3% and counting; Wet Talibanners

You guys aren't interested in history...I don't know why I even bother.  Fact is: I was never too crazy about history either.  My sister was great at it but I couldn't see the sense of it.  Well, now I'm stuck with The Cambridge Modern History as being the most readable thing in this furnished apartment in Las Vegas and I'm becoming a fan.  But I won't bore you with it.  I mean, who cares about the Ottoman Empire in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?  Murders, mass slaughters, torture...all sorts of good stuff; but everyone has unpronounceable names and they all live in cities with unpronounceable names, and the kings, and sultans, and viziers etc., all get killed and replaced so often, who can keep track?  The Muslim's favorite method of killing bishops, mayors etc., in those days was to saw them in half.  At least now we get a fairly quick beheading.

And it's weird reading the word infidel and having it refer to the Mohammedans.  When I was young I think it was this way, but recently it seems to have changed the other way around...we assume the Christians & Jews are the infidel.  I wonder how that happened?  Next chapter is about Italy but I won't bore you.

In the real world, today I stocked my apartment with enough goodies to last me through the four NFL games this weekend and not have to leave the house.  I don't have a considered opinion on these games, so I just made small bets on all the underdogs: Denver +13.5; Giants +3.0; Houston +7.5; San Francisco +3.5, and I'm going to kick back and enjoy.

I briefly saw on the news that Hillary Clinton was terribly upset that some marines had pissed on some dead Talibanners.  Hey, if Hillary had read the stuff in chapter three about these Muslims sawing people in half in 1510 or whenever, she might have taken a different view.  Nah.

 It made me think of something I read about our own Civil War, in the aftermath of which many Southerners travelled long distances at great expense and effort in order to piss on Abe Lincoln's grave.  Hillary could tell them this is a great honor which we usually reserve for our finest presidents.