Poretto on the place to which we have come. Mike Austin on “They’ve Got A Little List:” Machiavelli on the control of envy.Bruceph on The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Revised and Updated).ghostsniper on “I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ “.rocdoctom on “I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ “.Deborah on LA: Hell with Tijuana Taco Trucks Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood adds new features and game modes and builds upon the elements that made Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 a runaway success.Casey Klahn on “I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ “.To support the plantation lifestyle, do you have any doubt that those same “Massahs” would not have accepted some coin from a “Generalisimo” or “Lord” somebody to keep the party going? The “South” was just a rotting remnant of the society that the Revolution was fought against. In 1985, MTV was at the height of its power, and Money For Nothing was a natural for heavy rotation hell, the heaviest of rotations.
Lee) attacked Pennsylvania, in good part, to get shoes for his army, since Massah was spending Confederate wealth on clothes, booze and perfume, while the army marched barefoot. Brothers in Arms isn’t Dire Straits’ best album but it arrived at the perfect time with the ideal song. In the 19th Century, the South could have been part of a growing Nation instead of a threat to that Nation. The cotton “gin” and cotton press just delayed that collapse. The South was only saved by air conditioning and a retirement age population. With no way to threaten the growing Nation, they just settled into the mud like their European predecessors. The “Mud-people” of the old Confederacy never raised their heads to join the future. A steam-powered navy protected the Nation from the crumbling Empires of the Old World.
Bombing-ham steel was outclassed by Illinois and then Pennsylvania. Texas was “born” with industry to feed the Northern growth. The “Royalists” of the South had no future since “industry” and the future were too “dirty” and too complicated. The U.S.A., with telegraph and railroads would have been rendered destitute by maintaining an army to defend against the “friends” of the Traitors of the Confederacy.
The “South” was nothing but a potential staging area for the Legions of the Kingdoms of the future European Union. The Brits had cotton from Egypt and India. The Confedeeracy was a dream of Royalist discards that had no future.