Monday

                   Musings and History

Quote of the day:

My uncle Vincent was a member of the infamous 2^nd Rangers in WWII. He was at D-Day, Huertgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. He was captured and tortured by the Germans twice but escaped both times. One time he escaped on his own and the second time his platoon went in and rescued him. I asked him if he believed in the death penalty and he said:

“Absolutely not, but I do believe in cruel and unusual punishment.”

                                       The Damned Media

I feel like I have had a great awakening, it all seems very clear now. We the general public are being played like a piano. The maestro is the media networks. The are trying to control our thoughts and emotions for one purpose only...ratings. Ratings are the percentage of people within a certain age group that are watching a particular network. The higher the ratings the more advertising and higher price they can demand. It is for money, y'all. Make no mistake, turmoil sells...peace doesn't. They are not interested in issuing unbiased information, they want racial strife. There can be no question in your mind that the media is promoting an agenda that includes a giant conspiracy by the American police nationwide to kill black men. When was the last time you saw a news program about the cops killing a Caucasian, Latino, Middle Eastern (other than a terrorist), Native American, Asian, Greek, Italian, Turk, with or without a gun, etc, etc? You must know that there have been but these are ignored in favor of reporting in depth those killings that will cause the most angst. They are causing unrest in the long run because it is to their financial benefit. Not many people realize that they have already been turned into a parrot bespeaking what the media has taught them and believe they are free thinkers. What GOOD did showing the police video in Charlotte do? It only aroused anger and disgust to no avail. The media wants you to make a judgment on the guilt or innocence of the police AND/OR the victim. That is not your business, that is the business of the judicial system. They want you to be angry and disgusted because it diverts you attention from the real issue..and that is mind control so they can make more money. I know a person that was in the media but quit because this person realized they were governed only by their ratings...the quality of the programming be damned. Why do they only want a network news person to moderate the presidential debate? There are plenty of respected people out there that could serve without bias but no, they want to make a choice that suits their agenda. There was a movie I saw once where everyone was screaming “I AM MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.” That's me, y'all...from now on I will get my news from BBC, Reuters, PBS or Christian Science Monitor and even then I will be alert for bias reporting.

In short, if you were not a personal eye or ear witness to a specific event then it is suspect if you are depending on the media to keep you informed, they have an agenda, y'all. They are not journalists, they are entertainers like Richard Pryor and Charlie Chaplin...only they ain't funny.

This Date in History October 17

1859 John Brown was born in 1800 in Connecticut and was raised in Ohio by devout and hard-assed Calvinist parents. His parents were staunch anti-slavery advocates also. John spent most of his life trying to recover from failed businesses but he attended an anti-slavery rally in Cleveland and after that he was a firebrand of the anti-slavery movement and was a personal acquaintance of Frederick Douglass, the famous black orator against slavery. Brown moved to Kansas to fight the pro-slavery forces in that area. In 1856 the forces of Confederate sympathizer William Quantrill raided the town of Lawrence, Kansas killing scores of innocent civilians and burned the town to the ground. Brown became insanely incensed and went to three houses on Pottawatomie Creek and killed whomever was there with a broadsword not knowing if they participated in the Lawrence debacle or not. After this Brown decided that he was going to free the slaves single handed. In 1856 he decided that the best course of action was to capture the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia and distribute the captured arms to the slaves that he knew would rise up in rebellion when they heard of his actions. On this day Brown and 22 others attacked and captured the arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The only problem was that the slaves in the immediate vicinity had no clue that a successful attack had taken place and Brown did not know what the hell he was going to do with thousands of rifles, ammo and artillery. It didn’t matter though because very soon after word of the attack reached Washington, a detachment of Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee and Captain J.E.B. Stuart surrounded the arsenal on October 19 and demanded a surrender that was not forthcoming. The Marines charged the arsenal and killed 10 of the attackers including two of Brown’s sons. The rest of the attackers were captured including Brown. Brown went to trial for treason and he was convicted and on December 2 he was hanged. Before he stepped onto the gallows he handed a note to a guard. The note read “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away except by blood.” A prophetic statement, y'all, because the Civil War erupted 16 months later. Did y'all notice that from the time Brown was captured to the time he was hanged was 42 days? What ever happened to the good old days?

1793 Nine months earlier King Louis XVI met a date with the guillotine as a result of the French Revolution that began in 1789. On this date his wife, Marie Antoinette, was taken to the guillotine for her part in the excesses of her husbands reign. It was she that was asked how she could want more jewelry when the peasants had no bread to eat. She supposedly said “No bread, well let them eat cake.” It was this lack of sensitivity as to the plight of the populous that has cost more than one monarch his head. Anyway, on the way up the steps to the blade, Marie accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot and said “Oh, please excuse me, Monsieur” and when she laid her neck across the block, she reached around and pulled her long hair to one side. You have to hand it to her, she had class.

1991 For reasons unknown some jackass named George Hennard drove his pickup truck through the front window of Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He then pulled out two semi-automatic pistols and began shooting people at random. He ran out of ammo after killing 22 and wounding 45. He saved one round that he used to blow his own brains out. There were several people in there that had handguns but they had to keep them locked in the trunk of their cars by Texas law. After this event, Texas law loosened up considerably and it became almost accepted that everybody was packing some iron. When I was in Alaska a long time ago, it was not uncommon for people to be walking around with .357 and/or .44 Magnums on their hips along with a high powered rifle leaning up against a table or the bar especially during hunting season. I do not know how it is today but I suspect the laws are not that liberal these days.

1851 On this date a true psychopath named William “Wild Bill” Longley is born in Austin County, Texas. This man was crazy and proved it time and again. By the time he had reached the age of 15 he had killed several men for the most minor of offenses. He also was a hater of blacks and they gave Bill a wide berth. Every where he went he left a trail of dead people that crossed him no matter how minor the event. He finally was captured, tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. On the day of his hanging he finally got what he deserved. After the trapdoor opened and Bill dropped something strange happened. The hangman had cut the rope too long and Bill’s knees hit the ground and he stood up. The hangman called up several more men and they pulled Bill off the ground and he choked to death rather that a quick death of a broken neck. It took 11 minutes for Bill to expire. I wonder what was going through his mind.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.