General Robert E. Lee - Chattel Breeder - Human Trafficker - First Son of the Old South

Trump's Praise of Slavery and Plantation Owner Rapists - 2018 - Never Forget - Because This Man Lived - 600,000 Americans Died - Robert E. Lee

Birther Trump's praise of Robert E. Lee is praise for Slavery and Plantation Owners's Rape of their Chattel / Property. Nothing else from a psychopath racist like Donald Trump. 

America’s bloodiest war was the Civil War which cost Americans 600,000 precious human lives.

Lincoln offered Leadership of the American Army to Lee, thought to be a brilliant military strategist. With Lee in charge of an American Army, the war would not have lasted six months.

Lee refused because he believed in Virginia and Slavery more than he had any Allegiance to any union of the United States of America.  By any interpretation, he was guilty not of local bad manners but was a traitor to his national identity, something his ancestors signed off on in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. 

That and he liked the old male Southern tradition of shtupping your mulatto slave half-sister or half-brother as a young man and then shtupping your mulatto slave daughter or son later in life. The Southern Hillbilly myths about incest and inbreeding were a Southern Trickle Down Tradition I believe. 

Without a birth certificate for any slave, without citizenship, there could be no charges of rape in any Southern Court of “Law”.  Plausible deniability.  lol (small letters)

That is what all this Republican Birther Bullshit is all about. Revival of old Southern Traditions.

It is altogether fitting that they plowed Robert E. Lee’s slave plantation under, recycled it into Arlington National Cemetery where honorable men and women who have served the United States in the Military are laid to an honorable rest.

 

Evil Symbolism of the Confederate Flag that American Redneck Racists Cling To In Comfort

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PC Ben Affleck Hides Slave Owning Ancestors per Hacked Sony Emails

Saccharine PC correct/sweet Ben Affleck decided to edit his slave owning ancestors out of his professional Democratic Party Resume. Whatever.

Reminds me of back in October when PC Ben tried to explain PC to Bill Maher on what and how to talk Islam and Islamophobia. No wonder the Dems lost Congress with perfect little prissy PC “men” like Ben Affleck mucking up the road and everyday conversation. (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/05/bill-maher-1-ben-affleck-0.html)

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/18/ben-affleck-pbs-ancestor-slave-owner-henry-louis-gates

The film star Ben Affleck asked television chiefs to hide the fact that one of his ancestors was a slave owner, according to a newly published batch of hacked emails involving the media giant Sony.

The Oscar-winning director and actor, star of the forthcoming movie blockbuster Batman v Superman, asked producers of the public-television show Finding Your Roots to leave some details out of the story of his heritage. The host of the show, Henry Louis Gates, a prominent Harvard history professor, appeared upset by the apparently unprecedented request but the sensitive facts were nonetheless left out of the show, which aired last September.

The emails were published online by WikiLeaks. It is not clear how the pro-transparency group acquired the emails, which it published with up to 30,000 others involving Sony that are believed to be part of a huge batch stolen last summer in a cyber-attack blamed on a group affiliated to North Korea.

Tom Cotton the Rick Santorum of Arkansas - Hates all Things Non-White - Women, Gays, Students - Let the Koch Brothers Money Roll Roll Roll

Dear Darkies in Tehran:

Our Darkie Prez is incapable of negoatiating wit u.

Disrespecfully yourts,

“Tehran Tom” Cotton - Arkansaw 

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George Washington –Typical Lazy White Farmer - Living Off the Welfare of His Slaves

I am amazed how it took George Washington and 2,000 slaves on his plantation to make a comfortable middle class living for himself and his wife and her two brats from a previous marriage.

The History Channel shows how George raised sheep for wool and had an untaxed by the gubmint, largest whiskey still in America and as if he did all the dirty grunt work to eek out a comfortable living for his lazy white ass and his lazy white wife and lazy white children. Mansion (Plantation) trash.

