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I don't know if y'all remember or not but a while back Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Cal.) was on a committee interviewing a US Army General. The General would answer her questions with "Yes, Ma'am" or "No Ma'am" as it is taught in all of the US military as an address of respect for women. That crazy bitch Boxer called the General down saying something like "I have worked very hard to be a Senator so don't call me Ma'am, call me Senator." This shows you how much this bitch knows or cares about our military traditions and caused a hell of a lot resentment in the military and ex-military nationwide. It is obvious she has an ego the size of Montana. There are two Republicans running for her seat and thank this bitch every day for that "gift that keeps on giving". Boxer needs to be on Capitol Hill like I need to be an astronaut.

It looks like the divorce decree between Jennie and Governor Mark Sanford will be final in mid-February as if anyone cares. One of Tiger Wood's sponsors is the high end watchmaker Tag-Heuer has stayed with Tiger saying "We are not concerned with his personal life." Why then is the rest of his sponsors concerned with his personal life? It is disgusting to me. Like I told another person, I think Tiger should have called a news conference and confessed and then said "Lets move on" like David Letterman did. Letterman did not miss a show.

Sunday afternoon a couple went to make a deposit in a night depository at a bank they had been going to after church since 1979. They parked in the drive-through and one of them got out of the car with the bank bag and headed toward the night deposit drawer. In a display of true Christmas spirit, a man wearing the traditional ski mask jumped out of the nearby woods and demanded the bank bag...or else. The robber took the bag and fled into the woods. A police dog picked up the scent in the woods and tracked the robber to a parking lot. The robber's scent was lost at that point. That sounds like an inside job to me. Someone had to know when those people were going to be at that one particular bank on that particular day at that particular time.

Good news:

Not long ago a man named Ron Paper and his six year old son Taj were living in a rescue shelter in Boise, Idaho. Paper is a 40 year old musician and Taj is a victim of a severe case of Cerebral Palsy and is nearly helpless. He has no control of his bodily functions and cannot chew. All of his food must be liquified. One of the other people in the rescue mission heard Paper play and sing and persuaded him to get on a local TV talent show called "Donnie Mac's Got Talent". When Paper played his first note on his borrowed Gibson guitar and sang his first line, everybody knew he was head and shoulders above the rest. He did indeed win the contest and pocketed $500. The local Health and Human Services arranged for an apartment for Ron and Taj. Not only that, since his talent became known to the locals, he has booked several gigs. The problem is that Taj needs attention 24/7. The other people in the apartment complex volunteer to babysit Taj while his father is playing. Paper moved to Boise because Taj's mother told Paper that she had enough and for him to come and get Taj. When people tell Paper that they admire him for bearing up under such difficult circumstances. Paper answers that Taj did not ask to be this way, it is his resposibility to care for him.

This date in history December 15

!961    Earlier in 1906 Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany. In 1932 he joined the Nazi party and was absorbed into the elite SS military/political machine of Adolf Hitler. He rose swiftly in rank and authority and eventually he was in the inner circle of those in the Nazi party chosen to find a way to exterminate all the Jews in Europe. As Field Marshal Herman Goering called it, “We need to find a “final solution” to the Jewish problem.” Goering was the second in command to Hitler and was tasked by Hitler with eliminating the Jews. Goering in turn assigned Eichmann to figure out a way to get this attempt at genocide on its feet and still be to best effect for the 3rd Reich. Eichmann was equal to the task and very shortly had death camps, work camps where the workers were slaves building the tools of war for the German military. They were literally worked to death and buried in mass graves, or burned into dust in ovens. Eichmann’s creations were responsible for the deaths of about 4 million Jew, Slavs and Gypsies. There were another 2 million deaths that were the responsibility of others in the SS. After the war was lost Eichmann was captured but escaped and bounced around in the Middle East for several years before making his way to Argentina in 1950. The Argentineans played it fast and loose with immigrants, especially former German military personnel. Eichmann assumed the name of Roberto Klement and began a life of a factory worker in Buenos Aires. In 1957 a former German officer told the Israeli secret police, known as the Mossad, that Eichmann was living Buenos Aires. The Mossad was very interested in Eichmann for obvious reasons and sent two secret agents to Buenos Aries to try and find this monster. It took a while but they located the home of Eichmann. In May of 1960 Argentina was having a celebration commemorating the 150th anniversary of freedom from Spanish rule. There was a large influx of visitors to this celebration and Mossad took this opportunity to bring in more agents. On May 11 the Mossad agents descended upon Eichmann’s house and waited. When Eichmann got off the bus coming home from work, the agents kidnapped his ass, drugged the hell out of him and flew his ass to Israel. Argentina raised hell and demanded Eichmann’s release but Israel said he was an international war criminal and there was no way in hell he was going to be released and he was put on trial for crimes against humanity in Israel. On this date Eichmann was convicted on all counts and was sentenced to death. Eichmann’s total defense was that he was doing as he was ordered like the good soldier that he was. On May 31, 1962 Adolf Eichmann was hanged, his body cremated and his ashes thrown into the sea. Thus ended the life of one on the worst monsters this world has ever known. But there are still more out there. Never forget that.

