Posted on 07/02/2010 12:05:55 PM PDT by RightCenter
As to the Alamo, little pissants like him have been trying to insult the Alamo ever since it became a sin for Anglos to win a war. Santa Anna was part of a group that overthrew the elected President of Mexico. When he came to power, he dissolved the congress and set up a military dictatorship. So those EVIL TEXANS he's talking about who were so terrible because they rebelled against Santa Anna were rebelling against a guy who overthrew the ELECTED PRESIDENT OF MEXICO and had him executed. Santa Anna threw out the Constitution of 1824 (the original Texas battle flag was a Mexican flag with 1824 on it.) He invaded Texas, and executed the military prisoners who surrendered at Goliad, some 350 people. When he lost at the Battle of San Jacinto, he dressed as a private and hid in the marshes.
He also found time to try and launch an invasion of Cuba, but didn't have the money.
Cracked has a bunch of little twits who don't know sh#t from shinola that post these incorrect, nonsensical lists.
The rest of his article is about as trustworthy as the parts I bothered to rebuke.
I want to know how you get to declare a whole mountain “sacred territory”. My tribe declares all of Las Vegas to be sacred territory. For that matter, the whole continent is sacred territory to us. So get off.
Silliness.
I thought Jefferson believed in God, or at least a creator?
Isn’t that a pic of Crazy Horse in the same article though?
Bump
Well, I've always thought of a deist as a cowardly atheist who wants to have things both ways.
There seems to be a debate whether those pics that purported to be his is actually Crazy Horse or not. In any case, he —like many Native Americans— didn’t like to have his picture taken. So, to have a big head of his on a mountain would be ironical.
It is the same with Jefferson. It seems that he was in complete opposition to himself at times. I believe this is due to his being someone that truely wanted to examine things from all sides and the fact that he wrote constantly through his life. Opinions can change with greater learning. Jefferson, however, does not seem to have rejected Christianity as completely as Paine had.
As for Beck adopting Paine's views I think he said something about making an effort to take Paine away from the Left so they couldn't use him to taint the other founders.
I guess I’m ignorant as well.
Of the thousands of books I’ve read, I’ve never heard that phrase.
Considered me humbled.
You could be right about Paine. There was very much a class difference that existed in America, mostly perpetuated by the lack of education. Many of our pioneers and frontiersmen, lived off the land under conditions that were worse than those provided to slaves, but they had their freedom and that’s all they wanted.
I could be wrong but I think csmusaret was making fun of the author’s assertion that “Crazy Horse was adamant” about not being photographed. The only evidence I’m aware of that he didn’t want his picture taken is that there are no pictures of him. By that logic it could be said that I have never driven a car because there are no pictures of me driving a car.
Just don’t “saddle up to the bar” and you’ll be OK. ;^)
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