tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post825648315291907380..comments2023-11-03T01:55:16.915-07:00Comments on Aunty Belle's Front Porch: Could Seersucker Balance the Budget?Aunty Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-84435802204257084952014-06-11T02:11:55.038-07:002014-06-11T02:11:55.038-07:00Know youse a purty picture in yore seersucker suit...Know youse a purty picture in yore seersucker suit, sweet pea.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-47935628355036390762014-06-07T16:36:02.281-07:002014-06-07T16:36:02.281-07:00Great report on the puckery summer suit. I just or...Great report on the puckery summer suit. I just ordered one for myself. Now i should run for office. Great post aunty. chickoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814762747054617499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-743797730232333872014-06-02T18:23:39.894-07:002014-06-02T18:23:39.894-07:00By mid 1700s, Bostonians were selling slaves to p...<br />By mid 1700s, Bostonians were selling slaves to plantation owners of Virginia. The Brown brothers, of Brown oh-so-liberal-University, were steeped in slaving. John Brown was the first Rhode Islander to be prosecuted under the federal slave act, and had to forfeit his slave ships. <br /><br />By 1776 slave trading was the net that undergirded the entire northern economy-- shipping required rope makers, sailors, fishermen ( to feed the crews and slaves) sail makers, coopers, tanners....merchants and agents, even newspapers whose ads for the slave trade made publishers pockets jingle...this titanic slave - made wealth is the investment capital that went into manufacturing, setting up the northern industrial complex and the railroads....<br /><br />At the close of the Colonial age, the average northern slave owning family had themselves two slaves as a symbol of prestige. Few northern agricultural operations used slaves as the land wuz unproductive half the cold or frozen year, an' feeding unproductive mouths be a trial, ya' see....so most slaves in the north wuz urban slaves.<br /><br /><br />None of this is to say that all Americans, Yankee or Southern be favorable to slavery, 'cause they sure were not. Why, Lafayette done wrote in 1782 about Virginians who wuz so "grieved at having slaves, and are constantly talking about abolishing slavery and of seeking other means of exploiting their lands." Residents of Virginia in 1787, made themselves a big petition fer the abolition of slavery. Natcherly, their elected officials ignored them, an' why do that surprise us?<br /><br />No no, every state hated the institution, an' most decent political thinkers, by 1800s, wrote or spoke to the truth that such an institution could not stand. It wuz neither morally or economically sustainable.<br /><br />Sweet readers, please note Aunty ain't no way, no how favorable to that hideous practice, slavery. What Aunty done tried to do heah is revisit the truth of our shared US history on the matter. An' that be that the Yankees could not let the South secede because the South paid 90% of the federal taxes in 1860. Why , the first noble heroic words from Lincoln when Ft. Sumter wuz fired upon wuz, "What will happen to my tariffs????" Folks, now, confess it-- Lincoln warn't about no unity much less emancipation. It be About $$ first, an' that's what he meant by "union." If we's unified, we can take yore $$. Well, my gracious, do that sound familiar today??Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-30051448773085571032014-06-02T18:21:52.942-07:002014-06-02T18:21:52.942-07:00PamOKC, ya betcha orange will do, an' do right...PamOKC, ya betcha orange will do, an' do right smartly. <br /><br />Fishy, I'se a fan of seersucker. Mebbe if pollyticians kept cool, they haids would make better decisions.<br /><br />Foamy! me me too. a balanced budget may keep the Chinese offa our necks fer a decade.<br /><br />Doom, good sir, do trout wear seersucker? we need a balanced budget! but methinks youse correct! an' not all on the Potomac wish to see such progress. <br /><br />Susan, eat up as much of the page as ya' need to make yore point. I is so proud to learn how ya' reunited wif' yore friend. I want to believe there be Democrats who truly do love the country and will come to realize that they ain't left the democrat ideals, but that the democrat pollyticians left people. Rahm is evil. Yore friend saw it. I say, the more of his ilk to swagger out front whar' all can see, the sooner democrat voters will see the truth. Sorry to say, this be true of many Republican pollyticians too. As fer succession, of course.Makes the same sense today as it made in 1861. <br /><br /><br />Now, please, folks, doan gunk up the comments with claims of the Union an' the horror of slavery, an' all that revisionist history. Looky, people who take the trouble to edoocate themselves on the War Between the States know that t'were an economic war, an' slavery warn't nuthin' but the PR fig leaf fer invading the South. <br /><br />Fer anybody wif' the urge to argue wif' AB on this, be forewarned: actual history ain't favorable to yore position. None other than the great Cotton Mather, preacher-man of northern fame and heroism, justified slavery and deemed it the fit and just punishment of the heathen African. In "Rules for the Society of Negroes" (1693) Mather taught the slaves that God himself, not their masters, had enslaved them. <br /><br />Slavery wuz made legal in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the 1640s. Nearly every Yankee family of great wealth or fame wuz involved in slave trading. From 1644 to 1808 New York, Boston and Philadelphia and Providence and Newport Rhode Island families made massive fortunes trading slaves, and building the ships for the trade, or distill ing Rum to trade for slaves. In the 1600s they could not compete with the Dutch West Indies corp or the English Royal African Company, both dominated the west African trade, so the wily Yankees built their stakes on Madagascar slaving. Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-24854634308792379672014-06-01T17:23:53.616-07:002014-06-01T17:23:53.616-07:00We as a people are polarized so why shouldn't ... We as a people are polarized so why shouldn't the senators and congressmen who "represent" us be the same? Aunty, we've chatted about this and Chicory and I have covered lots of ground on this topic.<br /><br />As long as we divide our political representation into two parties that pretend to be different, but only have different forms of money behind them, we won't get anywhere. <br /><br />I'm annoyed by this division, as it has gone so mainstream that people now won't be friendly to me because I deserted the progressive cause after the bailout and really began to see things differently, and I will tell liberals to their face that they are blind, naive and ignorant, but the last two are curable. It is amazing what happens when you wake up and everyone else is asleep.<br /><br />I'll give a recent example and then I will stop eating up your page. A friend of mine in Chicago who is a confessed "liberal" and had a very hard time with my moving toward what many called "conservativism" because I needed a label, now sees that the mayor, Rahm Emannual is a total pig who sold out Chicago to his corporate buddies. I saw her in April and we finally got to talk some common ground as I explained to her that she isn't disloyal for hating a bad politician; she is waking up, so give up the liberal label and start wearing the "I think, therefore I am" label. It was one of the best talks I've had with her, and our friendship is back on track. But others who call her friend are mad because a Democrat shouldn't attack another Democrat; liberals must stick together and the like. If he is a criminal, then call him that and get past your "political" label. (And he is a criminal.)<br /><br />I'll stop as this issue is dear to my heart, and I just want to grab a bunch of us and secede--really, I'm that sick of it all. <br />Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812001269655189996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-1203466534245457402014-05-30T09:54:42.930-07:002014-05-30T09:54:42.930-07:00Both sides would have to believe in a balanced bud...Both sides would have to believe in a balanced budget, and there would have to be a president who would sign (or a lot of them in agreement). I am positive, as things stand, a balanced budget is about as possible as texting trout. <br /><br />By the way, I ought to get my fishing license and give that a try. Love trout, more the texting kind as I think I get to keep their waterproof gear? Never mind.Doomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392444624210801173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-24668941910656423902014-05-29T19:58:17.091-07:002014-05-29T19:58:17.091-07:00Now I want a seersucker suit
.. and a balanced bud...Now I want a seersucker suit<br />.. and a balanced budget..darkfoamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394546886035933252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-36152373842007682682014-05-29T10:11:40.567-07:002014-05-29T10:11:40.567-07:00Maybe .
One great thing about Seersucker is it was...Maybe .<br />One great thing about Seersucker is it was just about the first "no iron" fabric. Not only is it cooler, it does not wrinkle in even the most punishing circumstances. It would be a HUGE improvement if Congress could behave as well as Seersucker and look good while doing so. <br /><br />No way will they ever look as good as Atticus.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-77392007987471711182014-05-28T20:37:38.503-07:002014-05-28T20:37:38.503-07:00https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=7094672990...https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=709467299092669&set=pcb.709467335759332&type=1&theater<br /><br />Will orange and white seersucker do? Appeared in the OK State Senate on last day of session. Check my friend Malia's FB page. <br /><br />I agree totally with all you say and witnessed it first hand on the state level. Certain groups would rather lose than compromise and they don't want who they vote for to compromise either. Me, I'd rather see someone who can make a deal and grease the wheel for the next deal.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357397551761295138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23068833.post-30378970945924572352014-05-28T17:36:13.735-07:002014-05-28T17:36:13.735-07:00Jes' wondered if Aunty done ever wrote about A...Jes' wondered if Aunty done ever wrote about Atticus Finch, who surely wore Seersucker. Found one such post:<br />http://abporkrinds.blogspot.com/2012/08/broke-hungry_3.htmlAunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.com