Happy Mother’s Day
Daily Archives: 5/13/2018
Food for Thought – 13 May 2018
The Name Game #511
Seventy-three summertime degrees this morning under a sky peppered with cumulus. We’ll break ninety for the first time this year a bit later in the week.
Me? Still sitting home. Doctor’s appointment tomorrow to get all the pre-surgery tests done.
Opened the paper this morning past a front-page spread of ‘Mother’s Day’. It is THAT. Happy day, mommies. Much of what I am is Mom’s influence.
Let’s see what we have: It’s a vestigial column, thirteen new babies from the big hospital across the river from between April 5 and April 30. Of thirteen, eleven are to unwed parents and three of those are mommies who didn’t remember who the baby daddy is.
Let us take a look:
Miss Christina V. does her son with Dreylon Derick, making him sound like something from Dupont plastics lab.
Miss Jessica B. triples up on her daughter, little Mila Mikel Grace. Baby daddy? No gots.
Shelly G. & Skyler B. tag a daughter with Aria Denae. ‘Denae’ is what you put down when you can’t think of a real name. Kind of like ‘duh’ on a birth certificate.
Payton D. & Adam C. tag a son with Daylen James, just making it up as they go.
That’s it. Kind a sad, isn’t it? See you next week.
Today in History – May 13
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia. Another successful nation forms from England’s rejects…
1804 – First Barbary War:Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city. Bad move, there, Yusuf! There are 54 US Marines defending that city along with some mercenaries and you only have a ten to one advantage.
1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico. We’d already been fighting for two weeks.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory. They must’ve missed the email…
1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft. He’s good with conventional aircraft. Then he comes to America and turns to the helicopter…
1940 – World War II: Germany’s conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Winston Churchill makes his “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” speech to the House of Commons. Obama would’ve sent John “F***your buddies” Kerry to talk with Hitler and sell out France.
1942 – A helicopter makes its first American cross-country flight . Probably that darned Sikorsky’s stuff…
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. 129 Israelis are slaughtered.
1958 – The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon’s car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. Today they wouldn’t be anti-American. They’d be looking for any stray snacks he’s carrying.
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. Pants are soiled in Islamabad.