150 years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let’s celebrate it—every year.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Confederacy’
April 2nd, 2015 - 6:11 am § in America
How White Men Count Coup: Rural South Carolina, 1923.
The stories of the white American South in the 1920s and 1930s are ever more difficult to retrieve given the awful shadows cast by Jim Crow. This might change as streaming TV opens more channels to divers tastes. My suggestion is a story set in a place like this with an all white cast (except [&he[...]
March 29th, 2015 - 1:21 am § in America
150 years after the North won the war, isn’t it time for these Southern states to pay their own way?
Maybe this is why my sister and her husband chose to move to South Carolina? How does this federal largesse affect their taxes and cost of living? Interesting Maine is almost as dependent as South Carolina! Wasn’t Maine a Union state? You can see the whole thing here on Huff Post! Hell the M[...]
March 25th, 2015 - 9:20 am § in Uncategorized
In Defense of Confederate and Nazi License Plates
Ilya Shapiro is traditional Jewish liberal lawyer, what I now call a lace curtain liberal yid, who puts his own interests and the law in the way of justice. These talented individuals remind me of a relative of mine, a corporate attorney, who once explained to me that in her job the truth did not[...]
March 24th, 2015 - 11:22 pm § in Politics
Time for Andy Jackson to go bye-bye
Andrew Jackson wasn’t a nice man. He owned slaves and practiced genocide against Native Americans. The only reason he’s on the twenty-dollar bill is because he was considered a war hero in his time (against the British and Indians) and that got him elected president. But this is the 21st[...]
March 21st, 2015 - 10:40 pm § in Misc.
Celebrating the Confederacy in South Carolina
Olde South Ball Saturday, March 21, 2015 I wonder if South Carolina’s Black Senator went? Is the brownish governor invited? Does the ball have servants to help the (white) ladies in their ball gowns? Who helped them dress? CLICK the image for more d[...]
March 19th, 2015 - 3:30 pm § in Misc.
Press and public wait for more news about black man found hanging from tree in Mississippi
Local police and the FBI are investigating the death of a black man found hanging from a tree behind his home in Jackson, Mississippi, who had gone missing earlier this month. Authorities are trying to determine whether he committed suicide or was killed. The rest of us can only wait and watch, but [...]
March 15th, 2015 - 1:50 am § in America
Kick Andrew Jackson Off the $20 Bill!
Celebrating a slave master, genocidal maniac and the first President of what would become the Confederacy. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S. Jackson is still celebrated as the founding father of the Democratic Party …. a party that led[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 7:38 pm § in Misc.
What Do You Do When Politicians Commit Treason?
As of tonight, the petition to the White House urging charges be filed against “against the 47 U.S. senators in violation of The Logan Act” has passed the 100,000 signature threshold required for an official response from the White House. For those of us who remember the last time events[...]
March 9th, 2015 - 9:06 am § in Misc.
Citizens Rally Against Immigration
In South Carolina, a protest was organized by William G. Carter of the South Carolina Conservative Action Council, a prolific organizer and foe of amnesty for illegal aliens who has organized multiple protests in Greenville and Columbia, SC over the years. A Confederate Flag Rally in Columbia, SC [...]