Good morning,
I have included a Medal of Honor citation at the end of the lesson. This guy is the epitome of an "Iron Man".
Quote of the day:
"Politics: This word comes from the Latin word 'poli' meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning bloodsucking creatures."
Robin Williams
The weather is still sparkling with clear skies the low temps are in the mid 50's and the high in the mid 70's. As usual the wind is from the northeast at about 7 MPH.
As I have mentioned in the past, Boeing Aircraft has chosen to to quit hassling around with the Machinist union out in Everett, Washington and build an assembly plant for the 787 "Dreamliner" in North Charleston, SC. The contract for the design and construction of the enormous assembly building was awarded to BE&K/Turner Construction company in Greenville, SC. This contract is the largest ever let in the state of South Carolina. Before this it was the BMW assembly plant near Greenville. This windfall did not come too soon. The unemployment rate in SC in the highest since the great depression.
On Friday the Spartanburg, SC Sheriff's department was called to a mobile home in Greer, SC because a report of domestic violence. Upon arrival they could see a warm of roaches crawling around on the front door. The started in the house but there were so many roaches in the house that the cops backed out and put on hazardous material protective suits and re-entered the house. The cops saw swarms of roaches everywhere they looked even on the beds including those of the two children living there. The cops arrested the male occupant for criminal domestic violence, the mother for child endangerment because of amount of the filth in the house and they took the kids to DSS where roaches were found in their clothing. I am at a loss as to how to comment on this abomination except to ask how degenerate can you get?
Well it looks like the impossible will happen. Tropical storm/Hurricane Ida has back into the Caribbean Sea and has reorganized and strenghtened. At present the center is about 100 mile east of Belize and headed north-northwest. The forecast is for Ida to close within 150 to 200 mile of Pensacola/Panama City and then turn 90 degrees right and head for Tampa. We shall see.
College Football news:
The South Carolina Gamecocks were outmanned by the Arkansas Razorbacks. As usual, the Cocks shot themselves in the foot several times.
I got bored with the Clemson vs Florida State game so I do not know how it ended.
Both Alabama and Florida remain undefeated and it is amost a certainty they will meet each other in the SEC Championship game. It is my opinion that the winner of this game will play in the national championship game.
Good News:
A scotsman named David Blount decided that he was spending too much time in the house and bought a metal detector. On his first trip out he found something near an old church in ruins. David dug up a treasure trove of gold jewelry from the middle ages. He notified the British Museum who showed immediate interest and valued the cache at one million Pounds. So after just one trip David will not have to work again if he doesn't want to.
This date in history November 8
1775 On this day US General George Washington begins an attempt to absorb the militias in New England into the United States Army. Those obstreperous Yankees in the militias were even more prejudicial and any member of the Klan. Their militias were divided into men from different areas of a state and in some cases different neighborhood in the same city. They had no concept of cohesion of forces. The acted like the war was something like camping out with the Boy Scouts. It was common knowledge that militias from Massachusetts saw no need to have militiamen from Rhode Island in their ranks. The Connecticut militias saw no need for militiamen from New York in their ranks, etc. Washington was in dire need of experienced military men, especially officers and the different militias had just that. The problem was the loyalty to their neighbors rather than their country. Not only that, the troops had no concept of sanitation and frequently and were sickened by it causing a loss of troops for Washington. Then Prussian officer Baron Von Steuben arrived on the scene and everything changed. He drilled the hell out those demoralized troops into a proud razor sharp fighting unit. He also taught the troops basic sanitation, like not camping downhill from a latrine. Those Yankees were used to living their own filth. Von Steuben had published a basic handbook of military procedures and codes and some of them are in use to this day. There is no question that Von Steuben was instrumental in the success of this great nation’s fight for independence.
1861 On this date a United States warship USS San Jacinto stops and boards the British mail ship the HMS Trent. They took two representatives from the Confederate States of America and imprisoned them in Philadelphia. Great Britain was not amused and sent a message to the United States stating that they would not abide this act of piracy and threatened war. The United States did nothing and England responded with sending 40,000 British troops to Canada. That got A. Lincoln’s attention and he ordered the two CSA representative released and a war with England was avoided. The United States would have been in deep doo-doo if they would have had to fight the British AND the Confederacy simultaneously.
