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Holiday hullabalu over 'Juneteenth?'
Give N.C. Apple Festival’s ex-director his good name back
The former (North Carolina) Apple Festival director, David Nicholson, got a verbal spanking for belittling the new Juneteenth holiday!
Did Nicholson deserve his spanking?
No!
David Nicholson’s social media post (Facebook) wasn’t racist, nor (was it) politically incorrect.
He was just pissed that his bank was closed on the Juneteenth holiday, which he’d never heard of.
The backdrop to his vexation is that crazy, dumb, retarded America has more holidays then the whole entire multiverse put together.
And it seems to Nicholson that every time he goes to the bank, his bank is closed for some holiday!
In July alone, there are
• Independence Day
• National Bikini Day
• National Fried Chicken Day,
• Chocolate Day
• National Video Game Day
• Fashion Dog and Kitten Day
• Free Slurpee Day
• National French Fry Day
• Gummy Worm Day
• Guinea Pig Day
• World Emoji Day
• New Friends Day
• Moon Dog Day
• National Hammock Day
• National Avocado Day
• National Carousel Day
• Walk on Stilts Day
• National Water Park Day
• National Lisptick Day
• International Friendship Day
And in August, there are:
• Spider Man Day
• Ice Cream Sandwich Day
• National Watermelon Day
• Chocolate Chip Day
• Gossip Day
• National Sisters Day
• Global Sleep Under the Stars Night
• Book Lovers Day
• Lazy Day
• Middle Child Day
• National Bowling Day
• Back to School Day
• Roller Coaster Day
• National Thrift Shop Day
• National Fajita Day
• World Photography Day
• National Lemonade Day
• National Tooth Fairy Day
• Buttered Corn Day
• National Waffle Day
• Women’s Equality Day
• National Bow Tie Day
• National Beach Day
• National Eat Outside Day.
Now do you understand why David Nicholson was pissed?
He wasn’t pissed at the Juneteenth holiday, per se!
He was pissed that there was another new holiday when there are zillions too many already!!!
Give David Nicholson back his good, good name!!!
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
Columnist challenged for assertion stated as a fact
Bill (syndicated columnist Bill Press):
Your facts are wrong.
You state (in your column appearng in the June 22-July 5 edition of the Daily Planet) that “five police officers were killed†on Jan. 6 (2021).
There were no police officers killed on 1/6.
ALAN P. FISHMAN
Asheville
N.C. must replace statue of ‘former enslaver’ in D.C.
As a postscript to the dispute regarding the partially remaining monument to Zebulon Vance in Pack Square (Letter, “Why Honor Vance with ‘stark’ monument in downtown Asheville?†June 22, 2022), it should be noted that the former enslaver, Confederate officer and later post-Civil War governor also is honored as one of the two North Carolinians in National Statuary Hall at the center of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Each state is allowed to honor two dignitaries there.
Vance is one of the two from this state (North Carolina), along with one of his gubernatorial successors, Charles Aycock, a reform-minded governor at the beginning of the 20th century who championed education, restrictions on child labor, anti-lynching protocols, improved election procedures and other advancements.
His statute was designed by Gutzon Borglum, who went on to sculpt Mount Rushmore.
Placed in the Hall of honor in 1916, the Vance statute is one of nine remaining in the facility commemorating former Confederates.
One was replaced in mid-July by black educator Mary McLeod Bethune of Florida, an action that drew effusive praise from both sides of the aisles in Congress.
The same should be done to the remaining nine Confederate statutes, including that of Vance, which ought have no place in a facility lodging the elected representatives of the nation they rejected and fought to leave.
After more than a century reposing there, the Vance statute has outlived its time.
As a well-treated visitor this season to the lovely Asheville/Blue Ridge area, I imagine that there are other — better — Tar Heels of the past to honor in the present in that hallowed hall.
MARSHALL H. TANICK
Minneapolis, Minn.
We (the ungrateful) need to exalt God, reader urges
Several weeks ago, just before I woke, in a dream, I saw a famous man, laid himself down face up, and then laid dead on the floor.
Then the word “exaltation†clearly appeared. The word was new to me.
But since twice before, the Almighty has, I honestly believe, sent this lowly servant of God, messages, through clearly visible dreams, I proceeded to seek the meaning of the word.
