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Don't spin the Civil War
Washington Post ^ | 12.27.10 | E.J. DIONNE jR.

Posted on 12/27/2010 10:31:54 AM PST by trumandogz

The Civil War is about to loom very large in the popular memory. We would do well to be candid about its causes and not allow the distortions of contemporary politics or long-standing myths to cloud our understanding of why the nation fell apart.

The coming year will mark the 150th anniversary of the onset of the conflict, which is usually dated to April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries opened fire at 4:30 a.m. on federal troops occupying Fort Sumter. Union forces surrendered the next day, after 34 hours of shelling.

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To: MikefromOhio

stupidity - a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense; see mikefromohio


1,181 posted on 01/05/2011 11:28:55 AM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: cowboyway

Post# 1171.

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1,182 posted on 01/05/2011 11:28:56 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: rockrr; All

How many states have you been in, punk?

(reference posts 1090 & 1180)


1,183 posted on 01/05/2011 11:30:54 AM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: cowboyway

Uhm, that vein in your forehead is sticking out again. Y’all need to settle back a mite, son.


1,184 posted on 01/05/2011 11:31:54 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: cowboyway
Did it ever dawn on you that your whiny, frenzied, vitriolic attacks on conservatives and your constant taunting and baiting for open insurrection and subversive behavior by conservatives helps to paint that stereotype?

LOL!! Everytime your little utopian views of the CSA are attacked you are the only one spewing vitriol.

Of course you did. So why do you continue to do it? Because you're a left wing POS that wants this site to look bad.

BS. I want FR to be the beacon of conservatism as JimRob has envisioned it. Shilling for a system and government that condoned slavery isn't going to make FR into that site.

I'm calling you out as a left wing plant on FR and strongly suggest that the mods revoke your account.

So then ping them. Me a leftist - LOL!!! You're dreaming.

So because I've completely destroyed your opinions on the CSA, argued that they warped a noble cause like states rights to cover the abomination of slavery and then STARTED a war and LOST, I'm a leftist troll? That's rich.

It's not my fault you can't take any dissenting opinions to your warped worldviews. It's hilarious (and VERY telling) that you would make it a ban-able offense on FR too....
1,185 posted on 01/05/2011 11:34:12 AM PST by MikefromOhio (hurdy hur spikefromohio hurdy hur)
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To: cowboyway
stupidity - a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense; see mikefromohio

what it's not spikefromohio anymore? LOL!!! I kinda liked that nickname too LOL
1,186 posted on 01/05/2011 11:47:41 AM PST by MikefromOhio (hurdy hur spikefromohio hurdy hur)
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To: MikefromOhio

I think that throbbing vein means that he isn’t getting enough oxygen to an already palsied brain-bucket. Better let off him before he blows a gasket ;-)


1,187 posted on 01/05/2011 11:50:08 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Did you ever get me the name of the cretinous, snaggle-toothed Southerner who killed Viola Liuzzo and framed Sacco and Vanzetti? No?

Nice try to change the subject, but you're the one who made the claim about the standard character in Hitchcock films. I've never said anything about Sacco and Vanzetti or Viola Liuzzo. Nor did Alfred Hitchcock.

1,188 posted on 01/05/2011 11:58:55 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Dude. The NWO was unconstitutional. Look up Article IV.

Well you better let guys like James Madison and a dozen other signers of the Constitution know of your opinion since they voted and approved an identical bill to the 1787 Ordinance during the very 1st Congress under the Constitution in 1789.

I don't know what you see in Article IV. I see it gave Congress exclusive control over the Territories including the power to prohibit slavery if they so desired.

1,189 posted on 01/05/2011 12:00:30 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: MikefromOhio
it's not going to happen central_vag and you know it.

The political polarization will be complete by 2012. We will be divided politically and regionally. IMO a good thing. Maybe then the sheeple will wake up to reality.

1,190 posted on 01/05/2011 12:08:48 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rockrr
Uhm, that vein in your forehead is sticking out again. Y’all need to settle back a mite, son.

Instead of worriying about me why don't you try to explain your lies that I've documented in post #1090 and #1180.

1,191 posted on 01/05/2011 12:21:42 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: cowboyway
subjugate - oppression: the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people" ;forced submission to control by others

Sounds correct. Let's illustrate it.

insurrection - a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

OK. A little narrow, but let's go with that one for now.


1,192 posted on 01/05/2011 12:23:01 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: MikefromOhio
I've completely destroyed your opinions on the CSA

What!?!

I'm a leftist troll

I agree.

1,193 posted on 01/05/2011 12:24:56 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: cowboyway

Who is worriying (sic) LOL

Post# 1171.

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1,194 posted on 01/05/2011 12:25:38 PM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: cowboyway

LOL! I skewered this tic turd a couple of times when he first showed up but did the same thing...does the “look over there” libtard dodge. He will NEVER address a topic that you’ve cornered him on.

I call him NS Jr. Twice as irritating because he’s half as intelligent. Or as the saying goes; “Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.”

BTW what happened to NS, AKA Pee Wee?


1,195 posted on 01/05/2011 12:31:25 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Ditto
First picture: How do you know that that wasn't self flagellation? That fool could have been practicing some weird African ceremony for all you know.

Second picture: A once legal practice, right?

Third picture: I assume that you approve of the ‘insurrection’ in this picture. Am I correct?

BTW, are you fishing for a reparation check from me?

1,196 posted on 01/05/2011 12:35:21 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: rockrr

Post# 1090 & 1180.

Answer for your lies, coward.

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1,197 posted on 01/05/2011 12:37:27 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: cowboyway

Lee’sGhost told me never to argue with a fool. That pretty much dismisses you from the picture.


1,198 posted on 01/05/2011 12:39:09 PM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: Lee'sGhost
BTW what happened to NS, AKA Pee Wee?

You haven't heard!?! He got the ban hammer!

Then the POS tried to sneak back in here using a sleeper account called 'drennan whyte' and mojitojoe caught him, blew the whistle and damned if he didn't get the ban hammer again!

A thing of beauty. Makes my Irish eyes get all misty....

1,199 posted on 01/05/2011 12:40:53 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: cowboyway

moe-jo didn’t “catch him”.


1,200 posted on 01/05/2011 12:42:46 PM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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