Off the Editor’s Desk – 9-6-2017
Cleaning off my desk!
A few bits of interesting information have found their way onto my desk. Some of it came off emails that were sent to me and one other was found on the internet. I don’t know how much truth is in any of it. But you be the judge!
First was a cartoon of a new liberal game show called “Facts Don’t Matter”. It pictures a game show host and three contestants. The host tells one of the contestants, “I’m sorry, while your answer was correct, Nicole was offended by it, so she gets the point.”
Now here a story, don’t attack the Marines.
A store manager at a Best Buy in August, GA, told police he observed a male customer, who was later identified, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket. When confronted, the man became irate, knocked down an employee, drew a knife and ran for the door.
Outside were four Marines collecting Toys for Tots. The Marines stopped the man, but he stabbed one of the Marines in the back, though the injury did not appear to be severe.
After police and ambulance arrived at the scene the Marine was transported for treatment.
The subject was also transported to the local hospital with two broken arms, a broken ankle, a broken leg, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell of the curb after stabbing the Marine, according to a police report.
We have all seen the disrespect shown to our flag by a few National Football players during the playing of the National Anthem. I watched as a players refused to stand or another rise his fist against the flag. Someone emailed me a copy of a letter that was supposedly written by a retired Army officer. I would like to copy a part of the letter that was written to the NFL Commissioner.
“I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the Giants Stadium.
“I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them was about how our Giants were going to win the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
“Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country besides playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re not, My Marines and Soldiers were!
Legends and heroes do not wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles. They make minimum wage and spend months and years away for their families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it 24/7 often with lead, not footballs coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces, not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.
“Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety. On 9-11, hundred vanished. They are the heroes.”
I got chocked up when reading that letter.
One other thing I must talked about is Hurricane Harvey and all of those blaming climate change and Harvey on mankind. I found a little information that I thought was interesting and will pass it on to you.
In 1980, Hurricane Allen recorded the highest sustained wind speed in the Atlantic Ocean at 190 miles per hour. The second highest was the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane at 185 miles per hour.
But probably more rain fell from Harvey than those other two, Harvey’s maximum sustained wind speed was 130 miles per hour.
My prayers go out to all those who have been affected by Harvey and suggest that if you are able, maybe a small donation could help out.
It’s hard to picture what fifty-inches of rain would do and how much water that is, but if my memory serves me right I think that one inch of water on an acre of land is some amount over 25,000 gallons. Put fifty inches and that is over one and quarter million gallons of water.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton