WHITE SUPREMACISTS MARCH IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

 

We are shocked by this sight today, but this is not new.   There was a time in the past, in the history of white people  of this country, in the history of our own families, when this was accepted.  

 

In 1924, thirty thousand KKK members marched in Washington, D.C.   They were not just from the south, But from Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and as far away as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.  The Klan claimed that sixty-four percent of Congress were Klan members. 

 

 

My maternal grandmother was born in 1893 in Mississippi.   She was the youngest of seven children, four brothers and two sisters.  One of her brothers was a Klan member, another was the warden of the infamous Parchment Penitentiary, and her older sister was married to Fielding Write, a governor of Mississippi, who ran as the Vice President nominee for the Dixiecrat Party alongside Strom Thurmond.

 

And yet, one of my maternal great-great-grandfathers died at the Battle of Shiloh, fighting for the North.

 

We can not explain our families.   They were people of their time and place, and they adhere to different norms.   We should not be plastered with their sins, but willing to call them out.

 

It is a safe bet that the majority of families with generations in Mississippi have ancestors who were Klan members. 

 

It has been one hundred and two years since thirty thousand Klan members marched in the nation’s capital. 

That there were only a few hundred white supremacist marching in our nation’s capital today speaks both to progress and shame; and a knowledge that there is still a segment of our population that is so ignorant they can be easily manipulated, is an indication of our failing education system. 

To be truthful, we have a President in the White House that is a confirmed racist, and a Republican Party that is guilty of racism by omission - unwillingness to call him out. 

 

Not all Republicans are racist, but if you are a racist, a white supremacies, a Klan member, there is a place for you in Trump’s Republican Party.  "There were good people on both sides."  

the Ol'Buzzard

 

 

THE WOMAN ON THE TRAIN

 

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DONALD TRUMP'S NIPPLE FIXSATION

 

I can't help this.  A story about Donald Trump and nipples.   It must be the high school boy still buried deep inside me that had to follow this up.

From the DAILYBEAST,   June 10,2026

"Official searches of the early version of the site found that among the first Trump-related hits was an allegation from Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome, drawn from a settled civil case. 

In emails to a reporter, Ransome alleged that a girl Epstein had trafficked, known as Jen, told her she slept with Trump and described him as fixated on nipples and physically rough with hers.

The nipples, Ransome added, looked "incredibly painful as they were red and swollen" when she glimpsed them in a shared bathroom."

hee hee hee

the Ol'Buzzard

I AIN'T SCARED OF NO GHOST

 

The fourth season of Dark Winds, Tony Hillerman's story about the Navajo Reservation Police, deals with Ghost Sickness – a belief that the dead can leave behind a malevolent spirit that can harm the living.

 

Almost all religious cultures believe that humans alone have souls that, after death, can manifest as ghosts.   Of course, all religions require a leap of faith; that is why religions are referred to as faiths.

 

If you ask around among your friends, you can find some who claim to have witnessed a ghost, but many also believe in Bigfoot, Angles, Astrology, the Devil, a human God, the power of crystals, and that aliens walk among us…

 

The optimal word is that they believe in ghosts, because there is no proof of ghosts or a life after death.

 

There are numerous ways to question the appearance of a ghost.  Let's consider just one:

Why are ghosts always clothed?   We are born without clothes; clothes are optional, not a part of us.    Why aren’t ghosts naked?  

 

The ghostly woman wearing a gossamer white gown who haunts the hotel; the soldier in his uniform: is there a ghost wardrobe available for the spirits of the dead?

 

When I was young, many decades ago, there was a legend about a Confederate officer on a white horse, in full battle gear, supposedly seen at night riding through the Confederate cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi.  I believed it, but I was young and gullible, and cemeteries are spooky places. 

A ghost horse, uniform, saddle, sword, and no one asked the question?   Wouldn’t that also require that horses have souls?

 

The appearance of a ghost would be so much more interesting if he or she were naked – and in some cases more frightening.  

the Ol’Buzzard 

 

 

WHAT IS 38,000

 

 

According to the New York Times, it is the number of times Donald Trump’s name has been mentioned in the Epstein Files so far.  Not all the files have been released.

 

Of course, that doesn’t mean Epstein mentioned Trump that often, but rather how many times the FBI discovered his name in a search of the files.

 

However, it does suggest that Trump and Epstein were closely associated for a number of years.   When people thought of Epstein, Trump’s relationship also came to mind.

the Ol'Buzzard

AI IS PANDORA'S BOX

 

AI has entered our lives so rapidly that it has become lost in the constant chaos of political wrangling.

  

It is easy to ignore what is not visible and going on behind the scenes of the tec world. 

 

People developing AI are perfectly happy that they, for the most part, are going about developing this product unnoticed. 

I don't think the population is ready for the drastic changes that will take place in the very near present.   

The future is here  now, and we can call it AI

the Ol'Buzzard

GANGSTAGRASS

 

Mixing black ghetto Gangsta Rap with white fundamentalist Christian Kentucky Bluegrass is as likely as pairing off Trump’s ultra conservative, and racist Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, with mega liberal, far left, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

But a young man named Rench has done just that. 

I posted about them a couple of years ago, and Yellowdog granny commented she just as soon shove pencils in her ears (she put fuck in there somewhere.)  

 

They also did the theme song for the FX TV series Justified. 

the Ol'Buzzard