tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post1870283461813451996..comments2024-03-29T05:29:57.536-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Good-Bye, CaliforniaDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-50956189624269452732017-10-17T19:38:28.781-04:002017-10-17T19:38:28.781-04:00Very good. Now, with Number 2 Daughter out as wel...Very good. Now, with Number 2 Daughter out as well, I can ask God to sink the shithole into the Pacific.Tom Kratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13342132821284754125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-36427590788435490662017-10-16T15:34:15.364-04:002017-10-16T15:34:15.364-04:00Welcome Diplomad. Hope you didn't move to Rale...Welcome Diplomad. Hope you didn't move to Raleigh/Duram/Chapel Hill. Filled with the same reality denial you'll find in Cali. If your wife wants the pulled pork head ti Lexington. You can't bee the BBQ at Lexington BBQ #1. Hope you make it out here to WNC. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-18089897646979033052017-10-13T21:58:14.306-04:002017-10-13T21:58:14.306-04:00Congratulations on your move. North Carolina is a ...Congratulations on your move. North Carolina is a good choice. I worked for a year in Banner Elk near Boone and enjoyed the mountains of western NC. I recently drove down RT 81 from Penn. south and it's a beautiful stretch of country all along the Appalachian Mountains. If I can extricate myself from Conn. that section of the country is where I would like to live. Best of luck in your new home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-58445662246446879092017-10-13T21:21:25.276-04:002017-10-13T21:21:25.276-04:00OR put petrolatum on it, so air hunger will force ...OR put petrolatum on it, so air hunger will force it to back out, then snag it with the tweezers, drop into a glass of water with mineral oil floating over the top. It's just that leaving the head buried beneath the skin is a serious source of infection. <br /><br />Also, if you get sick for no apparent reason, insist on several tests for Lyme disease. I am constantly appalled by doctors who overlook this possibility. <br /><br />MFAAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352174311146177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-84972104188803028822017-10-13T13:54:11.187-04:002017-10-13T13:54:11.187-04:00Oh dear, Mr Mad. Have you seen this?
http://nypos...Oh dear, Mr Mad. Have you seen this?<br />http://nypost.com/2017/10/13/panthers-fan-sucker-punches-old-eagles-fan-runs-away/deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-36716225047165176422017-10-13T06:21:59.879-04:002017-10-13T06:21:59.879-04:00I'll be a son of a gun, a Tar Heel!I'll be a son of a gun, a Tar Heel!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-45927213808681987152017-10-12T23:36:29.469-04:002017-10-12T23:36:29.469-04:00There is an article at the Bee about California se...There is an article at the Bee about California seceding.<br /><br />The comments are enlightening. There does not seem to be much sentiment for waging war to keep them in the union.<br /><br />http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article178435876.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-58610661373443678732017-10-12T08:16:35.369-04:002017-10-12T08:16:35.369-04:00Nothing could be finer
Than to be in Carolina
In t...Nothing could be finer<br />Than to be in Carolina<br />In the mor.....ning.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-85333743220821651062017-10-11T20:46:52.763-04:002017-10-11T20:46:52.763-04:00Welcome to the greater sanity zone, Sir and Madam....Welcome to the greater sanity zone, Sir and Madam. There are still pockets of loonies about, but not endemically as in Liberlandia. Terrapodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01502747070873520107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-58234382615450121022017-10-11T20:08:49.914-04:002017-10-11T20:08:49.914-04:00I hear that CA wants to throw you in jail for call...I hear that CA wants to throw you in jail for calling Bruce Jenner "he"; and has decriminalized donating HIV-positive blood. It is truly the land of fruits, flakes, and nuts, and I don't blame anyone for wanting out.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-32771284788868124572017-10-11T17:48:13.063-04:002017-10-11T17:48:13.063-04:00Your story sounds familiar. I was a Cal native, gr...Your story sounds familiar. I was a Cal native, grew up in SoCal and left for Utah for med and grad school. Back to Harbor-UCLA for endocrine fellowship and then private practice for 14 years. Rodney King riot was too much and I decamped for Boise where I have lived happily for 24 years. Congrats on your move and best of luck.