Sunday, January 2, 2011

Way to go Big Ten!


BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

DATE: January 2, 2011

TITLE: The news and views at the beginning of the year.

January 2 is …Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day.

The Big Ten was awful yesterday in the bowl games. They played in five and lost five, most by blowout scores.

The holidays are a wonderful time of the year. Alas, all good things must come to an end. The time period from December 15th through January 2nd is typically a slow news period but life does go on, for most of us.

The Chicago Fire Department lost two firefighters during the course of their duties in late December, 2010. The fire was in an abandoned laundry. The fire was extinguished but the firefighters were looking for people in the abandoned building who may have been using the building for shelter.

Eight homeless people were killed in a fire in New Orleans just before Christmas. They were gathered in an abandoned warehouse trying to stay out of the cold weather, at least for New Orleans, when a fire they started got out of control. Two people escaped and survived.

In the Miami, Florida area, five teenagers were killed by carbon monoxide in a Motel room they had gathered in to celebrate one of the teen’s 19th birthday. The Motel was built on stilts. They parked under the room they rented and because of a bad battery, left the car running. They were overcome by the fumes before they could consume the bags of fast food the authorities found in the room uneaten.

Bill the Governor has denied a posthumous pardon for Billy the Kid.

Legend says that the notorious gunslinger of the Wild West was promised a pardon in exchange for testifying in a 19th-century murder trial. But authorities in the then-U.S. territory of New Mexico allegedly broke their promise, and the pardon never came. Billy the Kid was shot to death in 1881, at the age of 21, after escaping from a jail where he was awaiting execution for killing sheriff William Brady  during the Lincoln County War in New Mexico in 1878.

An Albuquerque trial attorney and Old West history buff, Randi McGinn, filed a petition for Billy the Kid's pardon earlier this year, nearly 130 years after his death. "This injustice should be corrected,"
the Petition for a pardon reads. "A promise is a promise." That should be followed immediately by “I want some publicity.” And “Let’s waste some government time and money for my personal gain.” By Mr. McGinn.

But New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson turned down the petition today, telling ABC's "Good Morning America" that the facts of the Billy the Kid case do not support a pardon.

Born as Henry McCarty, most likely in New York City, "the Kid" became a criminal celebrity in America in the late 19th century, committing a string of violent crimes and evading authorities while he was still a teenager. He became embroiled in the Lincoln County, N.M., war of the late 1870s, a violent struggle between groups of cattle ranchers and merchants. In 1878, Sheriff William Brady -- rumored to be the secret agent of a rival Lincoln County faction -- was shot dead. McCarty was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang.

 It is nice to see a Governor do the right thing and not just look for the publicity a pardon would bring his way. We have seen a rash of this type of revisionists history over the last several years. People who lived and died years ago lived and died according to the laws and customs of their times. We should not change that regardless of the bleeding heart liberal’s scatter-brained call for what they perceive as justice. We cannot run today good enough to worry about changing yesterday.

Music’s Chart toppers on January 1:

1946 It Might as Well Be Spring - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy
Williams)
I Can’t Begin to Tell You - Bing Crosby with the Carmen Cavallaro
Orchestra
Symphony - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight - Bob Wills
1954 Oh! My Pa-Pa - Eddie Fisher
Changing Partners - Patti Page
Stranger in Paradise - Tony Bennett
Let Me Be the One - Hank Locklin
1962 The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
Run to Him - Bobby Vee
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1970 Someday We’ll Be Together - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Raindrop Keep Fallin’ on My Head - B.J. Thomas
Holly Holy - Neil Diamond
(I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again - Charley Pride
1978 How Deep is Your Love - Bee Gees
(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again - L.T.D.
Baby Come Back - Player
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
1986 Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie
Party All the Time - Eddie Murphy
Alive & Kicking - Simple Minds
Have Mercy - The Judds

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