Samuel Clemen's Blog

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain  1904

It was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half way between
the lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln
belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to
be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin
could have done it, or any torrid cotton planter, regarding the distant
Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the border,
where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a
raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only,
but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew
the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful
influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the
parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw
them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing
apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and
Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides.
And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm
and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge
and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the
one to "bind up the Nation's wounds." - Mark Twain   January 13, 1907

One of America's greatest treasures is to hear the whistles blowing 'round the bend and see the billowing black smoke from afar. That my friends, signals the arrival of the large Delta Queen on the mighty Mississippi river on her voyage full of passengers. History shows us though, that this modern boat is vastly different then the original sternwheelers that cruised along the banks of this great river. Today's Delta Queen is much larger, has radar and sonar and the cabins are even loaded with dish reception for the latest movies. The restaurants and shows aboard this massive boat, the pride of the Delta, are unchallenged by any. That paddlewheel, those loud horns are a sight to behold, well worth a slow trip seeing American history along the way.




But now this great ship and history are being threatened. Watch the videos below to see what is happening.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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“I don’t approve of Congress, because we haven’t done anything."