To: Political Junkie Too; Lil'freeper
2 posted on
05/25/2005 1:05:34 PM PDT by
big'ol_freeper
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
To: Political Junkie Too
July 4th - Citing an extraordinary circumstance.......
3 posted on
05/25/2005 1:05:45 PM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: Political Junkie Too
Ah, the Good Old Days! Back then, if you tried to pull a stunt like that, they'd tar and feather you, and run you out of town on a rail.
That's why they called 'em the Good Old Days.
4 posted on
05/25/2005 1:07:53 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Political Junkie Too
Actually, IIRC, Benjamin Franklin tried to negotiate a settlement with the Crown prior to the Declaration of Independence, but the Crown (or likely his Ministers) wanted no terms, but total capitulation. Had the Crown relented some and given the Colonies representation in Parliament and some more say in local legislative and executive authority, history would have been quite different.
5 posted on
05/25/2005 1:11:57 PM PDT by
RonF
To: Political Junkie Too
Moderates = dead back then. You stood for something or you died for something end of story.
6 posted on
05/25/2005 1:12:10 PM PDT by
handy old one
(It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
To: Political Junkie Too
Brilliant. Painful. Dead on.
7 posted on
05/25/2005 1:13:15 PM PDT by
SlowBoat407
(A living affront to Islam since 1959)
To: Political Junkie Too
Ah, yes, and Neville Chamberlain showed how it could be done in negotiating "peace in our time" with Hitler. But far be it from me to construct any analogy that would suggest any similarity between the Dims and the National SOCIALISTS of the Third Reich.
To: Political Junkie Too
Continental soldiers, then and now, are amused. :)
To: Political Junkie Too
Reminds me of this:
The Top 5 Differences If America Were Still Under British Rule:
5) How tough can a rapper be with a name like "50p"?
4) We'd all be speaking English.
3) We'd still be fat and arrogant -- we'd just sound smarter.
2) Everyone would spell "colour" and "cheque" correctly.
and the Number 1 Difference If America Were Still Under British Rule...
1) Without guns, urban gangs would engage in drive-by snubbings.
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