Monday OYSTERS

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing that it is not the fish that they are after.”

                                  Henry David Thoreau

Food for thought:

Your President vetoed a defense bill that would have provided for a pay raise for the military. At the same time Sen. Harry Reid (D. Nev.) and his fellow Cretans have recommended a pay raise for Congress even though it is generally believed that the biggest threat to the United States is the out of control debt.

More food:

In spite of our Government hinting at capturing all the firearms in America, they have not even mention that nearly all of the mass killings were by those that were mentally disturbed or outright thugs. Your President also has failed to say that 60 people were murdered in Chicago (his home town) in the month of September. I personally believe that we have lost our patriotic and moral footing because of the failure of our country's leadership in the legislative, executive and judicial branches...I am concerned.

What is up with all the Syrians heading north into eastern Europe? Look at what is going on. The rebels that want to bring down President Assad are armed and financed by the good ole USA. The Russians are bombing the hell out of them because they want Assad to stay in power saying that Assad's behavior is predictable under a given circumstance and that would not be true if some unknown took power. They also say that if Assad leaves ISIS will have an open door. Both the Russians AND the USA and a few allies are bombing the hell out of ISIS coming south. The skies over Syria are crowded...and confused. Where does this leave the civilians? In Syria only the police and military are allowed to be armed. Is there a message here?

A while back down near Clinton, South Carolina a female

State Trooper stopped a car near the intersection of I-26 and I-385, there were two Latinos aboard. The trooper arrested and cuffed the driver who was driving without a license and asked the passenger to get out of the car. At the same time she called for backup and two deputies of the Laurens County sheriff’s department headed her way. The passenger refused to get out of the car and threatened the trooper’s life while producing an X-acto knife. The passenger then tried to slide over into the driver’s side but the trooper held on like a bulldog. Somehow the passenger was able to get the car into neutral and they slowly drifted down the road still struggling. Finally the trooper pulled her trusty .40 caliber Glock and capped him. I just have a few questions. Why not shoot one of the tires out? Did the late Latino believe that a woman would not use deadly force? Was he wrong?

This Date in History October 26

1948 Earlier Betty and Jerry Ferreri had been married for some time with Betty getting the worst of the deal. Jerry was the spoiled son of a New York family and gave Jerry enough income that he never worked and after moving to Los Angeles, bought him a five bedroom house in upscale Hancock Park. Jerry was a notorious and unapologetic womanizer and was a wife beater. He hit Betty so hard on the side of her face that it ruptured an eardrum and when he got the doctor bill he became infuriated and hit her on the other side of her face an ruptured that eardrum also. He said “Maybe the doctor will give a two-for-one now.” On this day the final straw came when Jerry brought a young model home while Betty was there. Betty produced a large wrench and ran them both off. Betty knew that when Jerry came back home it would be hell to pay so she conspired with her housekeeper, Alan Adron, to kill Jerry upon his arrival. Sure enough, Jerry came home and began dragging Betty around the house by her hair. As directed, Alan shot Jerry twice in the stomach and then the gun jammed but Jerry was still alive and kicking. It was then that Betty found a large meat cleaver and struck the staggering Jerry 22 times in the head and shoulders that resulted in his demise. Both Betty and Alan went to trial for first degree murder. It was touch and go until the defense attorney quoted the things that Jerry had done to Betty. Both Betty and Alan were acquitted. This just proves that some times people just get fed up.

1881 Earlier on October 25 Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury had come into Tombstone, Arizona for supplies. The Clanton-McLaury gang lived out of town on ranches and felt that the range was theirs to rob and rustle and the town of Tombstone was the Wyatt Earp’s domain. All throughout the day Ike Clanton and Wyatt Earp had been verbally sniping at each other and the atmosphere was very tense. The next day, October 26, Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Billy Claiborne rode into town to help Ike and Tom. Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury went into the closest bar and the first person they met was Doc Holiday. Doc told them that Wyatt was about fed up with Ike’s mouth and there would probably be a fight. Billy and Frank immediately left and went to find Ike and Tom. In the mean time Wyatt Earp had assembled his brothers Morgan and Virgil knowing that a fight might be on the horizon. Wyatt’s close friend Doc Holiday also offered his expertise with a shotgun. At about 3:30p Wyatt had seen the Clanton/Mclaury bunch at the end of Fremont Street near the OK Corral and the four of them headed that way. When the men were about 20 feet apart Wyatt said “You sons-of-bitches have been looking for a fight and now you’ve got one”. No one knows who really fired the first shot but it is believed that it was Virgil that pulled his revolver and shot Billy Clanton in the chest. Almost simultaneously Doc Holiday unloaded both barrels of his shotgun into Tom McLaury’s chest. Wyatt got off a couple of rounds into Frank McLaury’s stomach, Frank did not go down right away and got off a couple of rounds at Wyatt before collapsing as did Billy Clanton. There were about 30 shots fired and it was all over in about 30 seconds. Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead. Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran like hell and got their young asses back to the ranch. Sheriff John Behan, a supporter of the Clantons, had witnessed the fight and arrested the Earps and Doc Holiday for murder. They were all acquitted when the judge ruled that they “were fully justified in committing these homicides”. To paraphrase the judge, “they needed killin’.” Morgan, Wyatt and Doc were all wounded but survived.

1998 Earlier a tropical storm named Mitch had ambled in to the Caribbean Sea apparently without much punch and seemed to be headed toward the Nicaragua/Guatemala border. Soon thereafter it blossomed into a category 4 Hurricane and stormed ashore as such. Belize had already evacuated 70,000 people but the poor and indigent in Nicaragua and Guatemala did not get the word and even if they had, they had no transportation to escape. Mitch stalled out over Nicaragua and eventually dumped over 50 inches of rain. The flooding was the worst in 200 years as you might expect. Entire villages disappeared in gigantic mudslides. There was 10 feet of water in the Nicaraguan capitol of Tegucigalpa. No one knows for sure but it is estimated that between 11,000 and 18,000 people perished. In several villages that were buried in mudslides, the Presidents of Guatemala and Nicaragua did not even attempt to dig them out and just declared the whole area as a cemetery. In addition to this misery, the crops of both nations were destroyed by 60% making the agricultural workers in even more in a bind. Sometimes we think we have had it bad, but just think of these people. By the way Tegucigalpa (Tay'-goo-see-gal'-pa) is acknowledged to be to most drug gang ridden city in Central America.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow