Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“I am not a fascist. I am a priest. Fascists dress in black and tell people what to do, whereas priests...drink more.”
Father Ted Chilla
The answer to the trivia question as to what was the name of the band that performed “The Pusher” and “Born to be wild” that was in the movie “Easy Rider”...it was Steppenwolf and the lead singer was John Kay. Extra credit answers...He was born in Tilsit, Germany and his real name is Joachim Krauledat. There is an interesting story about John. He was one year old in 1945 when the Russian army was entering Germany slaughtering everything in sight. His mother fled to Berlin and ended up in what would become the Russian sector or East Berlin. Two years later John's mother smuggled her and him over to West Berlin and settled in the British sector. When he was 18 he found himself in Canada and organized a rock band that was fairly successful. From there he went to Los Angeles and organized Steppenwolf...the rest is history. As of 1990 he has been retired in Franklin, Tennessee.
Trivia question:
Who is the only US President to serve two terms non-consecutively? This means he was elected, served one term and was defeated for re-election and came back years later and elected.
Over this past weekend up in Salisbury, North Carolina a man was standing in his living room talking to a visitor. Suddenly someone opened the front door and walked in, produced a firearm and demanded money. The homeowner decided that this outrage would not be tolerated and attacked. T he two struggled and the homeowner was able to wrest the weapon from the intruder and pumped one round into his chest. The intruder fled and headed for the home next door but alas, he collapsed and died before he got there. It is stories like this that make life worth living.
Once again the rumor mill is at work to the advantage of the unscrupulous. There is a story loose on the internet that the procedure for the presentation of a folded American flag to the next of kin of an American military person has been changed. The allegation is that instead of the phrase “on behalf of the President and a grateful nation...”. has been changed to “on behalf of the Secretary of Defense and a grateful nation...”. The item offers a “snopes” verification. As I have said until I am blue in the face, the unscrupulous attach a “cookie” to items that are intended to inflame hoping it will be passed around via outraged people's address lists when it is forwarded. These people don't give a damn about the procedure used in a military funeral, they WANT YOUR MAILING LISTS and the cookie allows them to capture e-mail address on anything you forward. THEY SELL THE ADDRESS LISTS to advertisers. Where do you think all the junk e-mail comes from...where did the get your e-mail address? By the way, “Snopes” is supposedly just a man and his wife with good research skills...I cannot verify that because I do not know the truth about that personally, and I damn sure am not going to believe much that I read on the web...especially if it is intended to gain my sympathy, anger or inflame my patriotism. A friend of mine offered this advise. She said that everyone has an agenda, no one is a simple and open as they seem.
Here is example of American law enforcement tax dollars at work. A few months ago a 23 year old woman was grocery shopping at a large market in Moriarity, New Mexico. She had picked up a small pumpkin and put it on the bottom shelf of the grocery cart. The pumpkin had a value of about $2.00. She checked out her groceries but forgot about the pumpkin on the bottom. She got outside and was stopped by the store security about the pumpkin on the bottom. She said she had forgotten about it and offered to pay for it. The market would have no part of it and she was arrested for shoplifting. The next morning, mad ad hell, she met with a magistrate who said that if she would plead guilty, he would levy a small fine and issue probation. She refused. She goes on trial in a couple of days.
This date in history February 22
1777 On this date Georgia heavyweight politico Archibald Bulloch is found dead under mysterious circumstances. The ongoing opinion was that he was poisoned. Bulloch was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1730 to a minister father named James, and a Puritan mother named Jean. Bulloch was educated at the College of South Carolina Law School (present day University of South Carolina) and opened a law practice in Charleston. In 1764 Bulloch moved to Savannah, Georgia and married Mary De Veaux, the daughter of a powerful judge and landowner. Bulloch began dabbling politics and was elected to the Georgia Commons House of Assembly in 1768 and eventually into the Continental Congress in 1775. In 1776 when it became obvious that Georgia would be invaded by the British, Bulloch was elected 1st President and commander of the Georgia Militia and gave him essentially Carte Blanche to do what he wanted to combat the English invaders. He was given what were essentially dictatorial powers. It was soon thereafter he showed up dead. The reason and cause of his death was never determined. Bulloch was the great-great- grandfather of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy named his first son Archibald in honor of his ancestor. Bulloch County, Georgia is also named in his honor.
1819 Finally the disposition of the lands in Florida is determined on this date. Spanish Minister Don Luis du Onis meets with American minister John Quincy Adams and signed over Florida to the United States. The United States received these lands just for the debts owed by Spanish to the settlers. Spain had a claim on Florida ever since the days of Pensacola and Saint Augustine settlements in the 16th century. However, in their greed Spain sided with the wrong side in the French and Indian War and lost Florida to England via the 1st Treaty of Paris. Then they sided with the right side during the American Revolution and got Florida back via the 2nd Treaty of Paris. Now it was in the hands of the United States and the drug kings from Cuba and other Central and South American countries.
1847 The United States and Mexico had been squabbling over the ownership of Texas for several years. Finally, President James K, Polk who believed heavily in western expansion for the United States sends the US Army into Mexico. A 15,000 man Mexican army commanded by General Santa Anna meets up with the recently landed 5,000 man America army commanded by General Zachary Taylor at Angostura Pass and the first day of the Battle of Buena Vista began. Santa Anna sent over an emissary under a flag of truce demanding the surrender of the Americans. In typical Taylor fashion he responded with “Tell the son-of–a-bitch to go to hell.” Santa Anna began a two pronged attack on Taylor’s position. Taylor organized the greater majority of his artillery onto one of the prongs. One of the commanders of an artillery unit was “Stonewall” Jackson. Taylor then sent Colonel Jefferson Davis and his hawk-eyed Mississippi sharpshooters to attack the other prong. We all recognize Jefferson Davis as later on being the President of the Confederacy. Well, the American artillery on the left flank and the sharpshooters on the right flank lay down a blistering fusillade and Santa Anna decides to retreat. Apparently Santa Anna did not learn his lesson because he again confronts Zachary “Old Rough and Ready” Taylor at the Battle of Monterrey and has his ass handed to him even though he has Taylor outnumbered. In 1848 Zachary Taylor running as a Whig defeated the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. And 13 years after that Jefferson Davis became the President of the Confederate States of America.
2006 On this date the largest robbery in the history of Great Britain occurs at the Kent bank depot. This evening two men dressed as policemen grab Securitis Bank president Colin Dixon as he was leaving the bank and persuade him to get into the car with them. They then drive to Dixon’s home and kidnap his wife and son and drive to a remote barn and a third person takes the wife and child into the barn and then reassured Colin Dixon that they would kill his wife and child if he did not cooperate. They go back to the bank and Dixon leads the other two through the bank’s security system and the two robbers tied up and gagged 14 other bank employees. They then load 53 million pounds into a van and drive away. The take was the equivalent of about 107 million US Dollars. Eventually one of the banks workers got loose and notified the police. The police put out a net for the robbers but to no avail because most of the loot was in used bills. The bank put out a reward of 2 million pounds with no takers. There were a few people arrested but they were all released. The police were able to recover only 20 million pounds but the majority of the loot is still out there.
1942 Things did not look good for the allied forces in the Philippines. The Japanese were running rampant across the Island of Luzon and were forcing the American army into a smaller and smaller perimeter ending up on the Bataan Peninsula. At this point the Commander of the American forces, General Douglas McArthur, was ordered out of the Philippines by the President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt. McArthur hesitated at first as he was prepared to fight to the last with his troops but on this date he conceded and boarded a PT-boat and was taken to New Guinea and eventually Australia where he began planning his return.
Born today:
1732 George Washington...The father of our country...I do not believe he was here at this point in time by accident.
1857 Robert Baden-Powell...The founder of the Boy Scouts...He said “A Scout always smiles and whistles no matter the circumstances.” Obviously Mr. Baden-Powell had never been involved in a divorce action.
1824 Jules Renard...French writer...He said “Love is like an hourglass, the heart fills as the mind empties.” Ah yes, I remember it well, kind of.
1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay...American writer...She said “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.” Obviously Ms. Millay has been involved in more than one divorce action.
1900 Luis Bunuel...Mexican film maker...He said “Thank God, I am still an atheist” No comment.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“If I could walk on water the press would say that I did it because I could not swim.”
Bob Stanfield
Yesterday I had my regular weekey visit to Ni Hao Grill for lunch. It is an oriental buffet. I had steamed Bok Choy, half of a steamed tilapia, two pieces of tuna roll sushi, two pieces of salmon roll sushi, one piece of mackeral sushimi, one piece of tuna sashimi, one fried chicken wing, 3 inches of andouille sausage, a slice of baked ham, two pieces of chicken tempura and I topped all of that with a lady finger and a bowl of chocolate mint ice cream and a glass of water...there was some more things but I can't remember what. The price there is $7.50 but I cannot go there but once a week for obvious reasons.
Answer to the trivia question yesterday of “What is the oldest novel still in print, etc”...the full title is “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.” It was written in the early 1600's by Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes. We know it as “Don Quixote, the man of La Mancha.” From this novel came the phrase “tilting (jousting) at windmills” meaning taking action just for the fun of it and not expecting any results.
Trivia question:
In the cult movie “Easy Rider” starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper there were two songs...”The Pusher” and “Born to be Wild”. What band did the songs and who was the lead singer? There is extra points if you know the lead singer's place of birth and real name.
In May of 2010 a 15 year old boy name Jimmy Mullins got into an argument with 23 year old Terrico Hull on a residential street near Spartanburg, SC. Finally Jimmy went into a nearby house but Mulins continued to walk up and down the street yelling and screaming. Eventually Jimmy came out of the house gun in hand and put one round into Hull's back. Hull died the next day. Jimmy said it was self-defense but no weapon of any kind was found on Hull and Jimmy was charged with murder and to be tried as an adult. Last week Jimmy agreed to a plea bargain whereby he agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter plus a gun charge he was sentenced to 30 years in the joint. His sentence carries a provision where he will not be eligible for parole until 80% of his sentence is served. This action avoided a jury trial and was agreeable to the Hull family. James Mullins is 17 years old and his life is ruined. There is little question that he will come away from spending about 27 year with hardened criminals a much worse person than when he went in. What a damned shame.
A few weeks ago a 13 year old boy in Waxhaw, NC (near Charlotte) went to school and during recess handed one of his friends a zip-lock bag about half full of a greenish substance and told him it was marijuana...it was oregano. The school got wind of it and suspended the kid for 10 days while the merits of the suspension was examined. The school staff decided that the kid needed an additional 45 days in a “restricted” school...once known as a reform school. The parents appealed the extra 45 days. They said that no illegal substance was present and it was just a “childish prank.” The school board said that it did not matter if it was a prank or not, it set a bad image for the school and a bad example for other kids at school. The parents lost. What was this kid thinking? He had to know the school had a “zero tolerance” for anything resembling drugs. That just goes to show you how important peer pressure there is for kids these days. I am glad that I do not have to deal with it, my kids were always polite and perfect...ain't that right, girls?
How much longer are we going to hear about Whitney Houston? Let that girl rest in peace, for crying out loud. I am very disappointed with that clown that is the Governor of New Jersey for lowering the flags to half staff in her honor. There has been several members of the military from New Jersey that have given their live for this country and nothing happened with the flags. Who does this jackass Governor think he is?
Last week up in Fairfield, Connecticut a 98 year old woman was served with a eviction notice from a house she had been living in for 50 years. She said her husband did a lot of work on the house including a separate garage and told her to never move from this house. He died in 1998. The person responsible for the eviction notice said that he was just concerned with her welfare and felt that she needed to live with people her own age and that house was degrading internally. The eviction notice was stopped by a probate judge. By the way, the person responsible for the eviction notice was the woman's 71 year old son. The woman's youngest son said there is no name for his brother except scumbag, all he wants to do is to be able to sell the house. I would like to see a show of hands that believe the older son is at least a scumbag. That's what I thought.
This date in history February 21
1777 Earlier George Washington was involved in the French and Indian War and had a man named George Weedon that served as a lieutenant under his command during the war. Weedon was an innkeeper in Fredericksburg, Virginia and at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 Washington sought out the services of Weedon. He was given the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to the regiment of General Hugh Mercer. In August 1776, Weedon was promoted to Colonel and given command of the 3rd Virginia Regiment. Weedon marched with his troops and was with General George Washington at battles in New York and New Jersey including Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown. He also commanded Pennsylvania and Virginia regiments in General Nathaniel Greene’s division at Valley Forge. In 1778 Weedon resigns because a rival named William Woodford was promoted to a position superior to him. Woodford was also a fighter under Washington during the French and Indian War. Weedon did not abandon his country however; he took command of a Virginia militia unit and continued fighting separate from the Continental Army. Weedon was present with his militia at the immortal Battle of Yorktown. His rival, William Woodford, was captured by the British during the siege of Charleston and died in captivity in1780. George Weedon lived to see his country as an independent nation thanks in part to him and others like him. Weedon was a meticulous records keeper and his invaluable notes and orders which he kept while encamped at Valley Forge are in possession of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
1965 A man child named Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was a minister that was a black supremacist that had his life threatened more than once. The heat on the preacher got so hot that he moved his family to Lansing, Michigan but continued his inflammatory sermons. Finally a white supremacist group called Black Legion murdered the preacher. The bad part of this whole episode was that the city of Lansing and the state of Michigan refused to prosecute. This event had an immense effect on Malcolm because after this Malcolm X was brought into being. Malcolm called himself Malcolm “X” because he assumed his ancestors were slaves brought over from Africa and their last name was not known. Malcolm was even more inflammatory than his father but he had a lot more organizational skills. Malcolm eventually moved to Boston with his sister. His hatred of the white man grew in intensity year by year. He was very light skinned and said on more than one occasion that he ”hated every drop of the white rapist in his blood” even though he got his lightness from his father and there is no evidence that a rape had occurred at anytime in his ancestry. He eventually ended up in New York City, Harlem in particular, and chose to take up a life drug-dealing, gambling, racketeering and robbery. He was arrested for burglary after trying to sell stolen property to a pawn shop. He was convicted and received a 10 year sentence. While in prison he was taken under the wing of an older inmate who recognized his talents and encouraged him. Malcolm became a voracious reader and a member of a debate team that debated teams from Harvard and Yale. He became very popular with the other inmates but the authorities recognized that his knowledge and charisma could be a source of trouble. His brother Reginald wrote him about The Nation of Islam and Malcolm began to associate with Elijah Mohammed, the leader of The Nation of Islam. Malcolm became a member of the Sunni Islamic sect. He was brought in to be drafted but was rejected as having “an asocial personality with paranoid trends and schizophrenia.” The FBI had been monitoring Malcolm and came up with the same diagnosis and in fact Malcolm had gone to a psychiatrist for treatment. Malcolm’s fiery intellect along with his inflammatory attitude and speech, he climbed up in the structure of the Nation of Islam. But eventually relations between him and Elijah Muhammad became strained when he found that Muhammad was having sex with his secretaries and others in the organization were lining their pockets with Islamic funds. Malcolm visited several Islamic countries and became deeper involved in Islam. But his relationship with Elijah Muhammad deteriorated to where Elijah Mohammad put out a contract for Malcolm’s life. On this date he was to make a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. A fight broke out apparently as a diversion and as Malcolm’s bodyguards went to squelch it and another man ran up and shot Malcolm in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Two other men ran up and emptied their handguns into Malcolm. He was dead almost immediately by the shotgun, the handguns were unnecessary. The three assassins were caught and arrested. They were all members of The Nation of Islam No one really knows the reason for the assassination of Malcolm by people of the Nation of Islam except that he was become way more popular than Elijah Muhammad and was in the process of opening his own mosque. I guess we will never know.
Quotable Quotes:
“There is nothing more responsible for the good old days as a bad memory.”
F.P. Adams
“I do not hate men. I think men are a terrific concept.”
Jo Brand
“The fastest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.”
Roseanne Barr
When trying to describe modern man in one sentence it would be: He fornicated and read the paper.”
Madonna
“The act of sex, as gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on man. It is man’s last desperate attempt at supremacy.”
Bette Davis
I love men, even if they are lying, cheating scumbags.”
Gwyneth Paltrow
“Money isn’t everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
Rita Davenport
“Money isn’t everything but it sure helps keep you in touch with your children.”
J. Paul Getty
Here is a message to those that it applies to....KMIM
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Quote of the day:
“If I could walk on water the press would say that I did it because I could not swim.”
Bob Stanfield
Yesterday I had my regular weekey visit to Ni Hao Grill for lunch. It is an oriental buffet. I had steamed Bok Choy, half of a steamed tilapia, two pieces of tuna roll sushi, two pieces of salmon roll sushi, one piece of mackeral sushimi, one piece of tuna sashimi, one fried chicken wing, 3 inches of andouille sausage, a slice of baked ham, two pieces of chicken tempura and I topped all of that with a lady finger and a bowl of chocolate mint ice cream and a glass of water...there was some more things but I can't remember what. The price there is $7.50 but I cannot go there but once a week for obvious reasons.
