Starting a brand new week, and what do we have here? Oh, its just me...time for JUPES VIEWS FOR YOUZ! Please read this...and if you would, leave a comment or two...I promise I wont smack you with a shoe. Thanks. If your birthday is August 10, you share the day with Carl Rowan, Jerry Falwell, and Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea). On this date in 1918, the Battle of Amiens ended, during WWI. The Allies won. In 1965, six days of rioting began in the Watts section of Los Angeles. In 1990, Egypt and Morocco landed troops in Saudi Arabia to join forces with countries who were preventing Iraqi invasions (Desert Shield). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who the heck is Jesse Ventura anyway? Ill tell you one thing, right off the bat...hes not Jesse Ventura. His real name is James George Janos. I dont know much about his early life, and I dont really care. Well start with the claims that he was a Navy Seal. No. He wasnt. He served in the Navy from 1969, through 1974. According to Retired SEAL Master Chief Dick Ray, Janos trained as an Underwater Demolitions Tech-11. He did not complete training to become UDT-13, nor did he contemplate training as a SEAL. The highest rank Janos got was 3rd Class Petty Officer. In earlier books and interviews, Ventura/Janos talked about his exploits in combat in Viet Nam. He has now stated that he never saw combat. Strangely, this is contradictory to earlier statements. One of many throughout his life and careers. While he himself now admits that he never was a SEAL, his earlier claims are still out there, and people believe them. Its not a really damaging statement, but in reality, he is guilty of stolen valor. To quote another SEAL, Hes trading on the valor of others.-(Quote from the book, Stolen Valor,by Glenna Whitley, B. G. Burkett) After leaving the Navy in 1974 or 1975, depending on which book youre looking at, Ventura tried a stint as a motorcycle gang-banger...according to him, that is. He joined a club, didnt get very far, and left, to move back to Minnesota. He then attended North Hennepin Community College, where he also took up weight lifting, steroids, and indie wrestling. Eventually signing with WWE, he had an eleven year wrestling career. He took the name Jesse Ventura, and shagged the style and moves of Superstar Billy Graham...and not very well, either. Although he claims that he retired from the WWE, he was actually fired, after he attempted to unionize the company. As a matter of fact, he was ratted out by Hulk Hogan, and rightly so. Later on, after becoming governor of Minnesota, Vince McMahon invited him back to the WWE, and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for that reason...politics. Sigh. He served one term as mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, which he used as a springboard to run for governor of the state, on the Reform Party ticket (1999-2003) . He quit the party one year into his term amid internal fights for control of the party. During his tenure as Governor, Ventura drew frequent fire from the press in the Twin Cities. He referred to reporters as media jackals, a term that even appeared on the press passes required to enter the governors press area. Shortly after Venturas election as governor, author and humorist Garrison Keillor wrote a satirical book about the event, spoofing Ventura as Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, a self-aggrandizing former Navy W.A.L.R.U.S. (Water Air Land Rising Up Suddenly) turned professional wrestler turned politician. Initially, Ventura responded angrily to the satire, but later, in a conciliatory vein, said that Keillor makes Minnesota proud During his term, Ventura appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, in which he responded controversially to the following question: So which is the better city of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis or St. Paul?. Ventura responded, Minneapolis. Those streets in St. Paul must have been designed by drunken Irishmen. He later apologized for the remark, adding that it was not intended to be taken seriously. Today, Ventura is known as a conspiracy nut case. He believes that all political parties need to be abolished. And what about that law suit. Oh wait...which one? He sued Vince McMahon over royalties, and actually won on one count...over $800,000. He sued the TSA-claiming that controversial pat-downs are a violation of 4th amendment rights. That suit was dismissed. He threatened to sue TMZ over an article they posted. Which was actually true, but it made him look bad. (Seeing a pattern here?) He sued Chris Kyle, and later his widow, Taya for defamation of character...and lost. You wonder wheres his soul...well, sometimes he says hes religious, other times...no. Depends on the way his jaws are flapping, I suppose. He says he cant run for any office now, because hes an atheist, but he belongs to a Lutheran church...yep. He told David Letterman he might run for president...well...he better move back to the US then. He spends most of each year in his home in Mexico. The things we learn when we start to research, eh? Bottom line, Jesse Ventura is an opportunistic sap. He speaks before thinking, running that jibber jabber jaw more than necessary. Id give him a dollar to shut him up...how about you? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psalm 118: 8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And thats the way I see it, have a great night, and a better tomorrow. NNGB--Jupe
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:29:08 +0000
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