Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
Have you seen that cute book, "Being Dead is No Excuse" about funeral customs and food in the South? They maintain that social pecking order of religions, with each looking down on the other for the quality of their food offerings. :)
Actually they could, and they did. The first person locked up for political purposes was a Pensacola newspaper reporter who printed something Braxton Bragg didn't like on the day after Sumter was fired on. Bragg threw him in prison.
some years ago, a "lady from Ft Worth" gave a large plot of land to Texas Women's University, with the understanding that none of the land or proceeds therefrom were to be used for educating "persons of the male gender". she specifically stated in the transfer document that she had no problem with TWU spending other funds on "males", but NOT her land/money.
the donor stated that "her land or the proceeds therefrom" were to be used to assure that "poor girls from Texas, who were otherwise qualified to attend TWU" were able to attend the university.
a clause in the document giving the land to TWU stated that in the event that the land or $$$$$$ from it's sale or rental were used for "the benefit of men", that the whole parcel and or money from it's sale/lease would revert to her or ,in the event of her death, to her estate.
the courts held that this clause was UNJUST & told TWU that the clause was "null & void". TWU then sold the land & placed the proceed in the "University General Fund". (btw, the lady, at least the last time i heard, was still alive & hasn't given another DIME to TWU. does anyone blame her???
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btw, do you believe that the rector of St John's Church in NY "made up" the historical documents on file there over 150 years ago, just to confuse everyone who might read the documents, in the future??
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"spaniels" was the "term of derision for Spaniards" during the SAW.
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To maintain their pecking order, though, the small Southern town Episcopalians are going to have to leave the national church, which has gone barking mad.
Wheeler is reported to have said, "Only a PRISSY DAMNyankee would haul around a damn knife, when he could carry four pistols"!
fwiw, Gen Wheeler routinely is reported to have carried as many as EIGHT (8) Colt's revolvers in Cuba. - 4 on his saddle, two spares in his saddlebags & 2 on his belt (one of his "belt guns" was his engraved 1851 Navy Colt, which he had carried during the WBTS!). he was, to say the least, WELL-armed!
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Oh yeah - 114 degrees in the shade and dripping humidity! Not my idea of "great". Sweet tea! Boy is that an understatement! More like a glass of sugar syrup with a bit of brown crayon melted in it.
Many Southerns I know can really shovel what you described.
Boo.
Oh, by the way, nice job getting the other thread shut down.
No, I believe that if anyone is making anything up it's you.
I had wondered what had happened to it.
My DH has been known to carry as many as three. I content myself with one concealed and one in the car.
(No Navy Colts though. Wish I had one!)
Worth noting is that Lincoln, Stanton,Grant and Sherman were all men from the Old Northwest. Four more different men I cannot imagine, but one had better not cross any of them.
PITY. i once thought better of you.
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No, in other words I'm saying you make up the 90% or so of what you posts that aren't out and out lies.
PITY. i once thought better of you.
Sorry to hear that. My opinion of you hasn't changed a bit.
i could write a owner's critique of it called "The Colt's Police Positive, After the Blue Wears Off". (chuckle)
still shoots GREAT though!
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1. you don't like me exposing what your clay-footed, secular saint, DIShonest Abe actually was,a TYRANT,
2.you hate that i point out the EXCESSES & WAR CRIMES of the lincoln maladministration,
3.my posts make the members of the "DY coven" look like the motley collection of lunatics, weirdos, 1/2wits, BIGOTS & arrogant fools that they demonstrably are &
4. you can't stand the thought that someone disagrees with you and/or proves you WRONG.
you didn't used to be so HATEFUL. did you have a "falling out" with your lady or something??? (frankly, i miss the days when you & i sparred without you constantly accusing me of dishonesty. you KNOW better.)
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