Harlem Georgia
This content was published August 11, 2oo9. … There is an article posted at The Economist about Sex Offender Registries. (HT to Andrew Sullivan) The feature has a dateline of Harlem, Georgia. The Columbia county town was the home of Oliver Hardy. It is also the home of Wendy Faye Whitaker, who is 5’3″ and weighs 350 pounds. When she was 17, they turned out the classroom lights to watch a video. A 15 yo student said he would like a blow job. Mrs. Whitaker got caught, and now is on the Sex Offender Registry. She had to move from her house, and her husband lost his job as a dog catcher. …
… The article in the Economist had some delightful statistics. Over 647k americans are registered sex offenders. 17k are in Georgia. In 1994, congress required all states to have such a registry, or lose some federal funds. 13 states require registration for urinating in public. … Politicians love to be seen as tough on crime. RSO are a popular target, and the legislators compete to enact tougher laws. …
… The concept of the Sex Offender Registry is sound. There are, however, questions about the effectiveness and expense. The effect on offenders, many of whom have finished jail time and probation, is considerable. After reading the article, I decided to take a look at the Georgia Registry. Before you go, make sure you have plenty of time to spend. The GSOR has a strong search engine, and will give you all the RSO in your zip code. It will also show all offenders by county or by last name. …
… In my zipcode is a hotel with 19 RSO. Evidently, the hotel is far enough from schools and churches to allow RSO to live there. It is across the street from a major IRS office. A breakdown for this zipcode (which is not typical of the overall state) shows 21 white, 16 black, 2 hispanic and 1 asian. All were males…while the story of Wendy Whitaker got the attention of the Economist, the overwhelming majority of the RSO are males. …
… In 1994, I was living in a duplex, with verbally abusive people downstairs. One night, I heard a knock at the door, saw no one at my apartment, and looked at the front of the house. There was a Dekalb county welcome wagon in the driveway. Very soon, the husband was being taken off in handcuffs. … When I looked at the SOR, he found his former neighbor quickly. The conviction listed on the SOR was 1998, or four years after the incident I knew about. The Georgia SOR requires all offenders after July 1, 1996, to register.
This content was published August 14, 2009. … I was resisting the urge to say something profound about Mike Vick. There is something about Philadelphia that seems like a good fit for number 7. There should be dogfights in New Jersey. In the midst of vicktalk, I saw this email. There is a comment. … “Hey there, you’ve blogged about The Jesus Storybook Bible in the past and we want to give you the exciting opportunity to help us celebrate the release of the Deluxe Edition this October! All throughout September we’ll be sending updates about ways you can win copies of the Deluxe Edition (which features the entire Jesus Storybook Bible read by award-winning British actor, David Suchet) and free resources you can share with others! To register for these updates and exclusive information, visit here and sign up! Sincerely, Zonderkidz Marketing” …
… Wow, spam for Jesus. Dogfights in New Jersey seem ethical suddenly. The rest of the internet is kinda sketchy, except for Margaret and Helen. They always make sense. Well, almost always. A few weeks ago, they wouldn’t quit talking about how sexy Walter Cronkite was. I don’t get the Cronkite cult. In my family, we always saw Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. If some old lady blogger starts to get the hots for Chet Huntley, I am giving up the internet. …
… Margaret is it just me or did combing your hair become optional when going out in public? I’ve been watching news clips of these town hall free-for-alls and we have definitely become a nation of tired, poor, and huddled masses clearly tempest-tossed, but without access to a good beauty salon. Universal Hygiene – now that is something I could get behind. … And what’s all this crap about killing your grandmother? Are you people honestly that stupid? This has become less an argument about healthcare reform and more a statement about our failed education system. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in March 1942. “Boys at carnival attraction. Imperial County Fair, California” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in January 1939. “Migrant packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida” · This is another monday morning reader. The problems of the world are going to do what they want to do, no matter what I say about them. · The social media picture was taken January 17, 1947. “McDonough Boulevard” · On Armistice Day in 1971, the Grateful Dead played a show at the Municipal Auditorium. The Great Speckled Bird thought it was boring. If you talk to ten people in the audience, you will get thirteen opinions · Molly Ivins passed away January 31, 2007 · The social media picture was taken April 10, 1963. at the “Krystal restaurant” 428 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE. · When Elvis died, a Shriners convention was being held in Memphis. Molly Ivins covered the scene for the New York Times. The picture below is from the Krystal on Ponce De Leon Avenue · This