Monday, December 20, 2010

Serial killers and Playmates


DECEMBER 20, 2010

December 20 is … Games Day. Go forth and play.

Christmas is almost here. I hope you are ready. I completed most of my shopping, with the help of my daughter, home from U of I for break. I never thought I would say this but I actually enjoy Christmas shopping…with her anyway.

The Packers gave the Patriots a game last night. It made the Bears’ performance against New England look like men against boys. When the Packers and Bears play the last game of the season, a playoff spot better not be on the line. If it is, I see the Bears missing the playoffs. Tonight’s game should be a no brainer. Next week against the Jets could easily be a loss making the final game meaningful. We will see together.

New York police are now conceding they may not be dealing with a serial killer a week after they found four bodies close together. The police say they are just not sure what they have. It may just be a popular area to dispose of murder victims by unrelated murderers Every large city needs such a place. You just cannot have corpses lying around in the street.

New York may not have a serial killer, although they are not sure, California may have had a prolific serial killer at work. On December 17th, Los Angeles police released the pictures of 160 women, some feared to be possible victims of the Grim Sleeper serial killer.
The photographs, dating back to the 1980s, are alleged by police to have been found at the home of Lonnie David Franklin, who was arrested in Los Angeles in July and charged with the murder of 10 women. Franklin denies he killed them. To date, five of the 160 women have been identified.

With good weather, nearly one-fourth of the world’s population, 1.5 billion people worldwide, will be able to watch when the Earth's shadow creeps across the moon's surface early Tuesday morning, the first time in hundreds of years that a lunar eclipse will fall on the winter solstice, December 21st.

This is a rare opportunity no one on earth has ever seen before. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is  DEC 21, 1638." Geoff Chester said, according to NASA. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one ... that will be on  DEC 21, 2094" I doubt I will make that one.

This year's event will take 3 hours and 38 minutes. The eclipse begins on Tuesday at 1:33 a.m. ET, when the Earth's dark-red shadow will turn up on the edge of the moon, according to NASA. It will take about an hour for the shadow to cover the entire moon. Totality begins at 2:41 a.m. and lasts for 72 minutes.


Notable births on this date:

1940 Larry Willis rock keyboardist (Blood, Sweat & Tears) Spinning Wheel has got to go round.
1944 Robert Colomby New York NY, rock drummer (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1949 Claudia Jennings [Mary Ellen Chestrerton] Minnesota, playmate (November 1969)
1961 Bonnie Marino Cleveland OH, playmate (June 1990)
1967 Wendy Hamilton Detroit MI, playmate (December 1991) Good birthday to where your birthday suit.
1970 Grant Flower cricketer (brother of Andy Zimbabwe Test opening batsman)

Notable deaths on this date:

1812 Sacagawea Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies. I got her quarter.
1876 Hannah Omish at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1968 John Steinbeck author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1962), dies in New York at 66
1973 Bobby Darin singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37
1976 Richard J Daley Chicago mayor dies at 74

Notable events on this date:

1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
1669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
1803 Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27 million
1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50. The good old days!

1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1880 New York's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"

1920 Bob Hope becomes an American citizen. Thank God.
1944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1993 Donald Trump weds Marla Maples
1956 Montgomery AL, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service

1967 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam. Some things never change, just the faces.

 “To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult, to criticize the competent.”
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BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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