The Buck Stops Here

June 20th, 2007

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Co-Historian's Note: I have taken the liberty of posting Wednesday's entry "early doors" - enjoy!

By the way - a unique opportunity for dialogue is presented by the fiftieth anniversary of the Roswell Incident which is fast approaching on July 4-6th. Perhaps a weather balloon simply crash-landed on a farm near Roswell Air Base? Or an Unidentified Flying Object from outer space? And what about the recovery of three or four alien bodies...? Please leave comments on the blog if you wish to share your thoughts with the community!

In 2009, in Oregon Gordon Krantz was attacked by three survivalists led by Roger Everett Septien, a member of the Pacific Stock Exchange before the outbreak of the Doomwar and the subsequent three-year winter. Robbed of his possessions, Krantz escaped and spent the night in the abandoned vehicle of a long-dead Postman.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 10,000 BC, the world suffered a wound caused by a blunt force trauma. Indigenes of Kwanbuk witnessed a contusion appear at ground level. The event occured at 06:00 AEST in the region known today as North Hamgyong province on the north-east coast of Korea. Gases leaked from the wound, creating a thermal mirage. A lamb was sucked into the crack shortly before it closed, bleating with fear. The Kwanbuk people knew they lived in a gateway between the worlds, but this vital piece of information was unknown to nuclear scientists of the early twenty-first century; the Change had been foreshadowed in pre-history.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

Chinese Junk	In 1761, three days sail from Gibr al-Ţāriq (Gibraltar) the Chinese Junk drew alongside the deserted and drifting Arab Dhow. Espying the littered corpses of the Moorish Crew, the Junk quickly sped off. Like a scalded cat, you might say.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1953, on this day President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the nation. The context was of course the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Prison in Ossining, New York . Eisenhower spoke for many Americans when he declined to invoke executive clemency for the pair. He stated, "I can only say that, by passing ..	Julius and Ethe..
.. the secrets of Project Rainbow to the Soviet Union, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done."
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Harry Truman	In 2999, the mind cast for the third instalment of “Personality of the Triple Millennia” was run across the networks. POT3M drew an even larger audience than the first two instalments because of its oddness. Harry S Truman was the candidate, the context ..
.. was the decision to detonate in anger the world's first atomic weapon. Which was briefly shown. Whilst the decision itself was of enormous military significance not to say hugely significant in terms of human suffering, it also set a precedent. It was acceptable for a democracy to detonate such a super weapon. MC Millennia asked the thirty-third US President how he could take such a decision. “The Buck Stops Here'” was his response. It was understood by fourth millennia citizens that the saying "the buck stops here" derived from a slang expression "pass the buck" which meant passing the responsibility on to someone else. The latter expression is said to have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buck," as the counter came to be called, to the next player. Mind cast subscribers of POT3M were simply appalled at the casual reference to a game, and the implication that humans were simply a deck of cards. How frighteningly barbaric. Fourth millennia citizens were in for a shock, the next instalment was Truman's successor, and he was more gung ho. Every so slightly.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1940, unspeakable magicks have been performed at Aleister Crowley's residence on Loch Ness. Lured by peace talks with a pro-German circle, Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess is not the same man who parachuted from his Messerschmitt Bf 110. Hess has been imbued with the entity named Aiwass ..	Rudolph Hess
.. with whom “the Beast” Aleister Crowley has held congress since 1904 when he authored The Book of the Law
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!