Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Well, sort of
It was hard to be humble, but Mac Davis got one thing right.
“And when I die you can bury
me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans.”
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
in Monday’s story on Mac Davis’ funeral said one of his biggest songs was “Texas
in My Rearview Mirror.” Well, almost. Sort of.
Monday, October 5, 2020
Another hate crime that never happened
From Legal Insurrection.
“Althea Bernstein,
18, of Madison, WI, claimed four white men spewed racial slurs at her, threw
lighter fluid on her, and set her on fire.
“Authorities
determined no such incident occurred.
“Reporting officer
Bailey Olson could not find any evidence while
reviewing city cameras. Bernstein could not provide ‘exactly which street she
was driving on when she came to the red light’ nor could she recall the exact
time.
“Olson could not ‘locate Bernstein or
the four male subjects described by Bernstein on city cameras in the area or
time that Bernstein stated the incident occurred.’”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/10/authorities-determine-wisconsin-hate-crime-never-occurred/
National Felon League players
Todd Gurley (Falcons) and Oren Burks (Packers) wore Bernstein’s name as
recognition of white attacks on black people.
Not to be left out, former royals Meghan and Harry “have reportedly been in touch with Althea Bernstein, who was the victim of a despicable hate crime in Madison, Wisconsin…” No word yet if Meghan and Harry, given actual facts, have taken back their words of comfort. Probably not.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/10/authorities-determine-wisconsin-hate-crime-never-occurred/
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan are knocking each other about …
… and (not surprisingly)
Balkan Insights decides Serbia is partly to blame.
From Balkan Insights
Serbian-made arms, of a type previously sold by the state to a private company linked to a Serbian arms dealer blacklisted by the United States, have been used in renewed fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, BIRN can reveal.
On September 28, Azeri Defence, a defence industry magazine, published photographs of the remains of a missile that it said was fired by Armenian forces from BM-21 Grad rocket launchers at the Azeri city of Horadiz, just outside breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh.
A
marking that reads ‘KV 05/19’ indicates that the G-2000 long range rocket was
produced by the Serbian state-owned arms manufacturer Krusik, in the town of
Valjevo, in 2019. The marking ‘EDePro’ shows that the rocket motor was made by
another Serbian company, Belgrade-based EDePro.
“…of a type previously sold by the state to a private company linked to a Serbian arms dealer blacklisted by the United States …”
Not exactly the kind of statement a prosecutor would want in an opening address to a jury.
Just about every weapon and weapon system used by Azerbaijan and Armenia was built in and provided by Russia. Where are Balkan Insight’s stories concerning Russia arming two former USSR republics?
Dances with bullets
My friend Leo V. said he and his wife were leaving a movie theater in 1990 after watching Dances with Wolves when he heard another movie-goer comment on one of the early scenes, when Kevin Costner’s character rides across the Confederate front with his arms outstretched in a “Shoot me” position. The other movie-goer said to someone, “That couldn’t happen. Somebody could not ride that far with that many people shooting at him and not be hit.”
Au contraire, Leo thought, but decided not to correct the
man.
Leo had, in 1966, seen a fellow 101st Airborne soldier
perform a similar act, but, perhaps more implausible.
Leo’s infantry platoon was on an operation in South Vietnam’s Central Highlands one morning when a Viet Cong machine crew opened fire, pinning all the Americans behind rice paddy dikes.
“We could not move,” Leo told me. “Every time somebody raised his head, he got shot.”
The VC machine gun crew kept the platoon pinned down for what seemed like hours, Leo said.
“It was hot,” he said. “We all were running out of water.”
After a time, one of the platoon’s M-60 machine gunners said, “I’ve had enough of this shit.”
The gunner stood up and, holding his machine gun waist high, started firing and walking toward the VC machine gun.
“They couldn’t hit him,” Leo said. “They had hit everybody who moved behind the rice paddy, but here’s this one man walking toward them, and they can’t hit him.”
Others in the platoon peeked over the rice paddy, expecting their gunner friend to get shot at any second. When that did not happen, the others began firing their M-16s toward the VC.
The gunner, yelling as he climbed the low hill, walked straight to the VC trench and shot everyone in it, Leo said.
So can a man on a horse ride across an enemy’s front and not get hit? History says yes.
Robert M. Jones, wealthy Choctaw plantation owner
What is left of Rose Hill Plantation lies a few miles southeast of Hugo, Okla. Rose Hill was one of two plantations owned by Robert Jones, who was prominent in Choctaw Nation politics and one of the wealthiest slave owners in the United States.
Jones owned somewhere between 250 and 500 slaves. His two plantations covered 14,000 acres.
At the peak of his success, Jones ran more than 20 trading posts, six plantations in the Choctaw Nation, sugar plantation in Louisiana and two steamboats. (Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office, Oct. 11, 2018.)
“All that remains of the plantation are scattered foundations, large growth cedar trees and the plantation cemetery. Rose Hill had previously been the site of a Baptist mission named ‘Providence’’ which closed in 1843 and it is estimated that the buildings were constructed between 1843 and 1847.” (OSHP.)
The Rose Hill Cemetery is west of the plantation house site. A Depression-era Works Progress Administration stone fence surrounds the graveyard site, with ornate wrought iron fences bordering individual graves. In December 2017, vandals knocked over several tombstones at the cemetery.
Jones was Choctaw Nation delegate to the Confederate Congress, 1862-64. After the war of 1861-65, he negotiated a treaty with federal government. He died from malaria in 1873, age 64.
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMWQR4_Rose_Hill_aka_Jones_Cemetery_Hugo_OK
The plantation house, containing all of Jones' papers, burned in 1915.
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