Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“They think they can make auto fuel from horse manure. I don't know it it will get you 30 MPG or not but it certainly will cut down on siphoning.”
Dave Barry
I guess most of you watched the BCS national championship game between LSU and Alabama. I thought the mighty South Carolina Gamecocks has a finely tuned defense but on Monday night the Tide defense exhibited one of the best defensive football teams I have ever seen. They allowed the LSU offense across the fifty yard line only once in the entire game. I think LSU's total offense was about 100 yards while Bama had over 400. The greatest mystery of all was why LSU head coach Les Miles let quarterback Jordan Jefferson play the entire game. It was obvious from the git-go the Jefferson was off his game. His handoffs were poorly timed as was his passes. It looked to me that Jefferson was “telegraphing” what play was coming next and the Bama defense was waiting on it. LSU has another quarterback named Jarrett Lee that is just as good a Jefferson but he did not play. Perhaps he would have been less shook-up than Jefferson. Far be it from me to second guess a high rated coach like Les Miles of LSU, but his team was not ready to play while Bama was on a razor's edge on both sides of the ball. Simply LSU was out coached and out prepared and out played. It was not a game, it was a mugging.
Recently the Florida Marlins baseball team traded for right handed pitcher Mark Buehrie. Mark has a problem. In 1989 Dade County Florida banned Pit Bulls, Rottweilers and all other dangerous dog breeds. Mark has a Staffordshire Terrier and three Vizlas. The terrier is essentially a Pit Bull and is forbidden to live in Dade county. Mark has refused to give up his dog so he will have to live outside Dade County. The Marlin's home office and the ball park is in the very center of Dade county. This means he will have a hell of a commute every day because Dade County is a large one, but the love of his animal evidently will take precedent.
A strange turn of events occurred over the weekend. A few days ago the Charlotte, NC PD arrested a young woman for shoplifting. They cuffed her and put her in the back of a cruiser. She was protesting loudly and somehow was able to wrap one of the seat belts around her neck and was strangled to death. All of this was confirmed by a camera on the dash of the car. The cops found that she was dead when they tried to talk with her and got no response. They tried CPR but it was too late. This past weekend a pseudo-religious group from Atlanta came up and began a protest demonstration against the Charlotte PD for police brutality. They said that the reason the girl committed suicide was because she was severely beaten before she was put in the cruiser. The girl's family told this group that they were wrong. They had seen the film from the dashboard camera and it was widely known the the girl was severely unbalanced. Additionally there was no evidence of a beating on her corpse. That did not seem to matter to those jackasses from Atlanta, they kept up with their bullsh-t anyway. Some people have too much time on their hands
A couple of weeks ago PFC Jason Whitmire, an Army medic from Greenville, SC, was killed in Afghanistan. He was brought home for burial. The loonies from Westboro Baptist Church had threatened to demonstrate at the funeral. A bunch of bikers known as The Patriot Guard vowed to be present to protect the Whitmire family from the taunts of the Westboro garbage. This past Saturday the funeral went off without a hitch. The Patriot Guard was present as advertised, the Westboro assh-les were not. It would not do for me to confront them at a soldier's funeral.
After a six month investigation South Carolina authorities busted a cocaine ring in Orangeburg this past weekend. Six men were arrested and charged with a variety of crimes. These guys were no amateurs. They had sophisticated devices for measuring and packaging the drug. In addition to their arrests, 9 vehicles were seized with a value of about $100,000, $300,000 in cash, three SKS assault rifles, two AK-47's, an AR-15, a TEC-9, a Remington 30.06 scoped rifle, body armor and a variety of handguns of various calibers. They also had a hell of a lot of ammo including specialized bullets that will penetrate police body armor. There is no telling how much time these jackasses will do.
Recently the good people of San Francisco elected Ross Mirkirami as sheriff. When it came time for him to be sworn in, the Superior Court judge, Katherine Feinstein (does that name sound familiar...US Senator Diane Feinstien perhaps) refused to swear Mirkirami in because he had a domestic violence charge pending. The district attorney will not review the sheriff's case until next week and then decide if the case will be pursued or not. Sheriff Mirkirami has denied any wrong doing. Judge Feinstein said that it would appear improper for her to swear in Mirkirami and later he being convicted of the domestic violence charge. I guess she is right...but I am suspicious as to what influence Diane had on the selection of Katherine as a judge. After all they are both from San Francisco.
This date in history January 11
1775 On this date the first Jew elected in the Americas took his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress. Francis Salvador came from a family deeply involved in the English East India Company. His father was the director of operations in the Portugal division. The Salvador family was also very high up in the Jewish Sephardic community in London. A severe earthquake virtually destroyed all the East India Company warehoused goods in Portugal which bankrupted the Salvador family. Francis decided that he would come to the colonies and try to recoup his family’s fortunes and sailed to Savannah, Georgia in spite of the fact that Jews were not permitted in the state of Georgia. I am going to repeat that, Jews were not permitted in the state of Georgia. He quickly headed into South Carolina to take control of 7,000 acres that had been given to him by his uncle. Salvador turned out to be a firebrand Patriot and was deeply involved in the movement of independence of the colonies from Great Britain. He was known as the “Southern Paul Revere” when he rode 30 miles on horseback to warn the people of Charleston, South Carolina that there was a British fleet approaching that he had spotted from his plantation. The city of Charleston was able to pre-arm Sullivan’s Island in the mouth of Charleston Harbor and when the British fleet under the command of Admiral Peter Parker arrived, the artillerymen on Sullivan’s Island opened up and handed Admiral Parker his ass and sent the British fleet askew. On another occasion he was scouting in the South Carolina foothills with a squad under command of Colonel John Wilkinson. Recent raids by the Cherokees on villages in the upstate sent Colonel Wilkinson looking for the renegade Cherokees. The renegades found them first and unleashed a wicked ambush near present day Seneca, South Carolina. Francis Salvador was knifed and scalped but he did not die right away. Colonel Wilkinson found him and assured Salvador that the victory was theirs, and then Salvador died. He was the first Jewish soldier killed in behalf of the colonies in their search for peace and independence. We needed more like him.
1937 Eleven days into a sit-down strike by the United Auto Workers at the General Motors Plant #2 in Flint, Michigan, on this date the General Motors “Security Forces” and the Flint Police showed up to evict the strikers inside the plant. It eventually became a pitched battle with the strikers holding their own with fire hoses and jury rigged slingshots while the Flint PD and the GM Security responded with gunfire and tear gas. The people on the picket line did what they could by blocking the entrances so heavy equipment could not be brought in and they threw rocks and bottles to break the windows to allow the tear gas to escape. Eventually Governor Frank Murphy got fed up and sent in the National Guard to put a stop to the violence. After 44 days the strike ended with General Motors conceding to the demands of the UAW. This is the first time that any of the “big three” auto manufacturers had ever set down and negotiated with a union. I previously mentioned the GW “Security Forces”. This outfit was nothing short of a militia to use force if necessary to apply the will of management. On more than one occasion these guys would see a group of GM workers standing around a recruiter for the union and would rush out and beat the hell out of everybody present with nightsticks whether on plant property or not. This contract put a stop to that bullshit everywhere.
