Friday, January 27, 2012

Good morning,







Quote of the day:


Woman chatting with at a bridge game: “There is something seriously wrong with our computer. When I walk into the room where Harry is on the computer, the screen if full of naked women in compromising positions and Harry said he does not now how they got there so it must be a glitch in the computer.”


                                                                  Anonymous






A few months ago 26 year old James Brock and his wife came to a parting of the ways and his wife moved into another house not yet identified near Travelers Rest, SC. James chose to go to this house on several occasions trying to talk with his wife. The homeowner got fed up and obtained a non-trespass order on James. This past Wednesday night James foolishly chose to approach the house once again seeking a conversation with his estranged wife. Soon after this the homeowner called 9-1-1 and said that he had shot someone. He had shot James in the back with a shotgun. James was taken to the local hospital but he expired about an hour later. James was in the front yard when he was shot. I am not sure what the law is on a case like this. Is it murder? Is it self protection? As of this writing the homeowner has not been charged nor arrested. The exact relationship between the homeowner and James' wife was never identified and neither was the homeowner. It sounds like a relative to me.






This past December Heather Locklear and fiance Jack Wagner got into a spat at Jack's house in San Fernando Valley, California. Actually, it was more that a spat, Heather took a swing at Jack and Jack retaliated. The cops were called and a domestic violence report was filed on both of them. A few days later both Heather and Jack told the cops that they did not want to press charges. They were told that it was not a case of pressing charges...any and all domestic violence charges in the state of California are pursued and adjudicated before a judge, come hell or high water. They will be paying a judge a visit the end of this month. South Carolina has similar laws, law enforcement takes domestic violence charges seriously and after the charges are filed, it is no longer in the hands of the perpetrator or the victim.






Here is a case of the most inattentive person on the planet. A few days before Christmas over in Sarpy County, Nebraska there is one night at the local Wal-mart known as “Shop with a cop“ night. In this case 25 county cops took underprivileged


children Christmas shopping. On this particular night a 25 year old man chose to shoplift a video game, stuffing it under his jacket, and headed for the door. Needless to say, he was spotted and arrested. The strange part was that there were 15 police cruisers parked near the front door. What was this thief thinking? How can you miss a caravan of police cruisers?






                                               This date in history January 27






1863 On this date President Abraham Lincoln issued General War Order #1. He orders all US forces on land and sea to make an advance against the Confederate forces on February 22. Abe was fed up with the stalling tactics of General George B. McClellan and he was eager to get this conflict ended. Abe was neither military trained nor experienced so he rounded up some books on military tactics and read up on it. After this he decided that a simultaneous attack on all fronts would reveal the Confederate weaknesses and there they could concentrate their efforts. The philosophy was good but there were a host of reason why it would not work but he ordered the action anyway. The arrogant General McClellan called the order “amateurish” and ignored it and stayed encamped after February 22. However, US General Ulysses S. Grant in the Tennessee-Mississippi theater did indeed begin a push against the Rebs and captured Fort Donelson and other forts on the Mississippi River. This action eventually led to Grant being able to isolate and capture Vicksburg, Mississippi. While all of this was going on Abe found out that his Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, had been unapologetically taking bribes and using his position for personal gain. Abe fired Simon and installed Edwin Stanton into that position where he remained for the remainder of the war. A little later Abe fired McClellan and put US General Ambrose Burnside in his place. Ambrose lasted two months then Abe fired him and installed US General Joseph Hooker in his place. Even though Hooker was known to get into the sauce on a regular basis and allowed prostitutes to follow his troops (this is where the word “hooker” for a prostitute came from) he was not afraid to move his army and attack. This is what Abe wanted to see. It didn’t work however. Hooker was no match for CSA General Robert E. Lee and Abe had to fire him too.






1967 In 1960 US President John F. Kennedy had issued an order for the United States to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade and eventually NASA was born. NASA began a series of programs aimed at putting a man on the moon. The programs began with fits and starts and some failures but eventually progress was being made by leaps and bounds. Maybe too fast because on this date the spacecraft Apollo 1 was on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral with the crew aboard going through drills and exercises to be done once launched and a fire broke out and killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee. Examination revealed that it was an electrical short that had caused the fire but the real fault was the buildup of combustibles in the spacecraft. NASA engineers had ignored the possibility of a fire and plunged ahead recklessly. In spite of this tragedy, NASA was able to put a man on the moon with Apollo 8, Neil Armstrong commanding, in 1969. In all there were 17 Apollo missions and 6 visits to the moon.






1926 Scottish inventor John Baird demonstrated in London the first transmission and reception of a TV signal. It was a program about a red-haired housewife with a Cuban bandleader for a husband and their interplay with their landlord and his wife, just joking. Anyway, in 1932 the Radio Corporation of America demonstrates television using a cathode ray tube called an iconoscope created by a Russian inventor named Vladimir Zworykin. This invention made the picture much cleared than before. In 1936 the British Broadcasting Company began sporadic television broadcasts in high definition and in 1939 they began regular broadcasts. The first color set reached the public in 1954. In 1969 the head of the United States Federal Communication Commission, Newton Minnow, called television “a vast wasteland”. But things are much better today with shows like: The Simpsons, Wife Swap and American Idol. Hello Newton, where are you?






1975 On this date a Senate investigative committee headed by Idaho Senator Frank Church opened hearings on the actions of the FBI and the CIA. The committee comes to find out that the FBI had been conducting illegal surveillance on hundreds of thousands of Americans for years. The also found out that the CIA had been fostering or participating in the murder of elected officials worldwide. It was only two years before that the CIA had engineered the murder of the democratically elected president of Chile Salvador Allende and the military takeover of the government by a Chilean General that was sympathetic to the US, at least as long as the money kept rolling in. The real reason for the murder of Allende was he had threatened to nationalize the copper mines held by the American company Kennecott Copper and ITT also. He also had open trade with North Korea and Cuba among others, all United States enemies. Not only that, they had ignored a presidential directive to destroy their vast supply of poisons. It is ugly out there, y’all.






1978 On this date a man named Richard Chase is captured near Sacramento, California for the murder of Evelyn Mirith and Daniel Madden. He had sexually mutilated Evelyn with a knife before stabbing her to death and had shot Daniel in the head. The strange part of this is that Richard removed some of their organs, filled them with blood and took them to the house. The people that knew him were not surprised because a few years before Richard were found out in the middle of a pasture covered with the blood of the cow he had just killed. When the police searched Richard’s house they found blood in containers throughout the house. It appeared that Richard had been drinking blood for some time. He went to trial for murder and even though he was obviously insane, the jury found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to life without parole. On the day after Christmas in 1980, Richard was found dead of a suicide in his San Quentin prison cell....... and stay gone.






1951 On this date United States detonated the first nuclear device, fueled by fissionable material made at the Hanford, Washington facility, on the recently acquired Nevada test site. The blast was so large that the flash was seen in San Francisco. The previous tests had been done at the test site at Los Alamos, New Mexico including the very first nuclear explosion in history in July of 1945. The device was known as “Fat Man”. The only other nuclear devise in existence at that time was also an American invention known as “Little Boy”. This bomb was dropped on Nagasaki without testing because the scientists were sure it would work and they were very, very right.






Born today:






1807 American author Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. He said “It take less time to do something right than it does to explain why you did something wrong.” Obviously Henry was a married man.






1847 English actress Ellen Terry. She said “No matter the skill of the actress can overcome the loss of youth.” Time marches on, Ellen....Damn it!






1886 US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. He said “The layman’s constitutional view is that anything he likes is constitutional and anything he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.” Yeah, so what is wrong with that, Hugo?






1897 US singer Marian Anderson. She said “So long as you hold somebody down, a part of you must be down there with them, meaning that you cannot soar as far as you otherwise might.” That sounds like my third ex-wife.






1902 US writer John Steinbeck. He said “Writers are somewhere between clowns and trained seals.” Steinbeck gave some of the best literature ever written and he received many awards for it. He gave us The Grapes of Wrath and Travels with Charlie among many others. He is no longer with us and it is our loss.






1912 English writer Lawrence Durrell. He said “All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.” My sentiments exactly Larry.






1913 US writer Irwin Shaw. When speaking of American football he said “If they armed the players, there would not be a stadium big enough to hold all the crowds.” I like the idea of men armed with ice picks against hungry lions.






1930 US actress and wife of Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward. She said “Sexiness wears this and beauty fades, but to be married to a man that makes you laugh every day, now that is a real treat.” Joanne went to high school right here in good old Greenville for a while.






1932 English-borne actress Elizabeth Taylor. I have been in love with Liz ever since I saw her in National Velvet. She said “The problem with people with no vices is there is a good chance they will have many irritating virtues”. There is little doubt that Liz had a plethora of vices. She was a skank, no doubt about it.






                              Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow

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