France had an empire and still exists. There is no more Confederacy.

                             In re:  The conservative right wing's hatred toward the French.

Gettysburg was the beginning of the South going down on its knees.

During the government shut down of 2013, a Republican politician, in the spirit that preceded the burning of Atlanta, spoke of his resolve in this way: "We're not French.  We don't surrender."  He surrendered.

France won numerous battles and wars.  Even during  WWII, there was the Free French Force and victories ... mostly with the allies ... but a couple of times alone.  Southerners surrendered during 

the first American Civil War, to the tune of 462,634 troops, twice the number as Union troops.  It's Southerners who are the cowards, hiding behind their guns.  

All in all,  Americans do NOT appreciate the aggressive operatives in our country trashing our European allies.  In as much, I would like to take the opportunity to apologize to the French, on behalf of Americans, for the insults hurled at you from those who live between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans also, but who have zero sense of civility.  I am so sorry that they repeatedly did that to you.  My dad had the kindest regards for you, and he was a decorated Air Force combat vet who witnessed fellow airmen literally go up in flames or hurl down toward the earth in a black trail of smoke..

The United States Needs France.

It Does NOT Need the Oppressive South.

For the record, I lived in the South for the vast majority of ten years, heading back to the North for a few Spring/Summer months.  I even then returned to the former Confederate South for a while, to the Shenandoah Valley.  Thus, I have experience with the Southern mindset, up close and personally.  Thank God for the North and West.

I can assure that we can do well without North and South Carolina.  But, we can't do will without France or England.  Add the Netherlands and Belgium, too.   In fact, I would love to see America substantiate an alliance with the Ukraine.  In as much, if you're an American vehemently against the idea of having foreign allies. then I can assure you that you're an inbreeder at heart.  

All in all, the South has always been detrimental to the United States.   The South has been a total pain.  If it  were to secede from the Union, it would be doing America a favor.  Northerners would be spared of a lot of tax dollars draining into the good ole boy South.

Let us begin:

In the proud, stubborn, and very short-lived Confederacy,  the national pastimes came to be:  1} primitive surgery,  2} surrendering,  3} watching its cities burn; literally.  NO joke.  No sarcastic statement.  The South was completely conquered and completely at the mercy of the North.  They still are.  The Northern states are the taxpayer states.  The Southern states are the tax-taker states.  The South has been leeching off of the North, and then the Sean Hannitys of this world get

the rural dwellers to believe the exact opposite of the statistical truth.

In contrast, the France whom the typical neo-confederate mocks, still had free forces throughout WWII, along with an effective underground network.  In fact, during the Battle of France, in 1940, the allies inflicted heavy casualties upon the Germans.  The Germans did NOT stroll into Paris.  

The historian tally for Nazi German casualties during the Battle of France (1940) was  27,074 KILLED and 111,037 wounded.  Thus, the French weren't the pansies that the White Trash and ornery right wingers of America made them out to be.  

During the Battle of France, the German Luftwaffe lost 1,129 aircraft in combat, according to the official stats.  So, it is a fatal error to think of the French as push-overs.  I would fight next to a Frenchman in a heartbeat.  I'm never willing to fight next to any Southerner who is not from Louisiana or Texas or the northern half of Mississippi.  Period.  As far as goes the eastern part of the American South, no dice.  

Spare me.

Even during the Battle for the Hague, in the Netherlands, the Germans lost half of its 8,000 paratroopers to death and prisoner-of-war status.  In their capturing of Holland, Belgium, and France, the Germans lost more troops and aircraft than assumed by those who never looked at a history report on the subject.

One more thing:  The French almost won the Battle of Waterloo.  The Prussians showed-up at 4 in the afternoon.  That was when the French split their forces into two parts and weakened.  The stereotypical American Southerner is simply jealous and tells lies.  There is nothing American about Southerners.  To be American is to give people the chance to talk things out and figure out what's going-on.

Unlike the sum total of Confederate forces, the French Free Forces NEVER surrendered.  If this were not true, then Charles de Gaulle would have never become a household name in the decades to follow.  In the darkest hours that France was enduring, De Gaulle remained poised at recapturing Paris.  Thus, the Southerners of today have the untold ... and bratty ... audacity to mock the French, after all of the surrendering the South did.  Proof that Southerners have a history of cowardice exists in the white hoods that cover their faces during cross burnings.