1974 On this date one of the worst serial killers in American history botches an abduction. Ted Bundy went to a shopping center in Salt Lake City and walked up to a woman named Carol DaRonde and said that he was the police and her car had been involved in an accident and she needed to come with him to file a report. In spite of her misgivings she followed Ted to his VW. Once she got inside, Ted clapped some handcuffs on her and tried to hit her with a crow bar. Carol fought him off and leaped out of the car and escaped. She went to the Salt Lake City cops with this tale and they were very interested as was the Seattle police because they had several cases each of missing women. Bundy was arrested and spent several months in a Salt Lake jail but somehow eventually escaped. Ted resumed his trail of dead and missing women all across the United States. This monster was eventually captured in Pensacola, Florida but not before torturing and killing several Florida women. Ted finally was tried an convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. On January 24, 1989 with all of his appeals exhausted, Ted Bundy went to meet his maker medium rare after a rendezvous with “Old Sparky” the electric chair. They use the needle now a days. Too bad. On that night there was a large crowd just outside the fence where Ted was executed. They weren’t there to protest the death penalty; they were there barbequing hamburgers, laughing and singing in celebration of the roasting of Ted. I like it.
1895 On this day a German scientist named Conrad Roentgen is experimenting with a cathode ray tube and notices that another cathode ray tube is lighting up just from being close to the active one. Roentgen could not figure out what the hell he had going but he knew there was some kind of radiation causing it so he called them x-rays. Further experiments showed that the rays could penetrate skin and flesh but could not penetrate hard substances like bone and metal. This monumental find made history in the world of diagnostic medicine. The scientists in the world were ecstatic with this new tool but did not know its dangers. After one of Thomas Edison’s assistants died of cancer after extended experiments with x-rays that it was found that x-rays taken in excess would kill your ass, probably by leukemia or a brain tumor. After that more stringent safety precautions were implemented. It would be impossible to say how many lives were saved with this discovery. Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for this contribution to science.
Births and deaths:
1975 One of the most evil and perverted people in the annuls of history dies. German Dr. Josef Mengele dies while swimming in the surf off the coast of Brazil. Mengele was a doctor at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He conducted unspeakably horrible medical experiments, especially on children. After the war he somehow made his way to Paraguay where he lived for many years. His remains were not positively identified until 1985 with the use of DNA samples.
1817 Abolitionist Fredric Douglass is born. He once said “You may not always get what you pay for but you will always pay for what you get.” Those words are true today.
1960 US actor James Spaden is born. He said “If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.” He and I are paddling the same boat.
1880 Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler is born. He said “We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.” I don’t know about that, look at US Gen George Patton, US Adm. William “Bull” Halsey and US Marine Gen. Holland M. “Howling Mad” Smith. Sometime a short temper is required.
1963 US economist Anthony Consani when speaking of corporate takeovers he said “It is not the intention of a tick to become a dog.” Good thinking.
The President of the United States
in the name of The Congress
takes pleasure in presenting the
Medal of Honor
to
LEE, HUBERT L.
Rank and organization: Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company I, 23d Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Ip-ori, Korea, 1 February 1951. Entered service at: Leland, Miss. Born: 2 February 1915, Arburg, Mo. G.O. No.: 21, 5 February 1952.
Citation:
M/Sgt. Lee, a member of Company I, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. When his platoon was forced from its position by a numerically superior enemy force, and his platoon leader wounded, M/Sgt. Lee assumed command, regrouped the remnants of his unit, and led them in repeated assaults to regain the position. Within 25 yards of his objective he received a leg wound from grenade fragments, but refused assistance and continued the attack. Although forced to withdraw 5 times, each time he regrouped his remaining men and renewed the assault. Moving forward at the head of his small group in the fifth attempt, he was struck by an exploding grenade, knocked to the ground, and seriously wounded in both legs. Still refusing assistance, he advanced by crawling, rising to his knees to fire, and urging his men to follow. While thus directing the final assault he was wounded a third time, by small-arms fire. Persistently continuing to crawl forward, he directed his men in a final and successful attack which regained the vital objective. His intrepid leadership and determination led to the destruction of 83 of the enemy and withdrawal of the remainder, and was a vital factor in stopping the enemy attack. M/Sgt. Lee's indomitable courage, consummate valor, and outstanding leadership reflect the highest credit upon himself and are in keeping with the finest traditions of the infantry and the U.S. Army.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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