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Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
As much as I try to be open and understanding, if someone, at this point in our nation's history, says they are still in T's camp, I'M OUT.
I'm not going to tolerate fascists silently.
ON this date in 1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake...
Friends Bun Man and Mr. Purple loved the idea and ran w/ it; they built a trike w/ a huge front wheel and pretty soon were traveling down the streets and pulling the brake and doing spin outs all over the place.
They later sold the idea to Mattel for Hot Wheels.
The curious aspect of this war was that Soldiers, after getting a furlough, were getting hooked on the Opium and were seen yanking away in those dens.
When the Brits back home heard this, they knew they had to settle and knowing they didn't want to make a treaty for no yanking, they called it the Treaty of Nanking.
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HISTORY IS CRAY CRAY
ON this date in 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese.
The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple negotiated the settlement for the Brits.
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ON this date in 1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
Most of you know how much the Boyz and I love baseball because, well, BASEBALL IS LIFE.
Bun Man and I still think Hank Aaron is in the Top 5 of all-time baseball greats--a classy gentleman who was the epitome of what a professional athlete should be--Athletic gifts from above and Humble demeanor to the world.
Hank Aaron, thanks for the memories...
JUST SO YOU KNOW...
"It's my belief pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives..."
--one of the greatest song lines ever...
And Syd (she was probably 8 or 9 at the time) leans over to me and says "Daddy, if I die before Mommy finishes shopping, you can have my Toby Keith Greatest HIts CD..."
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CLASSIC
One of my fave daughter Sydnee stories...
Listening to Toby Keith's 'Should have been a Cowboy" in the gym this AM, reminded me of the time my baby girl Sydnee (Sydnee Elizabeth Smith) and I were waitin' for the Mikster one day in Marshall's (we affectionately called this the Abyss because we never knew when the Mikster would re-emerge) to finish shopping (an onerous task).
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When I was young, I was foolish enough to believe principles mattered, and my life depended on me voting accordingly.
Now that I am an older young man, I remain foolish enough to believe principles matter, because nothing else does...
And I will vote accordingly.
GOOD FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN'
Morning,
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Hey Moochie, you singing?
Moochie: (War) h'uh, Yeah!, (What is it good for?), Absolutely (nothin) uh-huh
KD: You watchin’ Rush Hour again, don’t you love those bloopers?
M: No Dude, I’m sending a message...War ain't good
KD: What’s that?
M: We need to press Edwin Starr’s War in all languages, maybe peeps will get it then.
KD: We’re going to have to focus on commerce for peace and good.
M: I hear that, I’m pressin’ records here.
Morning Peeps,
Unsure why I'm giving the COSO Love Machine this info, but here goes...
A good reason to keep your HEART open...
LOVE WILL FIND A WAY
Pablo Cruise taught me this.
Played Canyons Course in Mesquite Monday...
The Hole...Par 3
The SHOT!
Interesting Day...15 mile bike ride early, then worked out, and then home chores in the yard. Window Cleaners come early so I have a window for golf. Head out to Coral Canyon and proceed to shoot a 77, first time breaking 80. What a day...
Morning Luv,
How is my dear friend this AM?
Hope you're getting along better and wishing you well...
Okay, reluctantly sharing this piece on an interview with David Neiwert who was a 21-year-old newspaper editor in the Idaho Panhandle in 1978 when the Aryan Nation hate group showed up in town. He and his publisher arrived at a fateful decision.
Discussing scenarios of both a Trump win or a Harris win...
Scary Shite -- GIRD YOURSELF
"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done."
- W.E.B. Du Bois
Historybook: Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally lynched after wrongfully being accused of offending a white woman (1955); MLK delivers "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC (1963); Shania Twain born (1965); Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce (1996); Actor Chadwick Boseman dies (2020).
"Purpose is an essential element of you ... the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose."
- Chadwick Boseman
COSO Morning Music theme, Wings style
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Paralympics in Paris
The 17th Summer Paralympics begins today with the opening ceremony from Paris at 8 pm local time (2 pm ET). The ceremony will take place in the French capital's iconic Place de la Concorde after a parade down the Champs-Elysées as 4,400 athletes from 184 delegations commence France's first Paralympics.
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TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017