Quote of the day
“I am not going to spend the later years of my life as a hermit so I
can spend an extra two years in the geriatric ward.” Me neither.
George Carlin
Trivia question of the day:
Where did Tiger Woods go to high school? Answer at the end of the blog.
Some of you have read something similar written by me in the past...here it is again.
Since recorded history the method of subjugating people has been taught and learned. To make people abide by your will is to take control of the three basics of life and that being food, water and shelter. You burn their shelter, destroy their food and either poison their water supply or protect it. This forces them to come to you for the basics of existence and you are able to dictate terms...or you kill them all. This tactic is taught in every military school on Earth. Nearly every military officer in the United States army in 1860 graduated from the Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, West Point, US Naval Academy or similar facilities and were familiar with this premise.
In 1861 when states began seceding and forming the Confederacy the Federal Government began forming an invasion army to prevent the fracturing of the union and that was their battle cry. What exactly would be the function of this army? It certainly was not to gather up slaves and bring them out, it was to implement the previously mentioned tactic of gaining control of the basics of life so they could dictate terms. They were to burn or occupy houses and barns, destroy or confiscate crops and destroy or confiscate livestock then place guards around the water sources. The trained military officers from those states that seceded knew this. Nearly all of them decided that not only would they not participate in this action against their family and friends, they were going to fight to prevent it from happening. The protection of slave owners and institution of slavery was a non-issue to the military participants, it was a survival issue. How do I now this? I read the diaries of those soldiers and sailors of both sides rather than the politicians. You can put any spin on it that makes you feel good but the actuality is what you just read.
The cry of “Save the Union” lasted about 2 years until the Union and Confederate armies suffered unforeseen horrific casualties. In April of 1862 came the Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest 2 day battle in American history and 6 months later in September of 1862 came the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history. After this there was a move afoot in the northern states to “Give them their country, just stop the slaughter”. Lincoln saw that patriotism was not working and changed it to a matter of conscience and in January of 1863 issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slave “in those states in rebellion”. There were 4 “slave” states that did not join the Confederacy and they continued buying, selling and trading slaves throughout the war. They were Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri. The slaves were finally freed nationwide in December of 1865 with the enactment of the 13th amendment by ALL of the United States. This is what happened folks...in spite of the fear and prejudice merchants.
This Date in History June 28
1993 On this date a knife-wielding man broke into the Allentown, Pennsylvania home of Denise Sam-Cali and tried to rape her. A struggle ensued but the rapist succeeded in raping Denise on the front lawn. He then stabbed Denise trying to kill her but she fought him off and the rapist ran away. This courageous woman would play a big role in the resolution of this crime. On the 9th of July a 15 year old girl was abducted and her body was found by a reservoir stabbed 22 times. She had been raped also. On the 15th of July a five year old girl was abducted and raped and the attacker unsuccessfully tried to strangle her. Then on the 19th of July the house of Denise Sam-Cali was broken into while she was away. The police decided to set a trap and staked out Sam-Cali’s house and left a window enticingly open. On July 30 a man crawled into the open window and was greeted by a policeman and a gunfight ensued. The intruder crashed his way out through another window and fled. A few hours later, career criminal Harvey Robinson staggered into a hospital with two gunshot wounds. While waiting he was recognized by a policeman and Harvey fled with the cop in close pursuit. The cops ran Harvey down and arrested him. He went to trial and was easily convicted due to the DNA evidence that they retrieved from Denise Sam-Cali’s clothing. Denise had carefully laid aside her underclothing she had on during the rape just for this eventuality. Harvey got the death penalty. I wish I could designate the type of death to be given to animals like this. If I could, I promise you crimes of this sort would drop precipitously.
1941 On June 22, a German army of 3,000,000 soldiers, thousands of tanks and aircraft crossed into Russia as Operation Barbarossa began. It was Hitler’s intention to subdue Russia in spite of signing a peace agreement with Joseph Stalin less than a year before. One week after beginning this operation, July 29, the Germans were at the door steps of Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. During the previous week the Germans had captured the Ukrainian city of Lvov and slaughtered thousands and sent thousand to German slave labor camps. Those that were not killed or enslaved blamed the Jews for all of this and began killing the Jews in the streets. What’s up with that? Anyway, the Germans thought that if they were able to quickly overcome the Russian army, the populous would side with them since Stalin was an acknowledged monster. It didn’t happen. The Russian army was much larger than the German intelligence had supposed and the Russian people chose the lesser of two evils and stuck with Stalin and dug in their heels and resisted bitterly. This decision cost the lives of 6,000,000 civilians. Eventually “General Winter” shows up in mid-October and the German offensive ground to a halt. Because of the bitter cold, and the German soldiers having no winter clothing, the army was decimated. The very same thing happened about 130 years before when a short Corsican name Bonaparte tried to do the same thing as the Germans with the same results. The German army command believed they could wrap this operation up by early September and winter clothing was not necessary. They had severely miscalculated the resolve of the Russians and paid a terrible price for it. Eventually the Russian army got on its feet and crushed the attacking Germans and sent them fleeing back toward Germany with the Russian army hot on their heels. When the Russians entered Germany, they had no problem with slaughtering any air-breather they ran across in retribution. What goes around....
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer was the lead scientist on the “Manhattan Project” or the project to invent a nuclear weapon before the Germans did during WWII. The military branch of the project was led by Army General Leslie Groves. It seems that General Groves, being a military man, was very tense about security on such a secret project as this and set up the laboratories for the scientist in the middle of a New Mexico desert near the town of Alamogordo so it could be easily be made ultra-secret without attracting a lot of attention. The scientists were not really pleased with the living quarters and the extra tight security which resulted in friction between Oppenheimer and Groves. The latter succeeded and two years later early one July morning, a bright flash lingered over the New Mexico desert when a nuclear device known as Trinity is detonated. The scorpion was out of the bottle
Answer to the trivia question:
Tiger Woods went to high school at Western High School in Anaheim, Ca.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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