Daily lesson

Good morning,



Quote of the day:


"What do I know about sex, I am a married man. Tom Clancy


This will show you the difference between life here and life in Greenville, SC


Gulf Breeze High School added 15 more teachers due to an un expected rise in the student population.


Over in Mobile, the cops were called to the French Quarter apartments at 4:25a Sat. morning. When the officers arrived they found 23 year old Tim Spencer walking away pistol in hand. The police ordered Spencer to stop but he broke and ran with the cops in close pursuit. Finally Spencer stopped and turned around where upon one of the cops fired his weapon striking Spencer in the ear killing him instantly. When the police searched Spencer they did not find a weapon, he had apparently threw the weapon away during the chase which was found. The officer said that he felt justified because he was in fear for his life. The chief of police agreed.


A free-for-all started in the Oarhouse Bar and Grill on Dauphin Island, Alabama. On one side was the Lindsey brothers and their father, all from South Carolina.


This date in history September 18


1955    On this day Ford Motor Co. delivers its 2,000,000 V-8 engine. They had started producing V-8 engines 23 years before to satisfy the world’s lust for speed and power in their automobiles and their has been no let up since. I have owned a Ford V-8 in a Crown Vic that I drove for years but it finally gave up the ghost after much neglect on my part. But it was brave and always trying up to the last. I donated it to Goodwill for a tax deduction. It was still running but not very well.


1970    Jimi Hendrix dies of an overdose of some kind of shit in London. Again, I am unforgiving and furious at Jimi for depriving us of a God given talent by stuffing shit up his nose or shooting it in his veins, how damn selfish can you get? As I have said in the past, Jimi played background for many famous blues and rock and roll bands before breaking out on his own with The Jimi Hendrix Experience and was an immediate success. After a couple of years they broke up and he formed a band called A Band Of Gypsies but that didn’t last either and so he went out on his own and was really successful until he essentially committed suicide with drugs. I don’t feel sorry for the son-of-bitch, his selfishness killed him. To hell with him. But I like his music.


1964    The “Mother Road” Route 66 essentially disappears as a new 4 lane highway is built in its place. In a previous lesson I told ya’ll about how in 1926 a group of automobile fans got a bunch of money together and started building the Lincoln Highway which turned out to be Route 66, that was it’s birth, here is it’s death. There are so many tales about the old Route 66 that I don’t know where to start. There was a very popular TV show about it, “Route 66”, about 2 guys just traveling the country in a red Corvette. Not to mention the song “Get your kicks on Route 66”. Route 66 was the home of many, many cheap roadside attractions, cheap hotel and restaurant, etc. It was Americana, ya’ll. Now it is gone in favor of going fast from point A to point B. What a damn shame. What have we become? We don’t to stop and smell the roses anymore.


1862    That epitome of ineptness US Gen. George B. McClellan fails to follow a severely mauled CSA Army of Northern Virginia, CSA Gen. R. E. Lee commanding after the Battle of Antietam or the Battle of Sharpsburg as those that are “unreconstructed” call it. McClellan was yelled at almost immediately by A. Lincoln and General Henry Halleck that this was the US chance to crush Lee’s army and end the war. But the timid McClellan waited 3 days to even begin a chase because he thought Lee had over 100,000 troops when in reality he had Lee outnumbered 3 to 1. I personally think that McClellan just did not have the stomach for combat as it was prosecuted in those days and would avoid it if he could. Because of his ineptness the war went on for 2 ½ more years and cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of Americans


1963    One of the most bombastic men in history Ted Turner stands up on the podium and made a speech to the United Nations. During his speech he says that he is going to donate $1Billion dollars to the United Nations, Jane Fonda not withstanding. ONE BILLION DOLLARS, YA’LL! Then he starts berating all the other American multi-billionaires like Bill Gates and Paul Allen for not doing the same. I am telling ya’ll, Ted plays in his own ball park, as it were. Secretary General Kofi Annan about pees his pants and for once in his life is at a loss for words.


1960    Fidel Castro arrives in New York as a part of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. Fidel chooses to stay at the Theresa Hotel in downtown Harlem and brought a couple of gamecocks (Not football players for the University of South Carolina) and let them run loose in his room to make him feel at home. That is what he said but we all know it was a scam to get publicity. This jackass gets up in front of the United Nations and berates the United States for 4 hours. Before the echoes had died President Eisenhower had issued trade sanctions against Cuban sugar, their largest crop. Fidel just went to the Russians and they were happy to oblige. It was never stated publicly but I believe the Russians said that they would buy the sugar if in return Cuba would allow medium range nuclear missiles on the island. Thus began the countdown to the Cuban missile crises a year later that nearly killed us all.


Born today:


1905    Swedish actress Greta Garbo. She said “The best of all pleasures is to be longing for something and then one day realize it is within your grasp.” That would be the day I jerked up a large-mouth bass that weighed over 10 pounds.


1948   US comic Jimmy Brogan. When asked to create a motto for the city of Cleveland he said “You got to live somewhere.” Jimmy is funny, Cleveland isn’t.


Died today:


1980    US writer Katherine Anne Porter. She said “Most people do not realize that writing is a craft. It requires an apprenticeship like anything else.” Here, here.


1721   British writer Matthew Prior. He said “Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.” Not from my physician, unless you drown I a sea of pills and capsules.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.

Goodbye from the lands of Jalapeño peppers, Tabasco sauce and Jesse Jackson.


                  All burn your ass from time to time.