Statue of Reconciliation at Arlington to Be Destroyed

Anyone who has involved themselves in university level history studies knows almost all empires, monarchies, republics and democracies all experienced uprisings or civil wars of some kind. Their histories are taught not to disparage the losers, but as a lesson, who-where-why and the results. Taught as understandings.

But the American Civil war, a bloody turning point that helped set her on course to a world power, is now taught through a radical lens as a disgrace, a dead horse to be beat at every opportunity to advance agendas. 

Excerpts from the Washington Times:

After the Civil War, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and  Ulysses S. Grant worked hard to reconcile the North and the South. Lincoln pardoned and restored property to all who engaged in the war, with the exception of the highest Confederate officials and military leaders. Grant supported pardons for former Confederate leaders — seeking to maintain peace and economic growth — while also protecting the civil rights of freed slaves. 

In 1898, President William McKinley held a “Peace Jubilee,” where he stated: “In the spirit of fraternity, we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers. … Sectional feelings no longer holds back the love we feel for each other. The old flag waves over us in peace with new glories.” 

In 1900, Congress allowed Confederate remains to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, designating Special Section 16 to them — and that’s where the monument stands. 

Three years later, in 1903, the first Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies were held in Section 16. President Theodore Roosevelt sent a floral arrangement to commemorate it, a tradition that almost every U.S. president has repeated — even Barack Obama. (Mr. Obama modified the tradition by sending a wreath to Section 16 and another one to D.C.’s African American Civil War Memorial.) 

Now, the radicals in our society are going to tear down the creation designed by Moses Jacob Ezekiel, a Confederate veteran and the first Jewish graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, who is buried beneath the statue. Its empty base and foundation will remain as to avoid disturbing the surrounding graves. 

With the monument’s destruction, the reconciliation message that Lincoln, Grant, McKinley, Taft and Roosevelt advocated will be lost. 

The statue’s demise will not unite but only further divide.

As Biden's affirmative action secretary of defense Loyd something has explained, Arlington National Cemetery can inspire all those who call them home, fully reflect the history and the values of the United States.

In today’s race-based hysteria, it is a wonder that Section 16 has survived at all.

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Word.

He drew on his own personal sense of compassion along with a unique ability to show the flaws in the human condition by turned the mirror toward us with his sometime scary or unrealized visions of ourselves.  And was damn good at it. 

Spawn of Vader Booed at Alma Mater Commencement

Liz Cheney - Former U.S.Representative (Rino-Wy) Disgraced

In another step toward degrading of our traditions, the hateful forces of division are now invading the time honored ceremony of the higher education commencement exercises. I'm not saying college commencements are sacred and haven't been controversial before. But it's a time of celebration, encouragement and the opening of the doorway to a future life.

But even this happy celebration can be ruined by the ugliest of us. From Joe Biden's disgusting "White Supremacy" rant at the Howard University commencement earlier this month, to Jan 6th Kubiki Theater Co-chair Liz Cheney's blasting of Republicans and DJT at her own alma mater. As a result, the Daughter of  Vader was booed and many turned their backs on her. 

From the Daily Mail:

"Graduates booed and turned their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivered the commencement address at Colorado College on Sunday. Cheney repeated her fierce criticisms of former President Trump but steered clear of talking about his 2024 reelection campaign or her own political future. The Wyoming Republican blasted her House Republican colleagues for not doing enough to combat Trump's lies. 

Throughout Cheney's remarks, more and more opposing the choice of Cheney as speaker booed and turned their chairs away from the stage while she spoke. One graduate's message to Cheney was splashed on her cap. It read: 'Why listen to a racist, imperialist, transphobic, warmonger?? 'Your hate is loud."

"Cheney implored the new college graduates to not compromise when it comes to the truth and blasted one of the attorneys who worked for Trump after the election for allegedly telling a gathering of Republicans that 'it is crucially important to make sure that college students don't vote. 

