Memorial Day: North and South

On Memorial Day, most folks look forward to a day off from work, and maybe some steaks and burgers on the grill with friends and family.  Oh, and a few adult libations.  And yes, from time to time they remember fleetingly,  acknowledging all those Americans who gave their all to America.  But there's a couple of interesting things about Memorial Day that most folks don't know about.

Memorial Day began as a Confederate holiday in 1866, the year following the end of the War of Northern Aggression, which was then called Decoration Day.  Wesley Pruden describes it in this way.

The ladies of Columbus, Georgia, went to the graveyard with broken hearts to decorate the graves of their husbands, sons and brothers who had died defending hearth and home from the depredations of old William Tecumseh Sherman on his infamous march from Atlanta to the sea.

The ladies of Columbus decorated the graves with flags and flowers in remembrance of what love and sacrifice had wrought. They decorated the few Union graves among their dead with flowers, too. “They were cruel,” said one of the ladies of the Yankee invaders, “only to be true to their cause.” This simple act of generosity was quickly noted by several important newspapers in the North.

“The action of the ladies on this occasion,” said the Daily National Intelligencer in the nation’s capital, “in burying whatever animosities or ill feeling may have been engendered in the late war towards those who fought against them, is worthy of all praise and condemnation.” The Cleveland Daily Leader agreed: “The act was as beautiful as it was unselfish, and it will be appreciated in the North.”

And so Decoration Day became a day of remembrance and reconciliation across the land, later to be called Memorial Day, and still, particularly in the small towns of the South, a day of decorating graves of Confederate soldiers of the War Between the States with flowers and flags.

Memorial Day embraces the sacrifice of all Americans, and Confederates as well, and those brave men would not understand or condone the tearing down of statutes that memorialize those sacrifices, nor of the petty act of breaking out the tiny images of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee from the stained glass windows in the Episcopal Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC.  Despicable.

Another interesting national concern arising from the ashes of that terrible war was the implementation of a civilian rifle proficiency program.  In reviewing the casualty statistics of the war, the Union brass realized that the Southerners, being primarily agrarian, were expert sharpshooters, while the Northerners were largely city boys, and were not very good shots at all.  Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the organization in 1871.  As the the military is drawn from the citzentry, it was decided that it was past time to teach American civilians how to shoot, and shoot well.  The primary goal of this new association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," according to Col. Church.

And with that decision, the National Rifle Association was born.  Today, the NRA encourages shooting sports, promotes and defends the Second Amendment, advocates for political activism, and teaches gun safety, pre-licensing education for states' concealed carry permits, and gunsmithing. The NRA enjoys huge popular support, especially as the left continues to seek the abolition of the Second Amendment and the universal cconfiscation of all guns   In fact, over six million Americans are dues paying members of the organization, many for precisely this reason.   

Molon Labe.

The Great Censorship Movement

It appears that the great Censorship Movement is very much alive and well, thank you.  And it's growing and thriving all over the world.  Let's just look at two examples, one in the UK, the other in the US.

Stateside, pretty much everyone has now come to understand that the real purpose of Facebook, what with Marky-Mark testifying - er lying - in front of congress recently, is to collect and sell data on its users.  But, they tell us, we're not politically aligned necessarily, and we don't censor conservative voices.  Gee,  they say, we don't do bias here at Facebook, we want all sides heard.  OK, that's what Facebook's management wants you to believe, anyway.  But the reality is something quite different than the company's talking points.  Consider that one Matt Margolis, a best selling author, regularly uses Facebook ads for promoting his books.  Now several of those books are exposes on the evil and corruption in the Kenyan's regime, er, administration.  According to PJ Media, 

The last time he tried to advertise his latest book, The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama, on Facebook they banned him for a week for "spamming." Facebook never explained how paying for advertising and then distributing that ad in conservative groups is "spamming." Now Facebook is doing it to him again. This time Margolis attempted to buy an ad for the re-released and updated version of his first smash hit, The Worst President in History; The Legacy of Barack Obama. After filling out the appropriate form, Margolis received this response from Facebook: "Your ad was not approved because your Page has not been authorized to run ads with political content. What to do: Complete the authorization process."

So,in order to engage in commerce by selling his book, Margolis started the long and arduous process to "authorize" the ad.  The ad, mind you, represents income to Facebook.  But nope, we can't have an ad promoting a book that exposes the corruption of our Dear Leader The Kenyan.  Even if we loose money by doing so.  But wait, in fairness, Facebook did - sorta - agree to run the ad if only Margolis would give Facebook his home address, a copy of his driver's license (both sides), and his social security number.  Right.  That should do it.  Now let's be clear: with the revelation of what Facebook really does with your private information, I'm sure any trusting soul would gleefully render his driver's license and his social security number without question.  And neither did Matt Margolis.  So if you're a conservative, and you write conservative books - especially if they are unflattering to the Kenyan or his gal Hill - you have zero chance of buying ad space on Facebook.  Censorship?  Hell, yeah.

Tommy Robinson arrested for showing the truth

Or how about the unbelievable case of Britain's Tommy Robinson across the pond in the UK?  On Friday, the saga of Tommy Robinson entered a new chapter.  British police officers pulled him off a street in Leeds, where, in his role as a citizen journalist, he was live streaming a Facebook video from outside a courthouse. Inside that building, several defendants were on trial for allegedly being part of a so-called "grooming gang," a group of men, almost all Muslim, who systematically rape non-Muslim children, in some cases hundreds of them over a period of years or decades and in so doing prepares them for a lifetime of sexual slavery.  Forced prostitution.  But rather than focus on the heinous crimes of these Muslims animals, the British government found it more expedient to charge, arrest and incarcerate the journalist.  No trial.  No appeal.  Straight to prison for thirteen months.  Consider that because the vast population of prisoners are Muslim, our Mr. Robinson has a very good chance of becoming dead before his sentence ends.  That's British injustice for you.  Worse, yesterday there were protests from large crowds of angry Brits who recognized the application of George Orwell's warnings in his book 1984.  Protests were held at 10 Downing Street, as well, and those citizen concerns have also fallen on deaf ears.  Haven't heard of this, you say?  Well, it's because some heavyweights have essentially instituted a complete media blackout on it.  Of my British cousins I ask, doesn't Neville Chamberlain's infamous policy of appeasement teach you anything about the proper way to deal with tyranny?  It seems to me that the Nazi threat of then is the same as the Muslim threat of today.

So isn't it curious, that on two separate continents, in two separate cases of ham-fisted censorship, we find that the truth about Muslims - whether outed or closeted - are so tyrannically implemented?

Actually, I think it tells us a lot.

What Feminism Hath Wrought

Feminism as a concept is a pariah on the American culture. Whatever the goal of feminism was in the beginning of that movement many years ago, it certainly isn't the same now.  Back then the feminazis - shrill, ugly hags who couldn't get dates -  just wanted equality with men, or so they said.  But today feminism seeks to make men more feminine and women more masculine, and thereby turn the whole idea of the vive la différence of the sexes upside down.  And they've been damn good at doing so, too.

Gender confusion has been one such result.  Now we must deal with - what? - maybe six or so types of sexuality?  Kids as young as five or six years old are being taught that their sex is fluid.  Mom, I feel kinda girly today.  I call BS.  Biological science is pretty straightforward in confirming that - even today - there are only two sexes.  Yeah, the fetus begins as female, and depending on which X or Y chromosome it gets, may stay female or become male.  I get that.  But except for the rare case of being born a Hermaphrodite, one is either male or female. Sorry, snowflakes, the science is settled.

As the cultural misandry spreads and men become, well, something other than men, we're advised by the feminists that men are unnecessary in the family.  Dads are ejected from the family unit to allow the woman to "grow," whatever that means.  I guess it means that male children grow up without a strong, reliable father role model, and either seek sexual transformation, or shoot up a school.  To the misandrist, that's called "progress."   Destroyed and decimated families with dysfunctional children are another fine result of modern feminism.

Perhaps feminism is simply trying to emulate Islam, in which one sex has total and tyrannical control over the other.  In the Muslim world, "a woman's rights" is an oxymoron.  Here in the west, feminism seeks to apply a reversal of  that notion in the woman's favor.  The result is movements such as MGTOW, where men just refuse to have anything to do with women.  Personally I like women in general, I guess because I'm an archaic chivalrous male heterosexual.  But even I was stunned the other day when this issue came up unexpectedly.  I was yakking with my mechanic and a retired chap who was hanging around.  This guy said he had little to do except loiter around the shop.  I jokingly said, "You need a woman, man!"  Both my mechanic and this fellow - in unison - loudly and affirmatively decried such a notion.  No, they're not homos, they're just battle-weary guys tired of the constant chaos that is part and parcel of having a modern feminist woman in their lives.  Another result of modern feminism is men simply avoiding the shrill sex.   A consequence of that is noted by the birth rate in this country is down dramatically.

Want more?  How about the rise of things like Rosie O'Donnell's vicious observations?  Or the idiotic #MeToo thing, where women who use their charms - and are rewarded as expected - suddenly are appalled that they were successful in getting what they wanted?  Or the unstoppable murder of millions of babies every year through Panned Butcherhood, the darling of the radical feminists?

But the topper is this:  Millennial women say that they are repulsed by the effeminate girly-boys that several decades of castration has produced.  They love the idea that the difference between boys and girls has become blurred, that's cool, but they just don't want to date one.   Or marry him.  Those ingrained biological urges that demand women seek a strong and stable man keep bubbling to the fore, despite the feminist indoctrination.  In fact, studies a few years ago revealed that the more society accommodated women, the less happy and fulfilled they became.

So, man-bun, get a trim and grow a pair if you want to be desirable to women as a human male. You won't get your foreskin back, but at least it's a start.  And faddishness aside, biology will triumph.

For the rest of those men waiting for the sexual culture to stabilize into normalcy, maybe soon there will be no need to deny "You need a woman, man!"

More Winning

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.  Vince Lombardi said that.   This administration is winning so much, it has almost run out of promises.   That's a good thing.  DJT has made good on nearly every promise he made during the campaign.  Well, okay, we're still working on the wall.  Have patience. 

But one of the most notable accomplishments that has been made is not a policy change, or a tax cut, or massive job creation, or reuniting the races, or abandoning self destructive deals, or recognition of some pet issue from one of the snowflake identity politics groups.

Nope, the most amazing things is his recognition and identification of the nation's enemies, both foreign and domestic.  Consider the intestinal fortitude - that means guts - it takes to do something like that.  But as the late great F. Lee Ermey has observed, sometimes guts is all it takes.  Gunny is right.  And Donald J. Trump has guts.

As the so called religion of peace continues with its policy of murdering everyone and anyone in sight, and that includes some 14 million other Muslims Muslims have killed since the dawn of this new enlightened century, Trump's efforts have reduced the Islamic State and its adherents from a caliphate to just a consortium of lone-wolf insane malcontents.  If they're happy killing each other, I'd like to support that effort.  Let me know when the last one is left; I'll take it from there.  But the media mafia and their cohorts in the Democrat party go apoplectic over an American President realizing that Islam is an existential threat, not only to individuals of all creeds, but to the Western way of life.  Oh, and to Christians, too.  But Trump knows this, and says so, and seeks to ban Islam from the US just as have Poland, Russia and Japan.  And that's wise.  

Domestic enemies include the Deep State, that swamp of lawyers, lobbyists, and other unelected bureaucrats who run things outside - and out of sight - of the will of the people.  Remove them.  Fire them.  Charge and arrest them if necessary.  The damage they have done is evident by the exposure of the corruption at the FBI and the Department of Justice.  Those folks were political hacks that sought to overturn the results of a fair and legal election.  Rather than go quietly into that good night after the election, these denizens of the swamp chose to corrupt two (or more) of America's most trusted institutions.  And the Kenyan's Marxist/Islamic will is writ large over all of this nonsense and corruption.  And Trump has rightly called them out over it.  Some of these hacks may yet see prison time.

Foreign enemies, like our friend Rocket-man, Dear Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un, have seen the light of what a strong, powerful and determined foe can be.  Trump politely asked Kim to dispense with all the nuclear threats and posturing.  Or else bad things are gonna happen to you.   We have two naval fleets on either side of you, and this will be over in less than two hours.  And I don't bluff.  Lunch? 

Further, I think Kim got a reality check when the last NoKo nuke test blew up an entire mountain, seismically destabilizing the whole peninsula.  Right Kim, that was way too much gun.  Now, Kim can't do enough to make nice with the US.  Hey, y'all come on over and watch as I take apart our nuclear capability okay?  Sure, Kim, we'd be happy to do that.

So President Trump is only eighteen months into his first four year term, and judging by the rumbling on the street - that's the vibe that it's clear that most Americans have had enough of the left's constant maniacal witch hunt - there's a lot more winning coming.  Even pollsters are seeing that not only will there be no blue wave, the midterm tsunami will be red, white and blue Americans.  Even the worst of the worst talking heads at NBC, ABC and CNN are grudgingly admitting that DJT is not only right, but he will be proven to be a Great President.

So, yeah, I like winning.  And, if you'll forgive just a little schadenfreude here, I love it when Hillary admits she just can't come to terms with loosing.  

If only the Kenyan would go away forever, and take our gal Hill with him.

The rest of America will keep on winning.