of the municipal government for most of a century. Not even San Francisco can match that.

So maybe the Republicans are hiding in their basements with their ammo, waiting for the worst to pass. Or maybe they're already in Florida, waiting for that property tax repeal to become law.

Is Chicago really in the endgame? It's impossible to know for sure, and to paraphrase Adam Smith, there's a lot of ruin in a big city. And you have to assume that, so long as there are sheep to be fleeced, competing Democrat factions will eventually set aside their differences long enough to wield the shears.

I guess the real question then is how long there will be enough sheep.

Endgame: Chicago

Just a theory, but I think what we all been witnessing here in 2025 is an intense warring battle between the elites from the puppet politicians to their masters at the top of the pyramid. All the corruption from the Guns, Oil, Drugs (G.O.D.) & human trafficking networks to the cartel banksters that funnel & launder the global economy like a conveyor belt of mass propaganda manure. Expect to see much more in the next year or two with more wars, political violence & assassinations. The wild West is going global.

Just like back in ancient times where we had "Houses" of elite wealthy families. They all knew each other, one group of Houses would form an alliance to do battle with the other elite houses. The poor peasants were stuck in between and forced to do battle. Eventually, we might end up with a modern Bronze Age collapse and then we'll have our existential crisis or RESET. That's one option to wipe out all the Western debt. Course, the aftermath on what becomes the brave new world probably won't sit well for most of us. I try to be an optimist and think, it'll all work out in the end. However, there will ALWAYS be winners & losers.