My grandson's team beat the Indians tonight in a barn burner!
Final 37 to 28.
Despite the coach being an idiot the team played and won no thanks to his bone head play calling.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
This Day In History
On this day, September 27th, 1830 the Choctaw Indians ceded their lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.
20,000 Choctaws were removed and sent west, alone with as many Cherokee, Catawba, Creek, and Cree the United States could round up - using the Dancing Rabbit Creek "treaty" as a pretext.
7,000 survived the 'march' to what is now Oklahoma on what is known as The Trail of Tears.
20,000 Choctaws were removed and sent west, alone with as many Cherokee, Catawba, Creek, and Cree the United States could round up - using the Dancing Rabbit Creek "treaty" as a pretext.
7,000 survived the 'march' to what is now Oklahoma on what is known as The Trail of Tears.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Declining Dollar
The US Dollar is at the lowest point it has been in 31 years.(The last time there was a stumbling fool in the Whitehouse - Gerald Ford).
The last time a dollar was actually worth a dollar was nearly fifty years ago but it has always stood strong against all foreign currencies ... until now - six plus years of the cabal and our nation is ruined morally, physically, ideologically, and financially.
Quite a feat for the world's largest lender nation
to become the world's largest debtor nation isn't it!?
O.K., so the transition was occurring prior to the last six years ... it has been the last six years that have propelled the change at hyper-speed as a final push to what was started in 1981 - the last time we owed more than we loaned.
Hospital Tech must have been hungry.
Indianapolis, IN:
A three year old boy (pictured), was getting a blood test to test for lead due to the toy recalls when the technician drawing the blood took a bite out of him. You heard me, took a bite out of him.
The hospital discharged the tech (and should fire the subcontracting firm she actually works for), and are 'reviewing' procedures.
A police report was filed.
A three year old boy (pictured), was getting a blood test to test for lead due to the toy recalls when the technician drawing the blood took a bite out of him. You heard me, took a bite out of him.
The hospital discharged the tech (and should fire the subcontracting firm she actually works for), and are 'reviewing' procedures.
A police report was filed.
There has been a mistrial.
Hollywood, CA:
Just in case anyone is still paying attention the judge in the Phil Spector murder trial has declared a mistrial and Phil is a free man until or if the prosecutors bring new evidence and seek a new trial.
Just in case anyone is still paying attention the judge in the Phil Spector murder trial has declared a mistrial and Phil is a free man until or if the prosecutors bring new evidence and seek a new trial.
This will put you off BBQ for a while!
Maiden, NC:
Imagine finding a smoker BBQ like you always wanted - at an antique auction and real cheap - you'd be ecstatic right?!
That is just what a man in Maiden, NC felt when he found a smoker BBQ at just such a place.
Then he looked inside when he got it home.
Inside was a severed human foot with a large part of the lower leg still attached to it.
Needless to say the man called police, who came and took the foot and began an investigation as to why the smoker BBQ had a human foot in it and whose foot it was.
That investigation is on going.
Now, even I don't want to eat BBQ for a while ...
Imagine finding a smoker BBQ like you always wanted - at an antique auction and real cheap - you'd be ecstatic right?!
That is just what a man in Maiden, NC felt when he found a smoker BBQ at just such a place.
Then he looked inside when he got it home.
Inside was a severed human foot with a large part of the lower leg still attached to it.
Needless to say the man called police, who came and took the foot and began an investigation as to why the smoker BBQ had a human foot in it and whose foot it was.
That investigation is on going.
Now, even I don't want to eat BBQ for a while ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Trivial Things
Here are some things that could win you that next Trivia Contest at the local Pub on night.
Question: Smack and sampan are types of what?
Answer: They are types of boats.
Answer: They are types of boats.
Big Catch
In what seems like it is right out of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Beneath The Sea ...
Fishermen in New Zealand have caused a lot of excitement among the world's scientists over their recent catch- a 990 pound, 33 foot long adult colossal squid.
The squid, caught off the south coast of New Zealand, is believed to be the largest specimen ever found.
"This is going to draw phenomenal interest," said Steve O'Shea, a squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology.
