Daily history

Good morning,







Quote of the day:


When speaking of a political opponent he said “He has the demeanor of an Easter Island statue with an ass full of razor blades.”


Harold McMillan






It has happened again. This past Thursday a 50 year old woman over in Dillon, SC was walking around in her front yard when she was attacked by two Rottweilers. The owner of the dogs immediately tried to physically restrain them and was severely bitten for his trouble. By this time a couple of armed neighbors arrived on the scene and drove the dogs back but they continued their attacks on the severely injured victims so the neighbors capped them both. The woman died and the owner is in the hospital in serious condition. It is always a Pit Bull or a Rottweiler that attacks humans or other dogs. Why don’t we just make it legal for people to have grizzly bears and Bengal tigers as unleashed pets? I personally have had enough of this. People are not safe in their own front yard because of some person nearby wants to keep an obviously vicious breed of dog that has a tendency to go crazy as hell and attack without provocation. I am not a hater of dogs; in fact one of my favorite beings on this planet was a Golden Retriever that is no longer with us. When is the last time you have heard of someone being attacked by a Golden Retriever? I miss you Kasey, wherever you are.






This past Friday night a man down in Walterboro, South Carolina answered a knock on his front door. When he opened the door, a man forced his way in and a hand-to-hand fight ensued while the man’s wife called 911. After just a few minutes the intruder was dead. The homeowner had held intruder in a choke hold until he quit struggling. The police arrived along with the EMS and carried the corpse away. The police knew who the intruder was and he was known to go into fits on occasion. The homeowner said that during the struggle the intruder was growling and barking like a dog….not any more.


Signs of the times:






Canadian teenage heart throb Jason Bieber gave his opinion about abortion in an interview. Hey Jason, stay focused on entertaining the teeny-boppers. We don’t give a shit about your opinion on political/moralistic issues. I could say the same for Kanye West. He can’t hold a candle to Eminem or Ice-T and you never hear a thing from them.






A few months ago Mel Gibson’s ex-wife agreed to a $16 million divorce settlement after it was found that my man Mel had ranted an anti-Semitic tirade in public that was caught on tape. This past week she reneged on that agreement stating that it wasn’t sufficient. I don’t want to say that she is undeserving because she is the mother of one of Mel’s kids but for crying out loud, $16 MILLION?






Chopper builder Jesse James and his wife du jour Sandra Bullock split up this past year and so did Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson. Y’all will have to admit that Sandra and Scarlett are two of the best looking women on the planet and it seems that is not enough. Jesse was caught having an affair and Sandra booked and the same with Ryan Reynolds. I don’t get it. A few months later Jesse was seen with his new squeeze. This girl looks just like a woman I met at Richard’s, a biker bar in Mount Pleasant, SC. The only difference was that the girl at Richard’s had on biker boots, leather chaps, lace bikini panties and a bra, and I don’t think that Jesse’s new squeeze had on the bikini panties.






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 was with 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 those that it applies to....KMIM










Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow