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If this "politically incorrect" map of Alabama & Georgia offends you, just go ahead & unfriend me rite now 'cause I'm about chop this baby up & post the hell out of it!
On January 31, 1861,the State of Louisiana seized the The United States Branch Mint on the corner of Esplanade & Decatur Streets in New Orleans near the French Market.It was later turned over to the Confederacy which struck only four half dollar coins before being ordered to cease production. The front of this coin is exactly like an 1861 U.S. half dollar with the reverse design having a shield with seven stars, representing the seceding states(S.C.,FL,MS,AL,GA,LA,TX); above the shield is a liberty cap, and entwined around it stalks of sugar cane and cotton. The reverse inscription is CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA above and HALF DOL. below the shield. http://www.stellacoinnews.com/index.php/seated-half-dollars-1861-o/
Tuesday will mark the 150th anniversary of Texas seceding from the Union. Governor Sam Houston,who was married to Margaret Lea of Marion & was a cousin of John McKee,Tuscaloosa's first U.S. Representative, refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy and had to vacate the governor's office. In his last public speech, Houston prophesied disaster,"The die has been cast by your secession leaders, whom you have permitted to sow & broadcast the seeds of secession, and you must ere long reap the fearful harvest of conspiracy and revolution." http://bobcivilwarhistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/reap-fearful-harvest-sam-houston-and.html
In many ways it can be argued that THE EUFAULA REGENCY was as radical for slavery as THE SECRET SIX in Boston was for abolition. Well, Saturday, January 29, will mark the 150th anniversary of the day THE REGENCY met their WATERLOO. Kansas came into the Union as A FREE STATE!!!!!!!!!! http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2913.
Now what in the world would possess someone to name a church ROCKBABYLON in Dixon Mills,Alabama in 1866?!!!! Well, I googled rockbabylon & got no results but Google gave me the 6,590,000 results for ROCK BABYLON & I discovered the origins for Marilyn Manson's quest to corrupt all the youth of the world.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abP4D4Ba2s8
Here's a portion of the perfect,undamaged shells I picked up on Pelican Island Sunday. They include a huge barnacle,"egg" shells,cockles,scallops & clams. It's hard not to believe the OIL GUSHER didn't have something to do with all these fresh shells washing up on the beach.
Since January 26 is the 28th anniversary of COACH BRYANT'S death, I got some inquiries by folks wanting to hear the THE DAY BEAR BRYANT DIED song so I referred them to the preview function on CD BABY site that sells the CD which you can get to by clicking on "CLICK HERE TO BUY" function on THE DAY BEAR BRYANT DIED website
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THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KEWL!
Sonya Register Land So... there can be beauty found in a plastic bag laying on the beach....it's all in the way we look at it. It can be done. Well done, Robert!
See, Flo, BP ignore them dead pelicans just like dey do when they drive by & ignore about a gazillion times each day the beer bottles, plastic motor oil containers, cigar wrappers (from the "workers" loading they "blunts") and empty Skoal containers on the beach.
As you can see from the droppings & feathers, there's no shortage of cormorants, gull & pelicans @ LAND'S END of PELICAN ISLAND. You could go down there during the calm of the day when there are no birds & set up a blind & get INCREDIBLE SHOTS. As soon as the wind picks up, this section of beach is covered with hundreds of sea birds of all species. This is where they cool out during the windy part of the day.
LAND'S END ~ PELICAN ISLAND, ALABAMA ~ Sunday afternoon, January 16, 2011 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU
You can see from the bird tracks, feathers & feces that's there mo' pelicans on LAND'S END @ PELICAN ISLAND than this un. Guess BP sprays 'em orange fo' some reason & leaves 'em there to decay with the rest of the garbage they ignore.
Pelican Island (you can see Ft. Gaines to the right in this image on the east end of Dauphin Island)
Naval forces off Fort Pickens ( 54 mounted cannon just east of present-day Pensacola Beach) in February of 1861~ left to right: ship-rigged, propeller-driven steam sloop of war BROOKLYN ( 22 mounted Dahlgren smooth bore & two rifled pivot guns ), sail-rigged frigate SABINE (56 guns), sail-rigged sloop ST. LOUIS, sail-rigged SUPPLY, steamer WYANDOTTE, chartered steamer ATLANTIC.
General Patrick Cleburne speculated that maybe God might turn his back on the Confederacy since slaves had no marital rights by law. http://www.civilwarhome.com/cleburneproposal.htm
The reenactment of Jefferson Davis' inauguration will occur on Saturday, February 19, 2011.
SHERMAN ELECTED LINCOLN!
Address by Jefferson Davis, President elect of the Confederacy from the balcony of the Exchange Hotel February 16, 1861. He was introduced by William L. Yancey with the words, "THE MAN & THE HOUR HAVE MET." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ue178JGpxA&feature=related
How 'bout checking out one of my blogs & let me know if ya find anything that interests you. I've posted over 3200 times since Feb. of '03.
Circled Friday, February 18 on my calender. IT A HOLIDAY! EVER FRIDAY A HOLIDAY IN MONTGOMERY! http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/confederate_president_jefferso.html
A Canister Shell found in a cistern @ Ft. Gaines on Dauphin Island containing 6 of its 9 balls. Tuscaloosa's LUMSDEN'S BATTERY was stationed there & later on they got to use some of this ammunition in battle. http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-592.html
Ft. Gaines on the East End of Dauphin Island. Check out the Museum & the HOWARD FREW COLLECTION (any information about Howard Frew would be appreciated).
1-11-11 ~ THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF ALABAMA SECEDING FROM THE UNION
This is one of the disturbing images Jared Loughner, the Tuscon shooter, had on his myspace account. I found it on one of Loren Coleman's blogs.
Look like I won't be going to Dauphin Island for the Mardi Gras parade Feb. 5. I bought my ticket to the Oxford American gig @ THE ALABAMA THEATER in B'ham on Sat. , Feb. 5. I decided to go after a member of Huntsville's SEX CLARK FIVE contacted me about Nathan Glick.
The kewl thing about living in Tuscaloosa is that you are able to work and travel along streets that were layed out & constructed by a LOST CIVILIZATION. Not a moment goes by in the Original City when you can forget that it might be 2011 but you are living within the infrastructure of A LOST WORLD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgF-rcHcPqE&feature=related
It's hard for me to believe this guy's neighbors allow him to raise about 30 fighting roosters in his backyard in a crowded neighborhood between Virginia & High Point Drives. One good thing you can say about roosters is that they are as good as peacocks when it comes to being watchdogs. These jokers started raising hell when I walked up and took this picture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiFnleuNULQ&feature=related
Check out the Facebook page for PERMIT SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES IN TUSCALOOSA during the next week because THE PUSH IS ON! We'll be getting more information soon on how you can donate to the cause & get yard signs before the Feb. 22 referendum. IF YOU HATE SUNDAY SUFFOCATION, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71901615752&v=wall&viewas=0
Today a tenant wanted me to secure her basement door because a neighborhood thug had entered the basement during a running gun battle and after he left, the tenant found his pistol stashed in a hole in the bricks. When I got to her house in Alberta, I asked to see the pistol because I wanted to give it to the police. She didn't have the pistol. She had been too afraid to check out her basement and her friend had found the pistol when he checked it out for her. "So I guess your friend has a new pistol," I said. "No," the tenant replied,"the boy came back and begged so pitiful that we gave him back his gun." Uhhh. Oh yeah. OK. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K8t6wKjdg&feature=related
I know just cause you can't speak English don't me you dumb but I LMAO today when Rush made fun of "Professor" Cornel West's usage of the word "surcame". What Rush didn't realize was that Cornel was simply valididating his own ebonological ethninticity fo' his peoplesizzzzzzzzzz when he used the word to criticize our President. What that stupid Rush Limbaugh don't realitize is the great rapper SOOPAFLY done used the word "surcame" before in the lyrics of his song LIKE IT OR NOT!
Gotta phone call from Robert Nix this afternoon. He's doing great & he's excited about the new year. He, Buie & Ole Ox sold their song SO INTO YOU to this movie starring Mark Wahlberg called THE FIGHTER. They're looking for some fat checks to come out of this deal & the song could get even more exposure than it did when it was used in Bill Murray's LOST IN TRANSLATION.
Didn't realize until tonight that Otis Redding's #1 song, SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY, was the first posthumous #1 in American chart history and that is was succeeded @ #1 in March of '68 by Bobby Goldsboro's HONEY. Definitely one of the best whistling songs ever recorded & if ya ever get a chance, catch Danny Kennedy, lead singer for Dothan's THE STRANGERS, version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrXc68gNjQ
Both of the Ruffin brothers, Jimmy & David, were born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, near the Alabama line around Cuba, Alabama. The late David Ruffin became the great, yet troubled, lead singer for the Temptations & Jimmy is remembered for a terrific Motown ballad, WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED. We have many members of the Ruffin family here in Tuscaloosa and I've heard a few claim kin to the famous Ruffin brothers. This version of WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED from mid 70s British TV includes the original spoken introduction which was replaced by an instrumental in the recording. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vf3ZE7CLg0&feature=related
This cat whose band, THE SEX CLARK FIVE, is featured in the latest OXFORD AMERICAN found my blog & wants me to get him in contact with Nathan Glick so he can get 98 yr. old Nathan to sign a book Nathan illustrated years ago co-written by Marie Bankhead. http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2010/dec/01/sex-clark-five/
I asked this old Dauphin Island Native who I've known since the summer of '77 ( his Daddy and his twin brother were the only two boys drafted from Dauphin Island during WWI. The Twin got killed.) about the goat trees. "Oh they climbed up in those trees. They cleared away the brush." Being from the Wiregrass, I asked whether there was ever a goat Bar-b-que on the island. OH, NO! Not only did they not milk the goats or eat the goats, everybody knew who owned EVERY goat on Dauphin Island & everyone respected them because they cleared the brush. The cattle were the same way. When a storm came up, everyone on the island went out to the West End to herd the cows east. When they built the bridge, they pulled up barges and hauled all the cattle off.
When you Google "between all earth and heaven be the ruler of your destiny", you get ZERO results.
The lyrics to this song may soon take on more meaning...
I will be happy to answer any questions you might have about me. My email address is robertoreg@gmail.com
