STUFF & NONSENSE!!!!
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN WASHINGTON WERE ALL IN A TISSY WITH THE SEEMING DISCOVERY OF A LETTER FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN EXHORTING HIS GENERALS TO PURSUE ROBERT E. LEE’S ARMY AFTER THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, UNDERSCORING ONE OF THE GREAT MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR AN EARLY END OF THE CIVIL WAR.
PERSONALLY, I’M ALWAYS SUSPICIOUS OF ‘NEWLY
DISCOVERED” FINDS. ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE ALWAYS CLAIMING TO UNEARTH LOST CIVILIZATIONS, CITIES, TOMBS AND OBJECTS. FIRST, WHY WOULD SOME MAN OR WOMAN DEVOTE THEIR LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION SWEARING THAT THEY FOUND SOME PRECIOUS ITEM DATING MILLIONS OF YEARS? MY SKEPTICISM STARTED WHEN EGYPTIAN PROFESSOR OMAR GOLDFARB PROUDLY PROCLAIMED THAT HE FOUND THE TWO MILLION YEAR OLD CRYPT OF KING TUT’S YOUNGER BROTHER, HERB. WHEN HE OPENED THE COFFIN HE FOUND GOLD, DIAMONDS, THE MUMIFIED REMAINS AND A DVD SET OF “SEX & THE CITY.” I, OF COURSE, QUESTIONED THE AUTHENICITY OF THE EXCAVATION.
NATURALLY WHEN I HEARD AN ARCHIVES CIVIL WAR SPECIALIST DISCOVERED THE JULY 7, 1863, NOTE IN A BATCH OF MILITARY PAPERS STORED AMONG THE BILLIONS OF PAGES OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AT THE MAMMOTH BUILDING ON PENNSYLANIA AVENUE…I SAID STUFF AND NONSENCE! HOW COME THIS ‘SPECIALIST” SUDDENLY HAPPENED TO PICK OUT ABE’S ‘NOTE’ FROM AMONG ALL THE OTHER PAPERS? DID HE WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND YELL, “SUMNABITCH – IT’S IN BATCH TWO THOUSAND AND NINE?” OR, WHEN HE WAS SEARCHING DID HE HEAR A VOICE SAYING, “YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER.”
THE TRUTH IS I DOUBT THAT HONEST ABE WROTE THE NOTE. IT’S A PHONY. AFTER SIGNING HIS NAME THERE WAS A P.S. – “FREE PARIS HILTON.”
PERSONALLY, I’M ALWAYS SUSPICIOUS OF ‘NEWLY
DISCOVERED” FINDS. ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE ALWAYS CLAIMING TO UNEARTH LOST CIVILIZATIONS, CITIES, TOMBS AND OBJECTS. FIRST, WHY WOULD SOME MAN OR WOMAN DEVOTE THEIR LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION SWEARING THAT THEY FOUND SOME PRECIOUS ITEM DATING MILLIONS OF YEARS? MY SKEPTICISM STARTED WHEN EGYPTIAN PROFESSOR OMAR GOLDFARB PROUDLY PROCLAIMED THAT HE FOUND THE TWO MILLION YEAR OLD CRYPT OF KING TUT’S YOUNGER BROTHER, HERB. WHEN HE OPENED THE COFFIN HE FOUND GOLD, DIAMONDS, THE MUMIFIED REMAINS AND A DVD SET OF “SEX & THE CITY.” I, OF COURSE, QUESTIONED THE AUTHENICITY OF THE EXCAVATION.
NATURALLY WHEN I HEARD AN ARCHIVES CIVIL WAR SPECIALIST DISCOVERED THE JULY 7, 1863, NOTE IN A BATCH OF MILITARY PAPERS STORED AMONG THE BILLIONS OF PAGES OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AT THE MAMMOTH BUILDING ON PENNSYLANIA AVENUE…I SAID STUFF AND NONSENCE! HOW COME THIS ‘SPECIALIST” SUDDENLY HAPPENED TO PICK OUT ABE’S ‘NOTE’ FROM AMONG ALL THE OTHER PAPERS? DID HE WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND YELL, “SUMNABITCH – IT’S IN BATCH TWO THOUSAND AND NINE?” OR, WHEN HE WAS SEARCHING DID HE HEAR A VOICE SAYING, “YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER.”
THE TRUTH IS I DOUBT THAT HONEST ABE WROTE THE NOTE. IT’S A PHONY. AFTER SIGNING HIS NAME THERE WAS A P.S. – “FREE PARIS HILTON.”
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