It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And Buddy Ain’t Doing So Good
Well, all good things must come to an end, including the rebel flag on the Greene County, Tennessee, courthouse.
The good news is that the vote was 19 – 1 in favor of removing that sucker.
The bad news is that the commissioner, Buddy Randolph, who voted to keep it is plenty sore about it and …. well, one other thing.
“The Confederate flag is American history. Part of it, whether you like it or not,” said Randolph, a local sheriff’s deputy. “And that’s the reason I did this — no other reason. They wanna do everything and we let them get by with doin’ away with it. … First thing they done is take prayer outta schools years ago.
“They wanna take Christmas signs down, and trees, and everything. The Ten Commandments. And we let’em get by with it. But it’s time we stand up and do something.”
He’s a damn deputy sheriff. Hell, the man is barely literate. They also took away his book learning, but he doesn’t seem upset about that.
Thanks to Hannity is herb tarlek for the heads up.
The prosecution rests!
President Lincoln was wrong. “with malice to none” my 20/20 hindsight! Should have hung every secession leader from the nodding bough of the nearest oak tree. Wouldn’t have completely sanitized the gene pool but would have been a great start. The rebels were traitors. Their uprising had to be suppressed by an armed response from the US Army and Navy. In the course of their uprising I have read that the armed members of the rebellion killed 140,000 US service members in combat with another 225,000 were killed in non-combat scenarios. By that same source the rebels sustained ~85,000 combat deaths and 225,000 deaths in non-combat scenarios. And the carnage continues 150 years following the surrender of the armed rebels, because it was not forced into their empty heads at the time that they were wrong and their “sincerely held beliefs” were criminal.
1Don’t make us come and burn you out again, Buddy. And, for the record here’s the last official flag flown by the losers:
https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/MCPFCfK_2yw3iP0Su8socw–/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9MTMwMDtxPTk1O3c9MTA2NQ–/http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/white-flag-surrender-cartoon-hand-holds-waves-41886226.jpg
2If the Confederate flag is so great, why do they always fly it up-side-down?
3@Ralph: He Stars and Bars was created so that not much thought had to be expended on flying it correctly. The US flag demands a certain orientation and thus is a bit harder to fly correctly….for some.
4Just to clarify: the flag was not there to begin with. Greene County was not a secessionist stronghold; in fact they voted to stay with the Union by a 3:1 margin.
His proposal was to put a NEW Confederate flag up. He… failed, thank goodness. Failed in knowing his own heritage, among many, many other things.
5“They wanna take Christmas signs down, and trees, and everything.”
This is possibly the greatest quote I have ever read. I know, I know what he meant. But what he said was:
“They wanna take down trees.”
“They wanna take down everything.”
“They” were pushing it at taking down the trees, but even I’d have to draw the line at taking down everything.
6And on top of all that whining, he’s still wondering why the hell nobody actually likes him. I’ve always thought that was the real reason behind all such yammering!
7“They” didn’t take prayer out of schools,even though it doesn’t belong in public or private schools that keep getting more and more taxpayer dollars. Students are allowed to pray-S-I-L-E-N-T-L-Y pretty much whenever the urge strikes them. Wingnuts repeat tired old disproven lies as facts constantly.
8How about we make it a law that if you are flying flags you must fly ALL the historical ones for that area, starting with the Union Jack and working up. Also any pre-Columbian signs, totems, etc.
9here we have 6 flags (based on a theme park name). It would be a hoot and a half if these morons HAD to fly the flag of Mexico over Texas courthouses.
Thanks, Annabelle Lee. You’re exactly right. I’m a retired high school history teacher who does not believe in altering history for any reason. Greenville sided with the North during the Civil War. I find it very strange that there are some living in the town today who want to rewrite history and claim that the Confederate flag is a part of their heritage when it isn’t. I’m glad Buddy Randolph’s idea to fly that abomination over the town’s courthouse was rejected 19-1. Now he needs to sit his butt down and read his town’s history instead of going off on a tangent in which he claims there’s war on Christianity and Christmas, wars that were created out of whole cloth in the minds of those like Lying Bill O’Reilly and Sarah Palin.
10This is the end product of Fox Propaganda. Low information citizens acting out against imaginary wars, usually with real violence. News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and his Saudi Prince pal should be be held criminally and financially liable for the damage they have done to this country.
11“They wanna take Christmas signs down, and trees, and everything.”
Yeah! What’s with that anyway? I shore do miss me all them Christmas signs! Uh – – where did the used to be, again, exactly? In Macy’s store windows? Hmmmm – – I don’t recall any banners there proclaiming, “Christmas!!!” Do you?
What is [or was] a “Christmas sign,” anyway?
As to taking down “trees and everything,” the good Mr. Buddy Randolf needs to take that up with the loggers. They DO seem to have a penchant for removing all the trees from this country [including millions of pine trees to put in people’s living rooms for a couple of weeks before tossing them in the trash] – – for a tidy profit, of course.
That doesn’t seem to be what’s got his nickers in a twist – though his diatribe would make much more sense if it were.
12@ maryelle:
“Rupert Murdoch and his Saudi Prince pal should be be held criminally and financially liable for the damage they have done to this country.”
So far from that outcome, those two are sitting back with big, satisfied smiles on their faces saying, “Yes. Everything is going exactly to plan.”
13I agree with you Maryelle.
14Maybe some of those 19 who voted No can sit down with Buddy and explain a few things to him. They seem to be more on the ball than he is.
15Rupert Murdoch, another ‘gift’ that keeps on giving from Ronnie Rayguns.
“Australian-born Murdoch became a US citizen in 1985 just so he could own more media here. The Reagan administration appears to have fast-tracked his citizenship, and Reagan started the relaxation of ownership rules, allowing a few media giants to own more and more stations and newspapers. In return the corporate media, Fox being a major culprit, conducted a long-running and ongoing campaign to make this very bad president into Saint Ronald. Later on, News Corp. told the IRS that it was foreign-owned (to save on taxes) while telling the FCC that it was true-blue American (since it couldn’t own all its stations if it were otherwise). The GOP success in the 1994 elections derailed a possible congressional investigation.” – See more at: http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/23/rupert-murdoch-american-citizen/#sthash.nyalqkgg.dpuf
Fox and others have done a job on burying the details of Murdoch. Still haven’t found the information as to which Congress varmints aided and abetted Reagan on his citizenship grease.
16The Confederate flag is indeed American history. It is a symbol of the Confederacy losing its war against the United States.
And Buddy Randolph is proud to be a loser.
17You don’t miss what you’ve never had . . . . . book larning, that is.
18About that flag Buddy, um, you do know that flag represents TREASON against the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA don’t you? Or maybe you don’t. Past time for you to read some history, not of the David Barton revisionist kind either.
And Buddy, I don’t think Jesus was born in a stable, you know, a barn, smelling of animal sh.. uh dung (if you even know that word), so people can have tacky, gaudy CHRISTmas decorations. Nope, don’t think that’s what the god of the bible had in mind.
19Hey, Buddy; there’s still prayer in school. As long as there’s algebra finals, there will be prayer. It just won’t be because someone tells someone else to do it.
Christmas trees are pagan; they come from Germany and the ancient religion which worshiped trees and chose the pine or fir because it symbolized eternal life because it didn’t shed it’s needles (at least until someone chopped it down and let it dry out).
Not everyone celebrates Christmas, anyway. Winterfest is a perfectly valid reason for a party, if you ask me.
20Hey Buddy,
21“But it’s time we stand up and do something.”
People have stood up and done something and the vote was 19-1!
WA Skeptic, amen on the Christmas. I asked my husband what was Christian about Christmas. He thought for a minute and said, “Manger scenes, some of the music, and going to church.” Puritans and such banned Christmas because they knew it was about 90% pagan.
22Another graduate from the Sarah Palin School of Communication.
23He’s qualified to have a gun?
24Rhea: I think the Puritans’ real objection to Christmas was it was fun and involved indulging in food, alcohol, and gifts. Celebration was not their favorite mode.
25Annabelle Lee, you are correct. My 2Ggrandfather was born there in 1824. His nephew joined the Confederacy because the pocket of people where he lived wanted to secede. The state was divided. After signing up the nephew saw it might be real that he would be shot, so he switched and joined the Union so his wife would have a pension. Then the Confederates got mad about it and hung him in Parrotsville. Later it was learned that he also had a wife in N.C. Learnin wasn’t a high priority in the Appalachains.
My GGgrandfather moved after the war, but I went there to do genealogy 5 years ago and asked if they had an old land plat to find his land? The land office said no, they don’t have plats. I asked how they knew how much to tax people if they didn’t have plats? His answer? “People tell us how much land they have.”
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