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                                Musings and History

Quote of the day:

“We are born wet, naked and hungry. Then things get worse.”

                             Anonymous

Trivia question of the day:

A very popular caliber in pistols is the .45 ACP. What does the ACP stand for? Answer at the end of the blog.

Here is something we may have forgotten.

In 1998 the House of Representatives brought Articles of Impeachment against sitting President William Clinton. The major charges were perjury and obstruction of justice. It seems that Bill had allowed oral sex from a woman named Monica Lewinsky several times in the White House and other locations. He gave sworn testimony saying “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” The same charges were made with a woman named Paula Jones that Bill had known back in Arkansas and Bill had the same response. There was several votes but there as never enough to kick him out of office. As you might suspect the votes were split almost exactly down party lines with those voting against removal saying “it would not be good for the country.” They came within 8 votes of an expulsion. Bill was only the third American President to be impeached. The other two as Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon. By the way, impeachment mean “Charged with a Crime or malfeasance in office”. Bill was censured and left to finish his term in office. Censured is a slap on the wrist but the chief prosecutor said in part “Not prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law for lying under oath by the President of the United States presents a dangerous precedent”. The issue was not if Bill had committed these acts but whether or not he lied about them under oath. The prosecutor had taped conversations of Monica Lewinsky talking with one of her friends about what had happened with her and Bill. In one of the conversations Monica said “If this continues I am going to have to get some knee pads.” Nothing more was heard from Monica, however Paula Jones filed a civil suit against Bill. The original charge was disallowed but Paula appealed. Before the appellant process ended Bill settled with Paula for $850,000. How stupid can we be?

42 year old Christine Hubbs out in Pleasanton, California had been really busy. A while back she hit on her daughter’s 14 year old boyfriend successfully and tried the same thing with one of her daughter’s other 14 year old male friends also successfully. In the time period between Christmas of 2009 and July 2010 she had 67 sexual encounters with these two dazzled boys. Christine is a looker, y’all, a real blond beauty, look her up on Google. This girl bought these kids pellet guns, water guns and various other toys that would be attractive to a male that age. The price these boys had to pay was to provide her with various sexual acts on a regular basis. The trysts took place at various locations like her car, house, hotels, forests, golf courses at night, etc. She has been arrested and charged with 67 incidents of statutory rape. Her husband and neighbors were stunned when she was arrested because none of them knew anything was going on. If we do a little math we find that all of this took place in a 6 or 7 month time span meaning that this girl was serviced about 10 times a month by these two kids or about five times each. She was getting sex about three times a week plus what her husband was providing. Is she over-sexed? I don’t think so but she is looking at some hard time and I am not talking about rigidity.

          This Date in History August 16

1977 Earlier in 1935 a man child was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was a twin but his brother named Jesse died at birth. He was born and raised in a dirt poor environment and eventually assumed a job as a truck driver but his real love was music. As with many musician/singers he got his early training in the choir of his fundamental church. That’s right folks; I am speaking about Elvis Aron Presley. One day a 19 year old Elvis walked into the office of Sun Records in Memphis and paid $4.00 to cut four religious songs as a birthday present for his mother. The owner of the recording studio, Sam Phillips, was enamored by Elvis’ rough voice and touch of rhythm and blues he added to his songs and invited Elvis to come back and cut a record with a studio band backing him up. Elvis did indeed return and cut the rhythm and blues classic “That’s all right, Mama” but with a country and western flair. Sam released the record to the local radio stations and it immediately went to the top of the charts and Elvis’ career was launched. Then he cut “Heartbreak Hotel” that went to the top of the national charts and the name of Elvis Presley was on everyone’s lips. If ever there was a phenomenon and instant success, it was Elvis. An example was when Elvis went on the Ed Sullivan Show and sang as usual for a fee of $1,500. Sullivan was incensed because of Elvis’ rotating hips and swore that he would never have on the show again. About three months later Elvis was riding the crest of popularity and Sullivan relented and called Elvis’ agent trying to book him but would only allow him to be shown from the waist up. Elvis’ agent, “Colonel” Tom Parker said that would be satisfactory and then asked Sullivan was sitting down. Sullivan said that he was and then Parker said that Elvis’ fee would now be $70,000. Sullivan screamed and said that he would never pay such a fee to anyone. Three months later Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the tidy sum of $90,000. Elvis’ career was a spectacular one and never relented even when he was drafted in the army for two year. After he was discharged his career continued its upward spiral. After a while the public began to notice puffiness around his face, neck and waist. He was getting fat. His career began a downward slope at that point. He gave fewer and fewer concerts and spent more and more time at his mansion “Graceland” in Memphis. We did not know it then but Elvis was addicted to prescription drugs, especially uppers and downers. On this date, his body was found in Graceland and his autopsy said that he had overdosed of a mixture of prescription drugs. The King was dead at the age of 42. What a damned shame. Sometimes I wonder if some people make a deal with the devil, their soul for fame and fortune.

1896 Old George Carmack had departed Seattle headed north looking for gold. He ran into a dead end but he ran into another miner that said he heard that there was a rumor that there was gold in the area of the Klondike River up in the Yukon Territory. So George headed up that way. One day he is salmon fishing in a branch of the Klondike River when he spotted a gold nugget jutting out of the bank. George had two other partners and he called them over and they begin mining in earnest and eventually all three of them leave the Klondike as multi-millionaires.

1928 On this date one of the most evil men in American history, George Panzram, is arrested in Washington, DC. George had killed at least 20 people and had started his career at the age of eight when he was sent to a juvenile facility because he insisted on getting drunk time and again. He was sent back at the age of 12 for theft and 14 for the same thing. He killed his first person at the age of 17. When he was arrested he told the arresting officers that he was planning a way to kill as many people as he could with as little danger to himself as possible. Seven of his murder victims were boys less than 13 years old. After being sentenced to death by hanging and returning to prison, he said that if anyone irritated him he would kill them. Sure enough he got into a squabble in the prison laundry and killed another inmate with a steel bar. When he went onto the gallows for his hanging, his executioner asked if he had any last words. He said “Get on with it you damned Hoosier; I could have killed three people by the time you keep fooling around.” The trapdoor opened and thus ended the life of George Panzram.

Answer to the trivia question:

.45 ACP in a pistol caliber stands for “Automatic Colt Pistol”. Thanks Bro.

              Thanks for listening   I can hardly wait until tomorrow