Cheney, who graduated from Colorado College in 1988, recalled being a political science student walking into a campus building where a Bible verse was inscribed above the entrance that read, 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.' After being booted from office and being replaced by a Trump-backed Republican who defeated her in last year's primary, Cheney was appointed to a professorship at the University of Virginia."

I'm sure Thomas Jefferson, father of the Unv. of Virginia rolled over in his grave at that news. And as far as I'm concerned, I hope the witch never get's anywhere near the seat of government again!

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We Can Never Appreciate Enough What They Gave.

I ran across this picture a while back, and it hit home for me. It reminded me of someone I miss, one of the loveliest men I have ever known. He was my Grandfather's twin, my Great Uncle Rupert. I got to see Rupert almost every Christmas as a child, and he lived long enough for me to grow up enough to love and appreciate him as a young lady.

Rupert join the Scottish Air Patrol at the beginning of WWII and flew English channel & North Sea patrols. After the allied invasion of France his squadron was transferred to the Royal Air Force command and was assigned as gunner to a British Stirling Bomber Group.

 

Rupert flew 30 something missions over Nazi occupied territories, and 17 raids over Germany. When the war was over, now deaf in one ear, he went back to his trade of precision clock making. When Rupert died in 1997, of the 91 surviving members of his RAF Squadron after the war, Rupert was one of only 6 left.    

 

As someone who grew up surrounded by the blood soak battlefields of two world wars that to this day show their scars, I'm fully aware of what terrible things we are capable of, and can do to each other. 

Rupert spoke of the war in detail to me only once when I told him we were exploring the period in our studies. At times the pain of those years weighed heavy on his face. And one time turning away so as not for me to see. But what I saw in this gentle soft spoken man was someone who did what was necessary, and willing to die that I might breathe free. 

I just wonder now what Rupert would think of the juxtaposition of the world to which he climbed out of his bomber for the final time at the end of the war, and this world as it has become today. 

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One Ton Karen Triggered - Unhinged Rant Down Range

It's always obvious who the left feels are threats and fear the most, the ones they pounce on like a pack of rabid weasels and don't let up. We've seen it many times before. They twist statements into lies in an all out attempt at destruction of character and reputation. Lately they have been laying in wait, preoccupied with the legal struggles of DJT.  But yesterday, the newest target raised up into the main line of fire. So it should be no surprise to you the first to take big time shots would be one of the Dems protected media class, the untouchable black female. In this case, that would be the anti-Semitic, mavin of on-air farting and leader of the pack, the effervescent Karen Johnson.

PJM - "Whoopi Goldberg went on an unhinged rant ahead of Ron DeSantis’ campaign announcement on Twitter spaces: 

“I don’t understand. I didn’t know what he was saying…. This idea of announcement [sic] on Twitter… do that on television, okay?” Goldberg yelled into the camera, to which the menopausal audience enthusiastically clapped. “I wanna see you do it on television.” “I want to see you take real Americans’ questions,” Goldberg added, apparently so bent out of shape she confused a campaign announcement with a town hall Q&A . 

She then moved on to some kind of weird Charles Manson-esque fantasy about race war, asking rhetorically why DeSantis hates people of color and then abruptly pivoting to a reference to some obscure gay riot from 1975: 

“I don’t want to dislike you. I can’t help it, because you don’t give me any reason, because I don’t understand why do you dislike people of color? What’s wrong with American history? What’s wrong with gay folks? You know, Anita Bryant did this stuff in 1975, and gay folks rose up and fought for what they needed. That’s what’s coming, man! It’s coming, it’s coming. That’s not a threat.” 

Frankly, it’s amazing she can dress herself in the morning. The whole rant had a bizarre dementia-like flavor to it reminiscent of a nursing home resident who thinks the minority staff is stealing her non-existent valuables from her room. These people don’t understand what the internet is or how it works or why it’s going to totally supplant the dinosaur legacy media like The View‘s benefactor, ABC. All that they know is the world is changing in ways they can’t understand, like why a presidential candidate would choose to go to Twitter to announce his campaign rather than one of the dying media outlets they work for. 