Incidentally, the Nazis broke international law, in order to takeover Paris.  They went  through Belgian territory, and the French didn't think that the Germans would do so.  In as much, the Germans had to CHEAT, in order to beat the French.

The French Underground who never surrendered to the Nazis inflicted strategic damage upon the Nazi infrastructure, while keeping the Jedburgh airbase (in Ain) perfectly in tact.  Simultaneously, the French underground delivered to the allied command a lot of needed information, thereby saving thousands of allied lives.  This included the details of the Atlantic Wall.

Plus, the French rescued a lot of downed U.S. airmen.  The French rescued these airmen at their own peril, and is this the thanks that the  France get from America?  Only the Southern trash we find throughout the congressional seats of government would be so ungrateful.  Without the French underground, there would have never been the concise information direly needed by the 8th Army Air Force who ended up destroying Nazi Germany's war-making capacity.

The Confederates had raiders during the American Civil War, but they never came close to the operational effectiveness of the French underground in Nazi territory.  Moreover, the French had their nation returned to them in complete victory.  The South suffered a 100% loss, including the loss of cities by means of fires started and finished by Northerners who became tired of the games Southerners were 

playing.

In Light of the Oppressiveness of the Southern Mindset

I can assure you that a Rand Paul presidency or a TEA Party congress will result in far worse upheaval than that which was witnessed in 1968/69.  Southerners are very oppressive.  That is their history.

By the way,  Texans will be scheming to get the price of gasoline to rise to previously crippling levels.  That is when the North will blow a gasket, because the South has been leeching off the North and its higher population, all along.

Let us review:  There is STILL a landmass called France.  There is NO landmass called the Confederacy in any form of power, at all.  There are just cross burners in the woods.  In the end, the French were victorious in WWII.  They won back their nation and prevented many 8th Army Air Force debacles.  This White Trash Talk of the South must end.  They have been doing this since the end of the Civil

War.

So, here is the situation:  The South suffered complete defeat, while hundreds of thousands of Southerners surrendered to Northerners.  Yet, the redneck congressmen had the audacity to mock the French who kept fighting at the Somme, the Marne, during the Siege of Parish, during the Norman conquest of the English, and at many other venues marked by French victories.  All in all, I would be willing to have American forces fight along side a Dutchman, a Frenchman, or an Italian before any unit of Southerners, being that the aforementioned Europeans would be much more adaptable on a battlefield, with a Plan B & Plan C ready to be employed.

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If the French are a nation of surrendering sissies, 

then how do you explain the following?

1} Napoleon's army.   2} the Parisians who defeated the Danish Vikings during the Siege of Paris.   3}  Charles Martel,  4} Charlemagne,  5} William the Conquerer's French army,  6} Simon of Montfort,  7} Simon V of Montfort,  8}  Joan of Arc's army,  9} Gilbert du Moitier (also known as the Marquis of La Fayette),  10} the General Rochambeau who rescued George Washington from his military incompetence, 11} the French Underground,  12}  those Frenchmen who fought in the Battle of the Somme, as well as 13} the Battle of the Marne,  14} the French marine units who went over the Iraqi fire trenches during the First Gulf War, 15} the French Revolution, 16} the vast French Empire.

A lot of pampered Americans spoke as if they could easily take-on and subdue the French with a bag of Doritos in their hands, while listening to the rotund chicken hawk, drug addict, and college fail-out, Rush "the Viagra Smuggler" Limbaugh ... and doing so without breaking stride.  Firstly, America is the second fattest nation on earth, and Limbaugh is one of the pioneers in American obesity.  Secondly, on a per capita basis, the French have been taking home more Olympic medals than the Americans.  This is also the case with Australia and Hungary, as it applies to the Summer Olympics only.

Furthermore, a Special Forces American told me in Florida that the French special forces troops are the ones who are the most knowledgeable in war technology, while on the field.  Now, he said that the Italian special forces personnel are the acrobats of the Western allies, but it's the French who can improvise on the battle field, as if to be college professors.

