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Today, In 1938

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 1938 (UP) -- Residents of New Jersey fled their homes tonight, squad cars and ambulances roared through Newark and newspaper and press association offices throughout the country were besieged with telephone calls demanding to know about "a meteor which fell in New Jersey."

The uproar resulted from a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' novel, "The War of the Worlds," in which the arrival of men from Mars upon earth at first is believed to be a meteor shower. In the radio rendition the report of a meteor falling near Trenton, N.J., was made so realistic that persons who tuned in after the introductory remarks had been made believed the statement to be fact.

There was similar excitement in other cities from coast to coast. Tulsa, Okla., reported two heart attacks and a stroke resulting from the dramatization. Dallas, Kansas City and Omaha reported hundreds of telephone calls to authorities and newspaper offices, some from persons who had relatives in New Jersey and feared for their safety.

It was, you might say, a "killer performance". Director Orson Wells was amazed by the reactions; at the time, he'd been doing similar, quasi-realistic broadcast performances without ever having generated such widespread alarm.

Of course, radio plays were common at the time, as television had yet to appear. Radio was the means for dissemination of news and entertainment. Many couldn't differentiate between the two during the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio play.

Wales Of A Tail

A group of octopuses were seen walking along a Ceredigion beach on Friday night, surprising experienced sea-goers.

Wales is a beautiful place, but it's more than a bit odd to see a couple dozen octopi out for a stroll on a beach; sight-seeing isn't generally high on their to-do list.

All in all, I found the scenery in Wales - and the people - delightful, although I did experience difficulty understanding the conversational efforts of the locals. After several minutes, one gent established that he wanted to know where I was from. When I replied "America", he responded that he knew all that, but where?

Apparently, I really stood out. My pedestrian habits probably gave me away as well; I never did get used to that whole driving on the right-hand side of the road thing that they do in the U.K.

 

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Dating Woes

The poor girl has all kinds of trouble when it comes to finding guys to date. She has no romantic life, much less a sex life. It seems that guys tend to back away when they find out that she's an abortionist.

And it's not just the potential partners who treat her differently from other women.

"Even friends judge me," she said.

Maybe she should have chosen a different career trajectory.

Surprisingly, she doesn't seem to surround herself with cats....

 

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Clueless

A Vancouver USA resident sent in a question to the local newspaper, wondering why there are "metal rings" attached to some of the curbs there. Apparently, he or she is completely unaware of the fact that horses were the main form of transport in these parts about a century ago.

But I'm sure that he or she knows all about how to put a condom on a cucumber.

 

Comedic Greatness, Psychic Extraordinaire

Chelsea Handler‏Verified account @chelseahandler

So, Republican rep. Dana Rohrabacher from California is was the original person who received info from Russia, because she works w/ them.

5:00 PM - 28 Oct 2017

 

Age Does Not Bring Wisdom

Rep. Waters has passed just three bills in her 27 years in Congress. That means on average, Waters produces something noteworthy for constituents every 9 years. One of the bills was renaming a Post Office. Impressive stuff.

But hey, Mad Maxine has made over a million dollars and likely a lot more. Being a D.C. denizen has its perks.

 

Same Old

Apparently, everyone who has a wiener has sexually assaulted an "actress" or a "model". Don't know about you, but to me the daily refrain has become tiresome and reminiscent of the fable about yelling "wolf" too many times. It seems to have become the latest entry into the Indignation-Industrial Complex.

Remember that old saying? Never discuss race, religion or politics in polite company? Well, because of liberals, you don’t have a choice anymore.

These days, if you date someone who has the same skin-tone as you, you're probably a racist. Now, a former US president who's been in a wheelchair for the past half-decade has "women" lining up to decry him for daring to put an arm around their waists during photo shoots. Really? Those girls make their living off their looks, and they're calling out a now-93 year-old guy in a wheelchair because he touched them during a photo session?

Get real.

Libs don't know reality because they're insane.

 

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The Birdman Of Alcatraz Wasn't.

Robert F. Stroud was actually the Birdman of Leavenworth, Kansas.

While incarcerated at Leavenworth prison in Kansas, Stroud took in a few birds and nursed them back to health. That led to a small cottage industry of bird care remedies, and one of the first and most widely regarded books on bird diseases and bird care.

Stroud's sympathy for birds did not extend to his fellow humans; he was convicted of two murders in Juneau, Alaska.

Initially incarcerated at McNeil Island in Washington, he was considered one of the most violent prisoners there. Stroud spent the rest of his life in the federal prison system, including well over four decades in solitary confinement.

He was transferred to Leavenworth, where he got the "Birdman" moniker, then subsequently to Alcatraz. He had no access to injured birds there, as most of his time was spent in solitary due to his extraordinarily violent tendencies.

The Birdman of Alcatraz never existed. But the Birdman of Leavenworth wouldn't have made for as catchy a title.

Stumbled Upon

"Cleanup" At Hanford Nuclear Site

The only reason why people are still working there is to mitigate the environmental damage resulting from careless discarding and storage of radioactive byproducts from the plutonium production that went on there. Naturally, the contractor charged with cleaning the place up tries to cut costs wherever possible.

And so it was that they were recently filmed dumping radioactive water onto the soil.

The box shown being dumped here is marked as containing radioactive waste. This is not just sort of illegal.

Workers at the Hanford Site violated multiple state laws and regulations in August when they dumped thousands of gallons of contaminated water straight into the soil.

Each such box held 6,000 gallons of contaminated liquid.

Well, hey - they've already exposed us to radioactive iodine, among other isotopes, so what's a little more, percolating into the groundwater and the Columbia River?