Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
“One
of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
Speaking
of Plato...the date and place of his birth is not known exactly but
it was approximately 425BC in Athens, Greece and he died at the
approximate age of 78. He was a student of Socrates and a teacher of
Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great. Even then Plato knew the
importance of voting. “Get involved or shut the hell up”...that
was my quote.
As
some of y'all know I look into a couple of dating sites on occasion.
I read the profile of a lady down near Atlanta. She described the
man she was looking for down to the minutest detail...in appearance.
There was “no beards”...”no mustaches that were bigger than SHE
thought was appropriate”...”over 5'-8” ...”must not wear hats
or caps because she thinks that is trying to hide a bald
head”...”cannot have any or possibly debilitating
diseases”...Apparently they could have the demeanor of Jeffrey
Dahmer or John Wayne Gacy as long as their appearance met her
standards. It was like she was ordering a pastry from a bakery. I
have met shallow people before but this one takes the cake, pardon
the pun. So here is what I want. From the waist down she must
closely resemble Jennfier Lopez, from the waist up to the neck she
must resemble Dolly Parton, from there on up she must look like
Sandra Bullock. Demeanor??? In public she must behave like Mother
Teresa and like Lindsay Lohan in the bedroom. Is that too much to
ask?
More
history of SC politics:
There
was two election run-off in the Republican primary. One is between
Gubernatorial candidates Nikki Haley and US Congressman Gresham
Barrett. In the primary voting Nikki had a substantial lead but did
not capture 50% of the vote as required by state law so a run-off is
required. The same is true with US Congressional seat for the 4th
district (Greenville/Spartanburg area) contested by Incumbent Bob
Inglis and Solicitor Trey Gowdy among others. Gowdy had the lead in
the primary but it was not 50% so a run-off will be required. Here
is a brief resume’ of the mud that was slung in the past relating
to these events. Two guys claimed an affair with Nikki Haley in the
previous four years. She is adamant that she has been totally
faithful to her husband of 13 years. By the way, Nikki's parents
were immigrants from India. Her father is a doctor living in
Bamberg, SC. Gresham Barrett voted for TARP and swore he would do it
again and is extremely skilled at dancing around this issue even to
present day. By the way, in the primary Nikki garnered 49% of the
vote and Barrett got 22%. He should have dropped out, but he did
not.
No
slime has been cast about on the name of Trey Gowdy who beat the
living crap out of Inglis. It is a little suspicious that the
Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department made a drug sweep on the
weekend before the primaries with Solicitor (District Attorney) Trey
Gowdy issuing over 100 warrants. Maybe it was a coincidence…Or was
it? It was a good way for Trey to get his name in the media in a
heroic fashion. But maybe I am being too suspicious. In just these
primaries the United States citizenry has demonstrated that they are
not pleased with the present administration and all the incumbents
are at risk.
A
while back ago down in a small village in Bolivia a rape and murder
occurred. The victim was a 35 year old mother of two. The suspect
was an unruly 17 year old man...I use the term loosely. The 200
people in the village were outraged and captured the suspect, blocked
all the roads into the village to inhibit any law enforcement and
buried the rapist/killer alive in the grave that was dug for the
murdered woman. They dug another grave beside this one and buried
the woman with full honors and ceremony. I don't know about y'all,
but this event somehow makes me feel good in spite of no trial by his
peers. But in a village that small, there is very little that
happens that is unknown to anyone.
Over
in London there is a 13 year old girl that is an immigrant from
Bangalore, India. She is a 13 year old name Nehu Rama. For reasons
unknown she took a Mensa test for people under the age of 18 and
scored 162. In that particular test a 140 is considered a genius.
This makes this girl smarter that Stephen Hawking, considered to be
the most intelligent astrophysicist since Isaac Newton. No one knows
exactly what Hawking's IQ is but is estimated to be 160. I will have
to wait and see where this girl's future leads her. Perhaps she will
replace Hawking as the President of the Royal Society in Cambridge
University. I do not remember how old Hawking was when he became
President but Isaac Newton was 27. By the way, Stephen Hawking was
born exactly 300 years after the death of Isaac Newton. Is that just
a coincidence? I ain't sure, but I do believe in reincarnation and
have always believed it ever since I was a rhinoceros.
Last
week the governor of Rhode Island signed a document freeing a group
of slaves in that state. It seems that....wait a freaking
minute...slaves in Rhode Island!!! Everybody knows that all the
slaves were south of Maryland, but there were indeed slaves even in
Maryland, for crying out loud. Anyway, there were 14 slaves that
petitioned the state to free them during the Revolutionary War
(1776-1783) but this petition was ignored until very recently. There
is known data that the early piers and wharfs of Philadelphia were
built on the bones of slaves. Don't get moralistically superior when
it comes to this issue, I know much about it.
This
Date in History June 10
1864
Earlier US General William T. Sherman had begun an attack leaving
Chattanooga, Tennessee headed for the Georgia coast. The problem
with this was that the further he went from his supply bases at
Chattanooga and Nashville the longer and more vulnerable his supply
lines became. This was especially dangerous with CSA General Nathan
Bedford Forrest in the area. Forrest was an exceptional cavalry
leader and probably one of the top three or four this country ever
produced. Anyway, Sherman sent US General Sturgis out of Memphis,
Tennessee with an army of 5,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry to protect
his supply lines. Forrest found out about the Sturgis expedition and
lined up his troops on a railroad between Corinth and Tupelo to wait
and see which direction Sturgis would be headed. It was Tupelo.
