Musings
and History
Quote
if the day:
“When
Arnold Schwarzenegger was a body builder he was known as The Austrian
Oak. After he became an actor he is known as The Austrian Oak.”
Billy
Wilder
Trivia
question of the day:
One
of the most famous movies of all time was Casablanca.
Where is Casablanca? Answer at the end of the blog.
Since
it in vogue to tear down Confederate statues because some uniformed
mongoloids think that these people represent slavery, we cannot stop
there. We must attack others who advocated slavery like George
Washington Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S Grant and a whole host of
others that owned slaves. How dare the Missourians allow their
capitol to be Jefferson City, or our nations capitol to be
Washington, it makes me sick to my stomach. We cannot allow their
countenances to be on our currency either. Instead of these people
who were instrumental in the development of this nation but that
doesn't seem to matter because they were slave owners, we should
instead have the countenances of Clint Eastwood, George Clooney and
Bret Favre. These same mongoloids also try to apply present day
morality to those years of the Civil War. If we can do that, lets
transpose the morality of those days to today. If we did Miley Cyrus,
Madonna, Brittany Spears, Bruce Jenner and a whole litany of others
would be burned at the stake as witches and warlocks. OK, I am done
venting.
Another
entity has raised it head against illegal immigrants. The city of
Summerville, South Carolina city council has a proposal before it
stating that no illegal immigrant can reside in the city limits nor
can any illegal be employed inside the city limits. They have
already been notified by the local Fed that illegal immigrants are a
Federal issue. They are going ahead with their plan anyhow. The
baseline credo of this nation from the git-go is that the country can
only be governed with the consent of the governed. It ain’t
happening, y’all. All the polls agree that the great majority of
this country is not in agreement with the direction we are going.
This
Date in History August 17
1943
Earlier British General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery and his 8th
army had landed in Syracuse, Sicily with the objective of driving up
the east coast and capturing Messina which is the closest point to
Italy (about 4 miles across the Straights of Messina) and cut off the
retreat of the German army based in Sicily. The blowhard Montgomery
was not comfortable not having his left flank protected, asked for
and got US General Omar Bradley and his division to slug his way up
the mountainous center of the island to protect Montgomery’s flank
at a terrible cost to the Americans. This left the majority of US
General George Patton’s 3rd
Army without a job. The 3rd
Army had landed in the Gulf of Gela about 200 miles west of Syracuse.
Patton and Montgomery hated each other and Patton chose to take this
opportunity to outrun Montgomery to Messina. This meant that the 3rd
Army would have to travel 2/3rd
of the island perimeter while Montgomery just had one side. On this
date, The US 3rd
Army arrived at Messina about six hours before Montgomery and had an
American band welcome Montgomery and his 8th
Army into Messina. By the way, they did not cut off the retreat of
the Germans they made good their withdrawal in good shape. Patton
was a gifted combat commander but his arrogance got in the way at
times. He believed he was related to great military leaders of
history through reincarnation. He was relieved of command at one time
by Eisenhower and cooled his heels in London during the Normandy
invasion on D-Day. But Eisenhower could not ignore Patton’s skill
especially with armored divisions. Patton was given command of the
7th
Army within weeks of D-Day and he was instrumental in turning back
the German surprise attack known as The Battle of the Bulge in the
winter of 1944. After the war he was overseeing the recovery of some
of the German cities and was killed in a car crash near Mannheim,
Germany and his body was taken to Luxembourg and buried with the
thousands of American soldiers killed during the Battle of the Bulge.
He was 60 years old. Sometimes I wonder if some people are put on
this earth for a specific purpose and when that is accomplished their
life ends, Patton for one, and “Bear” Bryant for another.
1862
Earlier the Dakota Indians had already been hustled onto several
reservations in Minnesota. They were called the Sioux which was a
dishonorable word originated by the French meaning “little snake:
That’s right folks; the mighty Sioux had their beginnings in
Minnesota. Anyway, the Federal Government, State Government and the
settlers had abused them by taking their lands and failing to deliver
supplies promised to them. They were starving and angry. That,
y’all, is a dangerous combination. On this date five Dakota braves
were returning from a hunting expedition with no luck and stopped by
a settler’s farm and went into the chicken coop and retrieved 4 or
5 eggs. The farmer came out raising hell with them and that proved
to be the final straw. The braves killed the entire family and went
on home. The Chief of that branch of the Dakota named Little Wolf
knew that the shit had hit the fan and he and his braves began a
slaughter of anyone they came across up and down the Minnesota River.
President Lincoln sent General John Pope and a small army to put
down this bloodletting. Keep in mind that Pope had just received a
severe ass-kicking and rout at the Battle of 2nd
Manassas administered by CSA General Robert E. Lee. Pope was able to
subdue a group of half-starved, under-armed and dismounted Indians.
Pope oversaw the simultaneous hanging of 34 Indians which was the
largest mass execution in American history. After this the Sioux
moved into the Dakotas and Montana and became one of the fiercest
Indian tribes in history. I don’t really blame them. They were
betrayed time and time again and their wrath must have been up to
their eyeballs.
1877
On this date William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, killed
his first man at the age of 17. He had shot an Arizona blacksmith
who died the next day from the wound. A few years later he was asked
how many men he had killed and he said that he had killed one man for
every year of his life, he was 21 years old. Most historians
believed the correct number was nine that he had killed single handed
but there may have been nine more that were killed in a gunfights
with several men involved. What did Billy is he was arrested and put
into the Fort Sumner, New Mexico jail awaiting trial. Billy escaped
and killed two deputies and then remains in the area because his
girlfriend lived there. As we all know he was killed by Sheriff Pat
Garrett.
1998
On this date for the first time in American history, a sitting
president testified before a grand jury. That’s right it was Bill
Clinton. He was under investigation by special prosecutor Kenneth
Starr who was investigating Bill and Hillary’s involvement in
suspect real estate deals, sexual harassment, and cronyism meaning
firing people to make room for their friends and finally Starr
discovered the illegitimate sexual relations with a white house
intern named Monica Lewinsky. Clinton denied the relationship which
forced Starr to charge Clinton with perjury and obstruction of
justice. After testifying Clinton addressed the nation over TV and
apologized for misleading his wife and the nation in his relationship
with Lewinsky but swore that he had never told or encouraged anyone
to lie for him and as far as the illegal real estate deals, he said
there had never been anything proven against he and Hillary. The
Democrats wanted censure but the Republicans wanted Clinton’s head
on a platter meaning removal. Well some how or another, our crack
House and Senate decided that the Clinton’s were indeed scumbags,
but what they had done was not worthy of impeachment. What is this
world coming to?
Answer
to the trivia question.
Casablanca
is located in the north African country of Morocco.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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