MAY 5, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
May 5 is … National Hoagie Day
Today is a good day to own a Subway Shop or a Jimmie Johns store.
Governor Milquetoast has lied again and shown his true colors as an out of touch liberal hippie. In March, he said he would review the law going through the Illinois legislature making it legal to secure a concealed weapons permit. The law has not passed but on Tuesday he said he would veto it if it gets to his desk. Way to keep an open mind. I think it is about time you sign an executive order making it illegal to put any person that voted for you in prison. That would at least keep the majority of criminals and the people that travel to visit them in Chicago.
I am getting tired of the Bin Laden story but more keeps coming out. The guy is dead, dead, dead. The Navy Seals that carried out the operation were in Washington DC on Tuesday for debriefing. Some of them have met with President Obama.
President Obama, going against the majority of Americans, has decided not to release the photos of a deceased Bin Laden. He is once again showing more concern for the wishes of non-Americans than do what Americans want him to do. If certain factions of the Muslim world becomes upset with the release of the photos that would seem to tell me those are the folks we should be investigating and watching. With the money we have spent for homeland security and the trampling of many of our Constitutional rights by the increased security blamed on 911, we should be safe enough to release the photos. It also seems obvious to me that these photos will be leaked; everything gets leaked. If we release them at least we get to control the release and take the shock away from when the rest get leaked.
On Monday, the White House said bin Laden was involved in a firefight, which is why the SEALs killed rather than captured him. On Tuesday, however, White House press secretary Jay Carney said bin Laden did not fire on the SEALs. He said bin Laden resisted but offered no specifics. Bin Laden's wife rushed the SEALs when they stormed the room, Carney said, and was shot in the calf.
"Bin Laden was then shot and killed," Carney said. "He was not armed."
That was one of many official details that have changed in the two days since Bin Laden was killed. A White House transcript misidentified which of bin Laden's sons was killed – it was Khalid, not Hamza. Officials incorrectly said bin Laden's wife died in gunfire while serving as his human shield. That was actually Bin Laden's aide's wife, and she was just caught in cross fire, the White House said Tuesday. Carney attributed those discrepancies to the fog of war, saying the information was coming in bit by bit and was still being reviewed. "We provided a great deal of information with great haste in order to inform you, and through you the American public, about the operation and how it transpired and the events that took place there in Pakistan," Carney told reporters Tuesday. "And obviously some of the information came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated on."
Five people were killed in the raid, officials said: Bin Laden; his son; his most trusted courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and al-Kuwaiti's wife and brother
If you are Mexican or of Mexican descent or just like a party, today, Cinco de Mayo, is the day to celebrate the anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Puebla. General Ignacio Zaragoza’s troops were outnumbered three to one as they battled the invading French army. They may have been outnumbered but they had the will to win. The Mexican forces defeated Napoleon III’s army and Puebla stood.
Now stand up and join that Cinco de Mayo parade, attend the festival, enjoy the salsa music and the salsa dip with your Margarita. We all salute General Ignacio Zaragoza and his brave contingent. Remember – Tequila!
On this date through history:
1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend OH)
1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft of Glencoe, IL was sitting at his kitchen table, admiring the piece of mail he had just received from the U.S. Patent Office. It was a patent for the screw-on bottle cap with the pour lip. For those who have always wondered, but maybe were a little shy to ask, now you know.
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space, on the Freedom 7
1965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam. It has been downhill for the United States ever since.
1973 - 56,800 fans paid $309,000 to see Led Zeppelin at Tampa Stadium. This was the largest, paid crowd ever assembled in the U.S. to see a single musical act. The concert topped The Beatles 55,000-person audience at Shea Stadium in New York ($301,000).
2000 conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
Music at the top of the charts on May 5th;
1949
1957 All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
1965 Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman’s Hermits
1973 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony
1981 Morning Train (Nine to Five) - Sheena Easton
1989 Like a Prayer - Madonna
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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