Retiring Guy's Digest

Sunday, June 11, 2023

UPDATE: Since 2014, Lilith has moved up 365 places on the SSN baby names chart

Lilith reached her peak of population at #259 in 2021, although she dropped just one place the following year.

Source: Social Security Administration Popular Baby Names

Every once in a while, Retiring Guy's Digest receives a wave of bot traffic, lasting about a week, that influences what appears in his ranking of most popular posts.

So Retiring Guy uses this bogus traffic as a way to update older posts.

Fast facts:

Robert L. Johnson (1947-2016), a 1965 graduate of warren Area High School, was also a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Warren PA. In fact, he was also a neighbor of Retiring Guy in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s.
Denise Johnson, the daughter of Robert and Lilith, was a WAHS 1968 classmate of Retiring Guy.
The houses where the two Roberts lived when Retiring Guy was still a Warren resident:

Robert L's bedroom was on the top floor of this house on East Third Avenue.

Robert and Lilith lives at this house on Glenwood Street.

A few more members of the Warren High School class of 1943 have passed, but none since 2017. (As far as what's been published by the Warren Times Observer and area funeral homes.)

Other members of the class of '43:
Martha Rasmussen Lewis. (6/17/2017)
Gloria York Salapek. (6/10/2017)
Louis Rizzardi. (2/11/2017)
Virginia Anderson Thompson. (10/17/2016)
Pauline Smith VanVolkinburg. (8/27/2016)
Joyce Anderson Clark. (8/24/2016)
Robert Johnson. (3/31/2016)
Goldie Gelotte Hecei. (12/21/2015)
John Swick. (11/29/2015)
William Weidert. (10/16/2015)
Maxine Retterer Young. (8/15/2015)

Donald Conaway, Jr. (8/13/2015)
Anne Smith Rossey. (5/8/2015)
Doris Stevenson Barirde. (3/31/2015)
Mildred Kahle Glotz. (9/13/2014)

Robert Dietsch. (9/8/2014)

Anna Mae Olson Howe. (9/2/2014)

Lois Bogart Niederer. (5/3/2014)

Verna Mack Swanson. (12/22/2013)

Original 3/31/2016 post starts here

Source: Warren Times Observer

1943 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory

Johnson Robt W (Lilith A) mach opr Sylvania h19 Glenwood st

1983 Warren City Directory

Johnson Robt W & Lilith A; molder G T E Sylvania h19 Glenwood St

The popularity of 'Robert' as a baby name is found here.

For this name graph, we'll go with 'Lilith' as spelled in the Warren City Directory. ('Lillith' never cracked the top 1000.)

Source: Social Security Administration Popular Baby Names

After more than a century of denial, she's makin' a move.

Other members of the class of '43:
Goldie Gelotte Hecei. (12/21/2015)
John Swick. (11/29/2015)
William Weidert. (10/16/2015)
Maxine Retterer Young. (8/15/2015)

Donald Conaway, Jr. (8/13/2015)
Anne Smith Rossey. (5/8/2015)
Doris Stevenson Barirde. (3/31/2015)
Mildred Kahle Glotz. (9/13/2014)

Robert Dietsch. (9/8/2014)

Anna Mae Olson Howe. (9/2/2014)

Lois Bogart Niederer. (5/3/2014)

Verna Mack Swanson. (12/22/2013)

Just in case you need more evidence that Republicans can't win elections without cheating, here's what's going on in Louisiana

Headline: Louisiana Illuminator, 6/10/2023

“Unfortunately, the facts in Louisiana are just as bad, if not worse,” Evans said. “The situations are as close to identical as possible, and we expect the outcome to be just the same.”

At the core of the Alabama case are the state’s population demographics as recorded in the 2020 Census and the number of congressional districts determined by population. Alabama has seven congressional districts and a 31% minority population.

Simple math would dictate minority voters comprise 31% or roughly two of those districts, but Alabama’s Republican-majority legislature adopted a congressional map with just one minority district.

The case against Louisiana’s congressional maps is also rooted in demographics. Louisiana has six congressional districts and a 33% Black population — an even larger minority share than Alabama. However, GOP legislators also adopted a congressional map with just one minority district that a federal judge ruled was racially gerrymandered. [emphasis added]

The art of the Louisiana gerrymander

Source: Wikipedia

Just in case you need more evidence that Republicans can't win without cheating, part 2.

Just in case you need more evidence that Republicans can't win elections without cheating, Texas GOP edition. (5/29/2023)

This is why gerrymandering and voter suppression are high priorities for the GOP. (11/13/2022)

Wisconsin GOP leadership puts a pox on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

8 white guys show their true colors.

Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/8/2023

Photos: Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin Assembly

The RNC itself, the national committee, working to drive home the point that diversity, equity and inclusion is important and then to be in this position, where Republicans at the state level are trying to squash that, I thought there was some interesting irony there," Johnson told the Journal Sentinel.

Related posts:

June 2023

Your Wisconsin GOP at work: Gas-powered machines a top priority. (6/7)

Bashing public education, promoting discrimination, part 3. (6/1)

May 2023

Bashing public education, promoting discrimination, part 2. (5/31)

Bashing public education, promoting discrimination, part 1. (5/28)

Family leave freakout. (5/23/2023)

Here's the legacy the "lock-'em-up" prison mentality of Wisconsin's GOP legislative leaders. (5/23)

Wisconsin GOP legislative leaders show their true colors with efforts to defund campus diversity offices. (5/21)

Wisconsin GOP legislative leaders decide transgender athlete ban is top priority. (5/11)

Wisconsin GOP remain in Dark Ages when it comes to legalization of marijuana. (5/3)