- In these times of strife and ugliness, remember, folks: The guy in your group who wants you to blow up a building or steal weapons is probably a fed.
- With the rush to destroy any public commemoration of the Confederacy, I wonder how many statues, buildings, and institutions dedicated to Woodrow Wilson will be torn down.
- He was a racist bastard who segregated everything within his power, and oh, yeah, was quite OK with a movie about the KKK being shown in the White House.
- He was instrumental in pushing through legislation that penalized Americans for expressing their opinion of World War I, the government in general, and him in particular. And by penalized, we’re talking hard prison time, not community service hugging kittens down at the no-kill shelter.
- Of course, he was a son of slave-owners, having been born and raised in the midst of some of the most famous battlefields of Northern Virginia. And I don’t mean “His family went to visit them for picnics”. I mean he was born in the Shenandoah Valley, was eight years old when the Civil War ended, and he actually met Robert E. Lee during the war.
- Then again, a lot can be forgiven for the man who ushered in the first failed attempt to control what substances grown adults could imbibe, and was instrumental in drafting the Treaty of Versailles, setting up the rise of Adolf Hitler and the murder of 12,000,000 people during the Holocaust.
- Just to summarize that, let’s just call him a proto-fascist, pre-Nazi sympathizer.
- But I guess when you’re an OP (Original Progressive) who mouthed the right words, you can pretty much get away with anything, can’t you?
- Now, don’t get me wrong. I believe with all my heart that there is enough stupidity and douchebaggery to go around on all sides of the current kerfuffle. A pox upon both their houses, as I’ve become wont to say lately.
- Irish Woman and I were discussing the possibility that our property might be purchased for road improvements. She’s quite worried about it, but I’m not. As far as I can tell, not enough
bribes have been paid to the right peopleenvironmental and hydrographic studies, as well as considerations of traffic flow and control, to get something like that to happen anytime soon. - Just when I start to believe that humanity might have a chance, folks start needing warnings to not stare at the sun and to not point their binoculars and telescopes at it during tomorrow’s eclipse.
- I’ll feel bad for kids under, say, 12 who don’t have decent eyewear and don’t know how to poke a hole in a shoebox.
- But if you’re older than that and don’t know to not concentrate direct sunlight on your retinas, I’ve got nothing for you.
- I look forward to puff pieces on the news about this over the next year or so. Heck, we might even get some feel good legislation passed just in time for the 2018 elections.
- Now, if you all will excuse me, I gotta get up to work tomorrow. Or, as my daughter’s professors would put it, I have to get up early so that I can have a full day of despoiling the earth and oppressing my fellow man in order to earn more than my fair share.
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 20, 2017
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cspschofield
/ August 21, 2017Sounds to me like your daughter’s professors’ kneecaps desperately need to be introduced to a ball peen hammer.
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daddybear71
/ August 21, 2017Nah, they’re allowed their opinions. I’m also allowed to point and laugh.
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Retired Spook
/ August 21, 2017Yeah, I can’t understand the revulsion towards Robert E. Lee, who didn’t own slaves, but the reverence toward Woodrow Wilson, who tried to bring segregation back, albeit in a more “pleasant” form.
Or FDR, who rounded up thousands of U.S. citizens, and put them in concentration camps in some of the most inhospitable places in the U.S., simply because they were descendants of people we were at war with.
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daddybear71
/ August 21, 2017Lee’s wife owned slaves, but I’m tired of the moralizing by emotionally stunted trogladytes over all this.
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Old NFO
/ August 21, 2017Agree on the point and laugh. Thankfully my daughters have already finished, but grandson starts this year. I need to sit him down and have a chat… sigh…
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