Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
“Nobody
can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and
have a new ending.”
Maria
Robinson
All
of us have been hearing until we are about to vomit the report about
the US using torture to gain information. A while back a
Representative from Alabama was asked what he thought about the
method clipping a persons tongue with one lead and another to the
persons genitalia and hooking them up to a car battery. He said “If
it will save even one American life its red is positive and black is
negative.”
Let's
see what has happened for a few days in the past here in the buckle
of the Bible Belt.
Over
in the Spartanburg, SC about 12:30a a man was coming home from work
and ran over a man that was apparently taking a nap in the middle of
the road. The sleeper died. The police are still investigating.
For
reasons unknown down in Belton, SC a 41 year old man was visiting his
girlfriend when a 61 year old man intentionally ran his car into the
side of the visitor's truck. The visitor and the 61 year old got
into an argument and the 61 year old pulled a hogleg and capped the
visitor. The 61 year old was still on the premises when the cops
arrived. He is in the joint with no bond available. The shooter has
the appearance of a Grizzly Adams with a minimum amount of hair on
his head and strangely he had no neck, his head set directly on his
shoulders...he was spooky looking.
A
31 year old high school teacher (not bad looking) was arrested over
in Greer, SC for sexual battery of a minor. She was questioned by
the school principal about having sex with a 17 year old student.
She admitted that she had sex with the student at “least five
times” before the student graduated. I am confused here. What is
the legal age of consent? Would it have made a difference if the
tryst had taken place on the night of graduation and for a period
thereafter? In any event, the teacher resigned. The student could
be in the Marine Corp at the age of 17 if he had wanted to. I don't
get it.
A
short while ago the community of Woodside
in Greenville, SC was determined to be the 6th
most dangerous community per capita in the good old USA. Here is
where Woodside
is. Go south on Main Street, by the ball park, turn right on
Pendleton Street, go about a mile and a half and turn right on
Woodside Avenue, go under the underpass and bear to the right and
there you are in the Woodside community. At one time that area was a
“mill village”. There was a gigantic cotton mill on the right
side of Woodside Avenue that employed hundreds if not thousands of
workers who lived close to the mill, not to mention Parker High
School a little further down the road. Both Parker and the mill
closed and I suppose the criminal element moved in when the workers
moved out. I used to play high school basketball in the gym
there...what a damned shame. The same can be said about the
communities of City
View, Monaview and
almost anywhere between Hampton Avenue and Saluda river...meaning the
White
Horse Road area
or the infamous West
Side.
Out
in Long Beach, California a man got hammered and was out in the front
yard waving around a pistol grip garden hose nozzle...a garden hose
nozzle, y'all. The cops were called and they promptly pumped six
rounds of 9mm Glock ammo and two shot gun blasts into this dangerous
gunman killing him instantly. The family is raising hell. They
bring up the fact that we see one demonstration after another of
non-lethal equipment to subdue a potential dangerous criminal and
then they make Swiss cheese out of this guy because he had a garden
hose nozzle. Like I have said before, they have a “bean-bag”
shotgun that will easily knock anyone down not to mention a variety
of Tasers. God forbid I get hammered and walk out into the yard with
my Norelco shaver or my “C” cell flashlight. What made it worse
was the cops did not issue any warnings at all. There was no mention
of any of the cops getting any water sprayed on them either.
Sometimes I see a phase on the side of police cars saying “…to
protect and serve.” Maybe it should be “It is us against them.”
I was a public servant for many years and if I had even spoken to
anyone with disrespect I would have been fired.
At
a weekly meeting of the Bay County School Board in Panama City,
Florida a 56 year old man named Clay Duke was sitting in the audience
when he suddenly stood up, produced a semi-automatic handgun and
started waving it around. He ordered all the women and children out
of the room and held those that were left as hostages. He pulled out
a can of red spray paint and painted the letter “V” on a blank
wall and drew a circle around it. No one knew what the hell this
guy’s problem was. He finally pointed his weapon at the chairman
of the board and said that he was angry because the chairman was
responsible for his wife being fired from the school system. He
fired several rounds at the chairman from distance of about 8 feet
and missed every time. Finally a security guard arrived and shot
Duke in the leg and he went down immediately. While on the floor
Duke put the muzzle of the weapon under his chin and pulled the
trigger. He was killed instantly. To this minute no one knows what
this outburst was all about. There never has been a woman named Duke
to ever work in the Bay County School System. Others believe he
wanted the police to kill him as an act of suicide. When he was
wounded he knew he would be captured so he ended it himself. There
are a lot of strange critters out there, y’all.
A
while back Sheriff’s deputy Jeff LeGrow was called to a trailer
park on James Island near Charleston, SC. One of the residents had
reported a burglary in progress at a nearby mobile home. Sure enough
there indeed was a burglary in progress and LeGrow started chasing
the burglar around the trailer park. Finally the burglar stopped
running and turned and shot LeGrow six times with a revolver hitting
him in the arms, face and chest. The burglar turned out to be 26
year old Brandon Simmons. His trial is still under way but it looks
like Brandon will spend many years in a South Carolina Prison,
probably the one in Bishopville. The most interesting thing of this
whole episode is when LeGrow testified he said that right after he
went down after being shot, he saw a very bright light and felt
enormous love and the presence of God. He said God told him that it
was not his time to go. He awoke and opened his eyes and saw Brandon
Simmons standing over him throwing away his pistol and he could hear
another cop yelling for Simmons to get down on his face. LeGrow is
no longer a policeman because he lost and eye and partial use of one
arm. Isn’t it peculiar that those people that have a near death
experience give the same description of what they saw and felt.