~ Gordon Pashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969245191064178376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-43254986138519440512017-10-11T14:44:28.670-04:002017-10-11T14:44:28.670-04:00Black Mountain...you know you have an amazingly go...Black Mountain...you know you have an amazingly good band down there- the Lazybirds. We come down from NYC to see them whenever we can. <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-86165794835808434972017-10-11T12:16:16.412-04:002017-10-11T12:16:16.412-04:00Welcome back to free America.Welcome back to free America.RShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584323173315846013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-46156379490822265892017-10-11T09:45:57.840-04:002017-10-11T09:45:57.840-04:00A nice thing about North Carolina is that their De...A nice thing about North Carolina is that their Democrat Governor is doing his level best to create Trump supporters:<br /><br />"Dem Governor Ignores Hurricane Victims During Visit to Flooded Area" (http://bit.ly/2xyAXxy)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-22384979482782504472017-10-11T09:40:12.943-04:002017-10-11T09:40:12.943-04:00Congratulations on leaving CA. Even though that co...Congratulations on leaving CA. Even though that coast from SF to Big Sur is one God's most beautiful creations, I wouldn't live there if they paid me...Georgehttp://universalspectator.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-17826050518226946262017-10-10T11:49:01.389-04:002017-10-10T11:49:01.389-04:00Could have written this three years ago. Couldn...Could have written this three years ago. Couldn't be happier in Florida - Ormond by the Sea! Santa Cruz and the LAX area were home since 1964. How things change. My fault, to some degree, I guess.Dave's Daily Day Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491764990082380190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-11297043786902445872017-10-10T01:18:58.487-04:002017-10-10T01:18:58.487-04:00Off hand, State archives in South Carolina and Va....Off hand, State archives in South Carolina and Va. The Abbeville Institute has a large bibliography. Certainly, if you mean primary sources as I mean them, the muster rolls, and pension applications are very enlightening. I know that my (White) great-great grandfather's very complex story is told in the pension archives in Mississippi. <br /><br />Newspaper write ups about Confederate Veterans' reunions include photographs of men in many colors.I don't have much info about an organization called "Sons of Black Confederate Veterans" but it did exist at one time. All of that material is early twentieth century, rather than 1860's. <br /><br />The Reconstruction State governments were not offering pensions to Veterans. But, they were younger men, wanted to get on with life, with rebuilding house and barns, or moving west to Texas. After Hayes was elected to the White House, the State governments started to pay pensions, and, a little later, to establish Confederate Veterans' homes. The one in Austin was on Avenue B, I think, and was later an over flow for the State Mental Hospital. My father lived on Confederate Avenue in Atlanta GA, named for the home built there. Daddy used to go down to the home and listen to the stories told by the old men on the verandas. (1930's) <br /><br />I give The Diplomad permission to share my e-mail address with you. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352174311146177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-23454128265325815662017-10-09T22:24:07.933-04:002017-10-09T22:24:07.933-04:00Good for you, best wishes, I appreciate your blog....Good for you, best wishes, I appreciate your blog.Fieldwalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238994267742329116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-9524938916065432292017-10-09T21:04:20.156-04:002017-10-09T21:04:20.156-04:00Michael--I'm a history teacher, although I tea...Michael--I'm a history teacher, although I teach world rather than US history. I'd like the sources on free blacks in the Confederate Army. 1860's vintage, preferably.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-67226699171536894492017-10-09T19:05:02.806-04:002017-10-09T19:05:02.806-04:00Well ... there is decent BBQ in the Carolinas, as ...Well ... there is decent BBQ in the Carolinas, as I have been told, although the Daughter Unit did take a couple of boxes of Real Texas BBQ sauces with her, back when she was stationed at Cherry Point.<br />She's volunteering to spend some months of the year with my sister in CA, taking care of our mother, who is paralyzed and bedridden now. The Daughter Unit has confessed that CA feels horribly constricting to her now. Too many people, crammed too close together, the political and legal idiocy is horrific ...