Good morning,







Quote of the day:


“The important thing about acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.”


                                  Glenda Jackson






After a visit with my doctor last Wednesday, I have determined that I am no longer 10 feet tall and bullet proof. There is a physical problem that may detract from my compositions while I get patched up. If I seem erratic for the next little while you will know why. This is the real reason I am not going to Pensacola Beach this Spring.






Over the last weekend a wrestling coach for Chapman High School near Greenville was arrested in downtown Greenville for disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, among other things. I have to explain that downtown Greenville is really an entertainment center, top to bottom. There are plenty of restaurants and watering holes. The wrestling coach was with four others hanging out at a bar named “The G-Spot” when they got a little rowdy. A cop came in and told them to leave because he felt a fight was in the offing. They promptly left but gathered together on the sidewalk outside and continued with their loud and rowdy behavior. The cop called for help and soon there were three cops telling them to break it up and move on. The wresting coach refused and began berating the cops. They told him he was under arrest and he refused to put his hands behind his back to be cuffed and wanted to fight. Y'all can guess what happened next. That's right, they Tased him and he went down like a sack of potatoes and was cuffed. By then there was a considerable crowd observing the coach making an ass out of himself. I can tell you from personal experience, the cops will win any and all fights. The coach has hired a lawyer and will ask for a jury trial denying that anything of the sort happened in spite of all the eye witnesses. It is likely that he will lose his position at Chapman and will never teach in South Carolina again. Is there any question that he was hammered? That's what I thought.






Over in Spartanburg, South Carolina a man got into a fight with his 15 year old son and was beating him up severely. The wife/mother tried to get between them and break it up. She got a blow to the jaw for her trouble an chose to go retrieve a .38 special revolver and ordered her husband to back away from the boy. The father ignored the order and continued with the ass-whipping so she shot her husband in the ass. That got the job done, the father fell to the floor screaming in pain. The mother called 9-1-1 and continued to watch her husband's wallowings. The cops came and arrested the husband and charged him with a variety of crimes...that is after they took him to the hospital to get the wound attended to. The cops did not charge the mother with any crime stating that it was a case of self-defense. I think that is a stretch, but it is the right call.










            This date in history February 10










1779   On this date band of 350 Patriots led by General Andrew Pickens, Colonel Robert Dudley and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke leave South Carolina headed for Wilkes County, Georgia and a group of 200 British/Loyalist commanded by British Colonel John Hamilton at Carr’s Fort. The Patriots arrive at the site and battle ensues. Just when the Patriots are about to wrap up this battle, General Pickens called for withdrawal and they head out toward another column of British/Loyalist headed for North Carolina with recruits gathered up by Loyalist Colonel Robert Boyd from the city of Augusta, Georgia. They lay an ambush for Boyd’s column near Kettle Creek and when the Loyalists are in the right position, Pickens springs the trap and all but annihilates the column of recruits. British Colonel Colonel Boyd is killed instantly. Both of these events occurred in Wilkes County, Georgia named after the British revolutionary John Wilkes who raised much hell in English Parliament in the behalf of the colonies that he was arrested and jailed for his fiery speeches, so the American colonists send him money for his defense.






1962   Earlier an America spy pilot for the CIA named Gary Francis Powers launched a spy mission from Buda, Norway and is to fly across central Russian enroute to a secret spy base in northern Alaska in the infamous U-2 spy plane. At the same time Russian spy Rudolph Abel is gathering information for the Soviets in New York and Washington. About half way through his mission, Power’s U-2 aircraft loses power and descends to an altitude that can be reached by Russian fighters and ground-to-air missiles. Normally the U-2 is at such a high altitude that nothing can reach them, but not this time. Powers is shot down and captured alive. Meanwhile Russian spy Rudolph Abel is also captured. After several months the Russians and the US decided to swap Powers and Abel so on this day Gary Francis Powers and Rudolph Abel passed each other walking in opposite directions on a bridge to freedom for Powers and suppression for Abel.






1992   On this day the nastiest man on the planet is convicted of rape and is sentenced to 6 years in prison. That’s right it was Mike Tyson that was convicted of raping Desiree Washington after a beauty contest in Indianapolis. Even though he was sentenced to 6 years he only did 3. What was this animal thinking? He is in the spotlight all the time and here he is leaning on an 18 year old girl for sex. He is as stupid and he is uncouth, on top of getting his brains knocked out on a regular basis. He isn’t human.






1861   On this date Jefferson Davis and his wife Varina are standing the rose garden on their plantation ”Brierfield” near Vicksburg, Mississippi when courier rode up with a telegram. Varina wrote that when Davis read the telegram he paled and said that he “felt he could be a General but not this”. Davis was a graduate of West Point and understood the military, but this telegraph named him as the President of the Confederacy. He readily admitted that he was not prepared to be a politician but would do the best he could in his elected position.






1920   Unfortunately for silent actress Theda Bara opened in San Francisco in a play named “Kathleen Mavoureen”. The play makes fun and ridicules the Irish immigrants. Well, the majority of the men in the audience were Irish immigrant miners and railroad workers that had moved out west to work in the gold and silver mines near San Francisco. After it became apparent that the play was making fun of the Irish, the Irishmen got out of their seats and tore the joint apart. The moral of the story is the Irish have no sense of humor when they are the focus of the joke.






1862   On this night poet Dante Rossetti and his pal Algernon Swinburne come home from a night on the town and find Rossetti’s wife dead from an overdose of Laudanum an opium derivative. No one knows why his wife Elizabeth would do such a thing and Dante was devastated and buried all of his manuscripts with Elizabeth. Dante came from a family of exceptionally talented people and went just the opposite of the wished of his father that wanted Dante to enter politics but that wasn’t Dante’s calling. He knew from an early age that poetry was his forte and would pursue it when the time came. He had a book of poetry published when he was 18 years old. Later on Elizabeth’s body was exhumed and Dante retrieved his manuscripts which provided Dante Rossetti a living for the rest of his life.






1846   On this date The Mormon community in Nauvee, Illinois pulled up stakes and heads west under the leadership of Brigham Young. Their original leader was Joseph Smith who brought them from New York to Nauvee. For some reason, the good people around Nauvee did not like the Mormons and their leader Joseph Smith in particular and took Smith and his son aside and killed them. The probable reason was that Smith considered himself as a prophet of God and he allowed polygamy. But for whatever reason, he was killed. The evacuees of Naumee crossed the frozen Mississippi and set up camp near Sugar Grove, Iowa just below Council Bluffs. From there Young sent out scouts to find appropriate camping grounds and good water for his their trek westward. Young felt that he would never be at peace in the United States so he was trying to move west far enough to get out of the US. Eventually Young came upon the Great Salt Lake and by that time they had grown from 1,600 members to 12,000. Young declared that “This is the place”, and Salt Lake City was born and it was land that belonged to Mexico. The only down side of this for the Mormons was that The United States won the Mexican War and Mexico ceded what is now Utah, among others, to the United States so the Mormons found themselves Americans once again. Brigham Young lived to see the population of Salt Lake City reach 100,000.






Quotable quotes:






“My grandmother is 85 and still does not have glasses; she drinks right out of the bottle.”


                       Henny Youngman






“An opera is a play where a guy is stabbed in the back and instead of dying, he sings.


                            Robert Benchley






“There is a type of food that makes women give up oral sex, wedding cake.”


                                       Bill Maher






    Thanks for listening   I can hardly wait until tomorrow