JULY 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.
July 5 is … Workaholics Day
It takes a workaholic to properly train and deploy a SEAL dog. Read the story at this link if you want to be impressed by your government and its military. It is a tribute to the wonderful dog also.
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey’s circus, the Greatest Show on Earth, was the brainchild of a man who said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” P. T. Barnum. That ie still true today and they are proving it by how much money the Nigerian government gives away. P. T. Barnum was born on this day in 1810 in Bethel, Connecticut.
His first ‘pull the wool over their eyes’ act happened in 1830, when he had people believing that an elderly black woman, Joice Heth, was George Washington’s childhood nurse. The gullible public supported him successfully for over three decades as owner of the P. T. Barnum’s Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome.
The museum housed several improbable attractions including the Fiji Mermaid (a fishtailed doll with a dried monkey head & torso). P.T. did have some legitimacy. He displayed Jumbo, the world’s largest elephant, and General Tom Thumb, the world’s smallest man, the first set of Siamese twins, and the famous soprano Jenny Lind. He even arranged a successful tour for her. Most of what Barnum had to offer would be considered the side show of today’s circus. But it was he who created the circus as we know it. Merging with Mr. Bailey and later, the Ringling Brothers in 1907, P.T. Barnum left us the lasting legacy of the circus extravaganza, housing true attractions along with the fake.
The most successful and outrageous showman of the times, Phineas Taylor Barnum was still a man of his word. After all, was there ever a greater show than the Greatest Show on Earth? Bring on the cotton candy, the clowns, the daring young man on the flying trapeze, and the parade of elephants. We’re ready to be suckered. I just won the Canadian Lottery and I didn’t even buy a ticket.
This case should get dismissed by the Court on its own Motion, sua sponte it is called in the legal world. When you commit a crime and are found guilty or plead guilty you lose some of your rights. This is one of them. I do not think the prison system wants a bunch of sexually aroused inmates looking for things to do. I don’t think all the Muslims in prisons or the born-again Christians want pornography available to their cellmate.
The Major League Baseball All Star game is July 12th. Buy my book of short stories. It has a novella about a terrorist attack at the All Star game. It will get you in the mood.
With the 4th of July firmly centered in our rearview mirror, we begin to realize summer is half over. Graduations are over: weddings are in full swing; youth baseball is winding down; the days are getting shorter; vacations have been taken; life is beginning to revert to normalcy after a brief detour at the commencement of each summer.
Soon, we will be celebrating Labor Day. Kids will be back in school; the older loved ones in our lives will be back at university; for many, the first job after graduation will begin enabling youth to determine for themselves if that decision in college was really the right one.
Life goes on. As I get older I think of things I never gave a second thought to just a few short years ago. Short is the key word in that line. As we age, years seem to go by quicker. People change and not always for the better. We can all get comfort in knowing “It is my life.”
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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Holmes the Ripper
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