I caught a dinky sea bass. Woulda tossed it back if I knew I wasn't going to catch anything else.
I offered it to the fish butcher on the Panama City Beach pier where the boat docked. He said it was too small.
I've eaten large bream that small but I was staying at a beach side motel room without a stove.
No matter. When the fish butcher turned his back, I tossed it onto his pile of fish and left.
Oh, I have sinned! Bwahaha!

Buying at the market can't be taken for granted as a former butchers son would know. This documentary might be of interest.
Government doing its best to break the supply link. SACRED COD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoWQX...

I went deep sea fishing twice. The 1st time, I caught a Marlin and sold it. Broke even. The next time a couple of sea mackerals . If I'd gone to the supermarket and bought enough fish for the whole family I would have gotten away cheaper.

I learned from deep sea fishing for a couple of hours on the Gulf of Mexico that I would be too seasick to do anything.
That boat was hardly bigger than one of Columbus's "ships."
I did catch one whole fish, though.

Gotta agree with you.
Many years ago I took a one day trip on a Columbus type ship. I came to the conclusion that I wouldn't survive a week. Those guys had moxie.

"they earned it."

From a favorite movie of mine when Charles Bonson's character say, "So you found out you're not a businessman after all" to which James Fonda's character says "Just a man," to which Charles Bonson's character says, "An ancient race."
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...

With a sister named is oscopy. Never mind LoL

It is what , that is between the ears that matters and it is gray matter. When you get to that level of tissue it is impossible to visualize a heritage or ethnicity.
How it is used is the difference maker . If he had to change his name to avoid some type of persecution so be it. It is a shame that after all these years too many pick evil in the choice of good or evil.
To Captain a ship with 50 men , setting sail for a undetermined time to a unknown location with limited resources that is a leader. The confidence to lead has to come from ability and expirience no matter the lineage.
I enjoy reading Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, the sailors knew that danger was ever present and lived with a reckless behavior.
Daring and courageous or knuckleheads and muscles or skill and fortitude all characteristics
That are necessary to sail away another day.

We're a regular Gallagher and Sheen. (Are you a blood donor? I'm not even a blood owner.)

I suspect that the life of Columbus, or Colon, or Bernie Schwartz would make a thrilling adventure story. If all the facts were known, he'd come off as a cross between Errol Flynn and John Wayne.

That is great research but Columbus' other name reminds me of a character's father in my failed novel, Cycnus, Son Of War, (recall you finding a scene with catapults on sale funny) that was really a therapeutic exercise of mine following a divorce. (Hesiod wrote of a Cycnus, son of Ares, who was killed by Hercules).
Anyway, that other character with a father is Polyps, son of Colon.

Great research Dob...Thanks, I enjoyed your and Herbs contributions.

In learning of the Majorcan Jews I found this amongst other things (horrid human behavior committed against them)

that gun control was part of the story.

The greater the indebtedness of the Christians to the Jews, the more inimical became their attitude. As a result of this state of affairs, the governor of the islands forbade (1390) all Jews to carry weapons, even in their own quarter, or to leave their homes two hours after sunset without carrying a light. After the outbreaks in Valencia and Barcelona (1391), the governor had to interfere for the safety of the Jews' quarter in Palma de Mallorca. On August 24, 1391, the long-dreaded calamity fell upon the community of Majorca. Jewish homes were sacked; and even the houses of Christians sheltering Jews in concealment were not spared. About 300 Jews were put to death, 800 saved themselves in the royal castle, and the rest underwent baptism. When Queen Violante was informed of the outrage, she condemned the inhabitants of the islands to pay a fine of 150,000 florins (or, according to some authorities, 104,000 florins). A year later (1392), however, Juan I granted full amnesty to all who had practised violence against the Jews or "the Calle," because they had done it for the welfare of king and state; and he further declared all debts of the Christians to the Jews to be null and void.

Possibly a Majorcan Jew The history of the Jews in the Balearic Islands goes back more than a thousand years.

Jews have lived in the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, belonging to Spain. These are situated to the east of Valencia, the three principal of which are named Majorca (Spanish, Mallorca), Minorca (Menorca), and Eivissa or Ibiza. The group first formed the Kingdom of Majorca; later it became a Spanish province under the domination of Aragon. According to the chroniclers, there were Jewish inhabitants in the Balearic Isles as early as the 2nd century. In the 5th century, at the instigation of Bishop Severus, a persecution of the Jews took place in Mahon (Magona), the capital of Minorca. As a result, a number of Jews, including Theodore, a rich representative Jew who stood high in the estimation of his coreligionists and of Christians alike, underwent baptism.

The mystery begins with Cristobal Colon, “love child” of Prince Carlos IV of Viana, Spain and Margarita Colon of Mallorca, Spain, born circa 1460.

Someone else, called Cristoforo Colombo, was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. This person was poorly educated and a dealer in wool, not a sailor much less an explorer.

Cristobal Colon (the real “Christopher Columbus”) had extensive seagoing experience. At the age of 12, the unacknowledged offspring of Prince Carlos IV, who was by then dead, had crewed for the Mediterranean pirate Rene d’Anjou. By the age of 14, Colon knew enough to be allowed to navigate. Colon sailed far, eventually to Iceland and to the African coast.

Just some info I found. Herb who knows .....

On well, us humans are always bumping into something with our penchant for short cuts...

He was a brilliant sailor and was made an Admiral, which I think went to his head. Anyhow, he wound up bonkers crawling around in a cell eating his own waste. The Italians claim him for their own. The great navigator from Genoa, but he wasn't a navigator, a Catholic, or likely not born in Italy.
"He studied China and China's lingo,
And promptly bumped into Santa Domingo."

One thing mankind must realize: If this life and our ascension into conscious awareness was to be so damn easy...there would be no need for forgiveness.

Sound mystical?...not really, that too might be quantum physical. Think, reconciliation of two previously entangled local quantum particles.

Interesting...maybe he was an admirer like I am...seems he may have had that in common with the spanish King and Queen.

Shalom, Herb

News story me dino just found~
Age 30 Lib Guy Vandalizing Columbus Statue Gets Chased.
Arrested When He Falls Off Bicycle! LOL!
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/30-year-ol...

Karl Marx created a new kind of slavery.
He just did not live to see his Communist Manifesto implemented.

Well he signed his letters with the Hebrew letter shem, which Mr. Spock used as his hand configured representation for his "live long and prosper." That alone is good enough for me, but there are many facts about his origins, his relatives, his brother, that you can look up if you choose to. Also, he wasn't from Genoa, nor was his real name Columbus or even Colon. In any case, I have it on good authority that he was a swell guy.

Why do they think he was Jewish?; just because the King and Queen of Spain were so thankful for getting rid of the muslims that they planned to free the Jews from the muslim take over of Israel?

As for the 3 little pigs, it wouldn't surprise me. They already destroyed the Cat in the Hat with their stupidity.

Columbus was clearly Christian

Although history is full of evil doers, one should not wish that it never unfolded that way or that one should somehow punish those whose ancestors might have been taking part in the evil doings. That wish would logically mean a wish to not have been born. Unless there is a god who implants souls in bodies, then, since the conditions where conception takes place with a particular ovum and some lucky sperm entering the ovum, would very unlikely have not taken place, meaning that a particular human would not have been born. So, with most accidental happenings, do not try to change the past but rather see that the future does not continue evils of the past. Otherwise, depression will ruin one's life.
By the way, I do not blame you, an allosaurus, for for all carnage done by your ancestors some time ago. Predators must eat and reproduce until some space thing wipes them out. Human predators, though, can learn to mend their ways, especially with the help of conservatives and others who believe that there are never enough incarcerated persons.

Marx was a slave to his benefactors paycheck. He would of died an early death if not for that enslavement because he could hardly wipe his own ass otherwise.

Just think of him as the bernie sanders of the past.