Quote of the day:
“An optimist is a person that starts a new diet the day before Thanksgiving.”
Irv Kupcinet
Trivia question of the day:
What NFL player had the nickname of “The Assassin”? Answer at the end of the blog.
I have given some thought on what we would be today if Hillary had won...it is still a scary thought. I shiver at the thought of Bill Clinton having a voice of influence in the White House. He was impeached and came within 8 votes of expulsion but only was censured and had his law license revoked for five years for lying under oath.We as a nation do not need any more corruption, we need the expulsion of corruption that has us bogged down and contributes to divisiveness. A lot of what Trump SAYS is gibberish shot from the hip...it is hyperbole. Then I look at what Bill and Hillary has DONE. Bill is a proven liar. Hillary initiated a private server while Secretary of State for the obvious reason to hide some of her e-mails from the Senate and House oversight committees. Then when Congress closed in anyway she deleted over 30,000 e-mails. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that she used her position as Secretary of State to enrich the Clinton Foundation? Do to the lack of reliable and unbiased information both pro and con I must retreat to what I feel. I look at Hillary and I get an overwhelming feeling deep in my gut that I am looking at something evil. I am going to rely on my instincts and not reward corrupt people with a residence in my White House.
This Date in History August 22
1485 On this date the final battle of the War of the Roses occurred at the Battle of Bosworth Field. This battle was between English king Richard III and Henry Tudor, the Earl of Richmond. The battle was won by the forces of Henry and Richard III was killed in the process. The crown worn by Richard III in the battle was retrieved and placed on the head of Henry Tudor and he was named as King Henry VII. The Tudor dynasty in England prevailed until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. This war began because of the failure of England to win the Hundreds Years war against France in the 1450’s which added to the fits of insanity by King Henry VI. No one knew what caused the insanity in Henry VI but experts believe it was probably caused by him eating and drinking out of pewter plates and cups. Pewter, of course has a substantial amount of lead in its makeup. All of this caused a power struggle between the two most prominent royal houses or families and they being Lancaster and York. The symbol for the House of Lancaster was the red rose and the symbol for the House of York was the white rose. But soon after taking the throne king Henry VII married Elizabeth the daughter of Edward IV uniting the two houses and peace prevailed...for a while.
1776 On this date a fleet of British ships commanded by Admiral Richard Howe hove to and dropped anchor between Gravesend and New Utrecht on Long Island, New York. Admiral Howe’s brother General William Howe was in command of approximately 24,000 infantry that were disembarked and deployed. The inexperienced, undermanned and under armed Continental army commanded by George Washington was no match for the highly trained and well armed British army. The British trapped and outflanked the entire Continental Army at Brooklyn Heights, New York. Washington ordered the army to cross over to Manhattan Island by boat to avoid complete annihilation. Washington was successful in this transition. What was strange was the General William Howe could have prevented this escape and captured nearly all of Washington’s army including Washington himself but did not. Howe still believed he could persuade the military commanders of the fledgling Continental Army to stop fighting and re-align themselves with the British crown and proclaim loyalty to King George III. General Howe believed that if he did not initiate a blood bath and showed a modicum of mercy and understanding he could succeed. Howe’s failure to crush the Revolution on this day at Brooklyn Heights resulted in England allowing the birth of the mightiest nation this planet has ever seen.
1933 On this date the notorious Barker gang robbed an armored car in Chicago killing one of the guards. They got a bag full of useless canceled checks for their efforts. The leader of the Barker gang was Ma Barker, the mother of two of the gang members present. Ma Barker decided that they should go back to doing what they do best and that was kidnapping. Ma Barker had four children, all boys, and all of them were wild and undisciplined meaning they went to the joint at an early age. Ma’s kids were named Herman, Lloyd, Arthur and Freddie. The first one to go down was Lloyd who robbed a post office and was sent to prison for 25 years. That same year Arthur was caught after killing a night watchman during a robbery and was sent to prison for life but later on it was found out that he was innocent. The next was Freddie who was caught robbing a bank in Kansas and was sent to prison for a long stretch. Then Herman essentially committed suicide when he decided to fight it out with lawmen that had him surrounded after he had robbed a bank in Missouri. After this Ma had no sons alive or on the outside the joint so she plead with law enforcement to release her sons that were in the joint. Incredibly, Arthur and Freddie were released. Ma decided that robbery was too risky, so they went into the kidnapping business, Freddie and Arthur in attendance. Ma made a good choice because they netted over $100,000 on their first try. Arthur and Freddie tried plastic surgery but it was a poor try and all they ended up with was a scarred and disfigured face. They tried another kidnapping and ransomed $200,000. They took their victims across state lines and that got the FBI on their ass. Arthur was caught and refused to talk but the FBI found some documents in his belongings that disclosed that Ma and Freddie were in a house in Lake Weir, Florida. The police and FBI surrounded the house and ordered a surrender but Ma and Freddie decided to fight it out. A ferocious gunfight lasting 45 minutes ensued. It finally ended when the cops unleashed everything they had and killed Ma and Freddie inside the house. That left the only survivors as Ma’s husband George, who was not a part of the gang, and Arthur. Arthur went to Alcatraz and in 1938 was killed trying to escape. What a rotten bunch.
1898 Incredible as it sounds; on this date the Texas Rangers hired a well known assassin named Jim Miller as a Special Agent to help them capture another criminal. This procedure was not unheard of in those days. Sometimes a man’s checkered past was overlooked if his help was needed. Miller himself admitted to 50 killings but was hard to convict because the clients would hire the best legal defense to defend Miller. Miller was hired by two Ada, Oklahoma ranchers to kill a man named August Bobbitt for $2,000 and promised an additional $3,000 for his defense if he was caught. He killed Bobbitt with his trusty shotgun which was his weapon of choice. Bobbitt was a well thought of man around Ada and he had a wife and four children. As you might suspect, the people were outraged and chose to drag poor Jim Miller from the Ada jail and suspend him by his neck from a beam in a nearby barn.
Answer to the trivia question:
The player in the NFL known as “The Assassin” was Oakland Raider defensive back Jack Tatum. Jack was a vicious hitter.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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