My original point being that Lincoln was gay, and his sexuality had “something” to do with his politics can be sorta summed up in the last few posts. I specifically avoided debating Victor about this because he gets so G.D. twisted & angry in such situations. Everything has to be proven to the punctuated letter, to the point of a raging conclusion. I’d rather not expend that kind of energy over such a lame point. In other words, victor, you get waaaay too wound up about minor things. Conversation with you is extremely strained, because you seem like you’re always on the verge of blowing a gasket. It’s never fun to talk to someone like this.
How old is the term “bleeding heart Liberals”? 1930s? This personality trait isn’t something new. One thing is for certain sure. Some things change, and some things stay the same. And this board hasn’t changed a bit. Y’all will argue to the death over anything.
This got old, quick.
I popped back in this thread to tell a funny story that I’ve noticed that routinely happens with my book collecting.
A couple of years ago I was at work on lunch break reading the news & there was a story how the students at UC-Berkeley wanted to expunge all memory of one of the Founders of the University of California, and the Sierra Club, Joseph LeConte, for his slave-holding past. I’d never heard of him before so I decided to look into him. He was such a fascinating person, that I really need to find a good biography of him. His life story doesn’t really get good until after the war.
It turns out that he was born on a Georgia plantation that was started by his forebearers many generations before his birth. He was the “owner” of the plantation, that never really held his interest, just a few short years before the war.
He later wrote several books, but right now I only have one he wrote in 1936 (?) called, ‘ware Sherman. It is the story of him being in the run, and one step ahead of Sherman’s troops in the winter of 1864/65.
At the beginning of this book he writes that he could have sold the entire plantation, and walked away a very rich man. It was something he was seriously tempted to do on several occasions. But the one thing that kept him from doing so, was knowing that the lives of his (slaves) and servants would be thrown into turmoil. And he did not want to do that. I thought that was interesting. On a side note, His Sister also wrote a diary of the seige of Colombia, SC.
All of that isn’t all that interesting. Joseph Leconte didn’t really come into himself until he reached California. I think it’s a shame modern day students sullied his life’s very imports work over what I (briefly) described above.
But to wrap this up, what struck me as funny, was when I ordered his book I noticed it was printed at UC-B, and had a bill of sale to a resident that lived in Berkeley.
I’ve also received several books that after purchase, I see they were part of the UC-Berkeley Library, and they had gotten rid of them. A lot of the books I buy are former library books. Spending $10 on a library book vs $50+ for a non-library Book makes sense sometimes. Many of these books I buy are coming from liberal school systems & universities.
I never fail to see the irony in this. But, I’ll glady give them a home. Ha!