Good morning,







Quote of the day:


“If I could walk on water the press would say that I did it because I could not swim.”


                             Bob Stanfield






Yesterday I had my regular weekey visit to Ni Hao Grill for lunch. It is an oriental buffet. I had steamed Bok Choy, half of a steamed tilapia, two pieces of tuna roll sushi, two pieces of salmon roll sushi, one piece of mackeral sushimi, one piece of tuna sashimi, one fried chicken wing, 3 inches of andouille sausage, a slice of baked ham, two pieces of chicken tempura and I topped all of that with a lady finger and a bowl of chocolate mint ice cream and a glass of water...there was some more things but I can't remember what. The price there is $7.50 but I cannot go there but once a week for obvious reasons.






Answer to the trivia question yesterday of “What is the oldest novel still in print, etc”...the full title is “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.” It was written in the early 1600's by Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes. We know it as “Don Quixote, the man of La Mancha.” From this novel came the phrase “tilting (jousting) at windmills” meaning taking action just for the fun of it and not expecting any results.






Trivia question:


In the cult movie “Easy Rider” starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper there were two songs...”The Pusher” and “Born to be Wild”. What band did the songs and who was the lead singer? There is extra points if you know the lead singer's place of birth and real name.






In May of 2010 a 15 year old boy name Jimmy Mullins got into an argument with 23 year old Terrico Hull on a residential street near Spartanburg, SC. Finally Jimmy went into a nearby house but Mulins continued to walk up and down the street yelling and screaming. Eventually Jimmy came out of the house gun in hand and put one round into Hull's back. Hull died the next day. Jimmy said it was self-defense but no weapon of any kind was found on Hull and Jimmy was charged with murder and to be tried as an adult. Last week Jimmy agreed to a plea bargain whereby he agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter plus a gun charge he was sentenced to 30 years in the joint. His sentence carries a provision where he will not be eligible for parole until 80% of his sentence is served. This action avoided a jury trial and was agreeable to the Hull family. James Mullins is 17 years old and his life is ruined. There is little question that he will come away from spending about 27 year with hardened criminals a much worse person than when he went in. What a damned shame.






A few weeks ago a 13 year old boy in Waxhaw, NC (near Charlotte) went to school and during recess handed one of his friends a zip-lock bag about half full of a greenish substance and told him it was marijuana...it was oregano. The school got wind of it and suspended the kid for 10 days while the merits of the suspension was examined. The school staff decided that the kid needed an additional 45 days in a “restricted” school...once known as a reform school. The parents appealed the extra 45 days. They said that no illegal substance was present and it was just a “childish prank.” The school board said that it did not matter if it was a prank or not, it set a bad image for the school and a bad example for other kids at school. The parents lost. What was this kid thinking? He had to know the school had a “zero tolerance” for anything resembling drugs. That just goes to show you how important peer pressure there is for kids these days. I am glad that I do not have to deal with it, my kids were always polite and perfect...ain't that right, girls?






How much longer are we going to hear about Whitney Houston?  Let that girl rest in peace, for crying out loud. I am very disappointed with that clown that is the Governor of New Jersey for lowering the flags to half staff in her honor. There has been several members of the military from New Jersey that have given their live for this country and nothing happened with the flags. Who does this jackass Governor think he is?






Last week up in Fairfield, Connecticut a 98 year old woman was served with a eviction notice from a house she had been living in for 50 years. She said her husband did a lot of work on the house including a separate garage and told her to never move from this house. He died in 1998. The person responsible for the eviction notice said that he was just concerned with her welfare and felt that she needed to live with people her own age and that house was degrading internally. The eviction notice was stopped by a probate judge. By the way, the person responsible for the eviction notice was the woman's 71 year old son. The woman's youngest son said there is no name for his brother except scumbag, all he wants to do is to be able to sell the house. I would like to see a show of hands that believe the older son is at least a scumbag. That's what I thought.






        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 marched with his troops and was with General 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