In conclusion, you can call the French rude, but you can't call them a bunch of sissies.  Of course, the French enigma came from France losing to Hitler.  Well, jn order for the Nazis to conquer France, it had to bypass the massive Maginot Line, and break international law by invading France through neutral Belgium.

During the battle for Paris, 15% of the French  army was out of the equation manning the Maginot Line that the Nazis avoided, because they knew they couldn't beat the French in any one on one match.  The Nazis KNEW that they were no match for the French, in a head-to-head conflagration.  The French would have mangled their armored units.

Southern man, according to his own history, only understands low wages, good ole boy cronyism, crying wolf, using religion to deceive the people, lying about other people, lying about other nations, gerrymandering, complaining about environmental law, cross burning, lynch mobbing, despising the UN, and cursing international law.  Such is the mindset of an isolationist inbreeder.  Southerners do NOT deserve to be called Americans.   They would dismantle the United 

States and reestablish the Confederacy instantly, if they had a chance to do so.

Do not be deceived by their obsessive flag waving.  They would replace the Stars and Stripes with the Johnny Reb flag in one mere heartbeat ... from my personal observations ... in my opinion.

France:  A Imperial Power ... Unlike the Confederate South

A nation of sissies doesn't amass an empire reaching from Southeast Asia to Northern Africa to Central Africa to North America and the northern tip of South America.  Yes, even from the Three Rivers region of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to as far South as New Orleans, was French imperial territory.

The British Empire which was at its height shortly after World War I lost much of its influence.  In a dominoes effect, long after having lost America, it lost its jewel.  Its jewel was India.  Then, the United Kingdom lost its Opium War prize, Hong Kong, along with Burma (aka Myanmar), Ceylon, most of Ireland, Ghana, the Gold Coast, Kenya, Zanzibar, rainless Botswana, Gambia, Lesotho, Bahrain, Qatar, Tonga, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Belize, and other nations which have a right to independence.  Simply because the United Kingdom downsized itself, it does not make the English sissies.  The same goes for the French Empire.  Southerners always have to belittle someone, in order to make themselves feel great.

So, why would Americans think that the American Empire is immortal, especially now that it has been sabotaged by Reaganomics and the ensuring of long-term Trade Balance Deficit, as well as Johnny Reb politicians who did shutdown the federal government, in the Spirit of attacking Fort Sumter?

Any new West Hemisphere empire ... any replacement American empire in the near future, will either be that of Brazil or a new political entity in the landmass now recognized as the United States ... but such a land will have to weed out the backward, neo-confederate, self-seeking, good ole boy operatives.  

It was the Johnny Reb and the Jerry Falwell Fundamentalist who shutdown our federal government.  They then blamed it on Obama, as if we in the north are so stupid as to believe them.  Well, they're the ones with the embarrassing low SAT scores and every other type of test score.  In fact, high tech companies refused to relocate to South Carolina, because, according to the assessments, the state which started the first civil war didn't have people in the 21st Century intelligent enough to perform the high tech work.

The Ted Cruz Irony

Ted Cruz was hailed as the great prophet of the TEAS, and therefore, the great prophet of the Southern mindset.  What is wrong with this picture?  ANS:  Cruz prided himself on graduating from an Ivy league school ... a Yankee school ... a northern school.  Well, if the South is so superior, then Cruz must be regarded persona non gratis, for his Yankee influence.

The other irony of the South is that former Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich was a native of Harrisburg Pennsylvania.  That's near the Gettysburg which was the beginning of the end for the Johnny Rebs.

Southern politicians need to quit insulting our intelligences up here ... up here in the land of MIT, the Ivy League, the Big Ten, Lehigh, Pitt, Notre Dame, Case Western Reserve, the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, Mt. Sinai Med Center, the Seven Sister Colleges, Chicago Univ, Carnegie-Mellon, Williams College, Amherst, Swarthmore, Haverford, Middlebury, Colgate, Bowdoin, etc.  They also need to do something about the ridiculously high cost of a college education and end the college loan trap.

The Nature of Politics, in a line itemized summary

They overthrew the monarchs and replaced them with politicians who brought

us worse wars.  Those politicians also brought us chattel slavery, John Calhoun, 

the Trail of Tears, the Know Nothing Party, Teapot Dome, and Tammany Hall,

followed by politicians bribed by Al Capone.  Then came Stalin, HItler, Mao, 

and a roll call of other deadly dictators.  Add the Lockheed Bribery Scandal,

the disarray of Boeing, the many Biden LLCs, foreign sweatshop labor and

the accompanying trade balance deficit, water supplies drowning in endocrine 

disruptor chemicals, the converting of the American legal system into one

contiguous kangaroo court system, and the disintergretion of society.

The lesson is that you can implement the best form of government, but if you have unconscionable manipulators running it, then you have an evil government.  It's the people in government which counts; not the form of government.  Evil governors = Evil government.

1a] Politics is a tug of war where manipulation and

      compromise hold opposite ends of the same rope.

  2] The common man possesses something known as common sense.  This means

       that he should be granted easy access to common law courts, as well as class-

       ical chancellery offices without the exorbitantly high attorney fees of this era.

       In fact, the America Organization of States' 1948 Universal Declaration of Hu-

       man Rights needs to be enforced.

 3a] Where there is the presence of organized crime, there

        are police officers and government officials on the take.

 3b] The system of local police breeds corruption and abuse.  Their arrogance comes

        from believing that they have immunity.  Firstly, it's known as qualified immun-

        ity, and no such immunity exists in the presence of malice.

   4] Deregulation is lawlessness and lawlessness is anarchy.  Republicans are no-

       thing more than self-seeking anarchists, being that they are obsessed with de-

       regulation.  Democrats are far successful at being cold-blooded killers than a

       pack of wolves.   You can land 12 Americans on the moon, but you can't pro-

       duce a descent political party in America.  This would only be because poli-

      tics, per se, is intrinsically evil.  The constant warring between two political 

      parties robs a nation of its peace.  One side in politics does, and then the 

      other side immediately seeks to undo.

  5] Campaign mud slinging is White Trash Politics.  Other races have done it, too.

6a]  If the French are such gutless cowards who instantaneously surrender to an

       invading army, then how do you explain: 1] Charles Martel, 2] Charlemagne,

       3] the Norman Conquest, 4] the French victory over the Vikings during the

       Siege of Paris,  5] Saint Joan of Arc,  6] Simon of Montfort,  7] Simon V of

       Montfort,  8] King Louis XIV,  9] Napoleon's army,  10] the French Empire,

      11] the Comte de Rochambeau,  12] the Marquis de Lafayette,  13] the Battle

      of the Somme,  14] the Battle of the Marne,  15] the French Underground,

      16] the French Exocet Missile?   Remember that France was the third high-

      est military spender in the Year 2010.

7b] When referring to the French as cowardly sissies, keep in mind that some of

       the northwestern French are the descendants of Danish Vikings.  As a gener-

       al rule, French towns ending in "x" were once Viking settlements.  It's foolish

       to call Viking descendants a bunch sissies.

7c]  The animosity between the French and British was explained to me by a na-

        tive of England in the following way: "The French look down on everyone,

        and the English don't like being looked down upon."

  8] Donating to a political campaign is no different than bribing a politician,

       when the candidate knows that you made the donation.

  9] The most asinine campaign maneuver is that of a candidate giving voters a card

       which states only the candidate's name, without mention of the candidate's pol-

       itical stance, telling the voter to vote for the candidate.  This leaves a voter en-

       tirely clueless as to the politician's stance on the issues.  When you say, "Vote

       for Joe American Shmoe," you have to give cause why people should vote

       for him.

10a]  A person who states that monarchy is intrinsically evil is a paranoid in-breeder

        at heart.  He doesn't believe that God has the power to make anyone good.

10b]  This paranoiac inbreeding mentality includes persons who have stated that the

         papacy is intrinsically evil.  Such defamatory people include the preachers who

         see themselves in competition for tax-free collection basket money.  This speak-

         ing ill of the Catholic Church becomes a business venture, in the quest to get as

         many Catholics as possible to leave the Catholic Church and put money into the

         preachers' tax-free collection baskets.  Yee haw there, Reverend Jim Bob.

10c]  Popes come and go.  Some were holy.  Some were heart touching.  Some were

        negligent.  Some caused the Catholic world grief.  No individual pope defines

        the papacy of the past 2,000 years.

