Saturday, July 21, 2018
On this day in 1861,
REBELS ROUT YANKS AT BULL RUN
On this day in 1861, the Union army was routed at Bull Run (aka Manassas) by Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War just 30 miles outside Washington, D.C., disabusing the North of any notion that there would be a quick end to the “Southern insurrection.” At a critical point in the battle, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson closed a gap in the Rebel lines and withstood a series of Union attacks, earning him the nickname “Stonewall.” The battle was watched by politicians, socialites and others who gathered as if they were attending a picnic. The Union retreat was so disorderly that second-guessers believe the Confederates could have proceeded into D.C. had they chosen to pursue. The Union army suffered what was then considered a massive 3,000 casualties while the Confederates suffered 2,000 casualties.
In a little known coincidence, much of the battle of Bull Run was fought in the front yard of the farm home of Wilmer McLean, who later moved from the area and reestablished himself in Appomattox. His Appomattox home was the “courthouse” where Lee surrendered to Grant. After the surrender, Union soldiers took almost all of McLean’s furniture and other artifacts to save as mementoes.
Friday, July 20, 2018
On this day in 1969,
Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
NASA Video
55 Years Ago Today - First Chart-Topping Surf Song
Jan and Dean's "Surf City" Hits #1
"Two Girls For Every Boy"
A 1960's-style music video
Thursday, July 19, 2018
The man who presaged Trumpism.
Trump's Russia/NATO Policies Threaten Entire Foreign Policy Establishment With Irrelevance
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
On this day in 1969,
TEDDY KENNEDY KILLS
MARY JO KOPECHNE IN CAR ACCIDENT
LEAVING HER TO SUFFOCATE
On this day in 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, off the east coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The celebration was in honor of the dedicated work of the Boiler Room Girls, and was the fourth such reunion of the Robert F. Kennedy campaign workers. Ted Kennedy attended for his late brother.
Kopechne reportedly left the party at 11:15 p.m. with Ted. According to his own account, he offered to drive her to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown, where she was staying. She did not tell her close friends at the party that she was leaving, and she left her purse and keys behind. Kennedy drove the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a narrow, unlit bridge, which was without guardrails and was not on the route to Edgartown.
The Oldsmobile landed in Poucha Pond and overturned in the water; Kennedy extricated himself from the vehicle and survived, but Kopechne did not and died in the submerged vehicle eight days shy of her twenty-ninth birthday.
Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning. . .
The captain of the local fire department testified at the inquest:
It looked as if she were holding herself up to get a last breath of air. It was a consciously assumed position.... She didn't drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. But he [Ted Kennedy] didn't call. . .
Farrar testified later at the inquest that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted that to mean that Kopechne had survived in the air bubble after the crash, and he concluded that:
Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.
Farrar believed that Kopechne "lived for at least two hours down there."
A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a two-month suspended sentence. . . .
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The man who presaged Trumpism,
Pat Buchanan: Trump's foreign policy rejects the agendas of the neocons and their liberal interventionist allies
Monday, July 16, 2018
Former U.S. Atty Andrew McCarthy,
Mueller's Indictment of 12 Russian Hackers Pure Politics To Justify Special Counsel Appointment
On this day in 2009,
OBAMA MEDDLES IN LOCAL BOSTON POLICE MATTER TO HELP PERSONAL FRIEND
Slanders White Certified Diversity Trainer Who Once Tried To Save African American Reggie Lewis With Mouth-to-Mouth CPR
On this day in 2009, Democrat President Barack Obama accused white Boston police officer James Crowley, a certified police trainer in diversity and racial profiling, of “acting stupidly” when he arrested Obama’s personal friend, African-American and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, for disorderly conduct.
Crowley had previously gained notice for being one of two police officers who had administered CPR, including mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, in a failed attempt to revive African-American and Boston Celtics basketball star Reggie Lewis, who died on the court during practice.
According to press reports, Gates had just returned from a long trip overseas, was tired, and both he and his driver had trouble getting his front door open. After entering through a back door and then exiting, Gates and his driver forced their way into the front door, damaging the door.
After a neighborhood resident reported a possible break-in at Gates’ house, Crowley arrived at the scene, went up to the front door, and asked Gates to step outside. Crowley explained he was investigating the report of a break-in in progress.
Gates asked, "Why, because I'm a black man in America?"
Gates then threatened Crowley by saying he did not know who he was "messing with."
Crowley asked Gates for a photo ID so as to verify he was the resident of the house. Gates initially refused, but then supplied his Harvard University identification card. However, Gates went on to repeatedly shout requests for Crowley’s identification.
Crowley then told Gates that he was leaving his residence and that if Gates wanted to continue discussing the matter, he would speak to him outside.
Gates replied, "Yeah, I'll speak with your mama outside."
Gates stepped onto his front porch and continued to yell at Crowley, accusing him of racial bias and saying he had not heard the last of him. On the 9-1-1 dispatcher audio recordings, a man's loud voice is heard in the background at several points during Sgt. Crowley's transmissions.
Crowley warned Gates that he was becoming disorderly. When Gates ignored this warning and persisted in his behavior, and likewise ignored a second warning from Crowley, Crowley informed Gates that he was under arrest.
Obama’s use of his presidency to mischaracterize Crowley’s behavior, with no criticism of Gates’ behavior, set off a national uproar which he later attempted to mollify with a White House Beer Summit in the Rose Garden.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Last year the United States had the largest decline in CO2 emissions *in the entire world* for the 9th time this century
China? India? Uh, not so much. EU? hahahaha
Dilbert: It is Going to Get Dangerous and the Left has Made it Clear They're Going to get Personal and Come After You Next
“The left has made it clear that this is personal now,” Mr. Adams told his large fan base on YouTube. “This is citizen to citizen. Probably the safest thing you can do if you’re a Republican is to help get out the vote because it’s going to be a dangerous place around here if the president gets impeached. I’m not wrong about that, right? Impeachment is the point where the risk of something snapping is pretty high.”
Mr. Adams recently recently said that Mr. Trump’s successful summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would probably increase cognitive dissonance among the former’s most ardent critics.
“[Critics are] going to be talking in this weird, speculative, imaginary ways about things that have gone wrong or could go wrong,” Mr. Adams said in video uploaded to Twitter on June 12. “They don’t have a good trap door — not one they can just walk out. They have to conjure up an imaginary door just to get out of the room in their head, and I think it’s going to cause a tremendous amount of distress.”
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