Below is a picture of a runaway black hole, consuming everyone in its path. That Black Hole is irrational , nay unscientific, to the extreme, yet there it is, existing. This Blog is irrational to the extreme, yet here it is.   This Blogger received an email a few weeks ago; in which, the writer  wanted to know if he could catalog his nutty beliefs in one Blog, before his demise. (who knows what she knows?).   Anything for a lady; but not in one Blog.   So we begin a series of Blogs on odd conclusions by Gerry Maxey.   AMERICA   and the ALMIGHTY The hand of God weighs heavy on the land; seen but not believed. Blame that on slavery and genocide -   America seems to be    a Divine experiment by a strange, and demanding God. On one hand, He goes Zeus on the Republic, by divinely intervening to insure the survival of the Republic; as in the cases of the DIVINE FOG; which saved Washington’s Continental Army, by masking its retreat across the East River from infamous  annihilat ion; by placi

“I’ll place my knapsack on my back My rifle on my shoulder I’ll march away to the firing line And kill that Yankee soldier And kill that Yankee soldier I’ll march away to the firing line And kill that Yankee soldier   I’ll bid farewell to my wife and child Farewell to my aged mother And go and join in the bloody strife Till this cruel war is over Till this cruel war is over I’ll go and join in the bloody strife Till this cruel war is over   If I am shot on the battlefield And I should not recover Oh, who will protect my wife and child And care for my aged mother If I must die for my home and land My spirit will not falte….. Oh, here’s my heart and here’s my hand Upon my country’s altar ….Then Heaven be with us in the strife Be with the Southern soldier We’ll drive the mercenary horde Beyond our Southern border…SOUTHERN SOLDIER." Before he died, the great Southern historian ,  Shelby Foote, in the mid 1990s,    gave an interview with PBS about the Civil War. The interview was