Dear reader, I’m afraid not all news is good from Noo Orleeens, but there’s an excellent film with Gary Cooper, (Saratoga Trunk 1943.) which, like Errol Flynn, (Robin Hood 1938.) makes sense of the whole thing we used to call History. I heartilly reccomend viewing both documentaries on the real organ of public opinion. Youtube. G.T continues where he left off…
‘In the matter of Pee Bo I must of course declare an interest. Nevertheless, Great-great-grand-daddy Pierre, as he is known in the family, could undeniably ride a hoss, as is depicted here:  As a benevolent father to his chattel-folk he showed an ante-bellum taste for enjoying an income stream derived from the fruits of others’ labour. Expropriation in the wake of Bobba-Lee’s craven surrender generally spelled the end of this pleasant state of affairs. But not for Pee-Bo: he bravely served the Louisiana State lottery, and the wealth of the poor continued to flow Bo-wards by streams terrestrial and subterranean. It is from Pee-Bo’s example of firing the first shots of the glorious secession upon Fort Sumter that our family has learnt and lived by its motto, “If in doubt, kick ‘em in the nuts and start running.”
G.T’s illustrious namesake. In defence of ‘Southern Values’, and the odd publicly funded sinecure. Proudly adapted by the West Connect consortium, (NSW) in seeking funds from a pliant and agreeable public.
Jeb Davis, I gotta say, was a disappointment. Unlike Pee-Bo and Bobba-Lee, he was not a man of action, more a bag of the southern breeze, a zephyr of swamp gas. He stands yet at the southern end of his eponymous parkway, contemplating the deep financial failure of the glorious confederacy. Things mighta bin a whole lot different had he, like the recently retired governor of the mighty state of Louisiana Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, enjoyed the benefits of an Oxford education. Alas, he wuz borned all too early to enjoy the elevating benefits of scholarship founded upon Cecil Rhodes’ civilising African enterprise. But no, Jeb had no ideah of how to finance a conflict; the book of derivatives, collateralised obligations and one time money was entirely closed to him. The con-see-quences wuz utterly dire for our brave southern boys, our virtuous southern belles and, most notably, for our laughing, contented darkies.
Who could disagree with that!
As Ms. Josephine Bass has recently pointed out in the electronic pages of the region’s foremost news organ: “You been lied to. Slaves were given care, food, clothes, shelter, medicine, from cradle to grave. Nothing is life is free not even your government check.” How very true. She touches here on a further reason to keep this experiment in social organisation at the forefront of consciousness: welfare and reliance on others saps the sense of enterprise so necessary to the development of personal responsibility. The true reason for the failure of the beautiful southern way of life was the presence of a vast proportion of leaners amongst the population, leaners who did nothing to take care of themselves, who had their brown hands out for every advantage that the more responsible members of society might confer upon them. The deeply corrosive effects of this moral failure are passed from generation to generation and are only too evident today in parts of the otherwise fine city of New Orleans. So, can we agree with the concerned citizen-sage below?
 I think so. But all this is to be forgotten and swept away. Such is the degeneracy of our times that even the judiciary has joined the atheistic cabal to falsify the collective memory of our way of life. That Judge Carl Barbier of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana should have refused to intervene against this vandalism was entirely to be expected.
Judge Griffin
The Union remains full of hatred for every trace of civilisation. And locally elected “Judge” Piper Griffin of Orleans Parish has predictably refused to prevent this effacement of the culture.  Ms. Griffin doubtless has many fine qualities. However, there are, to any right thinking person, two great and obvious deficiencies in her appointment. First, and most obviously, she is a woman. Secondly, she is evidently not of the pure European stock which gave us the Enlightenment. On both counts, sadly, she is simply not equipped by nature to judge of these matters. This is what happens when the so-called democratic franchise is extended to those lacking the ability to exercise it wisely. Before you know it, the lower orders will be afforded medical care without payment and remuneration for their limited services at a level which saps their vitality. We appear doomed to proceed in benighted ignorance of our past.
POSTSCRIPT, (G.T. sent us this just after publishing)
