Posted on 04/24/2005 6:08:20 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Southern heritage buffs vow to use the Virginia gubernatorial election as a platform for designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.
The four candidates have differing views on the Confederacy, an issue that has been debated for years in the commonwealth.
"We're not just a few people making a lot of noise," said Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the oldest hereditary organization for male descendents of Confederate soldiers. "This is not a racial thing; it is good for Virginia. We're going to keep pushing this until we get it."
Each candidate recently shared his thoughts on what Mr. Bowling called a "litmus test for all politicians." Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would not support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Former state Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore would support something that recognizes everyone who lived during the Civil War.
Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr. and Warrenton Mayor George B. Fitch would support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Many past Virginia governors honored the Civil War or the Confederacy.
In 1990, former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first black governor, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, issued a proclamation praising both sides of the war and remembering "those who sacrificed in this great struggle."
Former Govs. George Allen and James S. Gilmore III, both Republicans, issued Confederate History Month proclamations. In 2000, Mr. Gilmore replaced that proclamation with one commemorating both sides of the Civil War -- a move that enraged the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, has refused to issue a gubernatorial decree on either side of the Civil War.
Mr. Kaine, another Democrat, would decline to issue a Confederate History and Heritage Month proclamation if he is elected governor, said his campaign spokeswoman, Delacey Skinner.
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Call me a snob but I mean, read that, it's like cat claws scratching a blackboard - Alnight! LOL Now this part I fully agree with and is in proper, non headache provoking English:
"We'll send him to Boston, Massachusetts, on vacation! We'll cure this man!"
Then this:
Every time he wanted to eat dinner, they tried to eat lunch, and every time he wanted supper, they wanted dinner. He was confused. About the second day up there, he was rudely informed that they "don't grow grits up here.[Laughter]""
[Laughter]
I am, LOL too, the guy's a backward dork!
The Chinaman and the brass rat.. "I will always remember Yankees when I see this brass rat!"
Nice, very nice.
"And he looked down and there were thousands of rats following him and that brass rat under his arm!"
In downtown Boston near Chinatown?
"He said, "There ain't but one thing to do!"
Oy, my headache is getting worse.
"Do you happen to have a brass Yankee?"
I am not amused LOL
Why are their moronic bigots out there who still join such hate/terrorist groups as the KKK?
You guys will never be able to except defeat for your 'Lost Cause'. In another generation with so many 'Yankees' buying up land the size of Rhode Island & building like there's no tomorrow, for second incomes down there, you Neanderthal neo-confederates won't even exist, except maybe in some mosquito infested backwater swamp, still singing 'The South Will Rise Again'....Please grow up.
I don't know, why don't you tell me.
Uncle Pompey, a cook with Confederates at the early battle of Seven Pines, in violation of orders, was advancing to the fighting front, when asked by another black:
"Whar's you gwine, Uncle Pomp? You isn't gwine up dar to have all de har scorched off yer head is you?" Uncle Pompey still persisted in advancing and shouldering a rifle, soon overtook his regiment. 'De Lor' hab mercy on us all, boys, here dey comes agin! Dar it is,' he exclaimed, as the Yankees fired an overshot, 'just as I taught! can't shoot worth a bad five-cent piece. Now's de time, boys!' and as the Alabamians returned a withering volley and closed up with the enemy, charging them furiously. Uncle Pompey forgot all about his church, his ministry, and sanctity, and while firing and dodging, as best he could, was heard to shout out: "Pitch in, White folks—Uncle Pomp's behind yer. Send all de Yankees to de 'ternal flames, whar dere's weeping and gnashing of—sail in Alabama; stick 'em wid de bayonet, and send all de blue ornary cusses to de state of eternal fire and brimstone! Push 'em hard, boys!—push 'em hard; and when dey's gone, may de Lor' hab marcy on de last one on 'em, and send dem to h-ll farder nor a pigin kin fly in a month! Stick de d—d sons of—! don't spare none on'em, for de good Lor' never made such as dem, no how you kin fix it: for it am said in de two-eyed chapter of de one-eyed John, somewhat in Collusions, dat—Hurray, boys, dat's you, sure—now you've got 'em goss! Show 'em a taste of ole Alabamy,' etc.I'd say Uncle Pomp was mighty proud to serve his country.
H.C. Blackerby, Blacks in Blue and Gray: Afro-American Service in the Civil War, Tuscaloosa, AL: Portals Press (1979), pp.11-12.
... you Neanderthal neo-confederates won't even exist, except maybe in some mosquito infested backwater swamp, still singing 'The South Will Rise Again'....Please grow up.
You post like an Islamic fundamentalist, always calling others names and telling them what to do.
Call me a snob but I mean, read that, it's like cat claws scratching a blackboard - Alnight!
OK, I'll try to remember to say "youse guys" when addressing your side so you'll feel more comfortable.
Judging from your reaction to "y'all", maybe Southerners should have incorporated "y'all" into the rebel yell.
It is not our purpose to state in this work, how, or why, or through whose neglect, this great expedition did not succeed. The time has not yet come for the secret history of this war to be made public ... The idea originated with General Kilpatrick, and, on being submitted, in all its plans and details, met the approbation of the Honorable Secretary of War and of the President of the United States.The plan was submitted by Kilpatrick, and met the approval of Lincoln. No innuendo, nor slander. Simply the facts.It was indeed a hazardous enterprise; but the great object to be attained justified the attempt."
James Moore, M. D. [Surgeon of the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry], Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry: Comprising A Sketch Of The Life of General Kilpatrick, New York, NY: W. J. Widdleton (1865), p. 143.
Country? LOL Give everyone a break! A pack of of self appointed pro-slavery politicians, those over priced errand boys for Plantation Inc.? Next joke!
Another linguistic item. You will need to translate that last post into readable English. Maybe you are accustomed to dribbling out 'English' in that broken down manner, but I am not.
Clean up your act Mr. conveniently ultra P/C - it's really beginning to stink up the joint.
Yeah, I never got that -- why red-hot Zionists always wind up sounding just like Palis and jihadis. Which was John LeCarre's point in writing The Little Drummer Girl, a caution to Europeans not to get mixed up with Palestinians and Arab causists, and to his Israeli friends not to lose their souls fighting the Palis.
Maybe a little less red heat and a little more steadiness, something like that.......do you remember that it was red heat that the Philistines used to blind Samson?
Region by region, Israel's best friends live in the South -- but guess who the neocons can't stand, and rag on constantly?
And it ain't because their great-granddaddies fought at Shiloh.
People complain about your English.....and yet they're using seminar-troll English.
"innuendo" = a fact disabled by its having been introduced by you.
"slander" = a logical conclusion inconvenient to me, because founded on "innuendo" adduced by you.
Get the picture?
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you are 100% correct, the records won't be hard to find.
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i am not surprised.
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he is, unlike YOU, smart & brave enough to stand by his principles as an attorney at law.
otoh, i personally wish that he had NOT taken $$$$$$ as a lawyer for representing the klan.
Kirk feels strongly that EVERYONE, even RACIST IDIOTS like the KKK, deserves effective legal counsel, when facing charges in court. he is, fwiw, NOT alone among lawyers in that belief. the ACLU & SPLC members feel the same (that's ONE reason i'm NOT a lawyer, as i could NOT represent persons whom i KNOW to be GUILTY of horrid crimes!).
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and most of the DAMNyankee coven on FR are TOO DUMB to know that the LEFTISTS/REVISIONISTS/America-HATERS/SOCIALISTS/elitists, that feed them the NONSENSE/LIES/PROPAGANDA that they so greedily swallow whole, wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire.
the LEFTIST elitists "laugh behind their well-manicured hands" AT anyone who is DUMB enough to believe their KNOWING LIES!
such persons are called "useful idiots" by the LEFT.
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furthermore, they are as DUMB & filled with HATRED as the DAMNyankees (a small but LOUD-mouthed minority of northerners) are.
the 2 groups are 2 sides of the same coin = HATERS/BIGOTS.
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otoh, i won't disagree on her proposed new titles.
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that fellow must have had REALLY long arms!
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