Uncle Sam Profits Most From Exxon Profit! Storm Shifts East January 31, 2009

I’m a bit busy today so your benevolent dictator has suspended “this date in history” but I do have something of interest and something for you to ponder this Super Bowl Weekend.   Most of the headlines you read concerning ExxonMobil and its 2008 report will shout about the company’s record profit.  Here is one from Fox [...]

How To Hang A Horse in a Tree and More Snow January 30, 2009

  On This Date In History: If you remember the photos above, you are probably collecting Social Security. Those photos are from the 1937 flood in Louisville. The 1937 flood is by far the greatest flood event in recorded history on the Ohio River. There really wasn’t much snow but there was some in the [...]

3 Fugitives Foreshadow Indepedence? Another Winter Storm? January 29, 2009

Three Fugitives An Earlier Indicator Of American Independence? This Chuck Lost His Head On This Date in History:  In 1649, there was a bit of a revolution going on in England.  Oliver Cromwell had led a revolt against the monarchy and, on this date in 1649, 59 people signed the death warrant for King Charles [...]

Two Men-Two Second Chances; Second Round of Ice/Snow January 28, 2009

On This Date in History:  Ken Kirby is a police officer in South Carolina.  He said that he was “healthy as an ox” his whole life until this past Christmas he started feeling nauseous and then had tightness in his chest and pain in his arms.  On December 27, he was rushed to the hospital [...]

Tragic, Odd Day For Coaches; Winter Storm Warning January 27, 2009

  On This Date in History:  You may have read on these here pages a few days about about the Cherry Case.  It had to do with the Cherry Sisters who were so awful, they were popular.  People came in droves to theatres all around the country to see the terrible sister singing act just [...]

Don’t Eye the Wrong House; Winter Storm Watch January 26, 2009

On This Date in History: On This Date in 1962, Jeffery Gordon Riley came into the world.  Since that time he has come to be known as Flood Water, F-Water, Floods, F-Ditch, F-Dip, effrey and just plain F.  Jeff Riley is a lot of things…and one of those things is a good friend to all who [...]

Do Your Job…Get Fired! Unsettled Week Ahead January 25, 2009

    On This Date in History: Abraham Lincoln was a one term Congressman from Illinois.  He had an arrangement with the Whig party from Illinois from to rotate the seat and so his former law partner, Stephen Logan ran in his place after one term.  But, Logan lost for several reasons, one might have been because of Lincoln’s [...]

Man Gets $000.000.000 For Gold Strike; Cold Air Returns January 24, 2009

    On This Date in History: From the time that the first bit of gold was found in California through the next 50 years, some $2.5 billion in gold was taken from the earth and streams.  James Marshall was born in 1810 in New Jersey to a wheelright and went west in his mid-twenties.  [...]

Can You Trace Your Roots? January 23, 2009

 On This Day In History: On this date in 1977, a miniseries appeared on ABC-TV. This is before the widespread use of cable television so, even the large markets had the 3 networks and a few local independent stations and that was it.  Now, the network executives were convinced that the 8-part, 12 hour miniseries [...]

Roe or Wade Through This; Brief Warm Up January 22, 2009

  On This Date in History:  This subject is a little bit touchy and I do not intend to really get into the muck.  This is also pretty long but I hope that you will read  through it and think a bit.  I mean, people have their opinions and I certainly do, but they are more [...]