A Brief History On September 24, 2017, numerous NFL football players took a knee rather than stand for the playing of the National Anthem at this week’s football games. A practice started last year by quarterback (now unemployed) Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49’rs that spread intermittently throughout the league, had largely died down, with players expressing their displeasure with the state of affairs in the United States by the less threatening action of joining arm in arm while the National Anthem is played and or sung before games. Digging Deeper Today, not only did 21 Cleveland Browns players…
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A Brief History On September 5, 1836, Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Of course, we remember him largely through the city that is named after him, the 4th most populous in the United States and spreading a massive nearly 600 square miles, about double the area of New York City. In 2017, while the city of Houston is in the news as Hurricane Harvey and its resultant floods devastate the city and the area, we look into the man behind the city’s name. Digging Deeper Sam Houston was born to a Scots-Irish…
A Brief History On August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England died from wounds received in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English King to die in battle. Long ago, kings and other nobility would lead their men in battle, but for the past few hundred years the trend has been for the rich and powerful to send other people into battle. Perhaps if our leaders were forced to actually lead they would consider war a bit more carefully! Digging Deeper Richard III was the last of the Plantagenet dynasty kings, a clan originally from France that included…
A Brief History On August 18, 2017, we learned of Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Democrat from Union City, made the idiotic statement, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” on Facebook on August 16, 2017. An African American woman, Chappelle-Nadal has refused demands that she resign. Although the Facebook conversation was removed, Chappelle-Nadal reiterated the comment in an interview with the Post-Dispatch. Digging Deeper Needless to say, the Secret Service is aware of the post and reported interview and will be detailing the St. Louis office to look into the matter. Now claiming that she spoke out of “frustration” and “didn’t…
A Brief History On August 11, 1984, President Ronald Reagan said perhaps the stupidest lines of his Presidency, which we commemorated in our August 11 article, “10 Incredibly Stupid Things Said by Politicians”. Today, we list another 10 dumb statements by the morons that are allegedly leading us through the wilderness. As moronic as the statements by Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush were on a regular basis, our current President, Donald J. Trump, is in a class by himself, and thus dominates this year’s edition of idiotic statements by politicians. Please note that some of the quotations…