Daily history

Good morning,


Quote of the day:

"You don't get to choose they way or when you are going to die. You only get to choose how you are going to live right now."

                                      Joan Baez

You South Carolinians will be glad to know that an ethics committee has been formed look into the alleged 37 ethics violations perpetrated by Governor Mark Sanford. The name of this committee should be named "Hypocrisy incorporated" and is lead by David "Two Tongues" Thomas of Fountain Inn, SC. The allegations deal with the use of the state airplane for personal and political reasons rather than state business. The committee also has their panties in a wad over Sanford allegedly using a higher priced airline seats than is allowed to other state employees. The Governor has already offered to step down if the state will pay him the money he would make until the end of his term. But the carrion eaters in state government had rather use this opportunity to get their names in the media. The reason I know this is no matter what decision this phoney committee arrives at, it will be the Attorney General Henry McMaster's choice to pursue it or not. I hate politics.

Recently a cutting-edge edition of an assault ship built by the French docked at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Russia has not had a viable navy since their collapse during the Gorbachev years. Since then the former countries of Georgia, Bosnia, etc. have been giving Russia hell. This new ship can carry 26 assault helicopters and 400 assault troops along with many other configurations. This means that if trouble breaks out, Russia can have shock troops on the ground in 40 minutes rather than 23 hours like it does now. Naturally the neighboring countries are raising hell but I think it will be for naught, the Russians are notoriously paranoid.

Good news:

Last year on the way down to Pensacola Beach I saw a land being scraped off in a large valley between LaGrange, Georgia and the Alabama line. There was a large sign saying that there was a Kia assembly plant going in there. On the way back toward Greenville, SC this year I saw the plant site completed with many cars in the parking lot. I found out that that area of America was suffering 12% unemployment but this plant is employing about 2,000 people and the perimeter will employ many more. I am glad to see it and so should y'all.

This date in history November 24

1859    After spending five years at sea aboard an exploratory ship the HMS Beagle, English scientist Charles Darwin finally publishes a book about what he had seen and deduced during his travels. He waited quite a few years before publishing The Origin of Species because he knew how much hell would be raised by the evangelicals. The books tell how man adapted to his environment through the “survival” of the fittest” meaning those creatures that had the right distribution of the genetics would survive whilst those that did not would perish. Those creatures with the right genetics would continue to thrive and reproduce their images. If there was a change in the environment, then there would be another period of testing whereby those that had the right genetics to be able to survive would send forth their genetics to their progeny, etc, etc. Notice that there was no mention of divine guidance and intervention. This is what bothered the bible-thumpers. Then in 1871 Darwin unleashed yet another bomb. He published The Descent of Man which traced the rise of man from a lower animal again with no mention of God. Oh Hell!!! The Evangelicals began a show of fury and foaming at the mouth that continues to this day. I am no geneticists but it is a fact that mans genetic profile is more than 90% that of a chimpanzee. I personally believe in the rise of man through evolution from lower animal and resolve it in my mind by saying to my self that God used evolution as the mechanics to get man to where he is today. The problem that I have not yet resolved is the issue of at what point did man achieve having a soul. The existence of a God is unquestionable and I can prove it with logic and not with a leap of faith or reading a bible. OK, I will shut up now.

1963    Two days earlier the President of the United States John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding around Dallas, Texas in an open car. A man named Lee Harvey Oswald was stopped and questioned by Dallas cop J. D. Tippet whereupon Oswald whipped out a pistol and shot and killed Tippet. Oswald was eventually captured and charged with the murder of Officer Tippet and was sent to jail. On this date, the Dallas Police chose to move Oswald to a different facility and while Oswald was being moved out of the basement of the jail amid a swarm of Dallas cops, a strip club owner named Jack Ruby broke through and pumped one round from his .38 Special into the stomach of Oswald. Oswald died the next day. Ruby was immediately arrested and charged with 1st degree murder. He said that his motive was his rage at the killing of President Kennedy but the skeptical ones (me included) believe he did it to silence Oswald from spilling his guts about a giant conspiracy. To me the proof positive was that in very short time Ruby was discovered and having stomach cancer and died. To me that sounds like Jack knew his days was numbered and he volunteered to the other conspirators to kill Oswald because he was living on borrowed time anyway.

1971    This date saw the beginning of a legend. A man named D.B. Cooper commandeered a Northwest Orient Airline B-727 and forced it to land at the Seattle–Tacoma airport. He demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. His demands were met and the plane took back off without the passengers and the crew locked into the cockpit with instructions to “fly toward Mexico”. About 15 minutes into the flight, the crew detected that the rear stair door had opened. After the plane landed the crew found that Cooper had indeed bailed out of the aircraft. The problem was the aircraft was flying through a violent thunderstorm when Cooper bailed out. Most people believed that Cooper had been killed during the jump however; in 1980 a kid found about $6,000 of the ransom money buried a sandy bank of the Columbia River five miles from Vancouver, Washington which was a long ass way from the bailout point. Anyway, no trace of D.B. Cooper or the remainder of the ransom money has ever been found.

1944    Earlier a United States Army Air Force reconnaissance B-29 named "Tokyo Rose" made a pass over Tokyo taking 700 photos of the Nakajima aircraft factory. This factory would be the target for a raid very soon. On this date 111 B-29’s departed Tinian and Saipan headed for the Nakajima Aircraft factory. They bombed the hell out of Iwo Jima on the way which was about half way to Tokyo to keep the Japanese fighters on the ground. At this point in time the Marines had not yet captured Iwo Jima. Upon their arrival at Tokyo they found the target obscured by clouds and even with radar their bombing was only 5% effective. But this raid was just the first of an ocean of B-29’s coming to Japan.

Born today:

1713    English writer Laurence Sterne. He said “I take a simple view of life. I keep my eyes open and get on with it.” It sounds like Larry was living a life of drudgery.

1808    French writer Alphonse Kerr. He said “Some people think that virtue consists of severity toward others.” Some people are full of shit too, Alphonse.

1877    US Vice President Alben Barkley. He said “The best audience is intelligent, well educated and a little drunk.” Alben, you need to hang around with my trashy friends.

1922    English statistician Sir Claus Moser. He said “Education is expensive, but not as expensive as ignorance.” Hey Claus, did you say something?

1925    US writer William F. Buckley. He said “Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a fight, ostensively over the plight of New York’s mentally retarded who the majority of are people that voted for Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller.” Bill Buckley is a conservative’s conservative.

1944    US actress Candy Darling. She said “I believe that the socially unacceptable men make the best lovers because they are more sensitive”

Hey Candy, did you know that I am known as “Lone Wolf” Campbell?

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow







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