- If you were inside yesterday, the weather outside was like a magnet.
- I've begun reading Tears In The Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath. There's so much I didn't know about it. Heck, I knew nothing about it.
- Experienced the contrast (while listening to the book while jogging) of seeing a little girl pick a flower in the park while hearing about a 22 year old ranch hand sign up for the Army in 1940.
- And I watched the first episode of The Pacific mini-series on HBO. I can't tell you how underwhelmed I was by that.
- The mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, is receiving criticism because it asserts that a lot of Japanese hatred during World War II was racially motivated. Criticism? Even I remember those Bugs Bunny cartoons.
- Next week is the 10 year anniversary of the Fort Worth tornado. Time does fly.
- Yeah, the health care congressional maneuvering is ridiculous.
- Texas lost in the first round last night in overtime and I slept right through it. Never has a team fallen so far so fast.
- In the Update, there's a story about Decatur's EDC giving away $200,000 to a private business. For the life of me, I don't understand EDCs.
- "Free throw" is actually a weird word for an uncontested basketball shot from a fixed distance. Edit: "Free" I understand. It's the "throw" that's a little unusual.
- Newark is considering a daytime curfew for minors in order to "discourage burglaries and truancy." That should solve the problem. "Jim Bob, we can't break into that house because if we get caught outside we'll be subject to a $500 fine!"
- WBAP's Hal Jay admitted this morning that this is his first year to fill out an NCAA bracket. How is that possible. I know girls that can't spell "NCAA" that always enter the office pool.
- Don't listen to local talk radio unless you want to hear about Ron Washington and drug use. Complete overkill.
- More text messages of Tiger Woods were released yesterday. Wow. The man sure did like getting his freak on.
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Doesn't seem like it has been 10 years since the tornado. I worked downtown at the time and just left about an hour before it hit. Ran into the hail in Springtown.
Remember that it was two or three days before we went back to work. Even then, the doors were locked for a couple of days to keep us off of the sidewalks due to the falling glass.
Did have to go to the doctor's office downtown that next afternoon. Never will forget the image of looking at the Cash America building and being able to see sunlight through the building.
Hey Barry--think it's called a "free" throw because you get to take the shot while being "free" of defenders!
Dude!
It is not safe for kids to be outside in Newark.
Tough Neighborhood!
Save a life.....
Keep your kid indoors.....
Years ago I read a Bataan survivor bio entitled "Give Us This Day". Probably out of print, but best story I ever came across of one man's journey from the death march to imprisonment in Japan at the end of the war.
Those guys were awesome.
Football guru
Wasn't there a previous post about grandmother stories?
I guess UNT will not will it!
How much does the Texas coach earn?
Almost every war has some racial aspect to it. You dehumanize your enemy to the point where your soldiers (and public) aren't killing another human, they're killing an sub-human race.
Can't believe you didn't comment on the death of Fess Parker.
Several years ago I walked in the Bataan Memorial March in New Mexico. I read up on the Bataan Death March so I'd know what it was all about. At 4:30 a.m. on the day of the march, 3000 participants were gathered at the starting line, when suddenly the crowd began to part. Four little old men, survivors of Bataan and Corregidor, walked among us, shaking hands and thanking us for remembering them. A thing like that will sure humble your heart.
Three things:
1. The 3 point shot that beat Texas looked to me to be about 2 feet inside the arc. No one else complained about it but it sure looked like a 2 to me.
2. "Free Throw" probably originated when most all of these shots were tossed underhanded at the basket. Should have been called a "penalty shot."
3. The late season UT collapse is amazing. Who you gonna fire?
Two weeks before Corregidor fell, 25 Aggies (led by Major General George Moore, '08) met on the Rock and answered "here" for their dead classmates. Three years later, on 1945-8 Muster Day, the survivors gathered on Corregidor with Japanese snipers still about; of the original 25, ten were dead, three missing. The living spoke up for their absent comrades, reported all present. Other musters were held in Africa and Europe.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,887043,00.html#ixzz0idNXDjKH
Football guru
Texas lost? Tom Penders laughs somewhere in the cold hard night.
My Other Brother Darryl
PS - On a serious note, I will answer "here" and light a candle on April 21st. Well done, brave comrades, well done.
