Interesting History

History is interesting.  I've always enjoyed it as a subject in school and as something I've read up on as an adult.  I enjoy museums and even roadside plaques about something that happened on this site in eighteen hundred and whatever. 

You see people spelling HIStory and implying that the truth is something other than the official version in the school books.  I have found this to be true in some cases.  For instance the first black slave owner in the United States was black.  You never hear about that during black history month.  Sure you'll get the off the cuff mention about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, as if liking a bit of brown sugar now and then was some sort of stain on America's founding. 

History is filled with little stories that don't fit the narrative.  Some historians go after these stories.  I always find these little side trips interesting:

The newly unearthed diaries of a colourful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, reveal that American spy chiefs wanted Patton dead because he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives.

The death of General Patton in December 1945, is one of the enduring mysteries of the war era. Although he had suffered serious injuries in a car crash in Manheim, he was thought to be recovering and was on the verge of flying home.

But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General "Wild Bill" Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname "Old Blood and Guts".

His book, "Target Patton", contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch.
 

Can I see this being true, yes.  It will be interesting to see how this work holds up.  There is much from the WWII days that is now coming into the public domain and the story I was told in school about "America's greatest generation" is something less than the whole truth.  Finding out the whole truth is going to be a long uphill battle.  I've been wanting to get my hands on this book, for some time.  Talk about a difficult task.  Then again, getting the truth is seldom easy.

From the Blotter

I hope she got the extra value meal.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KOAT/CNN) - Friday afternoon on the corner of Virginia Street and Central Avenue, a neighborhood known for prostitution, an undercover cop says 58-year-old Donald Jones hooked up with Keli Gilbert in a very peculiar way.

MOREPolice say Jones was observed picking up Gilbert at the corner. Police followed him to a local McDonald's, into the drive-thru where they picked up a snack.

The criminal complaint says the two then drove to U.S.S. Bullhead Memorial Park, where the cop approached the car and "observed Keli through the passenger window quickly pulling up her pants."

After being confronted, police say the woman admitted Jones bought her food in exchange for sex.

Police say both Gilbert and Jones were arrested.
 

Some say that prostitution is a victimless crime.  I don't see how that could be true in this case.  Who knows? He could have got the clap and she could have got high cholesterol. 

On a more serious note, either this chick is supper ugly, or the economy is doing much worse than anyone thought.  I haven't been trough drive thru in a while.  Last I remember it, a extra value meal was what six bucks?

UPDATE

I did a little search for a mug shot.  I'm not sure if this is her or not, but the profile info and allies fits.

Thou Shalt Not...

This was a little amusing.

Fleming was arrested Friday afternoon at the Barnes & Noble near Cumberland Mall and charged with misdemeanor shoplifting, Cobb County jail records show.

“Said accused did exit the store with the merchandise, passing all pay counters,” Fleming’s arrest warrant states.

Fleming has been charged with theft by shoplifting, and her bond has been set at $1,000.

The book she was stealing? A Bible.

Here's my offer to Barnes & Noble and Ms Fleming: I will pay for the bible if Ms. Fleming agrees to read it and if after doing so, Barnes & Noble agrees to let the matter drop.

When I Was a Kid...

I did crazy stuff when I was a kid.  Some of that stuff happened in school.  Like the time in 5th grade I made volcano for my science project.  I had lava made out of baking powder and vinegar it was colored red with food dye and it oozed out the top.  I had read how volcanoes sometimes "blew their top" and gave off lots of smoke, so I rigged a couple of smoke bombs into the deal and a fire cracker or two into the dried mud on top of the cone.  I lit the whole thing off and the smoke blew, the fire crackers were loud then the lava came out.  It was freaking cool!

The class room got kinda smokey and we all had to go outside for about 45 mins for early recess while the teacher and the janitor got some big fans to air the room out.

Compare that to today:

A 16-year-old Bartow High School student was arrested Monday on allegations she detonated a bottle of explosive materials on the school grounds.

The girl told authorities she was conducting a science experiment, according to Bartow police, but science teachers at the school said they knew nothing about it. She also said she thought the materials would produce only smoke, not an explosion, police said.

Pritchard said he was standing nearby when the student left the drink bottle behind the cafeteria, near the lake on the school's east side.

"It was next to the gazebo by the lake," he said. "I wasn't standing too far away when it happened. I just heard the pop, and I turned around. I thought it was a firecracker at first."
 

When I was 18 I bought my first shot gun.  I also had a couple of months of school left.  I really liked shooting trap and was good at it.  So I'd have my shotgun in the car and go shooting after school. 

Again compare that to today:

Most members of the Johnston County community, just southeast of Raleigh believe the 18-year-old is paying far too big a price for an honest mistake. Withrow had been skeet shooting with friends a day before, and only noticed he had left his shotgun in his truck on Monday morning as he reached to grab his book bag, said family friend Kimberly Boykin. When he realized his mistake, rather than leave school grounds, he went to the front office to call his mother for help.
 

Did ya catch that?  He forgot his gun was in the truck.  He called his mom to come get it.  They threw his ass in jail.   He can't graduate and he is banded from the campus for 365 days.  His crime? Realizing he made a mistake and trying to do the right thing.

All I know is that its a good thing I got out of school more than 20 years ago.  If I hadn't I'd be writing this blog post from inside the big house.

 

News Flash

NEWS FLASH: Friday evening. A notorious murderer has just escaped from Texas State Prison. Police advise members of the public that they should not approach him at any costs, but report any sightings to their nearest police station.

NEWS FLASH: Saturday afternoon. The convict who escaped from Texas State Prison late Friday evening is safely back in custody after surrendering himself to police early this morning.

 

When asked why he gave himself up after his first taste of freedom for twelve years, the con replied, "When I finally got home, the first thing my wife asked me was, 'Where have you been? You escaped eight hours ago.'"

The Kid is All Right

It seems like every news clip I see these days makes me want to despair of any hope for this next generation.  There is a lot to get down on kids about, I mean they get arrested at school, like Jarad Marcum.

In a move The Daily Caller can only characterize as courageous, 14-year-old Jared Marcum returned to Logan Middle School in Logan County, West Va., wearing exactly the same shirt, which depicts a hunting rifle with the statement “protect your right.”

According to Fox News, other students across the rural county showed their support for Marcum by wearing similar shirts to school.

“There’s a lot of people wearing this same exact shirt, showing great, great support and I really appreciate it,” Marcum said in the morning outside the schoolhouse door, according to local NCB affiliate WBOY-TV.
 

That's right my fellow Americans this 14 YEAR OLD kid got arrested because he wouldn't take off his tee shirt!  Then they kicked him out of his public school.  When he came back, him and a bunch of other kids wore THE SAME SHIRT!!!  Because, despite the best efforts of the NEA, we still have Americans in America!

Hey Obama, you can buy up all the ammo, you can outlaw our guns, but you'll never take our tee-shirts!!!


Damn! One 14 year old kid has more integrity than the entire Temple Texas police department.