Daily history

Good morning,


Quote of the day:

“No matter how hot she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her shit.”

          Sign in the men’s room in Linda’s Bar, Chapel Hill, NC

A couple of weeks ago a 15 and 18 year old boy are taken to the home of a 91 year old retired educator near Charleston, SC in a car driven by a 16 year old girl for the purpose of robbing the man. The two males go into the house and begin beating the elderly and almost indefensible retiree and the man dies. The boys complete the robbery and the girl takes them away. The 15 year old is captured first then the other two know that the kid will identify them so they turn themselves in to the cops. These three are just starting out their lives and will spend a great deal of their immediate future being gang raped in a South Carolina prison and will probably emerge as hardened criminals. I am somewhat elderly myself and I can assure you that if anyone enters my house uninvited by force at least one of them will end up in the morgue. I may too, but that is just the way it is. I have enough immediately available weaponry to wipe out a baseball team including the relief pitcher.

About 4:30 on Saturday morning three burglars perform a home invasion on a house in McClellanville, South Carolina. McClellanville is a sleepy little fishing village between Charleston and Georgetown, SC. The end result was the male resident was killed as was one of the burglars, both shot to death. One other of the burglars was seriously wounded with a gunshot wound and the third was uninjured but was captured soon after the cops arrived. The particulars are still not available but I will relay them soon. It sounds like a homeowner defending himself to me. At least he got two of the vermin.

The US Coast Guard Admiral Allen that is overseeing the oil spill has stated that a new type cap and recovery ships will begin operation over this past weekend and the oil spill will be contained. Notice I did not say stopped, but contained. This means that they think they will be able to reduce that flow to the point that the recovery ships will be able to capture all of the released crude. The relief well drilling will continue. That is the only known way to stop the well leak completely.

Y’all remember South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson as being the one the yelled “You lie” to President Obama during one of his speeches. The constituents in Joe Wilson’s district are pretty angry at Joe because he voted to bail out Wall Street with “Recovery money”. Even though this vote struck hard in his constituent’s throat, they are saying that they had rather stay with Wilson than to vote for his Democratic opponent. This race between Wilson and his opponent Rob Miller is the most expensive in South Carolina history. It seems that very soon after Wilson called Obama a liar, Democrat Miller received a lot of campaign contributions from somewhere….and so did Wilson. Wilson has the most money so far but we shall see, November is not far away.

The prodigal son in my family has returned much to the relief and joy of all of us.

I received some stunning news recently. A man that I worked with for several years in Charlotte is no longer with us. He chose to take his own life at the age of 51. As a mutual friend said about this man; "No one knows what happened in that abyss except him." He was a very pleasant person with an eternal smile and was a natural borne leader. What a damned shame…Goodbye Dana.

This date in History July 13

1793    Earlier Jean Paul Marat, a physician in Paris had led a blistering attack on the Royal family of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette that eventually led to the French Revolution resulting in thousands of those loyal to the crown losing their lives. Unfortunately for Jean Paul he had a serious skin disease that called for frequent baths in various and sundry elixirs. There was a young woman that lived in Normandy named Charlotte Corday that was a devotee to the Royal form of government that developed an intense hatred of those opposed to it especially Jean Paul. On this date her persistence succeeded and she gained an audience with Jean Paul under the guise that she was going to give up the identity of all of the people in Normandy that were Loyalists. Well, as you might suspect Jean Paul was in the tub taking a bath in a magic elixir (probably natural oils) and Charlotte walked in and produced a dagger from between her breasts and stabbed poor Jean Paul in the chest killing him instantly. She patiently waited for the police to arrest her. In typical revolutionary justice, she was beheaded on the guillotine four days later. They did not fool around with trial wondering if she was in a bad mental state, had PMS or a bad childhood, they capped her ass. I was in France in ’04 and had a bad experience with one of those arrogant men sons-of-bitches but the ladies were OK, it is just the ball-less men that are full of it.

1942    This is going to sound like a fairy tale but on this date the largest tank battle in history ends. It was called the Battle of Kursk and it happened in Russia. The Germans ordered by Hitler had surrounded several cities in Russian in the hopes of capturing them. The Russian army somehow broke out of the encirclement and surrounded the attacking Germans forcing them to retreat. In this monstrous engagement there were over a million men involved along with over 6,000 tanks. The Russians had superior artillery and destroyed over 40% of German armor with artillery alone. After that they moved in with their T-34 tanks against the good German Tiger IV tanks. The Tigers were good tanks but not the equal of the firepower of the T-34 and the Germans were massacred. After this the Germans began a retreat all along the entire front and the beginning of the end for the German army was in sight.

1861    On this date the Battle of Corrick’s Ford occurs. Almost magically CSA US General Richard Garnett is overwhelmed and is forced into retreat by shear numbers alone. The US commander is the mostly inept General George McClellan but he succeeded this time virtually assuring the creation of the Unionist state of West Virginia. This battle was almost overlooked because of the Battle of Bull Run a week later which was a genuine rout of the Yankees. But McClellan’s victories in western Virginia, assured his consideration as the commander of the Army of the Potomac.

1881    Earlier William Bonny, better known as “Billy the Kid” had broken out of the Fort Sumner, New Mexico jail killing two deputies in the process. He did it the hard way, with shotguns. The two deputies hardly knew what hit them and they were dead before their bodies hit the ground. Lawman Pat Garret took his trail and followed it to where Billy ended up at a farm house that had been used by many fugitives on the run but Garrett waited until later and hid in the farm house. On this date Pat caught Billy walking into a bedroom and shot first. Billy hit the floor after three shot and never made a sound and thus ended the legend of Billy the Kid. There is little doubt that “The Kid” had killed at least 20 men and probably more.

1866    Earlier a Georgia immigrant named John Bozeman blazed a trail across Montana leading to the gold fields in northern California. So many gold hunters came across the trail that the US Cavalry began building a fort near the Big Piney Creek and they named it Fort Phil Kearney in honor of the US General that was killed in a Civil War battle. The Fort was built right in the very middle of Cheyenne chief Red Cloud’s hunting ground and I want to tell ya’ll, Red Cloud was not pleased and he kept up constant harassment of the Fort day and night. Finally, the Fort commander, Colonel Carrington allows a unit of 96 troopers out of the fort to seek out and destroy the Indians that had destroyed a group of nine woodcutters. The trooper barely got out of the Fort where they were assaulted by Red Cloud’s men and killed and mutilated to a man. After this debacle the troopers, Colonel Carrington included, pulled out of the fort permanently. By the time the troopers were less that three miles away, Red Clouds boys had set the fort ablaze and it burned to the ground. What make Red Cloud so mad was that the US had signed s treaty with him to stay clear of his hunting grounds. But that was before gold was discovered in the Black Hills and California and then as usual the US felt justified in ignoring the treaty. This ain’t the first time nor would it be the last time we screwed over the Indians. Like I say, we ain’t perfect.

1951    On this day the Midwestern United States suffered the worst flooding in United States history, especially Kansas. Three of the main rivers in eastern Kansas, the Kansas, Neosho and Verdigris overflowed their banks by 4 to 9 feet as a result of 25 inches of rain in 20 days. 24 people were killed and over 250,000 were homeless. Since then Kansas, with US help has built catch basins and stronger levees to contain such a deluge should it happen again.

Born today:

1935   US footballer Alex Karras. He said “The best score I’ve ever had playing golf is 103 but I have only been playing 15 years.”

1946    US singer Linda Ronstadt. She said “I wish I was getting as much in bed as the newspapers say I am.” I can help you there, Linda....Well, maybe.

Died today:

1917    Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. He said “Explosions are uncomfortable”. You think so, Yev?

1904    Russian writer Anton Chekhov. He said “The only difference between a lawyer and a doctor is a lawyer will rob you whereas a doctor will rob and then kill you.” Hey Anton, you left out plumbers and auto mechanics.

Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow