Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
“If
criminals want sympathy they can find it in the dictionary between
syllabus and syphilis.”
Sheriff Joe Arapaio,
Maricopa county, Az.
Consider
this:
The
Great pyramid on the Giza plateau in Egypt is one of the wonders of
the ancient world. What makes it more of a wonder is the way it was
constructed. It was supposedly finished about 2600BC after 23 years
of construction. This means that the pyramid was ancient when Moses
and the Hebrews began the Exodus which was about 1300BC. Keep in
mind that there are millions of stone blocks weighing between 2 and 8
tons each. They did have the wheel because there are pictures of
horse-drawn chariots on the walls of their burial vaults. The
problem is considering the time allowed for the construction and the
number of blocks involved, the workers had to put a block in place
every 9 seconds. Using a large number of modern day cranes, that
speed of construction would be nearly impossible to maintain for 23
years...but the Egyptians allegedly did it with man power alone. I
have a problem with either the time allowed or the number of blocks
or both. The blocks can be counted to a certain degree but the time
cannot be documented except by Egyptian hieroglyphics....or the
Egyptians had help that we know nothing about and is not written
about. How did they make millions of lifts to get that height? The
answer can only be by using an inclined plane or a ramp surrounding
the pyramid. This would mean that the blocks weighing tons would
have to dragged, towed, pulled, etc. for 2 ½ to 3 miles uphill to
reach their destinations...every 9 seconds? Not only that, the sides
of the pyramid face exactly North, East, South and West. They
certainly did not have a compass. What really happened?
A
while back at a road block near Camden, South Carolina the cops
stopped a car that was up to scuppers in marijuana. The driver was
arrested and he and several others were put into a paddy wagon taken
to the Kershaw County jail. Along the way the arrested man gave the
cop in the front seat a huge ration of sh-t. He even threatened to
murder the cop, his wife and children and his parents. Needless to
say, the arrested driver was in handcuffs. After arriving at the
jail, the cop that was in the front seat was waiting at the back door
and snatched that man out of the paddy wagon and delivered 26 blows
with a metal baton. The man was on the concrete sidewalk curled up
into the fetal position yelling his ass off. The cop finally ceased
and escorted the now beaten and bloodied man to a jail cell. The
only problem is that all of this action on the sidewalk was recorded
by a security camera. The beaten man filed a civil right violation
against this cop especially since he was handcuffed. There are very
strict federal laws against using excessive force on restrained
persons. I have mixed emotions here. If anyone and I mean anyone,
threatened to kill me, my kids and/or my parents I would be hard
pressed to restrain myself. But I ain’t a trained law enforcement
officer…but we are all human. The cop’s defense was that the man
refused to go where he was told and he felt the need to use force.
All of that is well and good, but if the individual is lying on the
sidewalk getting the crap beat out of him, it is unlikely he would be
able to go anywhere.
By
the way, Kershaw County was named for CSA General Joseph Kershaw who
was in command of the 3rd
South Carolina Sharpshooters at the intense battle in the
“Wheatfield” at Gettysburg in 1863. He was blond haired with
pale blue eyes and was well thought of by his superiors, especially
General James Longstreet.
This
Date in History February 2
1943
Earlier on June 22, 1942, in spite of an existing treaty, Adolph
Hitler ordered an enormous German army divided into three sections to
start an invasion of Russia. Hitler’s military advisers had warned
Hitler that if the attack could not begin by the first of May it
should not begin at all because of the severe Russian winters. The
German army was not ready by the first of May but Hitler ordered the
invasion to begin late anyway. The Germans made progress by leaps
and bounds primarily because they had control of the air. The
slaughter they inflicted on the Russian army and civilians was beyond
comprehension. They laid siege to Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad
and cut off any supplies to those cities and thousands upon thousands
starved to death. It was the German 6th
Army that had Stalingrad surrounded. Russian premier Josef Stalin
was not about to let the city named after him to surrender and
ordered the residents and the Russian Army defending the city to
resist to the bitter end and resist they did. The Germans bombed the
entire city into rubble trying to break their spirit. It did not
work and the Russians used the rubble to establish formidable
defenses. The Germans had no choice but to send in small squads of 8
or 10 to try and root out the defenders. That did not work either.
The Russians proved to be formidable street fighters. In October the
worst winter in fifty years arrived as advertised. The drop in
temperature caused a break in the attack and gave the Russians
defending the city time to reorganize and receive reinforcements. In
November the Russians army launched a merciless counter-attack. The
Italian and Romanian soldiers surrendered immediately but not the
Germans. They held out until they were surrounded by the Russians
and all of their supplies had been cut off. The German army that had
surrounded Stalingrad in the beginning numbered about 200,000. On
this date the remaining German army at Stalingrad numbering only
90,000 surrendered ending the siege of Stalingrad. Of the 90,000
Germans that went to prison camps, only 5,000 lived to see Germany
again.
Born
today:
1745
English writer Hannah More. She said: “Going to the opera is
like getting drunk, both sins carry their own penalty, and a severe
one at that.” Been there, done that.
1754
French politico Charles Francis de Talleyrand. “The French
court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.” About
forty years after this the French people rose up and heads rolled
courtesy of the guillotine during the French Revolution and that was
the end of the French Monarchies.
1859
English writer Havelock Ellis. He said “The only place where
optimism endures is in the lunatic asylum.” Tack on the that “or
a singles bar just before last call”
1901
Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz. He said “No matter which side
of the argument you are on, you always find some one on your side
that should be on the other.” Been there, done that, too. Do not
have a tee shirt.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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