(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . 09/07 Open Thread – Neither Snow Nor Rain Day [1] ['Enhydra Lutris', 'Greg Dworkin', 'Angela Marx', 'Alan Austin'] Date: 2026-09-07 US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 – The Congress shall have the power … To establish Post Offices and post Roads; (Clauses 1 & 7) – – – ********** – – ********** I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. – – ********** I’ll sleep when I’m dead – ********** – ********** – This has been interpreted quite broadly as to the powers and authority conveyed to Congress and, indirectly, to the post office itself. However, it has also been ruled that it does not give the Post Office a monopoly on mail (and package) delivery.On this day in 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte won the, which was the bloodiest single day of combat in all of the Napoleonic Wars. When it was over around 50 French Generals and Marshals and 29 Russian generals were dead or wounded. His opponent, General Kutuzov, decided to let him go ahead and take Moscow which he did. It was deserted, empty of supplies and provisions, and burning. After waiting several weeks for a surrender which never came Napoleon and his army began the long disastrous retreat to France with exceedingly limited supplies and provisions while being continually harassed by the Russians. But, still, it was a glorious vicotry. Heh. 😉Should today’s date fall upon a Monday, it will, perforce, be. This is (as of this writing) celebrated as a holiday in the USA with the name “Labor Day”. This allows said nation to feign respect for Labor without getting anywhere near the evil global communist conspiracy known as May Day and thereby also avoids the possibility of accidental references to and cognition of The Haymarket Affair.1652 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebelled against Dutch rule on Taiwan.1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee made the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).1812 – The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow.1857 – Mormon settlers slaughtered most members of a peaceful, emigrant wagon train in the Mountain Meadows massacre and tried to frame the indians for it.1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi entered Naples.1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.1916 – US federal employees won the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, died alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.1965 – US Marines and South Vietnamese forces started Operation Piranha during which the Marines blew up a Vietnamese field hospital situated in a cave, claiming that some of the occupants had returned fire when the Marines attacked and invaded it.1977 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal were signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. This infamously led to the US invasion of Panama in 1989 under Bush The Elder (CIA Bush) to remind them who was really in control.1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asked the United States government for US $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.2005 – Egypt held its first-ever multi-party presidential election.2008 – The US government took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.2017 – Equifax announced a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 145 & 1/2 million U.S. consumers.~~ Edith Sitwell1705 – Matthäus Günther, painter1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, mathematician, cosmologist, and author1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, chess player and composer1740 – Johan Tobias Sergel, sculptor and illustrator1777 – Heinrich Stölzel, horn player and composer (1791 – Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, poet and author1795 – John William Polidori, physician and author1860 – Grandma Moses, painter1887 – Edith Sitwell, poet and critic1900 – Taylor Caldwell, author1903 – Margaret Landon, missionary and author1903 – Dorothy Marie Donnelly, poet and author1904 – C. 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A. Richards, literary critic and rhetorician1981 – Christy Brown, author, poet, and painter1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, historian and journalist (1991 – Edwin McMillan, physicist and chemist,2003 – Warren Zevon, singer, songwriter, and musician2010 – Barbara Holland, author2015 – Guillermo Rubalcaba, pianist, composer, and bandleaderGrandma Moses DaySalami DayNational Beer Lovers DayNational Neither Snow Nor Rain DayFirst Monday in September Day aka Labor Day (USA) [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/7/800062866/community/09-07-open-thread-neither-snow-nor-rain-day/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/