Tuesday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting with you now,

This much let me avow-

You are not wrong who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision or in none,

Is it therefore less gone?

All we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allen Poe

The last stanza of this poem is on a sign over the bar in Poe's Tavern on Sullivan's Island, SC.

Will someone explain to to me why your President has chosen to provide financial SUPPORT to the Syrian insurgents and then send Black Ops troops to help the Iraqi government AGAINST their insurgents?

Johnny Manziel was in a Cleveland Browns rookie interview and was asked about his flamboyant off-the-field lifestyle...Johnny is a party animal. He stood up on his hind legs and stated that he was not going to change what he is for anyone. Apparently that includes the Cleveland Browns front office. I am with Johnny on this one. There is a clause in every NFL contract stating that ANY behavior that is detrimental to the NFL will not be tolerated. That is fine but do not expect someone to become the image of someone else's expectations no matter the money. There was a bunch of comments after this item, most saw Johnny a a cocky bastard...so was Joe Namath, Tom Brady, RG III, Michael Vick etc, etc, etc. This world is full of disturbed and downright crazy people along with billions of dollars spent on mood altering drugs because some people are trying to please others and feel like they are not successful. Not only that, the professional athlete catalog is full of party animals like Babe Ruth, Joe Namath, Ted Hendricks, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle and many, many others that are in their respective Halls of Fame. Over here is your job...and over there is your personal life. I will not allow anyone to dictate how I should live my personal life and neither should you. Your heart and soul are your most prized possessions cannot not be for sale.

I was watching Law and Order reruns a few days ago. I knew that Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson) was the daughter of blond bombshell Jayne Mansfield and decided to look into the history of Jayne. She was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa. and attended SMU, UT at Austin and UCLA. I did not look into how she got from Pennsylvania to Texas and California but she was a nude model for art classes at UT. When about 22 years old she was noticed by the entertainment industry primarily because of her kick-ass body but she was a pretty good singer also. She made several movies and was on many TV shows and plays. The fickleness of show business showed its ugly head and she was no longer in demand when she turned 32. She began appearing in night clubs one of which was Gus Stevens in Biloxi, Mississippi (been there). In the spring of 1967 she was working at this night club but one day she had an early morning radio show in New Orleans (about 100 miles). Gus Stevens loaned her his '66 Buick Electra 225 convertible to make the trip. Aboard during this trip there was Jayne, her boyfriend and her driver along with her three kids one of which was three year old Mariska. The adults were in the front and the kids were in the back. For reasons yet known the driver did not detect that a semi ahead had slowed way down because of a truck ahead of him was spraying for mosquitoes. At 2:25a near Slidell, La. the car caught up with the semi and ran under it killing the people in the front seat instantly but the kids (probably sleeping) were only slightly injured. It is generally reported that she was beheaded. The report I read said that was NOT TRUE. It was true that she had severe head trauma but the reason for the beheading report is because the photos of the wreck showed a hank of blond hair where the windshield used to be and people thought it was her head. It wasn't, it was the wig she was wearing but she was definitely killed. She was 34 years old.

Back to the Comanche. In the 1880’s the Comanches were acknowledged by military experts worldwide as being the finest light cavalry in the world. Their primary leader was Quanah Parker, a half breed. His mother was a white woman that had been captured at the age of 6 and spent 24 years with the Comanche. She bore her husband three children, one of which was Quanah. She was captured by the US Cavalry and sent back to her birth family. She strenuously objected to leaving her native family but was taken anyway. A while later she was dead. She refused to eat and starved to death. She was terminally homesick and wanted to go back home to her kids and husband. But others decided that the path to her happiness and contentment was not her decision to make. Does that sound familiar...very familiar?

This Date in History June 30

1775 The Continental Congress ratified the Articles of War to be sent to King George III. This was a year before the Declaration of Independence was ratified. The Articles of War begins with the phrase “As his majesty’s most faithful subjects in these colonies”, and it goes on to describe “attempts of the British ministry to carry out the execution, by force of arms, unconstitutional and oppressive acts by British Parliament with taxes on America.” The colonists could not believe that King George III would knowingly allow unfair treatment of his subjects and this was an attempt to notify him of it. This was not a condemnation of King George, but of Parliament. Well, King George not only did not agree with the colonists, he did not even read the Articles of War. With this the Colonists knew they were being raped with the approval and encouragement of King George III. After this, the wrath of the colonists turned from Parliament to King George himself. The Declaration of Independence attacks and accuses King George not Parliament. In the span of 12 months the colonists re-focused their venom on the King alone. All of this was stoked into an inferno in January of 1776 when Thomas Paine published Common Sense and it scathingly called King George everything but a white man and listed many unfair things that he had allowed to happen to the colonists. This was a clear act of treason as the British saw it and they began applying even more harsh pressure on the colonists. It did not work then, nor in 1812 and hopefully never.

“Smoking kills…If you are killed you have lost an important part of your life”

Professional moron, Brooke Shields

“Thank God I am an atheist.”

Luis Brunel

Shut up, Luis.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow