Daily history

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Quote of the day:



“We are born wet, naked and hungry. Then things get worse.”

Anonymous



42 year old Christine Hubbs out in Pleasanton, California has been really busy for the last six months or so. Last autumn she hit on her daughter’s 14 year old boyfriend successfully and tried the same thing with one of her daughter’s other male friends also successfully. In the time period between Christmas of ’09 and this past July she had 67 sexual encounters with these two dazzled boys. Christine is a looker, y’all, a real blond beauty. This girl bought these kids pellet guns, water guns and various other toys that would be attractive to a male that age. The price these boys had to pay was to provide her with various sexual acts on a regular basis. The trysts took place at various locations like her car, house, hotels, forests, golf courses at night, etc. She has been arrested and charged with 67 incidents of statutory rape. Her husband and neighbors were stunned when she was arrested because none of them knew anything was going on. If we do a little math we find that all of this took place in a 6 or 7 month time span meaning that this girl was serviced about 10 times a month by these two kids or about five times each. She was getting sex about three times a week plus what her husband was providing. Is she over-sexed? I don’t think so but she is looking at some hard time and I am not talking about rigidity.



The Greenville County (SC) Republican Committee has told Senator Lindsay Graham that he is not welcome at their meetings any longer. They are pissed that he supported the most recent Supreme Court nominee submitted by the Democrats. The nominee was confirmed.



Over in Gaffney, SC another incidence of leaving kids in a car occurred at the Wal-Mart parking lot. People walking by the car saw three kids in a locked car with the outside temperature about 95 making the temperature inside the car at about 102. The people tried to get the car doors open for over an hour then someone shows up with a “Slim Jim” and got the doors open and the police took the kids to DSS. When the mother finally showed up, using an interpreter, repeat, using and interpreter, the police arrested her on three counts child neglect and Maria Palacios was taken to the joint. The kids were aged 10 months, three and six. The police said that the kids were lethargic but could talk when they were removed from the car and were about 15 minutes from serious physical damage. If this bitch is illegal, she is headed for home.



Stephen Hawking, arguable the smartest person in the last 300 years, has said that we should not try to contact and/or meet with beings from other worlds. His logic is that these beings would more than likely be the bearers of a pathogen that is lethal to our species. It sounds like a guess to me, but I am not near as smart as he.



This date in history August 16



1977 Earlier in 1935 a man child was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was a twin but his brother named Jesse died at birth. He was born and raised in a dirt poor environment and eventually assumed a job as a truck driver but his real love was music. As with many musician/singers he got his early training in the choir of his fundamental church. That’s right folks; I am speaking about Elvis Aron Presley. One day a 19 year old Elvis walks into the office of Sun Records in Memphis and paid $4.00 to cut four religious songs as a birthday present for his mother. The owner of the recording studio, Sam Phillips, was enamored by Elvis’ rough voice and touch of rhythm and blues he added to his songs and invited Elvis to come back and cut a record with a studio band backing him up. Elvis did indeed return and cut the rhythm and blues classic “That’s all right, Mama” but with a country and western flair. Sam released the record to the local radio stations and it immediately went to the top of the charts and Elvis’ career was launched. Then he cut “Heartbreak Hotel” that went to the top of the national charts and the name of Elvis Presley was on everyone’s lips. If ever there was a phenomenon and instant success, it was Elvis. An example was when Elvis went on the Ed Sullivan Show and sang as usual for a fee of $1,500. Sullivan was incensed because of Elvis’ rotating hips and swore that he would never have on the show again. About three months later Elvis was riding the crest of popularity and Sullivan relented and called Elvis’ agent trying to book him but would only allow him to be shown from the waist up. Elvis’ agent, “Colonel” Tom Parker said that would be satisfactory and then asked Sullivan was sitting down. Sullivan said that he was and then Parker said that Elvis’ fee would now be $70,000. Sullivan screamed and said that he would never pay such a fee to anyone. Three months later Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the tidy sum of $90,000. Elvis’ career was a spectacular one and never relented even when he was drafted in the army for two year. After he was discharged his career continued its upward spiral. After a while the public began to notice puffiness around his face, neck and waist. He was getting fat. His career began a downward slope at that point. He gave fewer and fewer concerts and spent more and more time at his mansion “Graceland” in Memphis. We did not know it then but Elvis was addicted to prescription drugs, especially uppers and downers. On this date, his body was found in Graceland and his autopsy said that he had overdosed of a mixture of prescription drugs. The King was dead at the age of 42. What a damned shame. Sometimes I wonder if some people make a deal with the devil, their soul for fame and fortune. A famous bluesman named Robert Johnson admitted that he made a deal with the devil standing at a crossroad of two dirt roads in the middle of a cotton field in the Mississippi Delta and his fame as a blues guitarist/songwriter/singer is renowned to this day. But did he surrender his soul at the age of 27? Who can say?



1896 Old George Carmack had departed Seattle headed north looking for gold. He ran into a dead end but he ran into another miner that said he heard that there was a rumor that there was gold in the area of the Klondike River up in the Yukon Territory. So George heads up that way. One day he is salmon fishing in a branch of the Klondike River when he spots a gold nugget jutting out of the bank. George had two other partners and he calls them over and they begin mining in earnest and eventually all three of them leave the Klondike as multi-millionaires. In very short order word of the gold strike spreads out and the gold rush is on. Over a period time there was over $250 million in gold taken out of the Klondike area. There are still 200 mines operating in the area.



1955 Earlier one of the most famous entertainers in the world, Paul Robeson, had enthralled audiences all over the world in movies and the theater with his powerful bass-baritone singing voice. Robeson was black and was a vehement enemy of racial discrimination and had no problem in adding his comments to his performances. He finally got so fed up with discrimination that in 1928 he moved to Europe. While there he became enamored with the Russians because if their apparent lack of racial discrimination. He stayed close friends with the Russians but when war in Europe loomed on the horizon in 1938 he came back to the US. Because Russia was an ally during WWII his comments favorable to the Russians was tolerated but after the war and the Cold War ensued, his pro-Russian comments caused a problem. In 1950 he tried to renew his passport to fulfill contract overseas. The State department would not issue a renewal unless Robeson singed a document swearing he was not a member of the Communist Part and he must declare allegiance to the United States. Robeson refused and sued. On this date a Federal judge ruled that the State department was within its rights and so Robeson appealed. In 1958 Robeson finally won his appeal and retrieved his passport but until the end of his days he was under close scrutiny of the State Department and the FBI. I have mixed emotions with this event in American history.



1928 On this date one of the most evil men in American history, George Panzram, is arrested in Washington, DC. George had killed at least 20 people and had started his career at the age of eight when he was sent to a juvenile facility because he insisted on getting drunk time and again. He was sent back at the age of 12 for theft and 14 for the same thing. He killed his first person at the age of 17. When he was arrested he told the arresting officers that he was planning a way to kill as many people as he could with as little danger to himself as possible. Seven of his murder victims were boys less than 13 years old. After being sentenced to death by hanging and returning to prison, he said that if anyone irritated him he would kill them. Sure enough he got into a squabble in the prison laundry and killed another inmate with a steel bar. When he went onto the gallows for his hanging, his executioner asked if he had any last words. He said “Get on with it you damned Hoosier; I could have killed three people by the time you keep fooling around.” The trapdoor opened and thus ended the life of George Panzram. I wonder where he is now.



Born today:



1911 German economist E.F. Schumacher. He said “Eagles come in various sizes and shapes, but they are recognized chiefly by their attitude.”



American US labor organizer George Meany. He said “Anyone who has doubted the ingenuity and resourcefulness of a plumber has never got a bill from one.” True words, ya’ll.



Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow