what’s their damn problem
MTV needs to start showing videos again
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Daily Archives: May 29, 2017
Memorial Day: another great thing black folk gave to America
1865 was a heavy year for the USA.
on April 9th, Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S Grant in Appomattox, ending the Civil War
it took a little while for soldiers to really get it that the war was over. and in some ways it wasn’t.
case in point: five days after Lee surrendered, Honest Abe was shot in the head while watching a damn play.
but by May most of the soldiers had packed up and made it back home to pick up the pieces.
A troop called the 21st United States Colored Infantry made it back to their home in Charleston, South Carolina. They found it in ruins. It was so bad most of the white folk had left and there were only about 10,000 black people still there – a third of them children.
But when the troops came home there was a huge parade of all the townspeople, preachers, and Union prisoners. The Rebels had turned the local race track into a prison. A horrible prison where over 250 soldiers died.
The first order of business that first day in May was to rebury the war dead, many of whom were white soldiers, into proper graves, surrounded by flowers and beauty.
That’s right: the first Memorial Day was started by newly freed black soldiers and their families honoring the fallen white Union soldiers who helped free them.
cut the cord today
tried to do it online but they make you call
so i got on the phone and the lady was nice
was from the midwest but lives in orange county
for some reason she tried to make that the reason why i would keep cable and my landline.
i pay $245 a month for those two plus internet.
so i called to find out how much just internet is.
i have very good internet.
what i was thinking about doing is just going internet and trying out the YouTube or Sling or whatever package that gets you like 40 channels for $35, but you need internet to make it happen.
the lady asks me all these questions like what do i watch.
i say i pretty much just watch Rachel, PTI and the most hardcore porn you could imagine.
she wasn’t paying attention.
she tried to move me to a smaller assortment of channels that would knock my bill down to $199 a month and i was all, yeah nah.
and then she said, oh i see something, you have 300 mbs and you say it’s just you in the home?
i said yep.
she said, well thats far too much for just one person. ten devices could be sharing that.
heres a few things no one should ever say to me:
im cancelling our date
why do you eat so much fast food
Cubs? oh did you jump on the bandwagon last year
i would like to slowly murder you
these gentlemen are here to slow down your internet speed
so i told her to transfer me to her boss and we agreed to just basic channels and then leave the internet alone for $120 total.
now i gotta buy a tivo.