Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
“When
your life brings you to a fork in the road, take it.”
Yogi
Berra
Many
years ago I was working for a large retail business and was chosen to
teach office management. I had to do some research so it would
appear that I was not stupid. In the research there was a famous
management case that was a good subject for discussion. It was
called the Joe Lamb case. Here it is and it is up to you to decide
the solution as if you were the office manager.
There
was an office of 14 very skilled computer operators, all female, one
office manager and one male accountant named Joe Lamb. It took 6
months of training for the operators to reach maximum productivity.
One night Joe Lamb was arrested for attempted rape but was released
for lack of evidence. The next morning the office manager (you) was
handed a note signed by all the women saying they wanted Joe Lamb
gone because they were afraid and if not they would all resign. What
do you as the office manager do? Correct decision at the end of this
segment.
About
60 years ago when I was in grammar and high school, there was a clear
definition between the families that “had money” and those that
didn't, especially if your family was mill workers. The monied ones
were called “elites”...but we pronounced it “EE-lights”. I
was one of those that didn't and most of my family were mill workers.
We poor whites were treated differently that the elite, even
ostracized at times. Yes it was prejudice...not racial but
status...but it was prejudice. I ran across something similar in the
military. In those days and still today I have a very defined
“southern accent”. Somehow the ignorant image of a “cracker”
from down south was an ignoramus wearing a pointy white hat. That is
prejudice also...not racial but regional...but prejudice just the
same. Somehow most of my buddies in the military were from Michigan,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Florida. I was accepted by the men from
West Virginia, Florida and Kentucky but I had to “earn” respect
from the guys from Michigan but once I was accepted they were true
blue. One of my friends was from northern Michigan and we got into a
discussion about why there was friction between the blacks and whites
“down south”. I took the old tired position of “I don't really
know because I lived in a neighborhood that was all white all my
life.” He did not understand all of this. Later on we were
talking about how close the Cherokees were to my home town of
Greenville. I asked him if there were any Indians near his home
town. He said that yes...there were Cree Indians that had immigrated
down from Canada but I can't count them...because they all were
nothing but thieves and drunks. That, my friends, is racial
prejudice. We all have the Constitutional right to live with the
people we choose but this man is no different from us so called
“crackers”. Using the President's logic, nothing has changed and
I am still smarting from all the jeers and insults I received 60
years ago. That is bullshit, of course. Our President is supposed
to be our leader and promote unity...His statement about what could
have happened 35 years ago is driving a racial wedge even deeper
among us and he is hinting that there has been no change in 35
years...that also is bullshit and we and he knows it. He knows as
much about leadership as I do about quantum mechanics. God help us
because he certainly will not.
Again
there is a bunch of tree-huggers up near Washington, DC beating
their breasts and shouting that how evil it is that the football team
is called the “Redskins”. They are claiming that the name is
disrespectful to the Native Americans. I have several thoughts on
that crap. I can assure you that there is not one pure bred Native
American in their midst. I say “pure-bred” because our European
ancestors unashamedly raped and pillaged the Indians wholesale for
about 220 years. I believe that there is a drop or two of Native
American blood in everyone that can trace their ancestry in the
present US to 1890 and before. To think that they are concerned
about the name of a football team is ludicrous and very shallow
thinking. All of y'all mind your own business and allow the Creeks,
Cherokees, Choctaws and a myriad of other tribes raise hell...just go
out and hug and American chestnut...if you can find one.
I
don't know what is wrong with some of us humans. Up near Anchorage,
Alaska a church was holding a picnic in a fairly remote area. One of
the dishes was barbecue. The report gave the name of one particular
man and it was clearly Latino...I will explain a little later.
This
particular man got a snoot full and decided to take a bicycle ride
down a nearby trail and took some barbecue with him in a backpack.
The city of Anchorage is known for a huge population of black bears
and the city officials go to great pains to keep them “wild”.
