"His'try.....

ignore it at your peril.” Justin Other Smith

“I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy.....’’ George M. Cohan

I was born less’n half a mile south of the Mason-Dixon Line so by the grace of God ‘n geography, I’m a son of the South...
In that great uncivil war between the States, Kentucky did not secede......it split, friend against friend, family against family...even the churches split..it was a bitter time for the whole country but especially bitter in the border states...Kentucky ‘n Missouri....
Y’should remember that in 1860 we were less than a hundred years from declaring our independence from Great Britain ‘n there were men still living who remembered that famous day ‘n year ‘n the midnite ride of Paul Revere....
Most of modern day America believes (indeed, has been taught) that our Civil War was fought to end the vile practice of slavery. T’ain’t true tho’ slavery played a big part in the schism.
The war was about ‘Economics ‘n States Rights’...’n I bring all this up on this ‘OUR’ day of Independence simply to point out the inherent danger of ideologicalreasoning.
Nothing is always black ‘n white, it’s always shades of grey. Successful gamblers know that ‘all or nothing’ is a dangerous ‘n impractical strategy that eventually ends in disaster.
‘Course you sh’d remember that not every lemming jumps...’n maybe some of ‘em can swim...
Happy Independence Day