Comments by Bobby Tony | Eastern NC Now

I think that one of the enduring lessons of the Civil War was simply an abomination that allowed Lincoln to garner support for his real purpose, which was as you say preserving the "arrangement". By losing the war, the South had staked its freedom on slippery ground. I agree with you that the keeping the nation united was the in the face of rebellion from the south.

As you indicate, there have been many studies that do indicate that slavery was on the wane and would have eventually been thrown on the trash heap of history. The south's cause was not helped by the fact that almost every state's succession declaration used slavery as one of its basic tenants.

The aftermath of the Civil War and the carpetbaggers decent into the south to plunder is common to most wars. As you say, the victor writes the history. Somewhere lost in the history is the fundamental right for states to dissolve their relationship to the union as you have pointed out in previous posts. Our very Declaration of Independence states the case for dissolving an abusive government.

I do not think any rational person could defend the practice of slavery today, but it is so intertwined with the states' rights issue that the subject is now mute. I sometimes think that we southerners have never been able to reconcile the two legs upon which the war was fought. One was the obvious inequity of slavery and the other the principle of self-determination at the local level.

As always, it boils down to who is in control and those in control will use any advantage to accomplish their goals regardless of the laws on the books or the constitutional basis for those laws. The political correct movement will use every advantage to slant and obscure their real purpose. That is CONTROL.

I wish you well in your conference and hope that perhaps some clarity can bring thoughtful people to the fallacy of using past sins to obscure present governmental abuse. I do not have much disagreement with your explanation of the situation and it appears that no amount of guilt will ever be forgiven to the succeeding generations who are now under assault for having been related to or born in the geography that is still under indictment by media and elitist centers in the north.

Commented: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 @ 6:16 pm By: Bobby Tony

I have some experience with Fake Love. Be careful what you wish for because beauty is only skin deep but bad programming goes all the way to the source code and it can really foul up your bandwidth and destroy your broadband connection regardless of how good she looks. It can also crash your hard ..., well never mind.

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Commented: Saturday, February 6th, 2016 @ 2:33 pm By: Bobby Tony

It is interesting to me that we only have 25% of the Georgia Population still living in rural areas. As a City boy from Atlanta, I would have thought it was higher.

North Carolina for those interested is 34% rural and 66% Urban.

"For the 2010 Census, an urban area will comprise a densely settled core of census tracts and/or census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent territory containing non-residential urban land uses as well as territory with low population density included to link outlying densely settled territory with the densely settled core. To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,500 people, at least 1,500 of which reside outside institutional group quarters. The Census Bureau identifies two types of urban areas:
• Urbanized Areas (UAs) of 50,000 or more people;
• Urban Clusters (UCs) of at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people.
“Rural” encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area". US Census web site -Are you confused by the explanation too?

Commented: Thursday, February 4th, 2016 @ 6:57 am By: Bobby Tony

Whatever happened to the great candidates we use to have back in the day?

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Commented: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 7:37 am By: Bobby Tony

Just to clarify my comments on John Kasich and the NYT. They did not endorse him for president but just as the best from the Republicans field. Of course this liberal bastion of wasted paper and ink also endorsed>>>>>> and the winner is Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ..

Commented: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 1:22 pm By: Bobby Tony

This is a great series and great advice. As a four-time executor, I can agree with all your suggestions. Of course, I have no will and no instructions and a pile of debt. When I die, I want it to be a sad day for everyone.

Commented: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 5:21 am By: Bobby Tony

That's right, Andrews and seven others were hanged in Atlanta.

Confederate forces charged all the raiders with "acts of unlawful belligerency". I am sure glad they don't hang people for that anymore.

Commented: Saturday, January 30th, 2016 @ 10:09 am By: Bobby Tony

I was reading an article recently about the most assigned books in Colleges.
The Open Syllabus Project has collected over 1 million syllabi and has extracted citations and other metadata from them.

It should come as no surprise that the ranking of books assigned in colleges list The Communist Manifesto as the third (e) most assigned book.
The Federalist Papers ranks 294.

Who says that college and universities are teaching students to maintain an open mind?

explorer.opensyllabusproject.org

1 The Elements of Style Strunk, William, 1869-1946
2 Republic Plato
3 The Communist Manifesto Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
4 Biology Campbell, Neil A., 1946
5 Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
6 Ethics Aristotle
7 Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
8 The Prince Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
9 Oedipus Sophocles
10 Hamlet Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
32 Democracy in America Tocqueville, Alexis De, 1805-1859
294 The Federalist Papers Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Commented: Friday, January 29th, 2016 @ 5:13 pm By: Bobby Tony

I have always loved Audie since I saw him in To Hell and Back. Later I had a counselor tell me about his PTSD which I never knew about. I had always assumed he was like every other WWII vet I had met. Tough as nails, moving on with life without a second thought. After some research and several autobiographies about him, I was able to reconcile the difference between getting the mission accomplished and living with it afterward.

Fortunately, I never hated the Vietnamese. My mother's example and Christianity would not allow that. I did learn to respect their courage and tenacity and finally accept that It Is what It Is. Hell, I have even forgiven Jane Fonda.

I later concluded that Audie went to Hell but may never have come Back. Moreover, he became an inspiration to me once again. Not as a gung ho GI but as a man of dignity and courage dealing with his reality and demons with the same courage he displayed in combat.

Here is his memorial site. www.audiemurphy.com

One day I will summon the guts to visit The Wall in Washington DC. I will visit Audie as well. I have put it off for forty-eight years and plan on making the trek for my 50th anniversary of my Freshman year at RVN-U.

Commented: Friday, January 29th, 2016 @ 8:11 am By: Bobby Tony

Robots solving Rubik's cube in less than two seconds. Add a few more cameras and a few step motors and you now have a robot that can solve Rubik's cube quicker than you can say Rubik's Cube.

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Commented: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 9:18 pm By: Bobby Tony

Smartfella, you are dead center on this post.

"My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward," he writes. "I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want." Donald Trump

Commented: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 5:41 am By: Bobby Tony

Apparently Glenn Frye's medicine for arthritis contributed to his bad health.

"Later that month, he checked into the Manhattan hospital with a bad case of pneumonia, Seger said.
A team of doctors diligently tried to save him — at one point placing him in a medically induced coma, Seger said".

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Commented: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 4:15 pm By: Bobby Tony

Breaking news, Trump reads the bible for the first time. Two Corinthians vs Second Corinthians. Give me a break Don.

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Commented: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 8:12 am By: Bobby Tony

Winslow, Arizona Take it Easy Standing on the corner
Here is the map at BCN click on Bobby Tony to see the picture
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Commented: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 5:38 am By: Bobby Tony

Great post thank you.
For a short time I was an RTO (radio telephone operator) in the field and almost everything sounded like it was being transmitted through a tin can. I never really enjoyed carrying the PRC 25 radio because it's not much fun walking around on the ground with a whip antenna sticking straight up to alert everyone where you're at. Most of the time you could bend it over and it would not be so obvious but occasionally you had to let it fly high as we said.

One of the funniest things that happened was the inevitable order to pop smoke which is what they gave when they needed to identify your location. The protocol was that you would pop smoke the helicopter pilot would respond with the color and then you could confirm color.


I popped smoke it was green. Helicopter pilot replied chartreuse I replied saying again. Comeback was it could be emerald or chartreuse but it looks somewhat greenish.

The phrase smartfeller did not come to mind but it was damn close.

Commented: Monday, January 18th, 2016 @ 12:31 pm By: Bobby Tony

Good news! For people who have never had a hard drive crash with no back up or a very old backup, it is more than just losing a few pictures or emails. If it is a business computer you are essentially dead in the water. I am glad to hear that you have found a solution.

Commented: Saturday, January 16th, 2016 @ 8:37 am By: Bobby Tony

Alex, that reminds me of the old saying "Don't worry your sins will desert you long before you desert them".

Commented: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 5:23 pm By: Bobby Tony