Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
“Eva
was considering opening her own tree nursery, then I heard her sing
“The Rose” and everything changed.”
Hugh Cassidy, Eva Cassidy’s father
The
largest grizzly bear ever taken happened not long ago. A man was
deer hunting somewhere in Alaska. A gigantic grizzly charged from
the undergrowth and he emptied his 7mm rifle stopping the bear just
feet away. The bear was not dead so the hunter reloaded and shot the
bear between the eyes. The bear weighed about 1,600 pounds and would
be over 12 feet tall when standing. This means that he could stand
on the ground and look into a second story window. This monster will
be sent to a taxidermist and then placed in the airport terminal in
Anchorage International airport. There is a polar bear already there
that stands about 10 feet tall. By the way, when they opened up the
grizzly they found the remains of two humans. They backtracked and
found pieces of one of them but no sign of the other one. To the
grizzly we are just “long pig”. That is what the cannibals from
the Amazon river basin and New Guinea call us. It makes sense
because like the pig, we are omnivores. We will eat nearly
anything...if you don't believe me watch that TV show with Andrew
Zimmern, this man is the king of omnivores.
I
think it was up in the Great Smoky Mountains where a man walked up on
a large black bear and started taking pics with his cell phone. The
bear finally detected him, charged and killed him. The rescuers
recovered the phone. Mother Nature's critters don't know we are at
the top of the food chain and don't really give a damn.
A
while back an Anderson, SC County Deputy Sheriff Brent Moore pulled
over Anderson County administrator Joey Preston for a suspected DUI.
This past Tuesday Deputy Moore was indicted for taking a bribe.
Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper said that Moore’s encounter
with Joey Preston had nothing to do with the present charges. I
would like to see a show of hands of those that believe that…that’s
what I thought…me neither…Preston is sending a message to all law
enforcement in the Anderson, South Carolina area.
This
Date in History December 1
1955
On this chilly morning a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama name
Rosa Parks boarded a city bus for a ride across town. She and all
blacks were ordered by law to sit in the back of the bus aft of the
rear door. That is unless a white, man or woman, was found to be
standing and then one of the blacks had to give up their seat to the
honkie. Rosa was ordered by the bus driver to give up her seat to a
white man that was standing. Rosa refused and was arrested and
jailed. Rosa was a card carrying member of the NAACP and when word
reached NAACP headquarters all hell broke loose. The NAACP ordered a
boycott of the Montgomery bus system and it was successful which
proved to be disastrous because the blacks represented 70% of the bus
riders. This was the first time that the Rev. Martin Luther King got
involved with a peaceful action against segregation not by rioting,
looting and burning. The NAACP sued the city of Montgomery because
of the law that specified segregation on mass transit in the city.
The US Supreme Court struck down that law as being a violation of the
14th
Amendment and 381 days after the boycott began, blacks again began
riding the buses and sitting anywhere they pleased. One of the first
riders on this day was Rosa Parks.
1862
US President Abraham Lincoln gives his first State of the Union
address to Congress. Lincoln was between a rock and a hard place
because he had issued the Emancipation Proclamation just a few weeks
before which freed the slave in those states in rebellion
(Confederacy). His action here was very ill-advised because the
majority of the northern states and many in his own Republican party
did not feel the war should be based on freeing the slaves and the
gain of the Democrats in the recent election proved it. So in this
address Lincoln soft sold the Emancipation Proclamation and said that
it should be enforced gradually. But that did not help those states
that were slave-holding but did not secede. Lincoln did not know
what to do about those states. If he made one false move those four
states would probably secede and join the Confederacy. Not only
that. The Army of the Potomac was not doing well against CSA General
R.E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. There was not a pretty
picture that Lincoln could paint in this address. Part of his
closing statement stated: “The dogmas of the quiet past are
inadequate to the stormy present...fellow citizens we cannot escape
history. We will nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope on
earth.” Indeed Abe, indeed.
1884
A Mexican deputy sheriff named Elfego Baca arrested a gringo
cowboy named Charles MacArthur for firing four or five shots at him
in Frisco (now Reserve), New Mexico. On this day about 80 cowboys
show up to spring good old Charlie from the joint. It seems this
group of Texas cowboys had been using this Mexican village for their
own personal entertainment by riding in and brutalizing the
residents, raping the girls, etc. Baca was assigned the duty to put
a stop to it and given the title of deputy sheriff. When the 80
cowboys rode in Baca hustled the town’s people into the church
where they would be safe and then ran to an old adobe house to make a
stand. Baca opened up and killed one of the cowboys and wounded
several. The cowboys responded with over 400 rounds into the flimsy
building. Not hearing any response the cowboys thought Baca was
dead. But the next morning they smelled beef stew and found out that
Baca was indeed alive and cooking his breakfast. About then, two
more lawmen showed up along with many of Baca’s friends and the
cowboys retreated. There was no more trouble from the Texas cowboys
after that. Baca went on to become a hero in the Latino community
for standing up to those gringos and enjoyed a life of peace and
notoriety.
Quotable
quotes:
“Don’t
believe in reincarnation, I didn’t believe in it when I was a
beagle.”
Shane Richey
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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