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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Not that Republicans haven’t been wicked too, but the way they have been wicked is mostly by way of reaction, compromise, and complacency. The really bold moves towards hell are mostly not in the GOP.
You have a pathological hatred of all things Southern, which I suspect is the result of receiving a humiliating beat-down after spewing your leftist, Obot blue-state drivel. Take your Nancy-boy social justice warrior schtick somewhere else. Nobody wants you around here, boy.
You got what you asked for. No more free research for you.
I think post #82 just about sums it up.
You really don’t want to prove it, do you; you just want to believe it.
Face it; the cause itself is not defensible.
Prove?
WHEN the GREENIES take over, destroy the coal, natural gas, the oil industries and revert to “solar and wind”, and the PETA groups will forbid animal usage in farm production, whether as food or plow horses, they will then find that food production is LABOR INTENSIVE and required lots of “serfs” “peasants”, “Kulaks” and slaves to keep food on the table.
If they take over, slavery will be back big time and it won’t be nice. Who the “Masters” will be is yet to be determined.
No, stupid, I don’t hate all things Southern. I just hate Confederates. And let me school you to some else you stupid m’fer, I’m not a leftist although at one time I was. In the last four elections I have voted Republican and I intend to vote for Trump. The irony here is seeing idiots like yourself who I assume imagine themselves to be conservatives venerate a bunch of treasonous Democrats. Go back and stay in your parents basement little girl.
I didn’t you where that stupid. I mean I know you’re dumb, I just didn’t think you were as stupid as that cretin. You learn something new everyday.
Enjoy your new found knowledge. You might want to work on your spelling and syntax as you contemplate your genius.
No - the slave ships didn’t go first to the north. There were a number of different triangular trade routes. Some ships went from England, some from the colonies.
The ships came from Africa and delivered slaves to the islands to work the sugar plantations. The great majority of the slaves went to the islands. A fraction of them came to the colonies. They were the lucky ones. They weren’t dying of malaria in the islands and they weren’t being killed in Africa where tribes were killing and enslaving each other for centuries.
Of the slaves coming to the colonies we hear all the time that they went to the south. However many slaves were shipped to the northern colonies. Even in the 1630’s slaves were coming to Massachusetts directly from Africa. Some were coming from the Islands in exchange for Indians captured and enslaved by the colonists. Northerners don’t want you do know about how they traded the Indians for the blacks.
When you visit Boston and go to Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall - that’s where the slaves were auctioned. There were thousands of slaves up north.
Oh what a lucky act of mercy, taking unwanted people out of Africa like you were a garbage scow. Oh how the Lord must swoon over the kindness.
I smell more attempts to justify the unjustifiable. Like the doctors at least used to swear, first do no harm.
There’s no evidence that a single slave was sold at Faneuil Hall.
I don’t give a damn what you think bozo. This isn’t a ‘’Right’’ or ‘’Left’’ issue. It’s an American issue. It’s about there being one great nation called The United States of America and not a nation that a bunch of treasonous Democrats violently tried to undue and make other wise. Do you understand that?. This nation, despite it’s problems, is the greatest country in the world and I’m damn glad my Irish ancestors caught the boat. The Confederate flag doesn’t ‘’hurt’’ me, to answer your cartoonish and childish question, it angers me because it represents separation and treason and it is NOT the flag this nations young men and women are serving under and defending with their lives, as other generations of Americans have, from ALL points of the compass and for whom many gave their lives. Do you understand this you moral idiot?
Is that the best you’ve got? You know something, given the first part of your screen name I think I’ll call you ‘’PeaBrain’’.
You have a pathological hatred of all things Southern, which I suspect is the result of receiving a humiliating beat-down after spewing your leftist, Obot blue-state drivel. Take your Nancy-boy social justice warrior schtick somewhere else. Nobody wants you around here, boy.
What you don't seem to understand is that the Confederate Battle Flag is an American flag, and always will be. It is sacred to millions of Americans whose ancestors did their duty and served bravely and honorably.
“Comrades, through the years of bloodshed and many marches you were tried and true soldiers. So through years of peace you have been good citizens, and now that we are again united under the old flag, I love it as I did in the days of my youth, and I feel sure that you love it also.” N.B. Forrest
I find it interesting that you chose that particular Forrest quote in pursuit of your point. You are aware that the flag of which he speaks in that quote is the Stars and Stripes?
Why are we talking about slavery? That only has an indirect influence on what happened. The primary reason the Union started the war was to protect their cash cow of monopolized trade from Europe.
I've been looking at the numbers, and the truth appears to be that is Charleston became a free port, it would wipe out billions of dollars worth of Trade with New England.
They had jiggered all the laws to favor New England ships, ports, warehousing, insurance, packet shipping, and everything else. The amount of trade that was being MONOPOLIZED by New York is readily apparent in this map that some Anti-Confederate organization put together.
Unfortunately for them, it proves the very opposite of what they intended it to prove when they created it.
New York was taking a huge cut of *ALL* trade coming into the United States. A open port at Charleston would have wreaked financial havoc on the Robber Barons of New England.
The war was initiated to save the financial interests of New England. The "Slavery" thing was just propaganda for the rubes.
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