Life is good. Those three words comprise much of my personal philosophy. It’s so much better to wake up with a positive attitude. I don’t need to remind myself anymore. It has become my normal state of mind. Took me a long time to get there but I persevered and got here. Now, it’s February 23, 2021. This is Curling Is Cool Day, National Banana Bread Day, Play Tennis Day (don’t think so), World Understanding and Peace Day and National Rationalization Day. Curling is probably cool but you have to remember that it’s played on ice and running on ice is dangerous. I’ll take the banana bread. Now to history. This is interesting. In 1455 Johannes Gutenberg printed his first Bible. That means we didn’t have a full, put together bible until almost 1,500 years after Christ. I looked up the timeline for the bible and found that there was an earlier handwritten bible created by John Wycliffe who thought the public should be able to read the bible in their own language. The Church disagreed. And then I read this: “44 years after Wycliffe’s death, church officials dug up his bones, burned them, and scattered the ashes on Swift River.” Moving on, in 1813 the 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill was founded in Waltham, Massachusetts. On this date in 1836 the battle of the Alamo began. In 1886 Aluminum manufacturing process was developed. In 1896 the Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield. In 1919 Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini. In 1940 Walt Disney’s animated movie “Pinocchio” was released. This is Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s birthday (1744). He was a German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. He said, “Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!” In other words, Follow the money. This is the day that Quanah Parker, leader of the Kwahadi band of the Comanche Nation died in 1911. He said, “White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote).” Peyote is a hallucinogenic drug made from a small cactus found in the Southwest. That’s enough for today. Abide.
