Crabs and Beer!

Today is ‘Custom Chiefs Day’, a public holiday in Vanuatu. This is a day to commemorate and preserve the traditional tribal customs observed on many islands.

Vanuatu is an archipelago of over 80 islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Many of these islands have resisted European and Western influences and still live according to traditional customs. This includes a system where the tribes are still ruled by chiefs.

Though the customs may differ from island to island, the chief is recognized as the uppermost figure in a community.

 In 1977 a National Council of Chiefs (Malvatu Mauri) was set up by the government to advise and propose ways to ensure the preservation of traditional ways of life through Vanuatu. One outcome was the establishment of this public holiday on March 5th to recognize the commitment and prominent role of the chiefs.

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Parking lot outside eye doctor’s office

Thanks, RFK Jr.!

Simone Weil…

Vance…

RFK Jr. has HHS working on some new cereals to ‘make America healthy’.

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and…Canadians are still pissed…

thanks to Gordie Howe, “Mr Elbows,” for teaching generations of us how to do what has become our Canadian ninja move —

The Elbow is even immortalized by Gordie Howe’s statue in his hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan —

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Nothing to see here. Just an elephant walking her camels
byu/Justin_Godfrey infunny

Sometimes we text the wrong number…

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Today is the birthday, in 1958, of English singer and songwriter Andy Gibb the younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, of The Bee Gees. Through the early 1980s, he released eight singles which reached the Top 20 of the US Hot 100, three of which went to No.1, ‘I Just Want to Be Your Everything’ (1977), ‘(Love Is) Thicker Than Water’ (1977), and ‘Shadow Dancing’ (1978). Gibb would later struggle with drug addiction and depression. He died on 10 March 1988, five days after his 30th birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY

Today is Mardi Gras, Carnival, Carnaval, Shrove Tuesday and many other names. It is the last day before the beginning of Lent and the last chance to feast before the fasting period of Lent. It is celebrated, for the most part, where there has been a large Roman Catholic tradition. In some countries it is a massive holiday with music, parades and dancers. Here are a few pictures from Brazil.

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Paris’ Boulevard Saint Denis in 1910 against modern background

Training…

Just before the accident…

Some people don’t like our current president…

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And the Canadians are not happy with us…

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Bada Bing!!!!

I’m thinking of taking this wine box back to complain. It says once opened it will last for 6 weeks. It only lasted 3 days.

An old guy at the gym asked the trainer what he needed to use to impress the young ladies. He directed him to the ATM in the lobby.

Elon Musk gets a lot of hate. But it’s not enough. We can do better.

Maybe two men who fathered 17 children with 6 different women between them shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.

I really didn’t think I would spend my 70s fighting fascism.

Sometimes my dog is so happy to see me that he pees a little. None of my friends have ever been that happy to see me.

Trump, Vance, Musk, RFK Jr, and Patel just scored 100% on the US Constitution test. However, it was a combined score!

My lawyer proved that at a speed of 187mph the 40mph sign is impossible to read.

I’ve asked myself for the 5th time today, “is this a real problem or do I just need to eat a cookie?”

It turns out that no matter how early I go to bed… I still don’t want to get up the next day.

I used to wonder why my parents couldn’t grasp new technology. But now anytime I see something new I’m like, “I’m not learning that unless someone makes me.”

t was taking years to develop birth control for men. But I’m so glad the CyberTruck arrived and fixed all that.

No one in my entire life has believed in me more than the server who gave me a single napkin to use while eating my lunch.

Attention: April Fool’s Day has been cancelled. There’s just no way to pull off a bigger prank than the clowns running America right now.

I was thinking of killing off a few characters in the book I’m writing. It would really spice my autobiography up a little.

My psychiatrist tells me that my narcissism causes me to misread social situations, but I’m pretty sure that was her way of hitting on me.

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David Johansen, (Buster Poindexter) the singer and songwriter who was at the vanguard of glam rock and punk as the frontman of the New York Dolls, died yesterday at his home on Staten Island. He was 75. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18

Today is Bulgaria Liberation Day. The full title of the holiday is the Bulgarian Day of Liberation from the Ottoman Domination. This holiday is Bulgaria’s national day and honors the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romanian forces, liberated Bulgaria from almost 500 years of Ottoman rule.

The date of March 3rd marks the date of the signing the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878. This peace treaty ended the war and was signed between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, which proclaimed Bulgaria as an independent state, albeit a vassal state within the Ottoman Empire.

This holiday is a welcome holiday at the start of spring and is traditionally marked by ceremonies across Bulgaria, particularly in those towns and cities which saw the fiercest fighting in the war. Shipka Pass in the Balkan Mountains is at the center of celebrations marking the key battle that took place there. In Sofia, there will be church services, wreath-laying and a military march to honor those who gave their lives in the war.

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Better than a pole??

Insightful…

SINES

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Today is the birthday, in 1944, of Jance Garfat, bassist, with American rock band Dr Hook who had the 1970s hits ‘The Cover of Rolling Stone’, ‘A Little Bit More’, ‘When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman’ and ‘Sylvia’s Mother’. Garfat died on 6 November 2006, in a motorcycle accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvfIePDbgY

Watching the news these days can be annoying or depressing or both. So give yourself a break and watch these fun flash-mob videos…maybe more than once!

Maybe some funk?

More FREEDOM!

Let’s check out Costco!

They are dancing in Lithuania!

and in Antwerp!!!

And remember, wherever we are in the world, we all need somebody to stand with us…

On this day in 1827, the General Assembly of Maryland issued a charter to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company – the first commercial railroad in America.

Starting in 1825, the Erie Canal providing a water path connecting New York City to Ohio via Lake Erie. The fast-growing port city of Baltimore, Maryland, faced economic stagnation unless it opened a route to the Western states. On February 27, 1827, twenty-five merchants and bankers studied the best means of restoring “that portion of the Western trade which has recently been diverted from it by the introduction of steam navigation.” Their answer was to build a railroad: one of the first commercial lines in the world.

Construction began on July 4, 1828. Charles Carroll of Carrollton (the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence) laying the cornerstone at a groundbreaking ceremony. Building west from the port of Baltimore, the B&O reached Sandy Hook, Maryland, in 1834; Cumberland in 1842; the Ohio River at Moundsville, Virginia, in 1852; Wheeling, Virginia, in 1853; and in 1857, Parkersburg, Virginia, below rapids that made navigation difficult during parts of the year.

It was the first US railroad to operate a steam locomotive (Tom Thumb). The first telegraph line in the US was built along the B&O right of way between Washington and Baltimore. It built the first passenger and freight station (Mount Clare in 1829) and was the first railroad to earn passenger revenues in December 1829, and publish a timetable on May 23, 1830. Baltimore’s Carrollton Viaduct, named in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, was the B&O’s first bridge, and is the oldest railway bridge in the Americas still carrying trains. The Thomas Viaduct at Relay, Maryland, was the longest bridge in the United States upon its completion in 1835. It also remains in use.

Carrollton Viaduct

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Hmm…

I have questions…

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DIY

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Today is the birthday, in 1941, of American guitarist and singer Marty Sanders from Jay and the Americans, who had the 1962 hit with ‘She Cried’ and the 1969 US No.6 single ‘This Magic Moment’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFy5_kmEi4