Answer to the trivia question yesterday of “What is the oldest novel still in print, etc”...the full title is “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.” It was written in the early 1600's by Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes. We know it as “Don Quixote, the man of La Mancha.” From this novel came the phrase “tilting (jousting) at windmills” meaning taking action just for the fun of it and not expecting any results.
Trivia question:
In the cult movie “Easy Rider” starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper there were two songs...”The Pusher” and “Born to be Wild”. What band did the songs and who was the lead singer? There is extra points if you know the lead singer's place of birth and real name.
In May of 2010 a 15 year old boy name Jimmy Mullins got into an argument with 23 year old Terrico Hull on a residential street near Spartanburg, SC. Finally Jimmy went into a nearby house but Mulins continued to walk up and down the street yelling and screaming. Eventually Jimmy came out of the house gun in hand and put one round into Hull's back. Hull died the next day. Jimmy said it was self-defense but no weapon of any kind was found on Hull and Jimmy was charged with murder and to be tried as an adult. Last week Jimmy agreed to a plea bargain whereby he agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter plus a gun charge he was sentenced to 30 years in the joint. His sentence carries a provision where he will not be eligible for parole until 80% of his sentence is served. This action avoided a jury trial and was agreeable to the Hull family. James Mullins is 17 years old and his life is ruined. There is little question that he will come away from spending about 27 year with hardened criminals a much worse person than when he went in. What a damned shame.
A few weeks ago a 13 year old boy in Waxhaw, NC (near Charlotte) went to school and during recess handed one of his friends a zip-lock bag about half full of a greenish substance and told him it was marijuana...it was oregano. The school got wind of it and suspended the kid for 10 days while the merits of the suspension was examined. The school staff decided that the kid needed an additional 45 days in a “restricted” school...once known as a reform school. The parents appealed the extra 45 days. They said that no illegal substance was present and it was just a “childish prank.” The school board said that it did not matter if it was a prank or not, it set a bad image for the school and a bad example for other kids at school. The parents lost. What was this kid thinking? He had to know the school had a “zero tolerance” for anything resembling drugs. That just goes to show you how important peer pressure there is for kids these days. I am glad that I do not have to deal with it, my kids were always polite and perfect...ain't that right, girls?
How much longer are we going to hear about Whitney Houston? Let that girl rest in peace, for crying out loud. I am very disappointed with that clown that is the Governor of New Jersey for lowering the flags to half staff in her honor. There has been several members of the military from New Jersey that have given their live for this country and nothing happened with the flags. Who does this jackass Governor think he is?
Last week up in Fairfield, Connecticut a 98 year old woman was served with a eviction notice from a house she had been living in for 50 years. She said her husband did a lot of work on the house including a separate garage and told her to never move from this house. He died in 1998. The person responsible for the eviction notice said that he was just concerned with her welfare and felt that she needed to live with people her own age and that house was degrading internally. The eviction notice was stopped by a probate judge. By the way, the person responsible for the eviction notice was the woman's 71 year old son. The woman's youngest son said there is no name for his brother except scumbag, all he wants to do is to be able to sell the house. I would like to see a show of hands that believe the older son is at least a scumbag. That's what I thought.
This date in history February 21
1777 Earlier George Washington was involved in the French and Indian War and had a man named George Weedon that served as a lieutenant under his command during the war. Weedon was an innkeeper in Fredericksburg, Virginia and at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 Washington sought out the services of Weedon. He was given the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to the regiment of General Hugh Mercer. In August 1776, Weedon was promoted to Colonel and given command of the 3rd Virginia Regiment. Weedon marched with his troops and was with General George Washington at battles in New York and New Jersey including Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown. He also commanded Pennsylvania and Virginia regiments in General Nathaniel Greene’s division at Valley Forge. In 1778 Weedon resigns because a rival named William Woodford was promoted to a position superior to him. Woodford was also a fighter under Washington during the French and Indian War. Weedon did not abandon his country however; he took command of a Virginia militia unit and continued fighting separate from the Continental Army. Weedon was present with his militia at the immortal Battle of Yorktown. His rival, William Woodford, was captured by the British during the siege of Charleston and died in captivity in1780. George Weedon lived to see his country as an independent nation thanks in part to him and others like him. Weedon was a meticulous records keeper and his invaluable notes and orders which he kept while encamped at Valley Forge are in possession of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
1965 A man child named Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was a minister that was a black supremacist that had his life threatened more than once. The heat on the preacher got so hot that he moved his family to Lansing, Michigan but continued his inflammatory sermons. Finally a white supremacist group called Black Legion murdered the preacher. The bad part of this whole episode was that the city of Lansing and the state of Michigan refused to prosecute. This event had an immense effect on Malcolm because after this Malcolm X was brought into being. Malcolm called himself Malcolm “X” because he assumed his ancestors were slaves brought over from Africa and their last name was not known. Malcolm was even more inflammatory than his father but he had a lot more organizational skills. Malcolm eventually moved to Boston with his sister. His hatred of the white man grew in intensity year by year. He was very light skinned and said on more than one occasion that he ”hated every drop of the white rapist in his blood” even though he got his lightness from his father and there is no evidence that a rape had occurred at anytime in his ancestry. He eventually ended up in New York City, Harlem in particular, and chose to take up a life drug-dealing, gambling, racketeering and robbery. He was arrested for burglary after trying to sell stolen property to a pawn shop. He was convicted and received a 10 year sentence. While in prison he was taken under the wing of an older inmate who recognized his talents and encouraged him. Malcolm became a voracious reader and a member of a debate team that debated teams from Harvard and Yale. He became very popular with the other inmates but the authorities recognized that his knowledge and charisma could be a source of trouble. His brother Reginald wrote him about The Nation of Islam and Malcolm began to associate with Elijah Mohammed, the leader of The Nation of Islam. Malcolm became a member of the Sunni Islamic sect. He was brought in to be drafted but was rejected as having “an asocial personality with paranoid trends and schizophrenia.” The FBI had been monitoring Malcolm and came up with the same diagnosis and in fact Malcolm had gone to a psychiatrist for treatment. Malcolm’s fiery intellect along with his inflammatory attitude and speech, he climbed up in the structure of the Nation of Islam. But eventually relations between him and Elijah Muhammad became strained when he found that Muhammad was having sex with his secretaries and others in the organization were lining their pockets with Islamic funds. Malcolm visited several Islamic countries and became deeper involved in Islam. But his relationship with Elijah Muhammad deteriorated to where Elijah Mohammad put out a contract for Malcolm’s life. On this date he was to make a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. A fight broke out apparently as a diversion and as Malcolm’s bodyguards went to squelch it and another man ran up and shot Malcolm in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Two other men ran up and emptied their handguns into Malcolm. He was dead almost immediately by the shotgun, the handguns were unnecessary. The three assassins were caught and arrested. They were all members of The Nation of Islam No one really knows the reason for the assassination of Malcolm by people of the Nation of Islam except that he was become way more popular than Elijah Muhammad and was in the process of opening his own mosque. I guess we will never know.
Quotable Quotes:
“There is nothing more responsible for the good old days as a bad memory.”
F.P. Adams
“I do not hate men. I think men are a terrific concept.”
Jo Brand
“The fastest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.”
Roseanne Barr
When trying to describe modern man in one sentence it would be: He fornicated and read the paper.”
Madonna
“The act of sex, as gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on man. It is man’s last desperate attempt at supremacy.”
Bette Davis
I love men, even if they are lying, cheating scumbags.”
Gwyneth Paltrow
“Money isn’t everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
Rita Davenport
“Money isn’t everything but it sure helps keep you in touch with your children.”
J. Paul Getty
Here is a message to those that it applies to....KMIM
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“Al Gore's running mate was Joe Lieberman. Joe was the first Jew to serve under a president since Monica Lewinsky.”
David Letterman
A few days ago a couple of my friends and I were at the local watering hole watching a basketball game. It was Oral Roberts vs Akron. One of these guys said “I wonder if the cheer for Oral Roberts is 'Go Oral!'” I am just the messenger here.
Trivia question:
What is the oldest novel still in print? Hint: It was NOT originally written in English and came in two volumes. Some consider it the “greatest literary work ever written and had the most influence on subsequent literature”. I said novel...the Bible is not a novel. Dante's Inferno is an allegorical poem.
