Over two hundred fifty years ago, John Adams said that Independence Day should be celebrated with parades, games, sports, gunfire, bells, bonfires, and fireworks. He called it a Day of Deliverance that we should thank the Almighty God for. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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We were rather young and stupid back in the day. Independence Day would come and we would be out there setting off fireworks. Not the glorified sparklers that most places allow either. We used the real deal fireworks, the kind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There was a time when the law did not recognize people like me as people. We weren’t free to have children of our choice, to maintain families, or to live in any form of freedom. We were slaves, owned by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We celebrated Independence Day every year when I was growing up in Northern Minnesota. I always used to say we were celebrating the birth of our country by blowing a piece of it up. At least we didn’t have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One should not think of the corporate towns that rose up in and around Mobile during the Second Great Depression as bastions of law and order and peace. They had their own laws and their own order, as corporate towns[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The important thing to remember about the fall of Mobile during the Second Great Depression is that the city leaders were on the side of the looters and the rioters. They ordered the police to allow the looting and rioting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week, Biden and Congressional Republicans came to a compromise on an infrastructure bill they could all vote for. Were not necessarily happy with, but could agree to support. Which is often what compromise is. Then two hours later, Biden[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anyone who has studied Alabama history knows about the fall of Mobile during the Second Great Depression. The stand down of the police. The riots. The looting. The uncontrolled fires. Decades of corrupt government left the city ripe for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The port of Mobile, in Alabama, had been a rich and profitable port for centuries when the Second Great Depression began. It had a long history in the shipbuilding industry, and had been one of the major yards during World[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I should note that the Georgian Navy and the Cowboys often worked with each other throughout The War and beyond. Both organizations practiced asymmetrical warfare, especially during the Hyades Campaign, and Georgian boats softened up many planetary defense grids before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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