April 28, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
April 28 is … Great Poetry Reading Day and Kiss-Your-Mate Day
How did you like my Easter poem? It was written for Easter and in celebration of Great Poetry Reading Day and in New York prisons you can kiss your same-sex mate.
So President Obama has released a document he claims is his Birth Certificate from Hawaii. By taking him over two years to release it, he has placed a cloud of distrust on the authenticity of the document. President Obama referenced how busy he was and how important the issues he was dealing with were. He said he released the copy of the Birth Certificate because he had more important things to deal with.
He was having a brief news conference, without taking questions, while on his way to appear on the all important Oprah Winfrey Show to be followed by a fund raising trip to New York City and three separate fund raising events. Must not be many important things to do today.
Donald ‘Duck’ Trump immediately took credit for forcing the President to release the Birth Certificate. Trump would not agree the Birth Certificate was authentic or that it was definitive proof of the President’s place of birth. Word is now circulating Trump has signed on to play a villain in a new Batman movie called ‘The Joke’.
Small cars were offered for sale in the U.S. for the first time on this day in 1939. Actually, these little cars would make today’s compact cars look like land yachts! Imagine a car that sold for $325, was 10-feet long, and had an 80-inch wheelbase and a four-gallon gas tank. We just described the Crosley which became fairly popular back in 1939 -- but wouldn’t survive.
Once the war effort got underway, auto manufacturing was cut back for defense needs. After World War II, people wanted luxury and size in their automobiles; considered better for family needs. The little Crosley fought an uphill battle and was replaced less than 15 years later by the popular German Volkswagen Beetle. Remember? It was more affectionately called the Bug. Every now and then we see one of these little cars (with their engines in the trunk) still chugging around. The Bug’s newest relative, the version with bug-eyed headlights (the engine’s in the front), is the latest popular small car.
The next really small car promises to be the electric one ... and, they are small, very small ... hardly bigger than a roller skate.
On this date in 1967, Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, refused induction into the U.S. Army. Critics and supporters spent years discussing the boxing champ’s refusal to serve in the armed forces. In fact, Ali’s world heavyweight crown was later taken away from him as a result of his actions, which he said were based on religious grounds.
Weird news from Harper’s weekly:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lifted the country's
48-year-old state of emergency and legalized peaceful
protests in an attempt to placate opposition groups who
have been calling for him to step down. The following
day, Syrians returned to the streets to protest,
security forces shot into the crowds, and more than 100
people died, according to witnesses. "Bullets started
flying over our heads like heavy rain," said one
protester. The civil war in Libya was "moving toward a
stalemate," according to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the U.S. military
confirmed that two armed Predator drones were flying
combat missions over the country. An internal report by
the British Ministry of Defence warned that the
increasing use of drones may, by keeping soldiers from
the horrors of battle, make war more likely. NATO forces
may have begun an "incremental and involuntary journey,"
the report said, "towards a Terminator-like reality."
Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) visited rebel stronghold
Benghazi to show his support for democracy. McCain, who
met with Qaddafi and his family in 2009 and agreed to
help them purchase military equipment from the United
States, called the rebels "my heroes." The Taliban freed
at least 476 prisoners from the political wing of a
prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, by digging a tunnel
hundreds of meters long. Classified U.S. military
documents about prisoners at Guantanamo, obtained by
WikiLeaks and shared with U.S. and British newspapers,
revealed that one detainee, a senior Al Qaeda member,
was "so dedicated to jihad that he reportedly received
injections to promote impotence and recommended the
injections to others so more time could be spent on
jihad (rather than being distracted by women)."
Standard & Poor's downgraded its outlook on the United
States to "negative," based on concerns that the
government won't be able to resolve its long-term budget
deficits. Stock indices fell and the price of gold
reached a new high in response to the cut. President
Obama said he would create a task force to investigate
"the role of traders and speculators" in retail gasoline
prices, which have climbed by 30 cents in the past
month. "We are going to make sure that no one is taking
advantage of the American people for their own
short-term gain," he said. A Philadelphia phone company
was found to have hoarded 1.7 million toll-free numbers,
including 1-800-Cadillac, 1-800-Worship, and
1-800-Firetip, and re-directed most of their calls to
phone sex businesses. McDonald's restaurants across the
United States held the chain's first National Hiring
Day, with plans to hire 50,000 new employees. "It's a
good place to work," said one Ohio job-seeker. "I come
here almost every day to eat anyway." Researchers found
that people eat more after looking at overweight
individuals and that dieters tend to be confused by
unhealthful foods that are labeled "salad." An Arizona
man was arrested for exposing himself to a woman dressed
in a Statue of Liberty costume. After police took him
into custody, the man said he just wanted to go home and
do his taxes. Dr. Lazar Greenfield, president-elect of
the American College of Surgeons, resigned amid
persistent criticism over a Valentine's Day editorial he
wrote in "Surgery News" that suggested semen contains
mood-altering compounds that make women happier. "So
there's a deeper bond between men and women than
St. Valentine would have expected," Greenfield wrote,
"and now we know there's a better gift for that day than
chocolates."
In anticipation of the Easter holiday, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection reminded its agents that chocolate
Kinder Eggs, which contain "non-nutritive
object[s]"--plastic toys--inside them, are banned in the
United States. Texas Governor Rick Perry called for
three days of prayer to end a drought that has damaged
crops and caused thousands of wildfires, and some
members of the Kyrgyzstan Parliament slaughtered rams to
banish "evil spirits." Chinese writer Zhang Yiyi planned
to spend more than $150,000 on ten plastic surgery
sessions that will make him look like William
Shakespeare, and "Land's End," the 25-room,
24,000-square-foot mansion on Long Island that was
rumored to have inspired Jay Gatsby's home in "The Great
Gatsby," was demolished. Termites ate 10 million rupees
stored inside a steel chest at an Indian bank, sugar was
proven to mitigate the harmful effects of
methamphetamine on fruit flies, and peppermint was found
to ease the discomfort of irritable bowel
syndrome. Researchers determined that the happiest
states have the highest suicide rates. "If humans are
subject to mood swings," said Dr. Andrew Oswald, "the
lows of life may thus be most tolerable in an
environment in which other humans are unhappy." Rapper
Lil B received death threats after announcing the title
of his forthcoming album: "I'm Gay." "I'm very gay, but
I love women," Lil B explained. "I'm not attracted to
men in any way. But yes I am gay. I'm so happy. I'm a
gay, heterosexual male."
48-year-old state of emergency and legalized peaceful
protests in an attempt to placate opposition groups who
have been calling for him to step down. The following
day, Syrians returned to the streets to protest,
security forces shot into the crowds, and more than 100
people died, according to witnesses. "Bullets started
flying over our heads like heavy rain," said one
protester. The civil war in Libya was "moving toward a
stalemate," according to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the U.S. military
confirmed that two armed Predator drones were flying
combat missions over the country. An internal report by
the British Ministry of Defence warned that the
increasing use of drones may, by keeping soldiers from
the horrors of battle, make war more likely. NATO forces
may have begun an "incremental and involuntary journey,"
the report said, "towards a Terminator-like reality."
Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) visited rebel stronghold
Benghazi to show his support for democracy. McCain, who
met with Qaddafi and his family in 2009 and agreed to
help them purchase military equipment from the United
States, called the rebels "my heroes." The Taliban freed
at least 476 prisoners from the political wing of a
prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, by digging a tunnel
hundreds of meters long. Classified U.S. military
documents about prisoners at Guantanamo, obtained by
WikiLeaks and shared with U.S. and British newspapers,
revealed that one detainee, a senior Al Qaeda member,
was "so dedicated to jihad that he reportedly received
injections to promote impotence and recommended the
injections to others so more time could be spent on
jihad (rather than being distracted by women)."
Standard & Poor's downgraded its outlook on the United
States to "negative," based on concerns that the
government won't be able to resolve its long-term budget
deficits. Stock indices fell and the price of gold
reached a new high in response to the cut. President
Obama said he would create a task force to investigate
"the role of traders and speculators" in retail gasoline
prices, which have climbed by 30 cents in the past
month. "We are going to make sure that no one is taking
advantage of the American people for their own
short-term gain," he said. A Philadelphia phone company
was found to have hoarded 1.7 million toll-free numbers,
including 1-800-Cadillac, 1-800-Worship, and
1-800-Firetip, and re-directed most of their calls to
phone sex businesses. McDonald's restaurants across the
United States held the chain's first National Hiring
Day, with plans to hire 50,000 new employees. "It's a
good place to work," said one Ohio job-seeker. "I come
here almost every day to eat anyway." Researchers found
that people eat more after looking at overweight
individuals and that dieters tend to be confused by
unhealthful foods that are labeled "salad." An Arizona
man was arrested for exposing himself to a woman dressed
in a Statue of Liberty costume. After police took him
into custody, the man said he just wanted to go home and
do his taxes. Dr. Lazar Greenfield, president-elect of
the American College of Surgeons, resigned amid
persistent criticism over a Valentine's Day editorial he
wrote in "Surgery News" that suggested semen contains
mood-altering compounds that make women happier. "So
there's a deeper bond between men and women than
St. Valentine would have expected," Greenfield wrote,
"and now we know there's a better gift for that day than
chocolates."
In anticipation of the Easter holiday, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection reminded its agents that chocolate
Kinder Eggs, which contain "non-nutritive
object[s]"--plastic toys--inside them, are banned in the
United States. Texas Governor Rick Perry called for
three days of prayer to end a drought that has damaged
crops and caused thousands of wildfires, and some
members of the Kyrgyzstan Parliament slaughtered rams to
banish "evil spirits." Chinese writer Zhang Yiyi planned
to spend more than $150,000 on ten plastic surgery
sessions that will make him look like William
Shakespeare, and "Land's End," the 25-room,
24,000-square-foot mansion on Long Island that was
rumored to have inspired Jay Gatsby's home in "The Great
Gatsby," was demolished. Termites ate 10 million rupees
stored inside a steel chest at an Indian bank, sugar was
proven to mitigate the harmful effects of
methamphetamine on fruit flies, and peppermint was found
to ease the discomfort of irritable bowel
syndrome. Researchers determined that the happiest
states have the highest suicide rates. "If humans are
subject to mood swings," said Dr. Andrew Oswald, "the
lows of life may thus be most tolerable in an
environment in which other humans are unhappy." Rapper
Lil B received death threats after announcing the title
of his forthcoming album: "I'm Gay." "I'm very gay, but
I love women," Lil B explained. "I'm not attracted to
men in any way. But yes I am gay. I'm so happy. I'm a
gay, heterosexual male."
You cannot make most of this up. It is too unbelievable what comes out of our leaders, major thinkers and researchers.
Music at the top of the charts over the years on April 28th;
1950
1958 Tequila - The Champs
1966 (You’re My) Soul and Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers
1974 TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees
1982 I Love Rock ’N Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
1990 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
DEKALB, IL 60115
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