The USPS wants to raise the price of a postage stamp to $.50. Some may be outraged but being able to send a ½ ounce letter from Key West to Seattle for a half dollar is still a deal.
Since my “lessons” address list has been reduced considerably I will continue to distribute the lessons on e-mail AND on the blog site which is: http://bigalsdailyhistory.blogspot.com/
A couple of days ago a 24 year old man was driving his Ford Explorer down a secondary road near Seneca, South Carolina. He went off the right side of the road and over-corrected and crossed over to the other side of the road, went into a ditch and rolled once and came to rest on its wheels into a wooden deck at a residence. Sounds pretty survivable, huh? It wasn't, the driver was killed because HE WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT and was ejected and the Explorer rolled over him and crushed him. This is the second event of this type in a week. I have a question...do some people have a death wish or what?
Over in Greer, SC a 64 year old retired male school teacher was arrested for child pornography. This jackass had got onto a sex chat room and made contact with what he thought was a 12 year old girl...but it wasn't. It was a city cop up in Illinois who notified the cops in Greer. The cops were able to track him down and obtained a search warrant. They pulled the hard drive from his computer and found hundreds of pictures he had been distributing of kids less that 14 participating in sex. The ex-teacher was arrested, tried and convicted. This past Tuesday he was sentenced to 121 months in the joint. That is 10 years and one month. It is practically a death sentence. He will not be treated well in the joint. Criminals hate child molesters/abusers/users and it will be a miracle if he survives 10 years.
Down in Columbia, SC on this past Friday morning the Richland County sheriff's department deputies armed with a search warrant arrived at the apartment of a suspected drug dealer. After the cops pounded on the door for a considerable time, a person inside the apartment opened fire through the door. Y'all know what happened next. That's right, the three deputies emptied their Glocks into the door. The shooter inside was indeed the person mention in the warrant and was severely injured in the gunfire. He is in the Palmetto Medical Center in ICU...the cops are back at the office reloading.
Out in the Long Beach, California Federal Building two ICE agents got into a squabble and one of them pulled his sidearm and put two rounds into his antagonist. A third agent saw it happen and pulled his sidearm and capped the shooter with one shot to the temple. The agent that was shot first is in serious condition but is expected to survive. The shooter is not expected to get any better. By the way, the shooter was fired about 15 minutes before this episode.
This date in history February 20
1985 Up until 1979 Irish law prohibited the importation and sale of contraceptives because the Catholic Church disapproved. I will paraphrase that. The Catholic Church was into the Irish bedrooms and telling them how to have sex. Well, in 1979 the Irish Supreme Court ruled that the use of contraceptives fell under purview of privacy and was not a matter for the clergy to determine. The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland about peed their pants because the weight of the opinion of the Catholic Church was paramount in Ireland and with this ruling by the Irish Supreme Court the Church saw their power, influence and possibly a hell of a lot of money going down the toilet. But the sale and use of contraceptives still had a string attached. Contraceptives could only be distributed by a licensed pharmacist and only to those with a prescription from a licensed physician. And that is the way is stayed until this date when the Irish lawmakers shook off the shackles of the Catholic Church and on this date passed a law stating that it was up to anyone’s choice as to the use of contraceptives, prescriptions not withstanding. Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, they are free at last.
1725 On this date a posse from New Hampshire happened upon a group of Indians that they had been tracking and decided that they would try the Native American custom of “scalping”. The posse killed 10 and crudely scalped them. They brought the scalps back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where they received 10 pounds sterling for each scalp. The act of scalping was not peculiar to the American Indian. Scalping had been practiced in Europe and Asia since before recorded history. In European, Asian and American Indian history it was believed that you gained the other person’s courage by taking his/her scalp. But as you might expect, this act by this posse set off a bloodbath of scalping between the Indians and the settlers that continued for generations.
1864 Earlier US General Quincy Gilmore had sent US General Truman Seymour and an army of 5,000 from Jacksonville, Florida to capture the rail yard at Lake City, Florida, about 60 miles west. Right behind Seymour was President Lincoln’s secretary John Hay trying to get some of the Floridians to sign and oath of allegiance to the Union and persuade them to come to the next Republican Convention so they could vote for Lincoln as the presidential candidate. He wasn’t having much luck then the US army ran across a Confederate army of 500 led by CSA General Joseph Finegan at the little crossroad town of Olustee. Seymour immediately attacked seeing that he had the Confederates greatly outnumbered. Finegan and company were able to hold their ground but were running out of ammo. Previously Finegan had sent for reinforcements and ammo and at the last minute the ammo and the reinforcements arrived and the forces were about equal at that point. After this it was no contest. The Confederates delivered a severe ass-kicking and Seymour and his army shuttled their young asses back to Jacksonville. Secretary Hay gave up on recruiting any Floridians and the state stayed under Confederate control for the remainder of the war. The US army suffered 1,800 casualties to the CSA’s 900.
1974 A couple of days before this the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Reg Murphy had been contacted by a man named William Williams who promised Murphy that he would contribute 300,000 gallons of heating oil for the poor if he would meet him and make the deal front page news. Murphy agreed and met with Williams whereupon Williams pulled out a revolver and kidnapped Murphy. Williams wanted a ransom of $700,000 to be used by an extreme right wing militia. Williams had him and Murphy riding around Atlanta awaiting the results of his ransom demand. The second in command on the newspaper, G. James Minton rounded up the $700,000 delivered it to the pick-up point and Murphy was released. In a matter of hours the Atlanta PD was knocking of William’s door and he was arrested and the money recovered. He was originally sentenced to 40 years but he was tried again in federal court because of the kidnapping and was given 50 years. He was released after serving 9 years, believe it or not.
1950 On this date one of the most gifted poets of all time arrived in the United States to go on a reading tour. The Welshman Dylan Thomas began his reading tour with blockbuster reviews. This man was truly gifted. Before coming to the US he had published a book titled 18 Poems in 1934 and then 25 Poems in 1936. Dylan’s shortcoming was that a very heavy drinker. He met a young woman named Caitlin McNamara in a London Bar. Dylan was smitten and began to court Caitlin. Caitlin was not enamored with Dylan at first but after she heard him read his poetry in his rich and resonant Welsh voice, she was also smitten and they married. They had issue of three children. The only problem with this union was that Caitlin could hang with Dylan drink for drink and they spent many a foggy night together. In August of 1953 Dylan visited the White Horse Bar on Hudson Street in New York City and knocked back 17 shots of Scotch and promptly walked out on the sidewalk and dropped dead. He was 39 years old. What a damned shame and a waste of talent. Caitlin never forgave him for that.
1942 Earlier the USS Lexington, a United States aircraft carrier, had departed Bougainville in the Marshall Islands headed for the Japanese Island stronghold of Rabaul. This was supposed to be surprise attack but somehow the Japanese got wind of the pending attack and sent a squadron of bombers to intercept the Lexington. The Lexington picked up the oncoming bombers on radar and sent a squadron of F-4-F Wildcats led by Lieutenant Edward O’Hare to intercept the bombers. In the span of four minutes Lieutenant O’Hare shot down five of the bombers making him an ace. Not only was he an ace he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on this day. The O’Hare airport near Chicago is named for him. After this action the Lexington knew they had lost the element of surprise and retreated back to Bougainville.
2003 The rock band Great White opened a concert in a West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub with fireworks behind the band. The fireworks caught the ceiling on fire and 100 are burned to death and 300 injured. The roadie that set off the pyrotechnics was arrested for setting of fireworks without a permit and 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to four years. That is 3.65 days for each person killed or wounded.
Born today:
1888 French writer Georges Bernanos. He said, “It is a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride to begin with.”
1924 US heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. She said “The fame you earn is a lot different that the fame that is thrust upon you.”
1963 US basketballer Charles Barkley. He said “We don’t need ref’s, but I guess the white guys need something to do.” Hey Charles, you forgot about Yao Ming, Steve Nash and Pete Maravich among others.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Quote of the day:
“Al Gore's running mate was Joe Lieberman. Joe was the first Jew to serve under a president since Monica Lewinsky.”
David Letterman
A few days ago a couple of my friends and I were at the local watering hole watching a basketball game. It was Oral Roberts vs Akron. One of these guys said “I wonder if the cheer for Oral Roberts is 'Go Oral!'” I am just the messenger here.