The adage about how slaves, blacks, African Americans are so lazy over the centuries covers the truth of from 1620 onward of the lazy white fucks of Virginia and the South and parts North who all lived on the sweat, pain and agony of the black man, woman and their children and children's children.

As for being a good general, Washington was too lazy and or just too white (wink, nod) to surrender to the British. Too dumb to know when he lost?

And most importantly of all did not want to pay his bills in London for all the luxury items exported to Mount Vernon. Deadbeat founding father. 

And too lazy to work - living on the welfare of his slaves. 

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David Green – Hobby Lobby – Chattel Health Benefits to His Wage Slave Employees – Exodus 21:20-21

David Green has been blessed by his desert god after starting out on $600 and he did it himself and used his own children as child slave labor in those early salad days of business, gluing picture frames together for seven cents a frame.  Generous Christien man, no doubt.

His employees which he gives wages and benefits to and still owns them and must tell them how to use their health benefits in accordance with his mysterious and ancient desert god rules, because his employees are stupid and would be rich and blessed and Republicans if they too started their own business instead of depending on his generosity of his employment to their worthless chattel behinds (can’t say ass, being a proper Christien and all that, y’all).

From the Employee Handbook?:

Exodus 21:20-21

New International Version (NIV)

²⁰ “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, ²¹ but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

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Hipster – Honkey – It’s All Rock And Roll To Me

I have seen many comments made because rich “Ghetto Blaster” Director and Writer Spike Lee is not happy to see so many white people living in his old Fort Greene Brooklyn neighborhood.

As for gentrification, I for one don’t see how to stop it short of restoring a lot of old so-called obsolete Capital Gains Taxes and apply them to real estate.

In a way, a lot of the beauty of nineteenth brownstones restored is expensive and now upper class. In a way it is unfair that value is now given to a place that was devalued over time simply because African-Americans ended up there and inhabited the cast-offs of a bygone era. Spike in giving value to his own memories is entitled to his 140 character opinions without all the new rich white trash in Fort Greene getting into a tizzy and spreading it like Brie cheese and or dog shit all over the media. 

Who you calling rich white trash, boy? Who you calling boy, boy? Kind of like the giraffe calling the zebra "Zoo" as I see it. 

I can remember thirty-five years ago when some of the cheapest rents in New York City were advertised in the Village Voice in Fort Greene. And I also heard the horror stories of people seeking decent affordable housing in a decaying part of the city and not being able to live there in Fort Greene because of constant burglaries while at work in Manhattan.

I am sorry that Spike cannot open his eyes without getting a rosy glass filtered image of the place he grew up which was in fact a living hellhole by most middle class standards when America was allowed the luxury of middle class standards, of and by their own origins, and not standards now imposed on us from above by corporations.

I for one am jealous when I see photos of Spike courtside at a Knicks game and have to wonder how much money that kind of shit costs. But as J.P.Morgan once said to riff-raff and middle class trash (like me) – “If you have to ask, you cannot afford it.” lol

Spike’s bitter pill of words is sometimes reflected I think in the environment of his youth that is perhaps too candy coated in memory to touch reality compared to the new global culture.

I have also taken a lot of Spike Lee’s bravado over the years with a big grain of salt. I remember an interview of years ago about why there is no great slavery movie(s) and he responded that American Blacks were not ready for it. In other words not interested in digging up the nasty past. And or a middle class black POV? Valid point then or now?

I see that a front runner for the Oscars this weekend is “Twelve Years A Slave”. I have to wonder if Spike has in any way invested in such an old Brownstone of an idea as a producer in such a film. 

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Rafael Cruz – Traitor – NeoConfederate – AntiUnionist – Dirt Bag Trickle Down Economics Preacher – not a man of God

These paid for whores of the corporations, these immigrants who sat around for 48 years until they bothered to become a citizen and they try to shove their paid for opinions up our collective butts, well the coded talk just gets nastier and nastier.