item is from the last Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. We will have to find our own examples of bad writing · This time a couple of years ago, Fani Willis was in her glory. Google tells me she is still employed, and getting media attention · In 1991 protesters launched a series of boycotts against Cracker Barrel after company policy resulted in the firing of numerous LGBTQ+ employees. The firings and boycotts became national news and eventually grew into a larger debate about shareholder influence on company employment policies and the lack of legal protections for LGBTQ+ workers. · The social media picture was taken April 15, 1915. “Hans Lobert of the New York Giants (left) and Joe Schultz, Sr. of the Brooklyn Dodgers. · When the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966, Hank Aaron and Joe Torre were two of the star players. Eventually, there was only room for one on the team · Walker Evans took the social media picture in March 1936. Vicksburg, Mississippi. Negroes · This story was published August 22, 2012. · I had heard about the coat of many colors, but forgot the details. It is a juicy story · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media photograph: “Private John Rigby of Co. D, 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment … was wounded at Gaines Mills in 1862 and discharged, then later rejoined the regiment and was captured at the Wilderness, Virginia, and held at Elmira prison, New York, until his death from disease in May 1865.” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Coat Of Many Colors
I saw a story, and thought about the song, “Coat of many colors.” The b side was by Porter Wagoner, “Coat of many sequins”. COMC is about a woman who is too poor to buy her little girl a coat at the store, so she makes a quilt. The other kids make fun of her, but little Dolly knows that the coat is really made of love. The song talks about a story in the Bible. I had heard about the story, but didn’t remember the details. I must have been daydreaming in Sunday School when that story was taught. With the help of google, Genesis 37 appears, as if by magic. Pass the popcorn.
2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age:
and he made him a coat of many colours.
4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Ok, hold on for a minute. Israel had at least two wives. The Biblical definition of marriage must be between a man and two women.
The story gets a bit weird here. Joseph has this dream, where he becomes the boss hog brother. The other brothers decide something needs to be done, that Joseph needs to die. Reuben tries to help Joseph, and has a plan to save him. Joseph is stripped of the coat of many colors, and placed in a pit, with no water. Before Reuben can sneak Joseph out of the pit, a camel caravan comes by. Twenty pieces of silver change hands, and Joseph is sold into slavery. The brothers decide to pull a cover up, and make it look like Joseph was dead. Reuben made another sandwich.
31 And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said,
This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.
33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him;
Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted;
and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
This feature was originally published August 22, 2012. The pictures are from The Library of Congress. Walker Evans took the social media picture in March 1936. Vicksburg, Mississippi. Negroes
Home Runs
This content was published July 29, 2021. … Barry Bonds was about to break the lifetime record for home runs. Folks said the record was tainted because of steroid use, and because Mr. Bonds was not a nice man. There were calls for an asterisk in the record book. This was odd to me. I was in Georgia when Hank Aaron broke the home run record in 1974. Back then, the line was that Babe Ruth had fewer at bats than Mr. Aaron. …
… A lot of hateful things were said about Mr. Aaron before home run 714. I decided to take a look at the metrics. This post is the result. As a bonus to the reader(s), Joe Torre and Hank Aaron gets a summer rerun. JTAHA is based on a column by Furman Bisher. …
This post was published June 30, 2007… There is a certain controversy these days about the eminent breaking of the lifetime home run record. Currently held by Hank Aaron, the record is threatened by Barry Bonds. Before Mr. Aaron held the title, Babe Ruth was the owner. Controversy about the lifetime home run record is nothing new. In 1974, when Hank Aaron was about to break the record, the admirers of Babe Ruth said that Mr. Ruth had fewer at bats than Mr. Aaron did. Many attributed these comments to racism, with a black man beating a white man’s record. …
… The current controversy is two fold. There are allegations that Mr. Bonds took steroids to make him stronger, and that he “cheated”. There are also concerns about the personality of Mr. Bonds. … I do not think steroid use is a big deal. Ballplayers are abusing their bodies to perform, and if they take the risk of using steroids, that is their business. Many people disagree. A better question might be, would Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron have used steroids if they had the chance? Mr. Ruth was a wildman, who drank during prohibition, and was known for undisciplined behavior. …
… Mr. Aaron played in an era where steroid use was not as common as it is today. The answer to the first question is (Mr. Ruth) probably, and (Mr. Aaron) who knows. … While you are keeping hypocrisy statistics, Mr. Aaron and Mr. Bonds played on television, where beer commercials were constant. While alcohol is *now* legal, it is a very damaging drug. Any ballplayer who plays on television promotes its use. This is both steroid users, and non users. As for personalities, there is the widely circulated story about the college team that Mr. Bonds played on voting 22-3 to kick him off the team. At the very least, he does not charm sportswriters. …
… In 1917, Babe Ruth was suspended for hitting an umpire. He was known for his outlandish behavior throughout his career. It should also be noted that he played in an era when the press did not scrutinize the behavior of players. How would today’s media treat Babe Ruth? … I once heard a radio show caller say that Hank Aaron was a mean racist, who would just as soon cut your throat as look at you. I had never heard this said out loud, but had heard hints about Mr. Aaron’s personality over the years. People who achieve great things are not always friendly. …
… Mr. Aaron is the only one of the three that I met, however briefly. In July of 1965, the Milwaukee Braves came to Atlanta to play an exhibition game in Atlanta Stadium. After the game, I was allowed to wait outside the clubhouse, to get autographs from the players as they left. Joe Torre saw the crowd, hid behind a truck, and made a quick getaway. Hank Aaron came out, patiently signing every autograph, while smoking a cigarette. … The fact is, all three men played in different eras. Babe Ruth never played at night, never flew to California, and only played against white players … many of the most talented players of his era were in the Negro Leagues. …
… Hank Aaron played before free agency, interleague play, the DH, and widespread use of steroids. The only way to determine who is the home run champion is to count how many homers are hit, and award the prize to the man who hits the most. … Which of the three made the most money? Barry Bonds, by a wide margin. He played in the free agent era. Babe Ruth had the best line about his salary. In 1930 Ruth was asked by a reporter what he thought of his yearly salary of $80,000 being more than President Hoover’s $75,000. He replied “yea, but I had a better year than he did.” …
… Who played on the most teams to win a World Series? Babe Ruth 7, Hank Aaron 1, Barry Bonds 0. … The career of Babe Ruth was a long time ago. He made a greater impact on America than the other two combined. He was one of the first sports superstars, as America emerged from the carnage of World War One. Mr. Ruth broke the single season home run record, he hit 29 homers. The next year, he hit 54. There is a possibility of a livelier baseball. …
… Babe Ruth captured the imagination of America like few personalities ever have. Playing in New York (which dominated the press) did not hurt. He was a man of his times…it is unlikely than anyone could have that kind of impact on today’s superstar saturated America. While his record has been broken, his place in the history of baseball is the same. UPDATE: As of August 23, 2025, the <a href=”” target=”_blank”>lifetime home run leaders were: Barry Bonds – 762, Hank Aaron – 755, Babe Ruth – 714, Albert Pujols – 703, Alex Rodriguez – 696. …
This post was published August 15, 2009. … Furman Bisher has a piece at the fishwrapper site about Joe Torre. The punch line is that Mr. Torre “grew up” when the Braves traded him to St. Louis. I was a kid when this was going on, and did not hear a lot of what went on. … In 1965, the Braves played a lame duck year in Milwaukee before moving to Atlanta. One night, there was an exhibition game at Atlanta Stadium, the Braves against the Yankees. I got his oh so patient dad to take me to the clubhouse after the game, to get autographs. …
… In 1965, you could go into the bowels of the stadium and wait outside the clubhouse. Hank Aaron signed many autographs while smoking a cigarette. Joe Torre came out, hid behind a truck, and took off running. … Mr. Torre was a raccoon eyed catcher for the Braves. In the first regular season game in 1966, he hit two home runs, in a thirteen inning loss. Soon, the novelty of big league baseball in a toilet shaped stadium wore off. Mr. Torre got at least one DUI, and a reputation as a barroom brawler. He was traded to St. Louis in 1968. Mr. Torre hit .373, and won the national league MVP in 1971. …
… The comments were interesting. Cecil 34 “The reason that Torre was traded is because on the team’s charter flight back to Atlanta back in 68, a drunken Torre got into a fistfight with Aaron. Aaron popped off to Torre, and thus the fight was on, broken up by the other players. Since Aaron was the face of the franchise at the time, Torre was traded. There had been bad blood between them for years before this incident anyway. Reasons vary. But the final nail in the coffin was this fistfight. I was told Torre could pack a punch and Aaron came out on the worse end of it.” …
… There has been whispering for years about Hank Aaron and his attitude. Furman Bisher made hints once or twice, but there was never anything of substance. It seems that Mr. Aaron does not lack for self confidence. Mr. Aaron was the subject of much racially based abuse while chasing the home run record in 1973, and some anger is justified. … Mr. Aaron was known to not get along with Rico Carty. Mr. Carty is a dark skinned man from the Dominican Republic, who was popular with fans. Mr. Carty was eventually traded. Rico Carty had a barbecue restaurant on Peachtree Road in Chamblee, next door to the Park and Shop. …
… Joe Torre was the manager of the Braves in the early eighties. The team won a divisional title in 1982, but lost the NLCS. This was after Ted Turner bought the team. Mr. Turner fired Mr. Torre in 1984. Getting back to the comment thread, Misterwax contributes “Turner cut Joe Torre loose because Ted was in love with Henry Aaron and Aaron thought Joe Torre was a white supremacist….A hangover from the clubhouse days when they were teammates…still does today. And THAT is the only reason he was cut…because Hank Aaron said so.” …
Hank Aaron passed away January 22, 2021. Joe Torre retired as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2010. He won four World Series as manager of the New York Yankees. Furman Bisher outlived Bear Bryant by 26 years, passing away March 18, 2012. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture was taken April 15, 1915. “Hans Lobert of the New York Giants (left) and Joe Schultz, Sr. of the Brooklyn Dodgers. ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Fani’s Fifteen Minutes
This content was published August 17, 2023. … There was a bit of unpleasantness on my facebook page yesterday. “i wonder how many court cases in fulton county are being put on hold while the DA is prosecuting whatshisname” … “If it’s a crime in Georgia to claim that an election was “stolen”, when exactly is Stacy Abrams getting indicted?” … “never, because she was correct and had the facts to prove it, as this court case shows. Not hard to understand. Also because your whole premise is wrong. It is not a crime to claim an election was stolen. It is a crime to attempt to steal an election while claiming an election was stolen and trying to use illegal means to change the outcome. Try watching something other than FOX so you have a clue what the case is about.”
As you may have heard, Fulton County indicted Donald Trump, and 18 other people, on charges related to the 2020 election. The indictment was expected. The Fulton County DA, Fani Willis, seems to be enjoying her moment of glory.
Shortly before the charges were announced, a story was leaked to the press about some crooked business in Coffee County. This is a rural county below the gnat line, east of I-75 in pre-Florida. While seeing the story get more attention than it deserved, I got a vague sense of overkill. It seems entirely possible that Fulton County is going too far with the Trump case, and is going to blow it. It is time to move on with my own IANAL existence, and let the courts deal with this disaster.
Fulton County is devoting a lot of resources to this case. Many less glamorous cases are possibly being put on hold as a result. I am not smart enough to know whether this is best or not, but I have an IANAL instinct that it is not.
Which brings me to the second comment in the thread above. I have written about Miss Stacey too many times. (01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14) Suffice to say that I am not a fan. Miss Stacey deserves little credit for the increased Democratic votes in 2020. OTOH, two wrongs don’t make a right. Stacey’s big mouth does not justify the foolishness of Donald J. Trump, Fani Willis, or Coffee County. The best response to a comment like this is to like/don’t-like/ignore, and move on.
Unfortunately, the person who made comment three felt obligated to join in. Before going any further, we should note my relationship to commenter two and commenter three. Two is someone I have known for 30 years. While I don’t agree with him all the time, I have considerable respect for his intelligence, integrity, and willingness to think for himself. Three is someone I have never met in person. He participates in an online poetry event that I visit. He accepted my friend request three days ago. If this turns into a playground quarrel, it is obvious who I am going to favor. UPDATE: Commenter three chose to unfriend me on facebook.
“Try watching something other than FOX so you have a clue what the case is about.” The concept about finding a clue on cable tv brings to mind a comment by Ben Hecht: “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Edward H. Hart took the social media picture in 1898. “U.S.S. Nahant, church service” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Mr. And Mrs. Dracula
It was a bright and tranquil tuesday morning. There are no leaf blowers growling, for it is Brookhaven that our scene lies. A slack blogger is on the front porch, reading the “winners” in the The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024. When the going gets tough, the tough take notes.
The first thing to interrupt the reverie is the age old question: how to pronounce Cthulhu. Steam community has a variety of answers, which mostly boil down to we-don’t-know. One steamer, Phorxx [Cthulhu Saves the World] chimes in with “Lovecraft said that the language of the Old Ones wasn’t compatible with human speech, and so any attempt by man to pronounce Cthulhu’s name would at best be an approximation.” The best answer seems to be kuh-CHOO-loo, although a better answer than that would be to avoid conversations where it is necessary to say whatshisname out loud.
