14 thoughts on “Rednecks”

  1. Great final scene:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZkRX64_DeI

    The *real* Josie Wales. Bill Wilson of Missouri:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Moz9zThCvU

    Trigger warning: Confederate flags on display. This IS a lecture from the Sons of Confederate Veterans. To make things clear, MY great x 2 grandfather was part of the *occupying* forces in Tennessee and had ONE son before he died at wars’ end from Yellow Fever in an Army hospital. Otherwise I wouldn’t be here.

    But listen carefully to the lecture, esp. what Bill Wilson’s father did *before* the start of the war & it didn’t make any difference to the events that followed.

    Union horses were brought to the aid of the Confederacy as plunder from ambushes. In case you had any doubt: War really sucks….

  2. Speaking of rednecks. In case you lose refrigeration completely in LA, here is the homemade way to a nice chicken dinner. Got to watch grandma do this first hand from one of her layers that was slow enough she could catch and even helped her pluck. Best chicken dinner I ever had, smelled so good in the oven….

    Trigger Warning: What happens on the *other* side of the supermarket’s meat counter.

    The key, really hot water above 150F….

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/killing-plucking-eviscerating-cutting-up-your-chicken-graphic.109583/

    1. You enjoyed helping her pluck? You had no sense of smell?! (For the uninitiated: the smell of boiled chicken feathers is something you can do without. Forever.)

      And in my family, we singed the plucked birds over an open flame, and then took a knife to what was left (I was the designated knife-wielder).

      1. Try shoveling out a wagon with a layer of wet rotted soybean in the bottom and get back to me on smell. Worse than the time we had to eel out our septic line but not as bad as that dog carcass I found once.

  3. the main principles of redneck movie making which include illegal moonshine (or just “whisky”, if you’re a redneck), sexually aggressive women, and a rebellious attitude toward government.

    Not sure TOJW fits that. Not much moonshine or sexually aggressive women (Rose notwithstanding), and rebellious attitude toward government is mostly captured in the person of Bill Anderson, and I think most would consider that a stretch (too much offense, not enough defense). Josey Wales the character maybe, but not the film as a whole. Granted the below would apply; I can’t recall any blacks appearing in it.

    Rednecks didn’t own slaves. They wouldn’t know what to do with them. It’d be like always having a stranger on your property.

    That seems to me a perfect description of the guys in the trading post, or Abe and Lige (I haven’t read the book).

    The penultimate scene with Ten Bears is more about different people coexisting “without butchering each other”, not about rebellion. And the ultimate scene with Fletcher (“he’s got the first move, I owe him that”) is about closure of a response to a personal wrong (admittedly carried out by government), not so much about rebellion in a larger context.

    The movie is absolutely a classic, and probably the most line-quotable of all time, beating out Animal House and The Blues Brothers (two comedies!).

    2. I’ve watched TOJW countless times mainly because of Chief Dan George (Lone Waddi) and his dry humor. Cracks me up every time.

  4. Sorry between 140 and 150 F. Also he uses a knife to remove the fine feathers, which look like hairs. Grandma held the carcass over an open flame on her gas stove to burn them off, then washed the carcass in cold water to remove the ash.

    2. Yep. That’s typical Kentucky. ^_^

      We like it that way.

      What I find amusing is how fast the Syrian civil war flipped upside down. In one week Trump’s got the Kurds united with the Syrian government, effectively bringing events to an inevitable conclusion, and has isolated Turkey.

      Congressmen are still screaming that we must defend the Kurds (even though they’re not going to authorize a single brigade for it, much less several divisions), apparently without realizing that events are so far out ahead of them that they’re asking us to fight alongside Russian and Syrian government forces, and against a NATO member.

      Anyway, with Kurdish leaders forming an alliance with the Syrian government, almost all of Syria (except for a few isolated pockets and the country’s ethnic Turkish northwest) is finally on the same side. So now it’s everybody against the Turks and Kurdish sponsored Sunni separatists. If the alliance takes root, the situation moves from widespread civil war to the suppression of rebel pockets and the crushing of some local warlords, and that is an achievable end.

      2. I am enjoying how the Obamaites suddenly stopped liking Erdogan in particular and Turks in general. It’s almost as though they opened a history book and found out what the Turks did to the Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks a century ago.

        1. Except they didn’t take that route. Its simply orange man bad. Had we stayed in Syria, they would have foumd something to complain about and if Trump said we would reassert our presence tomorrow, they would suddenly switch sides yet again.

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