Posted on 11/08/2015 9:36:32 AM PST by yoe
LOUISVILLE, Miss. — In single strokes after the massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston in June, Confederate battle flags were taken from statehouse grounds in South Carolina and Alabama, pulled from shelves at major retailers like Walmart and declared unwelcome, if to (limited effect), at Nascar races.
What happened so swiftly elsewhere is not so simple in Mississippi. The Confederate battle flag is not simply flying in one hotly disputed spot at the State Capitol but occupying the upper left corner of the state flag, which has been flying since 1894. (And as recently as 2001), Mississippians voted by a nearly two-to-one ratio to keep it. Recent ( polling) suggests the majority have not changed their minds.
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“Tried to demonstrate that you are a pompous ass - succeeded!”
All considered, I’d rather be pompous than stupid and ignorant. For one thing, only the stupid and ignorant regard pomposity as a significant character flaw rather than a mild eccentricity.
Congratulations, you managed to be all three!
A contemporary from either north or south, if alive today, and given the modern history of the Civil War taught in schools would think it was fantasy, no less a comedy.
The biggest joke is the North fought to free the black man. Yeah AFTER 2 years of bloodshed, conscription, race riots, draft riots and an illegal executive order it became about freeing the black man - LOLOLOL!
“George Washington was born in Virgina and supported The DOI.”
Yes, and by birth he was a British subject. Further, he served with the British Army (though as a second-class citizen) during the French and Indian war. He had, therefore, sworn fealty to George III.
“You’re an angry, vituperative little git”
In other words, I have handed you back what you’ve handed out, and you can’t handle it.
“and debating with you has been become a mud fight”
You’re the one who turned it into a mud fight. Don’t try to sling blame just because you lost.
“I’m done with you you mental midget.”
Right. Next time you want to start a fight, try to be able to support your point—even if you have to take your studies deeper than DU and Wikipedia.
“Congratulations, you managed to be all three!”
Thanks for demonstrating once again the truth of Doyle’s maxim, “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself.”
jmacusa - If you are mad at me, come right out and say it.
Thanks for demonstrating once again the truth of Mugwump’s axiom, “An arrogant bug is a cocky roach.”
“Yeah AFTER 2 years of bloodshed, conscription, race riots, draft riots and an illegal executive order it became about freeing the black man”
Careful, you’re just one more true statement away from “stupid, ignorant, and pompous.”
That is, btw, the strongest argument against your position in play here.
“Thanks for demonstrating once again the truth of Mugwump’s axiom, ‘An arrogant bug is a cocky roach.’”
My Lord, do you really think that is clever and intelligent?
I guess I didn’t realize what I was dealing with here. Always too eager to give the other fellow the benefit of the doubt.
dsc out.
You’re kind of slow on the uptake aren’t you?
And he cedes the field.
More like farting in a space suit. But then he alleges that he was around then so you gotta cut him some slack ;’)
“You’re kind of slow on the uptake aren’t you?”
That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. And to think it had to come from someone that is not even a Southerner.
I posted this awhile back but it is so good, I post it again for my good friend across the aisle - jmacusa.
“The Union government liberates the enemy’s slaves as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.â€
London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation Proclamation
The North went to war to preserve the Union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything.
Newsflash to you. You don’t need to attack folks who support you.
FU. You haters of the South can go to hell.
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