Trivia question:
What is the oldest novel still in print? Hint: It was NOT originally written in English and came in two volumes. Some consider it the “greatest literary work ever written and had the most influence on subsequent literature”. I said novel...the Bible is not a novel. Dante's Inferno is an allegorical poem.
The USPS wants to raise the price of a postage stamp to $.50. Some may be outraged but being able to send a ½ ounce letter from Key West to Seattle for a half dollar is still a deal.
Since my “lessons” address list has been reduced considerably I will continue to distribute the lessons on e-mail AND on the blog site which is: http://bigalsdailyhistory.blogspot.com/
A couple of days ago a 24 year old man was driving his Ford Explorer down a secondary road near Seneca, South Carolina. He went off the right side of the road and over-corrected and crossed over to the other side of the road, went into a ditch and rolled once and came to rest on its wheels into a wooden deck at a residence. Sounds pretty survivable, huh? It wasn't, the driver was killed because HE WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT and was ejected and the Explorer rolled over him and crushed him. This is the second event of this type in a week. I have a question...do some people have a death wish or what?
Over in Greer, SC a 64 year old retired male school teacher was arrested for child pornography. This jackass had got onto a sex chat room and made contact with what he thought was a 12 year old girl...but it wasn't. It was a city cop up in Illinois who notified the cops in Greer. The cops were able to track him down and obtained a search warrant. They pulled the hard drive from his computer and found hundreds of pictures he had been distributing of kids less that 14 participating in sex. The ex-teacher was arrested, tried and convicted. This past Tuesday he was sentenced to 121 months in the joint. That is 10 years and one month. It is practically a death sentence. He will not be treated well in the joint. Criminals hate child molesters/abusers/users and it will be a miracle if he survives 10 years.
Down in Columbia, SC on this past Friday morning the Richland County sheriff's department deputies armed with a search warrant arrived at the apartment of a suspected drug dealer. After the cops pounded on the door for a considerable time, a person inside the apartment opened fire through the door. Y'all know what happened next. That's right, the three deputies emptied their Glocks into the door. The shooter inside was indeed the person mention in the warrant and was severely injured in the gunfire. He is in the Palmetto Medical Center in ICU...the cops are back at the office reloading.
Out in the Long Beach, California Federal Building two ICE agents got into a squabble and one of them pulled his sidearm and put two rounds into his antagonist. A third agent saw it happen and pulled his sidearm and capped the shooter with one shot to the temple. The agent that was shot first is in serious condition but is expected to survive. The shooter is not expected to get any better. By the way, the shooter was fired about 15 minutes before this episode.
This date in history February 20
1985 Up until 1979 Irish law prohibited the importation and sale of contraceptives because the Catholic Church disapproved. I will paraphrase that. The Catholic Church was into the Irish bedrooms and telling them how to have sex. Well, in 1979 the Irish Supreme Court ruled that the use of contraceptives fell under purview of privacy and was not a matter for the clergy to determine. The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland about peed their pants because the weight of the opinion of the Catholic Church was paramount in Ireland and with this ruling by the Irish Supreme Court the Church saw their power, influence and possibly a hell of a lot of money going down the toilet. But the sale and use of contraceptives still had a string attached. Contraceptives could only be distributed by a licensed pharmacist and only to those with a prescription from a licensed physician. And that is the way is stayed until this date when the Irish lawmakers shook off the shackles of the Catholic Church and on this date passed a law stating that it was up to anyone’s choice as to the use of contraceptives, prescriptions not withstanding. Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, they are free at last.
1725 On this date a posse from New Hampshire happened upon a group of Indians that they had been tracking and decided that they would try the Native American custom of “scalping”. The posse killed 10 and crudely scalped them. They brought the scalps back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where they received 10 pounds sterling for each scalp. The act of scalping was not peculiar to the American Indian. Scalping had been practiced in Europe and Asia since before recorded history. In European, Asian and American Indian history it was believed that you gained the other person’s courage by taking his/her scalp. But as you might expect, this act by this posse set off a bloodbath of scalping between the Indians and the settlers that continued for generations.
1864 Earlier US General Quincy Gilmore had sent US General Truman Seymour and an army of 5,000 from Jacksonville, Florida to capture the rail yard at Lake City, Florida, about 60 miles west. Right behind Seymour was President Lincoln’s secretary John Hay trying to get some of the Floridians to sign and oath of allegiance to the Union and persuade them to come to the next Republican Convention so they could vote for Lincoln as the presidential candidate. He wasn’t having much luck then the US army ran across a Confederate army of 500 led by CSA General Joseph Finegan at the little crossroad town of Olustee. Seymour immediately attacked seeing that he had the Confederates greatly outnumbered. Finegan and company were able to hold their ground but were running out of ammo. Previously Finegan had sent for reinforcements and ammo and at the last minute the ammo and the reinforcements arrived and the forces were about equal at that point. After this it was no contest. The Confederates delivered a severe ass-kicking and Seymour and his army shuttled their young asses back to Jacksonville. Secretary Hay gave up on recruiting any Floridians and the state stayed under Confederate control for the remainder of the war. The US army suffered 1,800 casualties to the CSA’s 900.
1974 A couple of days before this the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Reg Murphy had been contacted by a man named William Williams who promised Murphy that he would contribute 300,000 gallons of heating oil for the poor if he would meet him and make the deal front page news. Murphy agreed and met with Williams whereupon Williams pulled out a revolver and kidnapped Murphy. Williams wanted a ransom of $700,000 to be used by an extreme right wing militia. Williams had him and Murphy riding around Atlanta awaiting the results of his ransom demand. The second in command on the newspaper, G. James Minton rounded up the $700,000 delivered it to the pick-up point and Murphy was released. In a matter of hours the Atlanta PD was knocking of William’s door and he was arrested and the money recovered. He was originally sentenced to 40 years but he was tried again in federal court because of the kidnapping and was given 50 years. He was released after serving 9 years, believe it or not.
1950 On this date one of the most gifted poets of all time arrived in the United States to go on a reading tour. The Welshman Dylan Thomas began his reading tour with blockbuster reviews. This man was truly gifted. Before coming to the US he had published a book titled 18 Poems in 1934 and then 25 Poems in 1936. Dylan’s shortcoming was that a very heavy drinker. He met a young woman named Caitlin McNamara in a London Bar. Dylan was smitten and began to court Caitlin. Caitlin was not enamored with Dylan at first but after she heard him read his poetry in his rich and resonant Welsh voice, she was also smitten and they married. They had issue of three children. The only problem with this union was that Caitlin could hang with Dylan drink for drink and they spent many a foggy night together. In August of 1953 Dylan visited the White Horse Bar on Hudson Street in New York City and knocked back 17 shots of Scotch and promptly walked out on the sidewalk and dropped dead. He was 39 years old. What a damned shame and a waste of talent. Caitlin never forgave him for that.
1942 Earlier the USS Lexington, a United States aircraft carrier, had departed Bougainville in the Marshall Islands headed for the Japanese Island stronghold of Rabaul. This was supposed to be surprise attack but somehow the Japanese got wind of the pending attack and sent a squadron of bombers to intercept the Lexington. The Lexington picked up the oncoming bombers on radar and sent a squadron of F-4-F Wildcats led by Lieutenant Edward O’Hare to intercept the bombers. In the span of four minutes Lieutenant O’Hare shot down five of the bombers making him an ace. Not only was he an ace he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on this day. The O’Hare airport near Chicago is named for him. After this action the Lexington knew they had lost the element of surprise and retreated back to Bougainville.
2003 The rock band Great White opened a concert in a West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub with fireworks behind the band. The fireworks caught the ceiling on fire and 100 are burned to death and 300 injured. The roadie that set off the pyrotechnics was arrested for setting of fireworks without a permit and 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to four years. That is 3.65 days for each person killed or wounded.
Born today:
1888 French writer Georges Bernanos. He said, “It is a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride to begin with.”
1924 US heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. She said “The fame you earn is a lot different that the fame that is thrust upon you.”
1963 US basketballer Charles Barkley. He said “We don’t need ref’s, but I guess the white guys need something to do.” Hey Charles, you forgot about Yao Ming, Steve Nash and Pete Maravich among others.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Friday, February 17, 2012
Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“Benjamin Disraeli is a self-made man that worships his creator.”
Jonathan Bright
Trivia question:
What is the largest of the “big cats”?
Another one:
What famous American Patriot's property was adjoining Bunker Hill during the battle in 1775?
