Daily Archives: 7/17/2016

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Interesting times…

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We’re probably NOT going to like where this path ends:

7 Officers Shot in Baton Rouge; 3 Feared Dead:
Posted 7:49 AM, July 17, 2016, by CNN Wire, Updated at 08:51am, July 17, 2016

A man with a gun opened fire on police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday, injuring at least seven — including three who are feared dead, an official said.

Police received a call of “suspicious person walking down Airline Highway with an assault rifle (emphasis mine),” a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. When police arrived, the man opened fire.

The remaining officers are hospitalized in critical condition, the source said.

The victims were from Baton Rouge Police Department as well as East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, another official said.

Baton rouge was a mess when I lived there for a year in the early 90’s. Those still there said that the downhill slide accelerated after the city absorbed a bunch of refugees from Katrina.

I still have to pass through the city for work. I went through there on Friday evening, back through on late Saturday afternoon. Key point – don’t get off I-10/I-12/I-110 for ANYTHING. Nothing to see there. Move along. It’s ALWAYS better somewhere else.

Cops HAVE to be nervous now – first, Dallas, now Baton Rouge, and the forces arrayed against them are not particularly innovative and much prone to imitations.

For the ‘Black Lives Matter’ bozos – you want the cops out of your neighborhoods? Think about that for a second. Who’s going to fill that vacuum in their absence? Hint: it ain’t gonna be those church ladies in their fantastic hats. Little Dindu Nuffin is going to run amuck. In. Your. Black. Neighborhood. Billy Bob ain’t gonna worry. That sh*t don’t go down in HIS quarter.

Guns? Reports say ‘assault rifle’ and the blood of dead cops makes for excellent dancing for the gun control bunch. Perhaps we prefer that the perpetrator use, say, a stolen 7,000 gallon semi truck full of gasoline from the local refineries? when you see one of those parked downtown, one might be advised to find business elsewhere.

Me? I’m just waiting for another shoe to drop. Martial law by November? Suspend the elections? Gutted military against heavily armed forces loyal to federal bureaucracies? Tell me you don’t think any of this could happen?

The Name Game

The Name Game #447

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Eighty degrees before eight AM this morning. Returned home yesterday evening after a flying trip into LA (Lower Alabama) to see how bad we got blown up THIS time. Short answer – not real bad. Station back on line after we had a near thing as one of the primary suppliers of natural gas to Florida’s generating plants. I’ll have some pictures tomorrow.

Opened this morning’s paper over a breakfast of stone-ground grits, eggs and sausage, read a bit, found the birth announcements, this week’s offering includes both the big hospital across the river and the little one here in town, a total of sixty-eight new babies from between June 1 and July 12.

Let’s look at what we have:

Zoie N & Galvin A. do up a daughter as Zabrina Jolie’ because that letter ‘z’ brought success and joy to de momma’s life.

Crystal & Fred Q. give their son a name for his proposed career as a male dancer, Ryder Blaize.

Alyssa A. & Logan O. bring a son, Maison Louis.  In an area with a heritage of French language, you’d think they knew that ‘maison’ is French for ‘house’.

Miss Martha M.doesn’t want to give her daughter three names, so she squeezes them together, showing us little Nevaeh LeahAnn.

Katie L. & Rodel(!) A. show their daughter, Elodie Claresse.

Tyler & Laken D. do a son, Khosten Craig.

Daelyn J. & Betty M. use their new son to hint of vacation aspriations, Bransyn Sage.

Waylon & Samantha R. present their baby girl, Jettlyn Kay.

Marcus & Clair R. show us little boy Rhett Kason.

Felix A. & Ebonny(!) M. show their knowledge of geography by tagging their daughter with Hope Havanah, no doubt to be followed by Faith Tegucigalpa.

Miss Janelle T. substitutes an apostorphe for her daughter’s daddy’s name, giving us little  A’mani Jaeleigh.

Seth A. & TreCella(!) H. tag their son with Jabari Mylik.

Another apostrophe-daddy substitution shows up as Miss Whitney F. shows her daughter, Jeriah J’Zelle.

Bobby S. & Sharonda(!) C. do a daughter up as Dakota Love, no doubt to be followed by little sister Sioux Indifference.

Gerald J. & Char(!) J. (different surnames) triple up and punctuate their daughter, little Ze’ana Charlie-Ann.

Michael S. & Kimberly W. give us son Malcus Ray.

Andrew S. & Nicole J. apostrophicate their daughter Ja’Niyah.

Edwynn A. and Darinka(!) S. perpetuate the travesty with their son Edwynn Jostyll.

Thomas & Nancy-Lea M. do a daughter with Kateri Therese.

Theodore & Brittany T. triple up on their daughter Amethyst Cirilla Rose.

And that’s the list for this Sunday.

History

Today in History – July 17

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1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the Thames River with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Friederic Handel’s Water Music is premiered. A bit more difficult than clicking a track on your iPod, but you DO have to admire his tastes in music.

1794 – The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. You know you’re doing your revolution wrong when you get around to guillotining nuns. This is the logical conclusion to ‘separation of church and state’ as promulgated by the Left. It starts when you have to bake cakes…

1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York. This should be a national holiday.

1917 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor, mainly because the real name, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, sounds just a wee bit too German in the middle of World War I.

1918 – On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia. You’re doing your revolution wrong when you shoot little kids just because their daddy is the Czar. On the same day in 1998, their recovered remains are officially interred in Russia, eighty years after their murder and the failure of the commie regime that killed them.

1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan. The Feds said his plane was unsafe and denied him permission for the flight, so he took off, ostensibly for home in Los Angeles, and ended up in Ireland, claiming he’d gotten lost. He lost his license for fourteen days and became a legend.

1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.

1955 – Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. Can you say “centrifugal bumblepuppy”? (Extra points if you can tell me where ‘centrifugal bumblepuppy’ comes from.)

1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. This W54 warhead weighs just 51 pounds and is equivalent to twenty TONS of TNT. Fifty-one pounds. Like carry-on luggage…

1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200. An engineering screw-up, departing from the original design ‘because this is easier’.

1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. many theories of the cuase are in conflict with the official findings.