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

The widow of President Abraham Lincoln ,  Mary Todd Lincoln, went nuts after three of her four sons died before their maturities, and her husband  was assassinated. Her last living son locked her up in a loony bin. She is dismissed by history as a shrew, a nag, a spendthrift, a woman with a permanent case of PMS. This Blog would like the Reader to recast Mary Todd in a new light, as one of the most momentous women in history, and THE most momentous woman in  American history. Mary Todd came from a very influential Kentucky family, closely allied with that titan of American politics, Henry Clay, the original War Hawk. Clay had been  Senator from Kentucky, Secretary State of the United States and Speaker of the US House of Representatives, everything but President. And oh how  Mr. Clay wanted to be President, but he never pulled it off. As a flirtatious young girl, up to the age of 14, Mary would sit on the lap of her family friend, Senator Henry Clay and in her best SCARLETT O'