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                       Musings and History

Quote of the day:

“I don't want to say I was born in a bad neighborhood but right after I was born the doctor read me my Miranda rights.”

                                           Rodney Dangerfield

I read that Michelle Obama said that she felt guilty about living in a house that was built by slaves. She is correct that the White House was indeed built with slave labor...but so was the docks, piers and wharves of Galveston, Houston, Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Annapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia , New York, Boston, Newport and many others. So she should feel guilt about accepting any goods that was brought through these ports. It sounds stupid doesn't it...Michelle, you dumb ass...slavery ended in the US in 1865...get over it.

I read that Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde raped so many women that on the average one person out of 200 living today has Mongol DNA.

A while back I told y’all about the massacre of Jacob Hite and family by the Cherokees near Greenville back in 1776. The Patriots assembled a small army led by Captain Thomas Howard and set out in pursuit. The small army was mostly Creek Indians and a guide named Skyuka. The Patriots had a brief encounter with the Cherokees near Landrum, South Carolina but the Indians retreated deeper into the rugged mountains near Columbus, North Carolina about 20 mile northeast of Landrum. Skyuka led the army through a gap in the mountains known to this day as Howard Gap. This short cut allowed Howard to position his army into an ambush position and launched an attack upon arrival of the fleeing Cherokees. It was a massacre, y’all. All of the Cherokees were killed or captured. It was the worst massacre of the Cherokees to that date. The attack was launched at the base of what was then named Round Mountain or Warrior Mountain and was known as the Battle of Round Mountain except it was not much of a battle, it was more butchery than anything.

            This Date in History June 15

1215 On this date King John of England put his seal on a document known at the Magna Carta making it the law of the land. King John had taken the reins of the crown of England after the death of his brother King Richard the Lionhearted. Richard was a hell of a warrior but proved to be a poor administrator and his brother King John was neither a warrior nor an administrator. After Richard died in 1199 a squabble for the crown began, but there was no question that the son of Queen Elizabeth I and the brother of the hero of the Crusades was indeed in line for the crown. Not soon after he took control he lost the Duchy of Normandy to French Barons. The Duchy of Normandy was originally owned by William the Conqueror but after he became the King of England and subsequently died, the Duchy of Normandy went up for grabs. Subsequent kings of England believed that the Duchy of Normandy was a possession of English kings and they fought for it. King John lost possession of Normandy because he was not a military leader so a huge hunk of land on the north coast of France that had been an English possession since the year 1066AD went down the toilet. Soon after this the English barons lost faith in King John and began pressuring him to bring some kind of order to England, especially between the King and the English royalty. King John had drafted this document which described in detail the limitations of the king. This was the first time in European history that the power of a monarch was questioned and this document is considered to be the first baby step toward democracy. By the way, there was a prayer that was said by those Englishmen, Irishmen, Scots and Frenchmen saying “God save us from the wrath of the Northmen”. They were talking about the Vikings coming down from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. For over 500 years they had been coming south feeding off the Europeans in southern Europe and were the most powerful conglomeration of countries on earth. It is from this name “Northman” that brought names like Normandy (Land of the Northman) in fact the very word Northman was degenerated into Norman. In the account of William the Conqueror invading England, it was reported that he had a force of 500 mounted Norman knights and that King Harold of England after being wounded was struck down and killed by a Norman knight. William the Conqueror and his associated knights were direct descendents of those wild-eyed Vikings that sailed south from Scandinavia and took control of lands by force. Around the years 800-900 the Viking kings met with some Christian traveling priests and are persuaded to adopt Christianity. After that the Vikings laid down their swords and axes and became a very peaceful people. I guess they just got all that hostility out of their system. But keep in mind that the Vikings rape and pillage of Europe was so complete that nearly all of us here in America with European ancestry have Vikings somewhere in our DNA.

1943 In a meeting Germany Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi leaders began to realize that it was a definite possibility that Germany could lose this war and all of the atrocities toward the Jews would be discovered. So they task Colonel Paul Blobel to take care of this problem. He goes into Poland concentrations camps and orders the still alive Jewish slaves to dig up the bodies of dead slaves, put them in a giant pit and set fire to them. You will be glad to know that Blobel saw fit to remove the gold teeth from the dead before throwing them into the pit...His attempts were futile however because when the Americans entered Germany from the west and the Russians from the east, they discovered more and more camps of horror. It was the Russians that found Dachau the largest and most efficient killing facilities ever invented. At times there seems to be no end to madness of mankind.

Born today:

1963 US actress Helen Hunt. She said “To tell the truth. I do not have expensive tastes. I would be just as happy going to the beach and lying in the sun, I would not feel comfortable riding down there in a Bentley convertible,” Me neither, a Corvette would be acceptable.

1963 US actress Courtney Cox. She said “I have to be physically attracted to someone. It cannot just be great sex because orgasms just don’t last long enough.” Shut up, Courtney

Died today:

1849 US President James K. Polk. He said “Any president that performs his duties faithfully and contentiously will have no leisure time.” Why then do I read about Dubya at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, George H. fishing off Cape Cod and “Slick Willie” Clinton having one tryst after another.

1877 US writer Caroline Sheridan. She said “Until I truly loved, I was alone.” I think she is talking about the time after she bought a black Lab.

            Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow