Saturday, October 23, 2010

Wiki Leaks and mummies

These thoughts are mine. They may be shared by many but I am speaking for myself. If you are offended, it was not intentional. If you continually get offended by my positions and opinions, you should change, I doubt I will.
OCTOBER 23 2010 

Looks like Juan Williams ultimately won. Of course Fax is never one to take lemons and make lemonade.

Wiki Leaks is at it again and of course our government wants to kill the messenger. None of the leaks Wiki has published over the last several months have been denied or shown to be false. Our government has merely condemned the source.

I cannot figure out why we have millions of pages of classified documents in the first place. We should put more effort into winning the wars, or achieving ‘peace with honor’ as Nixon said and much less time playing James Bond. We would be known as 002 in the British secret service. We are 0-0-2 meaning we are losing the first war, losing the second war and the enemy is winning two. Sounds like a team’s record early in the NHL season.

The Texas Rangers made many people happy last night by beating the New York Yankees. The Yankees will not be heading back to the World Series. The Yankees are the team you love to hate, unless you are Fox Sports. The Yankees against the Giants had all kind of stories to play and replay since the Giants once played in New York before baseball moved west of the Mississippi River; the Big Muddy. Now Fox must be rooting for the Phillies to beat the Giants. The Texas Rangers against the San Francisco Giants just doesn’t seem to have national pizzazz. It would be a good series for the baseball purists, however.

I see where we blew up the moon, not all of it, to find out if there is water there. We allegedly found water. If we look closely enough, we will also find a bunch of dead things we killed when we blew a hole in their home. It must be fun playing God.

Police in Costa Mesa, California say a real estate agent drove around for months with the mummified corpse of a homeless woman in the passenger seat of her four door Mercury Marquis. The investigation is ongoing as to the particulars of the deceased’s death. Police indicated the smell in the vehicle was overwhelming. I guess you can get used to anything. No word yet on how well the unidentified real estate agent was doing in this depressed real estate market. If she was able to make sales with a smelling corpse in hr car during these hard times, she probably still has a job.



Notable births on this date:

1910 Hayden Rorke Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1923 Frank Sutton Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1925 Johnny Carson Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1942 Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
1956 Dwight Yoakum country singer (If There Was a Way)
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1962 Doug Flute WFL/NFL QB (Generals, Bears, Patriots)

Notable deaths on this date:

1978 Maybelle Carter country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1983 Jessica Savitch Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1984 David Gorcey dead end kid actor, dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 Oskar Werner actor, dies of a heart attack at 61, Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes

Notable events in history on this date:

1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price. General Stirling Price is name of John Wayne’s cat in ‘True Grit’, which is being remade with Jeff Bridges and being released Christmas day.
1910 Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote. They won!
1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 Suicide terrorist truck
bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
THE LAST TWO ARE STILL A MAJOR PROBLEM THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH
1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women

BRUCE A. BRENNAN