<br />This is sad for both of us - I was born and raised in CA when it was a nice place to live, the Daughter Unit was assigned to Pendleton for some of her hitches in the Marines ... but the good parts of CA are now all out of reach of people with a regular job. <br />Can understand totally why you didn't go for Texas. The brutal summer weather takes some time to learn to handle.Celia Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16261103494038415027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-85166277363592209282017-10-09T13:31:45.000-04:002017-10-09T13:31:45.000-04:00That's not very nice if using in the Southern ...That's not very nice if using in the Southern way.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762956726850045820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-45629033294875978822017-10-09T13:02:51.412-04:002017-10-09T13:02:51.412-04:00The problem is that outside the I-5 Axis of Libera...The problem is that outside the I-5 Axis of Liberal, California is pretty conservative. Hammerli 280https://www.blogger.com/profile/14198273434960578215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-653928565320304642017-10-09T11:14:12.708-04:002017-10-09T11:14:12.708-04:00If a man who claims to be an abolitionist frees, n...If a man who claims to be an abolitionist frees, not your slaves, but his own, his claim may be taken seriously. The Lee's established a school for slaves on his brother's plantation, where Mrs Lee taught the slaves to read and write. <br /><br />If Marse Robert's words seem too politically incorrect, consider those of Muhammad Ali, on visiting West Africa for the first time "I'm sure glad they forced my people on those boats." There are a couple of good books available through the Abbeville Institute that might shed a wider light upon the subject, "Emancipation Hell" which describes the deaths of one third or more of freedmen in the five years after the war, and a Lecture, "Misreading Lee" which takes apart a pretty funny book titled "Reading Lee." <br /><br />Nobody I have met would argue that slavery was anything but a BAD THING. However, I began to discuss this matter by saying that history is not the simple repetition of older propaganda, but the analysis of the interaction of people and events, over time. Looking for villains is not analysis. <br /><br />General Lee was offered the command of the Union army, but declined it when Virginia seceded. <br /><br />The horror of a Federal Army invading one or more sovereign states was something that people wanted to avoid. <br /><br />Sure, there was a great deal of pro-slavery propaganda on the Confederate side, and a great deal of "Leave it alone" speechifying from Lincoln et al. It would seem likely that the intended audience of the slavery-defense propaganda were wavering about secession, and needed to be brought in. <br /><br />Doubtless you are completely unaware of the Free Blacks who volunteered for the Confederate Army, or of the various plans and schemes proposed, for allowing slaves to enlist, and thus gain manumission for themselves and their families. The speeches and editorials calling for approval of these plans insisted that giving up a little monetary value for the sake of freedom was a better-than-fair trade. I really doubt that you have read any of General Lee's letters insisting that Black Confederate soldiers be included in integrated units with their White comrades in arms, something that Harry Truman would only accomplish for US armed forces eighty eight years later.I repeat, history is not repeated propaganda, but analysis. The people in these stories are not cut-outs but real live human beings. <br /><br />Michael F AdamsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352174311146177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-53248223054591351062017-10-09T09:33:36.812-04:002017-10-09T09:33:36.812-04:00Welcome HOME for it will feel like that as soon as...Welcome HOME for it will feel like that as soon as you arrive. MiLady and I left CA after far too many years of living there (3 times due to the US Navy) over 40+ years. Our choice was easy as I was born and raised in NC, living the 'Mayberry life' as a young lad in a small town north of Greensboro. Great people but what Richard said above is true.SoCal Pir8https://www.blogger.com/profile/15601598407298523580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-86477764557546128352017-10-09T08:50:15.295-04:002017-10-09T08:50:15.295-04:00Good luck, sir, and welcome. We fled to NoCa from...Good luck, sir, and welcome. We fled to NoCa from the People's Republic of Connecticut. NO regrets, but note that urban areas here tend to be infested with Progressives.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531256727453811079noreply@blogger.com