The Despot Named Lincoln

Mises.org ^ | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | David Gordon

[Non-Sequitur]

When you resign from the club, you are no longer subject to the club's bylaws.

When you walk away from the club abrogating responsibility for your share of the clubs debts, and trying to take the silverware and candle sticks with you then you are certainly in violation of something.

[Aurelius]

I really have no interest in where you are. As Curly Bob said to Sheriff White: "I was only funnin' ". (Tucson)

[Non-Sequitur]

And I can think of nothing worse than having you show up on my doorstep. I was just funnin' too.

[Aurelius]

"And I can think of nothing worse than having you show up on my doorstep."

You show good sense in your fear of of that.

[Non-Sequitur]

Hardly fear. More like revulsion.

[Aurelius]

"Hardly fear. More like revulsion."

I never try to deprive a man of his ego-saving delusions, except rarely.

[JMJ333]

I used to argue to you that the civil war was not really about slavery. But, after looking at it deeper I concede that I was mistaken. I've been reading about Reconstruction and the Jim Crow laws that were enacted during that time. It seems to me that because charity and love didn't prevail, hatred and force did. White men turned against black in the south, different and worse than during the war.

At least in the war men could actually fight and die heroically, but in the segregated south, the issue was a denial of the worth of another man's soul.

[Non-Sequitur]

I never try to deprive a man of his ego-saving delusions, except rarely.

And what about your belief that I might possibly be afraid of the likes of you? Hang on to that ego-saving delusion if you wish. I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that you are what my cousin's cajun wife would call a peeshwank.

[Non-Sequitur]

Very well put, dear lady.

[Aurelius]

I might just come up there after all so that we can find out. Maybe though you can get your wife protect you.

[Aurelius]

"Maybe though you can get your wife to protect you."

I hope that she has an apron large enough for you to hide behind.

[rdf]

Hello!

I'm not doing much FR posting, but I had to come in here.

Lincoln will be fine, Jaffa is a major scholar, DiLorenzo is a gnat, and mises.org is a sewer of lies and ignorance.

And you are doing fine at refuting the silly fluff they send out.

Cheers,

Richard F.