MYSTERY OF THE HUNLEY SOLVED...NOT!

Now that I’ve gone for that second cup of piping hot joe, please allow me to once again rip into the idiocy, the nonsense, the pettifoggery, the utter bloat of the Poster Child for  South Carolina ---------Drum Roll Please-----Senator McConnell and his amazing HUNLEY scam.

I just got invited (How the Hell did I get on this list?) to a Friends of the Hunley Oyster Roast and Silent Auction where I may win-Get This- “a rare opportunity to stand next to the Hunley in her 90,000-gallon conservation tank.” Well Gomer, can I say “Goollee’? Quick, turn on the shower and make it Ice Cold!

Interestingly, the letter of invitation prominently displays at its top, the enticing directive “Solve The Mystery” yet the 2 pages of silly hyperbole never address same but I think I’ve got this deal figured out.

I think they want to figure out why the damn thing sunk? Can I help out here? They opened the hatch. Duh. Brave and Stupid too. Just like, thank God, many of the Confederate leadership were. From Bragg to Hood to Davisto even Lee at Gettysburg, the boys in butternut and gray suffered often at the hands of their higher-ups. True.

The ‘Mystery’ is how in the hell are they ever going to raise enough private money, in addition to the wallowing they are still doing at the public trough, to ever make this deal fly. Glenn McConnel, conservative GOPer, guardian of your money has melded his life into this money pit. It has become his Raison D’Etre.

Meanwhile, the myriad of deals made to put this hunk of junk in the hands of the unholy alliance of North Chuck, Clem and his Son, Admiral SC Senate  El Presidente , various commissions and 501C3 non-profits continues to unravel; notice the recent contretemps between Clemson and the City of North Charleston about who controls and can do what with the site down the road.

Uh-Oh.

The Smithsonian wanted this thing. But Noooooo. Lead by Don Quixote, it’s here and on our books. Like milk in the grocery store, it is already a Loss Leader Eternal.  You know, the devil really is in the details.  This thing is really popular, according to Sen. Glenn, right?Visitors and the citizenry of SoCar are flocking to stare at it, right? This thing continues to gain international attention, right? This thing is a big deal, right?

Well then, S’plain this to me Lucy.

Why has the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles over the past three years sold but 1,686 Hunley Liscense Plates?

Big Deal? No.  More waste to feed some politico’s alter ego?  Yes.

Sigh.