Random News and Notes 14 April
We start with a couple of historical notes. On this date in 1865, unemployed actor John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln in the back of his head whilst the President was taking in a play in a box at Ford’s Theater in Washington. Booth shouted “Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged” as he jumped from the box to the stage, breaking a leg. The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a cheap lodging house opposite Ford’s Theater. At about 7:22 the next morning, he died—the first U.S. president to be assassinated.
Booth rode to Maryland with David Herold, where they hid in a barn on Richard Garrett’s farm. When the troops finally caught up with Booth and Herold on April 26, they gave them the option of surrendering before the barn was burned down. Herold decided to surrender, but Booth remained in the barn as it went up in flames. Booth was then shot and killed in the burning barn by Corporal Boston Corbett.
On July 7, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and John Surratt and his mother, Mary, were hanged in Washington. All were involved in an abortive kidnapping plot against the President.
Also on this date, albeit in 1829, Lawyer and author Noah Webster publishes the first American dictionary Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language. Prior to the widespread publication of dictionaries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, spelling and grammar were optional.
In 1918, six days after being assigned for the first time to the western front, two American pilots from the U.S. First Aero Squadron engage in America’s first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft. In a battle fought almost directly over the Allied Squadron Aerodrome at Toul, France, U.S. fliers Douglas Campbell and Alan Winslow succeeded in shooting down two German two-seaters. By the end of May, Campbell had shot down five enemy aircraft, making him the first American to qualify as a “flying ace” in World War I.
More recently, on this date in 1988 to be precise, the Soviets agreed to a withdrawal from Afghanistan. They invaded in 1978, after a coup deposed their preferred government. 10 years and 15000 dead Soviet troops later, they left, humiliated by a bunch of goat-f*ckers.
Seems someone could have learned a lesson there.
We start with the news that alleged sex pest and California Congressman Eric Swalwell has announced he is resigning from Congress.
In a case of you don’t hate the media enough there are “reporters” claiming they knew about Swalwell being a sex pest but couldn’t report it because – and I quote – “it wasn’t my beat”.
On a related note, another scumbag – this one with an R after his name – is resigning too. Tony Gonzales, who recently lost a primary to GunTuber Brandon Herrera, is calling it quits. Not because he lost, but because he pressured a female staffer into an affair and she later self-immolated over it.
Right up until it looked like Herrera was going to win the Primary, Gonzales maintained his innocence in the matter.
Jumping to Israel, where late Sunday Israeli Defense Ministry inspectors, police, and firefighters stopped a garbage truck and discovered 40 to 68 Palestinian men crammed inside. The driver from Kafr Qassem faces smuggling charges, while firefighters helped extract the men who faced suffocation risks from overcrowding. All the men in the truck were taken into custody by police and the Israel Defense Forces.
The incident highlights ongoing illegal crossing attempts. Wonder what they wanted to do?
We can all agree that among other things, Adam Schiff is a hypocritical liar right? Well, he decided to opine on President Trump issuing pre-emptive pardons at the end of his term.
HAHAHAHAHA