Monday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

Back in the 9^th century the Vikings were busy raping and pillaging their way up and down the English channel. On one occasion a fleet of Viking dragon boats turned up the Seine river headed toward Paris. A French military commander saw them coming and hauled ass to Paris to warn the king, Charles the Bald. The king said “Are we supposed to be afraid of a few Vikings ships?” The military commander said “Sire, since the leader of these Vikings is Ragnar the Skullsplitter we should at least be concerned.”

I don't normally get into this but I have to vent. It was reported that Caitlyn Jenner and other trans sexuals “deserve” our respect. Respect is earned not “deserved”. I respect Bruce Jenner for his efforts in the Olympics but not Caitlyn. What has Caitlyn done that deserves respect? Someone changing their outward appearance and demeanor is a common and a personal issue. Making and promoting a media circus out of it indicates that this change was made not because a personal conviction but is a blatant display of exhibitionism and sensationalism. That does not earn anyone's respect. The person that capped that crazy bastard in Chattanooga is the one that gets my respect.

Has it occurred to anyone else that all of this controversy that divides us is just a smoke screen to camouflage the weakening and takeover of this country as a whole? I am going to proceed under this premise starting today.

I have a friend that used to sell merchandise out the trunk of his car. He was in a very unsavory neighborhood in the Atlanta area and had the trunk open to show his wares to potential customers. He walked away from his car about 20 feet and a man came up and began helping himself to what was in the trunk. My friend told the man to stop but was ignored so he opened the driver side car door and retrieved a .38 caliber revolver and pointed at the man and again told him to stop. The man took a step toward my friend so he shot the man in the right thigh. He went down, of course and the potential customer saw what happened and called the cops. The cops came and told my friend to lay the pistol down on the ground and back away which he did. The cops took one look at the man writhing on the ground and told my friend that he should have killed him because this man had a rap sheet a mile long but now the city was going to have to pay for his hospitalization. To them it was just a matter of economics.

                   This Date in History July 20

                            The Saga of Cynthia

Cynthia Anne Parker was born in Crawford County, Illinois in 1826. When little Cynthia was seven years old, her family moved to east Texas to the headwaters of the Navasota River near present day Groesbeck, Texas. By 1834 the extended Parker family had completed Fort Parker. When Cynthia Anne was ten years old a large party of Comanche warriors swept down on the fort and after killing 5 men, the Comanche kidnapped two women and three children. The kidnapped children were Cynthia Anne, her brother John and a cousin named James Plummer. I cannot find out what happened to John and James but Cynthia Anne spent nearly 25 years with the Comanche. Her Comanche name was Naduah (Someone found) and she married a Comanche warrior named Pohtocnocony or as the white man called him, Peta Nocona. Cynthia and Peta Nocona had two sons, Quanah (Fragrant) and Pecos (Peanuts) and one daughter named Topsannah (Prairie Flower). Cynthia’s husband, Peta Nacona, was eventually named chief of the tribe. In December of 1860 a troop of Texas Rangers, led by Captain Sullivan Ross, surrounded and captured a group of Comanche near the Pease River. Included in this group were Cynthia and her infant daughter Prairie Flower. After interviewing Cynthia many of the Rangers told Captain Ross that they thought it would be best for Cynthia to be allowed to rejoin her adopted Native American family because she had spent so much time with them that they did not believe she could adapt to life with the whites. But Captain Ross had heard so many complaints about white children being kidnapped by the Natives that he thought it would be best for all concerned if they tried to rehabilitate her. Cynthia and Prairie Flower were sent to Camp Cooper where Cynthia was identified by an uncle named Isaac Parker. Isaac took Cynthia and Prairie Flower to his ranch near Birdville, Texas. The Texas legislature granted Cynthia a league of land which is equal to 4,428 acres and a pension of $100 per year for five years. Incidentally, most land grants given by the Mexican Government to the Anglo settlers was a “labor and a league”. A labor was 177 acres that had water frontage and a league was land without water frontage. They also named her uncles Isaac and Benjamin Parker as her guardians. It did not help. Cynthia was terminally homesick and tried to escape several times. In 1862 Cynthia went to live with her brother Silas in Van Zandt County, Texas. Silas was also named as her guardian. After Silas was mustered in the Confederate Army, Cynthia went to live with her sister Olrena. Just before the outbreak of the Civil War, the Parker family was in negotiation to send Cynthia back to live with her adopted family in west Texas but unfortunately the war got in the way. To make things much worse, in 1864 Prairie Flower died of influenza. This was bad enough but what made Cynthia so unhappy was that she missed her sons and did not know what had happened to them. Anyway she wasted away and died in 1870 of malnutrition at the age of 44 because she refused to eat. After several movements of her body she was finally put to rest beside her son Quanah and her daughter Prairie Flower in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Her son Quanah became a legend in the history of the American Indians and I will do a biography on him in the near future. The city of Quanah, Texas was named for him and the city of Nocona is named for Cynthia’s Comanche husband.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow