A Bob's Life: Monday Musings

Monday, October 9, 2023

Monday Musings - October 9, 2023

1. October continues moving forward. Today is the second Monday of the month. There are 11 Mondays remaining in the year. Christmas decorations are already adorning the stores.

2. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, formerly Columbus Day, celebrated. For those of you so blessed, enjoy the holiday.

Halloween Display
Tequesta, FL
October 8, 2023

3. The Halloween season is upon us. Chris and I found a very extensive display during our bike ride yesterday. It was too much to attempt to show all of it, but we did note a new addition for a recent departed singer.

4. It was a tough day for the birds of Baltimore yesterday. The Ravens blew the game in Pittsburgh and the Orioles got their wings clipped in Baltimore. It was the first Ravens game of the season that I could actually watch on TV. I wanted to turn it off. The Orioles game was also ugly, but the Birds made it respectable at the end. Hopefully, their late inning success will carry forward as the best of 5 series moves to Texas with the Orioles in an 0-2 hole.

5. Family NFL report. It was a tough weekend in the NFL for the family teams.

Commanders (2-3) gave first win to Bears (1-4), 20-40
Cowboys (3-2) failed to show for 49ers (5-0), 10-42
Steelers (3-2) clipped Ravens (3-2), 17-10
Dolphins (4-1) drowned Giants (1-4), 31-16

6. This Monday finds the world in complete crisis. Putin believes that Ukraine can be defeated in a week and our attention has been diverted from there to the attacks on Israel. In the U.S. the forces of chaos and repression appear to be gaining strength and power to potentially destroy the economy and remove our country as a stabilizing force in the world.

7. Today in History. On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerrillas in Bolivia and executed him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1997, Guevara’s remains were found and sent back to Cuba, where they were reburied in a ceremony attended by President Fidel Castro and thousands of Cubans.

Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was born to a well-off family in Argentina in 1928. While studying medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, he took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle; during this time, he witnessed the poverty and oppression of the lower classes. He received a medical degree in 1953 and continued his travels around Latin America, becoming involved with left-wing organizations. In the mid 1950s, Guevara met up with Fidel Castro and his group of exiled revolutionaries in Mexico. Guevara played a key role in Castro’s seizure of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served as Castro’s right-hand man and minister of industry. Guevara strongly opposed U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based revolutions to combat social injustice in Third World countries.