Saturday, January 17, 2015

When It All Goes South

Via comment by Anonymous via Charleston Voice on Southern is.......


 It'll creep up on you like a kudzu vine
Even miles above the Mason-Dixon line
'Til one day you're craving hominy grits
And scanning the jukebox for George Jones hits
Drinkin' Jack Black tryin' to kick back
'Til the condo's looking like a shotgun shack
You'll be one of us no matter where you're at

When it all goes south
(You'll be drivin' around on a John Deere tractor)
When it all goes south
(Wearing baseball caps but they won't be backwards)
Now it really don't matter what state you're in
One day the south's gonna rise again

There's a Wall Street wonder boy sittin' up north
Throwing darts like a monkey at a stock report
He's got two homes, car loans, in debt
And his third divorce ain't even final yet
Traded his MBA for a SUV on a backwoods road down in Tennessee
'Cause man, Manhattan ain't the place to be

When it all goes south
(With the live oak trees and the sweet magnolias)
When it all goes south
(Eatin' moon pies, drinking RC colas)
Now it really don't matter what state you're in
Someday the south's gonna rise again

When it all goes south
(Where the fog's as thick as Mississippi mud)
When it all goes south
(You'll be singing the blues 'cause it's in your blood)
Now it really don't matter what state you're in
One day the south's gonna rise again

When it all goes south
(You'll be drivin' around on a John Deere tractor)
When it all goes south
(Wearing baseball caps but they won't be backwards)

When it all goes south
(With the live oak trees and the sweet magnolias)
When it all goes south
(Eatin' moon pies, drinking RC colas)

Vicksburg, Birmingham, Natchez and Savannah, Panama City
Y'all sure look pretty in the sunshine
Getting' dixiefried get yourself some rebel pride

When it all goes south
(Where the fog's as thick as Mississippi mud)
When it all goes south
(You'll be singing the blues 'cause it's in your blood)
Now it really don't matter what state you're in
One day the south's gonna rise again

When it all goes south
(You'll be drivin' around on a John Deere tractor)
When it all goes south
(Wearing baseball caps but they won't be backwards)

When it all goes south
(With the live oak trees and the sweet magnolias)
When it all goes south
(Eatin' moon pies, drinking RC colas)

When it all goes south
(Where the fog's as thick as Mississippi mud)
When it all goes south
(You'll be singing the blues 'cause it's in your blood)

When it all goes south
(You'll be drivin' around on a John Deere tractor)
When it all goes south
(Wearing baseball caps but they won't be backwards)
(With the live oak trees and the sweet magnolias)
(Eatin' moon pies, drinking RC colas)

When it all goes south
(Where the fog's as thick as Mississippi mud)
When it all goes south
(You'll be singing the blues 'cause it's in your blood)

(When it all goes south)
When it all goes south
Yeah

Salman Rushdie on Charlie Hebdo: Freedom of speech must be absolute

Via comment by Sioux via The Last Refuge on How Multiculturalism Caused the Paris Terror Attac...

ISIS Attacks USAF’s A-10 Warthog Aircraft With Strela Missiles: Iraqi News

Via avordvet

 

Airstrikes carried out by the US on ISIS positions using the A-10 Warthog aircraft killed and wounded a number of terrorists near the village of Sultan Abdullah near Moshul in Iraq at dawn yesterday, Iraqi News reported.

Quoting an unnamed source who witnessed the action, the report said that the aircraft carried out four airstrikes sparking panic in the ranks of ISIS after flying close to the ground.

Police identify two men killed in convenience store robbery attempt

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/31/5312f6ce-7b79-5e3f-a5bf-c8fb02b42a09/54b6a3a1da292.image.jpg?resize=300%2C377

A Tulsa man seven months shy of ending his probation for a prior larceny conviction is one of two men identified by police as being shot by a store clerk during a failed robbery attempt Tuesday night.
Brian L. Powell, 27, was killed after a clerk at Ryan's convenience store, 9948 E. 21st St., pulled out a handgun and fired as a group of men allegedly entered the store to rob it, police said.
                                                             
  More @ Tulsa World

The Unchanging Lee: On the General's Birthday, 2015

 

Not even history can be told to stay the same in this ever-changing world. It changes, and our memory of all those figures who made it, heroes and villains alike, changes with it. Sometimes the heroes and villains even change roles, for all history turns out to be revision. Revisionist history is something of a redundant term; in a way all history is revisionist.

Events in the past may have taken place only once, but they are recounted again and again, and with every retelling may change. In that sense, nothing is more mutable than the past. No wonder it stays so politically relevant. Indeed, you can trace the course of political fashion in how different generations view figures like Robert E. Lee -- and Martin Luther King Jr. -- at different times.

The greater the historic figure, the greater the changes may be.

More @ Townhall

Southern is.......

Via Carl

Picture
Familiar Faces

More @ Southerness

Wexford The Kennedy Retreat For Sale

 

I remember seeing Caroline at the Upperville Horse Show in 1963.

The advantages of being a country bumpkin

Vic comment by Sioux on How Multiculturalism Caused the Paris Terror Attac...

Green Acres, Delaplane, one of my father's farms although the fields were either in Orchard Grass or Hay unless beef cattle were on them.  I caught a Catfish in this pond on a lure once, believe it or not. :)

When we think about the Great Depression from the 1930s, we think of the images of pathetic apple vendors on New York City streets, or people lining up for soup kitchens, or families fleeing dust storms billowing over prairie landscapes, or other grim scenes. We hear stories of hardship handed down by our grandparents. We remember the sad cases of people losing everything they owned when the stock market crashed.

 What we don’t hear very often are people who (mostly) escaped the hardship and deprivation of the 30s altogether... because they were independent farmers in parts of the country not hit by drought.

Reader Sidetracksusie left this comment on my Why Be Normal? post which was so fascinating I didn’t want it buried. She wrote:

 *An old rancher in Wyoming shared with me that he was not aware there was ever a depression: 
* I have heard the same from many also.


Terrorism in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe: Anatomy of Terror

Via comment by PatriotUSA on New Threats of Farm Invasions in Zimbabwe

 

Graphic images.

This is one of the old but important stories from the original AfricanCrisis website that I am converting on to the new site, in the new format.

I remember seeing this booklet when I was a kid growing up in Rhodesia. It was published by the Rhodesian Government and distributed. But these days, finding copies is difficult. I actually got this copy from a Colonel in the South African army. I was absolutely delighted to find it.

There is another Rhodesian Government publication which has a similar theme. It is also a rare booklet. It is called: "Massacre of Innocents" and shows babies that were murdered by the cowardly terrorist trash who came to rule Zimbabwe.

Of course, murder was a tool to get into power and it remained a tool for staying in power. One day, we will discover how many black people Robert Mugabe and his trash have killed and it will shock people. The remains have to be pulled out of rivers, from lake and dam bottoms and from mine shafts. But these photographs show the early days. This is how it started, and now, 40 years later the murder continues. As we say in Africa: A Leopard doesn't change its spots. Jan

Here you will see a very rare publication. It was produced by the Rhodesian Government to show what the black Liberators did to their enemies and to those they suspected of working with the whites. Terrorism was also used as a way of getting the population to go along with them.

American Sniper, Review by Debbie Schlussel

Via comment by Sioux on How 'American Sniper' Leaped Over 'Selma'

 americansniper

There is no way the liberals who dominate “the Academy” would have just nominated this movie for Best Picture and Bradley Cooper for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as a sniper if this were a patriotic, pro-American movie. It is no such thing. In fact, this is a whiny, melodramatic, anti-war movie. Nothing else. But I’m sure that the lumpenconservatariat who uncritically digest whatever FOX News serves them up will go see this in droves and mistakenly believe they saw some “rah-rah America!”, conservative, patriotic movie, even though this is anything but that. Those fools should ask themselves why Rosie O’Donnell is raving in approval over this movie.