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Quote of the day:

“If criminals want sympathy they can find it in the dictionary between syllabus and syphilis.”

                             Sheriff Joe Arapaio, Maricopa county, Az.

Consider this:

The Great pyramid on the Giza plateau in Egypt is one of the wonders of the ancient world. What makes it more of a wonder is the way it was constructed. It was supposedly finished about 2600BC after 23 years of construction. This means that the pyramid was ancient when Moses and the Hebrews began the Exodus which was about 1300BC. Keep in mind that there are millions of stone blocks weighing between 2 and 8 tons each. They did have the wheel because there are pictures of horse-drawn chariots on the walls of their burial vaults. The problem is considering the time allowed for the construction and the number of blocks involved, the workers had to put a block in place every 9 seconds. Using a large number of modern day cranes, that speed of construction would be nearly impossible to maintain for 23 years...but the Egyptians allegedly did it with man power alone. I have a problem with either the time allowed or the number of blocks or both. The blocks can be counted to a certain degree but the time cannot be documented except by Egyptian hieroglyphics....or the Egyptians had help that we know nothing about and is not written about. How did they make millions of lifts to get that height? The answer can only be by using an inclined plane or a ramp surrounding the pyramid...or something supernatural. This would mean that the blocks weighing tons would have to dragged, towed, pulled, etc. for 2 ½ to 3 miles uphill to reach their destinations...every 9 seconds? Not only that, the sides of the pyramid face exactly North, East, South and West. They certainly did not have a compass. What really happened?

Here is an example of what comes around goes around:

My eldest daughter has been single for a long time and her daughter, my grand daughter, is a junior in college. My daughter is a beauty and gets hit on frequently. During a recent business trip to Syracuse, N.Y. one particular man caught her attention and the two have been in communication even though they are 900 miles apart. Somehow information on the web got tangled and this man called my daughter at 2:30am...only it wasn't my daughter, it was my grand daughter. My grand daughter told him he had the wrong number and immediately called her mother raising hell saying that any decent person would not call anyone at that hour. She then sent a text to the man in Syracuse telling him the same thing.

I am sure my daughter probably remembered that she had gotten calls for her daughter late at night and raised the same kind of hell so she chose not to be hypocritical...what goes around......

       This Date in History   February 2

1943 Earlier on June 22, 1942, in spite of an existing treaty, Adolph Hitler ordered an enormous German army divided into three sections to start an invasion of Russia. Hitler’s military advisers had warned Hitler that if the attack could not begin by the first of May it should not begin at all because of the severe Russian winters. The German army was not ready by the first of May but Hitler ordered the invasion to begin late anyway. The Germans made progress by leaps and bounds primarily because they had control of the air. The slaughter they inflicted on the Russian army and civilians was beyond comprehension. They laid siege to Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad and cut off any supplies to those cities and thousands upon thousands starved to death. It was the German 6^th Army that had Stalingrad surrounded. Russian premier Josef Stalin was not about to let the city named after him to surrender and ordered the residents and the Russian Army defending the city to resist to the bitter end and resist they did. The Germans bombed the entire city into rubble trying to break their spirit. It did not work and the Russians used the rubble to establish formidable defenses, especially snipers. The Germans had no choice but to send in small squads of 8 or 10 to try and root out the defenders. That did not work either. The Russians proved to be formidable street fighters. In October the worst winter in fifty years arrived as advertised. The drop in temperature caused a break in the attack and gave the Russians defending the city time to reorganize and receive reinforcements. In November the Russian army launched a merciless counterattack. The Italian and Romanian soldiers surrendered immediately but not the Germans. They held out until they were surrounded by the Russians and all of their supplies had been cut off. The German army that had surrounded Stalingrad in the beginning numbered about 200,000. On this date the remaining German army at Stalingrad numbering about 90,000 surrendered ending the siege of Stalingrad. Of the 90,000 Germans that went to prison camps, 5,000 lived to see Germany again.

Born today:

1745 English writer Hannah More. She said: “Going to the opera is like getting drunk, both sins carry their own penalty, and a severe one at that.” Been there, done that.

1754 French politico Charles Francis de Talleyrand. “The French court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.” About forty years after this the French people rose up and heads rolled courtesy of the guillotine during the French Revolution and that was the end of the French Monarchies.

1859 English writer Havelock Ellis. He said “The only place where optimism endures is in the lunatic asylum.” Tack on the that “or a singles bar just before last call”

1901 Russian violinist Jascha Heifetz. He said “No matter which side of the argument you are on, you always find some one on your side that should be on the other.” Been there, done that, too. Do not have a tee shirt.

     Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow