tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post7854211475305521471..comments2023-10-22T02:35:41.216-07:00Comments on Citizen K.: Hey, At Least Ammo Is AffordableUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-56080828367827952242008-12-12T18:00:00.000-08:002008-12-12T18:00:00.000-08:00Well, as Rachel Maddow characterizes the rethugs i...Well, as Rachel Maddow characterizes the rethugs in the Senate that are killing the auto industry in order to kill unions -- she calls them the Plantation Cronies. Like the Confederates, they'd rather take down the nation than have labor be paid for working.<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-61925660861811335102008-12-12T16:35:00.000-08:002008-12-12T16:35:00.000-08:00When the Confederate Army invaded Pennsylvania in ...When the Confederate Army invaded Pennsylvania in 1863, the rank-and-file soldiers were flabbergasted by a prosperity they had been told was impossible in a free state. Ever since slavery, the South has boasted of its non-Union cheap labor, but to what end? It's still the poorest section of the country with the lowest living and education standards. And who wants their state to be like Alabama?K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-52542154287878180622008-12-12T10:58:00.000-08:002008-12-12T10:58:00.000-08:00The writer liked the book -- he worked hard to get...The writer liked the book -- he worked hard to get this piece published. He wrote it for the LA Times, but the editor nixed it because of all the slavery material; the London Review of Books also decided finally not to run it because they felt New Orleans was so, well 2005.<BR/><BR/>The Nation likes Ned and his work.<BR/><BR/>But most leftists, as much as the rightwing, do not like Thomas Jefferson, that Great democrat, criticized as a money-grubbing, bad-tempered, hugely egotistical, selfish man, who lived, literally off the bodies of his slaves, who all had to be sold off when he died to pay his enormous debts.<BR/><BR/>I always contrast this outcome of Jefferson's great agricultural democracy -- his slave plantation -- with John Adams, who through the brilliant management of his wife Abigail, had a farm that paid well enough that they could furnish a White House, educate their children, provide doweries for their daughter, and leave a surplus when they died -- all from their non-slave farm in the stony ground of New England.<BR/><BR/>Love, c.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-12310974493533667962008-12-11T21:49:00.000-08:002008-12-11T21:49:00.000-08:00I'm glad the Nation finally noticed Ned's book. I...I'm glad <I>the Nation</I> finally noticed Ned's book. It's an odd review. You can't tell if the reviewer liked it. The magazine when it was founded, was soft on racism.<BR/><BR/>MLK and any Bush, can't even be in the same sentence.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-20913674405917213692008-12-11T16:17:00.000-08:002008-12-11T16:17:00.000-08:00Bush the next MLK? Someone might want to remind hi...Bush the next MLK? Someone might want to remind him of his response following Hurricane Katrina.<BR/><BR/>Chutzpah, indeed.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06875378679299157108noreply@blogger.com