All this “I am a Pastor” or “I was a ten minute victim of Castro” or “My son is the anointed of god” bullshit does not play well in the real world.

That if you try and say that 26 signers of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence had some sort of degrees or interest in Theology, you are trying to block, hide your true interests behind tax free religion.

That to say what the founding fathers meant is code talk for “slavery is OK” and not just abuse of Africans by Europeans, in a modern sense you at saying that “economic slavery is OK”, that minimum wage and the right to organize as labor is wrong, a sin or in the best interests of the corporations as a new Massa Race.

That to preach slavery as Okay is treason. That Neo-Confederates are Anti-Unionists (the American Union) and these jerk offs and dirt bags belong in prison for sedition, especially the spy from Cuba, Rafael Cruz.

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After Talking Her Usual Trash Out Of Her Mouth About The Pope, Sarah Palin’s Ghostwriter Apologizes In Facebook – Duh!

Sarah Enjoying the Misery of the Shutdown

I don’t know if I can say it, but Sarah used the “L” word (liberal) when recently trashing Pope Francis. She quickly backed down and let her “Catholic” “Friends” tell her that she might be wrong on her trashy opinion about the current Bishop of Rome.

Luckily the pope is a white Italian. If he was black like Obama or brown like Bashir, White Trash Queen Sarah would not back down or let him talk back to her in her useless elevated status with the media as Number One Corporation/Think Tank Groupie .

Corporation Groupie Sarah Palin Sucks! (Wink, Nod)

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin sent out an apology for her criticism of Pope Francis, who she called “liberal” earlier this week. 

“It was not my intention to be critical of Pope Francis,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page.  The former vice-presidential candidate said her comments were meant to remind “viewers that we need to do our own homework, and I hadn’t done mine yet on the Pope’s recent comments as reported by the media.” 

She wrote that the media often mischaracterizes the comments of public figures and that she’d rather trust her “many Catholic friends and family” than reporters.“I apologize for not being clearer in my response,” Palin added. “Thus opening the door to critical media that does what it does best in ginning up controversy.” 

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Palin told Jake Tapper some that the Pope’s statements “sound kind of liberal,” something that surprised the former vice-presidential candidate. 

She added, “”Unless I really dig deep into what his messaging is, and do my own homework, I’m not going to just trust what I hear in the media.”

Read more: Sarah Palin Apologizes for Criticizing the Pope | TIME.com http://nation.time.com/2013/11/15/sarah-palin-to-pope-francis-sorry/#ixzz2m259VFuU

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GOP Resorted to Cannibalism in Jamestown Colony – 1607

Liz and Dick Joyfully Celebrate 400th Anniversary of Jamestown Virginia  -  2007
(Yes, they are Smiling - White People, ya know.)

From the people in America that brought us 250 years of black slavery – cannibalism to balance the books and survive silly and ridiculous rules and Gubmint regulations. lol

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/skeleton-of-teenage-girl-confirms-cannibalism-at-jamestown-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

That’s one possible version of an event that took place sometime during the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown. What’s not in doubt is that some members of that desperate colony resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.

That cannibalism occurred during the colony’s “starving time” was never actually in much doubt. At least a half-dozen accounts, by people who lived through the period or spoke to colonists who did, describe occasional acts of cannibalism that winter. They include reports of corpses being exhumed and eaten; a husband killing his wife and salting her flesh (for which he was executed); and the mysterious disappearance of foraging colonists.

(“If cannibalism helps us control spending, so be it. Goddess Ayn Rand would approve.” -- Paul Ryan)

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Mitt’s Racist - Elitist - Coded - “Entitled” Talk

"My 15 home property taxes are a bitch!" - Mitt Romney

Yes Massa Mitt, you comments on the Lack of Enthusiasm for people to be your or your rich donors’sexual fantasy - to be your victims - Well, the Antebellum South is dead y’all.