And so it goes. This laptop is a pain to type on, so this journey may be brief. So far, only one entry made me laugh out loud. “It’s a dark and stormy night, ladies and gentlemen, just the perfect atmosphere for the Monsters’ Ball, and look, here comes Mr. and Mrs. Dracula, both looking quite debonair and mysterious, and there’s Frank, the big guy himself, his neck bolts glinting during the lightning flashes, but I do have one piece of bad news and that is we probably won’t be seeing the werewolf tonight because, after all, it is a dark and stormy night.” Randy Blanton, Murfreesboro, TN.
Is it pessimism or realism to mark my place, when I get up to microwave a helping of macaroni?
It is now Wednesday morning. Last night at DNC, President Barry made a comment about “obsession with crowd sizes.” While he was doing it, he moved his palms closer to each other. The implication was that President Donnie has a little dick. “When they go low, we go high.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. John Vachon took the social media picture in July 1942. Hoffman Island, New York. Chow for trainees” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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This is another monday morning. There is a reason why people don’t like mondays · “that’s so powerful. We don’t have this amount of watt power on Earth. 40 billion literally 40 billion watts of energy. But it happens. It’s pick power. It’s not like the power when you flip on. It took me a while to learn this. It’s almost like a cold energy because it happens so quickly in a twinkling of an eye. It doesn’t evaporate. That’s what the labs the labs could heat up and and and essentially tattoo the shroud, but it would it would burn up instantly. It would scorch. This didn’t scorch. It was it was the pulse rate which was so and I know we’re getting deep but it’s important to be nuanced in this conversation and precise the pulse rate power 40,000 billion watts traveling at 140th of a billionth of a sec second we believe is that moment that Jesus body is resurrected and that’s what leaves this image but whatever it was it was a process that chemically change the fibbrals the at a 0 2 depth which is surface level to leave this image” · “two weeks ago, an argument would have been that you can’t tell a just a Gazan civilian from a Hamasan because Hamas don’t wear uniforms except in ceremony. And so the idea was that the IDF were accidentally shooting Gazans coming close because you can’t be sure whether … the IDF was shooting at them because you can’t know whether it’s Hamas or them. I think we got past that last week.” · “Well, how are they allowed to say anything that’s unfactual? They’re liars and they hate truth and they hate God.” · John Vachon took the social media picture in February 1942. “ Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Mr. Casement, farmer in the area bought by the Army for construction. He has bought a farm nearby” · Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1942. “Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Leaving for Owens Valley”. · The social media picture: “Paramount Pictures War Bond Appeal” · For a long time, Ted Kennedy was public enemy number one for certain conservatives. It is interesting to see how little of that rhetoric you hear 16 years after his death · I was interested in hearing Jeremiah Johnston talk about the Shroud of Turin. I quickly found out that he is an insufferable jerk, and that the show was impossible to listen to. · The social media picture was taken November 9, 1949. “Ford Motor Company display of 1950 models, Atlanta City Auditorium” · Bell South email worked very well. Then BS was sold to ATT. The email became “Powered by Yahoo”. It was not an improvement · A few days ago, I posted a few words about the bombing of Hiroshima. Today, “Anonymous” made a comment. “It is true that Japan was considering surrendering to the Soviet Union. I believe the terms of surrender were being discussed, and upon finding this out, Truman decided to force their hand towards surrender to the United States instead” · During a controversy over a Confederate monument, a speech from the dedication was widely quoted. At the end of the speech, Julian Carr said we were better off that the Union won the war. · The social media picture was taken in 1927. “J. Saul and Company Wholesale Clothing Dry Goods sign painted on wall in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.” This item is part of a collection of images of downtown Atlanta streets that were taken before the viaduct construction of 1927 – 1929. Later, some of the covered streets became part of Underground Atlanta. · This guy walked into a bar one day. He should have looked in front of him – Two peanuts were walking down the street. One was a salted. – What did the policeman say to his stomach ….. you’re under a vest · Arthur Rothstein took the social media picture in October 1939. Unloading shelled corn for ever-normal granary storage. Grundy County, Iowa” · In August of 2009, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on the Troy Davis case. Justice Scalia wrote a dissent, which non-legal minds found bizarre. The second half of this post is about the Obamacare debate · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in January 1939. “Migrant packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Troy Davis
This content was published August 18, 2009. … The one thing I am sure of in the Troy Davis case is the abundance of material on the internet. This is true of all death penalty cases. When you have celebrities calling for clemency, the data crush gets heavier. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a district court needs to have a hearing on the Troy Davis case. The Supremes were convinced that there is enough evidence to doubt the conviction of Troy Davis for the murder of Mark MacPhail. Justices Scalia and Thomas dissented. …
… The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Scalia, is a doozy. “This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.” It should be noted that I am not a lawyer, and some of the arguments I am reading make my head swim. Some say that Justice Scalia was correct in his opinion. Others think he is crazy. …
The one thing I have not been able to find is a picture of Sylvester “Red” Coles. Mr. Coles is known to have been present at the murder site. Mr. Coles owns a .38 pistol with a chrome finish, similar to the pistol that shot Mr. MacPhail. On the morning after the murder, Mr. Coles and an attorney showed up at the Police Headquarters. Soon, a decision was made that Troy Davis was the killer. The reason I want to see a picture of Sylvester Coles is to know, for sure, if he is black or white. Mr. Coles is described as a “a fearsome neighborhood thug” and a drug dealer. …
… If Troy Davis (black) takes the blame for killing Mark MacPhail (white) and allows Sylvester Coles (?) to go free, is this racism? Perhaps it is sloppy policework, or a bribe from the Coles attorney. While we are talking race, please note that Clarence Thomas concurred with Antonin Scalia in his dissent. … There are some who don’t think the ruling yesterday will change much. The MacPhail family and the Chatham County police are convinced of the guilt of Mr. Davis. This case has been bouncing around the courts for twenty years. Several courts have upheld the original guilty verdict. …
This content was published August 22, 2009. … There is a lot of hot air about health care. It is an intensely personal subject. Almost everyone has a story to tell. Hidden agendas, payoffs, straw men, and misleading rhetoric are the order of the day. I decided to try and make a bit of sense out of the mess, and share what I found. There was a google search, under the phrase “what is the health care proposal?” I found a pdf on the BHO website. It is not known when this pdf was written, or if other plan summaries are available. …
… It is not known how closely this summary corresponds to the bill before congress. I tried to break down the BHO plan summary, with key parts set off in bold type (the ob health plan-c54). … There are three parts to the plan. The summary this is based on did not mention “death panels”, abortion, or illegal aliens. I feel these are red herrings, designed to divert attention away from the plan. The current debate is a huckster’s paradise. … The first part of the plan involves lowering costs. There are three major parts to this. The first part is to modernize and digitize our health records. …
… The second part is better maintenance of chronic disease. This part of the plan calls for health insurance for all Americans. The two big steps here are the elimination of the pre existing conditions issue, and the establishment of the “National Health Insurance Exchange”. This part is in trouble, and may be compromised away. … The third part is an overall reform of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. This part of the plan is a call for prevention and public health. There are a few big brother like calls for “interventions”. …
… I suspect there is a great deal more to the debate than this pdf, but that it is a place to start. 12 pages can only scratch the surface. The phrase “God is in the details” comes to mind. … Clearly, the system we have is not working for large numbers of people. Employer based insurance requirements are a leading factor in the outplacement of jobs overseas. While I have doubts about what I read today, I do not see the talk radio crowd offering a better solution. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Arthur Rothstein took the social media picture in October 1939. “Unloading shelled corn for ever-normal granary storage. Grundy County, Iowa” · selah ©Luther Mckinnon 2025
Julian Carr And Silent Sam
This is a repost from 2018. … A Confederate monument was torn down last night in Chapel Hill NC. The statue, known as “Silent Sam,” was intended as a monument to students who left school to fight in the War Between the States. “In 1913, the Daughters of Confederacy, after four years of fundraising, paid sculptor John Wilson, a Canadian, $7500 for the statue. Wilson used a Boston-man, Harold Langlois, as the model. It’s unclear, however, if those attending Silent Sam’s dedication knew they were celebrating a Yankee’s profile. Silent Sam was among many “Silent Sentinels,” – statues of soldiers without cartridge box, soldiers who could no longer fire a shot – that were manufactured and bronzed in the North and then sent down south for public display. Many of these statues look remarkably similar. Like Silent Sam, they also face north, toward the Union.”
Many of the comments today quote a speech made at the 1913 unveiling. The speech was by Julian Carr, a prominent businessman and philanthropist. Mr. Carr is considered, with some justification, to have been a white supremacist. A Confederate veteran, Mr. Carr appears to have been a complex man, who did both good and harm.
This tweet is typical of today’s discourse. @jjones9 “From white supremacist Julian Carr’s speech at the dedication of Silent Sam in 1913.” The tweet features a screen shot, of a quote from the 1913 speech. “I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion, howbeit it is rather personal. One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.”
What was the rest of the speech? A bit of research turned up a transcript, “Julian S. Carr, “Unveiling of Confederate Monument at University. June 2, 1913.” The rest of the speech has little in common with the “one allusion.” The speech sounded like the memorials to fallen soldiers in many other wars. “They served, they suffered, they endured, they fought, [and died – crossed out] for their childhood homes, their firesides, the honor of their ancestors, their loved ones, their own native land.”
Mr. Carr’s theme is defense of a the homeland. When the War broke out, the concept of a United States, ruled by a strong federal government, was less accepted than it is today. Many people in the South saw it as a failed experiment. Slavery was an important issue in the decision to secede, along with economic matters that do not get twenty first century people worked up. Slavery is not mentioned in the 1913 speech.
The speech went on and on, and sounded much like any other memorial. The speech ended with these words: “In the knowledge of subsequent developments, the progress, peace and prosperity of our united, common country, victor and vanquished now alike believe that in the Providence of God it was right and well that the issue was determined as it was. And the people of all sections of our great Republic, moved by the impulse of sincere and zealous loyalty, of fervent and exalted patriotism may say: “All is well that ends well.”
“Again, dear Daughters of the Confederacy, I thank you in the name of the eighteen hundred brave, loyal, patriotic, home-loving young student soldiers who went out from this grand old University to battle for our Southern rights and Southern liberties, five hundred of whom never came back. God bless every one of you, and every Daughter of the Confederacy in our dear Southland.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Talk About The Shroud Of Turin
“Jeremiah Johnston: Shroud of Turin, Dead Sea Scrolls, & Attempts to Hide Historical Proof of Jesus” was featured on the The Tucker Carlson Show recently. I have long been interested in SOT. It is a mystery with no obvious solution. Is SOT the literal burial garment of Jesus, or is it a medieval creation? SOT is fascinating either way.
Unfortunately, this show turned out to be heavy on the polemics. Much of the problem is the guest. Google says this: Google says this: “Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston (PhD, MA, MDiv, BA) is a New Testament scholar, pastor, author, nationally syndicated radio host, Bible teacher, and apologist, and he ministers internationally as president of Christian Thinkers Society.” JJJ is a television preacher with blow dry hair. His agenda driven presentation made the show impossible to listen to.
I read an article in Rolling Stone once about SOT, which made many of the same points as JJJ. “The Shroud of Turin: Who is this man and why does he have no navel?” by Michael Thomas in the December 28, 1978, issue of Rolling Stone may be the best piece … ever published in the mainstream media.” I seem to remember seeing an online version of this article years ago, but cannot find it today. One way to see the actual article is to subscribe to RS, and go through their archive.
The RS article goes through the documented facts about SOT. It was displayed in France in 1354. SOT was in a fire, which would have destroyed any pigments that could have been used to create the image. RS came to the conclusion that SOT was likely the literal burial garment of Jesus.
The next question: how did the image on SOT get there? The image is a holographic, negative image of an anotomically correct man, who had recently been executed in a gruesome manner. We cannot create an image like this today. The RS article hypothesized that there was a burst of energy, coming out of the body. The supernatural implications of this were mentioned.
JJJ subscribes to this hypothesis. Here is another view: “The Vertically Collimated Radiation Burst (VCRB) hypothesis exemplifies retroductive reasoning—working backward from effects to posit causes. Researchers identified 27 distinct pieces of evidence related to the Shroud’s image formation and followed this evidence to a hypothesis: that radiation emanating from a body created high-frequency alternating current in the linen fibers, causing the distinctive discoloration pattern.”
The RS article was published in 1978, and mentioned the need for C-14 carbon dating. On April 21, 1988, samples were removed from SOT. The conclusion: “The results of radiocarbon measurements at Arizona, Oxford and Zurich yield a calibrated calendar age range with at least 95% confidence for the linen of the Shroud of Turin of AD 1260-1390 … These results therefore provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is mediaeval.” JJJ loudly disputes this finding.
The RS article was skeptical, and came to the conclusion that SOT might be real, with amazing supernatural implications. JJJ performatively BELIEVES that SOT is real. As for those who disagree: “They’re liars and they hate truth and they hate God.”
