Musings
and History
Quote
of the day:
In
1982 the city of Charleston, SC was in need of a Chief of Police and
sent a team out across the countryside looking for one. They came
back and met with the city council saying that they were confident
they had found the most qualified one and named him. Then the leader
said “There is a small problem, he is black...and that ain't all,
he is Jewish.” it was Reuben Greenberg who proved to be one of the
finest law enforcement officers in the country.
A
while back I mentioned that Alexander Hamilton was “born in the
Bahamas on the island of Nevis”. That was incorrect. Nevis and
the island of St. Kitts form a federation and are in the Lesser
Antilles not the Bahamas. I apologize for this regrettable error.
A
while back over in the Clemson, SC area a deputy sheriff was trying
to arrest 35 year old Jerry Lee Roach. Jerry Lee grabbed a nearby
chain saw and tried to start it heading toward the deputy. The
deputy was able to subdue this jackass and cuff him. He was let out
of jail on bond. Last Friday a couple of Clemson students were out
in an open field playing Frisbee when Jerry Lee comes running out of
the bushes with his trusty chain saw running and chased these kids
for a short distance. The Sheriff’s office was called and Jerry
Lee was again subdued and taken before a judge. Keep in mind that he
had the previous charge hanging over his head
involving
the chain saw. When he was brought before the judge he began
screaming obscenities at the judge and eventually got over the judge
still screaming and pushed the desk at him before he was subdued once
again. This animal needs a Samuel Colt attitude adjustment.
This
Date in History July 15
1997
Earlier a man named Andrew Cunanan went crazy as hell out on the
west coast and began killing his present and past lovers. Andrew was
a flaming homosexual and to this day no one knows what set him off.
After killing two men in the San Diego area he flew to Chicago and
killed a very rich man that used to pamper Andrew for sexual favors.
After Andrew killed him, he stole his Lexus and headed to the East
coast and killed yet another acquaintance. By now he was on the
FBI’s 10 most wanted list. After this murder he headed south to
get some sun and ended up in Miami. After spending about a week
there he discovered that the world famous designer Gianni Versace had
bought a mansion there and had developed a routine of walking to a
drug store down the block every morning to buy a newspaper. On this
morning Andrew was waiting. Versace did not disappoint and showed up
walking down his steps as usual when Andrew walked up and delivered
two shots to the head of Versace with a .40 caliber Glock. Gianni
was dead before he hit the pavement. The Miami PD showed up in force
but Andrew had fled the scene. A few hours later a guard at a marina
called the police and said that someone had broken into a houseboat
that was docked at the marina. The Miami PD suspected it was Andrew
and surrounded the houseboat at a respectable distance because Andrew
had already proven that he would and did shoot people. Eventually
the cops heard a gunshot coming from the houseboat and they sent in a
SWAT team to investigate. Andrew had chosen to blow his own brains
out. Like I say, no one knows what set this bastard off but he is no
longer a threat to the gay community...or any community
1904
On this date the Jonson family from Norway moved to a barren 320
acre spread in North Dakota. Included in the family is young Johan
who marched to the beat of a different drummer. After spending
several years of back-breaking work on the farm young Johan says to
hell with it and left home. He soon met up with a man named Albert
Dekker who taught Johan the ways of the gun. Johan found that
robbing banks is easier on the back than pulling up stumps but he got
caught stealing horses and did a 2 ½ year stretch in the Montana
State Prison. After getting out he headed to Canada’s Rat River
and settled down in isolation trapping beaver for a living. But
Johan could not forget his lawless ways. Other trappers in the area
complained to the RCMP (Mounties) that Johan had been pilfering their
traps. So the Mounties went to Johan’s cabin to look for the other
trapper’s pelts. The Mounties announce their presence and are met
with gunfire through the door. The Mounties retreated and called for
reinforcements. They returned to the cabin again but this time they
are well armed and there were plenty of them. They call for Johan to
come out and are met with more gunfire again. This meeting however
was made during a howling blizzard but the Mounties opened fire and
shot the house to pieces but when they go in, no Johan. Somehow he
had sneaked out and escaped. The Mounties chased him for 45 days and
they eventually caught up with him out in the middle of a frozen
lake. Johan, even though he had been surviving in the wilderness
living off some of the most rugged land in the world, he wanted to
fight and opened fire. The Mounties returned the fire and “The Mad
Trapper of Rat River” went down for the count. When they finally
reached him the Mounties saw how emaciated he was, he weighed less
than 100 pounds. He was 34 years old.
1941
On this date a Spaniard named Juan Pujols Garcia, known to German
intelligence as “Garbo” the spy sent his first secret message to
Berlin. Garbo had an extensive spy network including a Dutch airline
stewardess, an official in the British Office of Information, a US
soldier in England and a Welshman sympathetic to the Fascists. The
only thing here is that all of these people were figments of Garbo’s
(sometimes known as Arabel) imagination. Garbo was a mole meaning a
double agent, he was really working for the British and the Allies
and fed false information to the German’s the entire war. He was
so well thought of that Hitler himself gave him the Iron Cross, a
very high up military medal. The most important misinformation he
sent to Berlin was when he told the German’s that an attack on
Normandy would happen within a day or two but it was just a
diversion, the real target was the French coastal city of Calais.
This was easy for the Germans to believe because all of the upper
echelon officers believed that anyway. When the attack on Normandy
came, Hitler would not release the 21st
Panzer Division near Caen or the 15th
Panzer division near Calais for a counter-attack because Hitler
believed the real attack was coming at Calais, thanks to Garbo. The
allies gained a secure foothold in France and then it was too late.
We can thank Juan Pujols Garcia partially for the success of the
D-Day invasion. Later on Garcia received one of the highest awards a
civilian can receive when the queen gave him the MBE, Member of the
British Empire. He was one of the most successful moles in the
history of warfare.
1789
Yesterday was Bastille Day but I don’t think I have told y'all
enough about it. The French people had been going hungry for years
and they finally got fed up with it and on this day, with the help of
many French soldiers that had mutinied gathered outside the building
known as The Bastille. The Bastille was built in the 14th
century as a castle but it eventually turned into a place to put
political enemies of the various Monarchies, torture included. On
this date, literally thousands of Parisians and Frenchmen from all
over the countryside came to the Bastille. The guards there
surrendered almost immediately and joined in with the crowd.
Eventually the mob stormed the building and literally took it down
one stone at a time. The King of France at the time was Louis XVI
and the Queen was Marie Antoinette, both lived extravagant lives and
both went to meet their maker in two pieces via the guillotine. That
was the end of Royalty in France forever. French people celebrate
July 14 like we do July 4. However, waiting in the wings was a
short, dumpy Corsican named Napoleon Bonaparte...Look out.
Thanks for
listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.
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