My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

A panorama picture of Husum Harbour

Event of the Day:

14th August 1969

Operation Banner goes into action

 

 

The British Armed Forces begin operations in Northern Ireland, they started operations under request of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

To begin with the Brits went over to protect the Roman Catholic population from the Protestants. They were greeted with cheers, but after a weapons search and the Falls Curfew in 1970 the mood changed and the British soldiers were attacked and hated from both sides.

On Good Friday 1st August 2007 Operation Banner ends; 1441 British soldier lost their lives.

What a waste!

Birthday of the Day:

14th August 1941

David Crosby

 

A quarter of the group CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)

They had their high in the early seventies. The most popular LP was Deja Vu with recordings such as Teach Your Children, Woodstock, Our House or Country Girl

Died on this Day:

 14th August 1988

Robert Calvert

 

Singer/Songwriter with the group Hawkwind died at the age of 43.

They played spacey music in the early seventies (I just saw in Google that they are still around, OAP playing acid-rock!!) Their most popular recording was Silver Machine released in 1972; it reached '3 in the British charts. I saw them live 1970 in Newark and they played one of the most boring gigs I have ever seen; the best part of the evening was with a friend and two birds after the show in a small Honda misting up the windows.

Thoughts:

I nearly called for Noah this morning, the clouds opened their trapdoors and threw the rain down in buckets, all the way to work my windshield wipers were going full power and the road was covered with 2-3 centimeters of water. The gullies couldn't cope with the water.

Last night I saw a documentary on internet (The Real Death Valley) it got me all riled up, I couldn't get it out of my mind for hours/days. It was about illegal aliens crossing the Mexico/Texas border. Around sixty miles into Texas there is a second border control to catch all of the aliens who got past the initial border control. To get past it the poor people take a life risking 40 mile bypass through the desert; over 400 of them don't make it and die of thirst, hunger and or snake bite. They are then collected by the marshalls and buried in mass graves.

That was a bad story, but what got me the most was why some of these people leave their homes looking for a new life in the USA. The reporter interviewed a man, who ran from his home in San Salvador with his brother because one of the gangs had marked them, and that meant death. This happened because the brother was a very talented artist who refused to design tattoos for the gang. There was a short film of the gang and wow, what animals. A group of apes would act more civilized than they did. A load of skinny, tattooed youths looking hard (they weren't playing or trying to look hard they were) and yielding swords and machetes.

The brother died trying to hike through the desert, he lived to be 22.

Never ever come on me again with right wing thoughts about immigrants, for the most of them it is not their fault that they leave their homes and families; in fact all of them have a right to want to have a better living; didn't I do that when I moved over to Germany? Didn't my parents have the same wishes when the emigrated to Australia? Don't we all move house, job etc. to improve our standard of living? Think!!

My thoughts were "Thank God I was born in a civilized country, where we learn to respect one another!" My stomach still cramps when I think about the documentary.

I know that was a heavy one and not everyone will agree with me, but I've got it off my liver and hopefully soon off my mind.

 

Here's a small sample of my bog-views, I shot all of these in England.

Enjoy the pictures, if you want to see more tell me, I've got hundreds of views:

 

 

Bye xxx