George Washington’s Prayer
November 21, 2009
Did he ever dream that prayer would be outlawed in his nation?
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Siege of the South
October 17, 2009“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is about the Danville train, the main supply line into Richmond during the War Between the States. During the Siege of Petersburg Stoneman’s Yankees “tore up the track again.” The siege lasted from June 1864 until April 1865, when both Petersburg and Richmond fell. The Confederates were starving: “We were hungry; Just barely alive.” The South lost but forever afterwards, Southerners vowed to rise again. Perhaps that is what is a-happening now at this point in our history with the rise of Tea Parties, emphasis on honoring the Constitution and people’s concerns with loss of liberties and the demise of capitalism.
Tu Quoque Scottish Style
August 24, 2009Big Headed Scottish Highlander practicing Tu Quoque.
“How do you like my new hat, Mr. Scotland? By Jove, what ridiculously gigantic headgear you women like to wear.”
If the Scots are so damn smart and invented the world and all that hooey, how come they cannot speak and reason logicially? Criticize something such as their freeing of a convicted mass murderer and their response is “yo mama’s worse.” There is a name for their logic and it is “Tu Quoque.” It’s the “two wrongs make a right fallacy.” “Yes, Scotland let a killer go, but the U.S. invaded Iraq, so we’re both right.” It is Scottish logic and if you do not accept it, you are persecuted as another stupid ____ing American. Makes one want to visit Ireland on one’s next vacation. Scots hate the Irish even more than they hate Americans. They do love their Colonel Gaddafi and his Libyan oil fields, though. Tu Quoque.