Daily history

Good morning,




Quote of the day:


“You just might be a redneck if you get hot flashes at a cattle auction.”


                                 Jeff Foxworthy




Down in Columbia, SC chiropractor Ronnie Shows has been arrested for sexual misbehavior. It seems that a 23 and 35 year old woman filed a complaint against the good doctor and their reports are identical. They came in for an “adjustment” and Dr. Shows told them to take off all their clothes except for their underwear and put on a surgical gown. He then told them to lie down on the treatment table face up. Then he provided an “adjustment” at a point that was considered inappropriate in the field of chiropractics. I don’t know about that. One of them had a pain in her hip. If you look at an x-ray of your lower torso you will see how close everything is in that area. But the other woman had a pain in her neck…


The mighty University of South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team beat Clemson two out of three games over the last few days. The Gamecocks are ranked number 5 and Clemson is ranked number 10 in the nation. After the games the coach of the Clemson team said that one of his players picked up a Gamecock bat and it felt warm. The coach, Jack Leggett, said that a heated bat was bordering on cheating. Needless to say, that the Gamecock coach, Ray Tanner, hit the roof. He said he was offended that statement stating that his team did not need to cheat. He also said that the heating of bats is not covered in NCAA rulebooks anyway. He emphasized that we here in the Carolinas are fortunate by having temperate weather but bat-warmers in Michigan-Ohio-Wisconsin, etc. colleges are common. College baseball teams in the United States use aluminum bats. I hate poor losers and whiners.


Up in Charlotte, NC a Rottweiler-Pit Bull mix attacked two dogs in their yard and killed one of them and put the other in the hospital. It fled as soon as two adult men approached. The cops found the owner and a judge fined the hell out of her. About an hour later a loose pit bull attacked six dogs in different locations killing three and putting three in the hospital. It is dangerous out there. I heard from a real estate agent that there has been a small increase in families from Wisconsin and Ohio moving into this area. I don’t know what that indicates but something is afoot.




This date in history March 10






1865 On this date Confederate General William Henry Chase Whiting died in a Union prison camp as a result of wounds received earlier. Whiting is one of the most exceptional officers the Confederacy ever had. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1825 and attended college at Boston College and Georgetown University graduating at the age of 16 at the top of his class. He then entered West Point in 1845 and did not disappoint this time either graduating again at the top of his class. After graduating he joined the Corp of Engineers in helping design coastal defenses. He was assigned to help design the coastal defenses at the mouth of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, North Carolina. It was there in Wilmington that he married and settled down. When the Civil War broke out he offered his services to the Confederacy. He was at Fort Sumter when the Union forces there surrendered. After this he returned to Wilmington and continued to design coastal defenses but was eventually called to Virginia during the formation of the Confederate army and was named as Chief Engineer. It was he who moved the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley to Manassas, Virginia in time for the Battle of 1st Manassas. He was instrumental in the rout of the Union forces in that battle. Whiting was given command of a division and was given praise by all of his superiors during the Battle of the Seven Days. In 1862 he was given command of the District of Wilmington which allowed him to return home. It was due to his efforts with the defenses in the mouth of the Cape Fear River that made Wilmington one of the most important blockade running port of the Confederacy. He remained in Wilmington for the reminder of the war except for a short period when he went to Petersburg, Virginia and helped design defenses there. Finally the Union Army decided that Wilmington had to be captured and sent US General Benjamin Butler to attack the defenses there especially Fort Fisher located in the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Butler was repulsed with heavy losses. The Union then sent General Alfred Terry and an overwhelming force and did indeed overcome Fort Fisher. It was during this second attack that Whiting was wounded and that proved to be a fatal one.




1993 Early on this morning Doctor David Gunn had arrived at the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services (abortion clinic). While still getting out of his car, a brave bastard named Michael Griffin yelled out “Don’t kill anymore babies” and opened fire and shot Gunn in the back three times. Gunn died instantly and Griffin immediately surrendered to the nearby police. The anti-abortion group known as Rescue America called the killing a “necessary evil” in the battle against abortion. While Griffin was in prison he began communicating with a woman named Rachelle Shannon who later stated that Griffin was the bravest and most important man in America. Shannon shows up at an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and opened fire on a doctor but only succeeds in wounding him. Just a short time later a fervent anti-abortionist named Paul Hill shows up on the TV talk show The Phil Donohue Show. This jackass said that both Griffin and Shannon should be acknowledged as heroes. About a year after this, Paul Hill shows up at another abortion clinic in Pensacola and guns down and kills two more abortion doctors. I don’t understand how the anti-abortionists can justify murder as a “necessary evil”. It is clear to me that they are trying to protect those inside the womb but once you are outside you are fair game. What is wrong with this picture?




1864 Earlier there was a man in the rugged mining town of Virginia City, Montana named Jack Slade. Jack was a well respected member of the community while he was sober, but once he had a snoot full, he would turn into the most obnoxious bastard out there. He would laugh real loud, slap people hard on the back and make threats although no one was ever injured. I am sure that those out there with me in the land of song and ale have known of such a person. Anyway, the law enforcement in those early frontier towns was very lacking so the community leader formed what would be called Vigilante Committees and they dispensed justice as they saw fit. The community leaders decided that Virginia City needed to be “cleaned up” and made a place fit to raise children. The first target was the loud and obnoxious drunks and that meant Jack Slade. On this date, the Vigilantes gathered up Jack Slade and hanged him for no other reason than he could not hold his liquor. Well, the word of this atrocity reached the Governor and the nearby military and Vigilantes eventually became a thing of the past. That is what happens when you put the law into the “respectable” citizen’s purview.




1970 On this date US Army Captain Ernest Medina and four other soldiers were charged with war crimes in the massacre of between 300 and 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in March of 1968. They were also charged with using torture during interrogation of these civilians. Apparently the US army unit led by Lieutenant William Calley had been taking casualties from mines and booby traps and when they got to the village and found no soldiers they took out their frustrations on the villagers. They began the wholesale slaughter of any and every villager in sight, men, women and children. The villagers fled with the soldiers in hot pursuit and the killing would have continued if not for the brave act of a scout helicopter pilot name Warrant officer Hugh Thompson who landed his helicopter between the soldiers and the fleeing villagers and put a stop to it. There was testimony that Lieutenant Calley had ordered the killing and he was tried and convicted of killing 22 civilians. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was paroled after serving three years. War is hell.




Born today:




1946 North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano. He said “I asked the referee if I could get a technical foul for what I was thinking. He said no. So I said “I think you stink” and he gave me a technical. You can’t trust them.”




Died today:


1919 US writer Amelia Barr. She said “Regardless of the scientists if you take the supernatural out of life, all you have left is the unnatural.”


1948 Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She said “No one has ever measured, not even the poets, how much the heart can hold.” Zelda was the last of the true romantics.


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