1 hola

2 Unlike Burn's Civil War Documentary, I think only a relative handful of people are paying any attention to this one. Most likely due to the collapse in the numbers of those who tune in to PBS over the last couple of decades.
Oh, they'll still get all the Righteous and Faithful who will swear that it is Holy Doctrine, and they control the pages of the NYT - but not many people are really paying attention to them, either. Not anymore.

3 After watching the entire series, Burns’ objective is to claim that principles played no role in the founding of the United States. Rather, it was based on low self-interest.

I was wondering if he would go all 1619 on us. He did. FOAD.

4 Good morning KT

5 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

At the Bicentennial, there were a whole bunch of community cookbooks to celebrate it. I’ll be releasing my own Sestercentennial Cookery (one TexasMoMe attendee got a one-off AOSHQ ashcan in October) in January.

But what about a second AOSHQ cookbook, with not just heritage recipes but also Moronic history lessons and other revolutionary advice? I’m thinking Junior Moron Guidebook; I think we have a lot of historical writers here on the HQ as well as other practical writers that might be able to contribute one-page or one-paragraph essays related to American history.

6 Question:

Who TF died and made Ken Burns the expert on US history?

When I first heard he was going to 'do' the American Revolution, I could sense his deconstruction of it coming a mile away.

Ken Burns is a sawed-off leftist prick, and we should pay him no mind.

7 Burns is obsessed with the nobility of the Black Man! He will do anything to tear down the institutions that he thinks enslaved him or kept him servile (baseball).

8 This little charmer from a (claims to be Somalian) X account:

"...after close to a century of attacking Islam they’ve never been successful. Their plans to demonize and vilify Islam have never worked. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. --You can never defeat a people who only fear Allah.--"

Pulling them off the gubmint tit won't be pretty...and that's just the politicians. Then comes the millions of newly arrived gimmegrants from sheitholes that hate us.

9 I guess it's a good thing that PBS can't survive without taxpayer money, otherwise we'd all be paying for this.

10 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:34 AM (EXyHK)

Nag Ace. We are all set and ready to go with a second edition, but would prefer his okay.

11 Ken Burns is, was and always will be an Ass Head.

Why anyone watches his anti-white, anti-American and anti-truth propaganda nonsense is beyond me.

12 >>> Within the first five minutes of the first episode, we are told that the Founders (specifically Benjamin Franklin) used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

Yes, Franklin only credits the Iroquois for inspiring the idea of banding together in a confederacy of shared interests. He has no western influences to draw on...like the Greeks or the Swiss. Nope, Indians only! It is to laugh.

Ken Burns luckily has faded in relevancy. Who cares about him anymore? The only threat this documentary has is if it's shown in high schools to young skulls full of mush, who are too uneducated to be critical thinkers yet, and don't realize it's all bogus info. Thats where the danger happens.

13 Ken Burns?

Isn't he the guy that played “Feels So Good” in '77?

LOL - Well, that's who he looks like to me.

14 I'm burning all my Channel 13 Tote Bags in protest!

Ken Burns can go squeeze a a breeze!

15 What Key is Largo in?

16 Does Burns still have that goofy haircut?

17 Ken Burns is, was and always will be an Ass Head.

Why anyone watches his anti-white, anti-American and anti-truth propaganda nonsense is beyond me.

He kind of restrained himself in The Civil War. That was before he was famous and could let his freak flag fly. Now, it's "I hate whitey". He blends right in at PBS.

18 Saw but a long trailer on Ken Burns Propaganda 6 part miniseries. But watched a couple hours of videos taking down Ken's Propaganda miniseries.
Actually best wasn't as much as taking apart as what Ken's Propaganda didn't say. The synopsis the video said was it was about the war, not the Revolution. Besides all the Propaganda filled war, was about nothing the Revolution was about. Nothing hardly on the Constitution they fought for, the Bill of Rights they fought for. Just a lot of what Ken wanted it to be for which wasn't historically correct.
I might be able to find that video but can't be sure to find it.

19 The only threat this documentary has is if it's shown in high schools to young skulls full of mush, . . .
Posted by: LizLem

We need the likes of Professor Houseman once again.

20 What Key is Largo in?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The key of Sea.

Duh.

21 Ken Burns lost his virginity to his mommy's black maid, who was then fired for stealing the silver.

He has felt guilty ever since!

22 Ken Burns or Howard Zinn. What a choice!

23 It will be interesting to contrast the upcoming "Young Washington" movie with Burns' agitprop.

24 >>> But what about a second AOSHQ cookbook, with not just heritage recipes but also Moronic history lessons and other revolutionary advice?

That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.

25
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy have set off on their trip.

I love my wife, but by the time she leaves I'm ready for her to be gone for three weeks.

26 Ken Burns is the Howard Zinn of PBS.

27
We need the likes of Professor Houseman once again.
Posted by: Tonypete

John Houseman reads the phone book:

https://youtu.be/S_LA4gJeCio

28 https://tinyurl.com/2z2xv4rn
Bit as said think I did a good quick synopsis on his video

29 There's speculation that the Somali fraud will approach much more than the $1 billion being reported.

More like $8 billion.

Or more.

And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.

30 My mom was surprised I wouldn't want to watch a nice history of the Revolution

31 That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.
Posted by: LizLem

Doesn't dry, old cornbread stick to wooden teef?

32 Reportedly, the cocaine street prices in Europe have gone up by a quarter to a third. This is hurting someone or someones bigly.

The Dutch navy has been patrolling the Dutch Antilles and waters off Suriname for 20 years, boarding and sinking the drug couriers, and have not been able to make this much of a dent in the supply.

I have heard speculations that if the drug trade out of South America were ended, it might collapse some countries' economies

33 My mom was surprised I wouldn't want to watch a nice history of the Revolution

To which the correct response is "when they make one, I will".

34 Thing of State Fraud is the fraud is shoveled out by state bureaucracy who earns lots of salary and no doubt bonuses how much they can shovel out.

35 we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time.

Oh, honey chile, that just shows how badly we need reeducation camps in this so-called country.

36 That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.

I’m making Thomas Jefferson’s beans & rice for tonight, and it’s making the house smell ridiculously good.

I’ll bet that cornbread would be great with it.

37 Ken Burns is the Howard Zinn of Herbert Marcuses.

38 If the gop cuts $1B spending they’re the worst monsters on earth.

Somalia steal $1B, what the big deal guys?

39 But the biggest story of the week was corruption in Minnesota–billions stolen from taxpayers, mostly by Somalis, under the somnolent eye of Governor Tim Walz.

Somalis are all over X explaining how wonderful Somalia is.

It's just that they don't want to live there.

