re: GMT

Thanks

I guess I'm not over the hump yet

Hoping for a better night-
And we are definitely getting older.
Thinking about getting a golf cart to go from the working pens to the office at the sale barn.

Today in History January 4

46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina

1863--Union General Henry Halleck, by direction of President Abraham Lincoln, orders General Ulysses Grant to revoke his infamous General Order No. 11 that expelled Jews from his operational area.

1896--Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union.

1902--France offers to sell their Nicaraguan Canal rights to the United States.

1904--The U.S. Supreme Court decides in the Gonzales v. Williams case that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and can enter the United States freely, yet stops short of awarding citizenship.

1920--The Negro National League, the first black baseball league, is organized by Rube Foster.

1923--The Paris Conference on war reparations hits a deadlock as the French insist on the hard line and the British insist on Reconstruction.

1935--President Franklin D. Roosevelt claims in his State of the Union message that the federal government will provide jobs for 3.5 million Americans on welfare.

1936--Billboard magazine publishes its first music Hit Parade.

1942--Japanese forces begin the evacuation of Guadalcanal.

1951--UN forces abandon Seoul, Korea, to the Chinese Communist Army.

1952--The French Army in Indochina launches Operation Nenuphar in hopes of ejecting a Viet Minh division from the Ba Tai forest.

1969--Spain returns the Ifni province to Morocco.

1970--A 7.7 earthquake kills 15,000+ people in Tonghai County, China.

1972--Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.

1974--President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

1975--The Khmer Rouge launches its newest assault in its five-year war in Phnom Penh. The war in Cambodia would go on until the spring of 1975.

1976--The Ulster Volunteer Force kills six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day 10 Protestant civilians are murdered in retaliation.

1979--Ohio officials approve an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.

1990--Over 300 people die and more than 700 are injured in Pakistan's deadliest train accident, when an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train.

1999--Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former professional wrestler, is sworn in as populist governor of Minnesota.

1999--The euro, the new money of 11 European nations, goes into effect on the continent of Europe.

2004--NASA Mars rover Spirit successfully lands on Mars.

2007--Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) becomes the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

2010--Burj Khalifa (Khalifa tower) officially opens in Dubai, UAE. At 2,722 ft (829.8 m) it is the world's tallest man-made structure.

2021 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed

2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown for England following Scotland, as COVID-19 variant spreads rapidly with hospitalizations now higher than the first wave

Born on January 4

1643--Sir Isaac Newton, scientist who developed the laws of gravity and planetary relations.

1809--Louis Braille, developer of a reading system for the blind.

1914--Jane Wyman, American film actress, received Academy Award for Johnny Belinda; she was the first wife of future US President Ronald Reagan.

1957--Patty Loveless, country singer; her multiple awards include Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist 1996, 1997.


JOKE OF THE DAY

A teacher is teaching a class and she sees that Johnny isn't paying attention, so she asks him, "If there are three ducks sitting on a fence, and you shoot one, how many are left?" Johnny says, "None." The teacher asks, "Why?" Johnny says, "Because the shot scared them all off." The teacher says, "No, two, but I like how you're thinking." Johnny asks the teacher, "If you see three women walking out of an ice cream parlor, one is licking her ice cream, one is sucking her ice cream, and one is biting her ice cream, which one is married?" The teacher says, "The one sucking her ice cream." Johnny says, "No, the one with the wedding ring, but I like how you're thinking!"

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1975--The Khmer Rouge launches its newest assault in its five-year war in Phnom Penh. The war in Cambodia would go on until the spring of 1975.

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Arguably the worst regime of the last century. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Churchill might have racked up more deaths (Churchill didn't plan to starve millions to death, he just didn't do much to prevent it) but in terms of damage done to a country's population the Rouge take the gold medal.

Their attempt at "collectivizing" agriculture was an even worse failure than China's or the Soviets. And that is saying something. They refused to import medicine, leading to hundreds of thousands of people dying from preventable diseases, committed genocide on ethnic minorities, and "purged" society of countless people. 25% of the Cambodian population died in just 4 years.

