1. In a major breakthrough engineered by the great man of change and hope and who has blocked access to all documents that tell us anything about him, Israeli Vice President for American Affairs (IVPAA), Barrack Hussein Obama, the Israeli Vice President for Palestinian Affairs (IVPPA), Mahmoud Abbas, has made a major compromise. In a press conference in Herzeliyya, Abbas has offered Netanyahu a huge concession. Both the House and Senate in the US are ready to vote on it as soon as Netanyahu gives the go ahead, the bill having been drafted by AIPAC, as usual. Abbas’ statement is included in the photo- op image below.
2. You know, Abbas just may be on to something. All you investigative journalists who read this blog, and you FBI guys too, want might to pay attention to what ever the hell is going on in the East Ramapo Central School District. It’s quite a tangled web, but it looks like a bunch of Orthodox Jews (in other words fundamentalist extremists like the ones who are stealing land from Palestinians left, right and center) are pulling a West Bank on a bunch of poor blacks and Latinos.
Now I know that everyone is all worried about Shari’ah law and that we are all mourning for the boring, dull and apparently quite smart Juan Williams, who got fired from a boring, dull and quite smart network so he can work full time for people who do things for which people like Julius Streicher were hanged at Nuremberg, I know you all are just weeping for Juan and all that shit.
But how about coming on a trip on the wings of the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr and we’ll get a bird’s eye view of a microcosm of these formerly great United States?
Trevor Brookins, who says he is an investigative reporter, writes the following about the East Ramapo Central School District in Rockland County, New York. The district has lots of minorities and also a Jewish community. (Note to Shas party members, the red highlights are mine.)
Over the past decade this Jewish community has utilized its political prerogative and gained a majority of seats on the school board to then authorize more and more funds and services to be allocated to the Yeshivas. Ignore for a moment that these Yeshivas are somehow classified as public schools and therefore receive tax funds while operating in a private manner in that they do not admit non-Jewish children.
Say it ain’t so, Shlomo. The school board is being run by a bunch of Orthodox Jews and the Jewish schools get tax dollars and don’t admit non-Jewish kids? Who’d a thunk it? But it gets better. Much better.
Mr. Brookins continues:
There are still two major problems that continue to grow in significance. First, there is the steady reallocation of funds from schools with an inclusive student population (heterogeneous ethnically and religiously) to schools that are exclusively Jewish; second, there is the steady decrease in the amount of non-Jewish students and families in the district which makes the dissolution of the district more and more a possibility.
Not surprisingly, we get a nice picture of this community in the Forward. Although the majority population is not Jewish, 6 of the 8 elected members of the school board are Orthodox Jews. The school board Chairman whose name is, and I am not making this up, Nathan Rothschild, defends what’s going on. The Forward reports:
The president of the school board, an Orthodox Jew from Monsey named Nathan Rothschild, who is seen by some observers as playing a mediating role between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox members of the board, said that Orthodox board members have an interest in providing a good education to the public school students. But he also made clear that he saw himself as a representative of the “private school community.”
And it looks like the Orthodox are being well represented:
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“Rothschild pointed to three factors that led to the Orthodox community’s ultimate push for a school board majority: population growth, a state law that reimbursed school districts for busing private school students and changing attitudes within the Orthodox community toward the needs of the developmentally disabled. In 2005, representatives of the Orthodox community took the school board majority for the first time.“
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Looks like access to state funding for private education was just too appealing. But it gets better. The Orthodox-dominated board decided it just had to close one of the schools attended by those useless goyim. And then, surprise surprise, the school board sells the property to Congregation Yeshiva Avir Yaakov for under market value. Pretty cool huh? Oh wait, turns out not only has someone filed suit and blocked the sale, it also turns out that for some mysterious reason the school board was not aware that it owed 3 million dollars to the State of New York for improvements to the property it was selling to the Yeshiva. No doubt this is a coincidence. It’s all right there in the Forward article.
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Oh, I almost forgot to mention that the town of Ramapo loves Israel. It even has a sister city in Israel called Beit Shemesh. This is nice, especially since Israelis seem to like to live in Ramapo such as these sixteen families of Israelis who are living there illegally who got the boot over the summer. The article points out that Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, who seems to be a complete shill, is closely supported by the two Rabbis who run the Yeshiva that settled these families against the orders of a court injunction. In fact, this article here shows even more attempts at creating “housing” disguised as living for religious students. People in Ramapo are pissed.
In fact, it turns out that two “laws” are being used by the Yeshivas to set up more and more “housing” for Jews coming there from G-d knows where. Christopher St. Lawrence seems to be all for it. Wonder why.
The Preserve Ramapo people are careful how they go about fighting the destruction of their community. Here they show how St. Lawrence caved to “religious developers“. Wonder what religion? Actually it does get named in the article, but the Preserve folks are very hesitant to mention it. Wonder why?
Could you imagine if Muslims were pulling this shit? Palin, Angle, Beck the whole lot of zio-assholes would be screaming “Shakira law” at the top of their zionist-bullshit-filled lungs.
This whole mess deserves some real in-depth investigative journalism.
There is so much here that needs exploring. I bet the roots of all this run pretty deep. I guess Mahmoud Abbas was correct in calling for a halt of continued Israeli settlement construction in the US.
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3. I’ve never liked Juan Williams. As far as I can tell he’s never had an original thought his whole life. But given all the zionist bullshit that is fed Americans by the very media in which he believes and of which he is apart, I don’t think he should have been fired from his job with National Patrician Radio. Most Americans are now afraid of Muslims, and with Williams now joining the enemy of the people full time he can make big bucks giving that bunch of zionist agents more credibility. For that, I loathe him.
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4. Danielle Crittenden, who should be writing for Moron.Com, gets ripped a whole new asshole by the Anonymous Arabist for what she says about Muslims in this piece. It’s a good read. And no, Ms. Crittendon should not be fired. Maybe she should take a job with Fox News though.
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5. Okay, I need something to put me, and I hope you, in a good mood. One day, when I get my own radio show on the Rense network, the song in the video below is going to be used for my bumper music. (First I’ll need to be fired by Alex Jones for talking about Israel and by RBN for talking about the USS Liberty, but I digress.)
Now I just love the facial expressions of all the dudes in this video, but especially those of the skinny guitarist who is playing between Booker T and the drummer. He just looks like he’s doing the one thing he loves most, and I enjoy that. I believe he is Steven Cropper and that he is also the lead guitarist in the much later video of the same song which I’ve linked to further below. BTW, according to the comments for the first video, when the video pans back to the dudes standing behind the stage, those dudes are Credence Clearwater Revival.
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I present to you Booker T and the MG’s with “Time is Tight.” If this song doesn’t make you feel good, you must be living in a Yeshiva in Ramapo.
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And here’s Booker T and the MG’s, oh, just a few years later. More power to them.
1. Hey there everybody, all the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr want to announce that they have come up with, and just in time for Christmas, a new invention which will be on sale soon. You all remember past Mantiqiyyan inventions like the Tafsiranator and the wildly popular Zionist Bullshit Filter. Well now we have something we all feel will be our crowning achievement and we can’t wait to tell you about it. But first, we have to deal with issue of the day, the single most important fear held by all patriotic Americans, the imminent take over of these United States by a bunch of crazy Zionist Jewish bankers. Just kidding. The imminent take over of these United States by the mother of all enemies to baseball, Mom and depleted uranium, Shari’ah Law. So let’s deal with that topic right now.
2. As we know from assholes like Robert Spencer, Dick Morris and Martel Sobiesky, Islam is a terrible terrible thing. It demands complete obedience to Shakira law and the Muslims are on the verge of imposing that law upon all of us, probably before the November elections. Look at the excerpt I’ve taken below from Shari’ah 101, a website devoted to spreading Shi’iri’ah law throughout these United States.
“Islam is not just a set of beliefs about Allah, man and the universe. Islam is a comprehensive way of life, filled with rules and practices that affect every aspect of life: what you do when you wake up in the morning, what you can and cannot eat, what you can and cannot wear, how to groom yourself, how to conduct business, who you can marry, how to observe the holidays and Friday prayer and perhaps most important, how to treat Allah, other people, and animals. This set of rules and practices is known as sherri’ah.
The word “sherry” is usually translated as “Islamic Law,” although a more literal (and more appropriate) translation might be “the path that one walks.” The word is derived from the Arabic root meaning to go, to walk or to travel.
Some non-Muslims and non-observant Muslims criticize this legalistic aspect of traditional Islam, saying that it reduces the religion to a set of rituals devoid of spirituality. While there are certainly some Muslims who observe SHARI’AH in this way, that is not the intention of shuri’eh, and it is not even the correct way to observe Shapira.