For three days in February in 1860 the USS Constellation is in pursuit of the slave ship Cora along the west coast of Africa. The Cora had 750 slaves aboard literally crammed heel to toe in the hold. The Constellation's Captain believed that the Cora was smuggling the slaves into America and he was right. Believe it or not, the United States passed a law that forbade the trans-Atlantic importing of slaves to America in 1807. This law was not strictly enforced, however, and slavery did not end until the enactment of the 13th Amendment in 1865 that barred slavery “in the United States or it possessions.” The law of 1807 was passed only after a careful census indicated that the present slave population could be self-sutaining, meaning there were just as many slaves dying as there was being born. Anyway, the Constellation overtook the Cora and the slave ship surrendered but not before setting several hundred slaves adrift in small boats hoping the Constellation would stop and pick them up. They did not, but came after them after they had captured the Cora. They took all the slaves to the African country of Liberia and released them. The Constellation's crew was awarded $25 per slave that they rescued...In these three days, the crew members earned a years pay. The Cora was sailed into New York Harbor and the Constellation, having being built in Baltimore, was sailed there. This ship is now a museum in Baltimore Harbor.
A few months ago a man driving about 90 miles an hour in an SUV, rear ended two people riding a motorcycle. They were both killed. The driver began an attempt to drive away but changed his mind. The cops came and he blew a .21 on the meter and was charged with DUI with a fatal injury. This was not the first time the man had been charged with DUI but it was the first time he killed anyone. This past Friday he was tried and found guilty of DUI with fatal injury and sentenced to 25 years.
Down in Charleston, SC a 34 year old woman took her 4 year old nephew shopping with her in a local mall. About 5:30p the child was found wandering around by himself in one of the mall stores. The store manager made an announcement over the intercom that a child had been found and could be retrieved at this particular store. No one showed up. The Security cops were able to get the child to tell them her grandmother's name and at about 6:45p the grandmother was notified. She came and retrieved the child. The 34 year old was found still shopping and had no idea where her nephew was. She was arrested for child neglect and deservedly so.
This date in history February 17
1865 On this date United States General William T. Sherman and his army of 60,000, in his continuing campaign against innocent and defenseless civilians, enters the state capitol of South Carolina and begins an orgy of rape and destruction. Two days before CSA General Wade Hampton III had pulled out of Columbia knowing that if he stayed and fought his small cavalry unit would be swarmed under and annihilated. The Yankee army took great pleasure and were very meticulous in their destruction of this city because they felt that it was South Carolina that was first to secede and provided the impetus for all the others. This method of “burnt turf” warfare was advocated by both General Ulysses Grant and President Abraham Lincoln. Y'all will need to remember that Abraham Lincoln issued a “call to arms to preserve the union” after the secession began. The US army had its ass handed to it by the Confederates in the first few battles of the Civil War and then the northerners pressed Lincoln to allow the Southerners to form their own country so as to stop the slaughter. Then Lincoln saw that patriotism was not going to get the job done so he switched horses and said the war was about freeing the slaves which changes the impetus from patriotism to a matter of conscience. Now when the US Army has a chance at barbarism with impunity they say they are punishing those that led the secession. That was bullshit; they are back on the other horse again. They were just doing rape and pillage because they could get away with it, politics not withstanding. But mankind’s history is full of similar events from the wars between the Mesopotamian city-states, Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic, Tutsis vs Hutus not to mention what is happening in Darfur. Mankind’s history is full of atrocities against the innocents and it appears to me that there is no end in sight.
1906 Earlier there had been a workers strike at various silver and gold mines near Coeur de Lene, Idaho and the mine owners had beseeched the Governor Frank Steunenberg to intercede. Foolishly the Governor did indeed intercede in favor of the rich mine owners. Well, soon thereafter a bomb detonated at Governor Steunenberg’s fence gate at his Caldwell, Idaho home while he was opening it. The governor was killed instantly. The mine owners, not to be outdone, hire the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency to find out who killed the governor. The Pinkertons brought in their ace detective in John McParland to investigate in and around Caldwell. McParland and the local police focused in on a man named Tom Hogan. McParland befriended Hogan ands soon found out that he was not Tom Hogan but he was Harry Orchard, a renowned assassin. After much pressure was applied, Orchard implicated Bill Hayward, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone all leaders of the National Miners Union. The only problem was that all three were in Colorado where law enforcement is very sympathetic to unions and it was guaranteed that they would not extradite the three on the word of an admitted murderer. So Idaho did the next best thing. Several Idaho officials and a few Pinkerton agents went to Colorado and kidnapped the three back to Idaho. But the Union had another ace up its sleeve; they brought in famous lawyer Clarence Darrow in their defense. Hayward was tried first and the prosecution could not get any corroboration for Orchard’s testimony and it came down to Orchard’s testimony alone and being it almost a sure thing that he was guilty, Hayward was acquitted. Since Hayward was acquitted, there was no sense in trying the other two. After he was released Hayward fled to Russia where he spent the rest of his days. He was buried in the Kremlin.
1995 On this day the ferry Neptune departs Jeremie for Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This boat was only 150 feet long with three decks and was carrying 1,200 people and farm animals. Normally the trip takes 12 hours. The bad thing was that this boat was licensed for only 650 people, had no life rafts, no life preservers and no emergency radio. About half way to Port-au-Prince a storm rises and the bottom deck begins to become awash because of all the extra weight. The passengers, animals in tow, flee to the top deck. Well, ya’ll can guess what happened next. Most of the passengers get on one side and the boat capsizes. Haiti has no Navy or Coast Guard so those people are out there on their own paddling around and hanging on to the boat. Finally the United States send a Coast Guard cutter and they rescue about 350 people. The rest are lost. What a nightmare that must have been.
1820 On this date the United States Congress enacts legislation known as the Missouri Compromise. Since the beginning of the addition of more and more states the southern agrarian society had been fencing with the industrial north about slavery. The southern states were sensitive to having more free states than slaves states because if they were outnumbered, slavery could be abolished which would be devastating to the huge plantations. All of this was of great import to the south up until the invention of the cotton gin and the steam powered farm vehicles. Anyway, at this point in time Missouri was petitioning to come into the union as a slave state and the northern states objected because it would upset the balance. So the Missouri Compromise stated that Missouri would come into the union as a slave state and the next year Maine would be allowed in as a free state. All of this was just a delaying action because the Civil War exploded just 41 years later.
1944 On this date the United States Navy and Marines began the invasion of Eniwetok atoll in the northwest Marshall Islands. It was determined that the Marshall Islands had to be neutralized before the capture of the Marianas where the Unites States Air Force could launch strikes against the Japanese mainland. The capture of Eniwetok would achieve that purpose. The Japanese on Eniwetok were very outnumbered and outgunned. The battle was over in six days with only 64 of the original 2,677 Japanese soldiers surviving. There were only 195 American casualties. Soon after this the US Marines attacked and after a substantial struggle captured the Marianas Islands of Saipan, Tinian and Guam. The US Air Force launched bombing attacks on the Japanese mainland from Guam and Saipan using the newly invented B-29 long range bomber. It was from Tinian Island, which is adjacent to Saipan, that the B-29 Enola Gay departed on August 6, 1945 to make the bomb runs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped a bomb that changed mankind for eternity.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Quote of the day:
“Benjamin Disraeli is a self-made man that worships his creator.”
Jonathan Bright
Trivia question:
What is the largest of the “big cats”?
Another one:
What famous American Patriot's property was adjoining Bunker Hill during the battle in 1775?
For three days in February in 1860 the USS Constellation is in pursuit of the slave ship Cora along the west coast of Africa. The Cora had 750 slaves aboard literally crammed heel to toe in the hold. The Constellation's Captain believed that the Cora was smuggling the slaves into America and he was right. Believe it or not, the United States passed a law that forbade the trans-Atlantic importing of slaves to America in 1807. This law was not strictly enforced, however, and slavery did not end until the enactment of the 13th Amendment in 1865 that barred slavery “in the United States or it possessions.” The law of 1807 was passed only after a careful census indicated that the present slave population could be self-sutaining, meaning there were just as many slaves dying as there was being born. Anyway, the Constellation overtook the Cora and the slave ship surrendered but not before setting several hundred slaves adrift in small boats hoping the Constellation would stop and pick them up. They did not, but came after them after they had captured the Cora. They took all the slaves to the African country of Liberia and released them. The Constellation's crew was awarded $25 per slave that they rescued...In these three days, the crew members earned a years pay. The Cora was sailed into New York Harbor and the Constellation, having being built in Baltimore, was sailed there. This ship is now a museum in Baltimore Harbor.
A few months ago a man driving about 90 miles an hour in an SUV, rear ended two people riding a motorcycle. They were both killed. The driver began an attempt to drive away but changed his mind. The cops came and he blew a .21 on the meter and was charged with DUI with a fatal injury. This was not the first time the man had been charged with DUI but it was the first time he killed anyone. This past Friday he was tried and found guilty of DUI with fatal injury and sentenced to 25 years.
Down in Charleston, SC a 34 year old woman took her 4 year old nephew shopping with her in a local mall. About 5:30p the child was found wandering around by himself in one of the mall stores. The store manager made an announcement over the intercom that a child had been found and could be retrieved at this particular store. No one showed up. The Security cops were able to get the child to tell them her grandmother's name and at about 6:45p the grandmother was notified. She came and retrieved the child. The 34 year old was found still shopping and had no idea where her nephew was. She was arrested for child neglect and deservedly so.
This date in history February 17
1865 On this date United States General William T. Sherman and his army of 60,000, in his continuing campaign against innocent and defenseless civilians, enters the state capitol of South Carolina and begins an orgy of rape and destruction. Two days before CSA General Wade Hampton III had pulled out of Columbia knowing that if he stayed and fought his small cavalry unit would be swarmed under and annihilated. The Yankee army took great pleasure and were very meticulous in their destruction of this city because they felt that it was South Carolina that was first to secede and provided the impetus for all the others. This method of “burnt turf” warfare was advocated by both General Ulysses Grant and President Abraham Lincoln. Y'all will need to remember that Abraham Lincoln issued a “call to arms to preserve the union” after the secession began. The US army had its ass handed to it by the Confederates in the first few battles of the Civil War and then the northerners pressed Lincoln to allow the Southerners to form their own country so as to stop the slaughter. Then Lincoln saw that patriotism was not going to get the job done so he switched horses and said the war was about freeing the slaves which changes the impetus from patriotism to a matter of conscience. Now when the US Army has a chance at barbarism with impunity they say they are punishing those that led the secession. That was bullshit; they are back on the other horse again. They were just doing rape and pillage because they could get away with it, politics not withstanding. But mankind’s history is full of similar events from the wars between the Mesopotamian city-states, Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic, Tutsis vs Hutus not to mention what is happening in Darfur. Mankind’s history is full of atrocities against the innocents and it appears to me that there is no end in sight.
1906 Earlier there had been a workers strike at various silver and gold mines near Coeur de Lene, Idaho and the mine owners had beseeched the Governor Frank Steunenberg to intercede. Foolishly the Governor did indeed intercede in favor of the rich mine owners. Well, soon thereafter a bomb detonated at Governor Steunenberg’s fence gate at his Caldwell, Idaho home while he was opening it. The governor was killed instantly. The mine owners, not to be outdone, hire the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency to find out who killed the governor. The Pinkertons brought in their ace detective in John McParland to investigate in and around Caldwell. McParland and the local police focused in on a man named Tom Hogan. McParland befriended Hogan ands soon found out that he was not Tom Hogan but he was Harry Orchard, a renowned assassin. After much pressure was applied, Orchard implicated Bill Hayward, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone all leaders of the National Miners Union. The only problem was that all three were in Colorado where law enforcement is very sympathetic to unions and it was guaranteed that they would not extradite the three on the word of an admitted murderer. So Idaho did the next best thing. Several Idaho officials and a few Pinkerton agents went to Colorado and kidnapped the three back to Idaho. But the Union had another ace up its sleeve; they brought in famous lawyer Clarence Darrow in their defense. Hayward was tried first and the prosecution could not get any corroboration for Orchard’s testimony and it came down to Orchard’s testimony alone and being it almost a sure thing that he was guilty, Hayward was acquitted. Since Hayward was acquitted, there was no sense in trying the other two. After he was released Hayward fled to Russia where he spent the rest of his days. He was buried in the Kremlin.
1995 On this day the ferry Neptune departs Jeremie for Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This boat was only 150 feet long with three decks and was carrying 1,200 people and farm animals. Normally the trip takes 12 hours. The bad thing was that this boat was licensed for only 650 people, had no life rafts, no life preservers and no emergency radio. About half way to Port-au-Prince a storm rises and the bottom deck begins to become awash because of all the extra weight. The passengers, animals in tow, flee to the top deck. Well, ya’ll can guess what happened next. Most of the passengers get on one side and the boat capsizes. Haiti has no Navy or Coast Guard so those people are out there on their own paddling around and hanging on to the boat. Finally the United States send a Coast Guard cutter and they rescue about 350 people. The rest are lost. What a nightmare that must have been.
1820 On this date the United States Congress enacts legislation known as the Missouri Compromise. Since the beginning of the addition of more and more states the southern agrarian society had been fencing with the industrial north about slavery. The southern states were sensitive to having more free states than slaves states because if they were outnumbered, slavery could be abolished which would be devastating to the huge plantations. All of this was of great import to the south up until the invention of the cotton gin and the steam powered farm vehicles. Anyway, at this point in time Missouri was petitioning to come into the union as a slave state and the northern states objected because it would upset the balance. So the Missouri Compromise stated that Missouri would come into the union as a slave state and the next year Maine would be allowed in as a free state. All of this was just a delaying action because the Civil War exploded just 41 years later.
1944 On this date the United States Navy and Marines began the invasion of Eniwetok atoll in the northwest Marshall Islands. It was determined that the Marshall Islands had to be neutralized before the capture of the Marianas where the Unites States Air Force could launch strikes against the Japanese mainland. The capture of Eniwetok would achieve that purpose. The Japanese on Eniwetok were very outnumbered and outgunned. The battle was over in six days with only 64 of the original 2,677 Japanese soldiers surviving. There were only 195 American casualties. Soon after this the US Marines attacked and after a substantial struggle captured the Marianas Islands of Saipan, Tinian and Guam. The US Air Force launched bombing attacks on the Japanese mainland from Guam and Saipan using the newly invented B-29 long range bomber. It was from Tinian Island, which is adjacent to Saipan, that the B-29 Enola Gay departed on August 6, 1945 to make the bomb runs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped a bomb that changed mankind for eternity.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“A recent study has revealed that you are more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.”
Dennis Miller
I read about an unusual situation up in Charlotte, NC. About fourteen years ago a man was shot by his girlfriend’s ex-husband. It was not a fatal would and the shooter was tried and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. He did eight year in the joint and was paroled in 2008. Just recently the man that was shot died with the effect of the gunshot wound being the proximate cause of death. What happens to the shooter if anything? What about double jeopardy? According to North Carolina law, and nearly every other state, there is no statute of limitations on murder. Does this law have more weight that the US Constitutional provision that a person cannot be tried more than once for the same crime (double jeopardy). If you split hairs you could say that he was not tried for murder, he was tried for assault with a deadly weapon. It is over my head but I will keep an eye out for what happens in this case.
Down in Pensacola, Florida a man walked into a Wells Fargo band and handed a teller a note demanding money. The teller complied and the thief ran outside and left in red Chevy Aveo. Six minutes later that car was spotted and stopped by a city cop and the money was in the back seat. The thief was arrested and in the joint within 15 minutes of the robbery. I like it.
A boy was kicked out of the Gulf Breeze, Florida High School a few weeks ago. This past Monday he had his mother drive by the school and he jumped out and headed toward the school. The school “Resource” officer saw him and headed that way to arrest him for trespassing. The boy started running away with the officer in close pursuit. Eventually more cops showed up and the boy was spread-eagled but not before putting up a viscous fight and the torrent of profanity. He was handcuffed and shackled and thrown into the back of a cruiser where he kicked out one of the windows. He is now cooling his heels in the joint. I wonder why he got kicked out of school.
37 year old Robert Thayer has been indicted for wire fraud for filing a Federal claim stating that he had lost his job for a Destin, Florida developer because of the oil spill. He really lost his job as a pool cleaner because he was caught high as a Georgia pine on marijuana while working and fired.
Back in October two women boarded the cruise ship Carnival Fantasy in Charleston, SC bound for Bermuda. The customs office in Charleston found out that these two women were part of a well known drug ring and was probably smuggling drugs but the ship had already sailed and was in international waters. The customs office notified the Bermuda customs office who was waiting for the two women when they left the ship. The Bermuda customs found cannabis resin (hashish) strapped to the women's legs and had a value of $406,000. They were tried and convicted and will spend six year in a Bermuda prison.
