I Am Proposing That We Change Anything and Everything That Is Named After Any Historical Figure That Owned Slaves and or Supported Slavery During Their Lifetime...Or am I?

This is going to be a Herculean Task of Epic Proportions and is going to keep us busy for many decades to come.

We will have to start Changing Anything and Everything somewhere so I recommend we start with our First President, George Washington.

Here is a list of Cities, Towns, Villages, Educational Institutions, Forts, Houses, Mountains, Parks, Ports, Neighborhoods, Bridges, Roads and (that ole standby) Other Things that are named after our First President...

Cities/ Towns/ Villages:

·         Fort Washington, California

·         Fort Washington, Maryland

·         Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

·         George, Washington, a city in Grant County

·         Georgetown, Kentucky

·         Georgetown, Massachusetts

·         Little Washington, Virginia

·         Mount Washington, Massachusetts

·         Port Washington, New York

·         Port Washington, Wisconsin, city

·         Port Washington (town), Wisconsin

·         Washington, Connecticut

·         Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital

·         Washington, Georgia

·         Washington, Illinois

·         Washington, Indiana

·         Washington, Iowa

·         Washington, Massachusetts

·         Washington Township, Gratiot County, Michigan

·         Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan

·         Washington Township, Sanilac County, Michigan

·         Washington, Missouri

·         Washington, New Hampshire

·         Washington, New Jersey

·         Washington, North Carolina

·         Washington, Pennsylvania

·         Washington, Virginia

·         Washington Court House, Ohio

·         Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

·         Washington Terrace, Utah

·         Washingtonville, New York

·         Washingtonville, Pennsylvania 

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Educational Institutions:

·         Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington

·         Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington

·         Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky

·         The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

·         University Of Washington in Seattle, Washington

·         Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania

·         Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia

·         Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland

·         Washington Medical College, defunct medical institution in Baltimore

·         Washington State University in Pullman, Washington

·         Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

·         Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington

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Forts:

·         Fort Washington, a fortified position near the north end of Manhattan Island

·         Fort Washington, a frontier outpost at Cincinnati

·         Fort Washington, a still-extant earthworks fortification in Cambridge

·         Fort Washington, Maryland

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Houses:

·         Washington Place, Honolulu

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Mountains:

·         Mount Washington (Nevada) (11,658 ft.)

·         Mount Washington (6,288 ft.), highest point of New Hampshire

·         Mount Washington (Oregon) (7,794 ft.)

·         Mount Washington (Cascades) (4,400+ ft.)

·         Mount Washington (Olympics) (6,260 ft.)

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Parks:

·         Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania

·         Washington Crossing State Park in New Jersey

·         Washington Park, Florida

·         Washington Park, Illinois

·         Washington Park, North Carolina

·         Washington Square Park, New York City

·         Washington Square Park, Philadelphia

·         Washington Square (Salt Lake City, Utah)

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Ports

·         Port Washington, New York

·         Port Washington, Ohio

·         Port Washington, Wisconsin

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Neighborhoods:

·         Washington Heights, Chicago

·         Washington Heights, Manhattan

·         Mount Washington, Pittsburgh

·         Washington's Landing, Pittsburgh

·         Washington Terrace, St. Louis

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Bridges and Roads:

·         George Washington Bridge, crossing the Hudson River between New Jersey to New York

·         George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington, D.C., maintained by the U.S. National Park Service

·         Washington Bridge, across the Harlem River in New York City

·         Washington Bridge (Providence) in Providence, Rhode Island

·         Washington Crossing Bridge (Pittsburgh), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

·         Washington Circle in the District of Columbia

·         Washington Avenue (disambiguation), several streets

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Others:

·         Washington (U.S. state)

·         Washington Island (Wisconsin)

·         Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas

·         Washington Monument

When you consider all the other Historical Figures That Owned Slaves and/or Supported Slavery During Their Lifetimes, removing them from everywhere they are is going to take a long time.

This I know for certain...

For many years now Tattoo Artists have been fast moving up the list of the Wealthiest People in the Good Ole USofA. I expect the Sign Painters will overtake and pass the Tattoo Artists before the Tattoo Artists notice the Sign Painters have started moving up the Got A Whole Bunch of Money Ladder.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I Have a Well Developed and Finely Tuned Ability to Make Things Up but Even I Am Taken Aback (Whatever That Means) At the Silliness of This Foolishness

Below is the bulk of an article I found on the Internet which was titled...

