Motus Mentis

11 Comments

1. Whitewall says

   Malcolm, thanks for arranging. Today I posted the following on Diplomad 2.0 as my take on his take:

   These “progressives” will focus on these side issues like the flag and 2nd Amendment all they like. Being Southern has nothing to do with either. In our home, we have never owned a confederate flag. We have an American flag which we display on occasions. We have no need for a Confederate flag to prove anything. My people landed on the shore of southeastern Virginia in the late 1600s. My wife’s people landed in Charleston, SC and Wilmington, NC in the early 1700s.

   Our people served in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War and one on each side served in the CSA until killed in battle. None of our people were wealthy enough to own slaves as all were subsistence farmers. Over the decades, more and more Scots Irish, English and then Germans found their way across the pond and joined us here in the Carolinas and other states all the way to Texas.

   Being Southern is something you are born to and there are traits most of us have in common: remember our ancestry, remember why we came and settled here, remember what it took to stay free and remember who tried to take our freedom- from the British of old to the enemies of the 20th century to the proxy of those enemies acting today right in our own government. As a people, we don’t forget any of it and we won’t now. As the retired Democrat Senator Jim Webb from Va. wrote in his book “Born Fighting”, that’s us if it comes to it. We don’t need THAT flag. We have THE Flag.

   Posted June 24, 2015 at 8:19 pm | Permalink
2. Malcolm says

   Good comment, and a great piece by DiploMad. This was spot-on:

   BOLD PREDICTION: THE NEXT STEP WILL BE TO DEMAND THAT CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS BE DECLARED HATE SPEECH. We will see kids sent home from school for having Confederate flags on their shirts; cars with Confederate decals will be banned from certain areas; and we might see the expunging of CSA symbols from movies and books and prohibiting Confederate flags at re-enactment events, etc. History must conform to the Progressive dictate of the day.

   Posted June 24, 2015 at 9:54 pm | Permalink
3. JK says

   Regarding Diplomad’s “Bold Prediction” I note the listings for a local TV station has excised The Dukes of Hazzard from its schedule.

   Coincidence perhaps.

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 9:09 am | Permalink
4. Whitewall says

   Well well…I see I was published “over there”. Now I know how Steve Martin’s character in “The Jerk” felt when he discovered he was listed in the phone book ;)

   JK, I heard that..

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
5. ed says

   I posted a link to this at Larry Sanger’s new forum on the Enlightenment here.

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
6. Malcolm says

   Thanks, Ed. I might repost that here also.

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 1:45 pm | Permalink
7. JK says

   (Whitewall. I’ve since spoken by phone with the General Manager at the station – I served as the Project Manager on the electrical installation phase at the time of the original switch-over from a merely repeater broadcasting entity to one capable of in-house production – I didn’t particularly care not ever being a fan of the show myself.

   But – given the station’s purpose – primarily marketing for an area, I saw the logic of his presentation and for now, concur it probably wise for the present.)

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
8. JK says

   Whitewall?

   Have to tell you Sir when in your comment you typed, “over there” I spent some goodly time somere’s else – remind me not to invite you to go fishing Sir if you would? But if I wind up doing so you’ll be more descriptive of what sort of bait?
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   Good comment Sir, I myself taking particular note of the included;

   At the same time, there is always a new crop of 20 year olds …

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   That saying Whitewall, pretty fairly suggestive of what I’ve had in the forefront of mind in recent days.

   Sister Wolf put up a post some time ago (I haven’t checked the follow-on comments since which is why I avoid linking but, her … thoughts I guess … I consider and still do being spot-on.
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   A Gadfly “I’m familiar with” I’m fairly confident would admonish me differently.

   And here my commenting on the recent subject ends.

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 7:51 pm | Permalink
9. JK says

   Okay I notice the post not “commented up.”

   http://www.godammit.com/2015/06/21/the-awfulness-inside-the-awfulness/

   Posted June 25, 2015 at 8:07 pm | Permalink
10. Whitewall says

    JK, “what sort of bait?”…I’ll have you know I mostly fish with lures!

    Posted June 25, 2015 at 8:27 pm | Permalink
11. JK says

    Nothing reeking of gadflys Whitewall.

    I cain’t smell chum. In deepish waters anyway.

    Posted June 25, 2015 at 9:14 pm | Permalink