January 10, 2011: January 10 is … Peculiar People Day. We all know someone who this day was made for.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
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On this date: 1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins.
The nine year old girl that was killed by the Tucson gunman, Christina Taylor Green, was born on September 11, 2001. She entered this world under tragic circumstances her country could not protect her from. She left this world under tragic circumstances the authorities in her country could not protect her from. She was the granddaughter of former Cubs manager, Dallas Green and had been featured in the book, "Faces of Hope, Babies Born on 9/11, about children born on September 11, 2001.
Activist Judges have for some time now made law from the bench they felt couldn’t get done at the ballot box. Now the citizens, luckily a minute minority, have started using this idea with
one refinement; they are trying to accomplish with a bullet what they cannot get done at the ballot box. This craziness has to stop in a hurry. The police must develop a deadly force strategy. The only legal issue surrounding this shooter’s culpability is his sanity. The insanity defense is rarely used and it is used successfully in less than 15% of the cases it is used in. If the police were to use deadly force in obvious situations, the insanity defense would be used even less frequently. This is the country where the majority rules. I think the majority would have no problem with the shooter being dead right now. It sure would be cheaper and cause less pain and suffering to the victims and their survivors.
It is going to be a few days before this massacre is off the front page. Perhaps it should be that way but when the next mass shooting happens, and it will happen, it should get just as much attention. It is unfortunate anyone was killed but those that died at the hand of the Tucson shooter are no more important than the next group of victims, like those shot and killed outside a Baltimore night club. The dead there included a policeman. Where is that uproar by the press?
F. Lee Bailey is a 77 year old attorney who, it seems, does not want to stay out of the limelight. Bailey first came to the attention of this country when, as a young attorney, he volunteered his services to Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler. He did little good in that case as DeSalvo was never exonerated and was killed in prison in the 70s. Bailey was the attorney for Patty Hearst in her 1976 trial for bank robbery. He lost that trial and Hearst went to prison. She was granted a Presidential Pardon by Jimmy Carter.
Bailey thrust himself into the O. J. Simpson trial. He was given a small role by lead attorney Johnny Cochrane, mostly because he was white. Simpson won his murder trial but not because of Bailey. Bailey is seeking more headlines. I suspect a book is coming soon. He now insists he has proof of Simpson’s innocence. F. Lee Bailey is defending Simpson's 1995 acquittal on charges of murdering his ex-wife and her friend. In his first written account of the trial, but likely not his last, Bailey has posted a 46-page paper on his website in which he presents evidence he says proves Simpson's innocence. The 77-year-old Bailey tells the Portland Press Herald that the document, called "The Simpson Verdict," is an effort to reveal evidence not heard before and to explain why he has maintained Simpson's innocence in the face of attacks from critics. He also wants a few headlines but he does not mention this.
After the Simpson case, Bailey lost his law license for stealing or failing to accurately account for a client’s money. The client was charged with drug smuggling and apparently Bailey was paid in cash that the government wanted back since it was generated by illegal activity. Bailey fought the government and, once again, lost.
Top of the music charts on this date throughout recent history;
1946
1954 Oh! My Pa-Pa - Eddie Fisher
1962 The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
1970 Raindrop Keep Fallin’ on My Head - B.J. Thomas
1978 How Deep is Your Love - Bee Gees
1986 Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie
Born Roderick David Stewart on this day in 1945, the 5th son of Robert and Elsie Stewart spent his happy childhood doing what he did best: playing football (soccer) and singing. He excelled at the first, becoming captain of his school’s team. Then, for his 14th birthday, Rod’s father bought him a guitar.
That was the start of something big. Music auditions and emulating British and American folk artists convinced young Rod that he needed to play a harmonica. Soon he was singing with The Ray Davies Quartet (The Kinks) as their lead singer – only to irritate some with his now signature scratchy voice. He was just 18 when he took on another signature – his spiked hairstyle – and earned the nickname, Rod the Mod! From folk music, to rock ‘n’ roll, to rhythm and blues, Stewart was running the gamut of popular music and writing some of his own. However, he wasn’t winning attention in any area until he joined the group, Faces. Going solo in 1969 led to the beginning of winning in every direction for the throaty, extremely versatile singer. From the international smash hit, Maggie May to the even bigger hit, Tonight’s the Night to the 1978 chart-topper, Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, Rod Stewart was charming audiences around the globe. Two more decades of hit songs followed, including a version of Have I told You Lately that made one think Rod was singing only to you.
It would be hard to recognize that the seemingly quiet, retiring artist singing just to you was the same man who performed in 1994 at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to the largest concert crowd in history: 3.5 million fans celebrating New Year’s Eve and Rod Stewart.
And, although he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, Rod Stewart was never awarded with a Grammy (he had 14 nominations) until 2005 when his Stardust… The Great American Songbook, Volume III was voted the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. It was also the first time in 25 years that he had another #1 hit. That same year, Rod Stewart was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Today, audiences the world over have made the man with the most distinctive voice in pop music an icon and have purchased way more than 100 million of his records. Rod the Mod, now in his fifth decade as a performer, is still singing, selling more records and gaining new fans. And, he still plays in a senior soccer league in California.
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