Good Times

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It was the best of times, It was the worst of times.

A song about people picking cotton was pulled from a middle school concert in suburban Detroit after a black parent complained that it glorifies slavery. Give me a break. Do you really believe that only blacks picked cotton? My grandparents picked their cotton. I remember being told stories about them picking cotton barefooted until their hands and feet bled. Should this song offend me? Oh I guess not. I'm white. Here's where racism crosses the line. 99% of the time when someone brings up anything racist, it's a black person. Racism is only racism when it's done with the intent to offend. Some people are too stoopid and sensitive. I like pickin' cotton songs and tomorrow, I'll dedicate my site to anything that comes to mind about pickin' cotton. Wait a cotton pickin' minute Crazy B, you can't do that. I'll tell you what. I'll do whatever I cotton pickin' want to because it's my cotton pickin' site. If this offends you, you can kiss my cotton pickin' arse, cotton pickers!!!!

We went to the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport Saturday. We spent way too much money but had a great time. We ate Indian food, from India. It was soooooo good. We rode a lot of rides. The tilt-a-whirl still rocks. We watched a pirate diving show. We went into the freakshow tent and "she" held a huge albino snake. I was terrified and kept my distance. I actually touched it once while it wasn't looking and sweated about a gallon. We went clothes shopping the rest of the evening. I enjoyed that more than usual. We watched part of Catwoman saturday night until I couldn't keep my eyes open.

<> Sunday. I mowed for about 6 hours getting ready for the pecan trees to arrive for planting. We went to Chili's and ate a wonderful meal. We went to the theater and watched "Derailed". What a good movie. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Go see it.

Happy Birthday:
1842 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower 1st lady
1930 Edward H White II San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
1933 Fred W Haise Jr Biloxi Miss, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5)
1948 Prince Charles Britain, Prince of Wales
1956 Alec John Such rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)

Thought of the day: " Democracy will continue as long as people have faith in the people they are going to elect next. " We're doomed!!!!

On this day...

<> 1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1732 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
1792 Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1832 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12c rode on 4th Avenue between Prince & 14th Sts
1834 William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months
1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1881 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination
1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)
1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1906 Roosevelt becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President
1920 American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House
1935 FDR proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
1940 During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England
1943 Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)
1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
1960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
1972 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
1973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips
1975 Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara
1977 Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
1981 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth
1981 Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
1984 Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
1984 NASA launches NATO-3D
1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1990 Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of the party
1991 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premiers on FOX TV