Friday, September 3, 2010

USS Missouri, blond jokes and football

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010




The following song is perfect for today. Play it while you read. Go to Firefox to start Grooveshark. Once there, look for Papa Was A Rolling Stone by The Temptations. Remember it was the 3rd of September, a day I’ll always remember.



• Hello College Football. Where have you been? I see where the Big Ten, which has twelve teams, is dividing into two divisions. Illinois gets to stay with Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Indiana, etc. The other division has Michigan, Iowa, Northwestern and Nebraska plus others. It should be interesting. The traditional Michigan-Ohio State rivalry game will still be played every year during the last weekend of the regular season. A playoff will be played beginning next year.



NIU looks like a high school team with a running quarterback. I hope that changes.



The Chicago Bears do not seem to be the type of team that can turn it on and off at will. I do not think the Bears will all of a sudden be good once the Championship Season starts. Thank God for College Football.





Ever wonder how blondes remember their Passwords?



During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:



MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy



When asked why such a big password, she said, "It had to be at least 8 characters long.”



I love blondes. I married one. Do not take this joke personally. It’s all in good fun. Check out www.cleanjoke.com





So a blond was speeding down the highway. All of a sudden she gets pulled over (obviously because she was speeding.)



The cop who pulled her over was also a blond (uh-oh)... The cop says "Ma'am I need to see your driver’s license ID."



The driver was confused, being blond and all.



So, the cop decides to remind her what a ID is. "Ma'am it’s a rectangular thing with your picture on it"



The blond still has no idea, but looks for it anyways. She pulls out a rectangular mirror and hands it to the cop.



The blonde cop says to the blond driver, "Oh, sorry ma'am if I had known YOU were a cop too, I wouldn't have pulled you over.”



(SEE ABOVE ABOUT BLONDE JOKE)





Check out the web site below. It has a video from a Washington state TV Station, King 5. Go to the site. About 1/3 way down opening page you will see; Attachments. Click on Coolest Coffee Table ever.wmv 6.2 MB. Watch the video. The product is only a few months away.



http://geeks.pirillo.com/forum/topics/microsoft-coffee-table



Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the signing of the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. The brief article below was taken from Wikipedia: it is worth a few minutes of our time.





Signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender

Main article: Japanese Instrument of Surrender





The Missouri (left) transfers personnel to the Iowa in advance of the surrender ceremony planned for 2 September.





War.Allied sailors and officers watch General of the Army Douglas MacArthur sign documents during the surrender ceremony aboard Missouri on 2 September 1945. The unconditional surrender of the Japanese to the Allies officially ended the Second World

Strikes on Hokkaidō and northern Honshū resumed on 9 August, the day the second atomic bomb was dropped.[5]

After the Japanese agreed to surrender, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser of the Royal Navy, the Commander of the British Pacific Fleet, boarded Missouri on 16 August and conferred the honor of Knight of the British Empire upon Admiral Halsey. Missouri transferred a landing party of 200 officers and men to the battleship Iowa for temporary duty with the initial occupation force for Tokyo on 21 August. Missouri herself entered Tokyo Bay early on 29 August to prepare for the signing by Japan of the official instrument of surrender.[5]

High-ranking military officials of all the Allied Powers were received on board on 2 September, including Chinese General Hsu Yung-Ch'ang, British Admiral-of-the-Fleet Sir Bruce Fraser, Soviet Lieutenant-General Kuzma Nikolaevich Derevyanko, Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey, Canadian Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, French Général d'Armée Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque, Dutch Vice Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich, and New Zealand Air Vice Marshal Leonard M. Isitt.

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz boarded shortly after 0800, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allies, came on board at 0843. The Japanese representatives, headed by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, arrived at 0856. At 0902, General MacArthur stepped before a battery of microphones and opened the 23-minute surrender ceremony to the waiting world by stating,[5] "It is my earnest hope—indeed the hope of all mankind—that from the blood and carnage of the past, a world founded upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice."[10]

During the surrender ceremony, the deck of Missouri was decorated with a 31-star American flag that had been taken ashore by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 after his squadron of "Black Ships" sailed into Tokyo Bay to urge the opening of Japan's ports to foreign trade. This flag was actually displayed with the reverse side showing, i.e., stars in the upper right corner: the historic flag was so fragile that the conservator at the Naval Academy Museum had sewn a protective linen backing to one side to help secure the fabric from deteriorating, leaving its "wrong side" visible. The flag was displayed in a wood-framed case secured to the bulkhead overlooking the surrender ceremony.[11] Another U.S. flag was raised and flown during the occasion, a flag that some sources have indicated was in fact that flag which had flown over the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 1941. This is not true; it was a flag taken from the ship's stock, according to Missouri's Commanding Officer, Captain Stuart "Sunshine" Murray, and it was "...just a plain ordinary GI-issue flag".[12]

By 09:30 the Japanese emissaries had departed. In the afternoon of 5 September, Admiral Halsey transferred his flag to the battleship South Dakota, and early the next day Missouri departed Tokyo Bay. As part of the ongoing Operation Magic Carpet she received homeward bound passengers at Guam, then sailed unescorted for Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 20 September and flew Admiral Nimitz's flag on the afternoon of 28 September for a reception.

Once again, thank you to the Greatest Generation and all Military personnel and veterans. We better never forget. I won’t.

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves. “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m not close enough to get the job done.”



GEORGE CARLIN



“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”



ABRAHAM LINCOLN





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