"  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 I'll 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 Go and join in the bloody strife 'Til this cruel war is over 'Til this cruel war is over I'll go and join in the bloody strife 'Til this cruel war is over...SOUTHERN SOLDIER"    In the Civil War there were moments in time, when the South could  have won? Should have won? But didn't win  because of a combination of events beyond human planning, or  fluke, or karma or luck, or even good vibes. American history is weird; there are enough examples in it for you to come to the conclusion that  God's hand was at work. From the Divine Fog in the Revolutionary War, to the rainstorm which saved the White House in the War of 1812, to Josh Chamberlain being in c...

 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 ...

Harriet   Beecher Stowe wrote the anti-slavery novel, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN…when she met President Lincoln at the White House, her son   later reported that Lincoln said: "so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war. ”   As this Blog is being written the Liberal cognoscente has grudgingly conceded that perhaps 40% of American citizenry is primed for Civil War .   As America totters on the brink of THE TROUBLES, LA VIOLENCIA, THE TERROR, all Americans should ask the   question VITO CORLEONE did in THE GODFATHER, when he tried to make peace among the warring Mafia gangs, after blood had been spilt: " “How did it come to this?”   Liberals, between heady binges of triumphalism, have a ready answer; the rightwing nutjobs did not watch enough of MSNBC.   “The right has spent decades telling people not to believe anyone but them. And now half the country simply can't accept the reality that Trump lost. “The question of whether anyon...