THE SLAVERY OF MYTH

There is a book named The Fiery Trial, the subject is Abraham Lincoln and American slavery, the author is Eric Foner and said author was recently on the Colbert Report and talked about what Lincoln learned during his presidency and listening to Mr. Foner was quite a learning experience as well. Playing as the conservative foil, Stephen Colbert said the civil war was about tariffs, states rights and basically economic issues. When in fact Mr. Foner pointed out that the South Carolina declarations concession was that they felt it was “no longer safe for slavery since Lincoln had been elected president".  We learned that Mr. Lincoln had not gone into the presidency determined to abolish slavery, but the south conceding gave him the chance. Another, be careful what you wish for moment; the obviously, how succeeding did not succeed. Although, in some ways, at least parts of it act as if it had. And recently Governor Rick Perry of Texas talked again about succeeding, but that said how many black men with folks out there in Fauxvia nation actually served in the Civil War? I thought it was a few thousand, it was actually 200,000. But again, as Stephen Colbert has said in the past; facts have such a liberal bias.

THE UN-IMMACULATE CONTRACEPTION

The State of Texas is at it again, using that special logic that only they can use. They recommend abstinence as a method of preventing pregnancy (“abstinence works” as quoted by Governor Rick Perry). They have also made it more and more difficult to get contraception and claim the results speak for themselves. And the results definitely do; they have the third highest teen pregnancy rate among all states in the country. But beyond that they have the HIGHEST RATE of repeat teen pregnancies. Thus you have to abstain from thinking to think that young people will abstain from having sexual relations and it is a very un-immaculate contraception plan that has some very tangible and long range damage in itself. But not to the conservative males who keep such laws in place.

THE LAST 20 BULLETS CONTINUED

Former Major League pitcher and manager Dallas Green showed up as he was expected to at the Philadelphia Phillies training camp in Clearwater, Florida. He is special advisor to the team and was in fact the manager of their first ever world championship in 1980. He is a big tough guy, but the random tragedies of this world have hit him below the belt as they can hit any of us, as his beloved daughter Christina Taylor Green was the youngest victim of the shooting in Tucson this past month. She was not hit in the first wave of bullets, that was for target Gabby Giffords; she was hit later on when the shooter with a 33 bullet magazine could keep shooting. Green addressed it; “I don’t have a glock, or whatever it is, I don’t have a magazine with 33 bullets in it” he continued “ that doesn’t make any sense to me be able to sell those kinds of things, I guess I never thought about it until this happened. What reason is there to have all those kinds of guns out there and to kill people? I just don’t understand that". Our minds and our hearts and our questions as well are with Dallas Green, we don’t understand it either, especially when your loss involves the last 20 bullets.

Fox naming

Fox naming

Attention all Fauxvians: Due to a theft the name Faux News Network was no longer viable but we able to secure realfoxnews.com and with it our own fox to watch the hen house. But alas, this fox has not yet been named and/or titled. To that end we welcome your suggestions and should we use your input you will receive 1. our gratitude and 2. a pair of NY Yankees box seats for a game to be determined this season.