Some jobs are too small for a bigger tractor. Doubt DD Ranch has a lawn, but there’s cleanup in gardens and elsewhere (in our case, under a hundred or so pine trees).
I use a brush hog for the grasses and weeds, but the acre nearest the house, that’s where the garden tractor cuts grass (and weeds). Can’t get the big tractor (compact-utility) in there, anyhow.
September 26, 2024 at 10:55 am
JTC
True. I couldn’t resist an old 8N that is my age (’54) that I like to go an play with on the little 5 acre patch a few miles out of town.
But the acre at the house is by the golf course and the old lady likes it “groomed”, not the 8N’s thing with its old bush hog, so the crew of legal Mexicans who have done well enough to equip themselves with diesel trucks enclosed trailers and a brace of high-end commercial ZTR mowers do that every week on the dot including trimming weeding hedging small tree work and cleaning up after hurricanes like the current one (big wind and rain makes a mess but these ese’s take care of it quick) for less than the expenses to do it myself not to mention my worthless except to me time.
I love that old tractor and it will outlive me no doubt. You can still buy a very nice one comparable to mine for a couple g’s…and you can fix it with channel locks and some wire kinda like my old Chevy truck of the same era, and just as classy. Have you priced a new tractor of comparable size and power? About 20K, dang. And if you’re a farmer? If you’re going to compete with agribiz like my brother did before hanging up the keys to his giant eight wheel John Deere, the cost gets waaaayyy into triple digits very fast.
Well that was a crazy little OT tangent wasn’t it? 🙂
September 26, 2024 at 12:19 am
JTC
“Architect”, spouting his ignorant platitudes to subvert the will of the people and slaughter the resistance.
Worked once. Is the Blue Half really stupid enough to swallow that shit again?
Illegal? Like the illegal rebellion of 13 colonies against their true King?! “Legal” is whoever wins.
And grievances against tea tax were nothing compared to enslavement of human beings.
The North won, so it was BOTH moral and “legal.”
Now if any irredentist wants to pursue the case, recall northern Copperhead dems sided with Dixiecrats. After they lost, Dixiecrats imposed evils of Jim Crow, all the way to evil racist Woodrow Wilson.
Thus when Eisenhower led the party of Lincoln to the true 1957 Civil Rights Act, the Dixiecrats saw their future now in pandering. So we got all the “me-too” civil rights acts of the corrupt democrats who bought their way to power with OUR tax dollars.
Instead of wisdom, the democrats recreated the Plantation Era in the blue city ghettos. Bribing their way to power, destroying the black family, welfare to make the govt, into unwed mothers’ “baby daddy.” Ruined blue cities the legacy of the left. Shameful.
@ Robert Arvanitis: While much of what you write still smacks of the 160 years of dumbed-down and rote-learned lies and revisionist history of academia, your last paragraph is a thing of truth and beauty, nailed it!
September 26, 2024 at 1:52 am
Tantor
Hi, I don’t understand how A. Lincoln is responsible for the troubles…
He ignored the Constitution. His motivation was never ‘freeing the slaves’, it was to not be the President of a reduced Union.
Read more, read “The Linclon Letters”, read Lincoln’s letter to Fredrick Douglass
He showed for posterity that jailing your political opponents (during 1864 election) is a viable tactic. EZ-peezy when you have generals that will declare martial law.
He used an interpretation of the Preamble to the Constitution to claim that states cannot secede. Then came the Civil War.
Slavery was evil, no doubt. In the long run it was economically unsustainable. The war ended it — sort of. The southern states, and later all the Democrats, found new ways to enslave people. Jim Crow, segregation, the Great Society and its welfare state all kept an underclass in bondage.
Lincoln did the best he could with the tools and knowledge he had. Who among us can say, given the same equipage, they would have done better?
Lincoln himself may have done better, had not a man named Booth cut his efforts short.Booth never knew the extent of the damage he did in sabotaging Reconstruction.
In some parts of the South it’s still referred to as ( The War Of Northern Aggression ).
Lincoln was a POS who abused his presidential powers much like any third world tyrant would do.
“The war of northern aggression” is correct. The South wanted to leave the Union. The north practically destroyed the South to prevent it from leaving. Sounds like today’s democrats.
September 26, 2024 at 7:51 am
Son of Valkyrie
Let’s take a closer look at that martial law. Lincoln, during the war, made a point to have an election. The reason was to point out to his military to ease up on the martial law they were imposing. He entertained, very seriously, that he may lose. I think he had a speech ready if he did. This looks like a good healthy debate. A very sincere thank you, Chris.
As a Canuck, all of the hype around Lincoln sounded almost too good to be true so imagine my shock when I saw a video talking about history from a different perspective… very eye-opening!!
You would have loved Woodrow Wilson. He resegregated the federal civil service and thought both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were outmoded and the country should be run by “experts.” And all them uppity Negroes would have remained in their place.
Wondering if the Stars and Bars decorate your studio.
And after all the admonitions from all these smart people, you still think that war had anything at all to do with race and slavery, other than as a cruel pretext for democide against his “own” people. No more evil and power hungry creature has ever held the office, but give the current batch a chance.
What I remember learning was that the South seceded over taxes. The North decided to not let them do it (Keep in mind that the only reason Lincoln won was because the Democrats had both a Northern convention and a Southern convention which split the democrat vote) As a political move to garner support in the North, Lincoln decided to “Free the Slaves”. He was also a proponent of shipping them back to Africa. Some volunteered to go. This is all from memory, forgive any gaps.
Very much a replay of the RW as to taxes and control.
It was about the rights of the colonies (states rights) in the 1700’s, and about the rights of the states (states rights) in the 1800’s too.
And while some who have been conditioned to parrot the phrase “States don’t have rights, people do!” which while correct just doesn’t grok the depth of the truth of what is meant by the phrase States’ Rights, they could learn from a re-read of all of that history, possibly leading them to better understand the use of the term now, maybe more than ever an accurate term considering what is happening not just across the flyover states but the non-city portions of most all states whose rights and whose peoples rights have been stepped up on, spit upon, and shit upon.
What was done successfully was what was necessary in the RW, what was done less successfully was still necessary in the CW, and what surely is looming as necessary to create the sovereign Constitutional Republic of America, the CRA.
Be sure to keep in mind that the “vaunted” Emancipation Proclamation only “freed” “. . . Those slaves in States currently in rebellion.” The hope was that it would incite a slave rebellion against their owners.
Remember, also, that slavery continued in the North: West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, et.al., until rendered illegal by the 14th Amendment.
Finally, IIRC, Ft. Sumter actually fired first, but their guns couldn’t depress far enough to hit the city. Southern forces returned fire, as was their right . . .
No, Fort Sumter did not fire first. The Citadel cadets fired upon a resupply ship on 9 Jan 1861, forcing it to abandon the mission. That was the actual first shot fired.
Thanks for the correction — learned something . . .
September 26, 2024 at 10:47 am
PCChaos
Lots of folks were swinging from the trees by their necks in Northern Virginia due partisan warfare, readily accepted by Lincoln. Affiliation meant death. Habeas Corpus? Fugghetaboutit! The means justified the ends.
The seeds of the Civil War were planted long before the war itself.
Face it, the real cause was the same cause we see today.
The Democratic Party, from its inception, was, is, and will forever be, at war with the Constitution.
Its battle cry is
Power At Any Price!
And no lie is too blatant, no tactic too low, and no sin is too vile to stop them.
Correct, but you forgot to notate that the Dim party of today was the Pub party then, every single step taken by Lincoln et al is being mirrored in DC today. But not for long as the new sovereign CRA, if it is necessary, will end it.
Well the way things are going with Executive Demands upon this remains of a country, we are heading for a replay with maybe a slightly different lineup.
I’d like to add that this was not a “Civil War”
It was a war of Independence. The Confederacy never sought to overthrow the US Government, they only sought to remove themselves from it.
Exactly right. Yet you will never find that truth being taught in schools today, even in the South. Withdrawing from an entity sworn to destroy it, and forming its own new sovereign entity, the Confederate States of America. It was illegally ignored and attacked and overwhelmed by murderers.
In a debate like this, I have to ask the question. The Southern colonies could have had a legal means of separation built into the Constitution at the start but they didn’t. Why not? Or even later during the Nullification Crisis of the early 1800s. Had cooler heads prevailed on both sides, perhaps the North and the South would have gone their separate ways. The result of this is a whole other discussion.
Lincoln himself lauded a people’s inalienable right to take with them “whatever land they inhabited” and secede… when Texas was seceding from Mexico. It was a congressional speech, and not hard to web search.
It wasn’t only the southern states; remember the Hartford Convention?
Lincoln apparently relied on the Preamble to justify his argument that States couldn’t secede: “We the People…do ordain and establish this Constitution…” According to Lincoln, since the “people” had ordained and established it, the States had no say.
That argument completely ignores the fact that the Constitution was ratified by the States, not by popular vote. Besides that, the courts have invariably rejected all attempts to increase government power by appealing to things in the Preamble like “promote the general welfare.”
Three quarters of a million Americans died in that war.
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The garden tractor looks like a old Sears from the 1970s… Am I right Chris?
Cub Cadet. Which is to say, could very well be from Sears, or not.
Woefully inadequate for the DD spread either way though.
Maybe just a plaything for the kids to tear down and rebuild?
Some jobs are too small for a bigger tractor. Doubt DD Ranch has a lawn, but there’s cleanup in gardens and elsewhere (in our case, under a hundred or so pine trees).
I use a brush hog for the grasses and weeds, but the acre nearest the house, that’s where the garden tractor cuts grass (and weeds). Can’t get the big tractor (compact-utility) in there, anyhow.
True. I couldn’t resist an old 8N that is my age (’54) that I like to go an play with on the little 5 acre patch a few miles out of town.
But the acre at the house is by the golf course and the old lady likes it “groomed”, not the 8N’s thing with its old bush hog, so the crew of legal Mexicans who have done well enough to equip themselves with diesel trucks enclosed trailers and a brace of high-end commercial ZTR mowers do that every week on the dot including trimming weeding hedging small tree work and cleaning up after hurricanes like the current one (big wind and rain makes a mess but these ese’s take care of it quick) for less than the expenses to do it myself not to mention my worthless except to me time.
I love that old tractor and it will outlive me no doubt. You can still buy a very nice one comparable to mine for a couple g’s…and you can fix it with channel locks and some wire kinda like my old Chevy truck of the same era, and just as classy. Have you priced a new tractor of comparable size and power? About 20K, dang. And if you’re a farmer? If you’re going to compete with agribiz like my brother did before hanging up the keys to his giant eight wheel John Deere, the cost gets waaaayyy into triple digits very fast.
Well that was a crazy little OT tangent wasn’t it? 🙂
“Architect”, spouting his ignorant platitudes to subvert the will of the people and slaughter the resistance.
Worked once. Is the Blue Half really stupid enough to swallow that shit again?
Illegal? Like the illegal rebellion of 13 colonies against their true King?! “Legal” is whoever wins.
And grievances against tea tax were nothing compared to enslavement of human beings.
The North won, so it was BOTH moral and “legal.”
Now if any irredentist wants to pursue the case, recall northern Copperhead dems sided with Dixiecrats. After they lost, Dixiecrats imposed evils of Jim Crow, all the way to evil racist Woodrow Wilson.
Thus when Eisenhower led the party of Lincoln to the true 1957 Civil Rights Act, the Dixiecrats saw their future now in pandering. So we got all the “me-too” civil rights acts of the corrupt democrats who bought their way to power with OUR tax dollars.
Instead of wisdom, the democrats recreated the Plantation Era in the blue city ghettos. Bribing their way to power, destroying the black family, welfare to make the govt, into unwed mothers’ “baby daddy.” Ruined blue cities the legacy of the left. Shameful.
@ Robert Arvanitis: While much of what you write still smacks of the 160 years of dumbed-down and rote-learned lies and revisionist history of academia, your last paragraph is a thing of truth and beauty, nailed it!
Hi, I don’t understand how A. Lincoln is responsible for the troubles…
You should read more.
Not trying to be snotty, but what you get taught in school leaves out an immense amount of information.
He ignored the Constitution. His motivation was never ‘freeing the slaves’, it was to not be the President of a reduced Union.
Read more, read “The Linclon Letters”, read Lincoln’s letter to Fredrick Douglass
He showed for posterity that jailing your political opponents (during 1864 election) is a viable tactic. EZ-peezy when you have generals that will declare martial law.
He used an interpretation of the Preamble to the Constitution to claim that states cannot secede. Then came the Civil War.
Slavery was evil, no doubt. In the long run it was economically unsustainable. The war ended it — sort of. The southern states, and later all the Democrats, found new ways to enslave people. Jim Crow, segregation, the Great Society and its welfare state all kept an underclass in bondage.
Lincoln did the best he could with the tools and knowledge he had. Who among us can say, given the same equipage, they would have done better?
Lincoln himself may have done better, had not a man named Booth cut his efforts short.Booth never knew the extent of the damage he did in sabotaging Reconstruction.
In some parts of the South it’s still referred to as ( The War Of Northern Aggression ).
Lincoln was a POS who abused his presidential powers much like any third world tyrant would do.
“The war of northern aggression” is correct. The South wanted to leave the Union. The north practically destroyed the South to prevent it from leaving. Sounds like today’s democrats.
Let’s take a closer look at that martial law. Lincoln, during the war, made a point to have an election. The reason was to point out to his military to ease up on the martial law they were imposing. He entertained, very seriously, that he may lose. I think he had a speech ready if he did. This looks like a good healthy debate. A very sincere thank you, Chris.
As a Canuck, all of the hype around Lincoln sounded almost too good to be true so imagine my shock when I saw a video talking about history from a different perspective… very eye-opening!!
https://rumble.com/v25kg0j-abraham-lincoln-american-dictator.html
More info at
Republicfortheunitedstatesofamerica.org
Watch Razor Fist’s Lincoln rant. On you tube, rumble and other places.
I provided the Rumble link to RazorFist’s rant above.
I’m not a fan of SpewTube/Google.
You would have loved Woodrow Wilson. He resegregated the federal civil service and thought both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were outmoded and the country should be run by “experts.” And all them uppity Negroes would have remained in their place.