And, of course, you have Minnesota AWFLs on X (who probably live in lily-white small towns) explaining what wonderful neighbors the Somalis are.

40 That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.

I'd say you should try his rye whiskey, but I've had his rye whiskey. Bleccchhhh.

41 Ken Burns is the Howard Zinn of Herbert Marcuses.

Ken Burns is the Lloyd Christmas of Moe Howards.

42 Problem with Ken Burns is 20 or 30 years from now it will be THE truth. Like if you say it’s nonsense that Indians wrote the constitution people will say no it’s true, the great historian Ken Burns did a show on it and everything.

43 To which the correct response is "when they make one, I will".

Allen Guelzo’s America’s Founding Fathers was quite good. I don’t think it’s ever been aired on TV, though.

44 Could not upset The Left with a reference to "Manhood" once "gender" became an issue.
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As a power lesbian, Ken Burns felt particularly targeted by such engorged speech.

45 Burns' Civil War completely ignored the religious revival that was happening at the same time. I finished an annotated diary and collected letters of an Illinois volunteer who was in the Army of the West, and he speaks regularly about camp meetings and church services.

46 Allen Guelzo’s America’s Founding Fathers was quite good. I don’t think it’s ever been aired on TV, though.

Agreed, and I actually saw it, but can't remember where. Possibly Netflix?

47
Take out the Cat Ballou letter from his "The Civil War" series and Burns would have had have nothing special.

He's a nullity who is flying above his clearance level.

48 Breaking News: Famous astronaut Katy Perry and distinguished Canadian political figure Justin Trudeau are now an official couple!

49 Take out the Cat Ballou letter from his "The Civil War" series and Burns would have had have nothing special.

He's a nullity who is flying above his clearance level.


No, I don't agree with that. Between the music, Shelby Foote, and what was at the time a revolutionary way of presenting a documentary, it was quite good (IMHO). You could tell, though, that he had to fight the urge to make it all a polemic about the evil white man.

50
And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)

____________

My guess: this will not be pursued vigorously because nobody wants to know how bad and so widespread it really is.

51 Apparently many of the whistleblowers on MN's mega-corruption are in fact from state agencies, and much of the digging/reporting has been done by actual local journalists. For years.

It's actually a pretty stark (if redundant) illustration of how normal, good things and people still exist across the country, even in the worst-run places - but the de facto blackout on information by MSM and the indolence of Congress, supplemented by collaboration by key federal agencies (except during the black swan Trump periods), conceal such mega-scandals from most of the public.

52 If Somalia is so great when Trump deports their asses they should be delighted to return to the homeland. Right?

53 I had a history teacher at UH who loved all the woke tropes, and this was the late 80's. So I heard that Iroquois Confederact thing. Also, Cleopatra was black, and other shite.

But, he was a very engaging speaker and did point out that the Aztecs were an imperialist power who engaged in a bit of cannibalism to boost the protein content of their food.

It was a fun class if you already read a lot of history and took his words with a bag of salt.

54 12 >>> Within the first five minutes of the first episode, we are told that the Founders (specifically Benjamin Franklin) used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

Yes, Franklin only credits the Iroquois for inspiring the idea of banding together in a confederacy of shared interests. He has no western influences to draw on...like the Greeks or the Swiss. Nope, Indians only! It is to laugh.
Posted by: LizLem
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Ben proposed a unified colonial structure to deal with the British Empire during the midst of the French and Indian War in a meeting of colonies.
Here are some original sources directly from the NY Historical Society (meeting occurred in Albany NY 1754)

His later colonial agency to the Crown as a lobbyist for the colonies also played into his interest in the matter later.
https://tinyurl.com/k4mm3a68

55 Breaking News: Famous astronaut Katy Perry and distinguished Canadian political figure Justin Trudeau are now an official couple!
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)

And didn't think Justin liked girls.

56 Watch 1776 and April Morning, will get more history from those movies than Ken Burns' 'documentary.'

57 >>> Breaking News: Famous astronaut Katy Perry and distinguished Canadian political figure Justin Trudeau are now an official couple!
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)

This is not the "suck it, Orlando!" Flex she thinks it is. Apparently her ex was pursuing Sydney Sweeney at the Bezos wedding. Why pine for Perry's two fjords when you could have Sydney's?

She tried to buy a convent in LA and the nuns there were fighting against the sale. Apparently the stress of it killed one of them. I never heard who eventually bought the property. But I hope it's not some satanic worshipper after being such holy ground.

58 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique. Also something about them discovering strawberries 12 year old me had no clue that he was full of shit. I figured it out later.

But I’d bet 75% of the class still believes it (assuming they paid attention in class to begin with).

This is how the left wields its power in education.

59 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique.

Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?

60 used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

At the time, the Iroquois didn't have a written language.

61 Agreed, and I actually saw it, but can't remember where. Possibly Netflix?

I got it from one of those Great Courses catalog sales about a year ago. I used to get them all the time, but haven’t received one in probably over a year now.

62 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique.


Ummmmm. . . . pooping in the garden.

63 Shamans vs Antibiotics - who you gonna trust?

64 If Somalia is so great when Trump deports their asses they should be delighted to return to the homeland. Right?

Minnesota is full of Somalis who are allegedly here because they would be killed in Somalia who periodically return to Somalia on vacation.

65 Katy Perry did win a lawsuit against an aging veteran to get his mansion.

Stay classy Katy.

66 "And, of course, you have Minnesota AWFLs on X (who probably live in lily-white small towns) explaining what wonderful neighbors the Somalis are."

One would think Somalis could at least pretend to be wonderful neighbors, while they are stealing billions from us. I have no idea what their US neighborhoods are really like ... probably 10X better than Somalia.

67 53 I had a history teacher at UH who loved all the woke tropes, and this was the late 80's. So I heard that Iroquois Confederact thing. Also, Cleopatra was black, and other shite.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Academia got into thing where the latest fad became a contest to see how outrageous one could be in assertions rather than the actual and rather dull accumulation of knowledge. The strange, queer, and atypical was the ticket to getting published and grants so that became what academia favored.

Add in leftist capture of the institution, you basically got a leftist version of Ripley's Believe It or Not where all the villians were of pallor and wealth and all the various imagined oppressed groups were the true heroes of history. Add in conspiracy based crap on no evidence, then you get Cleopatra had to be black as did Jesus, or even the nutty sun people versus whitey promoted by Hakeem Jeffries uncle Leonard.

Denialism of accepted historical explanations backed by documented original sources and derivative secondary ones and archaelogical evidence became the norm.

White guilt is one of the most destructive things promoted by neo marxists to destroy the West.

