![]() ![]() Wolter does not address the even more ridiculous notion that Juan Ponce de Leon would abbreviate his name to the preposition in it and not any of the actual identifiable elements in it. That’s a pretty meaningful difference if your argument is that the figure represents the preposition “de” and not two d’s. The only meaningful difference between the two symbols is the bottom end of the carved line on the far right bends to the left instead of the right. The "de" in de Leon's signature is strikingly familiar to the double looped carving on the Overton Stone. The symbol circled in the image of Juan Ponce de Leon's signature below is the reason I bring up the possibility. ![]() While there is no known record of the famous explorer ever sailing as far north as Nova Scotia, but that doesn't mean he could not have. Wolter suggests an inconceivably stupid explanation for it: One figure includes two curved figures formed from a single line. The rock is covered with a number of inscriptions, ranging from a Christian cross to a leaf to Arabic numerals. The evidence Wolter offers for consideration is laughably thin, even by his standards. Wolter posted a blog entry asking whether a curvilinear carving on the so-called Overtone Stone is the signature of Juan Ponce de Leon during a heretofore undocumented excursion to Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, many of you will have already seen that over the weekend former television personality Scott F. Lee himself once said “that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil,” though he added that it was “necessary” for the “instruction” of the racially inferior. How, precisely, does one compromise over the question of whether some people deserve to own others? Whether intentional or not, such comments suggest that in their heart of hearts Kelly and the Trump Administration consider the very humanity of African Americans to be negotiable, and don’t really think about slavery or legally enforced segregation as a moral evil as much as an inconvenience. Lee for his “accomplishments” and suggesting that “compromise” could have prevented the Civil War. It was genuinely surprising to hear White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders yesterday praising Robert E. History itself is starting to bend to the will of the propagandists. We seem to have entered a time when fantasy has completely replaced reality, and it is rather disconcerting. ![]()
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