Duke the menace

[Justgeo1]

Welcome back to our home away from home! Great to see you here again, my friend!

[Duke of Buckingham]

I am very glad to be here, in fact I am glad to be anywhere but it is somehow special to be with all of you.

Thank you God for this days you are giving me, I will try my best to deserve your gift.

Thank you to all my friends for the kind words and even more for the good thoughts, that when serious, are listen from all universe, in which I am this raindrop living in the Ocean of life.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sep 19, 1995:
Newspaper publishes Unabomber manifesto


The Washington Post publishes a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23. After reading the manifesto, David Kaczynski realized the writing style was similar to that of his brother, Theodore Kaczynski, and notified the F.B.I. On April 3, 1996, Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his isolated cabin near Lincoln, Montana, where investigators found evidence linking him to the Unabomber crimes.

Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago. A talented math student, he entered Harvard University at age 16. In 1967, after receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Kaczynski was hired as an assistant professor at University of California, Berkeley. However, he resigned abruptly in 1969 and eventually began living as a hermit in a small Montana cabin that lacked electricity and running water. Kaczynski received occasional financial support from his family.

From 1978 to 1995, the Unabomber carried out 16 bombings and mail bombings across the U.S. and became the subject of a massive F.B.I. manhunt. The F.B.I. code named him UNABOM because his targets included universities and airlines. Over the years, his victims included professors, scientists, corporate executives and a computer store owner, among others.

In June 1995, the Unabomber sent a 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto to The New York Times and Washington Post and said if it wasn't published he would continue his bombing campaign. On September 19 of that year, after discussions with the F.B.I. and Attorney General Janet Reno, the Post, in collaboration with the Times, published the manifesto, which railed against industrialized society. David Kaczynski suspected his older brother might be the Unabomber after comparing the manifesto to some documents written by Ted that David found in their mother's home.

In 1998, Kaczynski agreed to plead guilty and received four life sentences without the possibility of parole. He is serving his sentence at the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado.

http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt

[Duke of Buckingham]

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

GAO XINGJIAN, Nocturnal Wanderer

[Duke of Buckingham]

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Too many locks, not enough keys.”

― Sarah Dessen

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sep 23, 1944:

FDR defends his dog

On this day in 1944, during a campaign dinner with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a reference to his small dog, Fala, who had recently been the subject of a Republican political attack. The offense prompted Roosevelt to defend his dog's honor and his own reputation.

After addressing pertinent labor issues and America's status in World War II, Roosevelt explained that Republican critics had circulated a story claiming that Roosevelt had accidentally left Fala behind while visiting the Aleutian Islands earlier that year. They went on to accuse the president of sending a Navy destroyer, at a taxpayer expense of up to $20 million, to go back and pick up the dog. Roosevelt said that though he and his family had "suffered malicious falsehoods" in the past, he claimed the right to "object to libelous statements about my dog." Roosevelt went on to say that the desperate Republican opposition knew it could not win the upcoming presidential election and used Fala as an excuse to attack the president. He half-jokingly declared that his critics sullied the reputation of a defenseless dog just to distract Americans from more pressing issues facing the country.

Roosevelt was indeed attached to his dog. Fala, a small, black Scottish terrier, accompanied Roosevelt almost everywhere: to the Oval Office, on official state visits and on long, overseas trips including one to Newfoundland in 1941 during which Fala met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Roosevelt's cousin, Margaret Suckley, had given Fala to the president in 1940 when Fala was still a puppy. Although Eleanor Roosevelt disapproved of having a dog in the White House, Roosevelt adamantly kept the dog by his side. Fala slept at the foot of his master's bed and only the president had the authority to feed him; the White House kitchen staff sent up a bone for Fala every morning with Roosevelt's breakfast tray.

After FDR's death, Fala lived with Eleanor and, when the dog died in 1952 at the ripe old age of 12, he was buried near the president at his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

[Justgeo1]

Hyde Park is just across the Hudson from the village of New Paltz, where generations of my ancestors and other family members ae buried! I'm remotely related to the Teddy Roosvelt family by a marriage... That part of New York is very close knit and very old, having been settled in the mid to late 1600's. I'm sure more pets that just Fala are buried around that area!

[Duke of Buckingham]

Hyde Park is just across the Hudson from the village of New Paltz, where generations of my ancestors and other family members ae buried! I'm remotely related to the Teddy Roosvelt family by a marriage... That part of New York is very close knit and very old, having been settled in the mid to late 1600's. I'm sure more pets that just Fala are buried around that area!

Very good Geo a human being should love his pets, hoping a heaven to them, seem very normal to me. I just remembered a quote that is very appropriate or so I think.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

[Duke of Buckingham]

"I am happy because I have everything I want and never consume what I would want. I was able to make infinite the universe - whom everyone calls infinite, but it's for almost all a narrow field and very well fenced. "

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