Friday, December 10, 2010

Aurora, bad city! bad city!

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.
DECEMBER 10, 2010

Today is: December 10 is … Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales. Let’s all eat some blubber.

Every year I go to local cookie sales at various churches in the area. Saturday, December 11th is a cookie sale at the Hinckley Church. It starts at 8:00 a.m. Cookies are $6.00 a lb. They always have a great assortment of homemade cookies and candies. This is a great way to get a start on the holiday treat season before you or the wife or significant other get a chance to do your own baking. Next Saturday, December 18th, the Catholic Church in Maple Park has their annual cookie sale, starting at 9:00 a.m., also $6.00 a lb. You can call both Churches to place advance orders. Get out and support the local Churches and have some good home baked goodies. ENJOY.

Stop the BLOG!! Oprah is not gay. She is not a lesbian. Hey Oprah, nobody gives a sh *t. Just go to your own network and die a quiet death. You do not need to manufacture news to keep your name and large face before the public. You are yesterday’s news. Accept it.

Wesley Snipes turned himself in to federal authorities to begin serving his three year prison term for tax evasion yesterday. He is in a Pennsylvania federal prison to start with.

The City of Aurora is trying to illegally keep nearly $200,000.00 the city police confiscated from two brothers on Oct. 18, 2010. The brothers are suspected of being drug dealers but neither has a criminal record and neither was arrested at the time the police made a traffic stop on a car one of the brothers was driving in October, searched the car, found no illegal substances but found the $190,040.00 in cash. The City of Aurora is attempting to have the money forfeited to it. A Judge in Kane County ruled against the city, ordering Aurora to give the money back to the brothers. The City of Aurora refuses to abide by the Court Order.

That amount of money may arouse suspicion but it is not illegal to own cash, yet. In fact, our folding money states right on it “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” That seems pretty clear to me.

If you cannot tie the money to illegal enterprises and prove the funds are a direct result of your illegal activity and you came into possession of the assets as a result of your gains from illegal actions, the government should not be able to just take your money. Due process is afforded all people in the United States even illegal aliens. That is why we have Guantanamo Bay prison. We deposit suspected criminals there so they do not get into the United States and have Constitutional Rights attach to them.

What the City of Aurora is doing is wrong and they have been told so by a Judge. The brothers will have to continue to fight in Court to prevail, paying a lawyer along the way thereby depleting the original amount of money.

The house the police discovered in San Diego several weeks ago filled with explosives will be destroyed. Thursday morning, after rush hour, the police will burn the house. They have determined it is too dangerous to enter and empty. They arrested the owner when they discovered the house. Neighbors were advised to leave the area Thursday or at least keep their windows closed. Why not send the owner into the house and force him to clean it out, similar to community restitution hours we sentence DUI drivers to and other minor criminals? If the house blows up, it is destroyed and we won’t have to spend money trying the owner or housing him in prison for life.

The Westboro Baptist Church has announced it will picket and protest at the funeral for Elizabeth Edwards. This is the same Topeka, Kansas church that protests at funerals for fallen military personnel. I think it is time one of the nuts running around this country does some good and takes out these protesters. Let them go protest in heaven or, more likely, hell.

Notable births on this date:

1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Philadelphia PA, pioneer of educating the deaf
1794 James Wolfe Ripley Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1805 John E Feisser theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1813 Zachariah Chandler US, merchant/politician (founder of Republican Party)
1851 Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey created Dewey Decimal System for libraries He’s the one!
1911 Chet Huntley Cardwell MT, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
1914 Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer] New Orleans LA, actress (Road to Bali, Greatest Show on Earth) Bob and Bing loved her.
1929 Dan Blocker Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza) What is a Hoss?
1941 Tommy Kirk actor (Old Yeller) Disney Movies would not exist but for him.
1952 Susan Hallock Dey Illinois, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law) She is older than me.
1969 Darren Berry cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 Nadim Khan cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)

Notable deaths on this date:

0969 Nicephorus II Phocas Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered What a guy!
1896 Alfred Nobel Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 Won first Nobel prize?
1909 Red Cloud Sioux Indian chief, dies
1946 Damon Runyon US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66.A great sportswriter. He wrote Lemon Drop Kid. Wonderful Bob Hope Christmas movie that introduced song “Silver Bells”
1946 Walter Johnson great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 59
1967 Otis Redding singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26 Where were you?
1990 Armand Hammer CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
1996 Faron Young country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34. Hello Walls.

Notable events on this date:

0741 Zacharias becomes Pope
1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money. We haven’t quit borrowing since.
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) “God help us if we ever give them the vote”, Rooster Cogburn 1887.
1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3). No 3 point shot?
1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam. We are still trying to collect smaller countries.
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled. Wish I had one.
1926 1st radio broadcast in the Springfield IL area (WCBS)
1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN
1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000. Half the ball player of Jimmie Foxx.
1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson. True love!
1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people"
1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Australian Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wickets
1963 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show. I am older.
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress. What happened to it?
1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB). Pass me the joint.
1995 Michael Slater scores 219 vs Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

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