But her recent tirade wasn’t the first unintelligible anti-DeSantis rant she’s done on air.  Back in March, she gave a preview of what was to come, lamented that the candidate was not prepared to lead America because something… something… diversity: 

“There are things that are going to come up that you can’t hide, that you can’t fix,” she said. “So dude, you’re not ready for America. You’re not ready for this country yet. ‘Cause you haven’t learned that we are a diverse nation... 

So, you can run if you want to, but I ain’t voting for you.”

I'm sure if you are leaning toward supporting a DeSantis run for the Big House, you would consider Karen's terms acceptable?

(PJMedia)  

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EARL DONE THIS

The Slow Strangling of the American Ideal

“The percentage of Americans owning homes - the modern equivalent of the founding ideal of land-owning an empowered citizens is again declining.  The average net worth of Americans at retirement is also plunging.  About 40 percent of American adults can only make minimum payments on their mounting credit-card debt.  Such stagnation occurs at a moment the federal government is is borrowing trillions of dollars for the greatest array of redistributive entitlements in history.

All these statistics have consequences for the nation as a whole.  The ages at which Americans marry, have their first child, or buy a home have risen to new highs.  American fertility rates reach new modern lows.  The native-born population of the United States shrinks and ages.  In circular fashion, once middle-class viability erodes, an ever-expanding government is asked to subsidize Americans in vain attempts to provide some of the entitlements that citizens once confidently earned themselves.

The result is the very government-induced dependency about which the nineteenth century Americanophile Alexis de Tocqueville once warned: an ennui of prolonged adolescence replacing the pride and dynamism of the self-reliant citizen.”  

Victor Davis Hanson - Western Citizenship

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Low Fart Emission Plug-in Hybrid Cow.

"It's a Game Changer. A Big Fuckin' Deal!"- Joe Biden

You Knew It Was Inevitable......

Biden to Return From G7 Early, Reducing Opportunities for Regular Embarrassments on World Stage

With surely a temporary sigh of relief by his staff, the White House has announce the President has decided to cut his trip to Japan short and return to the Washington on Sunday immediately following the completion of the [Group of Seven summit], to pretend to arm wrestle over the debt.

Biden had plans to meet with leaders in Australia and Papua New Guinea to discuss China and climate initiatives after the meetings. The summit is to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, where Joe will embarrass America to our economic allies answering for his potential coming wreckage of the global economy, then before leaving Biden will meet with victims of the atomic bomb drop that help defeat Japan in WW2, which opens up a gigantic window for Biden as usual, say something really really stupid and embarrassing. 

After watching Biden from afar, the Japanese probably picked Hiroshima thinking he's bumbling and ignorant enough to actually do something.......... like apologize.  Or maybe he'll just tell a good 'ol Biden story about how he used to witness atomic tests in the Nebraska desert while everyone gets sloshed on sake.  One thing is for sure, from shitting his pants, to forgetting where he is, nothing is out of the realm of possibility when Joe is involved.  You know the State Dept & WH press offices hold their breath every time he leaves the sight of a teleprompter......

A Pair of Testicles With Glasses Talk Trump vs DeSantis

         Rick Wilson - Lincoln Pedo Project                     Zippy Velshi - MSNBC Leftist Mouthpiece

It's so easy to see who democrats fear the most in 2024.  From the slobbering left wing media talking faces to the clucking hens of 'The View', democrats have laid on thick the attempt to disgrace Ron DeSantis, even though the Governor has yet to announce he's running for the Big House. So much so, they even have gone to actually praising DJT. *RED FLASHING LIGHTS* 

Yesterday, the disgraced co-founder of  the shady group Lincoln Project, Rick Wilson, joined some verbose turd named Ali Velshi on MSNBC to talk shit and once again played the Trump card:

Wilson began by attacking DeSantis's personality, claiming that he "doesn't like humans, has to pretend to be human." He insisted DeSantis has a "mean streak." 

Yes, Rick Wilson said that, without any introspection about his own behavior. In contrast, despite being sure to get on record that he dislikes everything about Trump, Wilson argued Trump does have "charisma" and "energy." 

In a particularly gruesome metaphor, Wilson then predicted that in a debate, Trump would "tear Ron DeSantis 's head off and kick it around like a soccer ball......."

This is Wilson doing the left's dirty work to help tear down DeSantis because he and the Dems see him as the biggest threat to Biden. 

Imagining DeSantis's head being torn off and kicked around is in keeping with Wilson's creepy penchant for violent fantasies about Republicans. In 2019 Wilson said of Trump, "If you cut him, he'll still bleed," advising Democrats to up the Trump admin "body count," encouraging Dems to inflict a "death of 1,000 cuts" and "raise the pain level."

Rick Wilson is one unwell dude.

[Video at NewsBusters]

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I don't Even........

I don't even to know where to start. There is a shit load of stuff coming down the mountain and in the next few days, and I can't even gather enough thoughts on one thing or another to write a post.  Supposedly today, after the Chairman of the House Intel Committee read the riot act to the FBI over a subpoena or something, plans to spill the beans on Biden family corruption and try and put somebody's nuts in a vice.  And then tomorrow 46 throws open the back door and the entire third world population of the western hemisphere is going to begin a bum rush toward our border to be welcomed by the US military, and the urban natives are getting restless again, to name just a few. 

Starting at 11am this morning, the studio is booked 38 of the next 48 hours. And 14 hours Sunday. So I will have little time post, if at all, so I'll leave this post open until further notice.

It's here for your thoughts on the news as it happens and whatever else floats your boat. I would appreciate y'all dropping a few update for me with your takes. I'll be checking in often. I really don't like being so far away from home when I have feelings like I do now, cause crazy shit tends to happen. That's a post in itself now that I think about it......

Grievance Politics Is Destroying Civilized Society

By MatthewBoose @ American Greatness

Arguably, the greatest indictment of leftism is its preference for the vagrant and the criminal over the law-abiding citizen and victim. In politics, there are all kinds of disagreements about the role and scope of the state, but the one thing the state must do is protect the innocent. Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. 

Yet racial idolaters on the Left have pushed society to forgo basic expectations of public order and civilized conduct. The Left has a warped infatuation with society’s most entitled, recalcitrant, and destructive elements.

Their latest martyr is a lunatic named Jordan Neely, who was killed while threatening commuters in Manhattan. The man, portrayed by sympathetic media as a “Michael Jackson impersonator,” was throwing garbage at people and making vaguely threatening statements about his willingness to go to prison for life. A reasonable person would feel afraid in this situation, as passengers doubtless did. A heroic vigilante intervened. The Left has demonized the vigilante for his “barbaric” supposed “lynching,” but this gets it precisely backward.

In places like New York City, criminals are a protected class. Just days ago, a homeless man stabbed a commuter with an ice pick. Jordan Neely himself had 42 prior arrests and an open warrant for assaulting a 67-year-old woman at the time of his death. He is widely reported to have been a menace to the safety of others, in short, a net negative on society. But rather than permit the “injustice” of locking up violent blacks, governments in places like New York empower criminals to terrorize innocents. This is called “social justice,” and it’s happening everywhere.

Roving caravans of “youths” in Chicago regularly riot and loot with impunity. The city wrings its hands over a lack of “resources” in the hood and stages ineffectual “awareness” campaigns. Civilized society is extorted, literally and morally. The left will always find a way to justify the criminals and blame the real victims, whose cries for justice are drowned out by the endless wailing of black entitlement. We are often told that the politics of “white grievance” is transforming America into some kind of authoritarian state, but the opposite is true.

It is impossible to have civilization when it is a crime to hold members of a protected class accountable for their conduct. In Manhattan on last week, justice momentarily took the reins away from “social justice.” The normal course of state-sanctioned disorder was disrupted by a brave onlooker, who very well could have ignored the threat, like most commuters have been conditioned to do. Instead, he chose to act at great risk to his safety, reputation, and freedom.

