Good morning,







Quote of the day:


“A psychiatrist is suing Mike Tyson for $45,000 in unpaid bills. I am with Mike Tyson on this one. If ever a guy deserved a refund on psychiatry bills, its Mike Tyson”


                                Jay Leno






Answer to the trivia question of what famous movie actor was a distant relative of Sir Winston Churchill...it is Humphrey Bogart.






Twelve days ago here in South Carolina a lobbyist for the South Carolina Hospitality Association disappeared. A large contingent of police began a detailed search with no results. During the search an investigation into the organization he represented was begun. It was found that $900,000 was missing and unaccounted for. This past Tuesday the corpse of lobbyist Tom Sponseller was found in a parking garage in downtown Columbia, SC. Although the Secret Service was not involved in the disappearance of Sponseller, they were actively investigating his secretary, who had recently resigned, in reference to the missing $900,000. It appears that gambling is/was an issue. Further investigations has revealed that Sponseller had locked himself in an electrical room in the parking garage and blew his brains out with a 9mm. He did leave a suicide note which referenced the missing money investigation as the main issue. The exact wording of the note was not released. Unrestrained gambling can be a very dangerous...and so can a 9mm.






I saw an article about Demi Moore showing up at a Hollywood event with one of her daughters by Bruce Willis. I was shocked by Demi's appearance. Her body is a mere shadow of what she looked like in “G.I. Jane”. What the hell is wrong with her? Damn Demi...eat something!






Last Tuesday evening a Spartanburg, SC county cop stopped a car for a traffic violation. The cop approached the car from the passenger side and leaned over to see if there was anyone else in the car. Suddenly the passenger reached over with his foot and pressed the accelerator and the car lurched forward with the cop attached and the car ran over and broke one of his legs. Somehow the cop was able to pull out his Glock and capped the passenger. This event influenced the driver to stop the car. It was found out that the passenger had been released from prison that day...he ain't going back, y'all.






Mitt Romney has captured the delegates from Arizona and Michigan. He is saying the right words but somehow he does not seem sincere to me. I hope that I am wrong because what we have now has an agenda that does not include a country driven by a Constitution derived by a lot of very smart people. I would even consider Pee Wee Herman as Vice-President but who ever ends up as the GOP nominee needs to select Marco Rubio of Florida as their running mate. He says the right words and I think he is indeed sincere. There is one problem I have with him...when he is speaking he licks his lips after every sentence. I am sure that has no significance but it is distracting. I know...it is petty.






Over in Spartanburg, SC 38 year old Stacy Splawn was arrested for aggravated domestic violence. Her husband found a vial labeled succinycholine and a syringe in a bedside drawer. This drug can cause a fatal heart attack and is nearly undetectable. Earlier she had told her husband that she wanted a divorce but he told her that he believed in the tenet of “till death do us part”. She answered with “that is closer than you think”. Anyway, he destroyed the drug and the syringe and told her what he had done and called the cops. I don't get it...there was a photo of this girl in the news item and she is somewhere between Miss Piggy and Brian Urlacher. Get shed of the bitch and move on. By the way, Brian Urlacher is the middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears.






              This date in history March 2






1776 Finally all the hard work and sacrifices made by our ancestors is paying off. With all the military battles fought by Nathaniel Greene and Benedict Arnold in capturing the British artillery pieces in Fort Ticonderoga, General Henry Knox bringing them back to Boston undetected and General John Thomas getting those bad boys up on Dorchester Ridge that ended up staring down the throats of the hated British led by Sir Charles Howe, Howe had no choice but board his ships and sail his young ass and his army up to the safety of Nova Scotia. The siege of Boston by the British was over. Brigadier John Thomas was rewarded with another star on his shoulder for his actions here and he became Major General John Thomas. Thomas was assigned to replace General Richard Montgomery who was killed at the Battle of Quebec while fighting alongside Brigadier General Benedict Arnold. Even with the addition of General Thomas, it was found that Quebec could not be taken and the Continental army began retreat back into New York. During this retreat General Thomas, a physician by trade, fell ill and died of smallpox on June 2. A terrific loss for the Continental army, but we eventually prevailed.






