About Those Nagging Pedestals. Nancy, Monuments Are Down, Now What and a Confederate Manual

JULY 3, 2021

**  As Confederate monuments come down, the pedestals sometimes remain.  Why some consider that a troubling symbol.  (Sounds like a SPLC thing to me.  There is just no pleasing some people.  Also, evidently,  NCCRED.)

**  House  Speaker Nancy Pelosi writes letter asking Congress remove 11 Confederate statues from US Capitol.  (I am completely shocked that she would do something like this.)

**  Confederate monuments are coming down in NC.  What now?

**  House bill floats $1 M for renaming bases that honor  Confederate leaders, Fort Gordon included.

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JULY 4, 2021

**  Manual advises how to stop removal of Confederate statues:  don't mention race.  (This was put out by the SCV.  A very anti Confederate article from the Guardian.)

--Old Secesh

Richmond's Cost to Remove Its Confederate Statues Put At $1.8 Million. Who's Going to Pay?

JULY 23, 2020


**  Macon officials OK relocation of two Confederate statues.  (Georgia)

**  In a rebuke to Trump, Congress moves to remove Confederate names from military bases. (Well, Congress as in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.  And we all know how the democrats, once the political party of the South feels about anything Confederate.  We'll see how this bill does in the Republican-controlled Senate.)

**  Cost of removing Confederate monuments about $1.8 million.  Efforts are underway by private groups to raise some money to offset these costs, but have raised just over $25,000.  (Needless to say, I am not going to donate.  Personally I think the city's sad mayor and BLMers and their white minions should pay the whole amount.  I would sure hate to be a Confederate-supporter in that now disgraced city and know my tax money was going to this neo-Nazi movement (reminds me of that Brown Shirt group in the 1930s).

However, I would like to own one of those construction/destruction companies making all thee money from the removals.)

**  Two videos accompanied the above article of the removal of the Maury and Stonewall Jackson monuments.  Both had the marks of hate crimes on them.  Who do we know who regularly and single-mindedly seek out statues to commit hate crimes on?  I really thought their main reason for being was to protest against police killings of black people.  As far as I know, not one Confederate statue has killed a black person lately, other that the one that had the audacity to  fall  on a BLMer in the process of pulling (hate crime) it down.  I believe their word of choice for this now is "toppling."

There was a good-sized cheering crowd at the Stonewall Jackson removal and I am happy to see that they got wet.  It poured rain on them.   Sorry guys.  Hate to dampen your spirits.

**  Pelosi floor speech in support of Confederate statue removal legislation.  (This, of course, would be in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.  And, I thought her public speaking ability had been seriously curtailed after her childish behavior at the State of the Union Address.  She needed to be sent to the principal's office for that.)

Where's That Paddle?  --Old Secesh

Pelosi Strikes, Georgia, Conservatives, Republicans, Voting, Polls, Tennessee, Schools, Ole Miss, Texas, North Carolina and U.S. Capitol

JUNE 19, 2020

**  Pelosi orders removal of four Confederate portraits from  the House.

**  Conservatives should feel no investment in Confederate monuments.

**  A controversial Confederate monument  goes down in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur.

**  Siren:  A *majority*  of Americans now back removing Confederate statues.  (CNN   Some interesting facts in this poll.  Like I said, then, let's have a vote.  Even a national vote and let that determine whether they come down or not.)

**  Protesters, petition call for removal of Confederate monument in Murfreesboro.  (Tennessee)

**  Data:  The schools named after Confederate figures.  (At the beginning of June 2020, at least 197 schools in 18 states  named for men with ties to the Confederacy.)

**  Confederate statue removed from central spot at Ole Miss.

**  Momentum swells in NC to remove Confederate, white supremacist monuments and symbols.

**  Is this North Texas school district finally ready to shed its Confederate imagery?

**  Pelosi orders removal of portraits of Confederate House Speakers from US Capitol ahead of Juneteenth.

**  Video:  Senate Republicans block Booker effort  to remove Confederate statues from US Capitol.

--Old Secesh

Times That Try Men's Souls: A Band, Bad Professors?, NASCAR Zealots and Nancy

Here are some articles in the Chicago Tribune of late.

**  Lady Antebellum changes name.  You know, antebellum is used to describe the South before the Civil War.

**  "One Tree Hill" stars asks fans to help fire fire professor.  (A professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, who said "Massa Cooper, let my people go!"  UNC-Chapel Hill?  Wasn't that the place where professors likely urged students to tear down the "Silent Sam " statue in a hate crime?)

Also, kind of strange that those "One Tree" folks had nothing to say about the that professor from UAB who tweeted about how to pull down a statue.  Why hasn't she been fired?  Oh yes.  Birmingham, Alabama, where the mayor has broken the law and is proud of it.

**  About that NASCAR ban.  The Chicago Tribune had two hate-filled commentaries about how bad everyone who supports anything Confederate is.  Those two would be Kevin Williams and Eric Zorn.  Hate, hate, hate guys.  Man, that's a lot of hate-spewing.

**  Pelosi orders Confederate portraits removed.  Those of four previous Speakers of the U.S. House who served in the Confederacy:  Robert Hunter, James Orr, Howell Cobb and Charles Crisp.  Charles Crisp was not a Speaker until after the war.

Maybe, since she's one of those Democrats, and you know how they are about the "S" word, she should also remove the names of Southerners who may have or may not have owned the "S" word.  Those would be Nathaniel Bacon, Henry Clay, Langdon Cheves, Phillip Pendleton Barbour, Andrew Stevenson, John Bell, James K. Polk, John White, John Winston Jones and Linn Boyd.

--Old Secesh

Confederacy Under Attack: Pelosi Says, Military, U.S. Capitol, Florida, Georgia and NASCAR

June 11, 2020

**  The Army was open to replacing Confederate base names.  Then Trump said no.  (Well, at least one person standing up to the current tyranny.  However, again, I would support renaming the bases since these men fought against the United States.  However, the cost of renaming them should be borne on those who want them renamed.  Put their money where their mouths are.)

**  Pelosi calls to remove Confederate statues  from display  in US Capitol.  (Is this the same person who behaved so childishly at the President's State of the Union Address?  However, I do agree with removal of Confederate statues from the Capitol for the same reason as stated above.)

**  Army leaders to make  decision of Confederate  flags 'soon'.

**  Democrats push to remove  Confederate statues from US Capitol after George Floyd's death.  (There it is again, that Democrat word.)

**  Hemming family left with questions after removal of Confederate statue.  (Jacksonville, Fla.  Removed from Hemming Park and family of Charles and Lucy Hemming who donated to the state.  The removal was the mayor's decision.  The mayor is a white man.)

**  Confederate statue in Dalton, Georgia, square comes under fire from activists.

**  NASCAR bans Confederate flag  at all events and properties.  (What if it is on a tee shirt?)

**  Rep. Thomas Massie called out by opponent for displaying  Confederate battle flag at home.  (Kentucky)

--Old Secesh