Musings and History

Quote of the day:
In 1982 the city of Charleston, SC was in need of a Chief of Police and sent a team out across the countryside looking for one. They came back and met with the city council saying that they were confident they had found the most qualified one and named him. Then the leader said “There is a small problem, he is black...and that ain't all, he is Jewish.” it was Reuben Greenberg who proved to be one of the finest law enforcement officers in the country.

A while back I mentioned that Alexander Hamilton was “born in the Bahamas on the island of Nevis”. That was incorrect. Nevis and the island of St. Kitts form a federation and are in the Lesser Antilles not the Bahamas. I apologize for this regrettable error.

A while back over in the Clemson, SC area a deputy sheriff was trying to arrest 35 year old Jerry Lee Roach. Jerry Lee grabbed a nearby chain saw and tried to start it heading toward the deputy. The deputy was able to subdue this jackass and cuff him. He was let out of jail on bond. Last Friday a couple of Clemson students were out in an open field playing Frisbee when Jerry Lee comes running out of the bushes with his trusty chain saw running and chased these kids for a short distance. The Sheriff’s office was called and Jerry Lee was again subdued and taken before a judge. Keep in mind that he had the previous charge hanging over his head involving the chain saw. When he was brought before the judge he began screaming obscenities at the judge and eventually got over the judge still screaming and pushed the desk at him before he was subdued once again. This animal needs a Samuel Colt attitude adjustment.

                  This Date in History  July 15

1997 Earlier a man named Andrew Cunanan went crazy as hell out on the west coast and began killing his present and past lovers. Andrew was a flaming homosexual and to this day no one knows what set him off. After killing two men in the San Diego area he flew to Chicago and killed a very rich man that used to pamper Andrew for sexual favors. After Andrew killed him, he stole his Lexus and headed to the East coast and killed yet another acquaintance. By now he was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. After this murder he headed south to get some sun and ended up in Miami. After spending about a week there he discovered that the world famous designer Gianni Versace had bought a mansion there and had developed a routine of walking to a drug store down the block every morning to buy a newspaper. On this morning Andrew was waiting. Versace did not disappoint and showed up walking down his steps as usual when Andrew walked up and delivered two shots to the head of Versace with a .40 caliber Glock. Gianni was dead before he hit the pavement. The Miami PD showed up in force but Andrew had fled the scene. A few hours later a guard at a marina called the police and said that someone had broken into a houseboat that was docked at the marina. The Miami PD suspected it was Andrew and surrounded the houseboat at a respectable distance because Andrew had already proven that he would and did shoot people. Eventually the cops heard a gunshot coming from the houseboat and they sent in a SWAT team to investigate. Andrew had chosen to blow his own brains out. Like I say, no one knows what set this bastard off but he is no longer a threat to the gay community...or any community

1904 On this date the Jonson family from Norway moved to a barren 320 acre spread in North Dakota. Included in the family is young Johan who marched to the beat of a different drummer. After spending several years of back-breaking work on the farm young Johan says to hell with it and left home. He soon met up with a man named Albert Dekker who taught Johan the ways of the gun. Johan found that robbing banks is easier on the back than pulling up stumps but he got caught stealing horses and did a 2 ½ year stretch in the Montana State Prison. After getting out he headed to Canada’s Rat River and settled down in isolation trapping beaver for a living. But Johan could not forget his lawless ways. Other trappers in the area complained to the RCMP (Mounties) that Johan had been pilfering their traps. So the Mounties went to Johan’s cabin to look for the other trapper’s pelts. The Mounties announce their presence and are met with gunfire through the door. The Mounties retreated and called for reinforcements. They returned to the cabin again but this time they are well armed and there were plenty of them. They call for Johan to come out and are met with more gunfire again. This meeting however was made during a howling blizzard but the Mounties opened fire and shot the house to pieces but when they go in, no Johan. Somehow he had sneaked out and escaped. The Mounties chased him for 45 days and they eventually caught up with him out in the middle of a frozen lake. Johan, even though he had been surviving in the wilderness living off some of the most rugged land in the world, he wanted to fight and opened fire. The Mounties returned the fire and “The Mad Trapper of Rat River” went down for the count. When they finally reached him the Mounties saw how emaciated he was, he weighed less than 100 pounds. He was 34 years old.

1941 On this date a Spaniard named Juan Pujols Garcia, known to German intelligence as “Garbo” the spy sent his first secret message to Berlin. Garbo had an extensive spy network including a Dutch airline stewardess, an official in the British Office of Information, a US soldier in England and a Welshman sympathetic to the Fascists. The only thing here is that all of these people were figments of Garbo’s (sometimes known as Arabel) imagination. Garbo was a mole meaning a double agent, he was really working for the British and the Allies and fed false information to the German’s the entire war. He was so well thought of that Hitler himself gave him the Iron Cross, a very high up military medal. The most important misinformation he sent to Berlin was when he told the German’s that an attack on Normandy would happen within a day or two but it was just a diversion, the real target was the French coastal city of Calais. This was easy for the Germans to believe because all of the upper echelon officers believed that anyway. When the attack on Normandy came, Hitler would not release the 21st Panzer Division near Caen or the 15th Panzer division near Calais for a counter-attack because Hitler believed the real attack was coming at Calais, thanks to Garbo. The allies gained a secure foothold in France and then it was too late. We can thank Juan Pujols Garcia partially for the success of the D-Day invasion. Later on Garcia received one of the highest awards a civilian can receive when the queen gave him the MBE, Member of the British Empire. He was one of the most successful moles in the history of warfare.

1789 Yesterday was Bastille Day but I don’t think I have told y'all enough about it. The French people had been going hungry for years and they finally got fed up with it and on this day, with the help of many French soldiers that had mutinied gathered outside the building known as The Bastille. The Bastille was built in the 14th century as a castle but it eventually turned into a place to put political enemies of the various Monarchies, torture included. On this date, literally thousands of Parisians and Frenchmen from all over the countryside came to the Bastille. The guards there surrendered almost immediately and joined in with the crowd. Eventually the mob stormed the building and literally took it down one stone at a time. The King of France at the time was Louis XVI and the Queen was Marie Antoinette, both lived extravagant lives and both went to meet their maker in two pieces via the guillotine. That was the end of Royalty in France forever. French people celebrate July 14 like we do July 4. However, waiting in the wings was a short, dumpy Corsican named Napoleon Bonaparte...Look out.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.