Hello Bj”rn,

 DD>> I was under the impression that he had owned (black) slaves DD>as well.

 BF> Where did you get that impression? I was under the impression that even
his
 BF> parents were strongly against slavery.

Fake news! Fake news!

The entity known as Abraham Lincoln was *not* born in a log cabin!

And also never ended slavery!

In fact, the USA still practices slavery today.
In our prisons, having prisoners work for less than peanuts.
One governor of Louisiana had the brilliant idea to get prisoners
to make the gurneys used for executing other prisoners.  But that
started a riot, and he had to shelve that idea. Then the state
ran out of drugs to use to execute the prisoners. So now we have
no beds or drugs to kill our prisoners with.

Been well over ten years since the last time a prisoner was
executed. And that one had volunteered to die, by rejecting all
his appeals.

Time to bring Gertrude (the state's electric chair) out of retirement
and put her to use.

--Lee

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Travel should take you places

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