Daily history

Good morning,


Quote of the day:

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

                                      Helen Keller

This is an instance that those that are against weapons possession need to read about. A couple of weeks ago over in the Clemson, SC area a deputy sheriff was trying to arrest 35 year old Jerry Lee Roach. Jerry Lee grabbed a nearby chain saw and tried to start it heading toward the deputy. The deputy was able to subdue the jackass and cuff him. He was let out of jail on bond. Last Friday a couple of Clemson students were out in an open field playing Frisbee when Jerry Lee comes running out of the bushes with his trusty chain saw running and chased these kids for a short distance. The Sheriff’s office was called and Jerry Lee was again subdued and taken before a judge. Keep in mind that he had the previous charge hanging over his head involving the chain saw. When he was brought before the judge he began screaming obscenities at the judge and eventually got over the judge still screaming and pushed the desk at him before he was subdued once again. This animal needs an attitude adjustment administered by Samuel Colt.

There is turmoil in New York. The Iroquois Indians from upstate New York and part of Canada had formed a consolidation a few years ago and considered themselves a sovereign nation. They had a lacrosse team that had been invited to play in the World championships in England beginning this Thursday. Keep in mind that lacrosse was invented by the American Indians. The problem is passports. The Indians cannot get approval to enter England with the passports issued by the Iroquois nation. They do not have United States passports and refuse to get one in spite of an offer of expediency by the State Department. The Indians say it would be an affront to the Iroquois nation to get another passport. They were warned by the State Department that they would not be allowed back into the United States without a recognized passport even if they were able to persuade the English to let them in country. I don’t know what is going to happen. It is two peoples butting heads with no positive result possible.

All of y’all know by now that BP/Transocean were able to put a closer fitting valve assembly in place over on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and it looks like it will work so far. The prediction is that it will completely stop the flow or restrain it to the point that what escapes can be captured. I certainly hope so, so do those folks on the Gulf coast.

This date in history July 15

1997    Earlier a man named Andrew Cunanan went crazy as hell out on the west coast and began killing his present and past lovers. Andrew was a flaming homosexual and to this day no one knows what set him off. After killing two men in the San Diego area he flew to Chicago and killed a very rich man that used to pamper Andrew for sexual favors. After Andrew killed him, he stole his Lexus and headed to the East coast and killed yet another acquaintance. By now he was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. After this murder he headed south to get some sun and ended up in Miami. After spending about a week there he discovered that the world famous designer Gianni Versace had bought a mansion there and had developed a routine of walking to a drug store down the block every morning to buy a newspaper. On this morning Andrew was waiting. Versace did not disappoint and showed up walking down his steps as usual when Andrew walked up and delivered two shots to the head of Versace with a .40 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol. Gianni was dead before he hit the pavement. The Miami PD showed up in force but Andrew had fled the scene. A few hours later a guard at a marina called the police and said that someone had broken into a houseboat that was docked at the marina. The Miami PD suspected it was Andrew and surrounded the houseboat at a respectable distance because Andrew had already proven that he would and did shoot people. Eventually the cops heard a gunshot coming from the houseboat and they sent in a SWAT team to investigate. Andrew had chosen to blow his own brains out. Like I say, no one knows what set this bastard off but he is no longer a threat to the gay community.

1862    Earlier the Confederate Congress had commissioned two ironclad warships to be built in the shipyards in Memphis, Tennessee. They both would resemble the ironclad CSA Merrimac (later named the CSA Virginia) that battled the US Monitor near Hampton Roads, Virginia. Anyway, the city of Memphis was captured by Union forces before the ships were finished. The Confederates chose to burn one of the ships and towed the other one down river for completion. The ship was indeed completed and set sail down river under the command of Isaac Brown to encounter the flotilla of warships gathered near Vicksburg under the command of David Farragut. Farragut sent three gunboats upstream to intercept this Confederate ironclad now named the CSA Arkansas. The three ships caught the Arkansas near the mouth of the Yazoo River but the Arkansas just blasted its way through severely damaging all three Union gunboats. On this date the Arkansas reached the vicinity of Vicksburg and sailed right through the entire Union flotilla damaging 16 ships as it went. Admiral Farragut was furious and sent a squadron of ships after the Arkansas which was still heading down river. Unfortunately the Arkansas ran aground and her troops chose to blow it up rather than let it fall into Union hands. The Arkansas had a short life but did some damage while still viable.

1953    Four months earlier officers from Scotland Yard are sent to 10 Rillington Place in London to investigate complaints from the neighbors about a peculiar aroma emanating from the apartment. What they found was three women in a hidden cupboard and one under the floorboards. In addition they found two more women buried out in the yard. One of the women was Ethel Christie whose husband John could not be found making him the prime suspect. A week later the police captured Christie and he confessed. Two of the women were not killed by Christie but expired because of botched amateur abortions. Four months later, I said four months later Christie went to meet his maker at the end of a rope. They did not ask if he was abused as a child, or did he have a problem with drugs or alcohol, or was he mentally handicapped, they just simply capped his rotten ass.

1904    On this date the Jonson family from Norway moves to a barren 320 acre spread in North Dakota. Included in the family is young Johan who marches to the beat of a different drummer. After spending several years of back-breaking work on the farm young Johan says to hell with it and leaves home. He soon meets up with a man named Albert Dekker who teaches Johan the ways of the gun. Johan finds that robbing banks is easier on the back than pulling up stumps but he gets caught stealing horses and does a 2 ½ year stretch in the Montana State Prison. After getting out he heads to Canada’s Rat River and settles down in isolation trapping beaver for a living. But old Johan could not forget his lawless ways. Other trappers in the area complained to the RCMP (Mounties) that Johan had been pilfering their traps. So the Mounties go to Johan’s cabin to look for the other trapper’s pelts. The Mounties announce their presence and are met with gunfire through the door. The Mounties retreat and call for reinforcements. They return to the cabin again but this time they are well armed and there are plenty of them. They call for Johan to come out and are met with more gunfire again. This meeting however was made during a howling blizzard but the Mounties opened fire and nearly shot the house to pieces but when the go in, no Johan. Somehow he had snuck out and escaped. The Mounties chased him for 45 days and they eventually caught up with him out in the middle of a frozen lake. Johan, even though he had been surviving in the wilderness living off some of the most rugged land in the world, he wanted to fight and opened fire. The Mounties returned the fire and “The Mad Trapper of Rat River” went down for the count. When they finally reached him the Mounties saw how emaciated he was, he weighed less than 100 pounds. That is determination, ya’ll. He was 34 years old.

1998    After a couple of years in the making, defense giant manufacturer Lockheed-Martin proposes a merger with their chief competitor Northrop-Grumman. The Pentagon said “Like hell you are” and the war was on. It was the Pentagon’s position that the merger would make a virtual monopoly of electronics used in warfare and therefore research and development would suffer. Lockheed called bullshit on that and threatened to go to court and the Pentagon said for them to come on, they were ready. Well, the president of Lockheed decided that a court fight with the Pentagon was not in the company’s best interest and canceled the deal. But as a last act of defiance he did not mention the Pentagon in his reason for the cancellation, he said eventually the merger would not be to the company’s, the employees, nor the stockholders advantage. He was a hard-nosed devil.

1941    On this date a Spaniard named Juan Pujols Garcia, known to German intelligence as “Garbo” the spy sends his first secret message to Berlin. Garbo had an extensive spy network including a Dutch airline stewardess, an official in the British Office of Information, a US soldier in England and a Welshman sympathetic to the Fascists. The only thing here is that all of these people were figments of Garbo’s (sometimes known as Arabel) imagination. Garbo was a mole meaning a double agent, he was really working for the British and the Allies and fed false information to the German’s the entire war. He was so well thought of that Hitler himself gave him the Iron Cross, a very high up military medal. The most important misinformation he sent to Berlin was when he told the German’s that an attack on Normandy would happen within a day or two but it was just a diversion, the real target was the French coastal city of Calais. This was easy for the Germans to believe because all of the upper echelon officers believed that anyway. When the attack on Normandy came, Hitler would not release the 21st Panzer Division near Caen or the 15th Panzer division near Calais for a counter-attack because Hitler believed the real attack was coming at Calais, thanks to Garbo. The allies gained a secure foothold in France and then it was too late. We can thank Juan Pujols Garcia partially for the success of the D-Day invasion. Later on Garcia received one of the highest awards a civilian can receive when the queen gave him the MBE, Member of the British Empire. He was one of the most successful moles in the history of warfare.

1789    Yesterday was Bastille Day but I don’t think I have told ya’ll enough about it. The French people had been going hungry for years and they finally got fed up with it and on this day, with the help of many French soldiers that had mutinied gather outside the building known as The Bastille. The Bastille was built in the 14th century as a castle but it eventually turned into a place to put political enemies of the various Monarchies, torture included. Well on this date, literally thousands of Parisians and Frenchmen from all over the countryside came to the Bastille. The guards there surrendered almost immediately and joined in with the crowd. Eventually the mob stormed the building and literally took it down one stone at a time. The King of France at the time was Louis XVI and the Queen was Marie Antoinette, both lived extravagant lives and both went to meet their maker in two pieces via the guillotine. That was the end of Royalty in France forever. French people celebrate July 14 like we do July 4. However, waiting in the wings was a short, dumpy Corsican named Napoleon Bonaparte..... Look out.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.