While the word “exaltation†is not listed in the King James version of the Holy Bible, the prime word “exalt†is clear, when it says, we are to exalt God, the Creator.
Without Him nothing would exist, including our earthly home Earth, and the never-ending Universe.
Yet today, skeptical Americans, and the World, still denies the existence of their Creator.
All the proof which God Almighty has provided through His word has been forgotten.
Forgotten because of human failure to follow God’s order that each generation are to teach each new generation God’s Word.
This morning, on 7-12-2022, the words “hundred thirty and seven†was clearly in my mind and I wondered why.
When I searched “hundred thirty and seven in the bible†Genesis 25-17 came up. It said, “And these are the years of the life of Ishmael… And he gave up the ghost and died.â€
Perhaps God just wanted to exalt him as He exalted Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel and the Nation of Israel!
Yes, we need to exalt God the Father, Jesus the Son of God, and God’s Holy Ghost. But it is not because they have a need to be exalted by their creation.
No, it is because they love us and want us to go to heaven and not Hell!
God has gone to great lengths in creating Earth, the Universe, and everything else that exists, including Humanity.
He loves everything he created, but most of all he loves US!
YES, UNGRATEFUL US!
Unfortunately, America and the World, refuses to believe and follow God’s commands to believe in Him and seek God’s plan for salvation through Jesus Christ blood sacrifice on the cross.
Instead, America is now promoting and practicing every abomination God despises, including murdering the unborn, murdering others, homosexual behaviors, changing their gender from what God made them, hating others, messing with other people’s rights and property, and you name it.
When we see and hear top government officials saying women have a right to kill their unborn babies, and that some states are trying to pass laws so that you can kill them up to 28 days after birth, one wonders how much longer God’s patience is going to last.
He might call “TIME†any time, and then, His judgment!
MANUEL YBARRA JR.
Coalgate, Okla.
A message to the ‘Southern’ Poverty Law Center: ‘Run, Satan, run!
'‘Florida is the Alamo,’ but 3 of its cities leave devil screaming, Asheville-based Southern heritage activist claims
The time has long since past that black folks in the South come to recognize that entities like the Southern Poverty Law Center is not their friend, and a long way from being Southern.
I have traveled many places in the South with the Southern Cross in hand, and donned the uniform of the Southern Soldier, and I can tell you that until Dillon Ruth’s fiasco in South Carolina, that Palatka, Florida, ranked right up there with the brotherhood that Dr. (Martin Luther) King (Jr.) espoused in his infamous “I Have A Dream†speech.
And every time that I get the opportunity, I tell anyone who will listen just how elated that my brother, I, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans were when the chair of the MLK Parade in Palatka invited the Sons to march in the parade.
And if there is one person in the country who doesn’t believe that the War for Southern Independence didn’t have a host of blacks fighting for the South, then they are badly mistaken. Satan takes up residence with his minions in the Southern Poverty Law Center and is terrified of the people of Palatka and the loving relations and relationships that they have for each other. He knows that if he can get the black race there to aid in the taking down of the Confederate soldiers Cenotaph “this relationship will endâ€.The Almighty God heard his son’s cry to forgive the dark-skinned Jews who forced him up to Gogatha and crucified him because they knew not what they do. However, The Almighty God was not happy, but gave unto them away back ,and it was not going to be easy. Yet in the economic institution of slavery in the Southland of America, the greatest place on earth, alongside a man who would once again introduce them to Jesus; together they began to bring the evil of Satan to an end. And Satan knew it! So he gathered up (Abraham) Lincoln, (Gen. Ulysses S.) Grant, (Gen. Phillip) Sheridan and (Gen. William Tecumseh) Sherman to wreak havoc upon these Godly people by stepping up this religious war (The War Between the States) to a realm of insanity. I have said it many times .... “Florida is the Alamo. “And while sometimes it looks like God’s chosen people are at a loss; we find the devil screaming as he does now in Palatka, Pensacola and St. Augustine.God bless you — and may he look favorably upon the deserving peoples of the South!
H.K. EDGERTON
Chairman of the Board of Advisors Emeritus, Southern Legal Resource Center
Member of Save Southern Heritage
Honorary Life Member, Zebulon Baird Vance Camp 15 Sons of Confederate Veterans Honorary Life Member, Judah P Benjamin Camp 2640 Sons of Confederate Veterans Honorary Associate Member, Abner Baker Chapter 14 United Daughters of the Confederacy
Honorary Life Member, Texas and Kentucky Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Member, Texas Order of Saint George
Honorary Life Member, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia Orders of the Confederate Rose President
Southern Heritage 411
Asheville
Easier said than done on America’s gun control issue, reader claims
Dismantle the NRA, ban the sale of assault weapons to civilians, tighten background checks and again, dismantle the NRA which values gun ownership over the lives of humans, particularly children.
It’s a start and Congress must do the right thing for what they were elected to do and, if not, we will surely become a third-world country (if we aren’t already)!
HERB STARK
Mooresville
White power fuels witness-tampering, reader alleges
“It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.â€
— Clemenza from Francis Ford Coppola’s film “The Godfather†(1972)
Demonic dimwit Donald Trump — the whiny, pathetic, defeated Putin puppet crybaby — is such an unrepentant career criminal he can’t even just TEMPORARILY stop committing new felonies during the ongoing televised blockbuster January 6th congressional hearings, specifically — witness-tampering and witness intimidation!
Trump is truly stupid.
Chronicling the countless capital crimes of failed fascist Fuhrer Trump the Chump and his low-IQ, inbred neo-Nazi goons (who defiled our nation’s Capitol Building with their “conservative†Confederate flags and official Trump Republican Party swastikas) has been incredibly easy for our legislative branch’s litigators, not to mention being devastatingly effective in their presentation of the facts.
Disgusting Donald must be soiling himself right about now at the thought of prison.Speaking of Trump brand human excrement (and Diaper Donald’s Depends brand undergarments), it’s long past time to flush these fascist fools down the pipes and out to sea to suffocate and drown and sink to the bottom, never to be seen again!
The only useful purpose these genocidal neo-Nazi traitors can serve is as fatty fascist fish food.
Otherwise, these violent Trumptarded psychos are just taking up limited space in our jails and psychiatric facilities, which are much needed for those of our citizens who CAN be helped.
In case the proper “deep state†authorities are paying attention, I am eagerly volunteering personally to help administer a good time to be had by all otherwise known as Apache helicopter ring toss, or as it was once better known in General Pinochet’s Chile —“death flights.â€
Unlike the GOP, we won’t film these.
You see, unlike Republicans, we’re not crazy.
We’re just angry, righteously so.
Payback time!
It’s a long-standing little game that became popular in the South America of the 1970s, whereby enemies of the state were taken for a one-way trip that ends up with these traitors being tossed out of a military chopper into the ocean or into the side of a snow-capped mountain in the Andes.
After all, turnabout is fair play, fascists.
No parachute for you!
And no trials are necessary.
Everyone — and I mean EVERYONE — now knows just how guilty you anti-American, pro-Putin traitors are… 100 percent!
Speaking of Apaches, from now on those of us patriotic liberal, ass-kicking American citizens (who aren’t falling into the pacifist trap “the American Left†has been stuck in for several decades now) need to start asking ourselves one question and one question only: “WHAT WOULD LIEUTENANT ALDO REIGN DO AT A TIME LIKE THIS?â€
Get real, folks. We will never eliminate neo-Nazis (or racist Russian imperialists for that matter) by being nice to them, therefore we must fight fire with fire, both politically and literally if necessary.
Legal — entirely justifiable — acts of self-defense are our only option at this point, unless, of course, our U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the nation’s still clearly partisan Republican “Justice†Department finally decides to do their job and prosecute America’s extreme right-wing domestic terrorist traitors, including Trump.
“Turning the other cheek†is only going to get us crucified in 2022.
If pacifism is more important to you than freedom and democracy, then you, sir, are what is commonly called a coward!
Did I hurt your feelings, snowflake?
If so, then go complain to your mother, or to your favorite pedophile priest or preacher.
You ain’t Jesus, son!
At least Jesus was willing to sacrifice himself for the general good of humanity at large.
What are you willing to sacrifice for freedom and democracy’s sake?
Anything at all?
Or is that asking too much?
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
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