Alcoholic thinking (aka "Stinking thinking") does not go away after you put down the drink. Hic-retary Segteth is a prime example of why active alcoholic thinking destroys families, homes, and now, nations.
Tell me more about this exhibition in Los Angeles of toppled confederate statues. Just even the location. I would love to see that! maybe I can get a field trip together for our elementary school!
Never mind, I found it. "MONUMENTS," featuring 15 decommissioned Confederate statues and contemporary art responses, is scheduled to open at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on October 23, 2025. The exhibit, co-organized with The Brick, aims to explore the changing legacies of American history by placing these removed monuments alongside artworks that offer new perspectives on their history and impact.
Ta, Gary. Both beloved husband Meccalopolis and I have learned so much about our family history (yes, I married into a family that's older than this country) during the past couple of days. We're spending two more nights in SC in a good hotel, then we'll visit our NC relatives. Fun for the whole family.
Next up: Erecting a monument at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, honoring the brave Al Queda soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the cause they believed in.
I at first read that as meaning that Kegsbreath had committed at least one mistake in his embrace of the Confederacy - but, on consideration, I realized that it meant he HAD a boner over the Confederacy.
Ew!
[ I just looked up the sculptor, Moses Ezekial, and wondered if Kegsbreath ( and the rest of the assholes applauding this move ) ever knew that Ezekial was Jewish. The bigots would have rejected it out of hand ]
[ Edit again - I see that Ezekial's Jewish roots were mentioned in the article - I hadn't read that far when I added my earlier edit ]
"Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
~The "Cornerstone Speech," Alexander H. Stephens, acting Vice President of the Confederate States of America, at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861.
So tell us, o wise one—what was the Civil War about?
States Rights! Specifically, and carefully described in the statutes of secession, the rights of each state to protect the institution of slavery with
its laws, its military, its judges and all the other instruments of state power. Filibusters too, to bring the glories of slavery to all the other benighted nations south of the Mason-Dixon Line, all the way to Tierra del Fuego.
And when Whiskey Pete mandates that we can only listen to Stephen Foster songs someone play him the one I wrote in Foster’s style: “Plug Your Ears and Sing!”
Is this the monument that has the Latin motto “Victrix causa deis placuit sed Victa Catoni” that translates as “The victorious cause pleased the gods but the lost cause pleased Cato”? I hate the Confederacy’s use of that motto. It’s so smug and self-aggrandizing, and it reeks to me of a persecution complex. “We lost because we were pure and morally correct, and those so elevated cannot survive in this wicked world.” Bullshit. They lost because the cause for which they fought was morally abhorrent and spiritually corrosive. They lost because while Lee looked a paragon, he didn’t have the grit or the guts of Grant. Most of all, they lost because they deserved to lose.
The Confederacy fought for the right to practice slavery, to spread slavery into new states and territories, and to go outside the South and capture escaped slaves and occasionally free Blacks.
I would ask who's side he is on, but why bother? Maybe they can celebrate the erection with a torch light parade of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Klu Klux Klan.
I just don’t get it. The GOP is counting on the Hispanic vote to hold onto seats during the mid-terms. Black men voted for Trump (even when a black woman was running) last year, young voters wouldn’t vote for Kamala because of Israel/Palestine. Trump and his entire Fascist entourage do everything they can to show the racism, sexism and white Christian patriarchy they can. It’s just unfathomable!
Alcoholic thinking (aka "Stinking thinking") does not go away after you put down the drink. Hic-retary Segteth is a prime example of why active alcoholic thinking destroys families, homes, and now, nations.
Tell me more about this exhibition in Los Angeles of toppled confederate statues. Just even the location. I would love to see that! maybe I can get a field trip together for our elementary school!
Never mind, I found it. "MONUMENTS," featuring 15 decommissioned Confederate statues and contemporary art responses, is scheduled to open at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on October 23, 2025. The exhibit, co-organized with The Brick, aims to explore the changing legacies of American history by placing these removed monuments alongside artworks that offer new perspectives on their history and impact.
Ta, Gary. Both beloved husband Meccalopolis and I have learned so much about our family history (yes, I married into a family that's older than this country) during the past couple of days. We're spending two more nights in SC in a good hotel, then we'll visit our NC relatives. Fun for the whole family.
If you have been to Germany, there are no statutes or flags to commemorate Nazis.
Next up: Erecting a monument at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, honoring the brave Al Queda soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the cause they believed in.
“Woke Lemmings” is the name of my new competitive meditation group.
"Pete (Hic!) Hegseth's Confederate Monuments Boner..."
I at first read that as meaning that Kegsbreath had committed at least one mistake in his embrace of the Confederacy - but, on consideration, I realized that it meant he HAD a boner over the Confederacy.
Ew!
[ I just looked up the sculptor, Moses Ezekial, and wondered if Kegsbreath ( and the rest of the assholes applauding this move ) ever knew that Ezekial was Jewish. The bigots would have rejected it out of hand ]
[ Edit again - I see that Ezekial's Jewish roots were mentioned in the article - I hadn't read that far when I added my earlier edit ]
"Moses Ezekiel"? Jewish? I am for shocked.
You are smart enough to know the civil wasn’t about slavery right? Did you say dumb ass?
"Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
~The "Cornerstone Speech," Alexander H. Stephens, acting Vice President of the Confederate States of America, at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861.
So tell us, o wise one—what was the Civil War about?
States Rights! Specifically, and carefully described in the statutes of secession, the rights of each state to protect the institution of slavery with
its laws, its military, its judges and all the other instruments of state power. Filibusters too, to bring the glories of slavery to all the other benighted nations south of the Mason-Dixon Line, all the way to Tierra del Fuego.
"to recognize the service of Americans of all chapters.” - Even the traitors!!
And when Whiskey Pete mandates that we can only listen to Stephen Foster songs someone play him the one I wrote in Foster’s style: “Plug Your Ears and Sing!”
https://youtu.be/hZtXfrlupPk
Kegsbreath doesn't know why there's a WEST Virginia, does he?
(Long story short, they're the counties in Virginia that noped out of the Confederacy)
I think they should restore the confederate monuments that were removed but with the top two-fifths or each statue removed.
Call it a Three-Fifths Compromize.
Is this the monument that has the Latin motto “Victrix causa deis placuit sed Victa Catoni” that translates as “The victorious cause pleased the gods but the lost cause pleased Cato”? I hate the Confederacy’s use of that motto. It’s so smug and self-aggrandizing, and it reeks to me of a persecution complex. “We lost because we were pure and morally correct, and those so elevated cannot survive in this wicked world.” Bullshit. They lost because the cause for which they fought was morally abhorrent and spiritually corrosive. They lost because while Lee looked a paragon, he didn’t have the grit or the guts of Grant. Most of all, they lost because they deserved to lose.
The Confederacy fought for the right to practice slavery, to spread slavery into new states and territories, and to go outside the South and capture escaped slaves and occasionally free Blacks.
Exactly. Hideous reasons for a war and even more so for a country to be founded on.
I would ask who's side he is on, but why bother? Maybe they can celebrate the erection with a torch light parade of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Klu Klux Klan.
I just don’t get it. The GOP is counting on the Hispanic vote to hold onto seats during the mid-terms. Black men voted for Trump (even when a black woman was running) last year, young voters wouldn’t vote for Kamala because of Israel/Palestine. Trump and his entire Fascist entourage do everything they can to show the racism, sexism and white Christian patriarchy they can. It’s just unfathomable!