11]   If America remained a colony of England, slavery

        would have been made illegal decades prior, in 1834.

12]   Why exchange one tyrant located 3,000 miles away for 3,000 tyrants located

        one mile away?  Republics, as opposed to merely Republicans, have provid-

        ed humanity with unconscionable politicians such as George "WMD" Bush,

        Dick "the Waterboarder" Cheney, Richard "Watergate" Nixon, Mitt "Factory 

        Gate Padlock" Romney, John "Shackle them" Calhoun, NAFTA Newt Gingrich,

        Jefferson "Confederacy" Davis, George Segregation Wallace, those on the pay-

        roll of Al "Buy a Judge"Capone, Ronald "Triple the National Debt" Reagan,

        and Joe "there's a commy under your bed" McCarthy.   Add to this Jim Crow

        laws, the klan, Teapot Dome,

        Gerrymandering, the Wickersham Commission, Tammany Hall, the Lockheed

        Bribery Scandals, The Knapp Commission, MK-Ultra, and much more.

        In fact, George Washington proved his dictatorial prowess in the Whiskey Re-

        bellion that never was, along with him having his own soldiers shot to death at

        various firing squads.  In addition, the American South became a chattel slave

        dictatorship, despite it claiming itself to be the Land of Liberty.  This was ac-

        companied by a slave owner saying, "Give me liberty or give mes, death."  To

        him, liberty was the ability to keep people enslaved.  Patrick Henry, hypocrite

        extraordinaire, was a slave owner.

       The lesson learned from the many American outrages throughout the centuries

        is that it isn't the form of government that matters.  It's the type of people in

        government that does. The kings were overthrown and replaced with multiple

        tyrants.  Thus, effacing monarchy cured nothing.  What is required in govern-

        ment is that it be run by persons with consciences.  Today, an honest politician

        is an oxymoron.

13]  The Duke of Wellington was not named Wellington.  He was Arthur Wellesley.

       In fact, he was the prime minister of England when slavery was made illegal

       and Catholicism was once again made legal for the first time in 1834.

14] Abraham Lincoln's fatal error was that of not prosecuting Jefferson Davis.  If he

      would have hung Davis from the gallows, he would not have been assassinated.

      No one would have had the audacity to have even tried.

15] Mao Tse Tung's writings have ZERO social value.

16] Prince Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a borish windbag.

17] An activist Republican is someone who doesn't want to pay his workers and who

      doesn't want to pay his taxes, all the while whining and complaining as a martyr 

      if he doesn't own all the money in the world.

18]  An activist Democrat is someone who wants to have sex, drugs, and rock & roll,

       as well as an abortion after having messed up having sex, drugs, and rock & roll.

19] A non-activist Republican is either someone who thinks that the Republican party

      platform was brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses or someone who would

      like to belong to a country club without partaking in right wing fanaticism.  They

      are two types of people.

20]  A non-activist Democrat is someone who doesn't want to have to live out of trash

       dumpsters.

21]  The Eternal God does not recognize State's Rights; only human rights.  Instead,

       God follows the rule of a leader's accountability.  It's based on the premise that

       the more given to you results in the more being expected from you.  At this point

       in time, Remember Nuremberg, because history repeats itself.  In fact, always re-

       member Nuremberg.  Today's politicians obviously do not do so.  In fact, send

       them a history book about the French Revolution and the European revolutions

       of 1848 as soon as you can.  If they don't learn from history, they will be repeat-

       ing it very soon.  Qaddafi already did.

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I didn't stop traveling after the 12,000 mile road trip; nor stop learning.

For those unfamiliar, in the Summer of Year 2012, I road traveled solo for six-
ty days, covering 12,000 miles in the process.  My travels didn't end with the
12,000 road trip, even though I intended it to be so.  I eventually ended up in
the Shenandoah Valley early in 2013, for a couple of months, after a stay in
Pittsburgh.  I then went to the Midwest, in the general Great Lakes vicinity,
and next back to Pittsburgh, only to take an unplanned trip into Florida.  In
fact, my trip to the Shenandoah Valley was due to the death of an individual
whose longevity evaporated, due to a medical condition that accompanied him
at birth. 