Wondering if the Stars and Bars decorate your studio.
And after all the admonitions from all these smart people, you still think that war had anything at all to do with race and slavery, other than as a cruel pretext for democide against his “own” people. No more evil and power hungry creature has ever held the office, but give the current batch a chance.
What I remember learning was that the South seceded over taxes. The North decided to not let them do it (Keep in mind that the only reason Lincoln won was because the Democrats had both a Northern convention and a Southern convention which split the democrat vote) As a political move to garner support in the North, Lincoln decided to “Free the Slaves”. He was also a proponent of shipping them back to Africa. Some volunteered to go. This is all from memory, forgive any gaps.
Very much a replay of the RW as to taxes and control.
It was about the rights of the colonies (states rights) in the 1700’s, and about the rights of the states (states rights) in the 1800’s too.
And while some who have been conditioned to parrot the phrase “States don’t have rights, people do!” which while correct just doesn’t grok the depth of the truth of what is meant by the phrase States’ Rights, they could learn from a re-read of all of that history, possibly leading them to better understand the use of the term now, maybe more than ever an accurate term considering what is happening not just across the flyover states but the non-city portions of most all states whose rights and whose peoples rights have been stepped up on, spit upon, and shit upon.
What was done successfully was what was necessary in the RW, what was done less successfully was still necessary in the CW, and what surely is looming as necessary to create the sovereign Constitutional Republic of America, the CRA.
And all for exactly the same necessary reasons.
Yep.
Yep. Pretty much true (although there’s been plenty of help since then).
Be sure to keep in mind that the “vaunted” Emancipation Proclamation only “freed” “. . . Those slaves in States currently in rebellion.” The hope was that it would incite a slave rebellion against their owners.
Remember, also, that slavery continued in the North: West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, et.al., until rendered illegal by the 14th Amendment.
Finally, IIRC, Ft. Sumter actually fired first, but their guns couldn’t depress far enough to hit the city. Southern forces returned fire, as was their right . . .
No, Fort Sumter did not fire first. The Citadel cadets fired upon a resupply ship on 9 Jan 1861, forcing it to abandon the mission. That was the actual first shot fired.
Thanks for the correction — learned something . . .
Lots of folks were swinging from the trees by their necks in Northern Virginia due partisan warfare, readily accepted by Lincoln. Affiliation meant death. Habeas Corpus? Fugghetaboutit! The means justified the ends.
The seeds of the Civil War were planted long before the war itself.
Face it, the real cause was the same cause we see today.
The Democratic Party, from its inception, was, is, and will forever be, at war with the Constitution.
Its battle cry is
Power At Any Price!
And no lie is too blatant, no tactic too low, and no sin is too vile to stop them.
Correct, but you forgot to notate that the Dim party of today was the Pub party then, every single step taken by Lincoln et al is being mirrored in DC today. But not for long as the new sovereign CRA, if it is necessary, will end it.
Well the way things are going with Executive Demands upon this remains of a country, we are heading for a replay with maybe a slightly different lineup.
I’d like to add that this was not a “Civil War”
It was a war of Independence. The Confederacy never sought to overthrow the US Government, they only sought to remove themselves from it.
Civil War/War of Independence. Doesn’t matter what we call it. It’s being pushed hard from one side.
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Exactly right. Yet you will never find that truth being taught in schools today, even in the South. Withdrawing from an entity sworn to destroy it, and forming its own new sovereign entity, the Confederate States of America. It was illegally ignored and attacked and overwhelmed by murderers.
In a debate like this, I have to ask the question. The Southern colonies could have had a legal means of separation built into the Constitution at the start but they didn’t. Why not? Or even later during the Nullification Crisis of the early 1800s. Had cooler heads prevailed on both sides, perhaps the North and the South would have gone their separate ways. The result of this is a whole other discussion.
There is in the Declaration. “When, in the course of human events…”, etc.
Lincoln himself lauded a people’s inalienable right to take with them “whatever land they inhabited” and secede… when Texas was seceding from Mexico. It was a congressional speech, and not hard to web search.
Not to split hairs but that was a foreign power (at the time) affair. The fact is when it is in your own backyard, it is different.
Texas does have secession built into their Constitution and their electric grid is separate from the rest of the US for a reason.
It wasn’t only the southern states; remember the Hartford Convention?
Lincoln apparently relied on the Preamble to justify his argument that States couldn’t secede: “We the People…do ordain and establish this Constitution…” According to Lincoln, since the “people” had ordained and established it, the States had no say.
That argument completely ignores the fact that the Constitution was ratified by the States, not by popular vote. Besides that, the courts have invariably rejected all attempts to increase government power by appealing to things in the Preamble like “promote the general welfare.”
Three quarters of a million Americans died in that war.