On the contrary, when properly observed, sharkirah increases the spirituality in a person’s life, because it turns the most trivial, mundane acts, such as eating and getting dressed, into acts of religious significance. When people write to me and ask how to increase their spirituality or the influence of their religion in their lives, the only answer I can think of is: observe more shari’ah. Keep hallal or attend Friday prayers, pray after meals or once or twice a day. When you do these things, you are constantly reminded of your relationship with the Divine, and it becomes an integral part of your entire existence.
Are these laws sometimes inconvenient? Yes, of course. But if someone you care about — your parent, your child, your spouse — asked you to do something inconvenient or unpleasant, something you didn’t feel like doing, you would do it, wouldn’t you? It is a very shallow and meaningless kind of love if you aren’t willing to do something inconvenient for the one you love. How much more so should we be willing to perform some occasionally inconvenient tasks that were set before us by our Creator, who assigned those tasks to us for our own good? “
As you can see, the Shari’ah controls the minds of all Muslims managing every aspect of their lives turning them into automatons working on behalf of the world-wide Islamofascist movement.
Go here to read how Muslims are advocating that Shari’ah law should be a model for the US Penal Code. Go here to read how Shari’ah law does not recognize non-Muslims as human beings – their very souls are not fully human and how the difference between a non-Muslim soul and a Muslim soul is greater than the difference between human souls and moo-cows. And go here to see how Shari’ah law treats women when it comes to adultery. And also go here to see how Muslims circumvent US law by resorting to Shari’ah courts when they are cheated out of money by Jews.
They are taking over our legal system and as we all know, they have already taken over Hollywood. Look at what this Islamofascist boasts about in one of his columns in the LA Times: (Note to Shas party members, red highlights are mine)
The Muslims are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six non-Muslims in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Muslims. The sixth, . . . , turned out to be Muslim.
As a proud Muslim, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you’d be flipping between “The 700 Club” and “Davey and Goliath” on TV all day.
No wonder Rick Sanchez got fired by CNN.
3. Okay, now it’s time to tell you about our latest invention here at Mantiq al-Tayr. We know how the younger generations are infatuated with videos and how they rely on youtube for most of their non-drug related entertainment. Well, we have come up with some great video conversion software that you youngins as well as all you older folks will love. What it does is it takes any Haifa Wehbe youtube video and converts it into a format where Haifa’s clothes are completely removed!
Haha. Just kidding. What we have is even better. Don’t believe me do you? Bet you are all saying what could possibly be better than a program that allows us to see Haifa Wehbe as, uh, errr, as well as the TSA gets to see us when we travel? Well you are about to join the ever growing ranks of the faithful – those who understand and appreciate the power of our latest invention at Mantiq al-Tayr, the Kapnernator.
Now you all remember the ever popular Zionist Bullshit Filter which takes all the Zionist Bullshit out of mainstream newspapers leaving you with a newspaper that is 100% Zionist Bullshit free (and hence much smaller.) The Kapnernator works on a similar principle, but it is way way cooler. What it does is it will take any Zionist Bullshit Video (ZBVs) found on youtube and will convert it into something educational, entertaining, and well, kind of cute really.
Yes indeed, the Kapnernator will take any youtube video, no matter how jam-packed it is with Zionist Bullshit about Shari’ah law or the USS Liberty or whatever, and it will utterly transform it into something useful and maybe a little funny too. (After all, this is a Mantiq al-Tayr product.)
Want to see living proof? Of course you do. What should I choose for this? Oh, who could possibly be more full of Zionist Bullshit than the disgusting Israel-loving toe-sucker and ass-kisser and aptly-named Dick Morris?
Here is one of his pure unadulterated Zionist Bullshit through-and-through videos about how Shari’ah law is being shoved right up your very asses as I write these words. Warning, you will need at least one barf bag to watch this video.
Now the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr downloaded the above video to a flashdrive (which they later burned) and converted it using their newest invention, the Kapnernator. To see the new video created entirely out of the old one but with all of the Zionist Bullshit tossed into the dust bin of history, scroll down slowly.
No this isn’t it.
Trust me Mr. President, they already know
No, you are not there yet, but you
are getting closer
Could be our next president before the 2012 elections
and closer. Almost there, but not quite.
From left to right, Zionist, Zionist stooge, Zionist Stooge
Ready? Scroll down just a wee bit more.
