Daily history

Good morning,




Remember Veteran's Day, y'all!



Quote of the day:

"Now that it is over, what did you do yesterday that is worth mentioning?"

                                   Coleman Cox

I am going to stay at my daughter's house a little longer than normal for two reasons. One, Jerry's Drive-in will open at ten and I can get a decent breakfast and two, the beach road to my condo tends to flood so I am going to give it time to subside.

I have not mentioned this yet but my comment on the Bama vs LSU game follows. It looked to me like there were three things that made Bama the winner. One was Bama had better leadership at quarterback. The LSU quarterback looked tentative at times. The Bama offensive line clearly was superior to the LSU defensive front three/four and the linebackers. Bama has a better running back in Ingram. However, Bama has had trouble in the Red Zone. If they give that Florida defense a short field to defend all day with no big plays, they will be in big trouble. The championship game between Bama and Florida will be a young war.

I can hardly wait to get back to the real world in South Carolina. I just read where a family down in Walterboro, SC were sitting out in their front yard playing cards when a car pulled up and someone in the car opened fire. The result was that a 45 year old male, a 23 year old male and a 20 month old toddler were killed and five others wounded. The cops are looking for a black car with one headlight out.

That kind of crap wants me to stay here and be oblivious to the real world like the natives do. To most of those that I hang around with here are only worried about their next meal, their next drink or getting home without getting arrested. It is a pretty simple life for them. Some would say they are trashy, but the chances are they will live longer in their happy little cocoons than I will roaming the earth not knowing exactly what I am looking for. As Bob Segar said...Running against the Wind...

Additionally down in Anderson, SC a man got into a fight with a woman's son, the man pulled a gun and shot the woman's son AND his mother. The man was arrested on the scene and charged with assault with intent to kill. Yes indeed, I can hardly wait to get back to murder and mayhem in the real world.

The bad news here in paradise is there is some flooded roads and some of the farmers raising a late crops will suffer from the flooding of their fields.

I am still getting e-mails about how rotten our legislators and those in the executive branch are. I read things like "I heard", "this expert person said", or "this expert person wrote", and then there is a tirade about a pet agenda someone has. Y'all just keep all that trash to yourselves. If you cannot personally verify it's authenticity then it is just a rumor. Spreading rumors does more damage than good and I think all of you know that. Some of you forward this crap just because it agrees with your point of view, veracity be damned. If you think this country is being taken away from us then you have two choices. One is an armed revolt with the military joining in. An armed revolt must have support of the military because a bunch of civilian warriors are no match for a trained military who would be called in to quash the revolt because anarchy is an not acceptable in any civilization, or two, change the legislature and executive branches at the voting booth. Take your pick. Otherwise, just shut the hell up.

By the time y'all read this the "Beltway Sniper", John Mohammad will be in that great sniper's nest in the sky. The US Supreme Court denied his appeal on Monday and the Governor is not about to grant clemency and expect to stay in office. I smile a lot knowing we will not have to support that bastard the rest of his miserable life. There is a God.

I guess y'all read about that Muslim "Imam" somewhere in a sweaty, grimy part of the world said that the Fort Hood killer should be venerated as a hero. If I was in power the first time anyone in the world vocally advocated the violent death of Americans I would be on the phone immediately with the Delta Force over at Hurlburt Air Force Base and tell them to cap that son-of-a-bitch tout suite. I would also tell them to not worry, I would have their back covered. Enough is enough.

Good News:

Not all those rock stars are spoiled children. Jon Bon Jovi has organized what he calls "Soul Foundation". From that he developed a program called the "The Power of We" whereby he finances training programs for people in New Jersey and Philadelphia to help train those that are interested in crawling out of their squalor and joining society. Good for Jon Bon Jovi.

This date in history November 11

1918    On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month an armistice was signed in a railcar near Compeigne, France ending four years of one of the bloodiest conflicts in the history of warfare called World War I. This war began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the apparent heir to the Austria-Hungary Empire. The Archduke was inspecting his uncle’s troops in Sarajevo, Bosnia when he and his wife were gunned down by a Bosnian Serb nationalist. There had been bad blood between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in the past and Austria-Hungary chose this opportunity to settle the issue once and for all. After Austria-Hungary had received assurances that Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany would support Austria-Hungary if they declared war on Serbia and Russia intervened, they declared war on Serbia and began shelling the capitol of Belgrade. Russia was an ally of Serbia and began mobilization to support Serbia and Germany began mobilization in support of Austria-Hungary. Well, the rest of Europe began taking sides and it eventually ended up being Europe (France, Belgium, England and eventually the US) against Germany combined with Austria-Hungary. The war cost the lives of over 9 million and 26 million wounded. Finally the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was signed which officially ended the conflict. The Treaty was so harsh to the German people that many German civilians died of starvation and disease afterward. All this did was to anger the German people and they almost immediately began seeking revenge. And sure enough, a German madman named Adolph Hitler said the right words In the early 1930’s and instilled a pride back into the German people and he also engineered the re-birth of the German military expertise and equipment in spite of the Treaty of Versailles and in 1938, they launched the most effective and deadly assemblage of military might the world had ever seen. But this time, they had control of the air over Europe, something never seen in WWI, WWII was underway.

1988    On this date the Sacramento, California police make a grisly discovery on the front lawn of Dorothea Puente. It was the corpse of an elderly woman. The police found out that Puente ran a residential home for the elderly. They also found six more buried corpses and not only that, she had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic years before. This bitch had previously done hard time for forging checks and going to bars and slipping drugs into people’s drinks and the robbing them. After she got out of prison she decides to open a residential home for the elderly, if ya’ll can believe that. A social worker had sent 19 people to stay with Dorothea and many of them just disappeared. Finally, the neighbors began smelling the aroma of rotting flesh which brought the police into the act. All of the corpses found on her property had been drugged with a sedative but the coroner could not name that as the cause of death nor could the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that good old Dorothea had even buried the bodies that were found there in spite of 3,100 exhibits. The prosecution had charged Puente with nine murders but she was convicted of just three. The police believed that she was responsible for the disappearance of 25 people that had been staying there. I wonder where she is today.

1933    On this day a sustained wind out of the west arrives in the farmlands of South Dakota. This was the beginning of one of the largest dust storms in American history. The Great Plains of American had been suffering from 6 year long drought that added to the misery of the Great Depression. This particular dust storm arising out of what was called the “Dust Bowl” lifted tons and tons of topsoil and took much of it as far east as Albany, New York. There were many factors that brought this misery to the fore. There was the drought of course plus the farmers plowing up nearly all of the prairie grasses and then planting a less hearty plant such as wheat or barley. They also had no clue as to contour plowing and other modern techniques. There was a story about a representative of the US Department of Agriculture that giving a seminar to the farmers in the Dust Bowl on how to farm more productively when one older farmer rose up and said “Sonny, You can’t tell me about how to farm. I have worn out three farms already.”

Born today:

1744    Wife of President John Adams, Abigail Smith Adams. She said “We have too many high sounding words and not enough action.” Abigail was not afraid to state her opinion, no matter who was listening. There is a country song that has the phrase “A little less talk and a lot more action”, that sounds like Abigail to me.

1885    US General (and my hero) George S. Patton. He said “No good decision was ever made from a swivel chair.” Hey George, add to that “nor in committee meetings”.

1964    US actress Calista Flockhart. While on the David Letterman Show she said “I just want to take this opportunity to tell the press to KISS MY SKINNY WHITE ASS!” Good job, but you don’t have to prove your description to us, Calista.

1962    US actress Demi Moore. She said “There are a lot of people out there that think I am a bitch.” Yes Demi, there is.

"Diolch am wrando prin y gallaf aros tan yfory"

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow (in Welsh)