Musings
and History
Quote
of the day:
“Life
is not waiting for the storm to pass; it is learning how to dance in
the rain.”
Anonymous
I
saw my favorite episode of “Cops” a few nights ago. A man had
stolen a pickup truck and was being chased by the cops. He
eventually ran out of gas and pulled into the median. He would not
get out of the truck and would not unlock the doors. A cop came up
on the passenger side, broke out the window and sprayed something.
It didn't work so another cop with a K-9 came up and lifted the dog
into the cab with him. There was immediate screaming and yelling.
He came out of that truck with the dog clamped onto his right arm
spinning around screaming bloody murder. That man's arm and the dog
was horizontal until the cops knocked him down but the dog still had
a grip until one of the cops gave a command and then the dog
released. It was funny.
Message
from the Grey Panthers.
Back
during the Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) administration a bill was passed
whereby funds could be “borrowed” from the Social Security
account by the Federal Government for purposes undetermined. There
also was no mention of repayment of these “loans” including any
interest. The US Government has borrowed money from Red China and a
“surcharge” is included in repayment. This is nothing but
interest but it is not included if and when a repayment of a loan is
made to the Social Security fund, if it is ever repaid. There is no
doubt in this Panther's mind that the “borrowed” money was used
to help finance the Vietnam War where over 500,000 American soldiers
eventually went and it ended in a surrender.
As
we all know, nearly all of us work for 50 years (I went to work at
14) and make payments to FICA (Social Security) the entire time.
Congressmen and Senators have their own retirement fund that they
become eligible for after a very short time in office. We taxpayers
pay for that and this year there is no increase in Social Security
and an increase in the Medicare payments, who the hell do they think
they are. They work for us, not vice-versa.
I
am a believer in the premise of “Do not identify a problem without
offering a possible solution.” That is whining. The problem is
that our lawmakers have taken us Grey Panthers (retirees) for granted
and think we have no recourse. They are wrong. The solution is to
determine their position and positive action in resolving this
travesty and take us seriously, if this not satisfactory then fire
(do not reelect) them and find someone who will.
I
encourage all of you retirees on Social Security to contact your
Senators, Congressmen and presidential candidates and let them know
that they are not invulnerable and we as a group have an enormous
voter influence, especially to the “professional politicians” out
there that know no other skill and have been sucking on our breast
all their lives.
It
is time for all of us to stand on our hind legs and do something...or
wimp out and complain and offer no solutions.
I
am from South Carolina, 4th
district which is Greenville-Spartanburg. Our Congressman is Trey
Gowdy and our Senators are Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott. You can
find yours and their web sites on Google. Now is the time. Do
Something.
This
Date in History August 9
1969
On this night four people named Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia
Krenwinkle and Linda Kasabian have dinner at the El Coyote Mexican
restaurant near Los Angeles, California. After dinner they drive up
into the Hollywood Hills and stop at a house at 10050 Cielo Drive.
It was a house that was previously owned by a record producer but now
it was being leased by movie producer Roman Polanski and his wife
actress Sharon Tate. Polanski was out of the country so Sharon had a
few of her friends over that included Voytech Frykowski, Steve
Parent, hair stylist Jay Sebring and coffee heiress Abigail Folger.
Tex Watson and company break into the house with Tex wielding a long
barreled .22 caliber pistol and the three women with long knives.
For reasons not truly known, Tex and the girls begin slaughtering
everybody in the house. Two of them make it out into the front yard
trying to escape but Tex runs them down and dispatches them with a
shot to the back of the head whereupon one of the girls jumps on the
corpses and begins repeatedly slicing and stabbing them. In the
meantime inside the house even more horror is committed by the women
when they begin stabbing and strangling the 8 month pregnant Sharon
Tate and the other two. All five of the occupants of the house are
killed and disfigured. The next morning the house keeper shows up
and sees the bodies on the lawn and calls the LAPD. No one can
imagine the reason for all of this because two days later supermarket
executive Leon LaBianca and his wife Rosemary are found cut to pieces
in their Hollywood home. Both the Tate and LaBianca murder scene had
words like “Death to pigs” and “Helter Skelter” written in
blood on the walls so the cops knew the perpetrators of these murders
was the same. The Prosecutor assigned to this case, Vincent
Bugliosi, determined that the murderers were members of a cult led by
a man named Charles Manson that lived on the Spahn Ranch out on the
California desert. The ranch was not a ranch at all; it was just a
bunch of buildings that were used in movie sets from time to time.
Anyway, eventually the entire cult was arrested except for Tex Watson
who had fled to, you guessed it, Texas. Listen to this y'all.
Prosecutor Bugliosi struggled to find a motive and here is his
theory: Charles Manson wanted to commit random murders hoping the
public would believe it was blacks that were the killers and the
mother of all race wars would erupt and he and his little group would
stay hidden in the desert and would be on top after it was all over.
Manson somehow arrived at this conclusion by listening to the song
“Helter Skelter” on the Beatles “White Album”. How could
this jackass believe this and be sane? The answer to that is he
ain’t sane. He is crazy as a shit house mouse. Anyway, the whole
thing blew up when Susan Atkins was arrested on a stolen car wrap and
chose to brag to her fellow inmates about her participation in the
Tate and LaBianca murders. Susan scared the hell of the inmates and
they passed on the information to the cops and it was all over. All
of the participants are still in prison to this day except for Linda
Kasabian who eventually rolled on the others including Charles
himself in return for a shortened sentence.
1945
At 1:49a a B-29 named “Boch’s Car” departed the island of
Tinian piloted by Major Charles Sweeney. The normal pilot of the
aircraft was Paul Boch but Major Sweeney was selected to command this
mission. As with the “Enola Gay” a few days before, Boch’s Car
met up with a weather recon aircraft and an instrumentation plane
over Iwo Jima and they all headed out for Nagasaki which was a few
hundred miles north of Hiroshima. The nuclear bomb being used this
time was a plutonium bomb named “Fat Man”. The bomb was nearly
spherical with tail fins. This bomb did not operate on the same
theory as the bomb used on Hiroshima but the nuclear physicists that
designed it were sure that it would work. Boch’s Car released “Fat
Man” at 11:06a on this date and a few seconds later a light
brighter than the sun lit up Nagasaki from and altitude of 1,200
above the ground. Nagasaki is surrounded by hills and mountains and
therefore the effects of the explosion were contained in a smaller
area and the devastation was more complete. As with Hiroshima,
nearly 120,000 civilians were vaporized immediately or died from
radiation poisoning later. As I stated before, the Emperor demanded
that Japan accept the terms of the Potsdam Resolution which called
for the unconditional surrender of Japan. The Emperor also stated
that if they did not it could mean the end of the Japanese people
because a few days earlier Russia had invaded Manchuria which was
just across the Japanese Sea. Japan could not fight a war on two
fronts. The war was over.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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