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House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries
politico.com ^ | 6/23/16 | Matthew Nussbaum

Posted on 06/23/2016 2:04:08 PM PDT by ColdOne

A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.

The flag ban was added to the VA funding bill in May by a vote of 265-159, with most Republicans voting against the ban. But Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both supported the measure. Ryan was commended for allowing a vote on the controversial measure, but has since limited what amendments can be offered on the floor.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 114th; confederateflag; dixie; dixieflag; nevermind; va
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To: rockrr; jmacusa; Pelham; DiogenesLamp; savedbygrace
rockrr: "it will make sense to you when you understand that Traitorism is a type of secular religion centered on a celebration of selfish and cowardly anarcism."

Nicely done!

Btw, I had no idea this thread was still chug, chug, chugging along from June 23!

1,121 posted on 09/22/2016 5:51:29 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: "One thing puzzles me though.
Charleston used to build ships.
How did the Northern shipping interests wreck the ship building industry in Charleston?
It seems to me the South could have built their own ships."

Well, first of all, Charleston was & still is a minor port in a small state with relatively little commerce to ship, period.
Nevertheless, Southerners did build & operate their own ships when they saw need & opportunity.
SS Planter, built in Charleston, SC, 1860 loaded with 1,000 bales of cotton:


1,122 posted on 09/22/2016 6:02:50 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; jmacusa
DiogenesLamp: "Had there been no war, would the North have freed the slaves?
Get the Beam out of your own eye before you worry about the mote in your brothers."

You know perfectly well that lawful slavery was a precondition for union in 1776 and 1787.
Abolitionist Northerners agreed to accept slavery in the South because doing otherwise would not produce a United States.

Even in 1860, most-by-far Northerners were willing to accept Southern slavery, so long as the South didn't bring its slaves up North, or out West.
That was the Republican platform Lincoln ran on, and it's what caused Deep South Fire Eaters to go berserk, first declaring secession then war on the United States.

Because of that, there is no possibility -- zero, zip nada possibility -- that the secessionist generation or even their children would ever consider abolition in the Deep South.
Certainly not as long as cotton production was slavery's major economic contribution.

1,123 posted on 09/22/2016 6:12:04 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; jmacusa
DiogenesLamp: "Stop trying to con us with your false assertions of morality.
The decision to end slavery was a military/political strategy decision, not a moral one. "

The only con-job going on here is the one DiogenesLamp is trying to work.
In fact, nearly all Northerners opposed slavery from Day One in 1787, in the North and that's why they soon outlawed it in their own states.
But all understood that every Southern slave state had a constitutionally recognized right to its "peculiar institution".
So by 1860 what Republicans wanted was to prevent slavery's expansion into western territories, or via Dred Scott, into their own states.

That's why, without Civil War there could be no abolition of slavery in the South by Federal Government.
But the Confederate Declaration of War on the United States provided the Union with both the reason and a constitutionally permissible method for abolishing slavery in the South.

So, sorry DiogenesLamp, but your ridiculous con-job here is just pathetic, time for you to move on.

1,124 posted on 09/22/2016 6:23:14 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: "In 1860, Slavery accounted for 3/4ths of all cargo carried by the New England New York shipping industry."

Cotton was half, not 3/4, of US exports and more than half of that shipped from Gulf Coast ports directly to international customers, not through Northern ports.
So, if Northern ports accounted for less than half of cotton shipments, it means 3/4 of Northern shipments were of non-Southern origin.

FRiend, you whole hypothesis here has been falsified over and over again -- give it up!

DiogenesLamp: "They fought that war to get that money back, not to abolish the source of that money."

No, the United States went to war against the Confederacy because the Confederacy provoked, launched and formally declared war while supporting pro-Confederates in Union states.
That made the Confederacy an existential threat, far more so than ever Nazi Germany or Imperialist Japan 80 years later.

1,125 posted on 09/22/2016 6:35:40 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; jmacusa
DingenesLamp: "If the war wasn't over the continuation of slavery, then what was it for?
Well again, it was for money."

Sorry, but regardless of how often or how loudly you proclaim your falsehoods, they're still false, FRiend.

In fact, the United States went to war because the Confederacy provoked, launched and formally declared war while sending military aid to pro-Confederates in Union states.

1,126 posted on 09/22/2016 6:40:46 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

Imitation is considered high art among the neo-yankee cult.


1,127 posted on 09/22/2016 8:07:46 PM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: rockrr
Spoken like a true anarchist..

Au Contraire, Mon Frere. I am the opposite of an anarchist. I follow the Burkean concept of natural law.

God looks after the affairs of man, but our time is not his time.

1,128 posted on 09/22/2016 11:11:09 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Pelham
Pelham: "Imitation Satire is considered high art mildly amusing among the neo-yankee cult normal Americans."

Fixed it for you.
Sure, no problem, you're welcome, FRiend.

1,129 posted on 09/23/2016 3:20:28 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; DoodleDawg; rockrr
DiogenesLamp: "For that matter, read what George Washington had to say on the subject.
In his memoirs he wrote that it was getting more and more difficult to find work capable of being done by slaves and for which there is sufficient compensation to make it worthwhile to employ them.
The economic value of slavery was about to take a serious crash, and it was only a matter of time."

Except that the population of slaves was growing at the same rate as white Americans, despite the abolition of imports of new slaves after 1808.
And along with the number of slaves the value per slave also increased dramatically:

Growth of slave populations in Southern States, 1770 to 1860:

Growth in total value of all slaves, 1800 to 1860:

At the same time, numbers of Northern state slaves dwindled towards zero by 1840.

The economic fact is that US Southern states were the Saudi Arabia of cotton in 1860 -- they produced the most, the best and the cheapest cotton available in world markets and so dominated the international cotton trade.
And this graph shows that US cotton production did not end in 1860, in fact continued to grow:

So there's no reason to think that cotton and slaves would not continue to be important to Deep South economics for many decades after 1860, had the Confederacy won it's Civil War.

1,130 posted on 09/23/2016 4:43:21 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; rockrr; jmacusa
DiogenesLamp: "In 1860, the agitators for abolition of slavery were the political equivalent of liberal gay marriage proponents.
They too were from Liberal New England, and motivated by Puritanism and entranced with the idea of using Federal power against the states. "

In fact, such "Puritans" were politically irrelevant, even in 1860.
The Republican platform did not call for abolition of slavery in the South, only for preventing its expansion into western territories or, via Dred Scott, into Northern states.

But such limited opposition was still plenty enough to drive Deep South Fire Eaters insanely berserk, first declaring their secessions, then declaring war on the United States.

1,131 posted on 09/23/2016 4:57:35 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; jmacusa; rockrr; DoodleDawg
jmacusa: "There is nothing to debate. The South launched a war it couldn’t have possibly won and it lost."

DiogenesLamp: "Incorrect.
You are merely repeating the lies you have been taught.
The Union invaded the South with 35,000 men.
Prior to this time, the South simply exercised the right to independence."

Incorrect.
DiogenesLamp is merely repeating lies of his own invention, concoctions and wild fantasies.

jmacusa had it right: the Confederacy first provoked war, then launched war, then declared war on the United States while sending military aid to pro-Confederates in Union states.
So the Confederacy was an existential threat far greater than either Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan some 80 years later.
All this happened before a single Confederate soldier was killed in battle with any Union force and before any Union Army invaded a single Confederate state.

Now I'm out of time again, must run.

1,132 posted on 09/23/2016 5:07:15 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
The trouble with you is that when someone asks you for the time, you explain how to build a clock.

:)

1,133 posted on 09/23/2016 7:51:12 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

DL, would you as vehemently defend the inherent right of the slaves to declare their independence from their masters? ......as you do the SlaveHolding Southern States right of independence from the despotic and tyrannical North?


1,134 posted on 09/23/2016 7:59:31 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: HandyDandy
DL, would you as vehemently defend the inherent right of the slaves to declare their independence from their masters? ......as you do the SlaveHolding Southern States right of independence from the despotic and tyrannical North?

Of course. Slavery is wrong, and always was wrong. But as Lincoln said: "One war at a time."

Where I am coming from is a consequence of this current situation we have now. Washington DC (Abetted by the Media owners of New York) is insane, and the way I do the math, the system will crash and it will drag everyone else along with it.

Secession is about the only way to avoid the worst of it, but the whole concept of secession is tainted in the minds of most people by that botch of a Civil War.

People must be made to understand that self determination is a natural law right and modern states have a right to become independent if they so wish.

The Coasts and the Heartland are now two very different peoples with little to nothing in common. It would be far better for the two to separate along their natural demographic boundaries instead of the Coasts, with their greater power and influence over our government, driving us all into bankruptcy.

Let New York and Los Angeles reap the consequences of their foolish Liberal governance, and let the rest of us be free of their influence and control through their abilities to brainwash the people.

Let some piece of America be preserved while the coasts descend into their insisted upon socialist nightmare.

