Thursday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“You don't have to be a corpse to be a hero.”

Gen. George Patton

Do any of you remember the riots in Oakland, Watts, Detroit, Chicago, Montgomery, and now Baltimore? What did they accomplish beside an opportunity for stealing, assault and arson? Now do you remember the peace walks lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? This man organized peaceful and legally authorized walks and would discontinue them immediately if there was even a hint of violence. What did these walks accomplish? I will tell you what, it was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. With the use of passive resistance as taught by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mahatma Gandhi, King was able to change the laws of the United States almost single handed in addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Riots like we see in Baltimore does nothing to improve the situation, without question the community becomes even more unstable. What bothered me a lot is the look on the faces of those people (kids really) jumping up and down on cars while laughing and “high-fiving” each other...they were not angry, they were having fun. There is little question that the dead man was healthy when arrested and showed up dead a few hours later. That is unacceptable if not criminal. If we are going to stay viable as a nation we have to rely on the criminal justice system to do its job or slide into anarchy. This means that the person with the most firepower wins...that being either law enforcement or the military. That mother that came and got her son off the street after he threw a couple of rocks at the cops is my hero. I knew she was his mother because he refused to put his hands on her in spite of her beating him up side the head. I have to look at all of this with a jaundiced eye because the media is having a field day and we are not seeing everything, only violence. I have questions. What percentage of the black community in Baltimore is involved in rioting? What was the average age of the rioters? Does the media give a shit about balanced reporting? Did the media show a group of community members lining up between the rioters and the cops? Why not?

Yesterday I watch a an old movie titled The Proud and the Profane. It starred William Holden and Deborah Kerr and many years ago it was one of my favorites. After what I have seen recently the Proud was that woman in Baltimore that saw her son on TV in a terrorist hood throwing rocks at the cops and went and found that boy and unceremoniously beat his ass and sent him to the house. The most Profane thing was either that man running out of a CVS in Baltimore with 8 or 9 boxes of condoms under his arms or a woman running out of a store with 5 shoe boxes under her arms. How does that honor the memory of Freddie? It doesn't, it spoils everything for everybody including those who loved Freddie.

I have told this story before and this is a good time to repeat it:

After Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated much of the black community of Augusta, Georgia headed toward downtown torches in hand. A very famous black entertainer that lived near Augusta drove his pickup into downtown, got up in the back and told the mob that it was stupid to burn down their own town. The building owners will just get their structures rebuilt by their insurance or collect the money. He told them just to go home and grieve the loss of the great man that was assassinated...and they did. It was James Brown, y'all...”The Hardest Working Man in Show Business”. Not only that, he understood the meaning of “what is the right thing to do.”

This past winter may be the worst that I remember for cold for long periods...and now tornadoes in the springtime. I cannot offer a logical opinion for the cause of all of this. Could it be La Nina or El Nino, global warming, Al Gore, Obamacare, Jadeveon Clowney, a raise in the price of pork at Henry's Smokehouse, a raise in the price of coffee at Omega...or maybe the disappearance of flight MH-370? I don't know, but something is afoot.

                 This Date in History   April 30

1945 On this date one of the most depraved beasts to ever walk this earth committed suicide. Adolph Hitler spent the last few days of his life in his underground bunker 30 feet under the German Chancellery in Berlin. He could easily hear the thunderous approach of the Russian army coming from the east and southeast. He had already instructed his staff to gather up 40 liters of gasoline to incinerate his corpse when the time came. Earlier this bastard had came out of his bunker and met with his “last line of defense” and that being untrained boys at the age of 15 and younger and old men over the age of 70. Even trained German paratroopers would be no match for the relentless Russians but this son-of-a-bitch wanted children and old men to sacrifice their lives for him with him knowing that all was lost. All the other important members of his private staff had already committed suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule. Early in the day Hitler had married his mistress Eva Braun and it was she and Hitler that were left in his private bunker when he died much to the free world’s relief. Eva had taken cyanide and Hitler had taken cyanide also but before the poison had time to work, he put a 9mm bullet in his brain. Oh, I almost forgot. In order to test the cyanide poison, he gave a dose of it to his German shepherd named Blondi. She died also. There was no end to the depth of Hitler’s evilness. As instructed, his staff dug a small trench in the garden of the Chancellery, put Hitler’s corpse and 40 liters of gasoline into it and lit it off. Finally, the world was rid of Adolph Hitler. But there will be another; history has proven it time and again.

Born today:

1771 US theologian Hosea Ballou. He said “Real happiness is cheap enough, but how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”

1834 English naturalist Sir John Lubbock. He said “Reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar do not make an education any more than a knife, fork and spoon make a dinner.”

1933 US songwriter/singer Willie Nelson. When asked why he smokes marijuana he said “It keeps me from killing people.” Willie is a hoot.

     Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow