Good morning,







Quote of the day:


                   “Happy Birthday, Leslie!”


                                    Leslie's Dad






Hey Edie, it was good to see you this evening.






Things have loosened up...I wil probably be spending the month of April in Pensacola Beach once again.






Back on February 2 I asked the trivia question “What is the most expensive aircraft ever.” According to the US Guvmint, it is the B-2 stealth bomber.






I read where country singer Randy Travis was arrested for public intoxication in Sanger, Texas. He lives in Tioga, Texas. Trivia question: What famous movie star/singer was born in Tioga, Texas?






As everybody in America knows by now the New York Giants professional football team won the Super Bowl this past Sunday. The MVP was Giant's quarterback Eli Manning. How can you not like a tousle-headed country boy born and raised in Louisiana, went to college in Mississippi and is named Elijah. Not only that, he wears his baseball cap with the visor over his eyes like it is supposed to be. That is as “down home” as you can get.






A few days ago three high school kids were riding around in central South Carolina in a Jeep Wrangler. The driver lost control and the car left the road and rolled. Two of the kids were ejected an killed because they were not wearing seat belts. The driver was strapped in and he received a small scratch on his forehead. He had a bandage applied and went home. Hey all of y'all that ride around without your seat belt fastened, what message do you get from this? Don't be naïve and/or stubborn.






The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has decided to make the driving test that we all had to take more realistic in the future. There will be a section of the test where the person will be tested on the correct way to yell obscenities at the highest possible decibels at those imbeciles that cut you off or run stop signs, etc. There also will be test on how long to blow your horn while yelling these obscenities. There will be extra credits if the person being tested is able to maneuver the car so that the imbeciles can see your middle finger with their side view mirrors.






Down in Lee County, SC a 23 year old woman was driving home from a party a 2:00a. Her car dropped off the road into a deep ditch and rolled over and landed on its wheels. This girl was killed. Don't ask me about the seat belt...the answer is no she wasn't.






Over this last weekend the same “flasher” was seen in the same area of Charlotte, NC five different times. The difference here was he was on a bicycle. He would ride up beside women walking their dog, jogging, etc. and expose himself whilst yelling lewd things. All someone has to do is poke a stick in the spokes of the bike and the flasher would go pole vaulting. He is described as a male between 30 and 40, light brown hair and extraordinary balance. I have a friend that lives in Charlotte and if he did not have a bad leg I would swear it was him. Just joking, Larry.






It is a little known fact that the population of China today would equal the population of the Earth in 1939. There is a lot of unprotected sex out there. But there is a lot of poverty out there also. Hindu holy man Mahatma Gandhi once said “The bed of poverty is fertile.” Indeed Mahatma, indeed






      This date in history February 7






1968 On this date in Bromley, England Bernie Josephs came home to find his wife Claire under her bed with her throat cut all the way to the spine with a serrated knife. The police could find no clues. They did not find the knife and the doors showed no sign of forced entry. There were two cups of half finished coffee on the kitchen table indicating that Claire knew who her attacker was. The police started with all of the Joseph’s friend and family and began an investigation of them all. One of them was a recent acquaintance named Roger Payne that had a past record of attacking women. The police zeroed in on Payne. They found scratches on the backs of his hands but Payne said it was from a fight with his wife. The police inspected all of his clothing and on one pair of pants, in spite of they having been dry cleaned, the police found about sixty cerise fibers in the seams and cuffs that matched the dress that Claire was wearing on the day she was killed. The police then went over Payne’s car with a fine tooth comb and found some minute blood spots that matched Claire along with more matching fibers. In spite of never finding the knife, Roger Payne was tried and convicted of the murder of Clair Josephs on forensic evidence alone. This did not happen often in those days. It happens more often now since the advent of DNA evidence Roger Payne was given life in prison. In spite of England’s past history of torturing, beheading, the gallows and drawn and quartering, they do not issue the death penalty at all anymore. What a shame.






1862 A few weeks before US General Ulysses Grant had captured Fort Henry on the Cumberland River opening the way to Nashville, Tennessee. CSA General Albert Sidney Johnston knew that Fort Donelson, also on the Cumberland, would be the next target and sent some 15,000 reinforcements. This was a serious misjudgment for Johnston because Grant did indeed attack Fort Donelson but he completely overwhelmed the Confederates and captured the entire Fort including the re-enforcements and the main objective of Nashville and its rail yards was achieved.






1812 After a series of small quakes and a large earthquake with an estimated strength of 8.8 struck the Arkansas/Missouri border on this date. The quakes began in December of 1811 and did not end with this one. There were several minor quakes after this big one. There were not as many casualties as there could have been because this area was still being explored and most people were sleeping in tents so they were not crushed by falling debris. The quake caused a fluvial tsunami on the Mississippi River, however. The river ran backwards for several hours and exposed many shoals that were normally underwater. After the river returned to its normal flow there were several waterfalls where they had been none before and many boats went over them and those aboard were drowned. Dolly Madison in Washington was a wakened by a bell that she kept by her bed began ringing. The present day Reelfoot Lake was a result of this earthquake. The earthquake was on what is known as the Madrid Fault and the fault is still with us. It is known that over 1,000 people were killed but the census of the Indians was in its infancy so the exact number killed is unknown.






1898 On this date writer Emile Zola is arrested because of an article he wrote in Paris newspaper editorial. The article was titled “I Accuse” and leans heavily upon the French military for the ill treatment of French officer Alfred Dreyfus. Earlier Dreyfus had been accused of espionage and convicted and sent to Devils Island. Later evidence proved that Dreyfus was not guilty but the French military would not back down and rather than admit a mistake they let Dreyfus rot. One of the main reasons that the French military would not back down was that Dreyfus was a Jew. The French military resented Jews and chose this occasion to make a statement. After Zola’s editorial, the French people began raising almighty hell so the French military had Zola arrested on various charges and sentenced to one year in prison. Zola fled France to avoid imprisonment and two years later Dreyfus was exonerated and re-joined the French military. Shortly after this Zola returned to France where he died in 1902. Like I have said in the past, everybody needs someone to hate.






1855 Charles Siringo is born in Matagorda County, Texas. Charlie Siringo is well known in western folk lore as a true cowboy. At the age of 18 he had his own registered cattle brand and had a good start on a cattle ranch by gathering up “mavericks” or unbranded cattle out on the open range. But Charlie made his mark by writing. At the age of thirty he published “A Texas Cowboy, Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Back of a Spanish Cow Pony.” The book was an instant success primarily because he knew what he was talking about and it showed in his writings. Charlie was on several trail drives and he used these experiences for his books. He also wrote A Cowboy Detective. He wrote this book after he was hired by the Pinkerton agency to track down Butch and Sundance and the Wild Bunch. He chased that crowd all over the west covering approximately 25,000 miles. After Butch and Sundance went to South America, the Pinkertons called Charlie in and canceled the chase. After this Charlie wrote a book about the illegal operations conducted by the Pinkerton Agency, also a best seller. Charlie retired in California and died at the age of 74. What a wonderful and exciting life. I am very envious.






Quotable quotes:






“It is good that war is so terrible or we would learn to love it”. CSA General Robert E. Lee after the Battle of Fredericksburg.






“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils you are still choosing evil


                                  Jerry Garcia






“It is a sin to believe evil of others, but seldom a mistake.”


                               H.L. Mencken






     Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow