Secession Defended on Civil War Anniversary – NYTimes.com

The big thing across the South is to pretend that the Civil War had nothing to do with protecting slavery from being abolished.

The New York Times began the most recent focus on the issue, pointing out some BS crap across the south this month such as a Secession Ball in South Carolina, a Treason-Lovin’ Parade in Alabama (not sure what it was called so I just named it), and a re-swearing in of Jefferson Davis to boot.

Yeah, I get it, you want to honor your ancestors service. But remember, they didn’t just fight for Virginia or Georgia or Arkansas. They were traitors to the United States of America.

The Daily Show did this dishonest racial bullshit it’s due: Comedy Central video link.

The point is, however, how and why are these cretins allowed to celebrate both treason and slavery? You can’t fly a Nazi flag or call for the genocide of Jews in Germany. You can’t look west, fly the Rising Sun and lick your lips hoping to rape Korean women in Japan. It’s not just uncivilized, it is illegal in both places.

Here? You can have a treasonous battle flag on your state flag and have everyone from Trent Lott to Newt Gingrich to Haley Barbour lament the loss of an age where you could be as racist as you want to be.

These folks should be breaking rocks for these thoughts, not constantly elected to public office. Also, they should be reminded that they LOST the Civil War. It wasn’t a draw, nor anything close to it. And honestly, we should have sat on that place for three generations if this was how it was going to turn out.

Oliver Willis has some views on the subject worth reading. Here is another perspective that has WAY more merit than that of the White South/GOP.

Virginia’s history texts are full of outright lies. They aren’t alone. For all the stuff about Texas’ attempted changes, even back in ’80s we got a really slanted view of the “Second War of Independence” and other such crap told about the Civil War.

E.J. Dionne checks history and finds that it was very clear that the South fought to protect and maintain slavery. Case closed.

Sadly there is more on this. To be covered later.

After John Tyner: A Five-Step Plan to a Sane Airport Security System | Mother Jones

After reading about these Republican Porn Scanners, it just galls me to think of how stupid our fellow countrymen are. These frightened fools think that technology can trump common sense. I have quite a few links about how to intelligently deal with security and those who think they have a justification to violate our rights to prevent the last (often failed) terrorist attack from happening.

Face it, no one is going to hijack a plane the passengers will passively sit in ever again. No shoe bomb can’t be found by a good dog. Or even a bomb in some women’s underpants on some guy. A pack of underpaid, bored TSA goons isn’t a patch on ACTUAL security screening.

Here is the first effort to promote saner security that works. Too bad no one will listen.