Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
The
Dalai Lama when asked what surprised him the most about humanity he
answered “Man, because he sacrifices his health for money. Then he
sacrifices his money to regain his health. Then he is so anxious
about his future that he does not enjoy the present: The end result
is that he lives in neither the present nor the future; he lives
like he is never going to die then he dies never knowing he has
really lived.”
Dalai
Lama
I
don't know if it is the pollen or not but something is kicking my
butt. I think it is a garden variety cold because I detected some
kind of “drawing” in the back of my mouth about a week ago. Not
only that, my blood sugar has elevated for reasons unknown. For this
malady my family doctor has prescribed a drug that brings a touch of
dizziness and nausea for two or three days. But, I have no real
complaints...see the quote of the day above.
I
saw a story about the Winder family in Selmer, Tennessee. It the man
of the house was a Church of Christ minister. His wife looked just
like you might suspect coming from a tiny town in south Central
Tennessee and an ever smaller church. The man and the wife had issue
of three daughters. He was a tall, good-looking athletic type, the
wife was a very quiet mousey type. One night she got out of bed,
reached for the pump shotgun in the closet and fire one round into
the back of her husband who was asleep in the bed. The blast did not
kill the man right away and he wallowed around on the floor until he
bled out. The wife gathered up her girls into the family van and
disappeared.
The
next afternoon the church was holding a bible study and neither the
preacher nor his wife showed up. After the service A couple of the
elders went over to the Reverend's house. The doors were locked but
a key was found in a tackle box in the garage. They got into the
house and found the minister dead as fried chicken but the wife and
kids were gone. The local sheriff put out a nationwide BOLO (be on
the lookout) for the wife, kids and the van. Everybody thought it
had been a kidnapping, About 600 miles away near Orange Beach,
Alabama (been there), a van matching the BOLO made an illegal U turn
on Ocean Boulevard and was stopped. It was indeed the minister's
wife and kids. She went on trial for murder. With her and the older
daughter's testimony it appears that the good minister was a wife
beater in addition to having a few kinks. The wife still had a few
bruises on her arms and chest and produced a couple of wigs and
platform shoes that had been bought by her husband for her to wear.
When asked if her husband had required her to do sex acts she was not
comfortable with...she nodded her head....when asked what she just
said “on top”....it took me a while to grasp that as being
“kinky” but being a wife-beater is not allowed under an
circumstance, wigs and shoes not withstanding. The end result was
she was given 210 days minus time served for man-slaughter. There
was no doubt that her testimony was from the heart. Her parents were
given custody of the kids while she was in the joint. Six months
after she was released she had her kids with her once again. We
never know what goes on behind closed doors, do we?
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.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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