The White House Outhouse is from the Jacksonian Inauguration, Andrew not Michael, apparently Andrew’s mountain buddies were becoming rowdy and the White House staff was afraid the White House was going to be damaged or burned down, so they moved the two whiskey barrels, that were there for the celebration, out on the back lawn and hastily constructed a two seater out house to handle the traffic. The mountain men followed the whiskey barrels out of the White House onto the lawn and the staff locked the doors.

The two seater White Outhouse has been a tradition ever since that day. Now I am not one to make comments, and for those of you who have never used a two seater, it is physically impossible for Michelle to use both seats of a two seater at the same time. If she feels nature’s call while working in the garden she will have to make do with just one seat.

Obama and Professor Gates have discovered “structural inequality”: brings to mind Ecclesiastes – I wonder how many homilies Pastor Wright devoted to this part of Scripture in Trinity United?

Thanks for the laughs. I owe you one. ;p

I don’t know if that is fair to compare Katrina-era N O with the economic decline of the southern Miss. River region. I agree that the lion’s share of the blame lays squarely on the shoulders of the Blago and Nagen administrations. No Doubt. I think the blame directed at the Bush admin. over Katrina is very unfair. But the distinction between Miss and NO is that the homes and people hardest hit, shouldn’t have lived there in the first place. Heck, the entire city is in a bowl, but the poorest communities who were mostly black were nearest levies/lowest ground.

But blacks had very little power, wealth or influence when commerce slowed. I don’t know if historians can point to a direct timeline, maybe beginning after the Civil War. I think even Mark Twain referenced the Miss River’s decline. Blacks were very poor and still disenfranchised when they began to migrate North to work in factories after WWI. That, combined with segregation laws like Jim Crow, forced blacks into a second-class status. In that context, then I would have to say that the whites that remained in these cities dictated how money and resources were distributed. I guess I should have qualified “city leaders” as elected officials. I look at the story of Medgar Evers as a an example of the that region’s injustice and discrimination toward black people. He was a WW II US Army Veteran who fought for the civil rights of blacks in Mississippi, and he was murdered for it. I remember discovering his grave wandering over to Arlington Nat’l Cemetery after seeing The Silent Drill Platoon at the Marine Corps Memorial (Iwo Jima). It saddened me that only yards from each other there was a beautiful memorial honoring the sacrifices of Marines who died defending our freedoms oversees and the gravesite of a man who died fighting for the civil rights of our own citizens. I just don’t know how to reconcile those two.

WHEN EUROPEANS WERE SLAVES: RESEARCH SUGGESTS WHITE SLAVERY WAS MUCH MORE COMMON THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED

Not a bad idea but with fugly Barry’s plans for ‘redistribution of wealth’ along with all of his tax-spend-tax-spend-spend-spend-punish-tax-spend-punish plans, well, a million 0bama-bux ain’t gonna go too far. Better make that more like 10 million 0bama bux for people born before 1965. ;p