The poor may not pay taxes. But you and your mean spirited crowd don't pay any taxes either - so why is the pot full of cash calling the kettle full of water BLACK?

Off the Books "Unentitled" Jane does Don't tax me "Entitled" Ann's hair

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Yes Massa Mitt, it’s true.  Many of us do not want to share your recycled vision of everybody beneath you and your mean spirited republicanism, your mean phony crony Mormon Charity, your rich donor gluttony for more, more, more.

Us minimum wage Negroes are apparently immune from Massas Mitt and Paul’s invitation to rejoin the nineteenth century southern plantation and northern factory slave system.

Feck U Jack (Mormon)!

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's Jack off (Republican) Dreams.

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Madison Wisconsin - Social Engineering Capital of the USA - A Koch Brothers Funded Experiment?

(Wisconsin Capital Building, Madison - Workers Protest against Modern Day Socially Engineered Slavery by any other GOP Name Tag)

Wisconsin seems to be a social engineering experimentation beach head these days with Scot Walker in the State House wanting to denude all workers rights back "into chains" and servitude and paid for on the Koch Brothers' dime.

I can almost smell the mutton grease from his "sanctified" hands and almost see the wine stains dripped from his "altruistic" lips onto his, Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison Wisconsin's recent pastoral letter of political "non-endorsement" to the sheep still in the pews regarding 110% Catholic Rated native son Paul Ryan (wink, nod).

No doubt that love of native son and country prevented a lacking in duty ignoramus like Field Bishop Morlino from putting Ryan under "interdict" for his public praise and adoration / idolization of the atheist philosophy of Ayn Rand in 2005.

Madison does seem to be a hot spot of social engineering as in the threat of "interdict" to members of St. Mary's Parish in Platteville Wisconsin as the result of human revulsion with the importation of PC Jesuit shock troops from Spain to put the laity in their place and get the stink of altar girls out of God's pure penis only sanctuary. 

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. What was it at last count, eight Spanish shock troops in seven Madison Diocese parishes? No Hindi, African or Filipino RC priest imports into Morlino's pure white Madison Diocese?

Collateral damage happened in the ethnic cleansing wars in the modern day Balkans, another social engineering experiment in Europe.  As whining parishioners of St. Mary's who have been striped of their school, taught a lesson, as punishment for their disrespect to the God/pope given authority of Bishop Robert Morlino - "Get over it!" as Anton Scalia, another social engineer, 2000 election, would say about such inconsequential matters.

Sounds like Bishop Morlino is perhaps running some theoretical socially engineered field exercise for the School of the Americas, on a consultant fee basis of course, and in a purely religious sense for some future military junta scenario in far Northern America instead of the usual South and Central America Scenario?  Where is the United Fruit Company when you really need them to hire unemployed cronies?

Bishop Morlino is strangely and officially connected to the SOA's socially engineered clone - The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia. Like leopards can change their spots by calling themselves turtle doves etc.

The intrinsic evil I fear in the Diocese of Madison Wisconsin these days is in fact Bishop Morlino, Paul Ryan, Scot Walker, the Koch Brothers among many many others staging social engineering experiments in rural and once peaceful Wisconsin.

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What ever happened to cheese?

St. Mary's Catholic School Platteville WI

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Wrath of God - Charlestown SC - Great Fire of 1861 – Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar

The picture above of the devastated Catholic cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar was taken in 1865.  Not much had been done in Charleston since the great fire of 1861 that destroyed one third of that city.  The fire spread due to the fact that most of its firemen had enlisted in the Confederate Army and only unskilled slaves were left to man the fire pumps and ladder companies in the city.  A touch of irony, in that the fanaticism of the Southern cause, whereby blind patriotism is not worth a pitcher of spit to throw on an out of control urban firestorm.

Because the pictures are dated in 1865, many times the destruction of the fire of 1861 which had not been restored by 1865 is mistaken by some historians and or southern propagandists, in that these photos are assumed to be the direct cause of Northern hostilities and bombardment etc.

While the Catholic cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar was not struck down by lightning from the Almighty, it did on April 14, 1861 celebrate a mass of thanksgiving, marking the surrender of Union Soldiers at Fort Sumter in the harbor, the official start of the Civil War, the mass followed by the singing of Te Deum, the national anthem of the RCC.

Patrick Neeson Lynch

Jefferson Davis’ Confederate Ambassador to the Vatican Bishop Patrick Lynch encountered a few obstacles in his career.  Pius IX refused to receive Lynch as Ambassador, since the Vatican had not given full diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy. The winds of defeat were in the air in 1864 and Pius did not want to be identified with a losing cause.  Lynch was received in private audience with His Holiness as a "bishop" only.

Bishop Lynch defended slavery and the Confederacy in the press north and south.  There were many quotations in the war of words between himself and northern abolitionists and northern bishops centered on the 1839 Papal Bull Supremo Apostolatus condemning slavery. Lynch and other slave owning bishops in the south interpreted the bull as merely condemning the slave trade and not the institution.

In Supremo Apostolatus

In Supremo Apostolatus is a papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XVI regarding the institution of slavery. Issued on December 3, 1839 as a result of a broad consultation among the College of Cardinals, the bull resoundingly denounces both the slave trade and the continuance of the institution of slavery.

Once in Europe, he traveled extensively to seek aid for the Confederacy and even got an audience with Napoleon III of France. Because the war was going so bad for the South in the final months of the American Civil War, few ships were available to run the Northern Blockade and fewer still that would transport someone traveling under Confederate credentials. Lynch got stuck in Europe for a long time.

Lynch tried to get a visa under President Andrew Johnson’s general amnesty following the war but Lynch was refused based on his history.  He made application to the American Secretary of State for an exemption and downplayed, lied about all his anti-abolition writings and instead emphasized his inflated role in the Church’s humanitarian aid to Northern POWs, hospital aid to battlefields etc. 

Once back in Charleston, Lynch and the South were penniless.  He went on a wide tour in Europe and in Northern states begging for money to rebuild the loss of many buildings, schools, convents, orphanages lost in the great fire of 1861 and through the war itself.

After the passing of the Archbishop Dagger John Hughes of New York City, a friend of abolition and Abraham Lincoln, Lynch who had kept up a courteous but frosty correspondence with Hughes during the war went there and did a complete PR makeover in NYC.  (You know how that goes, turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse even to this day. Wink. Nod. LOL).  

Lynch was now famous in the North as the Catholic humanitarian who traveling across enemy lines with diplomatic humanitarian papers bringing medical supplies, aid and succor to the Union soldiers, imprisoned down south. Just your typically dedicated politically active freedom loving, money raising American bishop. Whatever. The paperwork for Bishop Lynch's recently revived future sainthood is pending somewhere in committee at the USCCB as I understand things.

The Charleton cathedral eventually got rebuilt by the beginning of the twentieth century, a pale reflection of its past. The Irish Saint Finbar got dropped from the name to a simple St. John the Baptist. 

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Because This Man Lived - 600,000 Americans Died - Robert E. Lee

America’s bloodiest war was the Civil War which cost Americans 600,000 precious human lives.
Lincoln offered Leadership of the American Army to Lee, thought to be a brilliant military strategist. With Lee in charge of an American Army, the war would not have lasted six months.


Lee refused because he believed in Virginia and Slavery more than he had any Allegiance to any union of the United States of America.  By any interpretation, he was guilty not of local bad manners but was a traitor to his national identity, something his ancestors signed off on in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. 


That and he liked the old male Southern tradtion of shtupping your mulatto slave half-sister or half-brother as a young man and then shtupping your mulatto slave daughter or son later in life. The Southern Hillbilly myths about incest and inbreeding were a Southern Trickle Down Tradition I believe.


Without a birth certificate for any slave, without citizenship, there could be no charges of rape in any Southern Court of “Law”.  Plausible deniability.  lol (small letters)


That is what all this Republican Birther Bullshit is all about. Revival of old Southern Traditions.


It is altogether fitting that they plowed Robert E. Lee’s slave plantation under, recycled it into Arlington National Cemetery where honorable men and women who have served the United States in the Military are laid to an honorable rest. 

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Why Catholicism Does Not Matter – The Growing Vatican Meltdown

The embarrassing end of Christianity also known as Catholicism is melting down around its potentate idol king in the city of Rome.

The struggle for power in the waning months of Benedict the German’s administration revolves about scurrying around the hallways and ferreting away blackmail documents about the closeted sexuality of a celibate clergy army. Celibate means “not married”.  It does not mean “chaste” and or “honest”.

The attempt by Joe the Pope to rig the next papal election and give it to his official stooge for decades Secretary of State Bertone is in
question.  A moot point?

One recent rumor coming out of damage control central, Cardinal Bertone’s office, is the banning of all mobile cell phones in the Magic Kingdom and their ability to photograph documents and record conversations and sex sessions among the “celibate” clergy of the Vatican.  


Who needs the Swiss Guards to protect dirty little sex trafficking secrets anymore?  Quite impossible anyway in the age of Internet.


Blackmail and promotions among closeted Vatican clergy is in great question in this modern technical age, like at no other time in the history.

Marriage equality however will empty the Catholic Church of it closeted gay clergy in the next decade.  The truth will set you free and Catholic free as well.

That is why Catholicism Does Not Matter. 

It is based on an obsolete labor force much the same as the antebellum South’s economy was based on the obsolete and inefficient labor force of slaves. 

Christianity will evolve back along the path that Jesus envisioned and will no longer stray along any roads falsely leading to Rome.

Time Marches On!

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Happy Belated Birthday Jefferson Davis

I missed it.  Jefferson Davis’ birthday.  Yesterday?

Yesterday was an excuse for lazy state workers in Alabama and Florida to cheat taxpayers out of a day’s work in favor of a fake Monday, three day weekend holiday. 

He was actually born on June 3 which was Friday.  Tennessee has its official state holiday on June 3 and Mississippi celebrates Jeff’s birthday on the last Monday of May – Last Monday of May?  Memorial Day?  I thought Memorial Day was for all the dead of the Civil War.  And don’t give me the revisionist title “war between the states” bullshit. 

I have stopped trying to research this fake messiah birthday item state by state in the old southern states of the Confederacy.  Why bother?

I, did while researching, run into a blatant lie in of all places a government web site on the U.S. Senate.

January 21, 1861 Jefferson Davis' Farewell

“Tall, slender, and gaunt at the age of 52, Davis had been confined to his bed for more than a week….”

Tall?  Tall?  He was a shrimp! (Sorry)

Forty years ago I saw the “dress” he was captured in, in a display case at the Civil War Museum in Philadelphia.  It was not a dress but a silk paisley dressing gown.  How metrosexual for the times guys!  Did I mention how small this article of clothing was?  Like when I first saw it.  I thought it was for a child, the gown was so petite.

 (click on photo to enlarge image)

I researched it.  He was five foot four inches tall (162 cm).  I guess he was tall in the Senate and compared to the other senators?  Perhaps if he were alive today, Jeff would be driving or have one of his slaves driving him in a Hummer to offset psychological physical short comings if you know what I mean etc.

As I have stated before in this or some other blog, Jefferson Davis, as one time Secretary of War had the blueprints and plans for a southern route of a national transcontinental railroad, the projected moon shot space project of its day, to be financed by the federal government.

The lawyer for the northern railroads and the northern railroad transcontinental route lobby groups in the form of Abraham Lincoln signaled the end of the expansion of slavery on the continent.  Davis’ plans to build the southern route with cheap slave labor would have given him a shot at becoming the nation’s first billionaire.

 

How many dead darkies per mile would it have taken to make Jeff and his cronies’ multi multi millionaires building this dream of a southern railroad cash cow to the Pacific? Who would care?

Strange thing is that most “Christians” don’t really know their neighbors let alone love them as commanded by one long forgotten mystic and seer. 

Odd thing was that Jeff was educated in a Catholic school along the way, even though not catholic.  Which is why I think Pope Pius IX had such a fondness for Jeff, and his brave stance defending the honorable age old institution of slavery. Whatever.

With the Gadsden Purchase in hand for a southern railroad Pacific route, the business men of the old south went their way into their brave new world of the Confederacy. With lots and lots of nut cases running around the planet like pro-slavery southern freebooter William Walker taking over countries like Nicaragua, funded by Vanderbilt types, the future seemed bright to fuel the future slave republics of Mexico and Central America in league with the Confederacy.

All Jeff Davis had to do was build the south’s railroad to the Pacific Ocean to be king of the world. 

I am not exaggerating these facts.  Greedy men with ego problems like Jeff Davis have and continue to plague and ruin the world to this day for the rest of humanity, slave or not. 

If you want to have cake with slave master dictators in the old south y’all, go right ahead.  Enjoy.

Have a nice day.

Slavery Entitlement Month in Virginia

April is Slavery Entitlement Month in Virginia. So proclaimed by the Governor Ronald McDonald ? – Robert McDonnell there. Actually it is not about Slave Entitlement to the Plantation Owners who were traitors to the United States for something like four and one half years 1861-1865. It is Confederate History Month???

In line with some tourist magnet historic date in the next year or two, Virginia needs to save Civil War Battlefields that keep in the name of free market capitalism (bow your Head) becoming industrial parks and shopping malls. If you cannot make hallowed ground the battlefieds of that traitor’s war, then maybe you can Disney-fy reality about the horrors of a war that killed six hundred thousand Americans on both sides of that tragic disagreement.

The two previous Democratic governors had refused to issue the mostly symbolic proclamation honoring the soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War. McDonnell (R) revived a practice started by Republican governor George Allen in 1997. McDonnell left out anti-slavery language that Allen's successor, James S. Gilmore III (R), had included in his proclamation. WASHINGTON POST

Honoring the soldiers who fought for the south? What about the soldiers that were guilty of war crimes. My great grandfather was a POW in a shithole of a POW camp in Virginia after he helped Sherman liberate Georgia. Oral history in my family speaks of starvation, beatings and torture. Are we honoring the men who did that Governor McDonnell?

No doubt both sides did that, the war crimes thing. They had to do that because Robert E. Lee turned down Lincoln’s offer of General the Armies of the North. Had Robert E. Lee been a man of conscience and taken that job, perhaps half a million Americans would not have died and the Civil War would have lasted less than a year. Instead he had to fight for southern honor, the approval of his country club, plantation slave owning peers.

His effigy above near his grave is spread out like that of a dead king in Westminster Abbey in London. Indeed his ambitions to be a king were dashed with the loss of the south. He was married to the step-great granddaughter of George Washington.

Washington was a true man of both honor and conscience who refused to become king or sieze power in his day. Washington also freed his slaves in his last will and testament. Washington saw the future and did not want to be judged on the wrong side of moral history.

Perhaps Lee’s imcompetant entitled blood royal line and role as head of the Southern Army is what made his family so dysfunctional. None of his four daughters married and ony two of his three sons had any children. But that is another story.

It was indeed fitting that Lincoln decided to bury the dead of that war in the front yard of Lee's Plantation, present day Arlington National Cemetery.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda month in Virginia. Virginia used to be for lovers. I will avoid it in any further travels through the south. I will wait to pee at the gas station in North Carolina.

Nostalgia for the wrong things, for delusional glory in the past is not a healthy thing. Enjoy Confederate Fantasy month in Virginia.