why are the business people leaving, but the evangelicals

are silent?
i mean, wtf?

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong

a very interesting read by the guy who wrote "lies my teacher told me"

Lies Across America a 1999 book by James Loewen, and is a follow up sequel to his 1995 work Lies My Teacher Told Me. The book focuses on historical markers and museums across the United States.
The book starts on the West Coast and moves east, a deliberate break from the traditional history found in textbooks, which begin with the Pilgrims and move westward. Similarly, Loewen covers Hispanic rather than English discovery, and American Indian history.
Loewen's book voices two major complaints about historical markers in the United States. The first, and most major, deals with historical markers established in the Southern United States which attempt to white-wash the history of slavery and the period of Reconstruction. Many of these markers were established between 1890 and 1920, the nadir of American race relations. Most were placed by organizations with pro-Confederate agendas and reflect the racism of the early 20th century. While some markers have been altered in the last forty years as a result of civil rights progress, many have not—especially those extant at American Civil War battle sites and in the South. A few of Loewen's criticisms of these memorials though are not justified historically. In his critique of the activities of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in West Virginia he made several errors. Concerning a U.D.C. marker on the courthouse in Jefferson County he wrote that "the only memory of Civil War soldiers at the Charles Town, West Virginia, courthouse is a pro-Confederate plaque the UDC affixed in 1986." Almost all the soldiers from Jefferson County, however, were Confederate, and only "a few scattered individuals joined the Federals".[1] The county is credited with about 1600 Confederate soldiers. Similarly, Loewen held the U.D.C. responsible for a statue of Stonewall Jackson on the state capitol grounds in Charleston when actually it was the responsibility of the state legislature. The bill to erect the statue on the capital grounds was rushed through both houses of the legislature unanimously in one day, February, 23, 1905, with regular procedural rules suspended in order to expedite the bill.

john kelly, please be the hero. you have the power to assemble the cabinet

to invoke the 25th amendment.

the time is now.

thinking about making some homemade teas.

so, i am looking at value added products for my farm, which is where the real money is, imho.
i have offered things like dried strawberry and raspberry leaves for teas in the past, but they didnt really sell. but i think that complete tea mixes would do better.

i am working on a batch of wood sorrel and lemon balm tea. it is a delicious and refreshing summer drink. i think enhancing it w a little dried lemon zest would be a winner.
i have a lot of mints, which i will try next.
i have a lot of berries, but dont know what else to throw in to build out flavors. dehydrated berries are a possibility.

i am not married to all herbal teas. adding some flavors to a good commercial tea is an avenue i think i will pursue.

any gardener/tea drinkers here?

he weighed in like any father would.

no duh. that is why we have anti-nepotism laws you igit.

i try not to think of myself as a sick person. that powers me through often.

and then there are days like today, where several days of hard work (laying tile) has my back to the wall.
i did a few things that needed to be done today. now i am gonna take a damn nap.

at 62, it seems more like i am normal, just old. but i am pretty sure i could tough out old age a lot better than this.

i hate fibro.

ok, du brain trust. what should the dem slogan be?

i know how clever folks are here.
what can we come up w?

who here is from dupage county? want to talk about the county board.

so, my sister has been asked to run for county board. dupage dems want to field one good candidate in each of the 6 districts. (there is one dem now)
she is still mulling, but of course i will be right there w her.

would like to ask folks from dupage to tell me what issues there are w the county board?
the board is mostly about zoning and water issues.
does anyone have an example of a better policy than the current status quo?

so let me get this straight- opioid addicts get a carve out but

if you have cancer, chronic illnesses, brith defects, any other pre-existing conditions you can go fuck yourself.

wow, how they change their tunes when it is white people w a drug problem.

the russian campaign to crush american democracy- part 2.

what if electing cheato sporkhands was not the end game here for putin?
first- hack the election, elect a brainless idiot to the highest office in america

is there a part 2?
crush the puppet that you just elected. expose american democracy as a game for fools.
leave the u.s. in knots for at least 4 years, if not for a generation.

i think so.
you?