Tuesday OYSTERS

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“To expand your knowledge spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.”

                                             Anonymous

Some of you have seen this before...here it is again.

This is a rendering by a Canadian radio host named Jiggs McDonald and is titled...

Tolerance

“Our government has asked us to be more tolerant of the Muslim mosque that has opened in Toronto. That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, The Turban Cowboy and the other, a topless bar, would be called You Mecca Me Hot.
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called Iraq of Ribs. Across the street there could be a lingerie store called Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods and on the other side a liquor store called Morehammered. All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us.
Yes we should promote tolerance, and you can do your part by passing this on and if you are not laughing or smiling at this point, for you it is midnight at the oasis and time to put your camel to bed.”

A friend and I were wondering what happened to Willie Nelson and his squabble with the IRS. It seems that Willie's accountants had put his money in tax shelters that were not allowed. After an audit it was determined that Willie owed about $13.6 million in back taxes. The IRS grabbed most of Willie's properties and auctioned them off to the tune of a little over $9 million and called the debt paid. What happened was that Willie's friends and acquaintances had bought all the properties from the IRS at these auctions and immediately gave them back to Willie. He is legend, y'all...and so is his friends and acquaintances.

Someone help with this. I just saw a program about the problems facing the survival of the human race and what we should do about them. We are being threatened by global warming caused by the use of carbon based fuels which puts carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, this acts as a blanket trapping warmth from the sun so carbon fuels should be banned. Pandemics caused by a viruses like Ebola, and a variety of other threats.

All of the astrophysicists agree that there has been five (5) extinctions on this planet in its 4.5 billion year history and as far as anyone knows the mass use of carbon based fuels has only been in existence for a little over 150 years. The last extinction was about 65 million years ago when an asteroid about 6.5 miles in diameter struck the Earth on the north end of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico resulting in the blocking of sunlight for years and the extinction of nearly all plant life. This set off a domino effect resulting in dying of nearly all of the air breathers on Earth including the dinosaurs. How do we prevent an asteroid strike from happening again?

On Pensacola Beach there is a cross that has been erected on the highest sand dune (about 25 feet). The legend is that one of the Spanish explorers (I presume to be Tristan De Luna) was sailing west just off shore. It was Easter Sunday in the approximate year of 1558. All Spanish fleets had Catholic priests available. The Catholic priest aboard this group felt the need to hold an Easter Mass service. All the ships in De Luna’s expedition hove to, anchored and row boats shuttled the sailors ashore to witness the service. The priest crawled up to the top of this particular dune and delivered Easter Mass service to the amassed crews. I don’t know if this legend is true or not but there is no question that Spanish explorers were in this area in this time frame. Wrecks of their supply ships have been found and explored not to mention the foundations of buildings built in an attempt to colonize Pensacola. They lasted about three years but their stay was cut short when a hurricane destroyed a fleet of supply ships that had sailed up from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

On this date in 1941 the Japanese Admiralty gave Admiral Yamamota the go-ahead for planning an airborne attack on the American Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I think we all agree that this was a terrible error in judgment by the Japanese.

1984 Serial killer rapist Bobby Joe Long is arrested in Tampa, Florida. His capture was engineered by the bravery and courage of his last victim, Lisa McVey. Lisa was riding home from school on her bicycle when she was attacked and captured by Long. After Long forced her into his car, Lisa began taking mental notes about what she could see in the car. She also mentally timed the length of the ride when Long stopped at an ATM. He took her to a motel room and ravaged her for most of the day but agreed not to kill her. After releasing her, Lisa went to the police and told them about what she had observed in the car the police had a good idea what model and year the car was. And when she told them about the length of time it took to get to the ATM, the police had a radius to search. In that time ATM’s were not that plentiful and the police narrowed the possible ATM’s to a very few. And when Lisa told them the approximate time it took to get to the motel, the rest was easy. Bobby Joe went to meet his maker with puncture marks in his arms.

1941 The Japanese War Ministry led by General Tojo met and set the final day for the attack on the United States Naval installations in Hawaii. There was little doubt that war was coming because the Japanese had already made preparations for the attack on the Philippines and the United States knew it. The Philippines was an American protectorate at the time. They decided it would be December 5 but the Japanese fleet was delayed by weather and the attack materialized on the 7^th ...a date that will live in infamy.

Born today:

1794 US writer William C. Bryant. He said “The press is a mill that grinds all that is put in its hopper. Fill the hopper with poison grain and it will grind it into meal, but there is death in the bread.” Be extremely wary of anything you read in the media...except my stuff.

1918 US baseball pitcher Bob Feller. He said about his autobiography “There is not one curse word in there; I don’t go for that bullshit.” Bob just keep your mind on baseball please.

1949 US boxing champion Larry Holmes. He said “It is hard being black. Have you ever been black? I was black once when I was poor.” Larry, you absorbed one to many uppercuts...just shut the hell up.

              Thanks for listening  I can hardly wait until tomorrow