WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Boomer Recessionals: Brothers in Arms
byVanderleunonAugust 27, 2021
So many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones
Now the sun’s gone to hell And the moon’s riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it’s written in the starlight And every line in your palm We are fools to make war On our brothers in arms
“Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.” — Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Absent 7 Deep South Cotton states (with 5 million people), “the nation” would still have had 26 states (with 26 million people) and would still have stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The 7 seceded Cotton States possessed nothing of vital importance other than the port of New Orleans, and a right of passage could easily have been negotiated.
Civil War; the invasion, conquest, and occupation of fraternal states; and the deaths of 700,000 Americans (2 1/5% of the entire US Population) could simply have been avoided.
“The war came” because a military dictator initiated it.
Mike-SMOAugust 29, 2021, 3:43 AM
The Confedeeracy was a dream of Royalist discards that had no future. The Brits had cotton from Egypt and India. The “South” was nothing but a potential staging area for the Legions of the Kingdoms of the future European Union {spit!}. The U.S.A., with telegraph and railroads would have been rendered destitute by maintaining an army to defend against the “friends” of the Traitors of the Confederacy.
The “Royalists” of the South had no future since “industry” and the future were too “dirty” and too complicated. Texas was “born” with industry to feed the Northern growth. Bombing-ham steel was outclassed by Illinois and then Pennsylvania. A steam-powered navy protected the Nation from the crumbling Empires of the Old World. The “Mud-people” of the old Confederacy never raised their heads to join the future. With no way to threaten the growing Nation, they just settled into the mud like their European predecessors. The South was only saved by air conditioning and a retirement age population. The cotton “gin” and cotton press just delayed that collapse.
In the 19th Century, the South could have been part of a growing Nation instead of a threat to that Nation. “Mars Rob’t” (General Robert E. Lee) attacked Pennsylvania, in good part, to get shoes for his army, since Massah was spending Confederate wealth on clothes, booze and perfume, while the army marched barefoot. To support the plantation lifestyle, do you have any doubt that those same “Massahs” would not have accepted some coin from a “Generalisimo” or “Lord” somebody to keep the party going? The “South” was just a rotting remnant of the society that the Revolution was fought against.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
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Chico, Ca 95926
Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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Recessional is right; it’s a shame an English-Hungarian has more foresight than our 16th President.
Absent 7 Deep South Cotton states (with 5 million people), “the nation” would still have had 26 states (with 26 million people) and would still have stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The 7 seceded Cotton States possessed nothing of vital importance other than the port of New Orleans, and a right of passage could easily have been negotiated.
Civil War; the invasion, conquest, and occupation of fraternal states; and the deaths of 700,000 Americans (2 1/5% of the entire US Population) could simply have been avoided.
“The war came” because a military dictator initiated it.
The Confedeeracy was a dream of Royalist discards that had no future. The Brits had cotton from Egypt and India. The “South” was nothing but a potential staging area for the Legions of the Kingdoms of the future European Union {spit!}. The U.S.A., with telegraph and railroads would have been rendered destitute by maintaining an army to defend against the “friends” of the Traitors of the Confederacy.
The “Royalists” of the South had no future since “industry” and the future were too “dirty” and too complicated. Texas was “born” with industry to feed the Northern growth. Bombing-ham steel was outclassed by Illinois and then Pennsylvania. A steam-powered navy protected the Nation from the crumbling Empires of the Old World. The “Mud-people” of the old Confederacy never raised their heads to join the future. With no way to threaten the growing Nation, they just settled into the mud like their European predecessors. The South was only saved by air conditioning and a retirement age population. The cotton “gin” and cotton press just delayed that collapse.
In the 19th Century, the South could have been part of a growing Nation instead of a threat to that Nation. “Mars Rob’t” (General Robert E. Lee) attacked Pennsylvania, in good part, to get shoes for his army, since Massah was spending Confederate wealth on clothes, booze and perfume, while the army marched barefoot. To support the plantation lifestyle, do you have any doubt that those same “Massahs” would not have accepted some coin from a “Generalisimo” or “Lord” somebody to keep the party going? The “South” was just a rotting remnant of the society that the Revolution was fought against.