Bill the Butcher

 Shoutout to Old Cars Addicts In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln "Johnny" Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he "wasn't enlisting infants," and turned him down. Clem tried the 22nd Michigan Regiment next, and its commander told him the same. Determined, Clem tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed camp duties and received a soldier's pay of $13 a month, a sum collected and donated by the regiment's officers.         The next April, at Shiloh, Clem's drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a minor news item as "Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer". A year later, at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front and wielded a musket trimmed to his siz...

 Shoutout to 100% Fan of Clint Eastwood Plus Clint Eastwood and 10 Mysterious Facts About The Outlaw Josey Wales : 1- Filming for the Outlaw Josey Wales began in the late autumn. Eastwood’s favorite time of the year to shoot Westerns. Pale Rider (1985) and Unforgiven (1992) were also shot in the fall. He felt the dying leaves and cool weather offered the best background for his somber style of Western. 2- Clint’s 6 year old son Kyle plays Josey’s son in the opening scene. 3 . The story was filmed in Utah, Arizona, and California over an 8 1/2 week time period. 4- According to legend, this movie is based on the life of Thomas Atticus Hawkins, a Missouri farmer from Maries County. 5- Josey has a body count of 55 in this film. It’s Eastwood’s second highest body count in any of his movies. The highest is in Where Eagles Dare (1968). 6- The Indian village in the film was built in Utah. The Natives in the movie are played much less stereotypical than in many other Westerns of the day. I...

  DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Of late we have been inundated with a flurry of posts where two comely lasses expound on the love of God and Jesus and invite you to come to church. This is a Mormon ad. Not that it’s a bad idea, the Mormons being the task masters at presenting their brand of religiosity in new and clever ways to gain members. They do reveal their true identity with very little effort. The girls are missionaries. You can tell that from their little black badges. If you will note there are currently no male missionaries on the ads because quite frankly if you saw a young man with a Donny Osmond haircut and a little badge you’d keep right on scrolling. After they do their bit about the love of God and the invite to church they offer to come for a “private” visit implying a happy ending. I have no problem with that. <Wink> So someone posted a comment calling them to task and, like a fool I responded to the comment in a fair and civilized way, not casting aspersions on the...

  When the Titanic sank, it carried millionaire John Jacob Astor IV. The money in his bank account was enough to build 30 Titanics. However, faced with mortal danger, he chose what he deemed morally right and gave up his spot in a lifeboat to save two frightened children. Millionaire Isidor Straus, co-owner of the largest American chain of department stores, "Macy's," who was also on the Titanic, said: "I will never enter a lifeboat before other men." His wife, Ida Straus, also refused to board the lifeboat, giving her spot to her newly appointed maid, Ellen Bird. She decided to spend her last moments of life with her husband. These wealthy individuals preferred to part with their wealth, and even their lives, rather than compromise their moral principles. Their choice in favor of moral values highlighted the brilliance of human civilization and human nature.

  We all have rebellious teens. Why, they wouldn’t be teens if they weren’t rebellious. With all the new, innovative ideas that we are entertained with constantly reminding us about how stupid we really are. I don’t know how we got by all these two million years from climbing down out of the trees to the launchpad to the moon without them. But there’s one thing that rubs me the wrong way, and that’s the word, “No!” “No” is universal, almost the same in every language and when it adds the body language and inflection it supplies the necessary umph needed to reinforce the authority and the demand for control by the XYZ generation.    “Take out the garbage.”   “NO!”   “Do the dishes.”   “NO!”   “Put the game down!”   “NO!”   Bill the Butcher   See how this works? It is supplied with such impetus that after the average parent experiences it once the likelihood of ever venturing into the land of, “NO” again will be avoided at all costs. It ca...

  Cousins: John Henry "Doc" Holliday and Mattie Holliday "Sister Mary Melanie", an affair of the heart Gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday's life has captured the interest of old west historians since the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881. Contemporary newspapers documented his life as he lived on the edge. But some history isn't really complete without knowing about a person's personal relationships. Family and the people you meet can be an extension of your life, long after your gone. Even if there is a romance that isn't allowed, like in Doc's life, that strong hidden love can give emotional support, confidence, and security. But it can also make one temperamental, with little interest in the future, and no fear of death. For some, life is meaningless without passion to make your heart beat stronger. According to Gary Roberts book Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend, the first mention of a romantic relationship...

  And the tale of Hunter Grog was over just like that! Grog crept stealthily through the tall grass toward the woolly mammoth. One accurate strike and the whole cave would eat for a moon. He had chosen a female, smaller than a male and easy to kill. Leaving the herd, the lone heifer, without calf, grazed contentedly oblivious to the form slowly approaching from the downwind side.   Grog could tell the approximate age of the cow because of the lack of a calf, which meant the meat would be sweet and tender. No part would be wasted. From the nose to the toes this animal would die for good cause. Even babies could teeth on bone fragments that would be puzzled over by archaeologists in fifty thousand years.   Like any humanoid, Grog’s vision became tunneled from exhaustion of a long hunt and  concentrating on his goal of achieving food for his family and his tribe and not being aware of  his immediate surroundings, or a rather large male mammoth who was approaching ...