1,135 posted on 09/23/2016 8:40:43 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: HandyDandy

Good question. His posts are so fiercely anti-American that it gives pause to wonder where his allegiances lie.


1,136 posted on 09/23/2016 8:44:00 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The trouble with you is when ten people tell you you look like a horse you refuse to wear a saddle.


1,137 posted on 09/24/2016 7:32:31 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Mine fought to preserve the United States of America, the country we both live in you moron and they didn’t commit atrocities. One served as a hospital orderly tending to the wounded-from both sides.


1,138 posted on 09/24/2016 7:36:49 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: DiogenesLamp; Doodle; rockrr
DoodleDawg: "...what would have caused Southern slave owners to end slavery on their own 90 or 100 or 120 years later?"

DiogenesLamp: "Not the Union.
So long as they were sucking up the profits from all that slave money, they were going to keep it going."

Total nonsense.
From Day One in 1787, nearly all Northerners were committed to abolishing slavery in their own states, and to accepting it in the South where it was already legal.
The issue in 1860 was whether Federal Government could abolish slavery in Western territories and continue to allow abolition in the North despite the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.

Sure, a few abolitionists (i.e., John Brown) wanted abolition in the South, but they were far from the majority and not part of Lincoln's 1860 Republican platform.

Northerners' reasons for accepting slavery in the South had nothing to do with its profitability, or lack of, but rather with their commitment to the Constitutional compromises engineered in 1787.
They well understood that attempting to abolish slavery in the South would lead directly to disunion and likely war, which of course they didn't want.

As President Lincoln's First Inaugural (March 4, 1861) said, Southerners could not have war unless they themselves started it.

Which they soon did.

1,139 posted on 09/25/2016 6:26:43 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DiogenesLamp; jmacusa; PeaRidge
DiogenesLamp: "The South did not invade the North.
The North invaded the South.
The first casualty of war is truth, and you are simply not going to grasp what is the truth."

Sorry, but it's DiogenesLamp who's oblivious to truth, even when it slaps him silly upside the head.
DL you're just full of pro-Confederate fantasies & propaganda.

In fact, months before a single Confederate soldier was killed in battle and before any Union army invaded a single Confederate state, secessionists provoked war, started war, formally declared war on the United States and sent military aid to pro-Confederates in Union states.

So the Confederacy in early 1861 represented a more existential threat to the United States than Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan ever dreamed of being 80 years later.

DiogenesLamp: "Your 'team' were the evil perpetrators of the war.
They went to war to fuel their greed.
They went to war to continue slavery money coming into their pockets."

Secessionists not only provoked, started and declared war, they also refused to end their war on any terms more favorable than "unconditional surrender".
Now DiogenesLamp somehow thinks: after Appomattox in 1865 cotton production in the South ended.
It didn't.
After 1865 despite the loss of slavery, cotton production continued rapid growth (nearly doubling in 10 years) meaning slavery was irrelevant to Northern merchants, industrialists or shippers.
Sure the loss of slave asset values to Northern bankers was doubtless a major blow, but it was one time and at the beginning of conflict in early 1861, so Northern economy quickly recovered.

DiogenesLamp: "They bungled.
Before it was over, they had lost the cause for which they started the war, (money) and were forced to live up to the rhetoric they had spoke."

Actually, the write-off of Northern loans to Southern planters happened in early 1861, long before the war itself got started.
Here is one report:

In short, Northeastern bankers were anti-Lincoln.
They supported the fusion ticket of Democrat parties.

DiogenesLamp: "Of course the aftermath of a power broker dominated government was the most corrupt era this nation had ever seen."

No actual evidence supports the idea that the so-called Gilded Age (1870 to 1900) was any more, or less, corrupt than eras which preceded & followed it.
Indeed, chief economic facts of that time are:

  1. 60% increase in average real wages, despite millions of new immigrants.
  2. The number of patents issued was ten times that of the previous period.
  3. Manufacturing specifically and the economy in total multiplied 4 to 5 times.
  4. Farm mechanization reduced the man-hours required to grow an acre of wheat from 56 to 15.

The result was many new-rich families, just the kinds of people even today we like to satirize as, for example, "Beverly Hillbillies".
But there's no evidence these people were actually more corrupt, though doubtless the roaring economy gave some many more opportunities.

Transcontinental Railroad 1868:

Assasin of President Garfield:

19th Century steel mill:

Assassination of President McKinley, 1901:

1,140 posted on 09/25/2016 8:53:30 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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