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Today’s Quotes
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Thoughts for
the day
With these temperatures it is hard to believe it is nearing the end of
November. No complaints, just noticing the oddity.
I was a bit taken aback when Trump called my Senator Kelly at traitor. Kelly
only spoke the truth. He is a decorated military man, a former astronaut, a sitting
US Senator, and a husband who has been caring for his wife, Gabby Giffords,
after she was shot while on her campaign tour to continue representing her
district in the US House. The President has no business saying this. Words have
consequences and I hope he is called to task and receives the appropriate punishment.
Yes, both he and Kelly have freedom of speech, but they also must live with the
consequences of their speech.
The FBI is now scheduling interviews with all six of the elected members
of the Congress who made the video. I find this very embarrassing for our
country. Stop the distractions, release the files, and protect our country from
our enemies, and not harassing our government leaders and employees.
History that is not true…
The iron maiden was a medieval
torture device
The iron maiden has entered
folklore as one of the cruelest methods of torture to emerge from the Middle
Ages – and that’s a crowded field. An upright casket akin to a sarcophagus
adorned with rows of inward-facing spikes, one can only imagine the horrors
that awaited its victims in windowless medieval torture chambers.
But imagining is all we can do,
as the iron maiden is a late-18th-century fabrication – a myth
concocted to make the Dark Ages seem even darker. The first iron maidens were
in fact cobbled together in the 19th century and passed off as historic
artifacts in museums.
We’re quite relieved that no poor prisoner had to end their days by becoming a
spike sandwich in an airless metal box. But for the more morbid among you,
there are plenty of real torture methods that were meted out liberally in
medieval dungeons. The rack was a torture chamber staple, and
stretched out victims until their joints dislocated, often leaving them unable
to walk. So too were thumbscrews, vicious little metal contraptions that
would crush a person’s fingers and thumbs.
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
The Trail of Tears was meant to help Native
Americans
In 1830, the indian removal act displaced
more than 100,000 Native Americans so that Europeans could settle in the land.
The Cherokee Nation also lost approximately 4,000 people as they were
forcefully marched to Oklahoma, the Trail of Tears.
It was not protective and charitable; it was
ethnic cleansing to clear land for white settlers.
Random Thoughts…
Generally speaking, when you feel stupid, it’s because you’re expanding
your knowledge and getting smarter.
Why do people say “tuna fish,” but they don’t say “chicken bird”?
If humans could fly, we’d probably consider it exercise and never do it.
History classes are only going to get longer and harder as time goes on.
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…The End for today…