This means they will fine the hell out of you if you feed them. The
man on the bicycle encountered a black bear on the trail and being
hammered, he threw the bear some barbecue. The bear snatched up the
meat and then decided he wanted the bike rider also and attacked.
This stupid jackass had no defense and curled up into a ball and
awaited his fate. The bear clawed the hell out of his back and bit a
chunk out of his neck and scalp then left. While he was down and
screaming his lungs out, the other people called the authorities.
The man rode the bicycle back to the picnic area and was washing his
wounds in a near by creek when the wildlife agents arrived. They
asked the man what happened but could not understand him because he
was slurring his words and did not speak English (remember the
reference to Latino). An interpreter told the agents about the man
admitting to feeding the bear and being attacked. He was arrested,
taken to the hospital and sewn up, taken to the drunk tank to spend
the night. The next day he was taken before a judge and fined for
public drunkenness and feeding wildlife. He was fined $800. it was
not a good day at the church picnic.
There
is an oil rich country called Dubai that is on the western side of
the of the Persian Gulf. As you might suspect it is a Muslim
country. The difference is that the powers that be have decided to
use their billions in oil money to update their desert country into a
tourist mecca. They still do not allow booze or anything that is
opposed to the Koran but they are very liberal and forward thinking
in their city designs and architecture. The is one problem. They
still have Muslim laws that date back to the 7th
century like there is no such thing the rape of a woman. If a woman
cried rape, she would be charged with adultery or fornication and no
mention would be made of the man (men) involved. The Muslim logic is
that this law would totally prevent their women, especially the
married ones, from fooling around. The Muslims want total control of
their women, this includes wearing a burka. This a a gown and head
dress where all you can see in their eyes. The men are afraid that
if another man sees any part of their woman, he would find her
attractive and might take her away. Again, total control in addition
to paranoia. Recently a tourist from the Norway was raped in Dubai
and reported it to the cops. She was arrested, tried and convicted
of adultery and drinking alcohol and was sentenced to 16 months in
prison. Keep that in mind if and when you go to anywhere on the
Persian Gulf or any Muslim country. Tiger Woods recently canceled a
deal he had going in Dubai to design a new golf course. He did not
give a reason but I think that since he has a main squeeze he did not
want to go over there with her in tow and risk a rape that would not
be avenged. Sounds like sound wisdom to me. By the way, the charges
against the Norwegian woman were dropped.
Correct
decision in the Joe Lamb case:
You
fire Joe Lamb. The reason is that you cannot risk your company
losing money for six months while others are trained because of one
person. They could have another accountant in a matter of days. The
ONLY thing on your mind should be just one thing and that is what is
best for your company, guilt or innocence of Joe Lamb and your ego
not withstanding. The decision as to the guilt or innocence of Jo
Lamb is none of your business.
This
Date in History July 24
1911 On this date
American explorer Hiram Bingham is one of the first honkies to lay
eyes on one of the most spectacular sites in archaeological history.
He had found Machu Picchu, an Inca city hidden in the Andes Mountains
northwest of the capitol of Cuzco. After the rape of the Inca by the
Spanish conquistadors, the Inca rulers no longer summered in Machu
Picchu and its location was kept a secret for 350 years. Only the
local natives knew of its existence. This magnificent city had
surrounding lands that had been terraced for the raising of crops and
the city had running water. It was built of huge stones that were
cut so accurately that cement was not required and a razor blade
could not be inserted in the seams. This is not the only Inca city
that has been found in the Andes that was engineered so greatly. How
these cities were build is still a mystery to the world. The Inca
were very small in stature and had no draft animals other than the
llama. There is no evidence that they had knowledge of the wheel.
Machu Picchu was found high up on two peaks that had been leveled to
allow construction and it is one of the most visited tourist sites in
the world.
1567 Mary Queen of
Scots had been imprisoned because of her unbending dedication to
Catholicism in a land filled with Presbyterian Royalty. On this date
she is forced to abdicate the throne and the crown goes to her infant
son that would become James VI of Scotland and eventually James I the
first king of England, Scotland and Ireland. Mary was an ambitious
girl and tried to take back the crown of Scotland by force but her
army was destroyed and she booked to England and asked her cousin
Queen Elizabeth I to allow her to have safe haven. The Queen was
acceptable to this. But Mary got the itch again and conspired with a
bunch of Catholics in England and other countries to overthrow
Elizabeth and then Mary would assume the throne. Mary paid for this
indiscretion with her head. She just would not give up her religion.
1847 On this date
Brigham Young tops a hill and looked down on the Great Salt Lake
Valley and utters “This is the place”. Then he and 148 Mormons
walk down into the valley and began to lay out a city for the throngs
that would come in the future. Here is a short story about Mormons.
When my oldest daughter was just a child, two well scrubbed young men
rode up to my house astride bicycles. They knocked on the door and
presented themselves as Mormons and would like to tell me about their
religion. I asked if they had a bible and they said yes. I told
them to leave the bible and come back in a week. It was the Book of
Mormon. I read it cover to cover and I want to tell y'all, it was
one of the most fascinating books of history I have ever read. But
it was almost like reading science fiction because some of it was so
unbelievable. But then I asked myself if these events happened
before or after Moses turned the Nile River into blood, parted the
Red Sea and had a flaming tornado to lead an estimated 7 million Jews
into the thirsty Negev desert northeast of Egypt, stay 40 years and
leave no physical evidence of it. It is all in what you choose to
believe, isn’t it?
1864 Earlier CSA
General Robert E. Lee had tasked General Jubal Early with clearing
those damned Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley. General Early
left and made a feint toward Washington before entering the valley.
Early was pursued hotly by a Yankee army commanded by US General
George Crook. The two armies had skirmished somewhat but nothing
heavy. Then when Early found that Crook and his army was in terrain
that was to Crooks disadvantage then he turned and struck Crook with
everything he had. It was a rout, y'all. Those Yankees headed their
young asses back toward Washington as fast as they could and Early
and company headed at a leisurely pace down the valley. By the way,
it was General Crook that was at the head of one of the columns
headed to Little Big Horn to capture the Sioux and Cheyenne. He was
late. Then he was assigned the task of capturing that wily Apache
Geronimo. He pursued Geronimo for five years and in all that time he
only got a fleeting glance of him. Crook resigned because of this
failure. He was a superb officer but was assigned tasks that were
near impossible.
1915 The steamer
“Eastland” was in the harbor in Chicago and had been hired by a
church to take the congregation out to an island in Lake Michigan for
a picnic. The crowd was about 2,500. The boat had originally been
built to accommodate 800 but some marine engineers had made some
“modifications” to where it would handle 2,500. Another marine
engineer published a notice that the so called modifications were
bogus and was dangerous. Well, all of the crowd got aboard and then
ran to the starboard rail for a group photo. The Eastland began to
list and it just kept on rolling trapping nearly all under the hull
right there in the slip. Dock workers immediately got their torches
working and began cutting holes in the hull and began pulling people
to safety. But over 800 were drowned. What a nightmare.
Born today:
1878 English writer
Lord Dunsany. He said “Logic, like whiskey is no good if taken in
too large of doses.” Hey Lord, Plato, Aristotle and Socrates would
beg to differ.
1947 US comic
Gallagher. He said “I wish there was a knob on the TV labeled
“Intelligence” but the closest I can find is “Brightness” and
it don’t work either.” A lot of people like Gallagher but he
ain’t my cup of tea.
1970 US actress
Jennifer Lopez. Comedian Chris Rock said of her. “I saw Jennifer
Lopez on TV the other night accepting some kind of award and she
thanked her agent, her family her minister her make-up artist and a
lot of other people. She needs to thank that ass, that’s what got
where she is today.” Chris must be an ass and legs man like
myself.
Died today:
1862
US president Martin Van Buren. He said “It is easier to do the
job right than to have to explain why you didn’t.”
Thanks for
listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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