White People to Stop Voicing Minority Characters in ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Family Guy’

(I decided to bold the Confusion Words. I thought about bolding every word in the entire article but my computer was going to run out of bolded words capacity.)

Considering the way our world is being torn asunder these days this is not surprising...

A white voice actor who played a minority character in “Family Guy” said he’s leaving the role after 20 years.

Also, the Simpsons producers said in the future no white actors would be allowed to voice nonwhite characters.

A white voice actor, Mike Henry, who voiced Cleveland Brown, a black character, in “Family Guy,” said earlier he wouldn’t do so any longer.

“It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on ‘Family Guy’ for 20 years. I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role,” he said in a social media statement.

Kristen Bell, who voiced Molly, a mixed race character on the animated series “Central Park,” said on social media, “This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity. Here is one of mine. Playing the character of Molly on ‘Central Park’ shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege. Casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and black American experience,” she wrote.

Jenny Slate said she initially thought it was okay to voice Missy, a mixed race character, on “Big Mouth.”

“I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White—as am I,” Slate wrote on social media. “But Missy is also black, and black characters on an animated show should be played by black actors. I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed, that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of social white supremacy, and that in me playing Missy, I was engaging in an act of erasure of black people.”

This is Fella, "Erasure?"

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Does it seem like we are slipping down the Slippery Slope towards George Orwell’s 1984 more and more every day?

In the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Thinkpol (Thought Police) are responsible for the detection and elimination of thoughtcrime, and for the social control of the populations of Oceania, by way of audio-visual surveillance and offender profiling. Such psychological monitoring allows the Thought Police to detect, arrest, and kill thought criminals, citizens whose independence (intellectual, mental, and moral) challenges the political orthodoxy of Ingsoc (English Socialism) and thus the legitimate government authority of the Party. In the detection of thoughtcrime—and to overcome the physical impossibility of simultaneously policing every citizen of Oceania—the Thinkpol spy upon the populace through ubiquitous two-way telescreens, and so can monitor any person's body language, reflexive speech, and facial expressions.

The Tongue-Tied President Who Was Made Fun Of By the News Media for Being Tongue-Tied About One Particular Word

The News Media had a field day poking fun at one of our Past Presidents because he had difficulty pronouncing the word “nuclear”. I must have had difficulty hearing the word “nuclear” because I never noticed the President’s Pronunciation Difficulty until the News Media told me about it over and over. I wonder if Michael Jordan had had difficulty saying the word “basketball” would the News Media have poked fun at him.

Our Tongue-Tied President may not have the ability to say “nuclear” without the news media (those guys who never make any mistakes) having their way with him but he was able put together a Mid-East Nuclear Deal that was light years ahead of what a later President (who could pronounce “nuclear”) was able to put together.

This seems strange when you consider that the Not Tongue-Tied President had the Tongue-Tied President’s workable Mid-East Nuclear Deal to read up on for guidance when he put together his Not Tongue-Tied President’s Mid-East Nuclear Deal.

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The Tongue-Tied Middle East Nuclear Agreement is working well and it contains the strongest commitments ever agreed to for Nonproliferation, Transparency and has No Pathway to Weaponization.

Awhile back the United Arab Emirates announced it had finished loading fuel into Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant (Official name is محطة براكة للطاقة النووية 😀 ). When all four units become operational, the plant will provide up to 25% of the U.A.E.’s electricity with Zero Carbon Emissions.

The seeds for this ambitious project were planted in 2008, when the U.S. and U.A.E. signed the Strongest Bilateral Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in history.

The deal wasn’t a sure thing. As negotiations progressed during the final year of the Tongue-Tied President’s Administration, the nonproliferation community was concerned. Skeptics feared the Middle East was ill-suited for a peaceful nuclear program.

Rejecting any interest in nuclear weapons, the U.A.E. voluntarily made the strongest possible nonproliferation commitments, pledging to forgo domestic enrichment and reprocessing of nuclear material. There was no hesitation in acceding to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol, allowing for short-notice inspections of any nuclear facility at any time.

Later termed the “gold standard”, these historic and binding guarantees represented a new and innovative solution to a longstanding problem created by the inherent dual-use nature of some elements of the nuclear fuel-supply chain.

The plant has made the UAE the first Peaceful Nuclear-Energy-Operating Nation in the Arab World.

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The U.A.E.’s voluntary commitments significantly exceed those extracted from Iran in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action…

• Tehran insisted on maintaining a pathway to enrich uranium domestically and to develop advanced centrifuge technologies—capabilities first developed clandestinely in defiance of binding United Nations Security Council resolutions.
• No American nuclear inspectors will be permitted to enter the country’s contested nuclear site.
• Iran also demanded that the most significant restrictions lapse in January 2026.

These demands reveal Iran’s real long-term aspirations.

A Fella Message to Iran...I know you are impatient but hang in there. 2026 will be here before you know it and then you can begin blowing up all the neighbors you have a mind to get rid of.

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The U.S./U.A.E. Nuclear Deal has worked and is delivering a new huge source of clean power and reduced the risk of Nuclear Proliferation.

I’m sorry, Mr. Tongue-Tied President, you can’t say “nuclear” so you will not be given an International Nuclear Attaboy. You must accept the fact that Correct Pronunciation Is Important!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Additions to the Equipment List for a Georgia Traffic Policemen

Each year new laws are cobbled together by our Georgia Legislature. If we were paying any attention to what our Legislature has been doing we would start Recalls Petitions for many members of our Legislature to remove them from office because of what they have been cobbling together.

We never pay any attention so we don’t start any Recall Petitions and the Legislature keeps on keeping on having its way with us.

This may be changing. We used to have Football Season to distract us but it is quite possible Football Season may have been recalled this year because of the FauciVirus. This may be the year to clean our legislative house...Or is it?

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There are always some interesting new laws passed to "protect" us from us. Here is a good example of a new law that is going to be ignored by all of us.

Here is a list of items that a Traffic Policeman must now carry on his person:

Ø Gun

Ø Handcuffs

Ø Money for donuts

Ø Pepper spray

Ø A Taser Gun

Ø A Bathroom Scale

Ø A Tape Measure

What is that you just said? You did not expect the Bathroom Scale and Tape Measure to be on the list. If so, that shows how far you are out of touch with our forward “thinking” Georgia Legislators.

In their infinite “wisdom”, our Legislators have decided that, in order to protect Our Children, we needed a modification to our Already Existing Law that requires Booster Seats for Our Children. 

In the future Children are required to sit in a Booster Chair up until the age of six, with the exception of those Children who weigh more than 40 pounds and/or who are taller than 4 feet 9 inches tall.

Yes, my dear readers, Georgia Traffic Policemen are going to be stopping cars and Weighing and Measuring the Height of our Children!

What is that you just said? Did I hear you say the Policemen will not be stopping and weighing and measuring? Did I hear you say this law is Unenforceable? I agree with you and that also means it is a Waste of Time.

Could it possibly be that Our Legislators are passing laws just to make us think they are doing something important when they are not doing anything of importance? Is that the same as doing nothing?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: What is that you just said? Did you just say the law is intended to be enforced by the parents? If that is so, are we going to be putting the parents in jail for Dereliction of Duty, if they do not enforce our Waste of Time Law?

George Washington’s Lie

It has finally happened. President George Washington has told a Lie.

I came out of the blue in the form of a Text Message from the Ole Boy right from Heaven to Earth.

Experts are baffled as to why he would tell such a whopper hundreds of years after he had died.

Here it is...

I, George Washington, do hereby state for the public record that I am proud that Washington, D.C. is named after me.”

It defies credulity that this could be true!  

Fella is baffled also. He was quoted as saying...

“I can’t explain it but its authenticity is without question. The only explanations I can come up with are...

Ø After 288 years since he was born Senility has finally set in.

Ø He is tired of Benjamin Franklin laughing at him every time Congress does something stupid and he feels he can trick the Street Protestors into demanding a name change if they feel he is actually proud of his name being associated with the District of Columbia.

I feel the second bullet above may be the correct explanation because I have it on barely reliable unnamed sources that many of the Street Protestors have been receiving Text Messages from Heaven that go like this...

Ø Don’t ye think Franklin, D.C. has a nice ring to it?

Ø Benjamin, D.C. should have been the name from the very beginning!

Ø Hey hey what do ya say!
    Make my day!
    Benjamin Franklin, D.C.
    Is what the name oughta be!

Since we are into lying, allow me to join in. Everything you have read in this Blog Posting is absolutely true!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella