Quote of the day:
"Some doctors are prescribing Prozac for women with severe PMS. Not in pill form, the husband shoots it into her from 50 feet with a dart gun."
The king of the fence straddlers, Senator Joe Lieberman has the best idea so far. He suggests that to avoid political suicide, the Democrats should implement the changes in our health care system gradually rather than cramming it down our throats all at once. I think Joe is not far from the nail head.
Some of you out there are college football fans. This past weekend well known football coach and TV color man Lou Holtz predicted that it would be the University of Florida against Notre Dame in the national championship game. Lets see now...In addition to Florida, there is Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Mississippi, LSU, UNC and a myriad of others that are light years ahead of Notre Dame. A friend of mine that is a fervent fan of the Bayou Bengals from Baton Rouge said: "Lou Holtz is a nice guy but it is a little known fact that Holtz is the brother of Granny Clampett."
I have a good friend that lives on Fripp Island, South Carolina. He has a family from the South American country of Colombia next door on vacation. My friend was told that the newspapers in Colombia are saying that Governor Mark Sanford sired a child by the Argentine woman and that was the reason for his hell-bent-for-leather trip to Buenos Aries a few months ago. He wanted to be there for the birth. This is just a rumor, y'all, but it would explain Sanford's bizarre behavior.
We South Carolina Gamecock fans for the past three of four years have had a problem with some starters on the football and baseball teams going to a section of Columbia, South Carolina known as Five Points and Vista. It is a swarm of restaurants and bars. Some of our athletes have been coming to this place, getting drunker than Cooter Brown and want to fight with the bouncers and/or cops. They are eventually arrested which means a suspension from the team. We had thought we were going to get through pre-season without losing anyone. We were wrong. At 3:30a Sunday morning, one of our really drunk 6'-8", 280 pound starting defensive ends started a fight with a bouncer, the cops arrived and wrestle with him but finally subdue and arrested him. He is suspended from the team and it is a matter of days before out first game with NC State. We can't win.
By the way, the web site for my blog is:
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One of my daughters (I'm his favorite daughter! See what you can do when you have control! You get to tell the world how wonderful you are...) is acting as my publisher until I learn how to do it myself...There will be some fits and starts while we get the bugs out. I am grateful for her help getting this off the ground.
Good News:
Off the coast of Brazil about 100 miles one of the largest oil fields ever found was discovered recently. There is no doubt that this find will dilute the power and influence of that jackass in Venezuela. The US is on really good terms with the government of Brazil. It is estimated that this oil field contains about 100 billion barrels of oil. That is a lot of energy, y'all.
Greenpatch Grime:
Sunday night 34 year old Luis Andino and 26 year old Rosa Lopez decided to go to a latino nightclub in Spartanburg, SC and knock back a few. The problem was that they could not find a babysitter for their 3 and 5 year old children so they did the honorable thing. The took the children with them and left them locked inside their pick-up truck. Someone called the cops and they unlocked the doors and brought the kids out. About this time Luis and Rosa came out of the club both hammered to the gills. When asked how long they had been in the the bar, luis and Rosa said that they had no clue how long they had been in there. They were jailed for child abuse. There was no report on what happened to the kids and it appears that no one cared, especially Luis and Rosa.
AUGUST 25TH
1944 A few days before the hard fighting French 2nd Armored division, General Jacque-Philippe LeClerc commanding, approached the German occupied city of Paris, France from the north while the American 4th Infantry is approaching Paris from the south. The liberation of that great city was at hand. The 2nd Armored took a beating from the German artillery but when LeClerc heard that the 4th Infantry was approaching the center of Paris he found a surge of energy and they swept the west side of Paris while the 4th Infantry swept the east side. The German Commander in Paris was General Dietrich Von Choltitz. When Choltitz told Hitler that Paris was lost and would soon by occupied by the French and Americans Hitler ordered him to destroy all of the famous places in Paris like the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Versailles palace, etc and then burn Paris to the ground. Choltitz thought about that about 3 minutes and then said to his staff “I will not go down in history as destroying the “the city of light”, the greatest city in Europe.” So none of the pre-set explosives installed by the Germans was detonated and Paris was saved when Choltitz signed an official surrender to the Allies. There were about 20,000 German troops stationed in Paris but when they found out that they were trapped in a pincer movement and the Free French insurgents came out and began an attack on the troops out in the open, the German troops melted away. On this date a gigantic parade with the 2nd Armored, the 4th Infantry and The Free French march in victory down the Champs d’Elysses with General LeClerc and Charles DeGaulle in the lead. It was a great day for freedom.
1864 The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General R.E. Lee commanding, is under siege in and around Petersburg, Virginia by the Army of the Potomac, General Ulysses Grant commanding. The majority of supplies coming into the Confederates were coming in via the Weldon Railroad from the south. Grant orders his 2nd Corps led by General Winfield Hancock to go down and destroy the railroad. Hancock is successful in destroying 8 miles of railroad track but the Confederates simply stopped the train south of the destroyed rails and brought the supplies up by wagons. Lee gets fed up and sends General A.P. Hill and his infantry supported by General Wade Hampton’s cavalry down to restore the railroad. The Confederate and Union troops meet at a railroad depot named Ream’s Station. The Union soldiers had build a revetment out of soil but they did not build it tall enough and the Confederate artillery easily crossed over and fell into the huddled troops on the other side. The troops under the command of US General John Gibbon were green and inexperienced. When the artillery shells began falling, those troops broke and ran with Hampton’s cavalry in hot pursuit. It was a rout. This was not easy for US General Hancock to witness because he was the hero of Gettysburg and was known as a leader that would stand his ground. Not this time. Hancock and Gibbon blamed each other for the debacle so Grant got fed up with the squabbling and transferred them both out of the 2nd Corps.
1896 In 1858 William Doolin was born on a farm in Arkansas. At an early age Bill moved to Oklahoma and became a ranch hand on the huge ranch owned by Oscar Haskell. Oscar took a liking to the young Arkansan and eventually Bill became a foreman. But for reasons known only to Bill, he decided to engage in a little thievery. In fact he joined up with the Dalton gang from time to time on bank and train robberies. He was a very meticulous thinker/planner and he was useful to the Daltons in the planning of a robbery. Bill was wounded more than once in the robberies but none seriously. But he decided to go to the mineral springs in Eureka Springs, Arkansas for rest and recuperation. But he did not plan on one thing; he was being tracked by the famous lawman William Tilghman. Tilghman was able to surprise Doolin and captured him without a fight. Tilghman took Doolin to the Guthrie, Oklahoma jail and soon thereafter Doolin escapes and eludes the police for about 2 months. On this date, a posse of 12 men traps Bill Doolin in a house in Lawson, Oklahoma. They call for Bill to surrender but he isn’t having any part of a long prison term and comes out the door guns blazing. All of the posse fire their rifles and shotguns at the same time cutting Bill to ribbons. He was 38 years old.
Born today:
1836 US writer Bret Harte. He said “A big vice in a man is likely to keep out many smaller ones.” It works for me, Bret.
1850 US humorist Bill Nye. He said “I have heard that Wagner’s music is a lot better than it sounds.”
1889 US writer William Feather. He said “Flattery must get pretty thick before anyone objects to it.”
1912 US cartoonist Walt Kelly. He said “Women are not as mere as they used to be.” Walt gave us the comic strip “Pogo”. Pogo gave us the immortal phrase “We have met the enemy and the enemy is us.”
1918 US composer Leonard Bernstein. He said “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
1919 Former Governor George Wallace. He said “I may not look like a black man, but my heart is as black as anyone here.” How is that again, George?
1942 Scottish guitarist David Russell. He said “We live in a Newtonian world of Einstein physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.”
1949 US musician Gene Simmons. He said “Walk among the natives in the daylight, but in your heart be Superman.”
1951 English singer Rob Halford (Judas Priest). He said “In music there is only heavy metal and the rest of that shit they play on radio and show on MTV.”
1613 English writer Richard Crashaw. He said to his wife “It is daylight, my sweet. Not from the east but from thine eyes.” All you married guys need to remember these words.
Thanks for listening, I can hardly wait until tomorrow...
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