January 23, 2011
January 23 is … National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day
I must be a poet, my feet are Longfellow’s.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them
So Jesus is walking down the street when he comes across a man, sitting on the curb, crying and moaning uncontrollably. “What is wrong, my son?” asks Jesus “Well, I am blind and I have terminal cancer. I am dying.” responds the man. Jesus places his left hand upon the man’s head, says a quick prayer and tells him to get up and leave, he is cured. The man does so.
Jesus continues to walk awhile when he comes upon another man sitting on the curb, crying uncontrollably. “What is wrong my son?” asks Jesus. “Well”, the sobbing man stammered, “I am a Packers’ fan.” Jesus, without saying a word, placed his left hand on the crying man’s head and sat down next to him, crying uncontrollably.
Bears 26 Packers 20.
On this date in history;
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto. Mr. Tombaugh was from Streator, IL. Our families were friends growing up. The Tombaughs were farmers and we often picked their tomatoes after the professional pickers were done for the season.
1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley.)
Does permitting a prisoner to walk in circle eights for one hour a day constitute exercise? Is not being allowed pillows or sheets a form of mistreatment?
These questions may lie at the heart of a formal legal complaint filed this week by the lawyer defending accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, an Army private who is being held in military custody at Quantico, Va. David Coombs, who represents Manning for his court-martial proceedings, announced on his website that he had filed a formal complaint under the Uniform Code of Military Justice protesting Manning's treatment. Coombs said in his complaint that keeping Manning under prevention-of-injury watch for five months, and suicide watch, is abuse of the base commander’s discretion
Manning is in pretrial detention at Quantico awaiting court-martial proceedings. He is suspected of passing a massive trove of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, which has posted many of them online. Coombs is asking that Manning be removed from prevention-of-injury watch, which is the reason for many of his current restrictions, and that his status change to "medium" from "maximum" custody.
The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has been raked over the coals before and since his arrest. What sort of treatment should the person who is actually accused of being the leaker receive? This is a situation where one must be careful what they pray for, they just may get it. I am not sure this guy would enjoy being in general prison population. Although he looks like a party favor, he may not enjoy being one.
According to the USA Today newspaper, sales of Epub books surpassed printed books for the first time as new Ereader owners bought Ebooks after Christmas. Millions of gift-wrapped iPads, Kindles, Nooks and other digital reading devices resulted in an unprecedented surge in sales of e-books last week.
USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, to be published Thursday, will show digital's new popularity: E-book versions of the top six books outsold the print versions last week. And of the top 50, 19 had higher e-book than print sales.
It is the first time the top-50 list has had more than two titles in which the e-version outsold the print version. May be I got into this business at the right time for once in my life.
Music at the top of the music world on this date throughout history
1959 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
1967 I’m a Believer - The Monkees
1975 Mandy - Barry Manilow
1983 Down Under - Men at Work
1991 Love Will Never Do (Without You) - Janet Jackson
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
DEKALB, IL 60115
COPYRIGHT 2011
Email: brucebrennanlaw@aol.com
Go to web sites below to buy books by Bruce A. Brennan. It is still a good time to purchase an interesting and inexpensive read. My second book should be available by February 15, 2011. More information will be forthcoming.
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