This
Date in History December 16
1773
On this night those wild and crazy guys from Boston known at the
Sons
of Liberty
decided to pay a visit to three British tea clippers anchored in
Boston harbor. The Sons of Liberty were not pleased that Great
Britain had maneuvered the tax structure trying to save the British
owned East India Company to the point that East India Company had a
monopoly on tea coming to the colonies. The Sons
of Liberty
felt like they did not want to taken for granted and used so they
went aboard the three ships, the Dartmouth,
Eleanor
and Beaver
dressed
as Mohawk Indians and threw all the tea aboard into the harbor. The
British authorities in Boston got word back to Parliament in London
and they about peed their pants at the loss of about 1 million pounds
sterling worth of tea. They immediately passed the Coercive Acts as
punishment to the colonies for this outrage. The Coercive Act
essentially declared Martial Law in the state of Massachusetts; it
also declared that English officers would be exempt from the law and
could not be tried for any crimes whatsoever. The final straw
declared that British soldiers could commandeer private lands and
houses if they felt like it. There is no sense for me to tell you
what effect this had on the already hot-blooded Sons of Liberty. All
it did was light even a larger fire under altar of freedom and the
Revolutionary War began in earnest at the Battle of Bunker Hill two
years later. This event was forever known as the Boston
Tea Party.
1811
The quiet of the afternoon in northwestern Tennessee near the
Kentucky border was broken by an earthquake estimated to be in the
7.5 range on the Richter scale. Some of the lands moved up or down
15 feet and the Mississippi River briefly reversed course causing
some of the nearby lowlands to flood. In one particular area the
water was trapped into a permanent lake and it was name Reelfoot
Lake. It is not often that we get to see the formation of a
naturally created lake but we did this time. Reelfoot is close to
the Mississippi flyway and enjoys a stopover to many thousands of
ducks and geese on their way south and north. It also holds the
distinction of having the largest number of nesting Bald eagles
outside of Alaska.
1944
With the attack on Germany from the east by the Russians beginning
in earnest the German army knew that with the attack of the Allies
from the west their days were numbered unless they could attack what
they considered the weaker of the two forces, that being the Allies
closing in from the west, and fight their way northwest and capture
the Belgian deep water port of Antwerp, they might have a chance of
being re-supplied and refitted and continue the war. They knew they
could not win the war but if they succeeded in this operation they
could negotiate a peace from a position of strength. After
stockpiling troops, artillery, tanks and other tools of war
undetected in the Belgian Ardennes Forest over a period of months,
on this morning the Germans launched a three pronged attack during a
snowstorm. The battle line was about 50 miles long with the center
prong led by a ruthless German Tank commander named Joachim Pieper.
The Germans enjoyed initial success and drove through the
unsuspecting American troops with ease until they had pushed out
about 60 miles and had encircled the important transportation center
of Bastogne, Belgium that was defended by 18,000 members of the 101st
Airborne and the 10th
artillery. The troops held out in spite of constant German artillery
barrages from every direction and attempted attacks with infantry
without success. On December 22 The German commander asked for a
truce and brought a surrender request to the Commander of the 101st
named Major General Anthony McAuliffe telling him surrender or risk
annihilation. McAuliffe sent back one word “Nuts”. The German
officer had to get an interpretation of what it meant and was told
that it meant “kiss my ass”. During all this time the skies had
never cleared so the Allied air superiority could have its effect.
On the next day, the skies opened up and the Allied fighter bombers
fell upon the German tanks and artillery that had the roads choked
and destroyed them in place. On the day after Christmas a tank
column from Patton’s 3rd
Army reached the beleaguered town of Bastogne and the 101st
and the 10th
were relieved. The strange thing is the 101st
was pissed off that the tank column came because they felt they did
not need any relief. They felt they could beat the damned Germans
alone without any help even though they were nearly out of ammo, food
and winter clothing. They were/are arrogant warriors, y'all.
General Eisenhower assigned British General Bernard Law Montgomery to
attack the German right flank, US General Omar Bradley to attack the
center, and US General George Patton to attack the right flank and
drive those Germans back into Germany. They succeeded but it cost
about 80,000 American lives, the worst loss for an American force
ever in one operation. The Germans lost 120,000 troops, 1,600
planes, 700 tanks. The end was in sight for the defeat of Germany.
Births and deaths:
1584
British jurist John Selden is born. He said “They that govern
the most make the least noise.”
1787
Mary Medford English writer is born. She said of Jane Austen “She
was the prettiest, silliest, and most affected husband hunter ever.”
1901
US anthropologist Margaret Mead is born. She said “Women want
mediocre men and men are trying to become mediocre as soon as they
can.”
1980
Colonel Harlan Sanders, the founder of KFC died. He said “There
is no sense in being the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do
business from there.”
Quotable quotes:
“My dog is half
Labrador and half pit bull. It bites my leg off and then brings it
to me.”
Frank
Carson
“I was trying to
daydream, but my mind kept wandering”.
Steven
Wright
“I never had any
trouble with drugs, only policemen.”
Keith
Richard
You
know you drank too much the night before when you wake up with crop
circles in your pubic hairs.”
Doug
Benson
Thanks for listening
I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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