Thursday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not essential.

                                  Edward Dennings

Tomorrow is September 11. This should be a memorable date for every American especially the years 2001 and 2012. 2001 being the World Trade Center event and 2012 for the Benghazi murders. Remember them. We were betrayed both times.

I am hearing a hell of a lot of bitching about illegal aliens entering the United States both from the south (Mexico and Central America) and now from the east (Syrian refugees). Here is is a little history lesson that makes me stop and think.

In 1607 and 1620 our ancestors came ashore in Jamestown and Plymouth (they spelled it Plimouth). From that time forward our ancestors slaughtered the Native Americans both unintentionally (disease) and intentionally (Indian Wars) because they interfered with their lust for land. It is estimated that when Jamestown was established there were 26,000,000 Native Americans. In the 1890 census there was about 760,000. This means we slaughtered about 24.3 million in the span of 183 years. In the meantime, we had imported slaves from about 1624 to 1809...the total number is unknown. Is this karma we are experiencing?

In the past and present I have spent a considerable amount of time studying different civilizations including the Vikings, Greeks, Mayans, Mesopotamia, Incas, Egyptians and even the Comanche. There is a few of things that are common to all but mostly it is greed and and the desire for power. They all had the same currencies. That was gold, silver, precious gems...and slaves. Slaves were in demand far more especially after the birth of the Bronze Age (bronze is a blend of copper and tin). Metal tools of war became the difference between victory and defeat. This meant that the copper and tin mines required more and more workers...or slaves. The Iron Age came and that meant even more slaves for the mines and smelters. Even before all of this, people in pre-history began to develop crops to the point that cities formed because there was enough food available and there was safety in numbers. This required the larger cities to raid other cities to gather slaves to tend their flocks, build structures and tend and cultivate crops (read the history of the Jews). There was a variation of this system with the Comanche. The Comanche became the most powerful entity in North America because they were the first to capture and train the wild and fiery Spanish mustangs. Slaves was a very important part of the Comanche economy. They would raid the honky settlements not for anything other than people they could sell into slavery or hold as hostages and the US Government would offer gold as ransom. They also raided the Apache, Pueblo, Hopi and a variety of other tribes looking for people to enslave. They would sell some of their slaves to the Navajo, Zuni, Utes and other silver producing tribes to be used in their silver mines. The Comanche would be paid in silver which they would use along with gold to buy guns from smugglers. The gold and diamond mines in Africa were manned with people that were not exactly slaves, but pretty damned close. They were treated inhumanely. Is the days of slavery over? Not by a long shot. The white slave market is alive and well in third world countries. Will it ever end? Not as long as mankind has greed and a thirst for power.

Over in Spartanburg County South Carolina Kathryn Thomason had been out with her friends and arrived back home in the wee hours of the morning and flopped down on the couch. Her 20 year boy friend Jamie Earnhart began shouting at her and eventually struck her in the face. At this point Kathryn’s children came in the room, jumped on Jamie and wore his ass out. The cops came and carted Jamie off to jail including the recently applied wounds and charged him with criminal domestic violence second offense. Let’s do some math here. Jamie is 20 years old and his girlfriend has children old enough to be able to kick his ass. That makes Kathryn not a cougar but a Smiladon (look it up).

Here is an example of how us humans can screw up nature. Before the Europeans, and the native Americans for that matter, arrived here in North America there were packs of gray wolves that roamed unhindered. They survived by preying on the native wildlife such as bison, elk, deer, antelope, various cats, rabbits, etc. The size and survivability of the packs increased and decreased dependent on the availability of game. Once the Europeans arrived and the Native Americans tamed the Spanish ponies, things changed. The Europeans began raising cattle, horses and various other mammals as did the Native Americans. The increase in available “game” promoted an increase in the size and range of the wolf packs. Eventually the ranchers, including the Native Americans got fed up with the wolves killing their livestock and began a program of extermination of these “pests”. It took a while but the existence of the gray wolf became questionable. Due to the hell raising by the “tree-huggers” the gray wolf was put on the endangered list and any hunting or killing of these animals was disallowed. That was about 15 or 20 years ago. Since then the gray wolf has increased in size and number ten fold. Guess what...they once again began preying on all the readily available livestock and the rancher are raising hell because the wolves are feeding taking away their cash income. Nature has proven time and time again that the size of the packs are dictated by the availability of food. I do not know the answer to all of this but the wolves were here way before any humans. We arrived and increased the availability of food for the wolves and then complain when they take advantage of it. The real shit hit the fan a couple of weeks ago when a wolf attacked a human. To a wolf a human is just another dinner for the pack. The person survived but it just proves that in the wild humans are not on top of the food chain. A mature gray wolf averages between 90 and 110 ponds...they are formidable. By the way, cannibals call humans “long pig” saying that human flesh smacks of pork. Well, after all pigs and humans are both omnivores meaning we will both eat nearly anything...see Andrew Zimmern.

Yesterdays edition concerning the war between the Hutus and the Tutsis that cost about 500,000 lives and did not draw international intervention brought a response from a few different directions. One person explained that the war was allowed because it was politically expedient to a variety of different factions. Another one said that the use of Sarin, or any other poisonous gas, is disallowed internationally but attempted genocide with primitive weapons apparently is not. The only logical conclusion that anyone can arrive at is that it is not the number of deaths but the methods used. If knives, machetes, clubs, etc. are used then have at it...but if you use Sarin they are coming in to put a stop to it...Hello...I guess they are not as dead if they are chopped into confetti with a machete as they would be by breathing a whisper of Sarin and your nerve systems immediately shutting down. My solution is to go biological and spray the enemy with amoebic dysentery. A soldier cannot fire a weapon, a pilot cannot fly, a sailor cannot sail whilst sitting on the toilet. They will live even though they think they will not. I can assure you that they will think twice before being belligerent ever again.

This Date in History September 10

1897 Even without a breathalyzer test, George Smith is arrested for DWI in London. This is the start of legal entanglements for years to come that caused attorneys to jump for joy from that day to this. However, the statistics show that even the severest of penalties do not seem to deter the driving imbibers. Each year there is an average of 16,000 deaths, 500,000 injuries and $1 billion in damages. We are a very hardheaded bunch...but your President says we need to worry about guns.

           Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow