Tuesday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“I have noticed that I have become a lot more indecisive, but now I am not sure.”

                                                     Anonymous

Even though it is the law of the land and effects thousands of people, this County Clerk in Kentucky refused to acknowledge this particular law because it is against her religion. I heard someone say that it is the fault of the Supreme Court for “making that law” that allows same sex marriage. The Supreme Court did not “make” that law or any other law. It is their job to determine if any law or proposed legislation falls within the framework of the US Constitution...that is all y'all. They issued an opinion that a law allowing same sex marriage was Constitutional, which made it the law legitimate and enforceable. As of this writing the Kim Davis saga is over as far as I am concerned. The media has beaten this dead horse enough, I am moving on.

A while back due to events at the time a particular trait called “worrier” in me rose to the top and when the stress I was under along with the worry was making me dizzy, having pains just above my sternum and cold sweats. That was too close to heart attack symptoms to let it pass so I had a long suffering friend (he is no longer with us) take me to the nearest emergency room where my brother, nephew and niece soon arrived. The very efficient nurse and physician corps at St. Francis Patewood Hospital emergency room immediately hustled me into a treatment room and within 5 minutes I was hooked up to an EKG machine and it was discovered that my blood pressure was the highest it had ever been at 210/92. That was what was making me feel so bad. After I had lain there for a few minutes my BP began to fall precipitously and bottomed out at about 145/65. They ran a tape on my heart beats, did a chest x-ray and hung a bag of saline solution. Nothing serious was found and I was diagnosed as have an anxiety attack, my first. After a little dancing around they gave me a prescription for and anti-anxiety pill (probably Xanax) and a powerful pain killer (Hyrocodone) to be taken with meals to promote relaxation in my sternum area. After my long suffering niece dropped me by the CVS to fill my prescriptions, I soon had taken one of each. In a matter of minutes my attitude had changed. I felt like I was afloat on a sea of molasses and all was well with the world. The problem was that these medications made me a poor driver and a couple of wrecks convinced me to give them up.

Since the anniversary of this event recently passed, here is an interesting story. When the hijackers flew the airliner into the Pentagon on 9/11 a friend of mine was there but on the opposite side of the building. She was an executive with the USPS and was problem-solving at the branch post office in the Pentagon. She escaped unharmed and had no clue what happened until told. She also was told that United flight 93 a Boeing 757 that crashed in Pennsylvania had departed Newark for San Francisco was seen turning around. The White House or the Capitol building appeared to be targeted but was shot down by an American fighter. I heard through my air traffic controller grapevine that it was a female pilot flying an F-16 from the Virginia Air National Guard that departed Andrews AFB. This is the composite story. I think the shoot down is very possible in light of the fact that virtually no body parts of the 44 people aboard were found at the crash site. Not only that, the aircraft was carrying about 7,000 gallons of fuel and the ground around the alleged crash site was tested several times and no soil contamination was detected. In addition there was no large debris that could be identified at coming from a Boeing 757 and the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder were found far apart. One of the engines was found 600 yards from the alleged crash site crater. Finally Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated that United flight 93 was shot down by an American fighter but later recanted. The only logical answer is the plane was blown out of the sky by a missile. When I did research on this event I was stunned. I invite you to do your own research...you will be stunned also. However, under these circumstances if I was the Secretary of Defense I would have issued the order for this action.

Up in Greensboro, NC a man named Justin Moose will go on trial in Federal Court on Friday. This 26 year old dumb-ass went on his Facebook page and described how to make a powerful explosive and offered anyone his help in blowing up an abortion clinic. The ATF was not pleased and tracked Justin down. Justin is in the joint and charged with having a terminal case of the dumb ass.

This Date in History September 15

1861 CSA Colonel Robert E. Lee has sent CSA General Stonewall Jackson to capture the strategically important city of Harpers Ferry, Virginia and the US arsenal located there. With his usual effectiveness Stonewall not only captured the city and the arsenal but added 70 artillery pieces, 12,000 rifles and 12,500 prisoners. After this coup Lee gathered Jackson and his army back to western Maryland just in time for the Battle of Antietam on the 17^th. Stonewall was the epitome of a military leader seldom equaled in history.

1940 This day sees the turning point for the Battle of Britain. Hitler in his hunger for the domination of Europe needed the neutralization of England to ensure his success. He began with saturation bombing which was supposed to destroy the morale of the English people. Germany bombed day and night for several months but the English people were not swayed in their determination to resist. On this day the English fighter pilots downed 56 German planes in less than an hour. On this note the Germans backed off and turned their attention toward Russia.

1946 Movie director/producer Oliver Stone is born on this day. Oliver was born to a wealthy family and was seen as being very creative at an early age. He attended Yale for a short time but decided that this was not what he wanted so he went roaming the world. It is peculiar that many of the creative people in literature do the same thing. Anyway, Oliver walked away with many Oscars in 1986 for Platoon starring Charlie Sheen and Willem DaFoe. I have this movie but rarely watch it, it really disturbed me as did Deer Hunter. Maybe that is what Oliver wanted. He gave us Wall Street also starring Charlie Sheen along with Michael Douglas.

1890 Agatha Christie is born in Devon, England. Agatha started writing on a dare from her sister. Agatha’s first novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles written in 1920. This novel achieved moderate success but in 1926 she gave us the Murder of Roger Ackroyd which turned out to be a blockbuster of a success. Agatha introduced us to investigator Hercule Poirot with this book. In 1930 Agatha gave us the first Miss Marple novel. Agatha has given us many very readable books; in fact her books have been made into 400 million copies in over 100 languages. She died in 1976 making the world a worse place.

1990 A 13 year old girl Melissa Benoit disappears in Kingston, Mass. while walking home from a friends house a short distance away. In spite of a huge search effort by the local authorities no clue was found. The local authorities finally asked for help from the FBI. The FBI went an unusual route and asked Melissa’s neighbors to take polygraph tests. One man tested as lying and a search warrant was obtained to search his house. Little Melissa’s body was found under a pile of rubble in the man’s basement. At trial the man claimed that he heard voices telling him to do it but the jury heard other voices and sentenced him to life without parole, the most severe penalty available at the time. At the sentencing the judge told the man “In Massachusetts' history there was a time when a murderer once convicted would immediately be taken out to a gallows on the front lawn of the court house and hanged. I wish I had that option today.” Indeed.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow