Ha, guess the name of the Chesapeake Bay

[EC]

retreat owned by Rummy......




wait for it..................




Mount Misery:wow:

[wordpix2]

1. oh, I thought it would be "Fort Pollution"

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

3. No way

Somebody might mistake that for "Fight Pollution"

[GrumpyGreg]

2. Hysterical. n/t

[MissMarple]

4. Google it.....very creepy results.

Scary book and scary places.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/shem1193-des-.html

http://www.lioddities.com/ghost/Misery.htm

There's more....

[EC]

7. That second link has some scary stuff

Maybe that lady ghost that jumps in front of cars, will jump in front of Rummy causing him to run off the road and have a serious accident someday? And the men in black were probably his...

[leveymg]

5. So-named because it was a "slave-breakers" house

The other slave house is also in Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay in St. Michael's. It was purchased two years ago by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld as a weekend home. The house was recently in the news because Vice President Dick Cheney purchased a weekend home just a few minutes away by car.

Locally, Mr. Rumsfeld's home is known as "Mount Misery" because its first owner, Edward Covey, was a "Negro breaker" to whom other slave owners handed over rebellious slaves. The most famous slave he tried to break was Frederick Douglass, who later escaped to freedom. As a teenager, Mr. Douglass was so independent that his owner, Thomas Auld, first tried to beat and starve him into obedience. When that failed, Mr. Auld sent him to Mr. Covey.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.misery08jan08,0,5245454.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

[EC]

6. Then it's the perfect place for him

since our troops seem to have become slaves...

[leveymg]

8. And, I hope he's haunted by the ghost of Frederick Douglass

That would be justice

[EC]

10. Ditto, that... n/t

[Marie26]

9. lol. This whole thing is like a bad movie. nt