If
Roger Goodell and the NFL win this war against the Patriots for
a level playing field and competitive transparency, then it will no
longer be fair for The Patriots to cheat and because The Patriot Way is the
American Way * this
captious controversy could have substantial consequential results.
* For
instance, all of that land that we stole from the injuns fair
and square, will we now have to give it back to them or will they
continue content to be bought-off by receiving licenses to run
gambling casinos and sell cigarettes?
Well, yes, it is true that the first POTUS, one Mr. George Washington, signed treaties with the Injuns thereby establishing America's Tradition of Government Officials officially lying under oath, but, to be fair to Washington, he was a known traitor who previously had plighted his political troth to the English Crown -he was an officer in His Majesty's Colonial Forces - and so the injuns ought to have known better than to cut a deal with such a popular and successful traitor; did we mention he was tall, like Abe Lincoln * another very popular and successful liar?
O, and when you have foreign-born men treating the indigenous men as a foreign nation, then you get some idea of the actual character of America's weltanschauung and so when the American government screws you and your loved ones, you have no cause to complain because that is just America being America in much the same way that Manny Ramirez was just being Manny when it came to his strange behavior as a Red Sox baseball player and Tom Brady is just being Tom Brady when he cheats as a member of the New England Patriots.
Birds gotta fly
Fish gotta swim
America's gotta lie
It's its nature not a whim
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* At ABE Ministry, it as always been held as unassailably accurate that Honest Abe Lincoln got his nickname for the same reason a 400 lb. mobster gets the nickname, Tiny.
Here is an entry in a fine catechism:
37. Was Lincoln a hero?
The thing next most remarkable to posing Lincoln as a friend of the South is the attempt to pose him as a hero. This, however, had been attempted in favor of John Brown, whose hands were red with the blood of innocent people. In those days, when Lincoln was first coming to the front, hatred of the South was so extreme that, as Wendell Phillips tells us, the first words of everybody in Massachusetts, of every party, that was met by him in the streets or street-cars, on the occasion of the news at Harper's Ferry, were that "they were sorry that he (Brown) had not succeeded" (Phillips, p. 280), and Welles tells us, as we have seen, that negro insurrections were counted on at the North, when the war began, as something certain to keep the Southern soldiers engaged.
That a great negro uprising would occur was undoubtedly the expectation of Lincoln and his Cabinet when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Lincoln was not personally a murderer, though his actions brought death to thousands of poor people in both the North and the South. But was he a hero? His early life is set forth by his friends, Lamon and Herndon, and it is impossible to see in it anything else than the very reverse of a hero. Beginning with his passing counterfeit money at 19 (Lamon, p. 71) and sewing up hogs' eyes for a more ready transportation of them across the river at 21 (Lamon, p. 82; Herndon and Weik, I, p. 74), we are told of his writing anonymous letters at 33, and when challenged to a duel by the man whom he thus secretly defamed, violated all codes by insisting on a weapon that left his brave and honorable opponent at a fatal disadvantage (Lamon, p. 260). He is pictured by these and other friends as slipshod, slovenly, and shiftless to such an appalling degree that some of his debts remain still unpaid. We are told by them of Lincoln's passion for funny stories, particularly for dirty ones; of a repellent poem he wrote, a salacious wedding burlesque too indecent to quote; of a letter that he wrote to a Mrs. Browning, shamelessly burlesquing a woman to whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected (this at the age of 28, an age when William Pitt and James Madison had already attained high honors and distinction); of his scoffing at the Bible, etc.
According to these friends, Lincoln's tactics as legislator were certainly not of an heroic nature. He log-rolled and traded in the offices (Sandbergh, p. 194) and joined in tricking a Democratic paper into publishing an article which Lincoln was foremost in denouncing after the publication (Herndon, II, p. 370).
There are a thousand other details reflecting upon Lincoln that have been verified by Albert J. Beveridge and set out in his incomplete Life of Abraham Lincoln. (See Major Rupert Hughes' Review of Beveridge's Work in the Chicago Tribune, December 8, 1928.)
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