The Daily Dose/July 15, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
GET YOUR OFFICIAL DAILY DOSE POLICY RIGHT HERE: We hope you deplore the attempted assassination of Donald Trump as much as we do. The situations where one human needs to shoot another human seldom arise, and this was not one of them.
USA! USA!: We Americans are no longer able to take anything at face value anymore, so it’s hardly the Upset of the Year the usual conspiracy theories are making the rounds. Our favorite is this is part of the same government plot that made Trump a convicted felon and cost him the 2020 election.
Yes, You In The Back: We do have a couple of questions that we have not found satisfactorily addressed yet.
For More On The Story, Let’s Go To Lee Harvey Oswald: First, how in the hell did anyone, much less a gunman, get access to a roof that offered a clear shot to a former president of the United States?
Dry, Technical Matter: Few people on the planet are as protected as presidents, former presidents, and presidential candidates. Even the most casual reading into how the Secret Service goes about their work would lead you to believe they would have taken care of this as a matter of course. For goodness’ sake, they seal manhole covers on motorcade routes. Usually, an entire area is locked down: no one would be able to access a rooftop any more than they’d be allowed to carry a weapon up there.
Please Pass The Dry, Technical Matter: Also, the shot came from Trump’s right, at almost a 90-degree angle from where he was facing, and you don’t have to be Smith or Wesson to wonder exactly how in the hell a shot from that angle hits Trump’s ear and misses his head.
FunFact: It was the first known assassination attempt on a president or former president since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
The Bottom Line: It is probable these two questions have logical answers. It is possible they don’t. We are far rom conspiracy theorists or nut cases here – despite our annual production of The Bottom Ten – but inquiring minds like ours are entitled to satisfactory, cogent answers to these two questions.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow speaks canine. Today’s Diary.
The big news is we actually barked tonite…We are not making that up…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1799 – The Rosetta Stone – a rock with inscriptions from the 2nd century BC is discovered by French troops in what is now Rashid, Egypt. The stone measures 3 feet 8 inches high, 2 feet 5.8 inches wide, and is 11 inches deep and is inscribed with what is more or less a valentine from Egyptian priests to their pharaoh. It dates from 196 BC and is written in both Egyptian and Greek. The French turned it over to the British in 1801 after losing a war, and it is now displayed in the British Museum. Egyptian requests to return the stone are routinely denied.
In 1912 – Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Summer Olympics. Thorpe won the shot put, high jump, 110-meter hurdles, and 1,500 meters and placed in the top four in the other events to win, finishing with an Olympic record 8,412 points. Thorpe also won the gold medal in the pentathlon, and his gold medals were later stripped by the IOC for accepting expense money for playing semi-professional baseball. They were reinstated in 1983. Thorpe later played major league baseball and in the NFL.
In 1972 – Buck Owens is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot country Singles chart – for the only week with Made in Japan. It was the 39th of 42 Top 10 country hits for Owens and his 21st and final #1 in a singles chart career that lasted from 1959-89. The song also went #1 country in Canada and #17 pop in Australia.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
To give several hundred million people a group identity and power over the group’s destiny is to give them the consciousness over their own power and the desire to increase it and make use of it.
Alain Peyrefitte
The Chinese
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) was the biggest song on Billboard’s soul chart for the New Kids on the Block. It peaked at #12 in 1989.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 country song of 1972? – Answer next time!
