You’re still a duck as far as I’m concerned, or at least an honorary one.
Now get to work and sell some ticket to the Hartford Health Care Armpit Theater. You’ve only got one sellout and your commission is based on sellouts; of which I can claim you as an hororary one of then to.
There was still some “life” in Bridgeport in those days, such as it were… Today it must be a truly bittersweet experience for you to venture back there to mingle among the ghosts that gave this place some authenticity and visitor draw-power… Hearst, in their callous, elitist arrogance, sucked a big piece of the scant, remaining life out of this place when they plowed under the last remaining traces of the venerable parent of the Connecticut Post and relocated the HQ of the latter to Norwalk… No longer subscribe to the Post…
Below is the website information concerning the Connecticut Post copied today — 7/3/21…. If the Hearst organization is going to dominate the e-news business, they should at least post accurate information on their website concerning their publications… E.g., since the Connecticut Post is no longer a Bridgeport newspaper, shouldn’t that be reflected in the information on that publication’s website… (Isn’t accurate, up-to-date information one of the hallmarks of a quality NEWS organization?…) (See, below…)
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The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It serves Fairfield County and the Lower Naugatuck Valley. Municipalities in the Post’s circulation area include Ansonia, Bridgeport, Darien, Derby, Easton, Fairfield, Milford, Monroe, …
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Frederick Douglass on 4th of July is as relevant today as it was in 1852.
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
Don, it’s amazing how much of America’s past history is comng out now like America’s national anthem’s by composer Francis Scott Key. “All Men are Created Equal” and “The Land of the Free”—both those mottoes sprang from the pens of men with quite narrow views of equality and freedom.
By Christopher Wilson
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
JULY 1, 2016
On September 13, 1814, British warships commenced an attack on Fort McHenry, which protected the city’s harbor. For 25 hours bombs and rockets rained down on the fort, while Americans, still wondering whether their newfound freedom would really be so short-lived, awaited news of Baltimore’s fate.
Key, stuck aboard a British ship where he had been negotiating a prisoner release and barred by the officers of the HMS Tonnant from leaving because he knew too much about their position, could only watch the battle and hope for the best.
By the “dawn’s early light” of the next day, Key saw the huge garrison flag, now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, waving above Fort McHenry and he realized that the Americans had survived the battle and stopped the enemy advance.
The poem he wrote celebrated that Star-Spangled Banner as a symbol of the resilience and triumph of the United States.
Ironically, while Key was composing the line “O’er the land of the free,” it is likely that black slaves were trying to reach British ships in Baltimore Harbor. They knew that they were far more likely to find freedom and liberty under the Union Jack than they were under the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
You’re still a duck as far as I’m concerned, or at least an honorary one.
Now get to work and sell some ticket to the Hartford Health Care Armpit Theater. You’ve only got one sellout and your commission is based on sellouts; of which I can claim you as an hororary one of then to.
I had Lennie not as a Dick but a Dork!
What is this? You change my dick to a duck???
What a dick!
A duck by any other name is still a fuck!
There was still some “life” in Bridgeport in those days, such as it were… Today it must be a truly bittersweet experience for you to venture back there to mingle among the ghosts that gave this place some authenticity and visitor draw-power… Hearst, in their callous, elitist arrogance, sucked a big piece of the scant, remaining life out of this place when they plowed under the last remaining traces of the venerable parent of the Connecticut Post and relocated the HQ of the latter to Norwalk… No longer subscribe to the Post…
Below is the website information concerning the Connecticut Post copied today — 7/3/21…. If the Hearst organization is going to dominate the e-news business, they should at least post accurate information on their website concerning their publications… E.g., since the Connecticut Post is no longer a Bridgeport newspaper, shouldn’t that be reflected in the information on that publication’s website… (Isn’t accurate, up-to-date information one of the hallmarks of a quality NEWS organization?…) (See, below…)
Connecticut Post
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Connecticut Post
The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It serves Fairfield County and the Lower Naugatuck Valley. Municipalities in the Post’s circulation area include Ansonia, Bridgeport, Darien, Derby, Easton, Fairfield, Milford, Monroe, …
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The birth of America was on today July 4th 245 years ago, “Independence Day.”
“What to the Slave is the 4th of July” Frederick Douglass Speech”
https://youtu.be/z3YsMWLSyxY
Frederick Douglass on 4th of July is as relevant today as it was in 1852.
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
Don, it’s amazing how much of America’s past history is comng out now like America’s national anthem’s by composer Francis Scott Key. “All Men are Created Equal” and “The Land of the Free”—both those mottoes sprang from the pens of men with quite narrow views of equality and freedom.
By Christopher Wilson
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
JULY 1, 2016
On September 13, 1814, British warships commenced an attack on Fort McHenry, which protected the city’s harbor. For 25 hours bombs and rockets rained down on the fort, while Americans, still wondering whether their newfound freedom would really be so short-lived, awaited news of Baltimore’s fate.
Key, stuck aboard a British ship where he had been negotiating a prisoner release and barred by the officers of the HMS Tonnant from leaving because he knew too much about their position, could only watch the battle and hope for the best.
By the “dawn’s early light” of the next day, Key saw the huge garrison flag, now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, waving above Fort McHenry and he realized that the Americans had survived the battle and stopped the enemy advance.
The poem he wrote celebrated that Star-Spangled Banner as a symbol of the resilience and triumph of the United States.
Ironically, while Key was composing the line “O’er the land of the free,” it is likely that black slaves were trying to reach British ships in Baltimore Harbor. They knew that they were far more likely to find freedom and liberty under the Union Jack than they were under the “Star-Spangled Banner.”