And of course, the media does their part:

 

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We lost last week one of the Great Troubadours of the Late Twentieth Century. One of his most perfect and beautiful compositions was 'Seven Island Suite'. It happen to have been one of the favorites of Lydia Marie (1961-1995)

This is for Her. I Miss You Mom.

 
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Chucky Three-Sticks Mounts the Throne.

Unlike the Great Kings of England of lore, Charlie III will not be fighting those nasty uppity French or Austrians on the continent for land and riches and fame. Nor will Chuck be separating the heads from bodies of his detractors or those who might partake in Palace Intrigue. Nor will Chuck be forced, for the purpose of military or political alliances, to take some butt ugly princess as his queen (that part is already taken care of). 

These days Chucky Three Sticks, as the new King of All England, biggest battles won't be against foreign Emperors or pissed off crazy cousins with large armies marching through neutral countries to threaten the British Empire. No, his battles will more likely be with with his little pedo prince brother Andrew and with the little tart Yoko Markle and her English Setter puppy Harry, from further disgracing the family and bringing down the Monarchy.  

It's also expected Chuck will be annoying his subject with his special interest, climate change, and advocating for all the Globalist agenda of making of the lives of his subjects even more uncomfortable than they already are. It also been said that as King, despite his increase in duties of the Monarch, Chuck will continuing to make time for his love of talking to plants in the royal garden. 

 So Pip Pip Cheerio and 

LONG LIVE THE KING!

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Joe Biden: Beating Swords into Stripper Poles

RS- Decades hence, when historians are seeking the exact moment when relations between the West and the Muslim world turned the corner to become a model of trust and mutual respect, they will land on the day the Biden administration reached out to help “Transgender Youth” in Pakistan. No, really. There are trans kids in Pakistan, and they need “professional development".

And now our far-sighted administration is offering a $500,000 grant to teach Pakistani kids English. One of the conditions of the grant is that the recipient provides “intensive professional development courses for Pakistani transgender youth.

The grant’s goals, according to the administration, are:

In this specific grant, the Department provides funding for “Non-Mainstream Institutions” for English-language learning, an integral skill that helps unlock educational and employability opportunities, for marginalized communities, in this case transgender youth.

The grant asks applicants to specifically address one of the most pressing questions of our time: What is the most effective way to reach the greatest number of Pakitranny youth and Afghan teachers, students, and young professionals from diverse locations across Pakistan?

Let's hope that definition of “Non-Mainstream Institutions” is not so expansive as to include, say, homeschoolers. U.S. tax dollars shouldn’t be going to help create badly socialized, maladjusted Pakistanis.  

You see, trans and gay stuff like drag shows isn’t super popular in Muslim countries ya know. So there’s a dearth of role models around to mentor budding drag queens. Something to do with a being thrown off the top of a building or something.  Joe & Co. saw this tragedy as an opportunity. If American aid can build an English-speaking Pakistani community of trained twerkers, we can begin to melt the differences that separate us. This is the “soft power” diplomacy that will bridge the cultural divide with Islamic nations. Joe is beating swords into stripper polls.

I'm sure someone in the dark bowels of the Biden administration are bouncing around the idea of a grant to set the Pakitranny kids up with TikTok accounts and Disney Plus subscriptions. Just give them time. 

(RedState)

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Chuck Schumer Steals the Show at NY Met Gala

Ah Yes, the night all the beautiful people and freaks and weirdos of the Fashion & Entertainment world gather together in NYC for no really good reason other than to remind each other they are indeed wealthy freaks and weirdos spending 50K to see who can outdo every other freak and weirdo.  And it's always good to see so many oppressed black millionaires represented and a combined close knit community of self important woke drama school pretenders, autotuned pop stars and music industry lip sync expert's, as well as other names the great unwashed more than likely never heard of, all waltz up the Great Met Staircase.

Here is just a few samples of what we all missed Monday night:

Here's said to be beautiful songbird Rihanna looking somewhat like a toad peeking through foam floating on the edge of a scummy pond on an early morning. (This person is actually worth $1.4 Billion) 

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