THURSDAY lives again!

Today is Heroes Day in Mozambique; a day to remember those who gave their lives in the struggle for independence. February 3 is the date that independence leader Eduardo Mondlane was assassinated in Tanzania by the Portuguese government.

This is just harsh.

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Sounds a bit like our former President.

Hegel: "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom, towards the Absolute ideal free society." Ludwig Feuerbach: "Interesting, Hegel, and through pure reason we can grasp this freedom?" Hegel: "Our ideas can't come from “pure reason”, each of us is trapped in our moment of history and can only engage in the dialectic of our time." Feuerbach: "so even when we reach the absolute ideal, we won't know it." Hegel: "What? No, we've already reached it." Feuerbach: "What." Hegel: "I finished the dialectic myself. Philosophy is done." Hegel: "The ideal free society is a constitutional monarchy with strong Christian ethics." Feuerbach: "What." Feuerbach: "So this is it? What about poor working people who are excluded from political life?" Hegel: "Yeah, but the rabble should be excluded, they are stupid." Feuerbach: "What about women? They will never raise their consciousness of freedom?" Hegel: "How? They are free to obey their husbands now." Feuerbach: "What about democracy?" Hegel: "Nah, Democracy sucks, everything is perfect the way it is now." Feuerbach: "That seems...unlikely." Hegel: "Also, have i told you my theory about how Germans are better than other races? I used philosophy to discover this, by the way, not racism."

Today is the birthday, in 1940, of Angelo D’Aleo, singer with Dion and the Belmonts. The group began singing together in 1957 and was named for the Belmont section of the Bronx – known as the Little Italy of the Bronx. Here’s one of their hits.

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