Good morning,
Quote of the day:
“I was always meeting men who did not want to get involved. I dated my last boyfriend for two year and finally gave him an ultimatum. I said “Look, you tell me your name or it’s over.”
Rita Rudner
Recent events down in Texas remind me of the “Good ole boys” system that is prevalent today here in South Carolina. Previously a man named Gregg Phillips was hired as second in command to oversee the privatizations in the state of Texas especially the managing of food stamps and application processing for them. Gregg and the number one in command screwed up the system so bad that they were fired. Gregg went to Austin and opened a consulting firm called AutoGov. Inc. It essentially is a soft ware writing company focusing on problems in city and state governments. The State of Texas went further and further down the toilet with their privatizations so they decided to hire a consulting firm to take care of the problem. Y’all see where I am headed, yes indeed, they hired (without putting out bids, mind you) Gregg Phillip’s consulting firm of AutoGov. Inc. and gave them $207,000 start up money. Mike Gross the president of the Texas State Employee’s Union said “They are hiring the same guy that put us down the toilet in the first place and it smells.” Yes it does……to high heaven, right Dotty?
A couple of months ago over in Spartanburg again a man robbed a convenience store using a rifle. He was seen by the cops a very short while later and a car chase ensued. The man finally ran into a ditch but was not hurt. He exited the car rifle in hand and drew down on the cops who promptly capped his ass using a scoped .308 sniper rifle. An autopsy was performed and it was found that he was gassed on a cocktail of cocaine and several downers. The cops said that he probably would have never remembered the robbery and never felt the fatal shot.
It has been confirmed that a traveling companion and I will be spending four days at the Mount Pleasant Marriott beginning on April 15. If Ed, PW, Pete, Larry, Ben, April, David S., Svetlana and anyone from Jacobs plus anyone else y’all can think of and are in town, let’s have a throw down at either Richard’s, Dunleavy’s, Poe’s, Windjammer on IOP, (probably Richard’s) or all the above. Let me know if y’all are interested. By the way, my traveling companion is named Carolyn but she prefers “Cary”, I prefer “Momma”. Don’t worry Andy Donovan plus the girls at Soda Water; I will see y’all no matter what.
This date in history March 16
1751 On this date future president James Madison is born on a Virginia plantation. James led a privileged childhood and attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) and graduated after only two years. After college in 1771 Madison returned home very ill and it took him until 1776 to sufficiently recover to return to politics where he became a member of the Virginia legislature. James was a drafter of the United States Constitution and was a chronicler of the Constitutional Convention. His notes of the Convention are the most accurate of any records of that immortal meeting. But Madison forbade any of his notes to be made public until all those in attendance had died. It was he, John Jay and Thomas Jefferson that authored The Federalist Papers which foster the idea of a larger government being better capable of the protection of individual rights. The most important of these was Federalist Paper no. 10 authored by Madison alone. James married Dolley Payne Todd who proved to be one of the finest hosts in Washington of all time. While James Madison was Secretary of State under the widowed Thomas Jefferson, it was Dolley that arranged and hosted the White House frivolities in behalf of Jefferson. After resigning from public office he became rector for Thomas Jefferson’s beloved University of Virginia. Later on he became the president of Virginia State Teachers College at Harrisonburg. The college eventually became James Madison University. Madison was yet another man that showed up at the right place in the right time in history with the right skills and determination to contribute to the success of this great experiment in freedom known as the United States of America. We need many more men/women of this caliber.
1985 On this date the Associated Press Beirut bureau chief is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. American journalist Terry Anderson was leaving his hotel when he was whisked into a waiting car, blindfolded and taken to the basement of a destroyed house in southern Beirut where other western journalists were being held. Terry stayed in different houses in Beirut until November 2, 1991 when he was released by his Hezbollah captors, meaning 2,455 days wearing a blindfold the whole time. No one to this day knows to what end these journalists were captured. What the hell did Hezbollah want from these journalists and/or their employers? Israel and the other free nations are supposed to negotiate with these jackasses. Negotiate what? There never really said what they wanted in exchange for the journalists. By the way, Terry was one of a very few that got away from these hyenas. The greatest majority were assumed killed and were never seen again. After being released Anderson sued Iran and received several million dollars in recompense. In 2002 wrote a book about his captivity named “Den of Lions.” He ran for Senator from Ohio but was defeated.
1881 On this date on of the most famous gigolos in Los Angeles, California is found shot to death through the right eye. Francisco “Chico” Forster was the most eligible bachelor in the Los Angeles area when he happened into the pool hall owned by Jose Abarta. Jose’s daughter Lastania was singing there. Chico was smitten by this raven haired Latino beauty and began to pay her much attention. On March 14 Lastania was invited to sing at a party given in honor of the outgoing Governor of California, Pio Pico the last Mexican Governor of California. Chico’s father had just tricked a huge chunk of land near San Diego from the unfortunate Pio. In one of her songs, Lastania made fun of Pio and the stupid land deal he made with Chico’s father. Bad feelings began to surface so Chico and Lastania left and went to a fancy hotel. As men will do on occasion, Chico told Lastania that he would marry her if she would have sex with him. Lastania agreed. Afterward Chico left saying he was going to get a ring and a Padre to marry them. As you might guess, he never showed up again. So Lastania and her sister hit the road looking for Chico. They find him at the horse track and gathered his young ass up, put him in a carriage and the three head for a preacher. At one point Chico jumps out of the carriage and begins walking away. Lastania is right behind and tells him to stop because she has a gun. Chico turns around and sure enough, she has a revolver pointed at this head. Chico says “You aren’t going to shoot.......“ Lastania put a .38 caliber bullet through Chico’s right eye killing him instantly. At the trial, Lastania’s lawyer was able to convince the jury that Lastania was in “her time of the month” and as everyone knows, a woman’s blood flow is disrupted during this time and the blood in Lastania’s brain was clogged and she wasn’t thinking clearly. The jury bought it and Lastania was released and immediately disappeared. All you guys out there keep this in mind if some women promises marriage if you will sleep with them, and if betrayed, you cannot shoot them and use a defense of it was my “time of the month”.
1903 One of the most colorful characters in the history of the American west dies. It was Judge Roy Bean of Langtry, Texas. He was the self proclaimed “Law West of the Pecos.” Bean was born somewhere in Kentucky in the 1820’s. In 1847 he and his brother Sam left home and went to Mexico and lived a rogue’s life until he got into an argument with another man and ended up killing him. This forced Bean out of Mexico and he ended up in San Diego. As usual, Bean got into a fight in a bar and ended up killing anther man so he had to skedaddle out of there and ended up in Los Angeles. He got into a fight with a Mexican General over a woman and shot and killed the General. The General had a lot of friends and they took Bean to the closest tree and strung him up. The woman who he had the fight over ran to his rescue and cut him down in the nick of time. He carried the scars from that rope for the rest of his life. Bean decided that California just ain’t the place to be and he moved out into the wilds of New Mexico and Texas. For about 16 years he was a prosperous and legitimate business man in San Antonio. In 1882 he moved to southwest Texas and built his famous bar “Jersey Lilly”. Eventually he founded the town of Langtry, Texas named after the actress Lilly Langtry as was his bar. Bean became a justice of the peace in Langtry and was famous for dispensing justice using common sense rather that the letter of the law. He once fined a dead man for carrying a concealed weapon. But on the down side when a man shot a Chinese rail worker, Bean let him go saying that he could find no law against shooting a Chinaman. Bean fell ill and died in November of 1903, just 10 months before the real Lilly Langtry came by for a visit to his famous saloon.
Born today:
1751 American President James Madison. He said “The truth is that all men of power should be mistrusted.” Right on, James. I learned my lesson with Richard Nixon.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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