Not only aren't there enough Yankees, but many Yankees feel the same way you do, pahdner!
I am pleased that the Confederate Flag was aboard!
I live in Vermont and have the rebel flag prominantly displayed!
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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What they shot up was federal property, and if through some miracle nobody had been killed at Pearl Harbor then in your eyes the Japanese attack wouldn't have been much of an issue?
I know you will now say that S.C. deeded over the property, and I'll say as long as they remained faithful to etc, etc,
So show me where that language was included in the legislation deeding the land free and clear to the U.S.
Things were apparently different then. Several books on the Sumter crisis describe conditions as Moultrie as indefensible. Civilian properties had grown on both sides of the fort, and wind had pushed sand dunes up to the top of the walls. There had apparently been cases where cows grazed up the sand dunes and wound up in the fort's parapet.
If you are going to defend the confederate flag from the Democrats why is it that you feel the need to constantly defend the Democrats?
simple logic 101 you don't defend what you hold dear by defending those that are attcking it.
Unless yUO tYPe liKe tHIs oF coURsE
free morons:
CHeAP#
Moultrie is STILL that way today.
One look will tell you why Anderson chose to move.
> Comparison between those two flags is without exception the blather of PC morons.
Read the thread. You'll see the exception.
Not only aren't there enough Yankees, but many Yankees feel the same way you do, pahdner!
I am pleased that the Confederate Flag was aboard!
I live in Vermont and have the rebel flag prominantly displayed!
Yes there were bad things in confederate culture, but also there were many good things: tenacity, loyalty, chivalry, respect for the enemy, innovation in strategy, I could go on. Without the south our military would not be what it is today, full of many highly dedicated and loyal southerners.
Maybe you might consider having an enema to clear your mind so you might think more like a conservative instead of like a knee jerk liberal.
"The Rebel flag uproar is so much hot air.
Some Texans complain about people parading around with a Mexican Flag. Its as legitimate here, as the Rebel flag."
Texas fought for the Confederacy. I may be incorrect, but I don't remember anything in my Texas history about Texas fighting FOR Mexico.
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those VALIANT IL farm boys died well in a POOR cause. (for what its worth, i frequently decorate one of the union graves at Arlington National cemetery with flowers. the FACT that he died for the WRONG side does NOT diminish his personal bravery/honor or my pride in his service and/or that he was an AmerIndian warrior.)
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LOL at you.
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don't you care that most folks here think that you are as clueless as "m.eSPINola"???
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one (born on Gonzales) was the commanding general of the Mexican forces that whipped Maximilian's Frenchmen. that's why many Texans celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
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lol AT you and the other blind fools, who worship daily at the tyrant's feet.
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Anderson's threat was from the local miltia. Where there were South Carolina civilians, there were South Carolina troops. Local loyalists had informed Anderson of the threats, the verbal instructions from Major Buell gave him the OK he needed, Sumter was the only likely place for a protracted defense.
So your position is that drunken sot beat every southern general sent against him? Doesn't say much for your rebel leadership then does it?
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