Tuesday

Good morning,

Quote of the day:

“I tried phone sex and got an ear infection”

          Richard Lewis

Some of you know about the Albert Haynesworth saga and some of you don’t. Albert was an all-pro defensive lineman in the NFL. A while back his contract was bought by the Washington Redskins whose head coach was Mike Shanahan. Albert really did not want to go to Washington and began a series of obnoxious behaviors. He did not show up at mandatory camps in pre-season. He feigned sickness during practice and finally refused to play defense unless it was an obvious passing situation. He also refused to talk with Shanahan. After all of this he was suspended without pay for the rest of the season for “Conduct detrimental to the team.” This will cost him about $3.5 million. The Redskins bought his contract for $100 million, if you can believe that. He received his first installment of $15 million. There is little doubt that the Redskins have an escape clause that allows them to back out of any contract if the player does not perform. My advice to the Redskins: Kick that obnoxious bastard to the curb and forget about it. Haynesworth is a candidate for the AGCUS (Alvin Greene Center for Unparalleled Stupidity) award.

A while back the US Senate voted unanimously to impeach a Federal judge from Louisiana. There are four charges against him and the first charge was upheld meaning the judge will lose his seat on the bench and will lose his pension also. This judge was accepting gifts, fancy dinners and fishing trips financed by the attorneys practicing in his courtroom. This jackass is also a candidate for an AGCUS award.

Here is another candidate. 33 year old Tony Christie was arrested. Tony was the basketball coach at Daniel High School near Clemson/Anderson, SC. It seems that he had a 16 year old girl that was his teaching assistant and he chose to stroke her on the butt and put his hand down the front of her blouse. The girl resisted and eventually ran out of the room. When she went home and her mother and father noticed a change in her demeanor for the next few days. She cried for no apparent reason and did not want to go to school. They finally found out what was wrong with her and called the cops. This jackass coach that played on the Clemson basketball team went to the joint for quite a spell. We might have to move the AGCUS location to Williams-Brice stadium, the home of the Gamecocks.

As we all know former South African President Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. He has been classified as a Communist, terrorist, murderer, freedom fighter, redeemer, etc. etc. There is no question that 35 years ago he was indeed a freedom fighter and was no doubt a murderer. Consider what was happening in South Africa back then. I think all of you know what “apartheid” means. The Dutch, German, English and others literally invaded South Africa and kicked out or killed the resident Africans and isolated the survivors from the administration of their country. We Americans did the same thing to the Native Americans and when headed toward genocide, they resisted and we all know what happened next. Nelson Mandela resisted and was jailed for 27 years at hard labor. The English tried to make America a virtual slave state and we resisted and yes, we murdered the English (and German mercenaries among others) by the thousands. Nelson Mandela had the same mind set and is condemned for it by some Americans. Not me, I ain't a hypocrite, y'all. As Socrates once said “Know thyself”. Do that and then try to condemn others. Nelson Mandela will be remembered by millions for many years. By the way, the first Israel Prime Minister was a world recognized master assassin before the partition of Palestine in 1948...it was David Ben Gurion. Here is a quote by Cardinal Desmond Tutu of South Africa: “The white man came to South Africa with a Bible and told us to close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had our lands.”

This Date in History December 9

1775 Earlier the British governor of Virginia John Murray, also known as Lord Dunsmore, was ran out of his office in Williamsburg, Virginia by a contingent of Patriots. Lord Dunsmore hauled ass to Norfolk which was primarily Tory (loyal to England) territory. Dunsmore knew the Patriots would come after him so he felt it prudent to raise an army but he did it in an unorthodox way. He put out a notice that any slave of a Patriot that came to his aid and joined the army he was forming would be freed. He ended up with an army of 800 slaves and 300 British redcoats that became known as the “Ethiopian Brigade”. The slave owners, both Patriot and Loyalist, were not pleased with the good governor freeing slaves for whatever reason. It set a bad precedent and he did not have the power to do such a thing. The slave owners sent reinforcements to the army of the Patriots that were after Dunsmore. Dunsmore was sure that he had enough troops to defeat any Patriot army. He was wrong. When the eventual confrontation occurred, Dunsmore’s troops were severely outnumbered and soon after the battle was joined Dunsmore ran like a rabbit and got aboard his ship Otter anchored in the bay. There were only three hundred survivors of the Ethiopian Brigade and they ran and got aboard the Otter also. They were not there very long because of an outbreak of smallpox which killed most of them including John Murray, also known as Lord Dunsmore.

1950 On this date British authorities arrest a man named Harry Gold. Good old Harry was a “mule” that carried atomic secrets from a Russian spy working at the super secret American Los Alamos Laboratories where the first Atomic bomb was assembled. The spy was named Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant scientist but a dedicated Russian sympathizer. So Good old Klaus was arrested by English authorities and he rolled on yet another worker at Los Alamos named David Greenglass. Greenglass rolled on the people that ran the spy network and they were American scientists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Everybody got extended jail terms except the Rosenbergs. These two were convicted of being traitors to their country got the death penalty. Both went to meet their maker medium rare courtesy of “Old Sparky” the electric chair at Sing Sing. By the way, Julius was first...courtesy matters.

1981 On this date Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner is found dead on the city streets and black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal lying nearby severely wounded. It seems that Mumia was riding around in Philadelphia late at night in a cab when he spotted his brother engaged in a fight with Officer Faulkner. Mumia jumped out of the cab and tried to intervene by pulling out a pistol at the same time. Apparently Faulkner had time to unlimber his weapon also and the two exchanged gunfire. Faulkner was mortally wounded but Mamia was seriously wounded but not fatally. Mamia is put on trial for the first degree murder of Officer Faulkner even though the actual circumstances were not really known. The prosecution used their peremptory challenge and put 10 white people and only two blacks on the jury in a city that is 43% black. The trial was held only two months after the gunfight and Mamia was no where near well enough to answer any question much less help his attorney ask any questions. As you might suspect, he was convicted and is serving a prison term as we speak. I usually am not easy on crime but this case appears to be a rush to judgment.

1940 On this date a British army of two divisions, half of them from India, with the strength of 30,000 troops and 275 tanks begin an assault on a five division Italian army consisting of 80,000 troop and 120 tanks. Italy had declared war on England in March right after joining with Hitler in the Axis. The prime purpose of the English army was to prevent the Italians from taking control of the Suez Canal. Very soon after the battle was joined, the British found a safe route through and around the Italian mine fields for their tanks and quickly surrounded the Italians. Two days later the Italians surrendered. Needless to say, Hitler was furious. Soon after that, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini convinced Hitler that his army could conquer Greece. Hitler warned that any country that is fighting on its own soil is twice as ferocious as otherwise. Mussolini blew it off and invaded Greece. Soon thereafter he found his army surrounded on three sides with their young asses backed up to the sea and would have been annihilated had it not been for Hitler sending in a division of paratroopers to bail the Italians out. The Italians were the absolute worst fighting force during World War II and were a thorn in the side of Hitler.

Born today:

1608 English writer John Milton. He said “It is not miserable to be blind, it is miserable to no be incapable of enduring blindness.” John gave us “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained” two books that are beacons in the literary world.

1848 US writer Joel Chandler Harris. He gave us the “Uncle Remus” tales and sayings, one of which was “Watch out when you are getting all you want, the fattening of a hog ain’t luck.” Somehow that reminds me of Rosie O’Donnell.

1895 Spanish communist leader Delores Ibarruri. She said “It is better to die on your feet that to live on you knees.” She was not the first to say that, it was also said by Leonidas, the commander of the Spartans at Thermopylae. But I guess neither Leander nor Delores knew Monica Lewinsky.

1904 US writer Louis Kronenberger. When describing a recent date he said “That woman ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.” That is not as bad as seeing someone pull a chair up to the salad bar. I saw that happen. He was from Alabama.

1922 US comedian Redd Foxx. He said “All of those health nuts out there are going to feel pretty damn stupid one day when they are lying in a hospital bed dying of nothing”.

1911 US actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. He said “I was telling the Queen just the other day how much I hate name dropping.” Shut up, Doug.

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