68 65 Katy Perry did win a lawsuit against an aging veteran to get his mansion.

Stay classy Katy.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I would prefer she stays in Canada and keeps up with Justin Trudeau. They deserve each other.

69 I think Sullivan Ballou's letter may tell us more about the principles behind the American Revolution that Ken Burns' new series. And the music they put with it really fits.

70 62 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique.


Ummmmm. . . . pooping in the garden.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ecclesiastes nothing new under the sun comes to mind here and mainly sells because Colleges of Education admit some of the lowest performing students on campus and then fill their heads full of rubbish. These students then become teachers spouting rubbish to the students who promptly internalize the rubbish themselves and then proceed to build their own rubbish heaps in their minds.

71 "Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?"

We all seemed to have learned that in 5th grade. Probably urban legend. If they had that many fish, they should have eaten the fish rather than the possible ear of corn months later.

72 I did read how South American Indians developed a kind of living soil made from burnt plant and animal matter, plus pottery shards and of course poop from various sources, that they would use in farming plots since the soil of the jungles was, oddly enough, so deficient.

73 Katy was in the McLaren garage at the F-1 qualifying this morning

74 Matt Walsh does a long take down of Ken's Propaganda inserts

75 It can be lunch time, but then it's Saturday

76 69 I think Sullivan Ballou's letter may tell us more about the principles behind the American Revolution that Ken Burns' new series. And the music they put with it really fits.
Posted by: KT

Liberty! The American Revolution by noted historian Thomas Fleming is the far better bet. History Channel when it actually had history used to run that series over and over again. Better yet, actually read many of Thomas Fleming's historical works (or his historical fiction where he doesn't make up key historical events nor facts if that is your cup of tea).

One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book. Unlike Schlaes who tends toward the polemic, Fleming admits he began the project being favorable toward FDR and his legacy but the historical evidence he uncovered of FDR's nasty/vicious personality and his minions ideology over practicality changed his mind when writing the book.

His book on Washington's Fabian tactics to win the Revolutionary War is also quite excellent. Basically his political opponents to his strategy wanted to rerun Bunker Hill over and over again. Washington, after the NYC debacle, declined.

77
I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.

Sure thing, dearie.

78 " ... we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time. "

and yet here we are.

79 72 I did read how South American Indians developed a kind of living soil made from burnt plant and animal matter, plus pottery shards and of course poop from various sources, that they would use in farming plots since the soil of the jungles was, oddly enough, so deficient.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Heavy rains tend to wash out the key ingredients of biomass. Even in the US, many areas of primeval forests actually had a thin layer of fertile soil over rocky or clay soils that needed biomass to become fertile for crops. That decline in soil fertility from continuous crop cultivation and erosion of the humus was in part drove Western expansion from the Eastern colonies by farmers.

A few wise farmers, like George Washington did crop rotations, allowing animals to graze the stubble and poop, and other practices to keep the soil fertile but most simply sold up back east to buy new fresh land in the West.

80 Tim Pool claims his house was shot at by an unknown gunman who approached his property in a vehicle.

81 Eris, the Amazon Indians are descended from Polynesian and Australia. They are the ones that knew how to enrich sandy soil. DNA has confirmed the Kon Tiki story.

82 "Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?"

We all seemed to have learned that in 5th grade. Probably urban legend. If they had that many fish, they should have eaten the fish rather than the possible ear of corn months later.

I always assumed they just picked up dead and rotting fish on the shore.

83 And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)

Tim Walz reminds me of that episode where the retarded kid shows Archie Bunker he had the blade in backwards while planing the bathroom door and no little crinkles were coming out.

84 18 Saw but a long trailer on Ken Burns Propaganda 6 part miniseries. But watched a couple hours of videos taking down Ken's Propaganda miniseries.
Actually best wasn't as much as taking apart as what Ken's Propaganda didn't say. The synopsis the video said was it was about the war, not the Revolution. Besides all the Propaganda filled war, was about nothing the Revolution was about. Nothing hardly on the Constitution they fought for, the Bill of Rights they fought for. Just a lot of what Ken wanted it to be for which wasn't historically correct.
I might be able to find that video but can't be sure to find it.
Posted by: Skip

If you are interested in real history, one of the more interesting collections of Revolutionary War original documents is one of ministerial sermons that were recorded and passed around.

Here is a link to a general discussion of Revolution as seen from the pulpit.
https://tinyurl.com/yw77cncr
Link goes to Academia website. Article is about 46 pages.

Online Library of Liberty from the Liberty Fund has a two volume compliation of ministerial sermons about the Revolution and precursor events to it.

https://tinyurl.com/2vfpwzww

85 77
I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.

Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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I suppose it would be rude to suggest that Canada has a solution for that issue.

Being direct, I would probably just mention that bigotry is pernicious even if you think badly of yourself. Actions matter more than color.

86 This is a timely thread - but I have nothing optimistic to say about it. I will note ... take a look at Fox News right now. Number One article ? A puff piece about Little Mogadishu.

What do I think - not that you care ? We've hit critical mass here. Regardless of what IronGrampa says - we collectively are going to give this country away. Partly as a rejection of nationalism, partly as a pursuit of the quarterly-profit capitalism that prevails here, but mostly as a rejection of anything remotely resembling a collective treatment of groups - commonly called racism or stereotyping.

That thought process, before certain folks start howling, didn't begin with Gen Z. It was taught in public schools to all ages in the 80s. Gen Z wasn't doing the teaching 40 years ago. No more than Millennials made their own participation trophies.

87 One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book.

I read that one recently and it was excellent. I'm currently reading "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" by David T. Beito. As if I needed another reason to hate FDR.

88 One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book.

Or just read anything - pretty much anything - late by Morgenthau.

FDR doesn't reside on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks for nothing.

89 78 " ... we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time. "

and yet here we are.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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They do it for power and to raise their social status over others. I call it bullshit. And most normal people of any race don't try to pull that shit. It is almost wholly the conceit of overeducated and maleducated twits that are trying to compete among other perceived opponents in their social class for personal benefit.

History periodically records such idiotic enthusiasms among the perceived elite classes such as iconoclasm, witchcraft, or traditional economic based Marxism. All bullshit and designed to make the bien pensants think they are better than others in society because their shit doesn't stink.

1776's line in the song about the triangular trade comes to mind, "who stinketh the most!" illustrating hypocrisy.

90 Thx K.T.
Liked Burns Civil War largely because of Shelby Foote. Also because Ashokan Farewell is written by people from my county and the Ashokan Resovoir is about 12 m from my house.
His Baseball series kind of sucked.

91 My people buried a penguin at base of every corn plant, which led to mass starvation and the end of the tribe. Except for me.

92 I'm going to pick up Rick Atkinson's second book on his Revolutionary War trilogy. It includes the burning of my city . The first book was good

93 A six tribes of savages ocracy if you can keep it.

94 His Baseball series kind of sucked.

In all fairness to Ken Burns - any series about a sport that sucks is gonna' suck just because.

Ken Burns does Manual Bowling Pin Placement Through The Ages could be incredibly insightful and factual. Yet suck by default.

95 Oops. We call it maze.

96 He did one documentary on the African Space Program.

97 Have not watched this series. My sister loved it, so I assume that it was leftist revisionism with musket volley sound effects.

98
Oops. We call it maze.
Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren

That's where you get lost.

99 The American Revolution started a little too early. We let some trouble makers drag us into the war early.

100 The American Revolution started a little too early. We let some trouble makers drag us into the war early.

Probably Ukraine.

101 Or just read anything - pretty much anything - late by Morgenthau.

FDR doesn't reside on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks for nothing.
Posted by: The Slow Decline

What I think was unique about Fleming is in the foreword where he admits that he was a FDR fan in part due to the FDR saved Democracy trope. Fleming spent much of his career investigating the Revolutionary War and its aftermath but not much on more recent history. So he kind of just went with the flow of his generation (he died in his 90's fairly recently (1927-2017) and so did not seriously consider FDR as a historical figure until quite late in his career. That Man, by confidant and later Scotus Justice Robert Jackson is also not a flattering portrayal of the man whether Jackson realized it or not.

102 "At the time, the Iroquois didn't have a written language."

Nor wheels.

103 Fox News: Somalis are just like all immigrants guyzzzz.

104 Good morning everyone,

The comment below clearly outlines what we have lost. (Thanks whig)

"Denialism of accepted historical explanations backed by documented original sources and derivative secondary ones and archaeological evidence became the norm."

Now, how do we return to any accepted historical explanations? Trust in any historical claims has been destroyed. Wasn't there a quote that came out of communist Russia along the lines of "the present we know, it is the past that keeps changing"?

Our country's history should be a shared heritage, but is now fractured by competing views. It is difficult for me not to be discouraged when trying to see a way forward.

105 Ken Burns no longer has Shelby Foote to hold up the series and it clearly shows. He should do what he really wants to do and that's Black History

106 John Adams:"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." It is inadequate for savages from another culture, especially those who have no respect for Euro-American traditions

107 Roundheads were the hot heads. Oddly. It was the American Anglicans that won the Rebellion.

108 Yet Shelby had a plagiarism hanging over his head and somehow I decided never to read any of his books.

109 If Netflix does a Washington movie he'll be black and gay. They'll get Jussie Smollett to play the part.

110 Academia got into thing where the latest fad became a contest to see how outrageous one could be in assertions rather than the actual and rather dull accumulation of knowledge.

Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.

In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.

111 Yet Shelby had a plagiarism hanging over his head and somehow I decided never to read any of his books.

AI:
While
Shelby Foote himself wasn't accused of plagiarism, his letters and personal life were central to a major plagiarism controversy involving Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-winning novel Angle of Repose (1971), where Stegner heavily used Foote's (and his wife Mary Hallock Foote's) unpublished letters without full attribution, sparking debates on fair use, appropriation, and literary ethics that continue today, with critics calling it literary theft while others defended it as creating authentic depth

I think you can read Shelby Foote in peace.

112 His Baseball series kind of sucked.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Heroes and Villians bullshit, most documentaries are actually propaganda disguised as information. Using tricks of the trade, a documentarian can easily omit conflicting stories and evidence, manipulate emotions at the lizard brain level through images and music, and choose which features to highlight and which to downplay.

So Burns made Ty Cobb a monster which was a gross overstatement for example while making other not so nice players into saints.

Documentaries that feature panels of experts can be a bit better but often books and original sources are far better in information presentment, more recognizant of nuance, and more dense in actual information than what is put into a documentary.

Harder to manipulate emotions through printed matter than by storytelling with music and images. Easier for most to spot tricks in printed matter by going back to the specific page than rewinding to 32:17 on the tape to replay something unfair, distorted, or downright a lie.

113 Ken Burns has always been a Leftist, and the difference between his Civil War documentary and his American Revolution documentary is reflective of the journey made by the Left over the last four decades. Leftists have become increasingly Marxist, totalitarian, and now hate the U.S., and they admit it. Leftists have gone off the rails. That was not generally the situation in 1990 when Burns did his Civil War documentary.

114 Putting on YouTube see VDH has a take down on Ken Burns Propaganda miniseries

115 As if I needed another reason to hate FDR.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)

FDR should have been dug up and placed in the docket at Nuremberg alongside Goering and Dr. Gurgles.

116 What I think was unique about Fleming is in the foreword where he admits that he was a FDR fan in part due to the FDR saved Democracy trope.

Interesting.

I've done - like I always do - my own reading on FDR. And Lincoln. And Nixon. And on and on.

I decided, at least by my 30s, that FDR was much more Communist than Hitler. Morgenthau's writings told the tail. Good ol' FDR wanted to convert the entire war effort to everyone collecting their paycheck from the Fed. FDR had to be talked down from simply Nationalizing entire "critical corporations". Even Hitler never considered these things.

On these simple number-lines of how to look at WW II ? We were to the Right of the Soviets but Left of the Nazis when it came to Economic Freedom.

So, of course, two generations deified the guy and statues and schools were built in his name. FDR was a tyrant.

117 Obligatory

https://youtu.be/T6xJzAYYrX8

118 I cannot tell a lie. Two white men in King George III hats forced me to chop down the cherry tree. Then they wrapped a noose around my neck, poured a solution of ashen lye upon me, shouted "THIS IS RED COAT COUNTRY" and ran away.

119 Katy Perry did win a lawsuit against an aging veteran to get his mansion.

Stay classy Katy.

Meh. The veteran sold the property to Perry and then tried to back out of the deal. His defense was that he didn't know what he was signing.

This was probably the correct legal result, although Perry might wonder whether the hit to her reputation was worth the money.

120 Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.

In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Yep. And opposite the truth, increasingly academic presentations as a discussant meant that any criticism became politically charged as whitey putting POC down or some other stupid bullshit. Simple epistemology observations of shoddy research became verboten. Even when it was kindly packaged as "what make you think this 'finding' is generalizable beyond your classroom".

Millennials ruined academia. And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

121 NG Andrew Wolfe I take it still clings onto life, one can only hope he recovers fully but it will be a very long road I guess

122 KT,
Thanks for including the Voices of Music video using period correct instruments and original score. Bach and Vivaldi played like that is different, so much better and richer than modern versions. The other video is a talented burlesque with the foot stomping.

123 I cannot tell a lie. Two white men in King George III hats forced me to chop down the cherry tree.

But you could exceed orders - by quite a bit - and if you didn't start the French and Indian war by yourself ? Well, you at least got in the Team Photo.

Ol' George was politically ambitious right out the gate. It really is amazing that he didn't try to hold onto power more than two terms. Because George liked power.

124 107 Roundheads were the hot heads. Oddly. It was the American Anglicans that won the Rebellion.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Charlie Brown was a Roundhead.

No, on second thought, he was a Blockhead.

125 I decided, at least by my 30s, that FDR was much more Communist than Hitler. Morgenthau's writings told the tail. Good ol' FDR wanted to convert the entire war effort to everyone collecting their paycheck from the Fed. FDR had to be talked down from simply Nationalizing entire "critical corporations". Even Hitler never considered these things.

On these simple number-lines of how to look at WW II ? We were to the Right of the Soviets but Left of the Nazis when it came to Economic Freedom.

So, of course, two generations deified the guy and statues and schools were built in his name. FDR was a tyrant.
Posted by: The Slow Decline

Not much to disagree. FDR was a collectivist/bureaucrat enabler just like Woodrow Wilson who FDR served in his cabinet.

Al Smith, FDR's predecessor as NY governor came to recognize that in FDR and his apparatchiks.

126 And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

The takeover of the educational system is complete.

Homeschool your children.

127 Similar to the MN whistleblowers, in Chicago, back in the day, Mike Royko (newspaper columnist and sometime muckraker) would get a LOT of info about misbehaving politicians, though his sources were never called whistleblowers. He was an old-school reporter who had a lot of contacts in city & county government. Sadly, as his contacts retired/left govt employment, he did less of that and more social commentary. He was very good at his trade. His bio of Mayor Richard J Daley,Boss, was a masterpiece - gave Daley credit for a lot (especially that he was never a grifter), but dragged the hell out of him for political shenanigans.

128 He was very good at his trade. His bio of Mayor Richard J Daley,Boss, was a masterpiece - gave Daley credit for a lot (especially that he was never a grifter), but dragged the hell out of him for political shenanigans.
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I agree. It also helped that Royko was at the Sun Times which was the scrappy underdog at the time to the Chicago Tribune. Royko was given much more latitude to go after the business is business sorts in City Hall.

129 And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity

130 A few wise farmers, like George Washington did crop rotations, allowing animals to graze the stubble and poop, and other practices to keep the soil fertile but most simply sold up back east to buy new fresh land in the West.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

Whig, what Eris is talking about is Terra Preta, which is a carbon rich soil that the Amazonian cultures made through creating middens in their farm lands. They make them to this day. It is a combination of charcoal and food prep waste, as well as left overs and whatever else. These were not slash and burn farmers
The laetrite soils of the jungle have high recycling of minerals and nutrients, what the micro-life doesn't take the roots of the trees will take and the remainder is washed off, like you say. The charcoal appears to absorb the nutrients, and hold it for the plants and micro-life to utilize at need. Some dark earths are "meters" thick, and still fertile in spite of the cultures that made them dying off in the 1500's.
The current organic fad of creating Terra Preta in your home garden is getting a lot of attention, and seems to have a serious value. It is a step up from crop rotation

131 I friend of mine recently bought a nice place. While in escrow, the seller want to bail because the value of the property went up.

He had to begin legal proceedings to make it happen.

It's not her fault. He signed a contract.

132 My view is in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Socialism was the big craze of the world. FDR was just as thrilled by it.

133 The takeover of the educational system is complete.

Homeschool your children.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination. It require careful curation of curriculum because a lot of that is infected wokist tripe as well. If one is inclined to do that, reaching out to networks that have already resolved some of these issues among parent educators is very useful.

134 ***Questions:

Why does this series seem different from, say, his Civil War epic?
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It seems different because people have only been taught one narrative on the Civil War. Burns 'epic' on the Civil War is as big a crock of shit as his 'epic' on the Revolution.

135 " buy new fresh land in the West?"

My ancestors sold out in SC when the soil was depleted and moved west for free land in Alabama.

136 129 And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (EXyHK)

Even in the early stone ages, when Boomers were going to college, radicalism was overtly taking over the academy, and the education majors were full-on retards. We've been on this downward trajectory for some time.

137 [Mike Royko] was very good at his trade.

His stories about learning to be a reporter at Chicago’s City News Bureau make it sound almost like a Chinese Opera training school but for journalists.

138 FDR was a collectivist/bureaucrat enabler just like Woodrow Wilson who FDR served in his cabinet.

Which is ironic. At least as far as I've read - FDR was one of the first wave of Industrial Candidates. Big funding from J.P. Morgan, J.D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.

Its odd how it always works like this, ain't it ? Wall Street loved Obama.

139 I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.

Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 12:26 PM (xG4kz

Did you tell her that she should kill herself to relieve her anguish? I often offer helpful advice to poor misguided souls such as herself. With age comes an absence of mouth filters.

140 I looked up Howard Zinn and found out his shitty book is considered "great."

141 Corporatism.

142 “This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity

Everyone can keep their G.K. Chesterston. Seriously. C.S. Lewis understood how things work. G.K. loudly told you how he wished it did.

143 I think Royko was at the Daily News, the afternoon paper. Moved to the Tribune when the Daily News shut down. 1981?

144 Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination.

At this point, I disagree. Even the most incapable parent is going to provide a better education than most schools do. Paraphrasing what Jefferson said about newspapers, if the only thing a parent does is teach nothing to their children, their kids will still be more informed than public school kids who are taught lies.

145 The Burns documentary went as I expected: anything but good white people. The content was so basic and limited with almost no mention of the philosophical underpinnings. The music couldn't compare to Ashokan Farewell. The 1776 versions of the Ballou letter which exist but weren't used lessened the personal emotional context. And there was no equivalent to Shelby Foote providing insight and humor. The commenters were knowledgeable but not lively.

Glad I didn't waste too much time with the whole series.

146 Also, for tobacco, the farmers in the South tended to do a form of slash and burn, always expanding as they needed more land that was not exhausted. In New England (and later in the South) more scientific methods of crop rotation, fallow, and amending in a way that would have made the original Jethro Tull proud.
it is both from the background of the different farmers, and the crops and economics of the regions. You farm wheat and corn differently from tobacco, in part because wheat and corn allowed smaller plots, and not requiring a latifundia to be economically viable

147 132 My view is in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Socialism was the big craze of the world. FDR was just as thrilled by it.
Posted by: Skip

I would include fascism under that monicker. Progressivism was essentially fascism with better pr in combining and managing industry and society by groups rather than individualism. The later pluralism movement (government is the arena and referee where interest groups duke it out) can be shown as derivative of fascist emphasis on the fasces (different strands of society) being welded together by the state in order to promote and enforce whatever the top honcho/ruling counsel felt was in the interest of the state.

In reality, the managerial class because of information control often ran the place on a day to day basis whether in corporations, government, or ngos. Burns, the Managerial Revolution, was written at the height of WWII with its insights over institutions like the OPM.

148 Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination. It require careful curation of curriculum because a lot of that is infected wokist tripe as well. If one is inclined to do that, reaching out to networks that have already resolved some of these issues among parent educators is very useful.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (WDjG6)

And you have to be of the right temperament. If you are impatient or snap easily, don't do it. Or you'll find yourself screaming and hitting your kids for not understanding Algebra II fast enough. Or at a less extreme end burning out.

149 Tisquantum learned the technique of burying a bit of fish with the corn seed from continental Europeans while a slave in Spain before escaping to England and eventually returning to Massachusetts. The fish technique was not a local Indian custom. It is a Spanish technique.

150 One word for Ken Burns; Dungeon

151 Everyone can keep their G.K. Chesterston.

“He says, ‘Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education.’ This, clearly expressed, means, ‘We cannot decide what is good, but let us give it to our children.’”—G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

152 149 Tisquantum learned the technique of burying a bit of fish with the corn seed from continental Europeans while a slave in Spain before escaping to England and eventually returning to Massachusetts. The fish technique was not a local Indian custom. It is a Spanish technique.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (xqL5c)

He was also known as Squatto because he taught them how to build latrines.

153 It's funny not funny that WW2 started in part because of FDR's meddling in China to protect American investments there and Chamberpot guaranteeing Poland's independence yet by 1949 both were communist.

Ken Burns outta do a series.

154 The New Deal was all about effing the little guys like the Schecter brothers.

155 143 I think Royko was at the Daily News, the afternoon paper. Moved to the Tribune when the Daily News shut down. 1981?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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You would be right that he started at the Daily News which folded about 1970 and then to the allied Sun Times until Rupert Murdoch purchased it in the 80's and then to Tribune.

Daily News was before my time really and I read Royko's syndicated columns before I read his books.

156 Thank you for the lovely music, K.T.

157 >>Because George liked power.

George refused the kingship which was suggested because he had no legitimate children. Don't know if he had illegitimate children, but neither they nor his stepchildren would have been acceptable successors. He retired, albeit temporarily, to private life after the war and served as President for a *limited* period to try to model how that should work.

158 dad said that Grandpa buried fish in the garden, and in an allotment he rented during the war for a a victory garden. Dad also said Grandpa only did it once because it stank to high heaven.

159 Fleming admits he began the project being favorable toward FDR and his legacy but the historical evidence he uncovered of FDR's nasty/vicious personality and his minions ideology over practicality changed his mind when writing the book.
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Sounds like the guy who wrote a biography of LBJ. Caro?

160 Ken Burns and Why Now?

Well, its another facet in the never-ending trolling by the Left. Continuously calling Conservatives racists, H8tr's, Fascists, Nazis, then introduce a bullsh*t series on the founding fathers and suddenly its seems much more OK to revolt against authority. How can you not when armed with the righteous cause of "democratic socialism"?

Well, bring it assholes. Come to my little town and let's dance.

161 Pacos first came over to this country as indentured servants in the early 18th century from England (probably stole some spoons or a cow or something). My ancestor fought against the British and was awarded a parcel of land after the Revolutionary War concluded. You can bet the old boy knew a thing or two about oppression and freedom, and the big difference between the two.

162 My mom bought a thing called "fish emulsion" for her flowers. A little goes a long way.

163 Ken Burns, Civil War, epic
Ken Burns, Revolution, epic

The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias where people recognize inaccuracies in media reports about topics they know well but still trust the media on subjects they are less familiar with.

164 And you have to be of the right temperament. If you are impatient or snap easily, don't do it. Or you'll find yourself screaming and hitting your kids for not understanding Algebra II fast enough. Or at a less extreme end burning out.
Posted by: You have to be very self-controlled and self-aware
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Good points. Same criteria as those planning on teaching as a career.

165 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.

166 It's kind of like sardines. Nobody wants them. But Bobby Flay puts them in his Sprimp and Grits and never loses.

167 It's funny not funny that WW2 started in part because of FDR's meddling in China to protect American investments there and Chamberpot guaranteeing Poland's independence yet by 1949 both were communist.

WW II was guaranteed when the Treaty of Versailles was signed to send both teams to the locker-room at the end of WW I. A twenty year armistice. A long half-time.

No country would have lived under those terms without force to make them do so. No sane victor without the means to muster such force, long term, would have considered it.

So, of course, Wilson waded our asses in to tip the balance and then sign such a moronic plan.

Wilson is also on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks. FDR, Lincoln, and Wilson. Spot Number Four is still up for grabs.

168 Anchovies. Yikes.

169 Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.

In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (EXyHK)

Ah the "Baculum theory". It argues that parts of Genesis is a "just so" story that has no parallel that anyone has presented, based on the observation that Humans are the only mammal without a baculum, however it misses that ungulates like horses, cattle and sheep also lack them.
Possibly one of the more exciting unprovable thesis to come out of modern maundering.

170 105 Ken Burns no longer has Shelby Foote to hold up the series and it clearly shows. He should do what he really wants to do and that's Black History - Patrick from Ohio

Maybe he'd like to start with contemporary history in the Minneapolis area. No? Well, just an idea...

171 161 Pacos first came over to this country as indentured servants
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Both of Buddy's fore-parents came to the rebuilding of Jamestown as indentured servants.
They've got stories.

172 Sounds like the guy who wrote a biography of LBJ. Caro?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Yes. Caro took a turn when he documented LBJ's rise to power in his first volume. Believe by his second volume research, LBJ's family and supporters were upset by the first one and tried to hinder his ability to access LBJ's donated papers and his presidential library.

173 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

Haven't read comments yet, so I'm sure others have said this earlier and better.

Trump needs to get a real American to do a quick revolution series telling the background of the whole idea. Someone who doesn't use this platform to denigrate the country and founders, but celebrates what they did. Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery. We need to know why, not that the founders were imperfect.

174 "White Slavery"

175 My mom bought a thing called "fish emulsion" for her flowers. A little goes a long way.

Fish emulsion is the last stop for fish that aren't good enough to use for lutefisk.

176 >>It also helped that Royko was at the Sun Times

whig, before that, he was at the Daily News, which was the Field family's afternoon paper, and the one Dad brought home. Was reading him before hitting double-digit age; didn't get some things, but sure got a lot. He moved to the Sun-Times when the Daily News shut down ('74?) and the S-T did a morning & afternoon edition.

Both the Sun-Times & the Tribune killed their afternoon editions a few years later; hell, the Trib bought the Chicago American and made it the Chicago Today, for a while.

The real grin is that Royko moved to the Tribune when Rupert Murdoch bought the Field publications, because, while he had sworn that he would never work for the Trib, he loathed Murdoch more. There's a story (too lazy to look up) that Royko rode an elevator in the S-T building with one of the Field heirs right after the sale was announced and blasted him practically out of the elevator.

177 "The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do."

As I've said before (and I trust others have said as well), there should never have been a J6 rally - especially if the J5 pipe bombs were discovered when they should have been. The whole Capitol complex should have been shut down due to a bomb investigation, instead of allowing any group of people to congregate around discovered and undiscovered explosive devices.

The government let the bombs be planted, allowed the demonstrations to take place in spite of those bombs being planted, and conspired to railroad innocent protestors and derail the possibility of a second Trump term - either in 2021 or today.

178 174 Pacos first came over to this country as indentured servants
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Both of Buddy's fore-parents came to the rebuilding of Jamestown as indentured servants.
They've got stories. - Braenyard

Cherish them and pass them on. I have few details, unfortunately, about the First Paco in America. Great Aunt Murdy commissioned a genuine genealogical history probably before I was born, and she never let anybody read it. Some of the basic info got out, though, such as that indentured servant business. I take it that my people were not exactly in line for the throne.

179 @137 Stephen Price Blair

I've got 3-4 of Royko's books and love them for the stories of learning his trade.

180 From what I understand, lutefisk would be better used as fertilizer.

181 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

No. Honestly ? No.

Because there's a reason the Left - under Obama - systematically erased every Civil War name and monument. Why did they do that ?

Because they wanted to erase the idea of organized disobedience. Because they had the idea that they had a lock on authority. And now ? They love the idea of disobedience.

There is no message that will work - unless you teach the idea of whites vs. whites vs. natives. Which will not play with the young 'uns. Or we can go State's Rights. North-East Republicans will hate that.

Or we can get into the real lives of the "Founders". They were not Saints or Deities. That'll work well.

182 173 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

Haven't read comments yet, so I'm sure others have said this earlier and better.

Trump needs to get a real American to do a quick revolution series telling the background of the whole idea. Someone who doesn't use this platform to denigrate the country and founders, but celebrates what they did. Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery. We need to know why, not that the founders were imperfect.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (uQesX)

The White House has put out a series of videos on YouTube highlighting individual Revolutionary figures - both well-known and unknown. It's pretty good, and it's short as well.

183 BTU VS Texas Tech... some crazy plays!
!!!!!GUNS UP!!!!

184 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING

185 I've got 3-4 of Royko's books and love them for the stories of learning his trade.

There’s not a dud in the bunch. One of his most memorable essays is getting carried away watching True Grit. I think it’s from Sez Who? Sez Me.

186 175 When Dad and I would go bank fishing, he kept carp and other bottom feeders for his miserable garden. A friend's Dad, a guy about my age, keeps carp and smokes them. It took him a few tries, but what comes out now is pretty good.

187 Some of the basic info got out, though, such as that indentured servant business. I take it that my people were not exactly in line for the throne.
Posted by: Paco

That is too bad. We were the Kings, but then we abdicated the Throne.

188 >>I think Royko was at the Daily News, the afternoon paper. Moved to the Tribune when the Daily News shut down. 1981?

Ted, Daily News shut down in '78, and I think Field stopped producing an afternoon paper then. Tribune killed Chicago Today and produced an afternoon edition for a few years - remember because delivered afternoon Chicago papers from 1973-1975 before turned 29.

189 I went out on a half-day boat out of San Diego. We caught a lot of mackerel. Nobody wants the mackerel, but this old guy. He takes all we want to give him.

He was old man Ghio. Portugese. They used the mackerel to make fish stock at the Anthony's restaurants in San Diego.

190 Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery.

Good Grief.

Prisoners kept in cages (the Brits did that in Boston). Buildings "fired" - which meant those inside burnt alive.

Do you understand that, in that Revolution, men lined up against other men to kill them ? And if they missed at close range, there was always the bayonet or the hatchet ?

War IS savagery. By definition.

191 The bomb story stinks. They traced him buying one piece of pipe at Home Depot a year apart from buying another piece at Lowes and the other few pieces at different times (months or years apart) and places.

They can do this but they can't find a killer? They can't trace back on the Trump shooter or Las Vegas or two hundred other things that are strung together much better than a piece of pipe here and a piece of pipe there. He may have placed the bombs but the whole story is a crock.

192 From what I understand, lutefisk would be better used as fertilizer.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (W7XSX)

Lutefisk has too much lye in it for fertilizer

You can make you own fish emulsion by dumping those hagfish, bullheads, fish guts and heads in a barrel, topping with water and letting it rot down for a summer. That is what it is, basically. Some people advise stirring it from time to time, and others say it is best to strain the bones out before use.

By the way, if you were to put in lots of salt, you could make fish sauce or garum instead, but you probably want to clean the barrel well, first.

"Makes your plants grow tall - either from the fertilizer, or because they are trying to get away from the stink"

193 It's the Las Vegas shooter story that stinks.

194 Well, lutefisk before the lye.

195 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

Heh. The Coal Mining sketch by Monty Python really does hit the nail.

'Coal minings a wonderful thing, Father!'

196 One can only think the Eff Bee Eye doesn't see what they don't want to see

197 Ken Burns came to my local high school to talk to students about the documentary, as I live in a Massachusetts town that saw early action in the Revolution. No word on whether John Locke or the Iroquois were more influential to Franklin.

198 The real grin is that Royko moved to the Tribune when Rupert Murdoch bought the Field publications, because, while he had sworn that he would never work for the Trib, he loathed Murdoch more. There's a story (too lazy to look up) that Royko rode an elevator in the S-T building with one of the Field heirs right after the sale was announced and blasted him practically out of the elevator.
Posted by: Nazdar
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Thanks for the true story. Mine was garbled because I read his syndicated column in the local rag, not the original papers where they were first published.

199 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.

Yeah. And the worldview of the right is mostly "I forgive you, Dad".

200 I've very disappointed that Burns ignored the critical contributions by transgender people, without whom we would still be speaking the King's English.

201 @185

Yep, looked it up, it's toward the end in section 7.

202 'Coal minings a wonderful thing, Father!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Not hardly. It's a struggle every day. A regular Mine Kampf!

203 199 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.

Yeah. And the worldview of the right is mostly "I forgive you, Dad".
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (k2Vk4)

The worldview of the TradCon right is mostly "Dad beat me and I turned out fine so I'm going to beat you so you'll turn out fine. Also, because God."

204 My pleasure, whig. Of course, he printed the story in the Sun-Times just before his departure.

205 It's on PBS? Pfffft screw that, never gonna watch.

206 In before the guy that overshares!

207 Why Does Hollywood Hate the American Revolution?

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhs7ym

208 and Texas Tech goes up two TDs late to try and get the CFP committee out of a cleft stick of their own cutting.

209 The notion that the Founders, and Enlightenment Europeans in general, got a lot of their ideal from observing the loosely democratic tribal confederations and decision-making processes among North American Indians is popularized in "The Dawn of Everything (2021) by Graeber and Wengrow. I'll bet Burns has read it. I found it interesting, but don't have enough subject matter knowledge to know if it's got a solid foundation or relies primarily on cherry-picked and anecdotal evidence.

210 As I posted a review of a video up top, the Leftists H8 the country so no Revolutionary War movie about why their was a war will ever be made.
Make a move on the Constitution and you will have one about the Revolution.

211 The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist.

Mike Benz pointed out this morning that in the actual aftermath of J5/J6 the FBI released a statement pointing out the rare fancy Nikes the bomber was wearing and then did nothing to track them down. I would assume that was a signal to the bomber to stop wearing them.

212 TTU has been bringing it all season!!!

213 Lots of articles on how the Democrats/ Marxists Propaganda Ministry is turning a Black Leftists into a White MAGA Trumper

214 CONGRATULATIONS TEXAS TECH!!!!🏈🏈

215 The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist.

Mike Benz pointed out this morning that in the actual aftermath of J5/J6 the FBI released a statement pointing out the rare fancy Nikes the bomber was wearing and then did nothing to track them down. I would assume that was a signal to the bomber to stop wearing them.
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Yes. And once upon a time "independent journalists" would have seized on that tip and raced to identify the perp. It would have been quite the prize to have beat the FBI to the punch, and comparatively easy too since the Biden-era FBI wanted no part of solving this case.

216 They tracked him down and when they found out he was black and gay and autistic, they buried it.

217 123 "Because George liked power."

Yes, but he also liked pussy, and decided to work on becoming more the literal Father of His Country as he grew older. I mean, nobody's gonna shoot the First President just because he tapped your old lady! Many would have seen it as an honor!

218 When I toured Alaska, our guide said all the green we saw in the bay where we were whale watching was because eagles ate salmon, dropped them in the bare rocks, and they created the biomass that allowed vegetation to begin forming and building.
I'm sure the Iroquois could figure out that same thing: plants like fish biomass. They don't understand the scientific WHY, nitrogen and all that, but they saw it works.

Also the three sisters thing, plant beans corn and squash together, does work. They have a symbiotic relationship. Agriculture in general is delayed gratification: I plant these seeds now, later I see a harvest. I plant a fish under my corn instead of just eating the fish now, my corn grows taller and bigger. And then I can use the corn to survive the winter.

It does scholars absolutely no credit to be honest about the Iriquois' planting prowess, and then go a step too far and say "the native Americans inspired the concept of democracy." It negates everything historically true, and makes them look like lazy woke fools. (Which they are, but for Pete's sake, don't PROVE it beyond all doubt!)

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Daily Tech News 6 December 2025

Top Story

• I bought myself a mini-PC for Christmas. Minisforum X1-255.
  
  Not because I particularly need a new system, though this one is a lot better than my two existing Beelink units (twice the speed, memory*, and storage).
  
  Mostly because it comes with 64GB of RAM and only costs $50 more than the RAM alone.
  
  Looks like it's completely sold out in the US already.
  
  Update: Placed the order just four hours ago and it's already shipped. Should have it by Friday.
  
  * The existing units only came with 8GB of RAM, so as shipped the new one has eight times as much. But I already had RAM for those left over from upgrading my laptops, back when that was cheap to do.
  
  
  
• AI gadget makers are chasing problems that don't exist, says the CEO of AI gadget maker Logitech. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's a little unfair. Logitech's webcams use discriminative AI to keep you centered in the frame, for example, and to mute background noise. Other companies, though:

  Faber argued that the wave of AI-first gadgets released over the past year remains untethered from a clear purpose. Products such as the Humane AI Pin - acquired by HP in February - and Rabbit R1 launched with the promise of replacing parts of the smartphone experience, only to draw criticism for slow performance, limited features, and subscription-driven pricing.

  The upcoming unnamed product from OpenAI looks to be another screenless phone piece of overpriced junk.

  Their reception has shaped the debate around whether a general-purpose assistant belongs in a dedicated device at all. According to Faber, these early efforts solve little that a phone or PC cannot already handle, which is a view that has gained traction as both devices incorporate larger on-device models and tighter integrations with cloud assistants.

  As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.

Tech News

• AMD's upcoming "Gorgon" family Ryzen 470 CPU is basically just a Ryzen 370. (WCCFTech)
  
  I was comparing specs earlier. The Ryzen 370 has 12 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores, where the Ryzen 255 I just bought has 8 CPU cores and 12 GPU cores.
  
  But the 370 is just 20% faster than the 255 while the relevant Minisforum model is 60% more expensive.
  
  
  
• Intel chips could power iPhones in 2028. (WCCFTech)
  
  That's Intel as a manufacturer, not Intel as a designer. They'll still be "Apple Silicon", but Apple has booked space on Intel's 18A production line to start fabricating chips now that TSMC is 100% sold out.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US because it is, well, 100% sold out. (WCCFTech)
  
  This of for chips like modern AMD and Intel CPUs, where multiple small dies are packaged together on a larger silicon substrate.
  
  
  
• Nimony is a compiler from the Nim team. (Nim-lang)
  
  It will become Nim 3.0 in time, but it is already a useful compiler if you're interested in high-performance code with built-in memory management.
  
  
  
• Two government contractors who were sentenced to prison in 2015 after being caught hacking government computers have been indicted for hacking government computers again after being rehired after their prison sentences ended. (Bleeping Computer)

  According to court documents, Muneeb Akhter deleted roughly 96 databases containing U.S. government information in February 2025, including Freedom of Information Act records and sensitive investigative documents from multiple federal agencies.
  
  One minute after deleting a Department of Homeland Security database, Muneeb Akhter also allegedly asked an artificial intelligence tool for instructions on clearing system logs after deleting a database.

  Fill the cell in with cement. Then go after whoever hired these people.
  

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