July 18

390 B.C. – The Battle of Allia: Gauls defeated and sacked Rome.

This Celtic force must have been a horrific sight - attacking in the nude, with a furor the Romans had never seen on the Italian Peninsula.

The Gauls more or less raped, pillaged and burned everything they could find, then stayed for about seven months...Who knows how history would have turned out had they been able to completely defeat the Romans and settle in their place?

This isn’t the way it was meant to be, however, and Rome went to great lengths to increase its military size and strength, and spent the next 300+ years attempting to conquer, subdue and control their Celtic neighbors.

64 - The Great Fire of Rome began, ultimately destroying most of the great city. Emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecution of them.

The Christians didn’t start the fire, and Nero didn’t sit around fiddling while it burned...But both make for good folklore.

That said, this fire purged Rome of most of its dilapidated structures, paving the way for a rebirth of the city...A rebirth which made it grander than ever.

1870 - The Vatican I Ecumenical Council issued the proclamation 'Pastor Aeternus,' declaring the Pope's primacy and infallibility in deciding faith and moral matters.

I’m quite certain few Protestants, and no Muslims, Buddhists, etc., bought into this proclamation, which was simply an attempt by the Pope to grab more power.

1925 - Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his personal manifesto 'Mein Kampf.'

He said what he was going to do, but the world either didn’t read his book, didn’t take him seriously, or was too apathetic to care...Unfortunately, Der Fuhrer soon proved to be true to his word.

This is something we must always remember..Especially with the multitude of nuts running around the globe in our current time.

1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne and Senator Ted Kennedy plunged off Chappaquiddick Bridge. Kennedy escaped but Mary Jo drowned. What caused the real stir was his failure to report the incident for almost ten hours. He was later found guilty of leaving the scene of the accident and given a two-month suspended sentence.

How the Duke of Chappaquiddick Bay got away with a two-month suspension is a mystery, and a travesty of justice...I guess Mary Jo's life wasn’t worth much compared to this fat POS’s.

1972 - Jane Fonda delivered an anti-war speech on Hanoi Radio, one of a series of six:  Vietnam War.

This bitch gave six speeches against the U.S., in the land of our enemy!!!!

How wasn’t she tried for sedition or treason??? Answer: Because the Liberal jokers controlling the country agreed with her.

By the way, how many of you lined her pockets by going to see her movies or buying her horrible exercise tapes? Too damn many.

1994 - Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda's 14-week civil war.

After the slaughter of almost one million people the civil war ended...Read that again: 1,000,000 executed in 14 weeks. WOW!!

That is an awesome display of executions. And trust me, the war may have been over, the killing wasn’t.

But, no one cared. The U.N. and Bill Clinton sent troops to Serbia to keep the Serbs from slaughtering Muslims, but didn’t send jack to Africa...I wonder why? Could it be they didn’t care about the death of black Africans?

Their lack of response can say little else.