The Long Distance Learning Session

In having covered the distance that I did, I learned things that aren't learned
by politicians who show-up at airports, in order to stay in comfortable hotels
and give campaign speeches on what needs to be done in today's world;  in a
world to which they're completely out of touch, outside of listening to lobby-
ists who don't lobby for the common good, but only for self-seeking interests.

Below are photographic mementos of my recent travels, after the 12,000 mile
road trip of 2012.  If time permits, I'll include those one-line lessons I learned
on the road which I wouldn't have learned otherwise.  It's that which the Newt
Gingriches & Rush Limbaughes, as well as the John Kerries & the Joe Bidens
of this world, won't otherwise perceive & absorb.

As a score-keeper's note:  I traveled as far north & east as Boston/Cambridge,
as far west as Oxnard California, and as far south as the Space Coast of Florida.
My travels took me through:  1} Massachusetts, 2} Connecticut, 3} New York,

4} New Jersey, 5} Maryland,  6} West Virginia,  7} Virginia,  8} N. Carolina,
9} South Carolina,  10} Georgia,  11} Florida,  12} Alabama,  13} Mississippi,
14} Louisiana,  15} Tennessee,  16} Arkansas,  17} Texas,  18} Oklahoma,
19} New Mexico,  20} Arizona,  21} California,  22} Missouri,  23} Kentucky,

24 ] Iowa,  25} Illinois,  26} Indiana,  27} Ohio, and then eventually back home 

to 28} Pennsylvania..

At other times,  I was in 29} Rhode Island,  30} Vermont,  31} Delaware,

32} Nebraska,  33} Wyoming,  34} Montana,  35} Michigan,  36} Wisconsin.  

I have never been in 1-Washington State,  2-Oregon,  3-Idaho,  4-Utah,  5-Nevada, 

6-Colorado,  7-North Dakota,  8-South Dakota,  9-Minnesota,  10-Kansas, 11-New 

Hampshire,  12-Maine,  13-Alaska, and 14-Hawaii.

If I ever come to have the time do so, I guess that I could state which state had
the best & worst of this, that, and the other thing ... personalitywise.  For now,

 prudence.

The northeast coast of Florida.

Downtown Saint Augustine, oldest city in the United States.

At port, in downtown Saint Augustine.

The land of the Shenandoah Valley

Metropolitan psychedelia, via sunlight & plate glass, Downtown Pittsburgh.

More psychedelia in the Pittsburgh region.

Progressive Field, Cleveland, in contrast to ...

... Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh

The Space Coast of Florida

The famous race track is on the main highway, in plain sight.

Take note of the palmetto tree in the background

Baltimore trolley

East Florida

Pittsburgh, the land of many technological firsts.

Cuyahoga National Park in Ohio

20 miles northwest of Pgh, along the Ohio River

Gettysburg

Gettysburg was a meditative place.

A Chesapeake area suspension bridge

One of my alma maters: Located at the Gulf coast of Florida.

Add Chicago to the equation

No introduction needed here.

Northern Illinois

                                    Below:  We need to add Wisconsin to the equation, also.

Milwaukee

Same area

Inside a Milwaukee Museum

The First Time I Was Nationally Published, Part 1

This is in the Harvard University Library, a Northwestern Univ. library, a North Carolina Univ at Chapel Hill library and a few other ones.  I was 20 years old when I was first published.

The First Time I Was Nationally Published, Part 2

As was previously stated, this is in a Harvard library,at Cambridge Mass,
Northwestern University and North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a few others.

Two Other Available Literary Credits

Concerning writing, I was influenced at the academy, at a young age.  It was one 

teacher who brought it out.  Then, at a private university, it was one professor who 

refined it ... a Renaissance scholar and laureate published thousands of times.  

You have to be in control of your senses and perception as a matter of instinct, in
order for you to notice what needs to be conveyed or expressed in writing.  You
can't do it by a rigid set of mechanics.  You still need to possess the sensitivity to
notice things that others overlook, no matter how many teachers are involved in
your education.

If you can feel it, whatever it is at the time you are feeling, you can communicate it;   
if you're in control of your senses while communicating.  If you're not in control,
then your writing will become melodramatic, sickeningly sweet, or rigidly starched.