Commentary: Truth blown away in sugarcoated 'Gone With the Wind'

sacbee ^ | 11-13-04

[Non-Sequitur]

What, no squack?

[GOPcapitalist]

What, no squack?

I suppose you normally do talk while chewing.

[4CJ]

Your "list of reasons" is downright comical. You want us to believe that Merryman and Taney were neighbors and friends because dead people with the same last names as theirs are buried at the same cemetary! Answer me this, capitan. Do you know the names of all the people who are buried around your deceased relatives in a cemetary? Do you run around in social circles with their descendants and call those descendants your "neighbor" since their Great Aunt Thelma is buried 30 feet from yours?

They just sit around the graves and sang Kumbayah together.

[GOPcapitalist]

Given the way those Californy people do things there's probably an element of truth to that.

[Gianni]

I replied to your comment, "Slave owners were not political leaders." I said nothing about tyranny.

Check back with your high school and get a book on reading comprehension.

You jumped in the middle of a conversation about the word tyrant and tried to run it off into another El Capitan irrelevency.

Don't lecture me about comprehension when it was your ignorance that led us down this road.

[Non-Sequitur]

I suppose you normally do talk while chewing.

But I can't duplicate that neat whistle that you do after you go 'Awk'.

[capitan_refugio]

"Don't lecture me about comprehension when it was your ignorance that led us down this road."

Really? Could have fooled me.

[capitan_refugio]

"[Wildfire] had been captured a few days previously by Lieutenant Craven within sight of the northern coast of Cuba, as an American vessel employed in violating our laws against the slave-trade."

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

What's you point?

[capitan_refugio]

"... which rests entirely upon an unspecific and now discredited newspaper editorial."

The Times articles is eminently credible. In fact, anything "discredited" by you is worth its weight in gold, as far as I'm concerned. You are the one bellyaching. I'm quite satisfied with the judgment of the Chief Justice. "The Times claimed that Taney and Merryman were neighbors, yet Taney lived in Washington and Merryman lived in the rural Baltimore County town of Cockeysville some 20 miles away from the city."

I can see why you claim to be a social scientist instead of a real one. There is no accounting for rational thought from such a narrow mind..

[capitan_refugio]

What period of time does your graphic purport to represent?

[capitan_refugio]

"Merryman lived in Cockeysville and Taney lived in Washington. Therefore they were not neighbors."

Time and space are large concepts. You are not capable of having anything but narrow thoguhts. Does the Times state when they were neighbors? No. It only indicates they had been neighbors. And that you have not even come close to disproving - or will you ever.

[capitan_refugio]

I am presuming you got it to post on the third try, because 2191 and 2190 didn't show up.

Did that come from a sixth grade history book?

did you note the caption "Early Colonial"?

[Gianni]

Rehnquist as much as says it too.

Now there's a fine appeal to authority.

[capitan_refugio]

"Damn, you're dumb."

Talking to yourself again? Sorry, you are as narrow-minded as your comrade, GOPc.

[capitan_refugio]

Tell us about your book, "Prof." coward.

[capitan_refugio]

"John Merryman was a FARMER and is listed in such in the Baltimore COUNTY census (the City of Baltimore is not part of Balimore COUNTY) - he was not a judge, lawyer, politician, doctor, banker or any other profession customarily travelling in high society."

He was a wealthy landowner from an old and prominent family. He occupied several positions of civic importance, befitting his position in society.

P.S. I noted in another post that the City Baltimore was not part of Baltimore County after 1851.

[capitan_refugio]

Buy Farber's book. It is available in paperback.

"Where is the clause allowing ANY part [of the Constitution] to be suspended or tossed aside in times of war?"

Now back to your reading comprehension problem. Did Farber write anything about suspending the Consitution itself? No. He used the term "ordindary rules." What do you think the "Laws of War" and the Commander-in-Chief's "war powers" are all about?

[4CJ]

"The Times claimed that Taney and Merryman were neighbors, yet Taney lived in Washington and Merryman lived in the rural Baltimore County town of Cockeysville some 20 miles away from the city."

Who got credit for the byline, Jason Blair or Dan Rather?