Good morning,
Quote
of the day:
“Do
not let this bottle of wine influence you into contacting your ex in
a lame attempt to get back together. Many grapes gave their all in
the making of this wine...show some respect.”
Anonymous
Food
for thought:
If
you are in a town meeting and tell the mayor “You don't know what
you are talking about”...what would happen?
If
you are stopped by a cop for any reason and in the ensuing discussion
you say “You don't know what you are talking about”...what would
happen? Why is a person that has an encounter with a policeman and
is not submissively polite treated differently than one who is? It
is my experience that everyone they encounter is treated as
automatically guilty? They are not judge and jury.
The
last ticket I got had a place for the cop writing the ticket to
describe my “attitude”. What the hell does that have to do with
my guilt or innocence? What it means is that there is chance I can
get away if I am polite but they can be as demanding and brutish as
they feel like regardless of how polite you might be? I am just
asking.
I
don’t know if y’all knew this or know but entertainment star
Miley Cyrus’ father is country music star Billy Ray Cyrus. It
seems that Billy Ray and his wife of 19 years had came to a parting
of the ways and had filed for divorce much to everyone’s surprise.
What likely happened is that rock star Bret Michaels had a casual
acquaintance with Miley and the Cyrus family. Bret and Billy Ray’s
wife had eyes for each other and consummated the attraction and Billy
Ray discovered the tryst. Earlier I saw a program about Bret
Michaels and how devoted he is to his wife and two daughters. That
experience will be very expensive for Bret and Billy Ray’s wife.
This
Date in History November 5
1775
On this day General George Washington issued a statement
condemning some of his troops who were planning to celebrate Guy
Fawkes Day. Guy Fawkes Day is an English celebration for the capture
of Guy Fawkes who schemed to blow up the Parliament building in
London. He wanted to kill the king, James I who was a protestant, in
the hopes that James’ daughter Elizabeth, a Roman Catholic, would
take over the reins of England. In the celebration effigies of the
Pope are burned and essentially a condemnation of the Catholics in
general. Washington condemned this action not out of conscience, but
because he was trying to get some of the French Canadians to join the
Continental army and they were all Catholic. The celebration never
materialized out of respect for George, but the animosity remained.
1930
United States author Sinclair Lewis received the Nobel Prize for
literature and he was the first American to receive this prize.
Lewis was a cantankerous sort. In 1926 he had refused the Pulitzer
Prize for his book Arrowsmith
but decided to accept the Nobel Prize. He also gave us Main
Street,
Babbitt
and Elmer
Gantry.
Every time I hear the words Elmer Gantry an image of Burt Lancaster
with hair just a’ flying and bible in hand flashes across my mind.
What a great performance. I miss him.
1961
A group of cave explorers found a sack full of bones in South
Wales which solved 43 year old mystery. It seems that chorus girl
Mamie Savant married George Shotten and they moved to a remote house
on a cliff over looking the sea. Evidently it was not a happy
marriage because one day neither George nor Mamie could be found
anywhere. The authorities finally ran George down and come to find
out that he had been married to another woman for years and was
living with her when he was caught. When he was confronted he denied
ever being married to Mamie but that was easily shot down. But they
could not find hide nor hair of Mamie. So George was tried and
convicted of bigamy and served 18 months. In addition to the bones
the spelunkers found a gold wedding band and a black comb that was
known to be Mamie’s. The bones were reassembled and it was
determined that it was the bones of a 26 year old female about 5’-4”
tall. That described Mamie but it was too late because George died
in 1958 three years before the discovery of the bones.
1862
United States President A. Lincoln relieved General George B.
McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. After the
disastrous butt-kicking the Army of the Potomac received at the hand
of CSA General Robert E, Lee at 1st
Manassas, Lincoln appointed McClellan to whip the Army of the Potomac
into shape. McClellan was a superb organizer/trainer and did indeed
whip the army into shape. He organized the command structure,
divided the army into manageable units and trained the troops to a
razor sharp readiness. He then took that army of over 100,000 by
boat to the end of the James River peninsula southeast of Richmond,
the capitol of the Confederacy, and began a march on that city.
Everything went fine until he met CSA General Lee and the Army of
Northern Virginia and received a series of butt-kickings. After this
he went back to the end of the peninsula and took his young ass and
his army out of there. What angered Lincoln off was that he camped
out for six weeks before departing the peninsula. McClellan was
always timid and shy in a combat situation and believed that he was
always outnumbered which was never the case. His next faux pas was
at the Battle of Antietam when his army drove Lee and the
Confederates out of Maryland back across the Potomac into Virginia
and did not pursue and destroy them. He chose to camp out again for
several weeks while all the time Lincoln is burning up the telegraph
wires telling him to get off his ass and do something. McClellan
ignored Lincoln and indeed held him with distain and was vocal about
it. Finally, McClellan got the army on its feet and they head for
the Potomac River, however it took nine days for McClellan to get his
troops across and that was the final straw. Lincoln called McClellan
to Washington and sent US General Ambrose Burnsides to replace him.
Burnsides knew that Lincoln wanted an aggressive commander so he
immediately headed out to find Bobby Lee and his army of rebels. He
found them at a place called Marye’s Heights near Fredericksburg
and promptly has his ass kicked at the cost of a terrible slaughter
of the Army of the Potomac, but that is another story.
1862
Earlier the Santee Sioux of Minnesota had been promised they would
be fed by the US Government in return for them going to a
reservation. The corrupt Government officials would not release the
food unless they were paid their usual bribes. The Sioux were on the
edge of starvation and they launched a series of raids led by Little
Wolf on the farms of the honkies up and down the Minnesota River.
They were finally subdued and 300 are sentenced to hang. A. Lincoln
intervenes and finally the list is whittled down to 38. Before a
cheering throng of Minnesotans all 38 were hanged simultaneously.
What we have here is a group of men whose wives and children are
starving because of corrupt politicians and because they revolt they
are hanged. What the hell is up with that?
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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