Posted on 01/02/2015 11:31:30 AM PST by PROCON
OH GOODIE.
A Grievance Museum.
My father is rolling in his grave. Born in Missouri, he was ALWAYS proud to have come from the “Show Me” state where people didn’t believe BS. You had to prove everything to them.
He taught me from the cradle not to buy into anything until I did the research, plus I was NEVER allowed to anything just because “everyone is doing it.” Had to have my own valid reasons.
He never went to college but rose thru the ranks to lead a national company. He came from poverty and a broken home, was on his own at 15. He had no welfare, no social workers, no anything these cretins demand as their “rights.”
I just put out a few bags of Michael Brown Memorial on the curb in front of my house. The museum people are welcome to come pick them up for their historic collection, but they better hurry before the garbage truck gets here.
Her whole expression changed. She said she hadn't been there in weeks, that the leadership had changed and wasn't interested in history any more. It wasn't hard at all to read between the lines. Evidently, the MO HS was EVEN THEN engaged in rewriting history.
Still gets our tax $, though. Part of the Zoo District, believe it or not.
Apparently, the aphorism is true: any organisation that is NOT expressly conservative will, over time, be taken over by leftists. Just another example here, it seems.
If I wasn’t donating right now, I’d be jumping up and congratulating you on your post.
One unintended consequence of this museum’s collection is that it will provide physical and photographic proof of the extensive communist/Marxist and black extremist dominance of the protests/signs/slogans/speakers, etc.
Anytime I'm driving in St. Louis (and I have a couple of customers there) I keep my eyes straight ahead, make no eye contact with anyone on the street. I've been taunted a couple of times. This is not the St. Louis I once knew...
Ugh!!!
Sure that’s big enough?
Do you, just by chance, happen to remember the old Heinlein novel, circa 1973 or so, "I Will Fear No Evil"? He postulated the collapse of civil and police authority in limited areas in large cities, called them "abandoned areas". I shouldn't wonder at all if his view (can't really say 'prediction', can we) is coming true.
The scary bit for me is that, before I retired in 2007, I had a GREAT client in (drum roll) Ferguson. Nicest folks in the world. Called an old friend there after the flap in August, she said, basically, 'great to hear from you, but don't come visit when you're in town'.
I believe I'll take that hint.
I really resent the fact that previous generations failed to anticipate privileged criminal subcultures and neglecting the true value of their contemporary horse thieves, bank robbers, arsonists, and generally all-purpose thugs.
Thug museums, the new, innovative idea of the new reality. A priceless, resource for future generations of pathological psychologists.
But regardless of what we may think of the idea, there is always value in history, even the unconventional, weird kind.
Yes. He is buried there. It just looks like the grave was dug and he hasn't been put in yet because the ground 'settled' afterward.
Oddly, I have never seen a fresh grave 'sink' that much after the casket has been buried in it.
Some are leaving for free-ish medical care. Right on my street, there's a gent -- GENIUS gardener, believe me! -- who has a 23-year-old daughter who was very seriously injured in an accident. He tells me he's moving to the US in 2016. Didn't go into details after that.
His daughter will do fine. She studies, and I mean STUDIES, English using, among other things, these marvelous phonics-and-phonetics based texts. I've helped her out a couple-three times with the rules of pronunciation(yes, there are some, even in ol' chaotic English), and she catches on virtually immediately. Wrote me a thank-you note that would be the envy of almost every HS senior in the US. Exactly ONE error in it, the accidental (I assume) choice of a wrong word. Big deal, hmmmpf! Not a misspelling or a tense, spelling, or person error in sight. Very admirable!
I haven't seen "Stonewalled", but I do have to ask: What the devil was she EXPECTING when she went into political journalism?? Good grief, that sort of naivete is what I used to see among 'apprentice' bookmakers when I was young. How the hell ELSE do you expect we collect past due losing wagers, hmmm? Sheesh.
Best to you, as ever!
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