Good morning,
Quote of the day:
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
Gloria Steinem
First of all I want to offer my condolences to the Clemson Tigers that received a shellacking from Georgia Tech Thursday night. I know y'all were expecting an upset victory but it was not to be. I think Clemson had by far the best personnel but they were clearly out-coached. I will have to hand it to the Clemson quarterback Kyle Parker. He is a freshman, very skilled and will only get better. Look out ACC!
I, as with the greatest majority of you, have been bombarded with propaganda from both the left and right. It is human nature to believe information recieved that agrees with, or reinforces your preconceived prejudices. The manipulators in the media know this and cultivate which ever side they represent. It is almost impossible to be objective in a hailstorm of downright lies and misinformation from a myriad of directions. So I am going to delete any and all political issues that does not have a possible solution attached. I am tired of hearing what is wrong or who is bad. As I told a friend, the only solution I see for those that think we are being dismantled arbitrarily is armed rebellion. We have done it before in 1764, 1776, 1812 and 1861. Maybe Thomas Jefferson was right when he said that freedom needs revolution from time to time.
By the way, if I am not mistaken we elected a well known murderer as our President. Andrew Jackson was involved in at least two duels that we know of. At least one of his opponents was killed. Not to mention hundreds of British, French and Spanish "intruder/settlers" into the then recently acquired Florida territory.
Speaking of duelers, when Jim Bowie's mother was notified that her son was killed at the Alamo she said "I'll bet they did not find any wounds on his back." They did not have the heart to tell her that he was creamated by Santa Ana.
Good News:
A few months ago a group of NASA astronauts completed repair mission number 6 on the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the last mission to the telescope for repairs or updating. The results were spectacular. The images sent back are the most detailed ever seen. One scientist said this is one of the greatest leaps into the understanding of the universe ever achieved. The scientist now claim that they can see far enough away that what happened in the "Big Bang" will be visible. One other scientist said "I am overwhelmed at the grandeur of creation, no matter how it got there." Think about the immensity of the Universe. Our galaxy, the "Milky Way", is only one of billions out there. It would take about 240,000 light years to travel from one side of our galaxy to the other. Our solar system is circling a minor star located on the outer fringe of the third spiral arm. There are about 6 billion people on this tiny planet. What is your significance in the whole scheme of things? Do you make a difference? Can you make a difference?
Greenpatch Grime:
As all of you know by now the media is having a festival with Rep. Joe Wilson's shout out of "You lie" to Obama during his speech trying to enlist support for the Healthcare overhaul. Joe apologised for the outburst to anyone that would listen but he never backed off of his position that illegal aliens would profit from the changes. Illegal aliens can and do buy health insurance from the same companies you and I do because citizenship is not required. The rub comes with the proposed government sponsored health insurance that will be partially funded with tax dollars. Can illegal aliens purchase this insurance at a reduced rate? I am a pretty good researcher and I cannot find a well defined answer to this question from a source that I trust, and I guess Joe Wilson could not either.
Last Wednesday 26 year old Kenneth Smith of Spartanburg, SC was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of 18 year old Jerry De La Rosa in front of a convenience store in March of 2008. Smith and De La Rosa had gotten into an argument over a gun and Smith shot him in the chest. De La Rosa died on the way to the hospital. Smith will probably end up in a prison gang or get into another argument and get a shank in his liver. In either case, his life is over.
A few days ago a teenager that plays fullback/linebacker for a high school team down in Greenwood, SC was arrested in connection with a shooting. The cops were called to the Topaz Club near Greenwood after a report of a shooting. Upon arrival the cops found 11 shell casings, a bag of pot, a bag of crack and a lot of blood splatter. Stankivis Rollinson was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill and the possession of a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime. His life is over too.
This date in history September 12
1912 A man called John (Cannonball) Baker finds his calling in long distance motorcycle trips testing his endurance. Baker was normally in black leather pants and standing on the pegs completed a 3,379 mile trip from New York to San Diego. As you might suspect, the roads were nearly non-existent outside major cities at this point in time and riding over rough terrain standing on the pegs takes its toll on your kidneys, I am a witness to that as I used to ride in my younger days. He later took a 17,000 mile trip visiting every state capitol in the (at the time) 48 states.
1912 Two automobile enthusiasts try to gather enough money together to build a transcontinental road from New York to San Francisco. They came up with $10 million in private funds but needed a little more so they approached Henry Ford and that jackass refused to contribute so they went to the president of Packard and he delivered $1.7 million and suggested that they name it the Lincoln Memorial Highway to make it eligible for federal funds. And sure enough they did and enough funds were found and the construction was started. This road later became the famous Route 66.
1992 Actor Anthony Perkins dies of AIDS. I guess Tony’s most memorable performance was as Norman Bates in the horror thriller Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Friendly Persuasion but he was severely miscast as the baseball star Jim Pearsall in the movie Fear Strikes Out where Pearsall was pushed relentlessly by his father to become a major league baseball player. Pearsall finally did get to the major leagues but was crazy as a bedbug because of the pressure his father had put on him. Anthony Perkins obviously was no athlete and it was apparent when you saw him swing a bat or throw a ball, I felt embarrassed for him. His ways and demeanor were very effeminate. Anthony finished out his career capitalizing on his Norman Bates thing with 5 or 6 sequels to Psycho. He died of AIDS.
1861 CSA Gen. Sterling Price captures Lexington, Missouri after a nine day siege. Price had surrounded the town and cut off the water supply and just waited and therefore there were almost no casualties. Price was the CSA commander at the Battle of Wilson Creek a month before where the US army got the crap kicked out of it and its forces were scattered to the four winds.
1968 Ford and Nissan decide to create a minivan specifically aimed at the gutless, spineless, yuppie, PW’ed husbands that may be out there in suburbia. It was an immediate success because there are apparently more of the above men than anyone had ever dreamed. What makes me say this is once I was working in a men’s clothing store and a man and his wife and two kids come in the store. The man is responsible for keeping the kids corralled and the wife goes through the clothing picking out stuff for him. After all is said and done and they start to leave, I cannot resist so I take a very bold teal colored tie to the man and suggest that this is the hot color this year for the strong minded executives. It really wasn’t but I just wanted to stir up some shit and the man goes to the front door and yells at his wife, who is already sitting in the DRIVER’S seat of a Ford Windstar, “Honey, can I get this tie?” She said “Not this time.” I asked him what he did and said he was a financial advisor. This man is suppose to make decisions on peoples financial futures and can’t make a decision on a tie on his own? I don’t think so. I had forgotten how spineless some American males had become, this reminded me.
1977 Steve Biko, a black activist against apartied in South Africa, dies of head trauma in Pretoria. Biko had been a thorn in the side of white South Africa for some years trying to make the country democratic with equal treatment for all. He was arrested enroute to a political rally in Port Elizabeth and taken to a prison that was notorious for torture and killing. That’s right folks, like it or not our Caucasian brethren used Nazi tactics to keep the blacks suppressed. During his 18 day stay he obviously was severely beaten because when they brought his out he was comatose but they offered no medical treatment and put him in the back of a van and drove him over 700 miles to Pretoria, hung him by his wrist from a window frame where he died. Even though former guards have testified that they grabbed Steve by the arms, bent him over and ran him headlong into a stone wall no one was ever sentenced for this outrage. But later on apartied was abolished and a black man named Nelson Mandela was elected president. Maybe this atones for Steve Biko’s torture and death, maybe. As all of us know, there are martyrs in every search for justice and freedom, history is full of them and now Steve Biko’s name has been added.
Born today:
1852 English Prime Minister Henry Asquith. He said “The War Department keep three sets of figures. One two fool Parliament, one to fool the public and one to fool itself. It is the same over here, Henry.
1888 US writer H.L. Mencken. He said “Everyone should respect other’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.” Mencken was a famous atheist.
1888 French actor Maurice Chevalier. He said “Old age is not so bad, considering the alternative.” Good thinking there, Maurice.
1917 Chinese writer Han Suyin. He said “The most powerful force in the world is gentleness.” Han, that is a hard pill to swallow when speaking of those rat shit Arab terrorists.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.
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