Here it is! It’s a great video and Shas and TEA Party members will be able to watch it since it is short and it does not go beyond their attention spans.
Yes indeed, you can take any youtube video, no matter how full of Zionist Bullshit it is, download it, run it through the Kapnernator and out will come a brand new video by the wonderful Brother Nathanael Kapner telling you what is really going on. Now goys and girls, what could be better than that?
Imagine converting this bullshit:
Into this:
You gotta love it.
BTW, we almost named this thing “The Fat Pigs Pushing Zionist Bullshit Converter” but we decided it was just too long a name and the acronym didn’t spell anything. So after much animated discussion we chose the “Kapnernator” as the name. BTW, you can contribute to Brother Nathanial Kapner’s foundation by going here.
We hope to have the Kapnernator for sale in time for the Christmas season. Not yet available in Iowa.
4. The photos inserted above between the appalling Dick video and the wonderful Brother Nathanial Kapner video are courtesy of long time commenter on this site Skulz Fontaine who has his own website called “The Graphic Visigoth” where he uses imagery to express his views on just how profoundly odd the world is. Give it a visit, you’ll enjoy it. All of the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr hope that Skulz will continue to make contributions to our site as well.
5. I haven’t digressed yet. But I digress.
6. We are also working on another program that will convert Alan Derwoshitz videos like this:
into great stuff like this.
Trying to think of a name for it.
7. In our last post, I made a reference to Confederate General Turner Ashby and some readers found that interesting. He is buried in the Stonewall Confederate Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia. Thought some of you might enjoy a picture or two or three from that cemetery.
If you can read the inscription in the sign above, you’ll note that this memorial was set up the day that the Six Day War began in the Middle East. General Ashby was killed on June 6, 1862.
“This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.” General David Petraeus
1. All of us here at Mantiq al-Tayr call upon Americans all over the country to support the Congressional campaign of Ilario Pantano who is running in the 7th district in North Carolina on the GOP ticket. But we go way beyond this, we call on Mr. Pantano and all Americans to support his running for President against either Obama (if he even runs again in 2012 and he may very well not run) or whatever other toady the Democrats chose to nominate to be Netanyahu’s bitch for the next four years.
Now I can hear you all saying “Mantiq, sure he’s cute and everything and he hates Islam and loves Israel as much or more than Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, but why should we vote for him instead of Sarah?” Good question. Let me explain this in terms Americans can understand.
For years we have elected draft-dodging accomplishmentless morons to the White House who have been totally controlled by a bunch of neocon Zionist assholes who have played decisive roles in getting us involved in all sorts of stupid wars and who have conned dumb-ass poorly educated and utterly brainwashed Americans into thinking they are on a mission from God to completely fuck up the entire planet. But now with Pantano you actually have a chance to elect one of those dumb-ass poorly educated (despite the prep school thing) utterly brainwashed Americans who appears to deeply and truly believe that he is on a mission from God to completely fuck up the entire planet. Why have complete fakes with no courage whatsoever like Obama and Bush or Palin when you can put this guy in office and tell the whole world clearly and plainly “Yes, we in these United States are sincerely a bunch of war mongering Zionist stooge retards who want to kill all you rag-head Muslims and if we have anything left over we’ll kill those fucking gooks in China too.”
We may as well be honest about who we really are, and sending Pantano to the White House would be just like putting a sign on the White House roof that says “No better friend, no worse enemy and fuck you all.” Man, wouldn’t that look cool during press conferences on the Cabalah News Network with President Pantano holding hands with Benjamin Netanyahu or Avigdor Lieberman as they sign treaties of US surrender to Israel and declarations of war against Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan?
Pantano loves signs, as it turns out. For example, in 2004 after he shot to death two unarmed Iraqi prisoners with something on the order of 60 rounds and for which he was formally charged with murder he put up a sign over their dead bodies that read “No better friend, no worse enemy” which was the motto of his Marine platoon and of the very disturbing (and now CENTCOM Commander) General James Mattis.
Now to shoot these two as much as he did, he emptied one magazine and then calmly put in another and kept firing. As he said himself “I then changed magazines and continued to fire until the second magazine was empty…I had made a decision that when I was firing I was going to send a message to these Iraqis and others that when we say, ‘No better friend, No worse enemy,’ we mean it. I had fired both magazines into the men, hitting them with about 80 percent of my rounds.”
