Change is all around us.
Some things – technology, reality TV, the Dow – change very quickly.
Others – glaciers, the cityscape or landscape around you – change so slowly as to be imperceptible, until you look at a time lapse photograph or think back over 20 years in a place, and go “wow – that snuck up on me”.
Indeed, the “expanding universe” model of astrophysics says that literally every single thing in the universe is changing, all the time.
There is only one thing in all of the known universe that is not changing. And that is…: 
… Oliver Willis will always be Oliver Willis.
The question is answered: if we were to try and cast liberals as historically illiterate, would we have to invent Oliver Willis?
The Confederacy lost, so it’s fair game to slander it…spoils of war and such, but if leftist droogs are going to slander the South, at least be historically accurate.
After South Carolina had seceded from the United States, an act that was wholly lawful at that time, US President Buchanan and the Governor of South Carolina, Francis W. Pickens came to the agreement that the garrison at Fort Moultrie would be unmolested as long as no attempt to occupy the unfinished Fort Sumter was made.
Sumter was built to be the strongest fort in the world at the time, and it’s position, depending on who has control of it, made it an impenetrable defensive or a blockading installation in Charleston harbor. On December 26, in violation of the agreement, US Army Major Robert Anderson moved his garrison to Sumter under cover of darkness.
After repeated demands they withdraw, on January 9, 1861, the United States instead sent a merchant ship to reinforce and resupply it. It was repulsed on January 9th. An attempt was made shortly thereafter by US warships, it too, was repulsed.
In April, the new President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln informed the Governor of South Carolina, Francis W. Pickens, that he intended to again send ships to reinforce and resupply the Sumter garrison. Pickens responded with an ultimatum, withdraw Federal troops from Fort Sumter, or they would be forcibly removed.
On April 12, after giving , the commander the opportunity to leave peaceably, Gen P. G. T. Beauregard began a bombardment that ended with the withdrawal from Fort Sumter of the Federal garrison. Sumter remained in Confederate hands for the duration of the war that followed.
CSA forces fought an entirely defensive war against what was, in fact, an invasion from a foreign country for three years, until it’s first engagement in American territory.
Soldiers of the Confederate States of America were not taking up arms against their country, they took up arms in defense of it. You may not like the facts, but there they are.
Not defending the south, but similar to what Tweety says….the southerners viewed their fight as defending there country. I visited the confederate cemetery in Holly Springs Mississippi a few years ago, and one of the graves says “Died defending his country at Williamsburg Virginia”. They viewed themselves as the successors to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Is Olly still doing those horrid podcasts? I tried watching one years ago and broke a finger trying to click away from the nonsense.
You must be new to this, Tweety, you’re arguing historical fact. Nobody cares about facts. What matters is how you feel about The Narrative.
The right to withdraw from the Soviet Union was Good because Freedom; but the right to withdraw from the United States was Bad because Slavery. The justification doesn’t have to make sense – sense is logic and reason which are the means by which Ice People oppress Sun People – the justification only has to make Good Feeling for Right-Thinking People.
I’m confused.
How is it a guy like Ollie can make ridiculous statements like that, AND support a political party whose presumptive candidate for POTUS not only gratefully accepted the “Margaret Sanger Award”, but doubled down in her defense of the award and the hate filled racist for whom it’s named?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/sec_clinton_stands_by_her_prai.asp
If the KKK had an award, it would be called the “Margaret Sanger Award”.
Emery? DG? RickDFL? Any thoughts?
In that sense Nazis are better than abortionists.
It’s not as if you’re a stranger to hyperbole Tom.
It’s not too hard to see where blacks ‘could’ take umbrage to living under a Confederate flag and to having roads named after Confederate generals all of which are symbols of the Confederate’s war to keep slavery in the south.
whoa there, according to this:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122110/i-dont-want-be-excuse-racist-violence-charleston?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=TNR%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20-%206%2F22%2F15
its not the Confederate flag we should be concerned with, its Southern White Women who’ve caused all this grief by inciting the Male Chauvinism of their dimwitted Southern White Males.
expect DG to come by spouting these “feminist” talking points any day now.
How should they feel about Hillary’s admiration of Margaret Sanger, Emery.
Also, as I pointed out, South Carolina seceded to keep slavery. Agree with that or not, they were fully within their rights to do so. The United States started a war to force the Confederate States back into a union they had rejected.
The Emancipation Proclamation was wartime weapon, not a heartfelt outpouring of new found morality. Lincoln used the threat of it’s issuance to scare the South on September 22nd, 1862, then re-issued it when Jefferson Davis ignored his ultimatum.
