Al's
Most Recent
Quote
of the day:
“All
the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they
have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays
many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
William Shakespeare from his play As
You Like It
I think it is pretty classless
to make fun of someone's physical appearance. That is something they
cannot do anything about. However, Donald Trump's mouth, lips and
movement thereof is reminiscent of a shellcracker (look it up).
Here
is the supposed history of the Christmas tree. In the early 9th
century an evangelist later named Saint Boniface crossed over from
the British Isles and began ministering to the pagans in what is now
northern France and Germany. When Christmas time came around he
wanted to impress upon them the triumvirate of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit so he selected a fir tree because of it's triangular
shape, the corners indicating the triumvirate. What this means is if
you have an evergreen Christmas tree you are advocating Christianity
no matter your religion...like it or not.
Tuesday I was having breakfast
at my favorite diner. Sitting beside me at the bar was two young
ladies about 25-30 years old. I could not help but hear their
conversation. It went something like this: “Jim as driving down
Haywood and he was LIKE really speeding. I told him to LIKE slow
down or you might get a ticket. He got really mad and LIKE yelled at
me really loud.” The other one said “I know. I did the same
thing with Bob and LIKE he really yelled”. I just imagined either
one of them being interviewed for a job by Human Resources at IBM,
GE, GM, Microsoft, etc. and using that gibberish, they would be
laughed at. I don't care if they are the absolute best at their
profession, they have to communicate. Out there in the real world
you have to be able to assemble a single thought in one sentence
without having to interrupt it to figure out how to finish it. But
perhaps they already know that and are just trying to be “cool”.
I hope so, if not then our future leaders LIKE need a lot of help.
Oh, I left out all of those lummoxes that add end their sentences
with “You know what I'm saying?”...they suck too.
I
have started reading a book titled Guns,
Germs and Steel.
This book was a Pulitzer Prize “winner authored by Jared Diamond
and is the second reading for me. I have read several books more
than once. The record for me is Texas
by James Michener five times. James is no longer with us,
unfortunately. James once said “My success never ceases to amaze
me. All of my books have no violence or sex except as it applies to
history and I have an enormous following.” Guns.
Germs
and
Steel
is a book attempting to explain why certain cultures excel and
progress and others do not. It begins in New Guinea with the author
interviewing a chief of a very primitive tribe. The chief does not
understand why the author and other “whites” have more “cargo”
than they do. Cargo being anything metal, woven cloth, medicines,
umbrellas, etc. It appears that it is the hunter/gatherers that
progress the slowest because they can make kills with stone tipped
weapons, blowguns, etc. whereas the farmers cannot plow or reap
efficiently with stone tipped implements and began looking for
something better and found metal...which lead to swords, axes, guns,
etc. It is apparently also true that the hunter/gatherers live in
very small tribal groups and therefore develop no natural immunity to
different diseases and when a foreign disease is encountered they
were history. The North American Indians were a prime examples. The
agricultural communities seemed to prevail over the long haul, the
Egyptians are an example here. Speaking of the Egyptians, I spent a
year studying these amazing people. The one thing about them that
stuck with me was their burial sites, especially the Valley of the
Kings. In some of them the actual burial site was 60 or 70 feet
underground and 200 to 300 feet long with no light source except
torches and lamps, we assume. With this in mind, there are walls of
very detailed paintings and sculptures...and not one scintilla of
soot has ever been found. Where did the light to work by come from?
It cannot be torches and lamps because the availability of oxygen
that far underground would be very limited and the torches and lamps
would not burn efficiently putting out a hell of a lot of soot.
None has been found...what happened? Not only that, most of the
kings were buried in stone sarcophagi weighting up to 7,000 pounds
(see King Tut). It was proven that some of these items were moved
into place after the construction of the burial site. How did they
do that?
This
Date in History December 24
1865
On this date a group of Confederate veterans headed by former
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest met in Pulaski, Tennessee
and formed the core of what became the Ku Klux Klan. They felt it
was necessary for two reasons: To combat the influx of northern
people into the south to take advantage of a defeated nation like
taking lands and property from Confederate soldiers that had been
killed in the Civil War. They also were very apprehensive about the
rise of privilege and power of the black man. As I said, The first
Grand Wizard was the famous CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The
name of the organization came from the Greek word “kyklos”
meaning circle and “clan”. After two years Forrest resigned as
Grand Wizard and tried to disband the organization because he felt
the Klan had become too violent and indeed they had. In counties
that were nearly balanced racially black and white, the Klan would
make raids at night against the blacks and the white Republicans in
an attempt to influence any upcoming elections to keep white men in
control of the political machinery. Eventually in 1871 Congress
decided that action was needed and they passed the Ku Klux Klan act
giving the President, Ulysses Grant, the power to use what ever means
he deemed necessary to subdue the Klan. In nine counties in South
Carolina alone Grant instituted martial law and thousands were
arrested. In 1882 the US Supreme Court declared the Klan act
unconstitutional but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the
Klan faded away. But the Klan arose again mightily during the 1920’s
and 30’s. This time the major base was in Skokie, Illinois. The
Klan was very influential in the internal politics of several states.
But as the old saying goes, power corrupts and there was a sex
scandal involving the Grand Wizard where a young lady died. After
that the popularity of the Klan and those associated with it went to
hell in a hand basket. The Klan has had its ups and downs though out
the years but their basis for existence is white Anglo-Saxon
supremacy. They don’t like Jews either. I don’t understand that
concept, y'all, and I can find no redeeming value.
Born
today:
1922
US actress Ava Gardner. She said “Deep down I am pretty
superficial.” I think I know this woman and several others like
her.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until
tomorrow
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