Digital Cowboy

For better or worse, the South did rise again. The South pretty much runs this country and has for a long time now. If you don’t believe me, go look at the current leadership of Congress. The Senate majority leadership is all from Southron states. Most of the House majority leadership is too.

If you’d like another take on this idea from another perspective, check out this rant from a clearly ignorant (read: typical) leftist. (Note: Not even the domain in that link is safe for work.)

The truth is, that the South rose again a long time ago. As I said earlier, that’s for better or worse, because Bill Clinton is from Arkansas. It doesn’t get much more redneck than that. During most of Slick Willy’s time in office, Gingrich was the Speaker of the House and Trent Lott was the Majority Leader in the Senate.

All Southrons. (Or as Brit Hume would phrase it, “Southrons, all.”)

The leftist rant that I linked to earlier in this post is lamenting the fact that a president cannot be elected without the southern states. Well, DUH!

That’s where America lives and why those states are all “red.” Get used to it.

Not that I’m gloating about it. I think the “red states” are so confused and corrupted now that it makes little difference. It’s like putting the brakes on when you’ve already gone off the cliff.

I wanted to do a couple more tonight about Ignoramus Abe but it didn’t happen. No flow.

But I’ve got a lot more. I promise. Maybe tomorrow.

For those that didn’t pick up on the title of this post (I know PK did!), it’s a quote from Tombstone. For those that did pick it up (Pay attention, Cartman!), did you know that in the time that movie was set, it was an expletive?

In the mid and late 1800′s, the word “kidding” or “kiddin’” was used the way “f***king” is used today. It makes sense if you think a bit about it.

Curly Bill said, “Next time we come, you better step aside. And I ain’t kiddin’, neither.”

Replace “kiddin’” there with “f***king around” and you’ll get my point. In fact, if you drop the “around,” you’ll see the evolution more clearly.

Just a little Tombstone trivia to hold y’all over until I get back to the proper crucifixion of Lincoln.

(And with that, I probably just made Elena’s NSFW list. Sorry, dear. It’s history.)

I confess right up front that this is, in part, shameless whoring for money. I set up an Amazon associate account because I figured that if I’m going to be using this pulpit to influence the reading habits of my millions thousands hundreds half dozen regular readers, I should at least get paid if they decide to buy from Amazon.

A couple of you have asked where I’m getting my information about Lincoln. I’ve gotten it from numerous places over the years to put together the composite image of Lincoln I’m presenting here but I must confess that the bulk of it came from Thomas DiLorenzo’s book The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. That’s certainly a great place to start because he uses Lincoln’s own speeches and letters to present some of the most damning evidence. The book is well researched and footnoted. I highly recommend it. My only warning is that parts of it are a bit dry as DiLorenzo gets into minute details about the railroad barons, for example. That’s a side effect of being a great researcher. As much as I love history, some of it really is boring, though necessary to understand in order to understand the parts that aren’t.

Serena also mentioned The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. I’ve not had a chance to read it yet but I’ve read and heard nothing but good things about it.

A third that I’ve been wanting to read on this subject is When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession by Charles Adams. I’ve read very good things about it including an Amazon reviewer that hated it because it “paints Lincoln as a tyrant.” (Just can’t get through some people’s indoctrination.) I took that as a ringing endorsement of the veracity of the book.

Now clickety-click and make me rich! If everyone that reads this post clicks through those links and buys a couple hundred copies of each book, I’ll probably make enough to cover my hosting bill this month.

Everything you know about the “Civil War” is likely wrong unless you’re one of the few that has studied it on your own. Everything you learned in government schools is likely wrong. (Lincoln was a strong proponent of compulsory government schools and, while he was president, really gave those evil freaks the kick start they needed to create this monster we have today.)

Lincoln’s presidential campaign was financed by wealthy bankers and railroad tycoons. He was their puppet. If your head is spinning, yes, take note that he was the first president elected by special interests. He invented that and many other ugly things that destroyed our country.

He said with his own mouth during the campaign in 1860 that slaves were property and he would have no intention or authority as president to interfere with the property rights of anyone who owned slaves. He privately said in letters that the “negro is clearly a moral inferior to me and causing us trouble. I believe the best solution would be to purge them all from our country and return them to their own land.”

He said it again in his re-election campaign in 1864. Slavery was nothing more than a political ploy for Lincoln. Not only did he not free the slaves, he issued an executive order during the war that all freed negroes found in Union territory by the Union Army were to be rounded up and returned to their owners in the South… or resold, knowing that the majority of them had been freed by their owners as a reward for service in the war.

He was never elected by a majority of the “popular vote.” Not something I care a lot about, but relevant to our times. (He has a lot in common with Bill Clinton. This is just one thing.)

He had a much slimmer win in 1864 for re-election than even his squeak in to the presidency in 1860. In 1864, many places in the country, most notably New York, had Union soldiers guarding the polls and color-coded ballots. If you wanted a Democrat ballot to vote against Lincoln, it was a different color paper than the Republican ballot. Many poll workers reported that Union soldiers forced them to destroy the opposing ballots before counting them. I doubt he invented election fraud, but he certainly used it more effectively than most. Even after four years of imprisoning his detractors without trial and election fraud being perpetrated at the point of a gun in many places, he was barely re-elected. Because he was almost universally despised, like any other dictator.

He issued an executive order that all places of worship were required to offer prayer for him personally at every worship service. That’s appalling (and stupid), but it gets worse. He sent Union soldiers into churches in both the north and south, in plain clothes to make sure he was getting his prayers. If the clergyman closed the service without offering a prayer for Abe, he was either imprisoned or killed and the church was burned. In both the North and the South.

I’m done for tonight, but not at all finished. Next up, smashing printing presses at newspapers, imprisoning dissenting members of the press without trial…. in the NORTH and the fraud that became the Emancipation Proclamation.

Abraham Lincoln hated America. He hated everything it represented. He loved slavery as long as it was kept away from him because he hated “those niggers.” He was the first president elected by the new “Republican” party in 1860.

How do you call yourself a Republican when you oppose states’ rights and are in favor of a strong federal government and a central bank? I would like to ask that question to Dubya, Lincoln and the founders of the party. They were frauds from the beginning. The republicans of the 1860′s operated just like the democrats of today do — by reframing the debate in Orwellian newspeak, pretending to be the opposite of what they are. In fact, Lincoln defected from the Whig party when he realized they didn’t have the clout to ever get him elected. The Whig’s platform was completely Hamiltonian. As in, the philosophy of Alexander Hamilton, the traitor on our ten dollar bill. His philosophy was debated and shunned when the Constitution was written, but the Hamiltonians never gave up. Lincoln began the fulfillment of their dream in 1860 when he was elected and subsequently overthrew the American system of government.

Lincoln was as corrupt as corrupt gets. He was a liar and a thief his whole life. In fact, I think I could make the case that he was a mentally deranged sociopath. (The multiple nervous breakdowns would be a big help there.) Everything he ever did in his entire career was based entirely on his own insecurities and self-interest.

In 1852, Harper’s Weekly Magazine referenced Lincoln thusly:

“Filthy story-teller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.”

That was all before he had really ever found any major political success. He was almost universally despised by those who knew him because he was an opportunist in the purest sense of the word. He was a manipulator and the only people that ever spoke highly of him during his life were those who were either in business with him or being threatened by him.

It should be noted for those that know anything about his sorry life, that most of what you’ve read about him is untrue. The popular story retold a million places about all of his setbacks and his perseverance is replete with inaccuracies that seem to make him the victim. (Unfortunately, the only debunking I’ve been able to find online is apologetic for him and worse than the original legend.) Most notably, it’s said that he was heart-broken and brought to his first nervous breakdown when his betrothed, Ann Rutledge, died during their engagement. In fact, he was cheating on her and dumped her on her death bed for Mary Todd because Mary’s family was more politically influential. Indeed, he did not even attend Ann’s funeral because he said it would be “too difficult” for him.

He was a heartless bastard. To everyone.

I have much more to say about the prick but I need a break right now and this is long enough.