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“Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.” ~Hunter S Thompson

You can't spell murder-suicide w/o U & I. 

Today, I have successful survived 12,784 (plus 4) days on this planet Earth, while hurling thru space, make a blistering trip around the Sun at 67,000 miles an hour. 

According to the Gregorian calendar, I was born on a Monday, February 8, 1982. But under the Julian calendar, this day would have been January 26, 1982 – which is also a Monday... so Feb 8... Jan 26... while they're 13 days away, either way, they're both still Mondays. 

Brenda Spencer, elementary school girl from San Diego California, really hated Mondays too... good ol Brenda Spencer... what's she been up to these days?  [oh... really? for life? okay... well I guess Mondays hated her back]

I've seen a few grammys usually fall on my birthday, but most of the time, nothing happened, no historical event, no major political battle or war or manuever... well, there was one event, that happened on the exact day of Feb 8, 1982... the longest playing infield changed in MLB. 1982; "dodgers trade davey lopes to A's breaking up the longest playing infield" (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey); 

Mostly nothing historical happens on Feb 8, and if it does, it's a music festival... so not too shabby. 
Plus a great spiritual philosopher-god of the Western World was born on that day. 

Ronald Reagan had been President for 2 years now, Time cover said "unemployment the biggest worry". Americans were rocking out to "Centerfold" by J Geils Band music... "my blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold... my angel is a centerfold" the #1 song at the time. xxx Reagan administration reported international human rights conditions were declining in central america & several african nations. El Salvador... South Africa; Soviet Union's activities in Poland & Afghanistan were sharply criticized.Poles were pissed at the occupation; Roman Catholic wanted to get solidarity movement going. reagan ends medicaid paying for abortions; Rent Stabilization Association; xxx

"Quest for Fire" was the #1 movie... about cavemen finding fire... it was slow & boring. I hated it. 

"You're tearing me apart!" ~James Dean; Births: James Dean 1931 in Marion, Indiana; Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant; died 24 years of age; Rebel without a Cause was ok... Giant seemed ok, just 3 hours long... never saw "East of Eden".

SNL actress Cecily Strong ... hmmm... Cecily Strong & me have the same birthday, there's a conversation starter. 

1865, Delaware rejects 13th Amendement, voting in favor of continuing slavery; Delaware... after fighting for the Union; wtf Delaware!?! 

Minimum wage was $3.35. gas $1.19/gallon; milk $1.79 gallon; $12k was average income. 

2021 will be the exact same calendar year as 1982 was.

Amethyst is modern birthstone for February;

Bloodstone is mystical birthstone (based on Tibetian origin) for February;

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120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175)

412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)

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Age of Aquarius... Dog is the mythical animal and Water is the element for this person if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology.Astrology is bullshit... your planet has aligned... 

Astrology sounds scientific, but it's all bullshit. 

So, to recap, Astrology is bullshit, but astronomy, the study of outer space, is real. 

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Feb 8: 1926 Walt Disney Studios forms; a victory for anti-semitism;

1672; Isaac Newton, scientific revolutionary, reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London; Isaac Newton was born on Dec 25. He's actually real.

1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act; in fact, some white supremacists voted for it, thinking it would kill Civil Rights; 

1994 Jack Nicholson uses a 2 iron golf club to smash the window & roof of Robert Blank's Mercedes Benz after Blank cut Jack off in traffic. he was playn a vengengeful character in movie "The Crossing Guard"... misdemeanors of assault & vandalism... paid dude $500,000 for the incident.

1834, Dmitri Ivanovich Medeleyev, Russian chemist, developed the periodic table of elements. I wished I had a poster of the periodic table on my wall. 

1828. Jules Verne, author of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days, was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, France.written 1860's and 1870's , Karl Benz did not build the first fully working car until 1885.  Man did not land on the moon for more than 100 years after "From the Earth to the Moon" was published. 

1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (d. 1891)

Mary Steenbergen 1953... Back to the Future Part III (1990), Philadelphia (1993), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Powder, Elf (2003) & Step Brothers (2008); 

journalist Ted Koppel actress Lana Turner 1921 actor Seth Green 1974 author John Grisham 1955

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2013 An investigation is taking place over recent hacking incident involving a hacker gaining access to the email accounts of former President George H. W. Bush, his friends and relatives; great hacker success, whose name may never reach the history books. 

1955 The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province in Pakistan. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. Land reform, the fundamental basis for Revolution; 

1865 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany

1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1 "I'm too sexy for my shirt.. so sexy... yeah" 
1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death; 1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death; burned to death in Rome by the Catholic Church. GB said that the stars were suns, only further away, and that they too could have planets with life circling around them just like our sun does; he also believed that the universe was infinite, and therefore, no celestial body could be at it's center; beginning in 1593, GB was tried for heresy... Roman Inquisition... denying core Catholic doctrines, eternal damnation, Trinity, divinity of Christ, virginity of Mary & transubstantiation. 

On 20 January 1600, Pope Clement VIII declared Bruno a heretic and the Inquisition issued a sentence of death. According to the correspondence of Gaspar Schopp of Breslau, he is said to have made a threatening gesture towards his judges and to have replied: Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam ("Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it"). He was turned over to the secular authorities. On 17 February 1600, in the Campo de' Fiori (a central Roman market square), with his "tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words", he was burned at the stake. His ashes were thrown into the Tiber river. All of Bruno's works were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1603. Inquisition cardinals who judged Giordano Bruno were: Cardinal Bellarmino (Bellarmine), Cardinal Madruzzo (Madruzzi), Cardinal Camillo Borghese (later Pope Paul V), Domenico Cardinal Pinelli, Pompeio Cardinal Arrigoni, Cardinal Sfondrati, Pedro Cardinal De Deza Manuel, Cardinal Santorio (Archbishop of Santa Severina, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina). 

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1957 SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall

1990 CBS suspends Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine; old mean pos. suspension without pay for 3 months; "homosexuality leads to premature death..." & "black folks are watering down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones who have the most children, they drop out of school early, do drugs, get pregnant." 

1587; Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded ;  Mary, Queen of Scots, was arrested, put on trial, and then executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. death knell of Scotland’s independence; Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–87), the last monarch of a truly separate Scotland? a martyr of Scottish nationhood; As her ladies-in-waiting wept, Mary dutifully finished her prayers as she faced the scaffolding and a crowd of 500 onlookers. The executioner fell to his knees and asked for her forgiveness. With composure and a smile on her face, she quietly forgave him and allowed her ladies-in-waiting to help her remove her articles of clothing and place a handkerchief over her eyes. As she lay her head on the block, she cried out In manus tuas, Domine multiple times. After two strokes of the executioner's axe, her head was severed from her body. Taking her head with his hand, the executioner lifted her head-dress off, revealing her once famously fair hair had turned grey. "God save Queen Elizabeth! May all the enemies of the true Evangel thus perish!" he cried out. According to record, Mary's lips quivered for several minutes after her decapitation. It was said that her beloved dog had been hiding underneath her clothes and faithfully stayed with her blood-soaked body.

1920 Bolshevik troops capture Odessa, bringing an end to foreign involvement in the resistance against Bolshevik rule

1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk

1982 – died; John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904); 

Feb 8 1725, Peter the great... the great? Why is Peter so fkn great? What makes him so great? his mustache? his peter? emperor of russia, dies at 52. reminds us all, that all people die, even those who think they're better than others, and can therefore rule over them. Viva Liberte! 

8 Feb, 1952 - Queen Elizabeth the Second; Princess Elizabeth has formally proclaimed herself Queen and Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith declaring her reign as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. 1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc; 
just proclaims it... that's all it takes to be a monarch!?! to just declare it? Then fine... I'm the Green Party Revolutionary Iconoclaster God of the world. 

1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". What's that mean? IDK who gives a shit. Elizabeth probably had Princess Diana executed. 

8 Feb, 2005 - Peace Between Israel and Palestine; Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have declared a truce to end four years of Middle East violence.Hamas said they're not bound by ceasefire; israel handed over 5 west bank towns to palestinians in 3 weeks and release 500 prisoners.  under W, but still no peace in middle east; 

1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal; 8 Feb, 1973 - Watergate; 8th February, 1973 : The US Senate approved the formation of a special committee to investigate the Watergate bugging incident. 

1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras; Hillary & Obama would do the same in 2009... she was a war monger... and very shrill. [mock her... just riff] HONDURAS: This stage-managed “revolution” was launched by an American banana planter who was angry at President Miguel Davila’s efforts to limit his land holdings and tax his exports. It was planned, in part, at the May Evans bordello in the Storyville section of New Orleans. American troops arrived to assure its success, and by early 1911, Davila had been forced into exile. Honduras, like Nicaragua, remains poor and unstable. Miguel Dávila into the Honduran presidency. This led in 1911 and 1912 to something more serious than periodic revolutions. The U.S. president, William Howard Taft, sent marines to protect American banana investments, which by this time had grown considerably, with three companies exploiting this Honduran product. All three made large capital outlays in the form of improved port facilities, railroads, workers’ settlements, and similar developments.

1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage... the men of Switzerland voted against women's right to vote in 1920! 

1980 President Jimmy Carter revealed his plan to reinstate selective service draft registration. While we didn't bomb anybody during Jimmy Carter's regime, he still wanted to reinstate the draft... wtf Jimmy!?! 

1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta; 3 months in jail awaiting bail; sentenced to 5 years in prison; mail fraud? deported to Jamaica after Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence. 

1963. 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)

1968. Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg); 1968; Orangeburg massacre, attack on black students from SC State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves 3 or 4 dead in Orangeburg, SC. 

1924. The gas chamber is used for the first time to execute a murderer.

2008 Nebraska bans electric chair as execution method. unconstitutional; The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that the electric chair is a violation of human dignity, and as such, is unconstitutional. "Electrocution's proven history of burning and charring bodies is inconsistent with both the concepts of evolving standards of decency and the dignity of man.' It went on to say that electrocution 'has proven itself to be a dinosaur more befitting the laboratory of Baron Frankenstein than the death chamber."

