Good morning,
Quote of the day
“I am not going to
spend the later years of my life as a hermit so I can spend an extra
two years in the geriatric ward.”
George
Carlin
How many of you are
about to vomit because of the continued turmoil about the Confederate
flag? This is the absolute last I will say about this issue. The
media has decreed that you either have to be a racist or an activist
dependent on which “side” you are on with relation to the flag.
I am neither one, I am a historian but I do put a significance on
this symbol. As I have said before, to me it represents the most
tragic era this country has ever known. It represents the death of
about 460,000 Americans by the most vile of means. The majority died
from disease or infection because the importance of being sanitary
and antiseptic was unknown at that time. But that is not what the
media wants to hear. They want prejudice and hatred because it sells
air time, magazines and newspapers, all other thoughts and opinions
be damned. It also bothers me that the media somehow advocates the
proposition that anyone born south of the 39th
north parallel and east of the 103rd
west meridian is ignorant...that somehow the geography of your place
of birth has an influence on your intelligence. That thought is the
ignorant one. Here is an example: I was working on an engineering
project in eastern Pennsylvania. After work one day a man and a
woman and I went to a local tavern. The man and woman were locals.
Almost as soon as I opened my mouth one of the people in the bar said
“Where the hell are you from?” I said “South Carolina”.
There was a lot of snickering. Then one of the people I went there
with said “Don't let his accent fool you, he is no dummy.” I
eventually made friends with a lot of people there but the point is
they originally believed that I was a dumb-ass because of my accent
and was from “down south”. Where did that train of thought come
from? It had to come from the media. There is your enemy.
The General Assembly
of South Carolina has passed a law that allows the hunting of wild
pigs and coyotes at night. I do not ever remember this area of the
country having problems with coyotes but evidently they have become a
nuisance as have the pigs. It has been reported that there is a
large population of coyotes living very near the Greenville Downtown
airport. It seems that the two main runways are built on large
embankments and the coyotes dig into the side and make dens. They
are very smart and efficient hunters, including targeting family
pets. They also are subject to rabies and will attack humans if they
thing they are in danger. The wild pigs are another story. I used
to deer hunt in swamps down on the Carolina coast and wild pigs were
common. It seems that hunters from other parts of the state have
been trapping wild boars and sows and moving them into private
hunting preserves in the upstate to give the owners game to hunt.
The problem with that is a wild sow can deliver a litter of 8 to 10
piglets twice a year. Assume that you place 5 sows in one area. You
do the math on how many wild pigs you could have in a very short
period of time. They also become menacing but it isn’t their
fault, it is the fault of those supposedly great hunters. In the
swamps the pigs have bear, bobcat, panthers and even packs of bear
dogs that run them down and kill them. That is not true elsewhere in
the state. You mess with Mother Nature nothing ever good comes from
it.
I guess y'all saw that
the monument in Charleston to John C. Calhoun was defaced by someone
spraying “racist” in red. It is true that Calhoun was an
advocate of slavery but he was also the Vice-President of the United
States, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, a US Senator and
Representative from the state of South Carolina. I would like for
the small minded person that did the spraying to tell us what
contribution he/she has made to society. That monument has been
there for over 100 years and has never been touched...that is until
people from out of state showed up expecting a riot so they could
burn and loot like they did in Ferguson and Baltimore. That is
speculation, of course, but as I have said before the Charlestonians
have too much class to do something that tacky...not to mention climbing a flag pole.
This
Date in History June 29
1776 South Carolina
representative to the Continental Congress, Edward Rutledge, sent a
letter to John Jay of New York expressing his misgivings about
independence from Great Britain. Both he and John Jay were
ambivalent on this issue. It is understandable since both Edward and
his brother John were educated in England with both becoming lawyers
and members of the Continental Congress. Both were very successful
with their Charleston, South Carolina clientele and they lived across
the street from each other. Finally, Edward relented and did sign
the Declaration of Independence being the youngest signer at the age
of 27.
1993 On this date a
knife-wielding man broke into the Allentown, Pennsylvania home of
Denise Sam-Cali and tried to rape her. A struggle ensued but the
rapist succeeded in raping Denise on the front lawn. He then stabbed
Denise trying to kill her but she fought him off and the rapist ran
away. This courageous woman would play a big role in the resolution
of this crime. On the 9th
of July a 15 year old girl is abducted and her body was found by a
reservoir stabbed 22 times. She had been raped also. On the 15th
of July a five year old girl was abducted and raped and the attacker
unsuccessfully tried to strangle her. Then on the 19th
of July the house of Denise Sam-Cali was broken into while she was
away. The police decided to set a trap and staked out Sam-Cali’s
house and left a window enticingly open. On July 30 a man crawled
into the open window and was greeted by a policeman and a gunfight
ensued. The intruder crashed his way out through another window and
fled. A few hours later, career criminal Harvey Robinson staggered
into a hospital with two gunshot wounds. While waiting he was
recognized by a policeman and Harvey fled with the cop in close
pursuit. The cops ran Harvey down and arrested him. He went to
trial and was easily convicted due to the DNA evidence that they
retrieved from Denise Sam-Cali’s clothing. Denise had carefully
laid aside her underclothing she had on during the rape just for this
eventuality. Harvey got the death penalty. I wish I could designate
the type of death to be given to animals like this. If I could, I
promise you crimes of this sort would drop precipitously.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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