1973    Five months earlier the grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, J. Paul Getty III, was kidnapped in Italy and a ransom note was sent to his grandfather demanding $17 million. Incredibly, J. Paul Getty refused saying he could not raise that much cash. A few days later the severed ear of the grandson showed up at the office of a Naples newspaper. Finally, J. Paul coughed up $2.5 million in ransom and on this date, J. Paul Getty III was found alive and well in Naples, minus one ear. J. Paul Getty did not live a happy life. He was married and divorced five times and had a tumultuous relationship with his sons and daughters. In his later years he lived in a palatial home outside London that was protected by double rows of concertina wire and 20 German Shepherd guard dogs roaming the grounds. His reputation as a miser was well deserved. As an example he had pay phones installed in his house for his guests to use. In 1976 J. Paul Getty died at the age of 86 and his children immediately began a cauldron of hell-raising looking for a piece of his fortune. But the old man had an air tight will already in place and the greatest majority of his money went to the Getty Art Museum in Los Angeles which is the richest endowed facility of its type in the world.

1988    On this date “The Godfather of Soul” or “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business” James Brown begins serving a 6 year sentence in the State Park Correctional Facility in South Carolina. He had a few small run-ins with the law during the summer of 1988 but his escapades on September 24 went too far. My man James walks into an insurance seminar in Augusta, Georgia with a shotgun in one hand a pistol in the other and orders everyone out. No one really knows why he did this because it was later proven that he did not know anyone there and had no interest in the insurance business. Anyway, James then gets in his pick-up truck and heads for the house. The police began a chase that began in South Carolina then into Georgia and back to South Carolina. Finally South Carolina’s finest got fed up with James’s wild goose chase and shot out three of his tires. All this did was slow James down; he continued down the road and finally loses control and drives into a ditch bringing this fiasco to an end. All of these infractions brought James 6 ½ years in a South Carolina slammer. James was paroled after three years but he wasn’t finished yet. Soon after being free he was caught with a load of grass and did even more time. Finally it appeared that James literally got his act together and went on the road. His performances were as entertaining and dynamic as ever in spite of his age. James finally went to that great sound stage in the sky in December of 2006. He was 73 years old. What a performer.

1890    For years the holy man for the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull, had been warning his people that any contact with people other than those of their tribe would result in disaster. His warning proved to be prophetic as the honky settlers took more and more of Sioux land by force. This meant that the Sioux were fighting a defensive battle the great majority of the time trying to hold on their tribal lands and traditional way of life. It was a fruitless fight because the settlers were protected by a well armed and well trained United States Cavalry. Finally Sitting Bull persuaded his people to go to the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota or risk complete annihilation. The US Cavalry got wind of an increase of the practice of the legendary “Ghost Dance” by the Sioux. This dance was usually a prelude to war so the Cavalry assumed this practice was fostered by Sitting Bull. On this date the Reservation Police went to arrest Sitting Bull at his tiny cabin on the Grande River. They went to get him at 6:00a so they could take him away as quietly as possible. It was not to be. Sitting Bull began raising almighty hell and soon a crowd had gathered around the great leader also raising almighty hell. One hothead in the crown shot one of the policemen and the police responded with shooting Sitting Bull in the chest and head killing him instantly. The police were not finished. They continued shooting killing 12 of the crowd and wounded 4. Just a few weeks later the Indian spirit was broken with the massacre of Chief Black Kettle and 156 of his tribe at Wounded Knee. This was the last “battle” between the US Cavalry and an Indian tribe. All the Indians wanted to was to be left alone to live their lives as they saw fit. It was not to be.

Born today:

1888    US playwright Maxwell Anderson. When speaking of George Washington he said “There are some men that lift the age in which they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.” Indeed Max, indeed.

1892    US zillionaire J. Paul Getty. He said “If you can count your money, you are not a billionaire.” Paul, shut the hell up.

1906    Ukrainian film producer Lew Grade. When involved in a biblical film he said “Twelve apostles? Why do we need twelve? Can’t we make do with six?” Lew, you are a dumb-ass.

1932    Irish writer Edna O’Brien. She said “Getting to vote means nothing. We women need to be armed”. Edna Baby, lighten up.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow