Posted on 10/28/2004 7:14:04 AM PDT by dead
See my post #37.
Those who still carry that spirit, will get our backs up when we or our people are violated.
.6% of the American population? Innumeracy has spread to Australia.
I wish we were fighting this "insurgency" in Iraq in a more Jacksonian style instead of a McNamarian style.
8-) We have a winner!
LOL! Can there be two winners?
The day is young, dead.
Killing flies with a sledgehammer.
It's a good thing.
So9
More of a Sherman or Chesty Puller style.
We Hill Billys have 10/22s in our gun safes.
Aussies have buried theirs.
he tried, and failed.......miserably in my opinion.
HILLARIOUS - AND
Bush is from Mars, Kerry speaks from his Anus.
This Aussie seems to understand is that that heart and soul of this nation are in the Scots-Irish traditions (I'm one: last name start with the Irish "Mc" but is pronounced "mac"). We are the nonhyphenated Americans. I have ancestors who fought in the Revolution and on both sides of the Civil War. He does have the Europeans view of us down part. My British boss looks at me after describing my heritage and declared me a red-neck.
I understand he has no respect for us.
But he admits who has always done most of the fighting and dying.
Listen to any Dem and they will have you believe it's minorities....which is the complete opposite of the truth.
I linked an old USA Today article on this above in the thread.
Mr. Hartcher can kiss my Scott-Irish, German, Cherokee grits.
First, not all "English-Americans" (a hyphenated identity at last!) were or are "aristocratic." I'm a typical Bible-Belt redneck, but if I have any Scots-Irish blood at all I'm unaware of it. Of course, the Scots-Irish were mostly lowland Protestant Anglo-Scots (since the Angles were in Scotland before the Gaelic Scots were!), so I suppose it's theoretically possible. But as close as I can figure, I'm as lilly-English as it's possible to be. Not even a dash of Celt to add flavor.
Secondly, I am again reminded of the similarities between the so-called "Bible-thumping white trash" (and before anyone gets mad, I number myself among that population) and their supposedly polar opposites, Black Americans. The food is the same ("soul food" when eaten by Blacks, but "the food of fascism" [I suppose] when eaten by poor whites), the dialect is very similar (both preserving obsolete British Islands dialects [yes, including "ebonics"]), both subscribe to the same Biblical literalism (as do I, only more so), and even the violence of the ghetto culture is a mirror of the code o' hills or the duels of honor between Southern aristocrats. Yet of course these two groups are presumed to have nothing in common, each in need of "protection" from the other by politicians who ridicule in the other group what they praise in their own.
I am at a loss to understand the uncritical embrace of contemporary political leftism (homosexuality, abortion, evolution, G-dless moral/ethical systems) by this large and still largely rural and Fundamentalist community. But for whatever even the most "reactionary" Black preacher or layman seems to feel completely unthreatened by the Left (whose ridicule they have never felt). Will that ridicule ever be turned against them? Will they ever cease to be the "noble savages" of our contemprary rationalist Rousseaus? It's interesting, but it could be that the presence of the large community of unregenerate "hillbillies" is the only thing standing between the Black community and the hatred and enmity of their "friends" on the Left. Does anyone out there really believe that if the Left succeeded in turning every poor white into a rationalist intellectual it would have any further need of its "gentlemen's agreement" with Black Fundamentalism?
Who knows? Maybe the Left would actually invoke the resentment of the old double standard to turn the now leftist "crackers" into their shock troops against the only remaining Biblical Fundamentalists--the new "patter rollers."
That sums it up. LOL.
MacAuslan? Never heard of them, what sort of books are they? Read and enjoyed all the Flashman books tho'.
A sci-fi author whose name escapes me refers to some of the W. Va. heroes of his 1632 series of books as "Hill-billy hard-*sses", much as this writer describes them.
LOL!!!
Hey, I head the Learned Elders of Zion. What say we merge so that we may all the quicker realize the goals of Our Diabolical Conspiracy?
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