Maggie's Farm

That form of cross is known as the Saint Andrew's cross. The cross in white on a sky blue field is both the flag of Scotland and the Russian naval jack, St Andrew being the patron saint of both nations, as well as one or two of the Balkans, cain't remember which.

Saint Andrew was the first disciple to jine up Jesus. His speciality, his saintliness i reckon you could say, was in his open nature, his natural reaching out to others, and gathering them around for a hearing.

Both Russia and Scotland being specifically very short on that trait as anyone long on skepticism must necessarily be, i think they must've adopted Andrew hoping a little of his sunniness would shine down on their countries.


Like Martin Sheen and Ted Turner playing the southern generals in this two minutes from Gods & Generals, where Lee's army is in winter camp and a troup of entertainers sing the other confederate war song, "Bonnie Blue Flag" --which was never as popular as "Dixie" but was more of the formal genre (fewer lyrics about lovelorn suitors with a 'face as sharp as a butcher's cleaver' and such).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3WAhbulFs

http://www.bing.com/search?q=confederate+invasion+of+canada&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox

Garry, did you ever hear of the Hines Plan? and below the search articles, see



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--jeez, everybody on the planet invaded Canada, and Canada never even noticed most of 'em !

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https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=confederate+plan+to+bring+canada+into+civil+war&rlz=1I7GGLL_en#hl=en&gs_rn=11&gs_ri=psy-ab&gs_mss=confederate%20plan%20to%20bring%20canada%20into%20civil%20war%20&tok=wS4lCm9p3hckdazdWIYccQ&suggest=p&pq=confederate%20plan%20to%20bring%20canada%20into%20civil%20war&cp=58&gs_id=y&xhr=t&q=confederate+plan+to+bring+canada+into+civil+war+hines+plan&es_nrs=true&pf=p&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&rlz=1I7GGLL_en&sclient=psy-ab&oq=confederate+plan+to+bring+canada+into+civil+war+hines+plan&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45645796,d.b2I&fp=21f01fc4f6289114&biw=1120&bih=584


good gravy --maybe just 00gle


[ confederate plan to bring canada into civil war hines plan ]

or just go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hines

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You coulda done with a little less bagpipe and a little more history class, is what i think, if you don't mind me sayin'.

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I'm afraid so --with Martin Sheen as General Lee sitting directly in front of him. In a twist of fate, Sheen ultimately won the war, simply shaving off his whiskers long enough for the enemy, NBC, to elect him President of the West Wing a mere century or so later.

Reading a history of that campaign, good to note how close, and how far north, Gettysburg is to DC. Another fact which is almost invariably short-shrifted in the Gettysburg histories, is the explanation for Lee's otherwise mystifying insistance on the Napoleon-at-Waterloo charge uphill on Day Three, Pickett's Charge.

Pickett's Charge is made out to be a Lee Fail in history --and so it was, but the untold story is that Jeb Stuart's cavalry, 5,000 strong and an elite fighting force, was coordinated to show up behind the AOP in the vicinity of the trees along the stone wall at the top of the ridge --the point where Pickett's men did finally breach the line, then couldn't hold and had to fall back, what was left of them.

What had stopped Stuart? The battle of East Cavalry Field. What tipped that fight to the AOP? The Spencer repeating rifle, at the crisis point, the face to face shootout along the fenceline at Rummel's farm. What AOP unit stopped Stuart there? The Michigan Cavalry, led by George Armstrong Custer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Cavalry_Field

That is one FINE slide show!

Re-reading, i maybe made a semi dig about Canada 'not noticing' all those invasions. Let me 'splain what i had in mind --not a jibe at all, but that the invasions --faced wityh the vastness of the land and the hard winters, just dissolved themselves into a handful of new immigrants, for the most part. "Rope-a-dope" is the idea --thank you Muhammed Ali for the term.

Ah, deep run the ancient chords of mystic memory, to ape Mr Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural.

--i'm a huge fan of Canada Free Press. Back when it looked like the barbarians were gonna do us in on AGW, CFP's Drt. Tim Ball and editor Judy MacLeod were lonely but stirling voices holding the bridge.

Right this minutre, there is one place one can find the actual story of Benghazi --@ CFP, in the work of Doug Hagmann.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=doug+hagmann+benghazi+part+iii+montagraph&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=doug+hagmann+benghazi+part+iii+montagraph&sc=0-31&sp=-1&sk=

--if you leave off the name 'montagraph', the hits go way up. But montagraph is the link to the passport scandal, which in turns makes ever so many other items fall into place.