1908 Earlier in the year 1540 one of the troops exploring with Coronado named Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas wandered upon a huge canyon in what is now southern Arizona. As far as history tells us this man was the first European to lay eyes on what is now known as the Grand Canyon. For three hundred years afterward this wonder of nature was virtually unknown to all but the Native Americans who had been living in the canyon for many centuries. Anyone that took one look at the twisting pathway leading down into the mile deep canyon thought that it appeared to be too foreboding, not to mention the torrential Colorado River in the bottom. Finally in 1869 a brave soul named John Wesley Powell and eight others drifted down the Green River in Wyoming to where it joined the Colorado. Then he decided to drift the mighty Colorado and off they went. Somehow he was able to take his flimsy wooden boats most of the length of the Grand Canyon through some of the wildest rapids in North America. In fact three of his crew abandoned him and crawled out of the canyon saying it was too dangerous. A week later these three were captured, tortured and killed by a group that was probably Apache. I suppose they guessed wrong as to what was dangerous and what was not. As you might suspect, different money seekers built some flimsy hotels on the south edge to take advantage of the spectacular view. It became worse when the Santa Fe Railroad built a rail line close by. Soon the visitors reached 100,000 and the trashing of the terrain became rampant. On this date In1906 one of the greatest environmentalists ever, Theodore Roosevelt, declared the Grand Canyon a National Monument and eventually a National Park saving forever the splendor of this great wonder.
Born today:
1755 US Patriot Alexander Hamilton. He said “I cannot expect perfect work from imperfect men.” Hey Alex, what about women, Hillary in particular?
1842 US writer Will James. He said “How pleasant is the day when we stop trying to be young....or slender.” I can identify with both situations.
1873 US statesman Dwight Morrow. He said “When one party takes claim for the rain, they must also take blame for a drought.” Come on Dwight, that ain’t fair.
1934 Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. He said “A proof is a proof. What is a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have proof, it is because it is proven.” Jean, you’re an idiot.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“They think they can make auto fuel from horse manure. I don't know it it will get you 30 MPG or not but it certainly will cut down on siphoning.”
Dave Barry
I guess most of you watched the BCS national championship game between LSU and Alabama. I thought the mighty South Carolina Gamecocks has a finely tuned defense but on Monday night the Tide defense exhibited one of the best defensive football teams I have ever seen. They allowed the LSU offense across the fifty yard line only once in the entire game. I think LSU's total offense was about 100 yards while Bama had over 400. The greatest mystery of all was why LSU head coach Les Miles let quarterback Jordan Jefferson play the entire game. It was obvious from the git-go the Jefferson was off his game. His handoffs were poorly timed as was his passes. It looked to me that Jefferson was “telegraphing” what play was coming next and the Bama defense was waiting on it. LSU has another quarterback named Jarrett Lee that is just as good a Jefferson but he did not play. Perhaps he would have been less shook-up than Jefferson. Far be it from me to second guess a high rated coach like Les Miles of LSU, but his team was not ready to play while Bama was on a razor's edge on both sides of the ball. Simply LSU was out coached and out prepared and out played. It was not a game, it was a mugging.
Recently the Florida Marlins baseball team traded for right handed pitcher Mark Buehrie. Mark has a problem. In 1989 Dade County Florida banned Pit Bulls, Rottweilers and all other dangerous dog breeds. Mark has a Staffordshire Terrier and three Vizlas. The terrier is essentially a Pit Bull and is forbidden to live in Dade county. Mark has refused to give up his dog so he will have to live outside Dade County. The Marlin's home office and the ball park is in the very center of Dade county. This means he will have a hell of a commute every day because Dade County is a large one, but the love of his animal evidently will take precedent.
A strange turn of events occurred over the weekend. A few days ago the Charlotte, NC PD arrested a young woman for shoplifting. They cuffed her and put her in the back of a cruiser. She was protesting loudly and somehow was able to wrap one of the seat belts around her neck and was strangled to death. All of this was confirmed by a camera on the dash of the car. The cops found that she was dead when they tried to talk with her and got no response. They tried CPR but it was too late. This past weekend a pseudo-religious group from Atlanta came up and began a protest demonstration against the Charlotte PD for police brutality. They said that the reason the girl committed suicide was because she was severely beaten before she was put in the cruiser. The girl's family told this group that they were wrong. They had seen the film from the dashboard camera and it was widely known the the girl was severely unbalanced. Additionally there was no evidence of a beating on her corpse. That did not seem to matter to those jackasses from Atlanta, they kept up with their bullsh-t anyway. Some people have too much time on their hands
A couple of weeks ago PFC Jason Whitmire, an Army medic from Greenville, SC, was killed in Afghanistan. He was brought home for burial. The loonies from Westboro Baptist Church had threatened to demonstrate at the funeral. A bunch of bikers known as The Patriot Guard vowed to be present to protect the Whitmire family from the taunts of the Westboro garbage. This past Saturday the funeral went off without a hitch. The Patriot Guard was present as advertised, the Westboro assh-les were not. It would not do for me to confront them at a soldier's funeral.
After a six month investigation South Carolina authorities busted a cocaine ring in Orangeburg this past weekend. Six men were arrested and charged with a variety of crimes. These guys were no amateurs. They had sophisticated devices for measuring and packaging the drug. In addition to their arrests, 9 vehicles were seized with a value of about $100,000, $300,000 in cash, three SKS assault rifles, two AK-47's, an AR-15, a TEC-9, a Remington 30.06 scoped rifle, body armor and a variety of handguns of various calibers. They also had a hell of a lot of ammo including specialized bullets that will penetrate police body armor. There is no telling how much time these jackasses will do.
Recently the good people of San Francisco elected Ross Mirkirami as sheriff. When it came time for him to be sworn in, the Superior Court judge, Katherine Feinstein (does that name sound familiar...US Senator Diane Feinstien perhaps) refused to swear Mirkirami in because he had a domestic violence charge pending. The district attorney will not review the sheriff's case until next week and then decide if the case will be pursued or not. Sheriff Mirkirami has denied any wrong doing. Judge Feinstein said that it would appear improper for her to swear in Mirkirami and later he being convicted of the domestic violence charge. I guess she is right...but I am suspicious as to what influence Diane had on the selection of Katherine as a judge. After all they are both from San Francisco.
This date in history January 11
1775 On this date the first Jew elected in the Americas took his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress. Francis Salvador came from a family deeply involved in the English East India Company. His father was the director of operations in the Portugal division. The Salvador family was also very high up in the Jewish Sephardic community in London. A severe earthquake virtually destroyed all the East India Company warehoused goods in Portugal which bankrupted the Salvador family. Francis decided that he would come to the colonies and try to recoup his family’s fortunes and sailed to Savannah, Georgia in spite of the fact that Jews were not permitted in the state of Georgia. I am going to repeat that, Jews were not permitted in the state of Georgia. He quickly headed into South Carolina to take control of 7,000 acres that had been given to him by his uncle. Salvador turned out to be a firebrand Patriot and was deeply involved in the movement of independence of the colonies from Great Britain. He was known as the “Southern Paul Revere” when he rode 30 miles on horseback to warn the people of Charleston, South Carolina that there was a British fleet approaching that he had spotted from his plantation. The city of Charleston was able to pre-arm Sullivan’s Island in the mouth of Charleston Harbor and when the British fleet under the command of Admiral Peter Parker arrived, the artillerymen on Sullivan’s Island opened up and handed Admiral Parker his ass and sent the British fleet askew. On another occasion he was scouting in the South Carolina foothills with a squad under command of Colonel John Wilkinson. Recent raids by the Cherokees on villages in the upstate sent Colonel Wilkinson looking for the renegade Cherokees. The renegades found them first and unleashed a wicked ambush near present day Seneca, South Carolina. Francis Salvador was knifed and scalped but he did not die right away. Colonel Wilkinson found him and assured Salvador that the victory was theirs, and then Salvador died. He was the first Jewish soldier killed in behalf of the colonies in their search for peace and independence. We needed more like him.
1937 Eleven days into a sit-down strike by the United Auto Workers at the General Motors Plant #2 in Flint, Michigan, on this date the General Motors “Security Forces” and the Flint Police showed up to evict the strikers inside the plant. It eventually became a pitched battle with the strikers holding their own with fire hoses and jury rigged slingshots while the Flint PD and the GM Security responded with gunfire and tear gas. The people on the picket line did what they could by blocking the entrances so heavy equipment could not be brought in and they threw rocks and bottles to break the windows to allow the tear gas to escape. Eventually Governor Frank Murphy got fed up and sent in the National Guard to put a stop to the violence. After 44 days the strike ended with General Motors conceding to the demands of the UAW. This is the first time that any of the “big three” auto manufacturers had ever set down and negotiated with a union. I previously mentioned the GW “Security Forces”. This outfit was nothing short of a militia to use force if necessary to apply the will of management. On more than one occasion these guys would see a group of GM workers standing around a recruiter for the union and would rush out and beat the hell out of everybody present with nightsticks whether on plant property or not. This contract put a stop to that bullshit everywhere.
1908 Earlier in the year 1540 one of the troops exploring with Coronado named Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas wandered upon a huge canyon in what is now southern Arizona. As far as history tells us this man was the first European to lay eyes on what is now known as the Grand Canyon. For three hundred years afterward this wonder of nature was virtually unknown to all but the Native Americans who had been living in the canyon for many centuries. Anyone that took one look at the twisting pathway leading down into the mile deep canyon thought that it appeared to be too foreboding, not to mention the torrential Colorado River in the bottom. Finally in 1869 a brave soul named John Wesley Powell and eight others drifted down the Green River in Wyoming to where it joined the Colorado. Then he decided to drift the mighty Colorado and off they went. Somehow he was able to take his flimsy wooden boats most of the length of the Grand Canyon through some of the wildest rapids in North America. In fact three of his crew abandoned him and crawled out of the canyon saying it was too dangerous. A week later these three were captured, tortured and killed by a group that was probably Apache. I suppose they guessed wrong as to what was dangerous and what was not. As you might suspect, different money seekers built some flimsy hotels on the south edge to take advantage of the spectacular view. It became worse when the Santa Fe Railroad built a rail line close by. Soon the visitors reached 100,000 and the trashing of the terrain became rampant. On this date In1906 one of the greatest environmentalists ever, Theodore Roosevelt, declared the Grand Canyon a National Monument and eventually a National Park saving forever the splendor of this great wonder.
Born today:
1755 US Patriot Alexander Hamilton. He said “I cannot expect perfect work from imperfect men.” Hey Alex, what about women, Hillary in particular?
1842 US writer Will James. He said “How pleasant is the day when we stop trying to be young....or slender.” I can identify with both situations.
1873 US statesman Dwight Morrow. He said “When one party takes claim for the rain, they must also take blame for a drought.” Come on Dwight, that ain’t fair.
1934 Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. He said “A proof is a proof. What is a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have proof, it is because it is proven.” Jean, you’re an idiot.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“They think they can make auto fuel from horse manure. I don't know it it will get you 30 MPG or not but it certainly will cut down on siphoning.”
Dave Barry
I guess most of you watched the BCS national championship game between LSU and Alabama. I thought the mighty South Carolina Gamecocks has a finely tuned defense but on Monday night the Tide defense exhibited one of the best defensive football teams I have ever seen. They allowed the LSU offense across the fifty yard line only once in the entire game. I think LSU's total offense was about 100 yards while Bama had over 400. The greatest mystery of all was why LSU head coach Les Miles let quarterback Jordan Jefferson play the entire game. It was obvious from the git-go the Jefferson was off his game. His handoffs were poorly timed as was his passes. It looked to me that Jefferson was “telegraphing” what play was coming next and the Bama defense was waiting on it. LSU has another quarterback named Jarrett Lee that is just as good a Jefferson but he did not play. Perhaps he would have been less shook-up than Jefferson. Far be it from me to second guess a high rated coach like Les Miles of LSU, but his team was not ready to play while Bama was on a razor's edge on both sides of the ball. Simply LSU was out coached and out prepared and out played. It was not a game, it was a mugging.
Recently the Florida Marlins baseball team traded for right handed pitcher Mark Buehrie. Mark has a problem. In 1989 Dade County Florida banned Pit Bulls, Rottweilers and all other dangerous dog breeds. Mark has a Staffordshire Terrier and three Vizlas. The terrier is essentially a Pit Bull and is forbidden to live in Dade county. Mark has refused to give up his dog so he will have to live outside Dade County. The Marlin's home office and the ball park is in the very center of Dade county. This means he will have a hell of a commute every day because Dade County is a large one, but the love of his animal evidently will take precedent.
A strange turn of events occurred over the weekend. A few days ago the Charlotte, NC PD arrested a young woman for shoplifting. They cuffed her and put her in the back of a cruiser. She was protesting loudly and somehow was able to wrap one of the seat belts around her neck and was strangled to death. All of this was confirmed by a camera on the dash of the car. The cops found that she was dead when they tried to talk with her and got no response. They tried CPR but it was too late. This past weekend a pseudo-religious group from Atlanta came up and began a protest demonstration against the Charlotte PD for police brutality. They said that the reason the girl committed suicide was because she was severely beaten before she was put in the cruiser. The girl's family told this group that they were wrong. They had seen the film from the dashboard camera and it was widely known the the girl was severely unbalanced. Additionally there was no evidence of a beating on her corpse. That did not seem to matter to those jackasses from Atlanta, they kept up with their bullsh-t anyway. Some people have too much time on their hands
A couple of weeks ago PFC Jason Whitmire, an Army medic from Greenville, SC, was killed in Afghanistan. He was brought home for burial. The loonies from Westboro Baptist Church had threatened to demonstrate at the funeral. A bunch of bikers known as The Patriot Guard vowed to be present to protect the Whitmire family from the taunts of the Westboro garbage. This past Saturday the funeral went off without a hitch. The Patriot Guard was present as advertised, the Westboro assh-les were not. It would not do for me to confront them at a soldier's funeral.
After a six month investigation South Carolina authorities busted a cocaine ring in Orangeburg this past weekend. Six men were arrested and charged with a variety of crimes. These guys were no amateurs. They had sophisticated devices for measuring and packaging the drug. In addition to their arrests, 9 vehicles were seized with a value of about $100,000, $300,000 in cash, three SKS assault rifles, two AK-47's, an AR-15, a TEC-9, a Remington 30.06 scoped rifle, body armor and a variety of handguns of various calibers. They also had a hell of a lot of ammo including specialized bullets that will penetrate police body armor. There is no telling how much time these jackasses will do.
Recently the good people of San Francisco elected Ross Mirkirami as sheriff. When it came time for him to be sworn in, the Superior Court judge, Katherine Feinstein (does that name sound familiar...US Senator Diane Feinstien perhaps) refused to swear Mirkirami in because he had a domestic violence charge pending. The district attorney will not review the sheriff's case until next week and then decide if the case will be pursued or not. Sheriff Mirkirami has denied any wrong doing. Judge Feinstein said that it would appear improper for her to swear in Mirkirami and later he being convicted of the domestic violence charge. I guess she is right...but I am suspicious as to what influence Diane had on the selection of Katherine as a judge. After all they are both from San Francisco.