Giant Squid are estimated to grow up to 46 feet (18 meters) long and are considered some of the most mysterious sea creatures in existence. Imagine what a Colossal Squid could grow to!
Normally found in Antarctic waters, this specimen has been sent to New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa, for scientific study.
To get an idea of the size of the squid take a look at the diagram to the right.
Shades of Jules Verne is right!
Scientists have long figured the existence of the Giant Squid from the numerous carcasses in Sperm Whales stomachs and recently - in the past decade or so have seen that 'figuring' become reality - the speculation that the 'Giants' had even bigger 'cousins' was been around for just as long - if not longer.
Ancient tales of sea monsters may have more than a grain of truth to them and look when Verne was writing his novels ... they weren't written last night.
Fishermen in New Zealand have caused a lot of excitement among the world's scientists over their recent catch- a 990 pound, 33 foot long adult colossal squid.
The squid, caught off the south coast of New Zealand, is believed to be the largest specimen ever found.
"This is going to draw phenomenal interest," said Steve O'Shea, a squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology.
Giant Squid are estimated to grow up to 46 feet (18 meters) long and are considered some of the most mysterious sea creatures in existence. Imagine what a Colossal Squid could grow to!
Normally found in Antarctic waters, this specimen has been sent to New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa, for scientific study.
To get an idea of the size of the squid take a look at the diagram to the right.
Shades of Jules Verne is right!
Scientists have long figured the existence of the Giant Squid from the numerous carcasses in Sperm Whales stomachs and recently - in the past decade or so have seen that 'figuring' become reality - the speculation that the 'Giants' had even bigger 'cousins' was been around for just as long - if not longer.
Ancient tales of sea monsters may have more than a grain of truth to them and look when Verne was writing his novels ... they weren't written last night.
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Head Lines
1) Micheal Vick and his three co-defendants have been indicted by the state of Virginia on state charges stemming from the dog fighting taking place in Virginia.
2) Bill O'Rielly steps in it again ... racist that he is.
3) UAW strike against GM may actually help GM and hurt UAW.
4) Polygamist Warren Jeffs was convicted on sex charges.
5) DeAngelo Hall will face fines, suspension or both by the Falcons.
2) Bill O'Rielly steps in it again ... racist that he is.
3) UAW strike against GM may actually help GM and hurt UAW.
4) Polygamist Warren Jeffs was convicted on sex charges.
5) DeAngelo Hall will face fines, suspension or both by the Falcons.
Monday, September 24, 2007
For Six Bucks
Getting a $3,000.00 dress for the Mrs., for $6.00. Yep, that's right only $6.00. How you ask?
By having friends who make clothing and being cheap and finding material for a dollar a yard ... and no cheap stuff either, normally it was $125.00 a yard. With the labor and jewels sewn into it it would be a multiple thousand dollar dress.
O.K., so it is a dress for the RenFaire and as such it won't be worn out to the Governor's Fall Ball but it is an Aresaide so it will be worn to the Highland games after the Faire.
I just love the fact that it will make a couple of 'ladies' (and I use the term loosely), extremely jealous - they need to be taken down quite a few pegs anyway.
With her new dress the Mrs., and I with my new Doublet and boots will make a splash - as long as the breeze doesn't pick up and lift my kilt before I can catch it ... that would make an even bigger splash!
By having friends who make clothing and being cheap and finding material for a dollar a yard ... and no cheap stuff either, normally it was $125.00 a yard. With the labor and jewels sewn into it it would be a multiple thousand dollar dress.
O.K., so it is a dress for the RenFaire and as such it won't be worn out to the Governor's Fall Ball but it is an Aresaide so it will be worn to the Highland games after the Faire.
I just love the fact that it will make a couple of 'ladies' (and I use the term loosely), extremely jealous - they need to be taken down quite a few pegs anyway.
With her new dress the Mrs., and I with my new Doublet and boots will make a splash - as long as the breeze doesn't pick up and lift my kilt before I can catch it ... that would make an even bigger splash!
Haywood County Claims Eleven More?
Eight Boy Scouts and three of their leaders are missing after a weekend camping trip into the mountains of Haywood county, NC.
Could Haywood county have claimed eleven more in a series of - a centuries long series - disappearances in the deep forests and steep ravines of that wilderness mountain region?
The area is very popular with campers, hikers and the like, and is a wonderful place to go and see the natural world at its most natural - as the saying goes 'there are places there that no white man has ever seen' ... even to this day in Haywood county.
Most people go and have a wonderful time there, even in the 'wilder' areas, but very few people today have the skills to survive completely in the wilds and if they get lost deep in the glens and glades or misstep and fall into a deep gorge in the area, it all but impossible to be found ... except by foot as the rescuers literally 'luck up and stumble up on to you' otherwise they join the list of the permanently disappeared.
Let's hope the rescuers are lucky and find these eleven missing people. Preferably alive.
Could Haywood county have claimed eleven more in a series of - a centuries long series - disappearances in the deep forests and steep ravines of that wilderness mountain region?
The area is very popular with campers, hikers and the like, and is a wonderful place to go and see the natural world at its most natural - as the saying goes 'there are places there that no white man has ever seen' ... even to this day in Haywood county.
Most people go and have a wonderful time there, even in the 'wilder' areas, but very few people today have the skills to survive completely in the wilds and if they get lost deep in the glens and glades or misstep and fall into a deep gorge in the area, it all but impossible to be found ... except by foot as the rescuers literally 'luck up and stumble up on to you' otherwise they join the list of the permanently disappeared.
Let's hope the rescuers are lucky and find these eleven missing people. Preferably alive.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
And I Quote
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only at night.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Jena
I haven't posted anything about he events in Jena until now.
The entire soap opera is a sick joke from the very beginning - everyone involved has been in the wrong as I see it. This includes the White side and the Black side, from the 'white tree' to the beatings, to the police and prosecutors, to the courts and the protesters. From every 'side' at every point all have been wrong.
The current wrinkle in the saga is the use of a 'white supremist' website "inviting" its readers to call and harass the families of the defendants - which is a bit childish and eighth grade-ish to begin with and illegal to boot.
There should not be any defendants in the first place ... at least not in criminal court - the ones involved in the series of events should have been expelled from the school (both the noose hangers and the beaters), for their actions and left to cool their heels in an alternative learning environment.
Instead the noose hangers were 'let off' with a couple of days suspension and the beaters were jailed in what amounts to a massive knee-jerk over-reaction - which as it was for the hangers for the 'offense' of sitting under a tree and for the reaction to the nooses the hangers left there. [I know that those of African American heritage are a tad more sensitive about "nooses", but still , the reaction was way over the top].
When will people grow up?
Sharpton and Jackson need to shut up as well, they are not helping to end the 'divide' - their livelihood depends on that 'divide' so don't count on their helping any but themselves ... and that goes for the 'children' over at whatever/wherever that 'white supremist' website is and their lackys and syncophants as well as the lackys and syncophants of Sharpton and Jackson.
The entire soap opera is a sick joke from the very beginning - everyone involved has been in the wrong as I see it. This includes the White side and the Black side, from the 'white tree' to the beatings, to the police and prosecutors, to the courts and the protesters. From every 'side' at every point all have been wrong.
The current wrinkle in the saga is the use of a 'white supremist' website "inviting" its readers to call and harass the families of the defendants - which is a bit childish and eighth grade-ish to begin with and illegal to boot.
There should not be any defendants in the first place ... at least not in criminal court - the ones involved in the series of events should have been expelled from the school (both the noose hangers and the beaters), for their actions and left to cool their heels in an alternative learning environment.
Instead the noose hangers were 'let off' with a couple of days suspension and the beaters were jailed in what amounts to a massive knee-jerk over-reaction - which as it was for the hangers for the 'offense' of sitting under a tree and for the reaction to the nooses the hangers left there. [I know that those of African American heritage are a tad more sensitive about "nooses", but still , the reaction was way over the top].
When will people grow up?
Sharpton and Jackson need to shut up as well, they are not helping to end the 'divide' - their livelihood depends on that 'divide' so don't count on their helping any but themselves ... and that goes for the 'children' over at whatever/wherever that 'white supremist' website is and their lackys and syncophants as well as the lackys and syncophants of Sharpton and Jackson.
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