Quote of the day:
From a Men's Rules list sent to me.
“If you come to us with a problem we will try to resolve it, that is what we do. If you want sympathy go to your girlfriends, that is what they do.” I don't agree with this one, to keep the peace both of you have to be sympathetic at times.
It is pretty cold in the piney woods of northwestern South Carolina, I even heard there was a couple of snow flakes. A long time ago when I was living in Pensacola before now two friends of mine from Greenville, SC called and said that they were tired of the cold and were heading south to find 70 degrees and they they were coming to pick me up. They did come and off we went. We found 70 degrees in Coral Gables, Fl. and decided to keep going to Key West. By the way, they had brought a bass boat with them. We decided to stop in Big Pine Key and go fishing. Going east into the Atlantic ocean in a bass boat was out of the question so we went into “the backside” which means going west into the Gulf Of Mexico and miles of grass flats. There was markers to keep you from running aground but it was pretty freaking shallow. We were out of sight of land very quickly and fished for a while and did catch some in spite of the fact that we did not have a clue how to fish out there. Like a dumb ass I decided to get out of the boat and wade, the water was about waist deep. Before I had taken a step a felt something brush my leg...it was a shark about 8 feet long. I was back in the boat in one leap. Like I have said before, I am very lucky to be alive and whole after all of my outdoor adventures. The sad part is that both of my friends mentioned here are no longer with us. Time marches on.
I invite you to look up the “Spanish Inquisition” in the middle of the 15th century led by a representative of the Catholic Church named Bishop Tomas Torquemada. This man was very inventive when it came to dealing with those that were not followers of the Pope. His philosophy was to drag people before him and ask them if they were sinners. If they answered yes, he would say that they needed to be tortured to cleanse them of their sins. If they answered no, he would say that no mortal is sinless and this person would get a double dose of torture for being a sinner AND lying about it. Do not get me wrong, I am not anti-Catholic or any other religion, I am just a historian relaying what I have found. And finally, I also invite you to look into what happened to the Knights Templar and why.
By the way, the phrase “saw the handwriting on the wall” came from the book of Daniel in the Bible. Daniel and his people were captives in the city-state of Babylon where Nebuchadnezzar was king. Daniel was the official interpreter of dreams. At a large feast and a ghostly finger appeared and wrote something on the wall. No one could understand what it meant so Daniel was called. Daniel took one look and told the king that it said that his kingdom is doomed. That night Babylon was invaded and sure enough.....
I was reminded of when I was an air traffic controller in Pensacola which is the home of the Blue Angels. On one occasion the Angels were out over the Gulf of Mexico practicing and an accident occurred killing one of the pilots. The next day our secretary had been a secretary for the Blue Angels and was very sad and morose. One of our guys told her “That man chose the glory and accepted the danger, don’t be sad he died doing exactly what he wanted to do.”
I received quite a bit of feed back about humans feeding wildlife. Wild animals do not have “friends” and “mentors”. They run in herds or packs because it is safer that way. They are not appreciative and grateful for you feeding them, it is just more convenient. They DO NOT think like humans.
Not long ago a 60+ year old woman living up in the remote mountains near Burnsville, NC contacted her daughter in Asheville, NC and told her about 4 black bears (probably a female and three cubs) that she had been feeding near her house. She said that she would go out on her porch about the same time every day and throw them scraps and said that none of them ever made an aggressive move. She called them her “pets”. One day she was supposed to take a car ride to see her daughter but never showed up and never called. Her daughter notified law enforcement and guess what they found. They found the woman's car in her yard with the driver's side door open and her partially devoured corpse a few yards away back up in the woods. There were drag marks leading from the car to the corpse and the bite marks were from black bears. Law enforcement guessed that the bears were waiting for her to throw them food at the usual time. When she did not do that and went to her car instead they went to Plan B. They had been fed at this time every day and when it didn't happen they went hunting and she was the closest prey. They did NOT gather in a little group and say “We can't harm this little old lady...she is our friend.” What they DID say was “Let's eat”.
This Date in History February 10
1779 On this date a band of 350 Patriots led by General Andrew Pickens, Colonel Robert Dudley and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke left South Carolina headed for Wilkes County, Georgia. They were after a group of 200 British/Loyalist commanded by British Colonel John Hamilton at Carr’s Fort. The Patriots arrived at the site and battle ensued. Just when the Patriots are about to wrap up this battle, General Pickens called for withdrawal and they headed out toward another column of British/Loyalist headed for North Carolina with recruits gathered up from the city of Augusta, Ga. by Loyalist Colonel Robert Boyd. They set up an ambush for Boyd’s column near Kettle Creek, Ga. When the Loyalists are in the right position, Pickens sprung the trap and all but annihilated the column of recruits. British Colonel Colonel Boyd was 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. Some American colonists sent him money for his defense.
1962 Earlier an America spy pilot for the CIA named Gary Francis Powers launched a spy mission from a secret base in Pakistan and is to fly across central Russian to a secret spy base near Buda, Norway. He was flying 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 lost power and descended 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 a while 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.
1920 Unfortunately for silent actress Theda Bara, she opened in San Francisco in a play named “Kathleen Mavoureen”. The play made fun and ridiculed the Irish immigrants. 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 a joke.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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