Forrest carefully chose the point of interception as being a small
place in a thick forest known as Brice’s Crossroad. Forrest
prepared an ambush of the leading Yankee cavalry units knowing their
infantry would come running. About 10:00am his plan worked to
perfection. The ambush was launched on the cavalry amid high
humidity and temperatures in the high nineties and the Yankee
infantry came running from about five miles away and arrived on scene
totally exhausted. At this point Forrest had no problem routing
Sturgis’ army even though he was outnumbered better than two to
one. Forrest was never able to totally stop the supply line to
Sherman but this engagement was his finest hour.
1692
On this date in the village of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, a woman named Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. She was
the first of several that met their fate in such a fashion for
practicing witchcraft. This whole debacle began when a Presbyterian
minister named Samuel Parris had a daughter and a niece that began
having fits and other mysterious maladies. The good minister took
the girls to a doctor who diagnosed their illnesses as being
possessed by demons and everything went downhill from there. Upon
hearing this Minister Parris went immediately to two of his slaves
that he had bought in the West Indies and tried to beat them into
admitting they were devil worshipers and they were the cause of the
illness with his niece and daughter. I am going to repeat that. The
beatings didn’t work. No matter how much he beat them, they would
not admit to demon worship. That’s right folks; I said a
Presbyterian minister from Massachusetts that had bought slaves in
the West Indies and he believed they knew devil worship and he was a
spiritual leader in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anyway, it became
neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend or any one else that
had an axe to grind against another. And accusations flew. They
established a court to try those people accused of witchcraft. That
court was governed by Chief Justice William Stoughton. After several
people were ordered hanged and executed the governor of Massachusetts
stepped in and put a stop to this bullshit. This just goes to show
you that the public can be coerced into believing anything no matter
how ridiculous. It had happened before this time and after this time
and it will happen yet again, depend on it. Here is a quote by
Adolph Hitler taken from his book “Mein Kampf”. “The more
preposterous the proposition the more likely it is to be believed.”
1991
On this date the evacuation of US Clark Air Base began because of
the ominous rumblings from the volcano named Pinatubo 25 miles away.
There were two US military bases in the Philippines. They were Clark
and the naval base at Subic Bay. The 14,500 people on Clark were
evacuated in one day and not too soon. Soon after the evacuations,
Mount Pinatubo unleashes three stupendous explosions over a period of
days sending poison gasses 62,000 feet into the stratosphere along
with red hot ash and lava down its sides killing hundreds of farmers
that had refused to leave. After the volcano had quieted down it was
determined that the original height of the volcano was about 5,800
feet was now 4,800 feet high. It was quite a blast and the
evacuation saved thousands of lives.
1885
We have all heard the tales of Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Doc
Holiday among others in conjunction with the settling of the American
west. But there were other heroes and here is a small essay of one
of them name Billy Daniels. Daniels gained his reputation because of
the so-called “Bisbee Massacre”. What happened here was a gang
of five led by Dan “Big Dan” Dowd rode into Bisbee, Arizona to
rob the General store where they believed a payroll of $7,000
existed. He was early. The payroll had not yet arrived so he robbed
what was there totaling between $700 and $3,000. For reasons unknown
Big Dan and his gang indiscriminately murdered 8 people including a
four year old boy and a woman. The newspapers called it the “Bisbee
Massacre”. There was an immediate posse formed to look for these
murderers but their trail was lost and they escaped and were
forgotten all....except for Billy Daniels. Daniels tracked down each
and every member of the gang and put them in the Bisbee jail until
all were captured and a gallows for five was erected. All of Big
Dan’s gang was hanged at the same time. A few weeks later Billy
Daniels and two others were tracking yet another outlaw through a
narrow canyon in the Mule Mountains in Arizona when they walked into
an Apache ambush. Daniel’s horse was killed immediately and fell
pinning Billy to the ground. Daniels fought with his rifle as best
he could but the wild-eyed Apaches swept down and cut him to pieces.
The other two were able to escape and returned with a posse the next
day and found Daniels very badly mutilated corpse and as you might
suspect, the posse was unable to track down the Apaches.
Born today:
1904
Austrian composer Frederick Loewe. After hearing of the death of
his lyricist Alan Jay Lerner he said “I guess we will be writing
again with him up there. I just hope they have a well tuned piano.”
1921
The husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip. When present
for the opening of the Vancouver City Hall he said “I now declare
this thing open, whatever it is.” Phillip, shut up.
1922
US actress Judy Garland. She said “I was born at the age of 12
on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer back lot.” Judy was a dynamite
entertainer but here life was rife with drugs and unhappiness. What
a tragic life, worthy of everyone reading about.
1928
US illustrator Maurice Sendak. He said “There has to be more to
life than having everything.” I don’t know what to say to that,
Mo. However, comedian/actor Jim Carrey said something similar. He
said “I wish everybody could have everything they ever wanted then
they would realize that is not the answer.”
Thanks for
listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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