I think you better take another look. I see plenty of red in the North and I see blue in the South. We in the North did just as much, if not more, to keep those idiots out of the White House. 
Posted on 06/14/2006 5:58:12 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Confederate flags flown aboard the international space station — and seemingly signed by a NASA astronaut — showed up last week on the online auction site eBay.
The original eBay listing indicated that the 4-by-6-inch flags were brought aboard the space station by Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov in 2004, and an accompanying photo showed a sample flag that seemed to bear Sharipov’s signature as well as that of Leroy Chiao, his NASA colleague on the station. Yet another photo showed several of the rebel flags floating in a space station module.
The item was pulled from the auction on Monday by the seller, Alex Panchenko of USSR-Russian Air-Space Collectibles Inc. in Los Angeles — and on Tuesday, Panchenko told MSNBC.com that he removed the items from sale because he had concluded the flag and the authentication documents were forgeries.
However, Robert Pearlman, editor and founder of CollectSpace, said he believes the flags are authentic.
“The picture taken of the flags aboard the station says a lot,” he said. “It would be difficult to fake, given the style and I couldn't see the motivation to do so.” The “onboard-the-ISS” stamp, added Pearlman, is not known to have been counterfeited anywhere."
The disappearance of the flags followed a round of criticism over the weekend from former space scientist Keith Cowing, publisher of NASA Watch, an independent Web log. He cited the Confederate flags as an example of “bad judgment on the ISS.”
“You'd think that someone on the U.S. side of the ISS program would have expressed some concern about flying a symbol on the ISS that many Americans associate with slavery,” Cowing wrote.
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You can tell the Confederate Space Station from the International Space Station because it's the one with a rusting Ford Torino up on blocks in front.
b.few were read by anyone but the authors of those documents.
c.the documents spoke for the opinions of NOBODY but the private persons who wrote them.
Yeah, those are a real embarrassment for your side, aren't they? I can see why you want to distance yourself from them, what with all that talk about protecting slave property being the overwhelming reason for secession. But you're wrong when you say that they're documents with no standing. They were drafted by committees appointed by the secession conventions. They were debated, then adopted by the conventions with, apparently, unanimous votes. They are as legitimately a product of the conventions as the actual acts of secession were.
There, fixed your spelling errors.
> it was ONLY about LIBERTY & freedom
Yeah... I don't think so.
The War Of Southron Aggression was all about slavery. Their own words bear that out.
No the Confederate Space Station would be completely finished, making a profit, and providing a service, as it would more than likely have been privately funded. The ISS is over budget, hardly working, and a sinkhole for taxpayers' dollars, as it is a government project. And one thing you can thank the Whigs Republicans for is the mistaken belief that government should be in the business of providing 'internal improvements' for subjects citizens of the State
And the South was jealous of the industrial might of the North while they were still stuck in an agricultural feudal society, not much different from the feudal societies of the Middle Ages.
Too bad the Mississippi River did not contain fresh water prior to the Civil War.
I think you better take another look. I see plenty of red in the North and I see blue in the South. We in the North did just as much, if not more, to keep those idiots out of the White House.
I think he was talking about the electoral map. But the northern states did do a lot also to keep that disaster from happening.
Nonsense. Using the claims of your sources, that the North only generated one quarter of all tariff reveune, inflation alone would account for an increase from $13.25 million dollars in 1860 to somewhat less than $29.8 million in 1864. Far short of the $103 million collected. Your sources also claim that since the south was responsible for virtually all exports then it directly generated the imports as well. So what kind of export did the North come up with that replaced the southern agricultural products? Not only replaced them but apparently generated 8 times as much export value.
Or could it have been that the North accounted for virtually all import demand all along? Do you suppose that could be the answer?
Both sides needed cheap labor. The south owned theirs. Spot the difference?
To put it another way...you are trying to compare a united nation at peacetime to a divided nation at war. Those are two different animals.
Uh no, you've just been brainwashed by Northern schools who hold up Lincoln and Grant as heroes while they demonize two of our country's better Presidents: Rutherford Hayes and Andrew Johnson.
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