Tuesday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“Emancipate yourselves. No one but ourselves can free our minds.”

Bob Marley

Within the last couple of days a “holistic” web site posted that Johnson & Johnson had been fined $25 million for “carcinogenic heavy metals” being found in children's Tylenol and Motrin. That was a lie. There were minute metallic particles found and tested but the company AND the FDA said they were not dangerous. A Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary bottling company was fined $25 million for not following prescribed bottling and packaging guidelines not for issuing a product with heavy metal carcinogens. By the way, this case was settled in 2009. Why the hell would that outfit want to lie about something that is 6 years old? I know why...it is to scare people into their way of thinking. That is the definition of terrorism, y'all. Now anything issued by this site cannot be trusted as being the truth. Be wary of any sensationalist verbiage...as my friend m0j0 said, they all have an agenda.

Recently over at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, SC had scheduled a performer to present a program titled “How to Become a Lesbian in 10 days”. A lot of people thought it was a routine done by a stand-up comedienne...but it wasn't...this girl was serious. When it became common knowledge that this was indeed an attempt to influence young women to pursue a lesbian lifestyle the legendary sh-t hit the fan including verbal contributions made by many of the most influential state politicians and local religious leaders. Most of my adult life I have been told that gay people, both men and women, are born not made. If that is the case then what the hell is going on at this institute of higher learning? By the way, the program was canceled. Any comments from The Big Apple?

A few days ago a man was walking around in a Wal-Mart near here and he approached a woman and persuaded her that he was a podiatrist and asked her to try on a shoe for him. The woman agreed. She slipped out of her shoes and held one of her feet up so he could slide a new shoe on but instead he crammed her toes in his mouth and began sucking. She jerked her foot away and began yelling bloody murder much to the astonishment of the “podiatrist”. The man was arrested and on this past Friday he was found guilty and sentenced to 60 days in the joint minus time served. To quote sheriff Andy Taylor “There are a lot of strange critters out there, Barney.”

Here is a story of what is out there for you. A while back up in Wake Forest, NC a man was convicted of ordering the killing of a member of an opposing gang and sentenced to life. This piece of sh-t was a member of the street gang “Bloods”. Later a man was kidnapped from his Wake Forest home and disappeared. The man's family began receiving test messages saying that the man's daughter had better start trying to get the lifer out of jail. It was the man's daughter that was the prosecutor in the lifer's case. Somehow the lifer was able to obtain many different cell phones in prison and set all of this up. The FBI was notified and they were able to track the cell phone text messages to an apartment in Atlanta. An FBI Hostage Rescue Team surrounded the apartment, blew the door open and rescued the man from Wake Forest. There were five different people involved with this scenario and all are in jail awaiting trial. Kidnapping is a federal crime, y'all. By the way the lifer had an addition to his sentence...it is now “without the possibility of parole”. Who do these jackasses think they are?

This Date in History April 14

1986 Earlier various United States intelligence agencies and others world-wide had discovered that Libyan President Muramar Quaddafi had been engineering acts of terrorism on non-Muslim countries. The final straw came when a United States warship was fired upon while cruising in the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean. Quaddafi considered the Gulf of Sidra as Libyan waters but no one else in the world did. After this President Ronald Reagan ordered an air strike. The strike consisted of 14 US Navy A-6 bombers and 18 F-111 fighter/bombers. The Intruders flew off an American aircraft carrier cruising in the Mediterranean and the F-111’s flew out their home base in England. The US Navy provided air cover for the operation. Now listen to this. The United States Air Force requested permission from France to fly from England directly to Libya across French airspace and was refused. This meant that the F-111’s had to fly down to Gibraltar, then hang a left into the Mediterranean, execute the strike and re-trace their steps back to England. This added about 3,000 miles to the mission plus one additional in-flight refueling. The French are damned fine people, aren’t they? It reminds me of the trip I took to Omaha Beach and the American cemetery there with Christian Crosses and Stars of David going to the horizon. Yes, it indeed reminds me. Anyway, the strike went off without a hitch. Our guys bombed the hell out of Quaddafi’s houses killing two of his sons and injuring many. The Libyan Air force sent up fighters, French made Mirage fighters at that, two of which were immediately shot down by our US Navy air cover and the others ran for cover. But it is very likely that the Pan-Am jumbo jet that was bombed out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland was engineered by Libyan agents or at least they were responsible for planting the bomb on the aircraft in Frankfort, Germany. We have a lot of enemies primarily because they are jealous of our freedom. It doesn’t come free y'all, we have to fight for it.

Born today:

1866 US educator (primarily of Helen Keller) Annie Sullivan. She said “The truth is not wonderful enough for the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.” Nothing has changed, has it?

1925 US actor Rod Steiger. He said “Man is a greater miracle than any God has ever invented” Rod sounds like an atheist to me, but I know he was born Jewish.

1935 US country singer Loretta Lynn. She said “My attitude toward men who mess around is simple. You find them and kill them.” Damn Loretta, what about women that mess around?

1941 US baseball player Pete Rose. He said “All I want is for my case to be heard by an impractical decision-maker.” Nobody ever said that you have to have an elemental vocabulary to play baseball...it is “impartial” Pete.

Died today:

1951 English statesman Ernest Bevin. He said “You open that Pandora’s Box; there is no telling what Trojan horse will jump out.” Ernest, shut up.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow