Good morning,
Quote
of the day:
“Do
not let this bottle of wine influence you into contacting your ex in
a lame attempt to get back together. Many grapes gave their all in
the making of this wine...show some respect.”
Anonymous
Food
for thought:
If
you are in a town meeting and tell the mayor “You don't know what
you are taking about”...what would happen?
If
you are stopped by a cop for any reason and in the ensuing discussion
you say “You don't know what you are talking about”...what would
happen?
What
is wrong with this picture?
Crazy
as Hell
Chapter
7
Calls
began coming in to the front desk about a man running up and down the
hallways carrying a rifle. The assistant manager took the elevator
to the 11th
floor to investigate. As soon as he stepped off the elevator he saw
Essex and the rifle and bolted for the stairwell but before he got
there Essex shot him in the head and he died instantly. The 8th
and 9th
floor hallways were filled with smoke so the general manager began a
search up the stairwell and through the window in the fire door he
saw someone in the hallway on the 10th
floor. Using his passkey he opened the fire door and stepped into
the hallway and Essex immediately shot and killed him. Essex heard
the sirens of the cops and fire engines so he went down the stairwell
to the pool area and shot a man in the stomach that was standing
beside the pool. He fell into the pool and floated for 2 hours
before being rescued. He survived. Essex headed back up the
stairwell knowing an escape on the street was impossible.
I
don’t know if y’all knew this or know but entertainment star
Miley Cyrus’ father is country music star Billy Ray Cyrus. It
seems that Billy Ray and his wife of 19 years have come to a parting
of the ways and have filed for divorce much to everyone’s surprise.
What likely happened is that rock star Bret Michaels had a casual
acquaintance with Miley and the Cyrus family. Bret and Billy Ray’s
wife had eyes for each other and consummated the attraction and Billy
Ray discovered the tryst. I just saw a program about Bret Michaels
and how devoted he is to his wife and two daughters. That experience
will be very expensive for Bret and Billy Ray’s wife.
This
Date in History November 5
1775
On this day General George Washington issued a statement
condemning some of his troops who were planning to celebrate Guy
Fawkes Day. Guy Fawkes Day is an English celebration for the capture
of Guy Fawkes who schemed to blow up the Parliament building in
London. He wanted to kill the king, James I who was a protestant, in
the hopes that James’ daughter Elizabeth, a Roman Catholic, would
take over the reins of England. In the celebration effigies of the
Pope are burned and essentially a condemnation of the Catholics in
general. Washington condemned this action not out of conscience, but
because he was trying to get some of the French Canadians to join the
Continental army and they were all Catholic. The celebration never
materialized out of respect for George, but the animosity remained.
1930
United States author Sinclair Lewis received the Nobel Prize for
literature and he was the first American to receive this prize.
Lewis was a cantankerous sort. In 1926 he had refused the Pulitzer
Prize for his book Arrowsmith
but decided to accept the Nobel Prize. He also gave us Main
Street,
Babbitt
and Elmer
Gantry.
Every time I hear the words Elmer Gantry an image of Burt Lancaster
with hair just a’ flying and bible in hand flashes across my mind.
What a great performance. I miss him.
1961
A group of cave explorers find a sack full of bones in South Wales
which solved 43 year old mystery. It seems that chorus girl Mamie
Savant married George Shotten and they moved to a remote house on a
cliff over looking the sea. Evidently it was not a happy marriage
because one day neither George nor Mamie could be found anywhere.
The authorities finally ran George down and come to find out that he
had been married to another woman for years and was living with her
when he was caught. When he was confronted he denied ever being
married to Mamie but that was easily shot down. But they could not
find hide nor hair of Mamie. So George was tried and convicted of
bigamy and served 18 months. In addition to the bones the spelunkers
found a gold wedding band and a black comb that was known to be
Mamie’s. The bones were reassembled and it was determined that it
was the bones of a 26 year old female about 5’-4” tall. That
described Mamie but it was too late because George died in 1958 three
years before the discovery of the bones.
1862
United States President A. Lincoln relieved General George B.
McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. After the
disastrous ass-kicking the Army of the Potomac received at the hand
of CSA General Robert E, Lee at 1st
Manassas, Lincoln appointed McClellan to whip the Army of the Potomac
into shape. McClellan was a superb organizer/trainer and did indeed
whip the army into shape. He organized the command structure,
divided the army into manageable units and trained the troops to a
razor sharp readiness. He then took that army of over 100,000 by
boat to the end of the James River peninsula southeast of Richmond
and began a march on that city. Everything went fine until he met
CSA General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia and received a
series of ass-kickings. After this he went back to the end of the
peninsula and took his young ass out of there. What pissed Lincoln
off was that he camped out for six weeks before departing the
peninsula. McClellan was always timid and shy in a combat situation
and believed that he was always outnumbered which was never the case.
His next faux pas was at the Battle of Antietam when his army drove
Lee and the Confederates out of Maryland back across the Potomac into
Virginia and did not pursue and destroy them. He chose to camp out
again for several weeks while all the time Lincoln is burning up the
telegraph wires telling him to get off his ass and do something.
McClellan ignored Lincoln and indeed held him with distain and was
vocal about it. Finally, McClellan got the army on its feet and they
head for the Potomac River, however it took nine days for McClellan
to get his troops across and that was the final straw. Lincoln
called McClellan to Washington and sent US General Ambrose Burnsides
to replace him. Burnsides knew that Lincoln wanted an aggressive
commander so he immediately headed out to find Bobby Lee and his army
of rebels. He found them at a place called Marye’s Heights near
Fredericksburg and promptly has his ass kicked at the cost of a
terrible slaughter of the Army of the Potomac, but that is another
story.
1862
Earlier the Santee Sioux of Minnesota had been promised they would
be fed by the US Government in return for them going to a
reservation. Well, the corrupt Government officials would not
release the food unless they were paid their usual bribes. The Sioux
were on the edge of starvation and the launched a series of raids led
by Little Wolf on the farms of the honkies up and down the Minnesota
River. They were finally subdued and 300 are sentenced to hang. A.
Lincoln intervenes and finally the list is whittled down to 38.
Before a cheering throng of Minnesotans all 38 were hanged
simultaneously. What we have here is a group of men whose wives and
children are starving because of corrupt politicians and because they
revolt they are hanged. What the hell is up with that?
Births
and deaths:
1892 US newsman
Lowell Thomas is born. He said “Once you reach the age of 80
everything you see reminds you of something else.” I am getting
there myself. Say, that reminds me….
1939 US entrepreneur
John Sculley is born. He said “If we had not had the man on the
moon there would not be a Silicon Valley today.” He is right. It
was the space program where computers were required and developed
much to our benefits all.
1939 US writer Edwin
Robinson dies. He said “There is a good deal to live for, but a
man has to go through a lot of hell to figure that out.” And so do
a lot of women.
Famous
quotes:
“Familiarity
breeds contempt….and children.” Mark Twain
“Denial
is not a river in Egypt” Mark Twain
“Age
is an issue of mind over matter, if you don’t mind, it doesn’t
matter.” Mark Twain
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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