Yes indeed, he sent that message back on April 15th 2004, while you guys were no doubt rushing to get your tax returns in on time so you could pay for the bullets. And for sure the Iraqis got that message didn’t they and everything worked out just great, right?
Pantano went to Iraq believing, as many utterly brainwashed Zionist-Bullshit-fed Americans believe as well, that Iraq was somehow responsible for 911 even though everyone else in the whole world knows this is bullshit. He even showed an HBO movie about 911 in order to motivate his men and said to the BBC: “My duty, as is the duty of these other Marines is quite frankly to export violence to the four corners of the globe to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.”
Thank God the charges against him were dropped so he is free to become Obama’s replacement. Of course, there are some people who don’t seem to think he’d be a good choice, for example the sore loser Will Brazeale, who lost to Pantano in the Republican primary a while back. Brazeale says some really outrageous things like: “To shoot two unarmed prisoners 60 times and put a sign over their dead bodies is inexcusable,” says Breazeale. “And once people know the real story, he has no chance of winning in November.” Obviously Breazeale must be stopped, nothing can be allowed to get in the way of Pantano for President in 2012. What’s worse is that Breazeale is, like Pantano, a veteran of both wars in Iraq so for some weird reason he might have some credibility as a result. He even calls Pantano “dangerous”, imagine that. And even worse he says that he too has captured prisoners in Iraq that he says that “there is no excuse” for what Pantano did.
Anyway, let’s get back to Pantano’s strong points. He clearly hates Islam, is against the “Ground Zero Mosque”, has nothing but contempt for the sufferings of the Palestinian people, totally completely and utterly supports Israel, and of course, and this is the best part, he wants war with Iran. As we say in Arabic شو بدك احسن من هيك , he’s got it all.
Not only “must” the Cordoba center be stopped, other mosques are an issue for Pantano and his logic is impeccable: “If we allow mosques to go up like mushrooms everywhere there is a terrorist bombing or shooting we will create a perverse incentive, not a deterrent.” Did you know that the Imam for the Center is a very naughty boy who actually supports the 911 hijackers? Pantano knows: Feisal Abdul Rauf is “more than an apologist for the religion-based sharia law, which many experts see in direct opposition to the U.S. Constitution.” That’s because he supports the Free Gaza movement which in and of itself is evil thing to do. Therefore, we learn that “It seems that when Imam Rauf isn’t raising money for martyr-markers in Manhattan, he is busy funding international incidents to cast aspersions on Israel.” Oohh, bad Imam, bad Imam.
Note: as soon as someone talks about his fear of “Shari’ah law” and how it is opposed to the US Constitution you can be sure you are talking to someone who is anti-Muslim to the core and is almost certainly running around with the likes of Pam Gellar.
Israel comes first with Pantano as he makes clear. Note to Shas party members, red highlights are mine:
“Now the world stage is focused on isolating our only democratic ally in the Middle East, and members of the Obama Administration and the Left are intent on abandoning the Israelis just as they did last year with Poland and our missile defenses in Europe. After 5,000 rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel, can anyone say “moral parity” with a straight face? The American Left can. Today, the cover of the snarky Economist magazine asks, “What is wrong with America’s Right?” But they answered their own question by reporting that “[a] gap in sympathy for Israel has widened between Democrats and Republicans. Conservatives still tend to back Israel through Hell and high seas.” Well that’s one gap I am proud to stand on the right side of.”
Being a nice “Judeo-Christian” boy, Pantano has hereby informed us that he too backs Israel “through Hell and high seas.”
On his war mongering about Iran, here’s a quote from his website:
“Stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. It has been clear that radical Islam is the enemy since America’s first clash during Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979.”
As soon as someone starts talking about how Iran is getting nuclear weapons, you know you are reading code for “let’s bomb the motherfuckers.”
Did I mention Pam Gellar, the living mummy of the anti-Islamic movement? Well, surprise, surprise, she organized an anti-Ground Zero Mosque rally and guess who spoke there? I told ya anyone speaking like an idiot about Shari’ah law has just got to be a Gellarite and Pantano most definitely is. He spoke at her rally and there’s lots of great quotes in his speech there. Here’s one: ““From Egypt to Bali, from Baghdad to Kabul, no one can forget there was a car bomb here in Times Square six months ago. Folks, if you think this is over, it’s just beginning.… So what’s my opinion about a mosque at ground zero? NO MOSQUE HERE. …”
“Just the beginning” ? WTF? Endless war my dear readers, endless war.
And Gellar fawned all over him: “One of the highlights of our 9/11 Rally of Remembrance was the fiercely righteous, fearless truth teller Ilario Pantano. His courage and willingness to tell the truth about issues the mainstream media dubs “controversial” shows that the old guard is done. It is politicians with political courage like Ilario Pantano who actually speak for the people. And they are few. Pantano is one of them. If you don’t know him, you should. Contribute to his campaign, volunteer, get out the vote. Our nation depends on it.”
You heard it from the mummy herself, “Our nation depends on it.” So let’s elect the guy who really showed those Iraqis who is boss. Then we’ll have a guy in the White House who is “No better friend” to Israel and “No worse enemy” to mankind.
2. Skulz Fontaine, a frequent commenter on this site, sent this beautiful picture in. So, for all you Zionist-Christian morons and stooges of Israel, why don’t you use this when you pray in school?
Gimme that old-time religion
3. I see that CNN’s Rick Sanchez was fired for saying that the Arabs run Hollywood.
4. Ashby is dead.
The “Death of Ashy” is the title of one of the chapters of Henry Kidd Douglas’ memoir of the American Civil War “I Rode With Stonewall” about which I posted not long ago. General Turner Ashby was a beloved figured who played a major role, though not always a successful one, in Stonewall Jackson’s Valley campaign, said valley being the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Whatever Ashby’s or Douglas’ faults may have been, they loved Virginia, and Ashby, a great horseman and a man of remarkable courage, paid for that love with his life. Having traveled extensively through that gorgeous valley, the mountains between which it is nestled and throughout the rest of that state, I can surely see why they loved it so much.
Douglas dedicated his book to “any good soldier who died in battle and is forgotten,” men who for whatever reason found themselves in the midst of the horrors of war. He saw first hand how truly horrible and destructive it is and what it did to Virginia. For all Americans who have or who may in the future experience this horror, I quote from the chapter the “Death of Ashby.” No red highlighting is needed, every sentence is a gem.
“The sun from its rising to its setting does not shine upon a more blessed spot than the Valley of Virginia. From the beautiful bank of the River of Swans, the historic Potomac, to where the noble and solemn mountains of the old State send down their streamlets to form the Shenandoah and the James, are countless evidences of the generosity with which Providence has dealt with this royal region. The Blue Ridge on the east, the Alleghanies on the west seem to enclose this favorite Valley in a magnificent frame. The odd Massanutton is thrown up n the midst of it, with peculiar effect, so that the rich and fertile garden may offer equal attractions to the artist and t he agriculturalist. From Jefferson’s Rock at Harper’s Ferry-to stand upon which, said Thomas Jefferson, was worth a trip across the Atlantic-to the Natural Bridge the traveler may wander over picturesque mountains, by splendid rivers and clear rivulets, through stately groves and broad green fields, each richest of its kind and unsurpassed in all this great continent. But as it was beautiful and bountiful it attracted destruction, for it was the great or chief storehouse of the Army of Virginia. ‘If this Valley is lost, Virginia is lost,’ said Jackson, and the Confederacy could not survive Virginia. A broad land that blossomed as the rose when the war began, it was a scene of deserted homesteads, smouldering ruins, wasted fields, shattered groves, and general desolation when General Philip Sheridan had done with it. Now that the war is over, it will in time rise again, but it will be difficult to convince the future historian that such wholesale destruction was not useless and barbarous.
“It was a lovely Valley to do battle for, a decorated deathbed for the cavalier and hero; and here Turner Ashby died. The Valley loved him and loves him yet. During the war he had never left her for a single day. He had watched over her without ceasing. He had made memorable her hills and streams; and the people along the hills still weep for him, and the forests echo their lamentations.”
And they do to this very day.
5. I leave you with another treasure song by the late Liam Clancy about just how great it is to go off and fight wars. In the intro to the song he rather seriously downplays the how deeply sad and moving this song is. Margaret, the woman in the song who cares for the Dutchman, is beyond any question a saint. One wonders how many Margarets on both sides of the Atlantic have been created just in this century through our own stupid wars. I’m afraid quite a few. To all the Margarets out there, this song is dedicated to you.
Before you listen to this, I suggest you make sure that there is someone else in your house or apartment who you can hug afterwards. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
(photo courtesy of Skulz Fontaine)
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