Al's Most
Recent
Quote
of the day:
“When
you want to know the difference between “involved” and
“committed” think of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved but
the pig was committed.”
Ogden Nash
Most
of you can tell that I am an old codger because of my
semi-belligerent attitude and salty language. I am becoming more
belligerent and more salty by the day because of all the political
candidates ignoring us “Senior citizens”. I hate that
description...from now on I am going to use “Grey Panthers”. To
quote Clint Eastwood from the Josey
Wales movie...”It
is time to get mean, and I mean mad dog mean.” We are being taken
for granted and we have a huge voting block yet realized. Why did my
social security check not get a raise this year?..in fact it went
down because of the increase in Medicare and plan D payments. Did
Congress get a COLA? You bet your ass they did.
Contact
your Congressmen and Senators and especially the imbeciles running
for President, they all have a web site, and tell them that we
beginning to organize and they had better pay attention.
In
South Carolina the senators are:
Lindsey
Graham
Tim
Scott
In
my district (4) my Congressman is Rep. Trey Gowdy
Find
all of them on Google and sent them a message from the Grey Panthers
that we ain't going to take it anymore.
I
will change or design another web site to this effort so that we can cross
communicate. It will not, I repeat, it will NOT be a site to gripe
and bitch, it WILL be a site to organize and join forces.
I
looked at the menus of the seafood restaurants I frequent in
Pensacola, Fl. I haven't been there in quite a spell but the prices
have increased by about 18 to 20 percent.
I
saw an ad in Wednesday's newspaper here in Greenville...a local
supermarket had sardines and canned tuna on sale for 68 cents a
can...perhaps I will just have to learn to like them instead...like
hell I will.
This
segment will appear on my blog site also. Here it is.
bigalsdailyhistory.blogspot.com
It will soon be dedicated to organizing a voting block. There is a
comments section at the bottom.
Over
in Monroe, NC the local police were called about an indecent exposure
incident at the Poplin Place Shopping Center. The cops quietly
pulled up behind a car parked in front of the Pier One shop. They
found John Ionnone sitting there with his pants down around his
ankles and obviously aroused. Ionnone saw the cops coming and
quickly covered himself with a towel. The cops ordered him to pull
up his pants and get out of the car. Instead Ionnone chose to ram
the police cruiser, pulled up and did it again. By then the cops
knew he was not going to comply with their orders and broke out the
driver side window and assured him that a .40 caliber slug awaited
him if he did not comply. The cops finally got the car stopped and
Ionnone got out and surrendered. He has been charged with a variety
of offensives. His defense was that those scented candles and
porcelain churns in the window were so sexy. The cops were not
impressed...and neither was the judge.
This
Date in History February 18
1885
On this date a masterpiece of American literature “The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” authored by Samuel Clemens, better
known as Mark Twain, is published. Twain looked at the novel as a
sequel to another blockbuster of his called The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Even though the novel is recognized as a masterpiece it proved to be
very controversial even to this date. What made it controversial was
that it was a story about Huck Finn helping a runaway slave named Jim
escape to Ohio by drifting the Mississippi River on a raft. The
novel was essentially the observations of Huck and Jim of the people
they met on their adventure. Even though Twain portrayed the
Caucasian people they met as being dumb, stupid and prejudicial and
Jim as being brave, generous and trustworthy many people were
offended by the association of a white boy and a black man. Later on
the black community objected to the portrayal of Jim as being a “Jim
Crow” image, or kowtowing to the whites. The book was taken from
the shelves of most libraries as being “tawdry” and too
controversial. Even up to 1997 this book was banned by several
American communities as being a possible cause of racial unrest. I
don’t get it. All one has to do is read the liner notes and if
they don’t like what they read then put the damned book back on the
shelf and pick another, but don’t prevent others from reading it.
Who the hell do they think they are? They ban Tom
Sawyer but allow Lady
Chatterley's Lover. They are behaving
like Nazis...nothing less. Don’t get me started on censorship.
1776
On this date James Murray, the 4th
Earl of Dunmore and the Royal Governor of Virginia, sent a note to
William Legge, the 2nd
Earl of Dartmouth stating his “inexpressible mortification” that
the British military commander in the colonies, Sir Henry Clinton,
had decided to by-pass Virginia and go to the “insignificant
colony” of North Carolina to crush the rebellion there. Dunmore
had already been kicked out of office by the Patriots and was aboard
a British warship in Norfolk harbor. Sir Henry was accompanied by
British General Charles Cornwallis and his army but upon reaching
Cape Fear, North Carolina they decided to wait on the British navy
commanded by Admiral Peter Parker that was just leaving Cork,
Ireland. The British navy arrived in early May but Admiral Parker
convinced Clinton and Cornwallis that the best tactic was to capture
Charleston, South Carolina and blockade that important harbor. Upon
arriving at Charleston, the Patriots knew they were coming and had
the shore batteries aimed, armed and ready and delivered the mother
of all ass-kickings to Admiral Parker’s navy. So Parker, Clinton
and Cornwallis said “to hell with it” and sailed back to New
York. By the way, the state of South Carolina is known as the
“Palmetto State” because of this engagement. The shore batteries
at Charleston were surrounded by palmetto tree logs. The palmetto
tree trunk is very soft and the artillery shells from Parkers ships
just buried up in the logs and did not explode with any intensity and
the victory was ours, thus the mighty and sovereign Palmetto State.
Born today:
1838
German physicist Ernst Mach. He said “The Theory of Relativity
is just unacceptable to me as the presence of atoms or any such
dogma.” Ernst discovered the speed of sound which is named for
him, but he obviously was a dumb-ass otherwise.
1859
Russian writer Sholom Aleichem. He said “No matter how bad
things get, you must keep on living, even if it kills you.”
Sholom, shut up.
1922
US writer Helen Gurley Brown. She said “Good girls go to
heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” I know many of the latter and
very few of the former.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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