This date in history January 11
1775 On this date the first Jew elected in the Americas took his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress. Francis Salvador came from a family deeply involved in the English East India Company. His father was the director of operations in the Portugal division. The Salvador family was also very high up in the Jewish Sephardic community in London. A severe earthquake virtually destroyed all the East India Company warehoused goods in Portugal which bankrupted the Salvador family. Francis decided that he would come to the colonies and try to recoup his family’s fortunes and sailed to Savannah, Georgia in spite of the fact that Jews were not permitted in the state of Georgia. I am going to repeat that, Jews were not permitted in the state of Georgia. He quickly headed into South Carolina to take control of 7,000 acres that had been given to him by his uncle. Salvador turned out to be a firebrand Patriot and was deeply involved in the movement of independence of the colonies from Great Britain. He was known as the “Southern Paul Revere” when he rode 30 miles on horseback to warn the people of Charleston, South Carolina that there was a British fleet approaching that he had spotted from his plantation. The city of Charleston was able to pre-arm Sullivan’s Island in the mouth of Charleston Harbor and when the British fleet under the command of Admiral Peter Parker arrived, the artillerymen on Sullivan’s Island opened up and handed Admiral Parker his ass and sent the British fleet askew. On another occasion he was scouting in the South Carolina foothills with a squad under command of Colonel John Wilkinson. Recent raids by the Cherokees on villages in the upstate sent Colonel Wilkinson looking for the renegade Cherokees. The renegades found them first and unleashed a wicked ambush near present day Seneca, South Carolina. Francis Salvador was knifed and scalped but he did not die right away. Colonel Wilkinson found him and assured Salvador that the victory was theirs, and then Salvador died. He was the first Jewish soldier killed in behalf of the colonies in their search for peace and independence. We needed more like him.
1937 Eleven days into a sit-down strike by the United Auto Workers at the General Motors Plant #2 in Flint, Michigan, on this date the General Motors “Security Forces” and the Flint Police showed up to evict the strikers inside the plant. It eventually became a pitched battle with the strikers holding their own with fire hoses and jury rigged slingshots while the Flint PD and the GM Security responded with gunfire and tear gas. The people on the picket line did what they could by blocking the entrances so heavy equipment could not be brought in and they threw rocks and bottles to break the windows to allow the tear gas to escape. Eventually Governor Frank Murphy got fed up and sent in the National Guard to put a stop to the violence. After 44 days the strike ended with General Motors conceding to the demands of the UAW. This is the first time that any of the “big three” auto manufacturers had ever set down and negotiated with a union. I previously mentioned the GW “Security Forces”. This outfit was nothing short of a militia to use force if necessary to apply the will of management. On more than one occasion these guys would see a group of GM workers standing around a recruiter for the union and would rush out and beat the hell out of everybody present with nightsticks whether on plant property or not. This contract put a stop to that bullshit everywhere.
1908 Earlier in the year 1540 one of the troops exploring with Coronado named Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas wandered upon a huge canyon in what is now southern Arizona. As far as history tells us this man was the first European to lay eyes on what is now known as the Grand Canyon. For three hundred years afterward this wonder of nature was virtually unknown to all but the Native Americans who had been living in the canyon for many centuries. Anyone that took one look at the twisting pathway leading down into the mile deep canyon thought that it appeared to be too foreboding, not to mention the torrential Colorado River in the bottom. Finally in 1869 a brave soul named John Wesley Powell and eight others drifted down the Green River in Wyoming to where it joined the Colorado. Then he decided to drift the mighty Colorado and off they went. Somehow he was able to take his flimsy wooden boats most of the length of the Grand Canyon through some of the wildest rapids in North America. In fact three of his crew abandoned him and crawled out of the canyon saying it was too dangerous. A week later these three were captured, tortured and killed by a group that was probably Apache. I suppose they guessed wrong as to what was dangerous and what was not. As you might suspect, different money seekers built some flimsy hotels on the south edge to take advantage of the spectacular view. It became worse when the Santa Fe Railroad built a rail line close by. Soon the visitors reached 100,000 and the trashing of the terrain became rampant. On this date In1906 one of the greatest environmentalists ever, Theodore Roosevelt, declared the Grand Canyon a National Monument and eventually a National Park saving forever the splendor of this great wonder.
Born today:
1755 US Patriot Alexander Hamilton. He said “I cannot expect perfect work from imperfect men.” Hey Alex, what about women, Hillary in particular?
1842 US writer Will James. He said “How pleasant is the day when we stop trying to be young....or slender.” I can identify with both situations.
1873 US statesman Dwight Morrow. He said “When one party takes claim for the rain, they must also take blame for a drought.” Come on Dwight, that ain’t fair.
1934 Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. He said “A proof is a proof. What is a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have proof, it is because it is proven.” Jean, you’re an idiot.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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