Daily history

Good morning,


Quote of the day:

"Do not judge each day by what you reap but how many seeds you sow."

                              Robert Louis Stevenson

The weather is the same as yesterday with one exception. When I look south over the Gulf I see a lot of east-west cirrus clouds. It could be the outer fringes of Hurricane/ tropical depression Ida. We shall see.

Down at Fort Hood, Texas this past Thursday that after that crazy bastard that started shooting everybody, a female civilian cop jumped into the line of fire and took a round from the shooter and then put him down with four shots of her own. Her name is Sgt. Kimberly Lumley. She is in stable condition, the shooter is on a respirator, prognosis unknown. That effort displayed by Kimberly was pure courage and bravery. I am proud of her.

Then on Friday morning another crazy son-of-a-bitch down in Orlando opens fire in a high rise office building. There was one killed and five wounded. It turned out that shooter was an architect named Jason Rodriguez that had been laid off. After the shootings, he runs home to Mama. The cops arrest him at his Mommie's house without a struggle.

Who said crime is not addictive? A robber came into the Corner Market convenience store in Greenville, SC and waved a silver and black pistol and demanded money. This event happened on October 18, October 30 and on November 5. Each time it was after midnight and the robber ran away on foot in the same direction. The description was the same for all events. A black man about 5'-6" to 6'-0" weighing between 160 and 175 pounds, wearing a grey hoodie and a black ski mask. Would it be murder if the store owner laid in wait for that jackass and gave him a 12 gauge headache the next time he tried that foolishness? I don't know.

In the winter of 2007 a married man named Pernell Thompson had an affair with a 15 year old Union, SC High School cheerleader. Pernell's wife Yolanda found out about it and told Pernell that the only way he could "prove his love for her" was to murder the cheerleader, Marisha Jeter. In January of 2008 Pernell and Yolanda lured Marisha into a parking lot and Pernell stabbed her in the neck killing her. They then burned her car and threw her corpse into a river. Earlier Pernell was sentenced to life without parole. On Friday past Yolanda got the same sentence. The defense had to bring a lot of witnesses in her behalf to stop her from getting the needle. Now their three kids have no one. How stupid can a person(s) be?

Hurricane Ida is wallowing around in Nicaragua headed north at 7 MPH. It had been downgraded to a tropical depression but it is expected to reorganize and strengthen one it enters the Gulf of Mexico early next week due south of Pensacola. Since weather records have been kept, I cannot find any time that a hurricane has came ashore in the northern Gulf of Mexico in November. But there is always a first.

Good news:

I am going to paraphrase a story I just read:

My Mother Yvonne was a perfect positive thinker, a woman of faith, she could have written circles around those that wrote about positive thinking. She prayed visually, fervently with feeling and energy everyday. She also read inspirational books daily. She often prayed that she would die in her sleep. When she got into her 80's she had a series of episodes where she would pass out but quickly recover. After several of these events I took her to her doctor. He found a serious heart condition and told Yvonne that she needed a pacemaker and described the procedure. The doctor came over to me and whispered that she had about a year to live. Yvonne asked the doctor what would happen later on and he said that she would probably die in her sleep. Yvonne said "Perfect, that is what I have always prayed for." She died in her sleep at the age of 94. Her prayers were answered.

This date in history November 7

1989    This date will go down as one of the most important in history. The head a borough in New York City is elected mayor and the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is elected as Governor. It was David Dinkins of New York and Douglas Wilder of Virginia both are African-American. This is the first time in history that a black man was elected Governor. Virginia law forbids a Governor from staying in office for more than two terms so Wilder was out after two terms. Mayor David Dinkins was defeated art the end of his first term by Rudy Giuliani.

1965    Earlier in 1964 a drag racer from Ohio named Art Arfons build a drag racer utilizing a J-79 jet engine with afterburner. Art had eyes for the land speed record and hauls that beast he named "The Green Monster" out to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see what he could do. Art unleashed his car and ran a measured mile at a new record of 434.034 MPH. However the record did not stand but six days when another speed burner named Craig Breedlove piloting his jet powered car named The Spirit of America to a new record speed of 468.719 MPH. Art Arfons packs up his car and goes back to Ohio and tweaks the Monster for almost a year. On this date he returns to Bonneville with a new and improved Green Monster and blisters the track at a new world record speed of 576.553 MPH. If I am not mistaken the latest world speed record is about 762 MPH which is beyond the speed of sound, ya’ll. That is scary.

1985    On this date a salesman named David Hendricks was traveling in Wisconsin and calls the police in Bloomington, Illinois. Hendricks said that he had been trying to call his family in Bloomington all weekend and had received no response. The police go to the Hendricks house only to find his wife and thee children had been cut to pieces with an axe and a butcher knife. The police could not find any sign of forced entry and almost not sign of a struggle making the killings very suspicious. The police were at a loss for clues so they examined the father more closely. The father said that he had taken the family out for pizza at about 7:30p and allowed the kids to play in an amusement are and eventually arrived back home at about 9:30p. He said that soon thereafter he left for a business trip to Wisconsin. The Hendricks family belonged to a very religious organization called the Plymouth Brethren which was similar to the Quakers. The police examined each and every thread of clothing in Hendrick’s car which proved to be inconclusive. However, the coroner found that the food in the intestines of the children proved to be a vegetable pizza that was not sufficiently digested to comply with the timeline in Hendrick’s alibi. The police charged him with murder even though they did not have a scintilla of a motive since his religion forbade violence. During the trial Hendrick’s attorney hammered at the food digestion process that can be altered with a lot of physical activity knowing the kids had been in a playground after eating. He was right about the food digestion process but in spite the prosecution not having a motive and the problem with the food digestion, Hendricks was convicted of four counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This just goes to show you that the justice system here in the good old USA ain’t perfect.

Born today:

1897    US movie producer Herman Mankiewicz. After being sick after a formal dinner and asked how he felt he said “I am fine. The white wine came up with the fish.” Hey Herman, it wasn’t the wine.

Died today:

1962    First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She said “You always admire what you don’t understand”. That sounds like a woman to me, Eleanor.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.