Wednesday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

                                             Helen Keller

Once again the ignorance of people is rampant resulting in waist deep hypocrisy. I read that a section in Alaska named “Wade Hampton” was being removed from the census because he was a three star general for the Confederacy. There were three “Wade Hamptons” (right Munki?). Wade Hampton I fought for this country against the British during the Revolutionary War. Wade Hampton II fought for this country against the British once again in the War of 1812. Wade Hampton III was indeed a general in the Confederacy. Was that section in Alaska named for Wade Hampton I, Wade Hampton II...or Wade Hampton III? If all of this is real (which I doubt) then we need to change every place named “Jackson” like the Capitol of Mississippi, or “Jackson Heights”,etc., etc, because there was a kick-ass general named “Stonewall” Jackson that fought with the Confederacy. There was also a President of the United States named Andrew Jackson. This man not only admittedly hated blacks, he was responsible for “The Trail of Tears”which moved nearly all the Cherokees and most of the Creeks from the eastern United States to Oklahoma because he wanted their lands uncontested. Then we need to take George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses S. Grant off our currency because they were slave owners as was thousands of those that were the founders of this nation. That was then, this is now. Surely no one believes that what was normal accepted back then is the same as it is today. Nobody is that stupid and uninformed...right?

The Comanche once they captured and tamed the Spanish mustangs they were unbeatable by the other nearby tribes and they did not hesitate to take advantage of it. They slaughtered the Kiowa, Apache, Navaho and Arapaho among others including white settlers and eventually ended up with a “ranchiero” of bison country that spanned 250,000 square miles. That is conquest, y'all. It is true that Mexico owned land all the way up the California coast to what is now Oregon, parts of what is now Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas which they lost during the Mexican war. The question is how did Mexico end up with all this land? It was originally taken by the Spanish Conquistadors, y'all, just like the Comanche. They were not invited by the Indians...they took it by force. It is historical fact the the plains Indians squabbled for centuries as to who owned what “hunting ground” and they had wars about it including enslaving people captured in frequent raids on each other.

Yesterday was the 225^th anniversary of Bastille Day. On July 14, 1789 the French people, who had been on the cusp of starvation for years, finally got fed up and openly revolted. It was on this day that the Bastille was surrounded by the people. The Bastille was a former castle that was turned into a prison where enemies of the Monarchy were stashed away, many of which were never seen nor heard from again. After the guards and military in and around Bastille saw the number of people involved, they took off their uniforms and joined in with the people. Bastille was literally torn down by the people brick by brick. The king at the time was Louis XVI and his queen was Marie Antoinette. Marie was an Austrian. It was the custom in those days for royalty of different nations to marry so as to keep peace between the nations. Both Louis and Marie were oblivious to the condition of the gentry and continued to live their lives extravagantly...Marie especially liked expensive jewelry. After the capture and destruction of Bastille, Louis and Marie decided that they had better get the hell out of Dodge and headed to Austria but were intercepted and taken back to Paris. Louis was beheaded soon thereafter by an instrument recently invented by a doctor named Guillotine...I think y'all get the message. About 9 months later Marie's time arrived and she was lead into the presence of that terrible instrument. She was told to kneel and lay her neck across the block. She showed she had a little class when she accidentally stepped of the executioner's foot and said “Pardon me, monsieur”, only she said it in French. She also pulled her long hair to one side before laying her neck across the block. The blade fell and that was the end of Louis and Marie and the beginnings of the first democracy on the planet. There is an old legend that when Marie ordered more very expensive jewelry one of her aides said “Your Highness, you are ordering more jewelry and the peasants have no bread to eat.” Marie supposedly said “No bread to eat...well let them eat cake.” No one knows if that is true or not and is only a legend...but if it is it shows how out of touch those in power can become. I am going to repeat that...it shows how out of touch those in power can become. All of you should read the “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.” We are following that path almost exactly. Thank God I will not be here to witness the ultimate collapse, unless there is a revolution, then I will regret not being here. By the way, after the execution of Louis and Marie a short, dumpy but brilliant military officer from Corsica began a rise in power in France...his first name was Napoleon.

This Date in History July 15

1997 Earlier a man named Andrew Cunanan went crazy as hell out on the west coast and began killing his present and past lovers. Andrew was a homosexual and to this day no one knows what set him off. After killing two men in the San Diego area he flew to Chicago and killed a very rich man that used to pamper Andrew for sexual favors. After Andrew killed him, he stole his Lexus and headed to the East coast and killed yet another acquaintance. By now he was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. After this murder he headed south to get some sun and ended up in Miami. After spending about a week there he discovered that the world famous designer Gianni Versace had bought a mansion there and had developed a routine of walking to a drug store down the block every morning to buy a newspaper. On this morning Andrew was waiting. Versace did not disappoint and showed up walking down his steps as usual when Andrew walked up and delivered two shots to the head of Versace with a .40 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol. Gianni was dead before he hit the pavement. The Miami PD showed up in force but Andrew had fled the scene. A few hours later a guard at a marina called the police and said that someone had broken into a houseboat that was docked at the marina. The Miami PD suspected it was Andrew and surrounded the houseboat at a respectable distance because Andrew had already proven that he would and did shoot people. Eventually the cops heard a gunshot coming from the houseboat and they sent in a SWAT team to investigate. Andrew had chosen to blow his own brains out. Like I say, no one knows what set this bastard off but he is no longer a threat to the gay community...or anyone else.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow