Good morning,







Quote of the day:


“If you find yourself in a situation where you could save a drowning man or take a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and aperture setting would you use?


                                        Paul Harvey






Unfortunately I watched the Grammys. The only musical talent I saw was The Beach Boys (everyone were I was joined in singing “Good Vibrations”) and Jennifer Hudson. Everybody else apparently feels that they have to put on a floor show or wear bizarre costumes to make up for their lack of talent. I was disgusted. What ever happened to living or dying by talent alone like Frank Sinatra or even The Allman Brothers? But no, they have to throw in bullsh-t.






For lunch Monday I had baked ham, fried frog legs, tuna and mackeral sushimi, fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, mussels, chicken wings, steamed whole tilapia, a small section of andoullie sausage, a cup of strawberry ice cream and a glass of water. The price...$5.78. To all Greenvillians, it is the new oriental buffet beside Stax Omega on Orchard Park.






This past Friday night a 32 year old man was driving down a road near Greenville, SC. He lost control and went off the left side of the road, struck a culvert and the car (a Jeep Cherokee) rolled over on its top. Normally this is a very survivable accident...not this time. The driver was ejected and the car rolled on top of him and crushed him. How did this happen, you ask. HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT. For the life of me I cannot figure out why people refuse to wear their seat belts when it has been proven a million times over that sometimes that is all that stands between you and the hereafter. NASCAR drivers, open wheel racers, go cart racers, airline pilots, airline passengers, fighter pilots, bomber pilots, tank drivers, HUMVEE drivers, every combat vehicle known to man all have seat belts/harnesses for a reason. It is to keep their young asses alive. The only deduction I can come to about those that do not wear them is they have a latent death wish. What else can be the reason be? Not only that, you are risking getting a ticket and paying an unnecessary fine.






Last Friday night a Chevrolet Explorer ran off Billy Graham expressway near Charlotte, NC. The vehicle rolled twice, struck a telephone pole and came to rest on its wheels in a retention pond. The driver was taken out by a rescue team and sent to the hospital. He was able to walk to the ambulance. Why do you think he was able to walk to the ambulance? That's right... he was.






I am almost embarrassed to tell this story. A South Carolina state senator name Nathan Ballentine introduced a bill that would make it a law that the University of South Carolina Gamecocks and the Clemson Tigers MUST play each other in football EVERY year. This abomination and encroachment into college football by a state legislator was laughingly rejected out of hand by the state legislature and the Universities involved. Ballentine said that he was worried that since the SEC and the ACC are expanding there may not be enough game dates left for this 103 year old rivalry to continue. I can assure you that the state of South Carolina has a hell of a lot more issues to be concerned with than a damned football game. Nathan Ballentine, you suck...Go Gamecocks!






What is the top grossing nightclub in America? As you might suspect, out of the top 20 nightclubs in America, 15 are in Las Vegas. The top is the Marquee Nightclub and Dayclub in Las Vegas. This puppy grosses between $70 and $80 million a year.






For the last couple of years 43 year old Teresa Grell of Spartanburg, SC has been raiding mailboxes to get information to be used in identity theft. She was arrested about six months ago and the cops found a plethora of incriminating evidence in her car including a list of several dozen people with their addresses, Social Security numbers and a check writing machine. She was arrested while trying to cash an altered check at a First Citizens Bank. This past Friday she was convicted and sentenced to 15 months in the joint. That is not enough as far as I am concerned.






The FBI has issued a warning about a new e-mail scam. It involves an individual receiving an fake e-mail from National Automated Clearing House Association, FDIC or the Federal Reserve. The e-mail directs you to open a link that is attached. Once the link is opened, your computer is captured and they take control of everything contained therein including your Social Security number and...your bank account. Beware.






I saw where the number one city with speed traps in America is New York City, Manhattan in particular. The most surprising statistic is that number 10 is Austin, Texas. Are you listening Dotty? I'll bet there are not many around HSB.






  This date in history February 14










1779 A few days earlier a 350 man militia under the command of Patriot General Andrew Pickens was attacking the British forces at Star Fort near Ninety-Six, South Carolina when General Pickens ordered a withdrawal and sent the militia to seek out a column of 700 Loyalist recruits that had just been assembled by British Colonel James Boyd. Boyd and company were headed to North Carolina to join with another British army. Scouts located the column and Pickens devised a two pronged attack with all but 150 of his troops attacking the flank of the column and the other 200 led by Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke attacking the opposite flank through a swamp. It was tougher going through the swamp than expected but Clarke made their way through and the attack called the Battle of Kettle Creek was launched. Even though the Patriots were outnumbered by almost two to one, the attack was successful because one of the first persons killed was British Colonel James Boyd. The Loyalist soldiers panicked and Dooly and Clarke herded the green recruits like cattle. This successful attack interrupted the plans of the British continued occupation of the Carolinas and Georgia. A little later Colonel Dooly was murdered by Loyalists in his log cabin on his plantation near the Savannah River in Georgia. Dooly County, Georgia is named for him. A spring that served the Dooly house is located within the boundary of Elijah Clarke State Park on the banks of Clarke Hill Reservoir (named for Elijah Clarke) on the South Carolina/Georgia border. There is a concrete monument at this site honoring this martyr to our freedom.






1929 Earlier the New York mob decided to expand their operations in Chicago and sent Alphonse Capone to head up the operation. The only problem was that the larger portion of the Chicago crime income belonged to a man named “Bugs” Moran. “Bugs” was not about to give up his Chicago kingdom to anyone, especially a snot-nosed Sicilian. These two fenced back and forth trying to take total control of the city. Moran had called a meeting of his captains for conference about future strategy against the Capone organization. The meeting was set for at a warehouse owned by CRT Cartage and there were seven members of the Moran organization that were supposed to be at the meeting. Somehow Capone got wind of the meeting. On this date the seven members arrived at the warehouse a waited for Moran to arrive. Instead of Moran, three policemen crashed into the front door and told Moran’s men to turn around and face the wall and they opened up with Thompson sub-machine guns and shotguns cutting the seven to ribbons. Moran was approaching the warehouse when he saw the policemen go in so he just kept walking. It wasn’t policemen y’all, they were assassins from Detroit hired by Capone. This event was called The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. The next day Moran said “Only Capone kills like that”.






1779 Earlier one of the greatest explorers in history had paid two visits what was later to become the Hawaiian Islands. Captain James Cook was on a five year exploration trek and was expected to circumnavigate the earth. On this date he returned from exploring the north Pacific and sailed into Kealakekua Bay. Little did he know that this date was a holy one to the Hawaiians and especially on this particular day. The Hawaiians believed that the fertility god Lono resided in this bay and this was the day that the god was worshiped. Well, the Hawaiians were not pleased that two boatloads (HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery) of honkies interrupted the ceremony and when Cook and a small boat load of sailors headed for shore, they were met with the Hawaiians throwing rock and other missiles. Cook did not know what the hell was going on, he was met by the smiling Hawaiians on the other two trips. He had no way of knowing of the ceremony worshiping Lono. Anyway, when Cook’s boat reached shallow water, the Hawaiians waded out and cracked Cook upside the head with an oar-shaped war club and killed him. A few of the sailors on Cook’s small boat made it back to the safety of the Resolution. The next day the English got their revenge by opening up with a broadside of their cannon and killed 30 Hawaiians. Needless to say, honkies were persona non-gratis in these islands for a generation.






1864 Earlier Union General William T. Sherman and an army of 20,000 leave Vicksburg, Mississippi headed to the rail center of Meridian, Mississippi. He had ordered US General William Smith to depart Memphis with an army of 4,000 to meet him in Meridian. Sherman had decided that he was going to wage total war not only against the Confederate military but the civilian population also in an attempt to break the southern states will to fight. The Confederate Army consisted of 10,000 headed by Leonidas Polk for the entire state who tried the best that they could to delay Sherman but on this date Sherman and his army entered Meridian during a torrential rainstorm. While waiting for Smith’s army to arrive, Sherman set about destroying railroads, storage facilities, banks, hospitals, hotels and whatever useful building that existed. Sherman waited until February 20 for Smith to arrive and then left headed to Georgia to start his infamous “March to the Sea”. The reason Smith did not arrive was that he was ambushed by a CSA army and slaughtered almost to the point of annihilation. That’s right folks; it was CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest at his best.






1943 Earlier Hitler sent his ace general Erwin Rommel into North Africa to bail out the inept Italian Army that was losing its grip of territory previously gained. Rommel organized one of the best fighting groups ever assembled in the vaunted Afrika Corps. The Afrika Corp relied heavily on armor such as tanks and self propelled artillery. There was a thunderous battle between Rommel and British General Montgomery in which Rommel was forced to retreat westward toward Tunisia. The American army had landed in North Africa behind Rommel’s lines and was headed east to cut off Rommel’s retreat. Rommel decided that he should take the offensive against the newly arrived Americans and decided that the weakest point is Kasserine Pass, a two mile gap in the Dorsal Mountains in Tunisia. Rommel’s first attack was repulsed and he brought up more armor and ran through the American lines like greased lightning. The first major battle against Rommel was won by Rommel. Then the American brought up their best tank commander in General George Patton. After this it was all downhill for Rommel.






Born today:






1913 Immortal football coach of Ohio State Woody Hayes. He said “If we did not have winners, there would be no civilization.” Woody was fired from Ohio State the day after he hit Clemson linebacker Charlie Bauman in the chin after Charlie had intercepted an OSU pass and ran out of bounds in a Bowl game that sank Woody’s hopes of winning.






1913 Infamous labor leader Jimmy Hoffa. He said “I have a lot of faults, but being wrong is not one of them.” I wonder where his corpse is.






1960 US rapper and TV star Ice-T. He said “I have a phone, a fax machine, a copier and a hand grenade....Everything you need to do business in Los Angeles.” Ice-T stars on “Law and Order-SVU”. I like him.






              Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow