Posted on 11/12/2012 6:33:35 PM PST by MNDude
In your opinion, what are the five darkest times in US history (excluding this election since that would be too obvious)
1. Valley Forge. We were that close to going under.
2. Secession of the Southern states. The poison of slavery kept that from being settled as it might have been and made it inevitable from well before the ratification of the Constitution.
3. The first "progressive" era that brought us the 16th amendment (income tax, 1909) and the 17th (direct election of senators, 1912) and would end with the disastrous social engineering of the 18th amendment (prohibition, 1917).
4. The second re-election of FDR. How bad was it? The 22nd Amendment was passed in 1947 to prohibit it ever happening again, passed during his successor's administration. It has never been challenged to my knowledge but it shortly will be.
5. The Long March Through The Institutions that has brought us our current Left-indoctrinated ruling class in academia, media, and government. Maybe 1965-present. These are the people who are destroying our country.
Its all good...I knew you were making an effort to give us all a chuckle (and Lord knows we could use one)...just thought I’d give you a chance to pick better next time....And I know that the ex can be pretty horrendous....
Yup....the 1965 Immigration Act. A nation can withstand a lot of things, but it can’t withstand the replacement of its population by tens of millions of people from different cultures. National suicide.
I guess you now know I’m supposed to be a comedy writer, just can’t shake it sometime.. blush.. :)
I just read a good book on Garfield’s assasination. I forgot the title but looking just now on Amazon, I think it is Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President.
My son (11) is reading O’Reilly’s book, Killing Lincoln, which covers his last 14 days. He says it’s pretty good.
That’s okay. Really up until the Battan part you sounded like you were on a roll....maybe you could have used the dust bowl (and my family went through that out on the Colorado Kansas border) instead...I mean that was rough and I know people died and all but at least it was Mother Nature (and bad farming practices) getting even.
AsI said we can all use a good laugh
There was an author on C-SPAN a while back, possibly the author of that book, who thought Garfield had the potential to be one of the outstanding Presidents...if he hadn’t been killed so soon in his term.
C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley also died on November 22, 1963, but their passing didn’t have any impact on American history.
Yes. Garfield seemed like an uncommonly good and capable man. It was a really big loss when he was killed.
9/11
You are mistakenly assuming that the tribes would not have kept killing each other. They hardly got along well. And that the mexicans wouldn’t have either.
1. Roe v wade. 50+ million blood sacrifices to Molech, devaluing human life and all life in general. God is judging us.
2. The incorrect idea concept of separation of church and state, misrepresenting what Jefferson really said about where the wall is - at the federal level, not the state govt level.
3. The incorrect concept that this is not a Christian nation, founded as such. Documents and writing of the leaders and founders prove it. As well as the founding documents.
4. The infiltration of socialists and communists into government and the legal system to use our own liberties to detroy the country from within.
5. The steep rise in Federalism, destroying states rights and usurping powers it constitutionally never had.
I just finished that outstanding book myself. What a huge loss of a great man. Even sadder the fact that Garfield would've easily survived his wound if not for the hubris and complete medical malpractice committed by the doctor who treated him.
1. The South Secedes
2. Lincoln is Assassinated
3. The Stock Market Crashes
4. Pearl Harbor is Attacked
5. The Cuban Missile Crisis
1. Gettysburg
2. Appomattox
Diane Feinstein
Nancy Pelosi
Barbara Boxer
Hillary Clinton
Michelle Obama
The Seventeenth Amendment belongs in there somewhere.
1 Introduction of slavery
2 Civil War
3 Rise of the 5th Column - Wilson, Communist infiltration,
Leftist Media, Labor unions, NEA
Military Industrial Complex,
New Society
4 Pearl Harbor
5 Roe v. Wade
6 Obama
Mrs. Esopman
1, Washington and Hamelton’s “Tax” on Hard Liquiers
2. Missouri Compromise
3. War of Northern Aggression
4. Reconstuction
4. Elections of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
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