I listened to as much of the Tucker Carlson interview as I could. Finally, JJJ said … “the liberal scientists want us to believe and the liberal Bible scholars” … Anyone who uses “liberal” as an insult loses my confidence. JJJ is an insufferable jerk. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1942. “Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Leaving for Owens Valley”.· ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in April 1939. “At a meeting of the Clark Hill Club, conducted by Miss Velma Patterson, vocational field worker from Elba, at the home of FSA (Farm Security Administration) project family, J.A. Veasy. The women discuss materials for clothing and curtains. Coffee County, Alabama” · Here is your monday morning reader for today. It is the first day of school here. An SUV was parked four feet off the curb, and a school bus could not get through. Good times. · Vipassana · Photographs today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library and Digital Library of Georgia. The social media picture was taken between 1910 and 1929. African American woman is baptized. · I became a Baptist sixteen years before I was born. I remained one for seventeen more years. I am currently in recovery · Eighty years ago we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. The world has not been the same since · John Vachon took the social media picture in July 1942. “Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. Instructor with group of trainees in the engine room of the training ship New York” · The text today is boring. The pictures somewhat make up for it. The picture below: “Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. Instructor with group of trainees in the engine room of the training ship New York” · Today’s feature presentation is a comparison between religion and perfume · Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in October 1941. “Radford, Virginia. Sunset Village, FSA housing project. Fred B. Williams from Savannah, Georgia, and his son “Buddy” cleaning the car distributer on the porch of his home. 803 9th Street” · “But again, it’s worth lingering over the asymmetry of war crimes even here. When an IDF soldier goes berserk, he commits a war crime. But every time a Hamas fighter shoots a bullet without wearing a uniform, it’s a war crime. Hamas’s entire MO is one big war crime.” · “Israel can do just about anything it wants. If the IDF chose to destroy Gazans as a people, they could kill almost everyone in Gaza in a matter of weeks. So ask yourself, why haven’t they? And if your answer is international pressure, meaning they really would like to commit a genocide, except they don’t want to become a pariah state like North Korea, well then you’ve already conceded that they’re not in fact committing a genocide.” · The Library of Congress Harris & Ewing took the social media picture in 1922. “Woman in bathing suit with first prize cup”. · selah ©Luther Mckinnon 2025
#NationalTellAJokeDay
What bird doesn’t build a nest? A cuckoo cause it lives in a clock.
A penguin walks in to a bar and says to the barman, have you seen my brother?
Batman says I don’t know, what’s he look like?
I saw this wino; he was eating grapes. It’s like ‘Dude! You have to wait!’
What do u call a girl who lives on top of a house? RUTH
Helium walks into a bar Bartender asks, “What will you have?” Helium did not react.
A Hasidic Jew with a frog on his shoulder walks into a bar.
Bartender: “where’d you get that?” Frog: “Brooklyn. There’s hundreds of them.”
We were up all night wondering where the Sun had gone, then it dawned on us
Do you know what a pink birds favorite game is?? FlaBINGO
An upset cannibal threw up his arms….
Knock! Knock! Who’s there? Control Freak. Con—Okay, now you say, “Control Freak who?”
Why do cows wear bells? Because their horns dont work
Knock, knock, Who’s there? Spitamish Spitamish who?
*Proceeds to spit on other persons shoe*
Q: Why couldn’t the leopard play hide and seek? A: Because he was always spotted.
How many abstract artists does it take to change a lightbulb? Fish
What’s the difference between a hooker and a drug dealer?
A hooker can wash her crack and resell it
What did the baby corn say to its mom? Where’s my pop corn?
What does a panda use to fry eggs? A pan. Duh.
What did Charles Dickens keep in his spice rack? The best of thymes, the worst of thymes…
Teacher: “Kids, what does the chicken give you?” Student: “Meat!”
“What does the pig give you?” “Bacon!” “What does the fat cow give you?” “Homework!”
My ex-wife still misses me…but her aim is gettin’ better!
What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?… 1/2 a worm!
The kitten was having trouble watching her Blu-Ray. Turns out she just had the movie on paws.
There were 2 cats looking into a bird cage.
First cat: “That’s not a canary. It’s green!” Second cat: “I don’t know, maybe it’s not ripe yet”
I never wanted to believe my Dad was stealing from his job as a road worker …
But when I got home, all the signs were there
A man went into an auto parts store. “Can I get a new gas cap for a Yugo?”
The clerk thought for a second and said, “That seems like a fair trade.
Did you hear about the guy who got fired from his job at the door factory?
Yep, he just couldn’t get a handle on it.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in October 1941. “Radford, Virginia. Sunset Village, FSA housing project. Fred B. Williams from Savannah, Georgia, and his son “Buddy” cleaning the car distributer on the porch of his home. 803 9th Street” This is a repost. Somebody else wrote these jokes.
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