Posted on 08/24/2017 1:28:53 PM PDT by C19fan
The same week that a statue of Robert E. Lee led to the death of an innocent woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, I watched him oink and squeal in a race for the fate of the country. Lee, this time, was a piglet—part of Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede, a Medieval Times–style dine-in attraction where seven nights a week and at occasional weekend matinees, the South rises again.
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I love that show , and place
The national divorce is at least 10 years overdue.
Liberal logic: “...a statue of Robert E. Lee led to the death of an innocent woman...”
I hold the statue Not Guilty of anything. Leftists doing what leftists do is what led to the death.
Nothing but good times when this family has visited Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg. Natural beauty, nice weather, and friendly people.
I’d prefer a national purge to a national divorce.
They run a headline that's a Nazi snark, then begin with a lie. And they have the gall to object when we call them "fake news". Big Media are liars, one and all.
You’re underestimating by about 140 years. That said, given the passage of time, the assets should be split up differently.
Imagine being this retarded.
yep same for us
So now any Civil War themed park, event, play, dinner theater or other activity are going to be construed as being pro-Confederacy (read: pro-slavery; read: pro-racism). God help us.
I’d really like some Lib reporter to stick a microphone in front of crazy Lib Ken Burns’ face to see if he agrees that having in interest inn the Civil War means that you are a racist and pro-slavery.
Is it still legal to sing...
“Here comes the NATCHEZ and the ROBERT E LEE!”
Oh dear,some of my liberal relatives from NYC and Chicago are going to this next week while they are in Gatlinburg—hope they dont see this awful article and just enjoy the show with the children. Good grief this person takes the world WAY to seriously.
Oh dear,some of my liberal relatives from NYC and Chicago are going to this next week while they are in Gatlinburg—hope they dont see this awful article and just enjoy the show with the children. Good grief this person takes the world WAY to seriously.
“...My heart dropped and my face twisted up as the prospect of experiencing more than five straight hours of proud Southern denialism sober became all too real...”
Why bless your little heart, Aisha....You didn’t have to stay and watch all that disgusting wholesome family entertainment...
You could have left and drove to East Knoxville, down on Magnolia Ave. and been with your “homies”...You could’ve had whatever you wanted....
In fact, I really doubt that anyone at Dixie Stampede would’ve even noticed you were not there...
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
By C.S. Lewis
Damn! Aisha must get paid by the word.
I couldn’t make it through all of this, but what Aisha seems to have run into is some good, old-fashioned, good-humored, sometimes cornball, Americana. We could use more of that, but I am sure Aisha would disagree. I guess she expected self-flagellation.
I have traveled to that part of the country many times, but I haven’t made it to Dollywood. I go there more for the natural attractions. I call it God’s Country, and I’ve run into a lot of God’s people there too. Sorry for that religiously-bigoted micro- or macro-aggression, Aisha, on the outside chance that you might be reading this.
Her next trip should be over in the Carolinas, home of South of the Border. I wonder what she would think of Pedro. Or maybe to Cherokee, NC, where the natives have faithfully reproduced the old-fashioned, kitschy, American tourist trap town, the kind of places I used to see in the Midwest and the West on childhood vacations. The last time I was there a number of years ago, you could get your photo with a real Indian Chief, and see a bear in a cage. I love that stuff (well, not necessarily the bear in a cage) but I am sure Aisha would be horrified.
The colors of the bathroom signs this microcephalic, in-bred mouth-breather is lamenting as being “tone deaf” because they are “light” for the south and “dark” for the north actually both are of colors historically associated with that division of the country.
Marking the stall for the yankees in Union blue? Even a public school pinhead should have been able to catch that inference.
The “light” sign (door for southerners) is butternut, the other Confederate color. Many uniform items, particularly at military schools (which then were commonplace), already were being dyed butternut before the the war began. It wasn’t so important to get the uniforms grey as it was that they be distinguishable from a Union uniform. Butternut filled that bill, and the materials and technology to produce it already were commonplace. It would have been common to see Rebs dressed in butternut on any battlefield at any stage of the war, from Bull Run to Appomattox.
But leave it to someone who earns their living fanning the embers of racial discontent to ignore the historical significance and go for the low-hanging fruit.
She could have driven straight thru to East St Louis to see if any statues there would kill her:
“St. Louis’ homicide rate in 2014 was higher than any other big city in the U.S...The 159 murders recorded in St. Louis in 2013 give us a rate of 50 homicides per 100,000 residents — which is higher than Detroit’s 44 per 100,000 residents...
...And we didn’t look at any cities with a population under 100,000. Had we done so, East St. Louis may well have been the champion — it recorded 27 murders last year, even though its population is just 26,523. That gives the Illinois city a rate of 101 murders per 100,000 residents. Yikes.”
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