Tuesday

                           Musing and History

Quote of the day:

“My first psychiatrist said I was paranoid, but I want a second opinion because I think he is out to get me.”

Tom Wilson

                                   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 there is 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 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 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 your 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 anchors to moderate the presidential debates? 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 and PBS, even then I will be alert for bias reporting.

        This Date in History   September 26

1957 The Broadway musical West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theater in New York with the music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephan Sondheim. The story line was a modern day version of Romeo and Juliet set in the West Side of New York where gangs ruled. But love prevailed and the lovers found each other in spite of the turmoil. The song “Maria” was the one most remembered. But how can the show fail with the two geniuses of Bernstein and Sondheim at the reins. The play is still a major attraction to the fans of musicals. It I am not mistaken, Sondheim gave us Phantom of the Opera also.

1945 The first American is killed in Vietnam. OSS operative Lt. Col Peter Dewey is shot by refusing to stop at a road block while in his car. OSS was the precursor to CIA and Dewey was in country looking for American pilots that his been shot down and incarcerated in Vietnam. At the same time 1,400 French troops had been liberated from Japanese prison camps in Vietnam and were re-armed by French constituents hoping to take over the country and make it a French Colony as it was before WWII. Ho Chi Mien denied that this would happen and thus began the war with France in Indo-China and ended in 1954 with the French taking an ass whipping at Dien Bien Phu and were forced to leave the country. During this interim, Col Dewey was riding down a road and came upon a road block and refused to stop because he was an American but those running the road block thought he was a French soldier and capped him. Mistaken identity.

1888 T. S. Eliot is born to a privileged family in St. Louis. From the git-go it was apparent that he was brilliant. He was sent to Harvard, Sorbonne, back to Harvard and then to Oxford. He chose essays and poetry as his calling and was soon recognized for his mastery. He moved to London where he met fellow poet Ezra Pound and they eventually fed upon each other for inspiration. Eventually Eliot landed a job as editor at Faber and Faber and stayed there until his death in 1965. In his life he had written many poems and essays and his death marked the end of a very fruitful life for us all.

1944 A military operation called Market-Garden came to an end on this day with the virtual destruction of 10,000 British and Polish Paratroopers near the Dutch city of Arnhem. It seems that the biggest blowhard in WWII, British Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery decided that he had waited long enough to get into Germany from France so he put together an operation whereby paratroopers would land near Arnhem in the Netherlands and capture the two bridges crossing into Germany and the allied tanks would pour across into Germany. The only problem was that is was too far for the tanks and re-enforcements to reach Arnhem to bail out the paratroopers and Montgomery was told this. Monty blew it off and ordered the assault anyway. Of the 10,000 paratroopers that went only 2900 escaped. The rest were either killed or captured. Montgomery had a good military mind but constantly let his lust for glory interfere with his decisions. Sounds like US Col. George Armstrong Custer to me.

1820 Daniel Boone died in his sleep near Defiance, Missouri. What can one say about this giant of American history? He was born in Berks County, Pa. in 1734 but his family moved to the Yadkin Valley in N.C. when little Daniel was very young. Daniel did not take well to schooling but much preferred to explore his surroundings. He would go further and further afoot everyday going just beyond the extent of the exploration of the day before. He finally left home and set out to explore what was past the Blue Ridge Mountains. He went through the Cumberland Gap and down into the valleys of Kentucky and settled the town of Boonsboro, Ky. This settlement provided a place for other pioneers and settlers to come to for refitting for further trips west. Boone himself decided that Ky. was getting too crowded and moved on westward. Boone's many adventures are too much for this small epistle but if you like true adventure get a book about this man. His contribution to the expansion of this nation is incalculable. I will give you one small story. A group of Indians had kidnapped Boone’s daughter and was headed for Illinois as fast as they could. It took Boone 3 months to track them down but track them down he did. He killed three of the Indians grabbed his daughter and headed home with Indians hot on his trail. With his woodman’s skills he was soon able to elude them and got his daughter home safely.

Born today:

1892 US religious leader Robert Lynd. He said “One of the greatest joys known to man is to take flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”

1896 Religious leader Pope Paul VI. He said “Technological has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.” Hey Pope, you are dancing on the edge of understanding, but that is common for Popes. Maybe you should look into your priests that have been jailed for various offenses. I am sure they know where joy lies.

              Thanks for listening   I can hardly wait until tomorrow