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Today we celebrate the birthday of James Buchanan, born in 1791. He was our nation's fifteenth president, the one just before Abraham Lincoln. Buchanan was in favor of just letting the South secede. I wonder what shape we'd be in now if we'd done just that. I suspect the North would be lots richer and the South woulda degenerated into a buncha impoverished third-world tin-pot dictatorships. There appears to be a group of seven states: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, none of them in the South, that seem to be the mainstay of the American economy. About 99% of our nation's food is grown in those seven states. About 99% of our nation's industrial products are manufactured in those seven states. I have no idea what the rest of the country does to justify its existence. And did you know that all internal combustion engines in the entire world are manufactured entirely by machine tools manufactured by a single company in Wisconsin. No exceptions whatsoever! Oh well, here I am stuck in the backwoods hillbilly country of Southern Maryland, land of "Dee Baa Gaa Cap'm" and pickum-up trucks sitting so high you can walk underneath without stooping and fashionable wear consisting of six dirty tee shirts with progressively larger necklines and packs of cigarettes stuffed into your armpits. It appears to have quit raining, so perhaps Gordon the Garden will get a coupla more plots put in. Happy Wednesday! OrneryPest |
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Oh by the way, if you're one of those insufferable snooty folks who think
you've just gotta have a (gasp) banner (shudder) to link to me,
I suppose I'll let you download this one for the purpose, if you really insist.
