This day is Sunday, July 23, 2023. Just checked the National Hurricane Center web site and found a yellow X off the cost of South America headed for us with a 30% chance of turning into something ugly and dangerous. That’s part of the deal when you live in Florida. I’ve traded winter for hurricane season. Today is Auntie’s Day, Gorgeous Grandma Day, Hout Enough For Ya Day, National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, Parent’s Day, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day, Sprinkle Day, and yada, Yada, Yada Day. Now let’s see what happened on this day: In the year on this day the Rintfleisch massacres began in Germany when Lord Rindtfleisch gathered a mob and began burning Jewish communities and killing all the inhabitants. When it was over 146 communities were destroyed and about 20,000 people had been killed. On this day in 1777 King Louis XVI of France agree to supply the US revolutionaries with munitions. On this day in 1803 Robert Emmet lead an Irish rebellion against the British in Dublin. On this day in 1872 African American inventor Elijah McCoy was granted a patent for lubricators for steam engines. On this day in 1929 the Fascist government in Italy banned the use of foreign words. Think about that for a second. On this day in 1967 43 people died in the Detroit race riot. On this day in 1973 President Richard Nixon refused to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House. Vanessa Williams, the 1st African American Miss America, resigned after Penthouse published unauthorized nude photos of her. Today we will get into the head of General Ulysses S. Grant. Usually we hear from poets, writers and philosophers. Not today. Grant said, “the art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and keep moving on.” “The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.” “Slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.” I’ll end with a quote from Grant to the people in his army that feared General Lee. Grant said, “Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee’s gonna do to us and start thinking about what we’re going to do to him.” Grant was so popular that we elected him President. Abide.