1836 On this date the state of Texas declared its independence from Mexico. A group of hard-assed Texans arrive on the Washington-on-the-Brazos and declare David Burnet as provisional Governor and Sam Houston as commander-in-chief of all military forces. Importantly, they adopted a constitution that allowed the institution of slavery which had not been allowed by the Mexicans. During this time Mexican General Santa Anna had the Alamo church in San Antonio surrounded with 2,000 of his troops against 237 Patriots. Earlier in 1821 after Mexico won their independence from Spain, Moses Austin had petitioned the Mexican government to allow him to bring 300 families to settle sparsely populated lands on the Brazos River. The Mexicans agreed as long as the settlers were Catholic. Moses Austin died soon after this and the cause was taken up by his son Stephen A. Austin. Austin brought in mostly southern states Protestants because they knew how to run plantations. More and more Americans flooded the land and soon had the resident Mexicans outnumbered. In 1830 the Mexican Government took steps to prevent the hordes of honkies headed their way. All of this sounds familiar except in reverse, doesn’t it? Anyway, Austin plead for statehood in the Mexican Federation but was imprisoned for it because he told his settlers to declare themselves a Mexican state anyway. He was released in 1835. In 1834 Santa Anna had told the people in Gonzales, Texas to relinquish the cannon that had been given to them by Santa Anna as protection from the wild-eyed Comanche. The hard-asses in Gonzales sent a message back “Come and get it”. The Mexican’s came and was defeated; this was considered the first battle for Texas Independence. So in 1835 Santa Anna amassed a large force south of the Rio Grande and an invasion appeared to be on the horizon and Sam Houston ordered the Alamo abandoned. Colonel James Bowie saw that all the artillery in the Alamo could not be moved before Santa Anna arrived and requested permission to stay and that would give Sam Houston more time to raise an army large enough to combat Santa Anna. Bowie was joined by a small cavalry under the command of Colonel William Travis bringing the total count to about 140 men. One week later they were joined by the frontiersman Davy Crockett and his entourage bringing the total to about 155. On February 23 Santa Anna and his 2,000 troops set siege to the Alamo. During the chaos a few men from Gonzales broke through and joined with the rest and brought the total up to 237. On March 5th Santa Anna ordered an all out assault with no quarter. In about an hour it was over and all the Patriots men were killed in savage hand to hand combat. There were a few women and children allowed to leave. Six weeks later Sam Houston surprised Santa Anna and his army near the town of San Jacinto and those Texans herded the Mexicans into waist deep water in a swamp and killed them wholesale. Santa Anna was captured and brought before Sam Houston and Houston told him that his life would be spared but he had better take what was left of his army and get his young ass back across the Rio Grande and don’t ever come back. The Mexican dictator had to acknowledge the independence of Texas. Texas petitioned to be annexed into the United States but Mexico and anti-slavery forces opposed it. So Texas rocked along there as an independent nation for 10 years with Sam Houston as President of the Republic of Texas. In 1845 Texas was admitted to the Union and soon thereafter the Mexican War with the United States erupted.






1807 The United States passes a law forbidding the importation of slaves to the United States or its possessions. The first slaves arrived at Jamestown in 1619 but the greatest majority of imports were European indenture servants. They were far more numerous than the blacks from Africa. However, after 1680 the flow of indentured servants dropped drastically and the influx of blacks from Africa increased dramatically. By the end of the Revolutionary War the British had imported an estimated 3 million slaves not counting the French and the Dutch. After the Revolutionary War the industrial north felt no longer a need for slaves and sought legislation to abolish slavery. So in 1807, The United States Congress passed a law that forbade the further import of slaves. The agrarian South still felt the need for slaves but felt that they had enough slaves that they could be self-sustaining. Any slave that could prove that he was brought to the Colonies after 1806 has the choice of returning to Africa or re-locating to Canada.






Born today:






1810 Pope Leo XIII. He said “It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, or writing or worship as if these were so many gifts given by nature to man.” I had to read this statement over and over again to make sure that I copied it right from the text. Pope Leo XIII has since gone on to his reward.






1876 Pope Pius XII. He said “One Galileo in a thousand years is enough.” Y’all know the story about Galileo and Copernicus deducing about the same time that the earth circled the sun rather than vice versa. This was not what the Catholic Church believed and Galileo was threatened with torture if he did not recant. They reached a compromise and Galileo was exiled for the rest of his life. It took the Catholic Church 300 years to admit Galileo was right and the church was wrong. That is what Pope Pius XII is talking about. That is also why we need to keep religion out of classrooms.






      Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow