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Quote of the day:

“I do not know what the key to happiness is but the key to unhappiness is to live your life like you think someone else wants you to.”

                                   Al Campbell

At the meeting of “The Four O’clock Club” on Friday, as you might suspect, there was much conversation about Tiger Woods, the media, Elin and the kids, etc. The sitters at the bar quickly polarized into the fans of Tiger and those that dislike Tiger. As we all know a person’s likes and dislikes are a personal issue and the discussion of them is an endless journey to nowhere. My role at times is the Socratic method of conversation. This means that I make a provocative statement or ask a provocative question and then stand back and watch the fireworks. One of those in my little group suggested that he would not be surprised if Elin told Tiger that if he ever entered another golf tournament she would take the kids and move back to Sweden. I think he is joking but if he not, the quickest way to create a vengeful monster is to dictate to him/her how you want them to lead their lives. Either you accept a person as they are or not at all. If a person wants to make a change in their life it has to be done as a result of their decision and no one else’s. I might have told this before but here it is again. I was sitting at the bar at a bar named “Khaki’s” when a young lady came in and sat down beside me. It was apparent that she was in distress and I asked her if she was alright. She said that her husband was just thrown in jail for an 18 month stretch. I asked her what was the charge and she said “dealing drugs”. I then asked her how long she had known this man and she said “about two years”. I asked her if he had been dealing all that time and if he had, why did you marry him? I was bowled over when she said “Yes he was dealing the whole time but I thought I could change him”. In other words she was going to try to make another human being live a life that she imagined. That, my friends, is the key to unhappiness for both parties and the start of creating a monster. See today’s quote of the day.

Back in January someone broke into a woman’s bedroom in Columbia, SC and forced her to have sex with him. On February 11 this animal was arrested in Atlanta and is being held awaiting extradition back to Columbia. The cops found the identity of the culprit by the DNA in the presents he left on the girls clothing. If he is convicted I have a punishment in mind. It involves a pair of 10” vise-grips and pinking shears.

A forty-two old woman from Salley, South Carolina solicited her boyfriend to kill her husband she was separated from along with his stepson. The boyfriend went to the estranged husband and told him all about it. They arranged to record a phone conversation between the boyfriend and the wife where they discussed the details of the boyfriend setting fire to the house the husband and stepson live in. They took all this information to the cops and it was a slam dunk conviction. The wife was sentenced to seven years. When asked why she wanted to kill her husband she said that she was not happy with the money she was going to get from the divorce and wanted extra money from the life insurance policies on the husband. It is greed, y’all.

The other day a man named Billy Harrison approached a female in the yard of her house in Spartanburg County, SC and made an offer. He said that he was in the paving business and he offered the pave the driveway for a blow job. The woman began telling this weirdo that she was a Sunday school teacher and did not appreciate that kind of language. About that time the woman’s husband, who was about the size and demeanor of Dick Butkus, came out the front door and Billy beat a hasty retreat. He did not get very far in that dump truck before the cops caught up. I wonder what sex I could get for designing the piping for high pressure steam in a nuclear power plant and do it in 3D. It boggles the mind…Just joking.

This date in history February 21

1777    Earlier George Washington was involved in the French and Indian War and had a man named George Weedon that served as a lieutenant under his command during the war. Weedon was an innkeeper in Fredericksburg, Virginia and at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 Washington sought out the services of Weedon. He was given the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to the regiment of General Hugh Mercer. In August 1776, Weedon was promoted to Colonel and given command of the 3rd Virginia Regiment. Weedon marched with his troops and was with General George Washington at battles in New York and New Jersey including Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown. He also commanded Pennsylvania and Virginia regiments in General Nathaniel Greene’s division at Valley Forge. In 1778 Weedon resigns because a rival named William Woodford was promoted to a position superior to him. Woodford was also a fighter under Washington during the French and Indian War. Weedon did not abandon his country however; he took command of a Virginia militia unit and continued fighting separate from the Continental Army. Weedon was present with his militia at the immortal Battle of Yorktown. His rival, William Woodford, was captured by the British during the siege of Charleston and died in captivity in1780. George Weedon lived to see his country as an independent nation thanks in part to him and others like him. Weedon was a meticulous records keeper and his invaluable notes and orders which he kept while encamped at Valley Forge are in possession of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.

1965    A man child named Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was a minister that was a black supremacist that had his life threatened more than once. The heat on the preacher got so hot that he moved his family to Lansing, Michigan but continued his inflammatory sermons. Finally a white supremacist group called Black Legion murdered the preacher. The bad part of this whole episode was that the city of Lansing and the state of Michigan refused to prosecute. This event had an immense effect on Malcolm because after this Malcolm X was brought into being. Malcolm called himself Malcolm “X” because he assumed his ancestors were slaves brought over from Africa and their last name was not known. Malcolm was even more inflammatory than his father but he had a lot more organizational skills. Malcolm eventually moved to Boston with his sister. His hatred of the white man grew in intensity year by year. He was very light skinned and said on more than one occasion that he ”hated every drop of the white rapist in his blood” even though he got his lightness from his father and there is no evidence that a rape had occurred at anytime in his ancestry. He eventually ended up in New York City, Harlem in particular, and chose to take up a life drug-dealing, gambling, racketeering and robbery. He was arrested for burglary after trying to sell stolen property to a pawn shop. He was convicted and received a 10 year sentence. While in prison he was taken under the wing of an older inmate who recognized his talents and encouraged him. Malcolm became a voracious reader and a member of a debate team that debated teams from Harvard and Yale. He became very popular with the other inmates but the authorities recognized that his knowledge and charisma could be a source of trouble. His brother Reginald wrote him about The Nation of Islam and Malcolm began to associate with Elijah Mohammed, the leader of The Nation of Islam. Malcolm became a member of the Sunni Islamic sect. He was brought in to be drafted but was rejected as having “an asocial personality with paranoid trends and schizophrenia.” The FBI had been monitoring Malcolm and came up with the same diagnosis and in fact Malcolm had gone to a psychiatrist for treatment. Malcolm’s fiery intellect along with his inflammatory attitude and speech, he climbed up in the structure of the Nation of Islam. But eventually relations between him and Elijah Muhammad became strained when he found that Muhammad was having sex with his secretaries and others in the organization were lining their pockets with Islamic funds. Malcolm visited several Islamic countries and became deeper involved in Islam. But his relationship with Elijah Muhammad deteriorated to where Elijah Mohammad put out a contract for Malcolm’s life. On this date he was to make a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. A fight broke out apparently as a diversion and as Malcolm’s bodyguards went to squelch it and another man ran up and shot Malcolm in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Two other men ran up and emptied their handguns into Malcolm. He was dead almost immediately by the shotgun, the handguns were unnecessary. The three assassins were caught and arrested. They were all members of The Nation of Islam No one really knows the reason for the assassination of Malcolm by people of the Nation of Islam except that he was become way more popular than Elijah Muhammad and was in the process of opening his own mosque. I guess we will never know.

Quotable Quotes:

“There is nothing more responsible for the good old days as a bad memory.” F.P. Adams

“I do not hate men. I think men are a terrific concept.” Jo Brand

“The fastest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.” Roseanne Barr

When trying to describe modern man in one sentence it would be: "He fornicated and read the paper.” Madonna

“The act of sex, as gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on man. It is man’s last desperate attempt at supremacy.” Bette Davis

I love men, even if they are lying, cheating scumbags.” Gwyneth Paltrow

“Money isn’t everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.” Rita Davenport

“Money isn’t everything but it sure helps keep you in touch with your children.” J. Paul Getty

Here is a message to that person it applies to....KMIM

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