It got so bad that neighboring Vietnam, despite being a fellow Communist country and technically an ally, invaded Cambodia and annihilated the Khmer Rouge in a blitz campaign. A decision the Vietnamese would pay a price for.

China was a great supporter of the Rouge, after all the Khmer Rouge were doing everything China had done... just more thoroughly. Taking advantage of Vietnam's best units being tied down in Cambodia the Chinese launched a massive invasion of Vietnam. While greatly out numbered the Vietnamese had learned a few things fighting the US in the Vietnam War however and fought the Chinese to a standstill. How bad was the fighting? Vietnam lost more soldiers and civilians in a war that lasted a few months then they had in the entirety of the Vietnam War.

China couldn't keep up the offensive long, particularly at the casualty rate the Viets were inflicting on them, and eventually withdrew. Which, oddly enough, caused Vietnam to realize they desperately needed a major ally. The Soviets hadn't lifted a finger to help so for the next several decades Vietnam would devote itself to improving relations with the United States. Successfully I might add. Well, until the latest trade war nipped that in the bud.

As for Cambodia? It still hasn't recovered from the Khmer Rouge. 50 years later and they are still struggling to rebuild their country.

Evening All

Yeah, that's an easy decision.

I'm at the point in life where I am going to do things thst make life easier.

Good morning

Today in History: January 5

1477 Battle of Nancy: Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeats the Duchy of Burgundy, 7,000+ killed including the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold

1709 The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe's coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.

1815 Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.

1914 Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.

1923 The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.

1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.

1942 U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula.

1951 Inchon, South Korea, the site of General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army.

1968 U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.

1982 A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.

2005 Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.

2020 Chinese professor Zhang Yongzhen publishes the first SARS-CoV-2 genome map online, allowing health professionals worldwide to identify COVID-19

2021 Daily new cases of COVID-19 top 60,000 in the UK as data reveals one in fifty in England had COVID-19 within the last week

2022 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying whites-only train ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896)

Born on January 5

1779 Stephen Decatur, American naval hero during actions against the Barbay pirates and the War of 1812.

1928 Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States, Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1984, and Ambassador to Japan.

JOTD
A young man moved out from home and into a new apartment complex on his own. He proudly went down to the foyer to put his name on his mailbox.

While he was there, a stunning young blonde came out of the apartment and walked down to the mailboxes, wearing only a bathrobe.
The young man smiled at the woman and she started up a conversation with him.
As they talked......her robe slipped open, and it was obvious that she had nothing else on. The poor kid broke into a sweat trying with all his effort to maintain eye contact.
After a few minutes, she placed her hand on his arm and said, 'Let's go to my apartment, I hear someone coming.'
Nervously he followed her into her apartment; she closed the door and leaned against it, allowing her bathrobe to fall off completely.
Now nude, she purred at him......... 'What would you say is my best feature?'
Flustered and embarrassed, he finally squeaked, 'It's got to be your ears!!!'
Astounded, and a little hurt she asked, 'My ears?!?!?'
'Look at these breasts; they are a full 39 inches and 100% natural...... I work out every day and my arse is firm and solid.......i have a 28 inch waist....... Look at my skin - not a blemish anywhere!!!!'
How can you think that the best part of my body is my ears!?!'
Clearing his throat, he stammered ....
'Outside, when you said you heard someone coming that was me.'

Today in History: January 6

1497 Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria

1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.

1958 Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.

1987 Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.

2001 In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 Presidential elections more than five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.

2005 Former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.

2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence

Born on January 6

1367 Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince.

1412 Joan of Arc, French Saint and national heroine.

1946 Syd Barrett, musician, singer, songwriter; founding member of the band Pink Floyd.


JOTD
A man with no arms and legs was sun baking on the beach.

A gorgeous blonde was walking past him, stopped for a second with a tang of pity in her eyes.
“Have you ever had a hug?” She asked. “No.” So with an “aww”, she gave him a big hug.
Two minutes later, another beautiful woman was walking past the man.
“Aw look at you honey. Have you ever been kissed?”
“No.” He says. She leans down and gives him a passionate kiss.
Another few minutes pass and another stunning lady walks past.
“Oh you poor thing...Have you ever been fricked?” “No.” “Well you will be soon, the tides coming in.”

Morning all