Nautical Naughtiness.....nips ahoy captian!
uncle fester 2012
9:39 -
I'm a Horn Fan so no grudge here except disappointment in how this team crashed and burned.
But you must not have been paying attention -
UT was ahead by 1.
It WAS a 2 point shot that beat them - that's all Wake needed.
If UT had made made their free shots, it would not have been an issue - a fitting end to a most frustrating season.
No community is forced to have an EDC. It is voted in, and has a board. Meetings are public, with few exceptions. Records are public. Councils, the elected leaders, have the option of doing or not doing all proposed deals.
UT got burned. That's why they wear "burnt" orange. Better let Mack Brown recruit the round ballers too.
I was at the Newark City Council last night and told the young kid sitting in front of me they just grounded him to his room. Also it was great to see the Republicans vote to accept Obama Stimulus money for the city long range improvements. I the city council member I think is a tea party member. Good Stuff
I was working in Downtown Fort Worth when the tornado came. Screwed our building up real good. I was off for 6 weeks WITH PAY!!! I like to refer to it as the "tornado vacation."
Somewhere sombody got tired of those two girls.
11:56 AM, I would like the opportunity to get tired of them !
Dirty Old Man
Sorry, but these babes need some drinks. I do much better with hot women who are totally sh#t faced.
Jesse
You're not kidding about the Democrat mess in Congress. Now Politico reports that the Democrats are secretly working on legislation which will repeal the Medicare cuts they need so they can claim their legislation will lower the deficit. I say "secretly" because they sent out a memo warning Democrat lawmakers and their staffs not to talk about it lest they "complicate the last critical push to pass health reform" this weekend. And surprise, surprise, the AMA is in on the secret.
Are you sayin' Tiger's last name should be (WOOD)"WOOD"?
Had a relative on that march. He was one of the few that didn't mind telling stories. Like on a dark rainy night hitting a Japanese soldier with a railroad spike and watching him fall several seconds to hit bottom. And getting away with it. The way he told it I could visualize that spike glistening as it tumbled on its way to the target.
WordKyle and others....
What needs to happen with respect to the proposed health care bill is for both parties to put aside the party b.s. and start acting like Americans responsible for America. The same needs to happen on our level. We need to stop this party squabbling and start acting as American citizens demanding to be heard. Demanding by writing, calling and e-mailing officials. By going to the polls and voting out thos officials that have become complacent in their duties and responsibilities to the American citizens.
I am a registered Democrat and have always been. However, I have never been so ashamed of what is going on in Washington as I am now.
I Look at the health care fiasco as an old sick car that won't start So, Gov't buys new tires.....car still won't start....so...new paint job...car still won't start......Gov't sells car and buys a new luxury model. New owner of the old car puts gas in the car and drives away happy.
Old system has been working for hundreds of years. It didn't get bad until the insurance companies started dictating what will and will not happen, when the pharmacutical companies went rampant and when Medicare was authorized to illegals.
If the Gov't wants to curb medical cost, get the insurance companies in line with some guidelines, correct the b.s. with the pharmaticutical companies and DEMAND that persons applying for Medicare show proof that they have applied for citizenship and are gainfully employed.
Same goes for Social Security.....why should they (illegals) be allowed to draw SS when they haven't paid into it?
The biggest problem with electeds is that they have forgotten they are there to represent us, not their views, but ours. Citizens for the most part do not vote, yet the majority complain. If citizens would get involved and demand elected officials REPRESENT them amd not allow elected officials to do what they want, this country may be able to sustain. If not, we better be prepared to start asking others countries for aid.
Rant and rave, maybe I am. This is how I see it.
SEMPER FI
A lot of the hatred of the Japanese during World War II is that they snuck up on us at Pearl Harbor and killed a lot of Americans . . .
The back one needs to try to keep some of food down.She would rattle when she walked.DAGO
And let's not forget that Marines were finding there fellow comrades with their privates cut off and stuck in their mouth after they were killed. Not sure many people could have much mercy for people that commit those sorts of atrocities to their fellow man. War is brutal, but you can still attempt to be honorable. Japan was certainly not the later in the 30s and 40s. On a side note, I'm not sure how you could have been underwhelmed by The Pacific. It was a great beginning to something that is sure to be every bit as good as BOB.
Today, 10 years ago DPS Sergeant Robert Rankin put bogus charges against a Decatur Police officer. How did that work out?
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