1870 The National Weather Service was established under the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Scientific Achievements: 
1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen

1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla

8 Feb, 1922 - Radio Installed In White House; President Warren G. Harding has a radio installed in the White House signaling it's increased use, acceptance in America. 

1924 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic

1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York

1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV

1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions

1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247

1963, the first full color television program in the world, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena; 

1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

1996 massive internet collaboration 24 Hours in CyberSpace takes place; 

1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period

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Feb 8, 1982... which is a palindrome, 2 - 8 - 82... is when I, Johnathan Daniel Masters, aka Tsunami, aka Crazy Blackheart, born, at 12:08pm, just shortly afternoon, at St. Elizabeth hospital south in Covington, Kentucky, Kenton County, after being immaculately conceived 9 months prior. 

I stayed at the hospital for 3 nights
went to live in Camp Ernst road in Boone County, KY, in a shack on a sharecroppers' land, with a mean ol landlord, for a year, and then I moved to Gallatin County, KY, which is where I spent most of my childhood years. 

My African & German roots run deep. Cursed with this god forsaken English tongue... 
sub-Saharan African blood & German blood too, coursing through my arteries; 
Masters' Kunte Kinte... mysterious 11% Black blood pulsating thru my veins. 
Mary Margaret Bilz, 
Bavarian ... silly German outfits, the overalls bib shorts... the goofy German hats... 
Bohemian ... badasses... they're out of the Bohemian forest, which is the Czech Republic today. Maximilian Domaschko... 
Bohemians were the hippies before the hippies, in Amerika... Walt Whitman was a bohemian. An American bohemian.
Austrian... Waginger, Marie Waginger, Max's wife; 
Prussians... which is where Amerika gets it's university & educational system from... 
Johann Gripshover & Catherine Brueggemann of Ferdinand & Elizabeth Hellmann & Bernard Gripshover's lineage, the Lion tribe & the  Bear tribe. To the raccoon clan, we don't know where you're at, but if you're alive & well, we all hope you're safe. 

Some English roots, Alexander Deaton, out of Eastern Kentucky. They were feudists & plantation owners & mountaineers. Thomas Depot Tom Deaton; Edward & Sarah; Karl Kautz; Marie Wachenheim; Sally Ann Baker; David H Chitwood; Tennessee Chitwoods ... 

1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract

1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed;

1933 -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)

2013 100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka

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Cow was my first word; I liked eating Cream of Wheat, which has the initials C.O.W... coincidence? 

I was born on a Monday. On that previous Sunday night, Lucy had to split firewood to keep the house warm. She worked up to the day she gave birth to me. 

Lucy & Kevin had been married for two years, and they found a nice quiet country house for them to begin to raise their family. As sharecroppers on Camp Ernst Road in Boone County, KY, they were able to find 100 acres from an old farmer. The 100 acres also had a brand new bilevel house built upon it. The house was "gorgeous", but because it existed down a mile long dirt driveway, the landlord had a difficult time finding tenants. It was $250/month, and it also had a tobacco quota on it, so tobacco could be raised on the land. At first, a tractor had to driven over the rocky terrain in order to get to the house. Eventually, Kevin would borrow a snow plow from Lucy's brothers, and scrapped the driveway flatter, which helped, somewhat. As long as you drove slow, you'd be okay. 

Just after Midnight, Lucy woke up in the middle of the night to find out that her water broke. Kevin was downstairs, and he saw her water drip through the floor. He asked her what was going on. She said she was going into labor. They hopped into the old 4x4 brown pick-up truck, drove to the end of the mile long rocky dirt driveway, made a phone call from the neighbor's house (since they didn't have phone service), and then proceeded to drive to St. Elizabeth Hospital South in Covington, Ky. 

Dave Kelley once told me that his children gave him so much happiness when they were children, that he could only hope to give that joy back to them when they were older. While I wrecked my mother's body, which I'm sorry about. Lucy gave birth to me naturally, no C-section, nor epidurals were given. 

in labor for 12 hours; when the pain hit, i was pray Hail Mary & Our Father, make her brain focus on something else; 

he didn't take the pregnancy classes so he couldn't be in the labor room... Lucy was squeezing his hand really tight... can u let go of my hand? 

She was in labor for 12 hours, and I was 8 lbs, 12 ounces. my birth consummated their relationship. best time of lucy & kevin's life; in love & loved every minute of it; show me to the world... look what i got; purchased calves, but didn't have shelter for them; built a locust loghouse; to raise the pigs, had to cross the creek... big long oak tree, built a bridge, used a wedge, fell the tree... taught her how to plow the land on that farm; 
brought me home on the tractor... carried me without complications; 

told nurse she wished she had her mother; eve showed up & helped out a bunch; nurse had 7 kids, and said she can hold Lucy's hand, but the contractions are going to hurt... just look at that nail & just breathe... 

Eve was at the hospital when I was being born; Eve showed up.... n hospital for 3 days. 

granny & barbara were there; peed on them both; initiated them; i was born in perfect health, had to come back in 3 days... still perfect. 8 pounds, 12 ounces; hospital gave a dinner, parents... lil dinner... lil tiny chicken; cornish; 






























































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