Murder in the Heartland.
Today in Kentucky a man was displeased with his breakfast and went on a shooting rampage which was responsible for the death of 5 people. His eggs, according to the story, were not to his satisfaction.
Here is the link to the full story.
This, as extreme as it is, is not unheard of in the USA. Some parts of the country, especially along the border with Mexico are essentially the fiefdoms of Latin American drug cartels. Across the San Francisco Bay from me lies Oakland — one of the centres of gang activity. The heartland for that, however, is Los Angeles where several times a month people die because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Actually, that happened here in San Francisco last month — a German teacher on holiday was shot and killed when she was caught in the crossfire. But life in the USA is great, just peachy. It is wonderful since American society is so much stronger than that in the old world, obviously. That is why violent crime rates are several times higher in the USA than there.
The Naming Game
It has to be something you can live with, something you can call, and distinctive, a name that is not a name in used for a human in your family and of course, appropriate. Continue reading “The Naming Game”
More WSC….
“When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet: ‘In three weeks, England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.
“Some chicken….Some neck!
Winston Churchill
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
The other 9/11
On September 10, 1683, the papal legate sang a great outdoor mass on the Kahlenberg, west of Vienna, for King Jan III Sobieski and his 16,000 troops. The king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had been named commander of the field army of some 85,000 troops, including not only the Polish–Lithuanian contingent, but also troops of the Habsburg Monarchy, Bavaria, Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the Zaporozhian* Cossacks — collectively: the Holy League. (Note that only Louis XIV of France had refused the Pope’s rally call and was using the opportunity to seize Hapsburg territories in the Elsass and other parts of southern Germany. The Elsass (Alsace) would eventually become part of France, and we all know where that lead. Continue reading “The other 9/11”
I just had to….
After a Russian and an American singing singing our patriotic anthems, a Czech conductor! He did a good job.
A history question
If you were required to teach twentieth century history to primary school pupils, what would you teach and why? I have a particular reason for asking this question, and will tell you why later.
As it is…..
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
Jahn – kindred spirits
my daughter’s two
Dodgy dog training
The dog training isn’t going very well.
The Terrible Two come running when I arrive home – but only when I call their names. They don’t seen to understand, or show any willingness to understand “off” and “down” and they will not be bribed with commercial treats.
They are siblings – a male and a female from the same litter. Continue reading “Dodgy dog training”
Boadicea's Chariot 
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