This date in history February 16
1862 US General U.S. Grant completed a brilliant campaign in the western theater with the capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. Just 10 days before he had captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River which severely damaged the Confederate supply routes. The Confederate troops at Fort Donelson were led by General Gideon Pillow. Fort Donelson was well defended by seasoned troops. Grant chose to attack from two directions and was initially successful but General Pillow ordered a counter-attack and drove the US army back making an escape possible, but Pillow got greedy. He thought he would win and continued the attack rather than ordering an escape. Included in those that chose to escape were CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 500 cavalrymen that proved to be a thorn in the side of the Union army for the entire war. Eventually Grant was able to flank Pillows troops and they were forced to surrender. When Pillow asked Grant for surrender terms the answer was “nothing but total and unconditional surrender will be accepted”. Grants troops joked around saying that the U.S. in Grant’s name meant “Unconditional Surrender”.
1803 The fledgling United States merchant fleet had been under attack by pirates in North Africa while the ships were in the Mediterranean Sea. President Thomas Jefferson got fed up and sent our Navy there to counteract the pirates. One of the US warships, the Philadelphia, ran aground near Tripoli and was captured. The US Navy felt that they had to prevent the pirates from adding to their fleet with a ship the caliber of the Philadelphia. On this date, Lieutenant Stephan Decatur and 73 sailors and Marines sailed into Tripoli harbor disguised as Maltese fishermen. They boarded the Philadelphia, killed the crew and set fire to the ship and it burned down to the waterline. Decatur and his crew escaped with no casualties. Decatur became an icon in the history of the United States Navy. There are several towns named for him.
1894 For reasons known only to the Texas Prison System, on this date they pardoned one of the most bloodthirsty gunfighters in the history of the American west, John Wesley Hardin. Hardin killed his first man at the age of 15 and at least 40 more followed. On his 21st birthday he got into an altercation with another man. The other guy drew and fired first but missed, Hardin didn’t. Even though he shot in self defense, Hardin did not want to be arrested so he hit the road. He was tracked down and captured by the Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida. He was brought back and was given a trial, convicted and sentenced to life. While in prison he got an education and became a lawyer. After he was pardoned he began a law practice in Gonzales, Texas but this small town did not have enough excitement so he moved to El Paso. Soon after moving he was standing at a bar when someone walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head killing him instantly. The killer was a relative of someone that Hardin had killed. Hardin had been in prison for 17 years but was killed for his past bad acts. Beware; your past will catch up with you.
1968 On January 31 the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army combined with the most coordinated attack of that unfortunate war, it was the beginning of the Tet Offensive. They were successful in capturing seven of the largest South Vietnam cities and 30 provincial capitals. They even sent a squad of shock troops that captured and occupied the US embassy in Saigon (now Ho Chi Mein city) for six hours. A platoon of US paratrooper was dropped on the roof and the invaders were routed or killed. There were 1,000 Viet Cong guerillas that hid out in Saigon and it took 11,000 American and South Vietnamese troops 10 days to find and kill or capture them. On this date, the US State Department announced that the Tet Offensive resulted in 350,000 refugees in addition to the 800,000 that were there already. What a freaking nightmare.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.
Quote of the day:
“A recent study has revealed that you are more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.”
Dennis Miller
I read about an unusual situation up in Charlotte, NC. About fourteen years ago a man was shot by his girlfriend’s ex-husband. It was not a fatal would and the shooter was tried and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. He did eight year in the joint and was paroled in 2008. Just recently the man that was shot died with the effect of the gunshot wound being the proximate cause of death. What happens to the shooter if anything? What about double jeopardy? According to North Carolina law, and nearly every other state, there is no statute of limitations on murder. Does this law have more weight that the US Constitutional provision that a person cannot be tried more than once for the same crime (double jeopardy). If you split hairs you could say that he was not tried for murder, he was tried for assault with a deadly weapon. It is over my head but I will keep an eye out for what happens in this case.
Down in Pensacola, Florida a man walked into a Wells Fargo band and handed a teller a note demanding money. The teller complied and the thief ran outside and left in red Chevy Aveo. Six minutes later that car was spotted and stopped by a city cop and the money was in the back seat. The thief was arrested and in the joint within 15 minutes of the robbery. I like it.
A boy was kicked out of the Gulf Breeze, Florida High School a few weeks ago. This past Monday he had his mother drive by the school and he jumped out and headed toward the school. The school “Resource” officer saw him and headed that way to arrest him for trespassing. The boy started running away with the officer in close pursuit. Eventually more cops showed up and the boy was spread-eagled but not before putting up a viscous fight and the torrent of profanity. He was handcuffed and shackled and thrown into the back of a cruiser where he kicked out one of the windows. He is now cooling his heels in the joint. I wonder why he got kicked out of school.
37 year old Robert Thayer has been indicted for wire fraud for filing a Federal claim stating that he had lost his job for a Destin, Florida developer because of the oil spill. He really lost his job as a pool cleaner because he was caught high as a Georgia pine on marijuana while working and fired.
Back in October two women boarded the cruise ship Carnival Fantasy in Charleston, SC bound for Bermuda. The customs office in Charleston found out that these two women were part of a well known drug ring and was probably smuggling drugs but the ship had already sailed and was in international waters. The customs office notified the Bermuda customs office who was waiting for the two women when they left the ship. The Bermuda customs found cannabis resin (hashish) strapped to the women's legs and had a value of $406,000. They were tried and convicted and will spend six year in a Bermuda prison.
This date in history February 16
1862 US General U.S. Grant completed a brilliant campaign in the western theater with the capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. Just 10 days before he had captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River which severely damaged the Confederate supply routes. The Confederate troops at Fort Donelson were led by General Gideon Pillow. Fort Donelson was well defended by seasoned troops. Grant chose to attack from two directions and was initially successful but General Pillow ordered a counter-attack and drove the US army back making an escape possible, but Pillow got greedy. He thought he would win and continued the attack rather than ordering an escape. Included in those that chose to escape were CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 500 cavalrymen that proved to be a thorn in the side of the Union army for the entire war. Eventually Grant was able to flank Pillows troops and they were forced to surrender. When Pillow asked Grant for surrender terms the answer was “nothing but total and unconditional surrender will be accepted”. Grants troops joked around saying that the U.S. in Grant’s name meant “Unconditional Surrender”.
1803 The fledgling United States merchant fleet had been under attack by pirates in North Africa while the ships were in the Mediterranean Sea. President Thomas Jefferson got fed up and sent our Navy there to counteract the pirates. One of the US warships, the Philadelphia, ran aground near Tripoli and was captured. The US Navy felt that they had to prevent the pirates from adding to their fleet with a ship the caliber of the Philadelphia. On this date, Lieutenant Stephan Decatur and 73 sailors and Marines sailed into Tripoli harbor disguised as Maltese fishermen. They boarded the Philadelphia, killed the crew and set fire to the ship and it burned down to the waterline. Decatur and his crew escaped with no casualties. Decatur became an icon in the history of the United States Navy. There are several towns named for him.
1894 For reasons known only to the Texas Prison System, on this date they pardoned one of the most bloodthirsty gunfighters in the history of the American west, John Wesley Hardin. Hardin killed his first man at the age of 15 and at least 40 more followed. On his 21st birthday he got into an altercation with another man. The other guy drew and fired first but missed, Hardin didn’t. Even though he shot in self defense, Hardin did not want to be arrested so he hit the road. He was tracked down and captured by the Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida. He was brought back and was given a trial, convicted and sentenced to life. While in prison he got an education and became a lawyer. After he was pardoned he began a law practice in Gonzales, Texas but this small town did not have enough excitement so he moved to El Paso. Soon after moving he was standing at a bar when someone walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head killing him instantly. The killer was a relative of someone that Hardin had killed. Hardin had been in prison for 17 years but was killed for his past bad acts. Beware; your past will catch up with you.
1968 On January 31 the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army combined with the most coordinated attack of that unfortunate war, it was the beginning of the Tet Offensive. They were successful in capturing seven of the largest South Vietnam cities and 30 provincial capitals. They even sent a squad of shock troops that captured and occupied the US embassy in Saigon (now Ho Chi Mein city) for six hours. A platoon of US paratrooper was dropped on the roof and the invaders were routed or killed. There were 1,000 Viet Cong guerillas that hid out in Saigon and it took 11,000 American and South Vietnamese troops 10 days to find and kill or capture them. On this date, the US State Department announced that the Tet Offensive resulted in 350,000 refugees in addition to the 800,000 that were there already. What a freaking nightmare.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.
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