Daily history

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Quote of the day:

“Let your love come as the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”

                               Malagasy Proverb

A team of Christian archaeologists from Hong Kong claim to have discovered the remains of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. They even claim to have taken a sample of the wood and ran a carbon-14 test on it to find out its age. The test indicated the wood was about 4,800 years old. If you trace back the Holy Bible you will find that about 2,800 BC is the approximate date given for the Great Flood. We should all keep in mind that the Old Testament is simply a history of the Jews and their beliefs. As some of you may or may not know in Middle East mythology there was a hero named Gilgamesh. In the writings about the adventures of this man, there is mention of a great flood and those that survived it, among them was Gilgamesh. The legend of Gilgamesh is older than the adventures of Noah. There are those that believe the adventures of Noah were reaped from the Legend of Gilgamesh and added to the history of the Jews. I will not get into a religious discussion but rely on verifiable evidence to draw a conclusion. There is undeniable evidence that there were occupied city/states in the Middle East that date back to 7,000 years ago (Jericho, for instance). This means that if there was a flood, it did not flood the entire earth or the ruins of these older city/states would not exist. The first evidence of the rise of the Egyptians was about 2,400 BC. That is perilously close to the date of the flood as indicated in the Bible. It has been discovered that the Black Sea was at one time hundreds of feet shallower that it is today. The generally accepted reason for this that the Black Sea was a lake separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a narrow strip of land that is now known as the Bosporus and Dardanelles in western Turkey. Eventually the Mediterranean ate through the strip of land and flooded the Black Sea raising the surface by hundreds of feet. It there had been settlements on the shores of the Black Sea they would have been flooded very quickly. Not only that, Mount Ararat is a lot closer than any other acknowledged settlements. Perhaps when the Mediterranean broke through to the Black Sea, the inhabitants saw it as a Great Flood.

One person whose opinion I respect suggests that when Noah and company left the Ark they disassembled it and re-used it to establish a settlement and therefore there is nothing left of the Ark. The problem I have here is that there is no evidence of any settlement that high up in those mountains (13,000 to 17,000 feet). All other identifiable settlements were down in various river valleys in the Middle East and their buildings were made of mud brick baked hard by the sun. It is unseemly to me that Noah and the few people aboard would haul timbers down that mountain and across deserts to a place with potable water. All of the above is pure speculation on my part, but it allows me to blend things together to my satisfaction. Comments accepted.

To all of you that have sympathy for the illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America that have invaded the United States, if you enter Mexico illegally there is no trial per se, you go directly to jail for a minimum of five years. Why then, is our Federal Government so soft of enforcing the illegal immigrant laws that exist but rely on each state to fend for themselves? Then when the states initiate their own laws to repel this invasion the Feds call the actions “unfortunate”. By the way, a state Senator from Texas is formulating an illegal alien law structured on that one enacted by Arizona last week. I like it.

This date in history April 29

1992    A few months before the Los Angeles Police Department stopped a known felon after an extended vehicular chase. Only this time they were stopping him for a traffic violation. Rodney King led the police through a circuitous route through East LA before finally stopping. Rodney was not alone in his car, there were two others and all were yelled at by the police to get out and lay flat on their face. The other two immediately got out and hit the asphalt on their face, but not Rodney. He chose to go down on all fours and that was as far as he would go in spite a severe ass-whipping he got from 5 of LA’s finest. He never did go down and cops kept beating him with their fists and batons. Little did the cops know that the entire event was being taped by a guy across the street on the balcony of a hotel. The next day the cops, and Rodney from his hospital bed, saw themselves on the morning news. The photographer had sold the tape to the TV station. To make a long story short, the cops went on trial up in Simi Valley rather than in East LA and were acquitted. Almost as soon as the verdict was announced, riots began in Los Angeles and rioting and fires continued for four days and nights. The cops just stayed the hell out of the way. The blacks were really upset about the innocent verdict and well they should have been but burning their own town down ain’t the answer. Back when Martin Luther King was assassinated the blacks of Augusta, Georgia fell out into mid-town with torches aflame. A famous black man stood up and quieted the crowd down and he persuaded them not to burn their home town to the ground. It was the Godfather of Soul, ya’ll, it was the recently deceased James Brown.

1945    On this date the 45th division of the United States 7th Army (US General Alexander ‘Sandy’ Patch commanding) on its march across Europe to free the different nations from the hell of the Nazis, come upon an enclosed camp in Poland. General Patch was as an efficient commander as General George Patton, the commander of the 3rd Army, but was not as an egomaniac. The soldiers could detect the plant from afar because of the smothering stench that emanated downwind. It was Auschwitz, ya’ll. It was facility that had no other purpose that to kill Jews and Gypsies as fast and efficiently as possible. It is estimated that 3 million Jews that were literally exterminated as vermin by these Nazi beasts. When the Nazi camp commander and his staff determined that the Americans were within a day or two of liberating the camp, they went on a murder rampage hoping to eliminate all the prisoners that they could before running out of ammo and then scorched as many of the buildings with flamethrowers as they could and then they left hoping to blend in with the general population. The Americans were stunned at what they saw. There were heap and piles of emaciated copses including a nearby train with cattle cars full to capacity with the same. The Americans had no choice but to bury the corpses along with tons of quick lime to eliminate the chance of a cholera epidemic. It was the Russians that came upon the camp at Buchenwald, the worst of them all. Buchenwald had ovens, ya’ll, ovens. I will leave it to you to figure out what the ovens were for but when the Russians arrived the ovens were out of coal and had stopped working. The Russians had nothing on their minds but revenge for the Germans killing 26 million of their brethren, now upon seeing this, every Russian soldier was a razor, ya’ll, a razor. They left there and headed to Germany and were not to be denied their revenge. It turned out to be a 570 mile long bloodbath. It was nothing short of a massacre of the Germans by the Russians be it, man, woman, child, dog. cat, cattle or any other air breather, all were slaughtered. In the meantime the allies had sealed off the western side of Germany and would accept no surrender. They just saw to it that the Russians got their belly full of German blood. The Russians did not cut any slack, ya’ll, they indeed got a belly full.

1991    On this date a devastating cyclone come ashore in Bangladesh. The greatest majority of the population of Bangladesh on the Indian Ocean were poverty stricken and without nationwide communications so they were unaware of the approaching storm. The storm slammed ashore with a 20 tidal surge in the lead and 135,000 were drowned. The bad part was that there were so many dead that were not recovered, the tigers came out of the jungle and began a feast on the corpses. These tigers, as you might expect, developed a taste for human flesh and the humans became prey for the tigers no matter where they were. It took an entire generation of tigers to pass for this danger to subside.

1974    Earlier five men had broken into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men were captured and the world came to find out that they all were under the employ of the Republican Party Committee to re-elect the President (CREEP). President Richard Nixon undoubtedly knew about the break-in but told his staff to “circle the wagons” and “stonewall” the investigation. Even a Special Prosecutor named Archibald Cox was selected to investigate break-in. When he began insisting that the White House turn over certain documents and audio tapes, President Nixon had him fired. Then the US Senate formed a special sub-committee to seek impeachment of the President and another special prosecutor was named and it was Circuit Court Judge and notorious hard-ass John Sirica. On this date, President Nixon offered to turn over a transcript of the taped conversations in the Oval Office during the time immediately after the break-in. Judge Sirica said that would be OK but he wanted the tapes themselves also because they were “best evidence”. Nixon refused saying that he had “executive privilege”. Sirica went to the Supreme Court and they sided with Judge Sirica and the tapes were turned over to Sirica. The tapes revealed that Nixon had ordered the FBI to discontinue investigating the Watergate break-in. This was a “smoking gun” that proved Nixon knew of the break-in. A few days later Nixon had a conversation with senate leader Barry Goldwater and he told Nixon that he had nearly no support in the Senate and if an impeachment vote came he was sure Nixon would be kicked out of office. Two days later Nixon resigned office, the first President to do so. Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn into office as President the next day. Soon ex-President Richard Nixon flew to his compound in San Clemente, California and faded from view in disgrace.

Born today:

1897    English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. When speaking to a female cellist in his orchestra he said “Madam, you have between your legs an instrument that is capable of giving pleasure to thousands, all you have to do is scratch it.” No Comment.

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