Daily history

Good morning,


Quote of the day:

“A day is eternity’s seed, we are its gardeners.”

                            Unknown

I received an e-mail this past weekend that would be very disturbing to me if I was still working. It seems that the IRS is going to include the value of your health insurance (whether company or government supplied) into you gross income. This, my friends, will increase your tax debt several times over. I might have misinterpreted it but you guys out there that are still working (except job shoppers) need to have a chat with your finance office soon because this change begins next year. As I understand it, you folks that are retired on a pension with the company paying for your health insurance will be severely damaged.

Here is something that I am sure I understand. A TV station in Atlanta, using the Freedom of Information Act, got their hot little hands on a summary of who is crossing our southern borders in addition to the Mexicans. It turns out that in addition to the Guatemalans, Panamanians, Salvadorans, etc there are Afghanis, Pakistanis, Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, Iraqis all of which have flown into a Central American country, learned to speak Spanish and blend in with the river of illegal aliens crossing into America in Texas, Arizona and California. What are these Muslims up to? I think all of you know what is going on. So the next time you think about those poor little Mexicans that are crossing into America just to see if they can make a better life for their families and we should cut them a little slack, think about who is coming with them. In addition to the genuine day workers, we have Muslim Jihadists and “mules” for the Mexican drug cartel coming along for the ride. Our government has refused time and time again to seal our borders and allowed this avalanche of garbage that have dedicated their lives to the demise of America to set up camp on our soil. Don’t feel sorry for the poor Mexicans, nearly none of them have ever been vaccinated against anything and have developed a natural immunity against diseases that we do not. It is scary, y’all. Lean on your legislators to stand on their hind legs and protect America.

Here are a few words in French for all the illegal aliens.

             "Sortez de mon pays et restez dehors".

This date in history May 25

1660    On this date the people of the English Commonwealth invite the exiled King Charles II to return to England and assume the throne. Earlier the father of Charles II, Charles I had engaged his army of Royalist against the army of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians and was defeated. Cromwell became the ruler of England. He could not be King because he was not royalty. He was a very militaristic leader and demanded puritanical behavior from everyone. After the defeat of his father, Charles II handed Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell, a blank sheet of paper meaning that he would concede nearly everything Parliament wanted. But that wasn’t good enough for Cromwell, he wanted the head of Charles I and sure enough, Charles I was beheaded. After the death of Charles I, royalist in England and Ireland proclaimed Charles II as King but Cromwell still prevailed and Charles II fled to Germany and the Netherlands living in exile. Cromwell ruled until his death and then his son Richard assume command. Richard proved to be an ineffectual ruler and the people were fed up with the Puritanical military leadership. General George Monck met with Charles II and assured him that he and his army would assure his return to the English throne if Charles would grant amnesty and religious toleration for his former enemies. Charles agreed and sailed across the English channel to Dover (been there) and four days later he made a triumphant entrance to London and was restored as King of England. This event is known as the English Restoration. Eleven years later Charles II decided that Oliver Cromwell had been a traitor and dug that boy up and hung his corpse in Tiburon, a suburb of London designated for the execution of traitors. What a sight that must have been. I am here to tell ya’ll that the medieval English were a mean and spiteful bunch and they were very inventive in their machines of torture.

1787    On this date, four years after the United States had won its independence from Great Britain, the first Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia. It was attended by George Washington, James Monroe and Ben Franklin among other luminaries. This meeting was the defining moments of these United States and what makes it great. The country had been operating under what was called the Articles of Federation. This document did nothing but assure each state of its sovereignty. The people of America were so fearful that another monarchy might raise its ugly head here that they nailed down that as being impossible. But the Articles were unwieldy and did not work for the benefit of the entire nation and they all knew it. After three weeks of deliberation these heroes delivered brilliant document that is the spine of our present day Republic. However, several states felt that there were not enough guarantees of personal rights and refused to sign unless something was done about this. Then they delivered another document of pure brilliance called the Bill of Rights that contained 10 articles. After this enough states signed it and it became the law of the land. There was a story that while all of the discussions were going on, Ben Franklin walked out for a break and a woman asked him what form of government was being sculpted and he said “Madam, it appears that it will be a Republic, if we can hold it.” Our government is a finely balanced, well oiled machine that does not allow any one branch to over power another. It is a miracle that all of this was conceived out of mid air because nothing like it had ever existed in the past, a miracle indeed.

1979    On this date at 3:03P an American Airline DC-10 began takeoff roll at Chicago’s O’Hare airport bound for Los Angeles fully loaded. About half way down the runway the left engine and pylon fall from the aircraft onto the runway in a sheet of flame. The pilot was able to get the aircraft airborne but upon reaching about 400 feet the aircraft rolls to the left past vertical and crashes into an open field nose down upside down. All 271 passengers and crew were incinerated not including two people in a nearby trailer park. It was the worst air disaster in American history up until that time.

1862    On this date the first Battle of Winchester, Virginia occurs. This battle was part of CSA General Stonewall Jackson’s brilliant Shenandoah Valley campaign that made Jackson recognized as one of the most brilliant military minds in history. The Union army of Nathaniel Banks was right outside Winchester when Jackson struck. The Confederates were originally repulsed but Jackson brilliantly orders a simultaneous attack on both flanks of the Yankees with devastating effect and Bank’s army broke and retreated in panic through Winchester. The good citizens of Winchester took this opportunity to shoot at them from the windows of their homes. Banks retreated all the way in Maryland to safety. This allowed Jackson to continue his unprecedented rampage against the other two Union armies in the valley. He kicked their asses too.

1944    On this date Adolph Hitler initiates Operation Knights Move. In this operation Hitler sent in a group of paratroopers to capture or kill the leader of Yugoslavia Marshall Tito. Tito had been leading his country to resist the German occupation. The paratroopers landed in a village where they thought Tito was but never found him, he had escaped. In exasperation the paratroopers shot and killed each and every air breather in the village meaning, men women, children, dogs, cats, cattle, horses, etc. They were brave sons-of-bitches.

Also on this date a riot breaks out in one of the sections of the infamous concentration camp of Auschwitz. This section was known as Birkenau. Several hundred Polish Jews realizing what would happen to them, rioted at night and were able to get through the fence and fled into the nearby woods. What they did not know was that the Germans had installed floodlights throughout the woods and when the turned them on it illuminated like daylight. The German prison guards casually walked into the woods an unceremoniously killed them all to a man.

Born today:

1803    US philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. He said “The more he talked about his honor, the faster we counted our silver.” Sounds like Ralph knew Nancy Pelosi.

1897    Canadian statesman Lord Beaverbrook. He said “Buy old master paintings. They are cheaper in the long run than a young mistress.”

1898    American columnist Bennett Cerf. He said “The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost”

Thanks for listening I can hardy wait until tomorrow.