It also had no effect in border states like Maryland and Kentucky. It was, as I say, a weapon against the Confederacy.
I had hoped, given your penchant for lifting the literary work of others, you were the master of better comprehension, if not factual historical knowledge.
the money quote:
“”We cannot talk about the violence that Dylann Roof perpetrated at Emanuel AME last Wednesday night without talking about whiteness, and specifically, about white womanhood and its role in racist violence.”
One of the greatest things accomplished by the Late Unpleasantness was to guarantee Unbrage Takers the freedom to leave the Deep South for greener pastures in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit, where nothing is named after Confederate generals, the Battle Flag is never flown and Persons of Color are legally entitled to compensatory privileges in education and employment.
How’s that working out for them?
Had a huge march across the beautiful Arthur Ravenel Jr bridge ( http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/wp-content/uploads/night-arthur-ravenel-bridge.jpg )this weekend, Joe.
No looting.
No violence.
No vandalism.
Just people of all races gathering together to express their sorrow.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150621/PC16/150629842
If you are looking for racial hatred, you really need to head North of the Mason-Dixon…I’m guessing black Southerners know that.
I think the big takeaway here is that if you assume everything bad ever said about the Confederacy was true, you still ought to agree that Auschwitz was in itself worse. And the fact that this guy doesn’t clue in to this is sadly about all we need to know about his thinking process.
Joe, it’s working just about as planned:
http://youtu.be/2nGw_vAnqPI
Meanwhile, last week a Ms. Pffeffercorn, a community activitist in Minneapolis, laid the blame for the high rate of school suspensions of children of color at the feet of the white, female teachers.
And today’s distraction from America’s existential threats is a farging flag.
Night Writer:
The disruptive students need to be segregated out into high-discipline remedial classes which would improve learning for the rest, provide incentives to improve for the simply lazy, and allows directed remedial attention for those who need it most.
In the 1860s, most people of every state, north and south, felt more loyalty to their state than to the distant federal government. People considered themselves New Yorkers or Hoosiers or Virginians before they thought of themselves as Americans — other than as a generic term for people from the Old Colonies. Liberals (and some conservatives) often forget how different this country was before the Civil War. Away from the frontier, most people were aware of the Federal government only as the operator of federal forts and naval bases. When Thomas Jefferson wrote of “my country”, he referred to Virginia, not the abstraction known as the Federal government.
Ollie Willis is as dumb as they come. I imagine he makes water when he is called in to a surprise meeting with Maximum Commander David Brock.
” . . . and allows directed remedial attention for those who need it most.”
More resources are spent on bad students than on good students, which results in the parents of good students looking for better schools so their children will receive the education dollars that the parents are paying in taxes.
The bad drive out the good.
I agree. Without the disruptive students, we could maintain high student/teacher ratios in high performing classrooms, allowing low student/teacher ratios for the disruptive and slow who need the attention.
Why do you say “we”, Emery? Did you send your kids to public or private school?
I believe Night Writer was referring to Public Schools.
Emery, I did not ask what Night Writer was referring to.
I went to West High School in Minneapolis. In my junior year they dropped all the AP classes so they could add more remedial classes. Would you send your kids to a high school that did that?
If no child is to be left behind, the logical implication is that no child may be allowed to get ahead, either. Every child must succeed, even if that requires redefining the word “succeed” down until it means “does not soil his pants in class, at least not very often.” Ribbons for all!
I frequently wonder if the high screwal students graduating today with keen awareness of historical racial wrongs and transgender microaggressions will be able to keep the sewer treatment plant operating, or if the next couple of generations will be wiped out by Third World diseases allowed to run rampant as a result of America’s carefully cultivated ignorance.
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Joe, I do believe I’m going to steal the first paragraph of your last comment and slather it all over Facebook. That was brilliant!
Joe Doakes wrote:
To which the Education Drone responds:
“You don’t understand the budgeting process.”
They have perfected the process of taking money from your pocket and putting it into their pockets. Most Americans would be horrified at what is taught in education graduate school. There is a reason why Bill Ayres got into Education. Rampant psychoses with no market force to correct them. Take money from people, spend on what you want to spend it on. Hell of a racket.
My two kids attended Catholic School. I liked the willingness of the teachers to impose some discipline in the classroom, and the fact that all parents willing to pay tuition must be motivated to make sure their kids get a good education. My kids shared a classroom with motivated, brighter-than-average peers where disruption was not tolerated. Bad teachers are fired, bad students are expelled. I would have been happy to send my kids to a charter school which has the same educational standards.