Saturday September 5

Good morning,




Quote of the day:



"I got fed up with all the sex, sleaze and backstabbing in rock and roll so I got into politics."



Tony Blair



I guess y'all know by now that the mighty South Carolina Gamecocks football team beat the crap out the North Carolina State Wolfpack by a score of 7-3 Thursday night. Their offense is less that sparkling but their defense is stellar. The 'Cocks will play the Georgia Bulldogs next Saturday in Athens.



Good News:



For the first time in thirty years a woman has been approved for the Iranian cabinet. President Ahmadinejad has approved 36 year old Marzeih Dastjerdi. She was one of three women in a group of 18 that were nominated. By the way, President Obama has given Ahmadinejad until the end of September to open up his nuclear program to inspection or risk more severe sanctions.



Greenpatch Grime:



Well, it looks like our Governor has begun to fight back against his detractors. He has requested the flight records of all state owned, university owned, rental aircraft and commercial flights used by The Medical University of South Carolina, The University of South Carolina and Clemson University. He wants cost, the length of the trip, the purpose of the trip and who was aboard. I want to tell y'all, there are going to be a lot of red faces and probably resignations because of this investigation. But, the enemies of the governor are examining his travel agenda with a fine toothed comb and he certainly has the right to do the same. Way to go Guv! By the way, the Governor gets mileage for when he drives from his home on Sullivan's Island to Columbia (about 110 miles). His opponents are giving him shit about that. I hate politics.



A couple of nights ago two men broke into a house out on the west side and starting shooting. The lone man inside unloaded his own weapon and the two men fled. The man in the house was shot in the chest and went to the hospital. While there two other men came into the emergency room with gunshot wounds. The police are investigating if the incidences are related. Ya think?



Recently at a rehab clinic in Juarez, Mexico across from El Paso, a group of obvious members of the Mexican drug cartel stormed inside and killed all the doctors and nurses and left the junkies alone. The cartel does not want their users to get over their habits, it eats into their profits. How cruel can you get?



Tonight will be the first test of the new curfew in downtown Greenville. The new curfew states that any person the age of 17 or younger may not be on the streets after 10:00p. As I have said in the past, the parents of kids as young as 10 or 11 would drop their children off in downtown and pick them up 4 or 5 hours later hoping the city cops would be their babysitters. Not any longer.



This date in history September 5



1957 Jack Kerouac has his blockbuster book “On the Road” published. Jack’s book is considered the textbook of the restless beat generation and he lived all that he wrote about. He hitchhiked his way around the country taking mental notes as he went. Once he started writing he would tape several sheets of paper together so he would not have to stop his train of thought to change paper in his typewriter. One section of his manuscript for On The Road was 120 feet long of single spaced type. He was notorious for staying awake for days with the use of “uppers” and oceans of coffee while creating his novels. Jack also gave us “The Dharma Bums” and “The Subterraneans” among others. Jack was a two fisted drinker as are/were many of the writers of the world. He died in Florida of an internal hemorrhage at the age of 47. What a waste of a God given talent.



1992 Prince is acknowledged to be the wealthiest of all the “pop” singers when he signed a $100M contract on this day. As I have said in the past, I don’t get it. He can’t sing a lick. But I did find out that on many of his albums he wrote all the music, produced it, was the musical director and played ALL the instruments. I concede that the dude must have been very musically gifted, but I still think his music sucks, talent notwithstanding.



1969 Army Lt. William Calley is charged with murder of Vietnamese civilians in the village of Mi Lai in 1968. An American patrol had been harassed for days by a Viet Cong unit. The patrol came into the village expecting to find the Cong hiding in the village. They were not there so the soldiers started killing the villagers instead at the behest of Lt. Calley. They killed over 200 women, children and old men. Calley was convicted and given life imprisonment. Through a series of appeals and pardons he served 3½ years.



1863 The Confederacy orders 3 ironclad warships from the British Laird shipyard. The ships are to be built with a large iron probe protruding from the bow that would obviously be used against US ship blockading Confederate ports The US Minister to Great Britain got the blueprints to these ships and sends a message to the British Lord of the Admiralty. The message read “There is no sense in me reiterating to your Lordship that the construction of these vessels means war with the United States, is there?” The ships were not built.



1917 The Battle of the Marne begins in WWI. Let me tell you something folks, this was to be the war to end all wars and it was almost that with this battle. As always the Germans were trying to defeat France and the French in an uncharacteristic show of military prowess attacked the advancing Germans in a surprise maneuver. There were 2 million men involved in this one battle. 2 MILLION, for crying out loud. How can you make a “surprise” move with that many men but they did. They attacked the German right flank and after 4 days of continuous combat the exhausted Germans withdrew. There were 100,000 casualties in one day. After the Germans withdrew, everybody dug in and trench warfare ensued. It became a war of attrition meaning who could stand to lose men and who couldn’t? It was a meat grinder for both sides.



1958 Boris Pasternak gives us Dr. Zhivago. There is not much anyone can say about this book except that it is one of the milestones in world literature along with others like War and Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. What a wonderful and diverse universe we have available for us in literature.



1972 Some of you may be young enough to remember what happened at the Munich Olympics but on this day Arab terrorist (does that sound familiar) attack the Israeli dorms and take nine athletes as hostage in hopes that Israel will release their terrorist brethren being held in Israel in return for the release of the athletes. It didn’t happen. German police had set up an ambush at the airport but the Arab rats smelled out the ambush and killed all the hostages. Some of the terrorists escaped but as usual, Israel sent out the Mossad which is their secret assassin group to hunt these pigs down. It took a while, but the Mossad killed all of those pig sucking Arabs. I have a logic question. Are all terrorists Arabs or are all Arabs terrorists? Is there a middle ground? If there is, how do we honkies know where that is when their clergy wants us all dead or subjugated to Islam?

Sorry for the sermon but I have been hearing about those sons-of- bitches all of my life. During WWI US Gen. John J. (Black Jack) Pershing started having problems with the Palestinians. He resolved it by immediately executing those that had attacked and buried them all with dead pigs. No more problems.



Born today:



1638 King Louis XIV, Monarch of France. He said “I could better reconcile all of Europe than I could two arguing women.” Nothing has changed from that day to this, Lou.



1902 US moviemaker Daryl F. Zanuck. He said “Any of my indiscretions were with people, not actresses.” Daryl had his finger on the pulse of Hollywood.



1929 US comedian Bob Newhart. He said “I don’t like country music. I don’t mean to denigrate those that do. To those that do, denigrate means to “put down.” Bob, shut up.



1940 US actress and sex symbol Rachel Welch. She said “I was invited to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.” I was going to tell her what a stupid bitch she is, but after a second look I will say “Rachel baby, no body is perfect, except maybe yours.”

                    Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow.