Posted on 03/03/2006 11:37:56 AM PST by Rebeleye
The removal of the Confederate flag from Amherst County's official seal has upset Southern heritage groups, who contend residents weren't told of the change. County officials acknowledge the image was quietly removed in August 2004 to avoid an uproar.
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Your last word on the subject is no different than your first word on the subject - wild, unsubstantiated, and completely full of...manure.
Changing your tune again? Figures.
As for the most corrupt administration, I think that historians will bear out that the Harding Administration was the most corrupt.
No change in tune, maybe if you went back and read it before making snippety little comments, you'd have noticed that.
As for the most corrupt administration, I think that historians will bear out that the Harding Administration was the most corrupt.
Seems they rarely mention one without the other in a toss-up for last place.
I did, went way back to post 821 where you first made your claim that he was a cokehead. You were responding to earlier posts from several people refuting stand waitie's idiotic claim that Grant was high on heroin in the Wilderness. Obviously you meant to imply Grant's drug use during the war. When pwoplw pointed out that cocaine wasn't available during the rebellion for Grant to abuse you're suddenly denying it. Par for the course.
Seems they rarely mention one without the other in a toss-up for last place.
Corruption is an easy charge to make because it's definition is open for interpretation. Current Bush administration, Clinton administration, Reagan, Nixon, Truman, you name it. All have had the charge of 'most corrupt administration' made of them. As for Grant and Harding, was the Whiskey Ring worse than Teapot Dome? Was William Belknap worse than Albert Fall? Who knows? A case can be made either way.
Bravo Sierra! Aspirin as we know it is acetylsalicylic acid. An application for a German patent was rejected, because in fact acetylsalicylic acid was not a new substance, having been first synthesized in 1853 by French chemist Charles Gerhardt, in impure form, and later in crystalline form by German chemist Carl J. Kraut.
Gerhart discovered how to "buffer" aspirin in 1853, but the purified unbuffered aspirin (salicylic acid) was produced in 1838 by Italian chemist Raffaele Piria.
Grant could have easily ingested unbuffered 'aspirin'.
No he couldn't. Nobody was marketing salicylic acid in any form under any name until Bayer in the 1890's. Where would Grant have gotten it?
Coupled with reconstruction and the indian wars, I lean heavily toward Grant, but acknowledge that is only an opinion, and others are welcome to theirs.
you have returned to what you do BEST,i.e., posting DUMB cartoons & off-point blather, which serves to get all intelligent FReepers to laugh AT you.
free dixie,sw
the DAMNyankee coven enjoys posting KNOWING FICTION, as they WRONGLY believe that everyone else on the forum is either too ignorant or too lazy to check their nonsense against FACTS.
free dixie,sw
BAYER simply made an INDUSTRY of what local druggists had been doing for DECADES!
free dixie,sw
My friend I agree with you. The ignorant are attempting to peddle their DISinformation, and seem to be of the opinion that food could not be cooked until microwaves were invented, that laundry could not be done until the washing machine was perfected, and that all medicines just appeared out of thin air in the late 19th/early 20th century. </sarcasm>
As for "Aspirin", yes, the chemical substance was developed earlier, but aspirin, as "aspirin" was trademarked by Bayer in 1899 and then marketed around the world.
Now, if you've got some evidence that Grant was taking some form of salicylic acid, buffered or unbuffered, at the Wilderness, let's see it. Otherwise, it's no different than claiming that he could have been using tupperware because the first plastic had been invented in 1862. Or maybe that because there had been U-Boats in WW2, one of them might be on display in Galveston.
On no ....Norman's back.
full disclosure here, i'm NOT a DOCTOR (nor do i play one on TV!), NOR an "expert on medicines" but when i took a "local HS age group" to Colonial Williamsburg YEARS AGO, the docent at "the Apothecary Shoppe" told the students that aspirin was one of the common medicines of THAT period too. (i'd guess that the Colonials got the formulation from the AIs).
free dixie,sw
you are SO PREDICTABLE! i comment that you post DUMB CARTOONS & other NONSENSE & you respond to that same post with MORE ignorant, fact-FREE, off-point, NONSENSE, which makes you look even DUMBER!
PITY that you aren't bright enough to know that you're a source of embarrassment, even to the unionist coven.
free dixie,sw
Your "unionist coven" is under your bed - again.
"Mr SPIN's" sort of DUMB blather & meaningless NONSENSE is all too typical of the IGNORANCE & lack of THOUGHT/EDUCATION of "the DY coven" of lunatics, weirdos, HATERS, bigots & DUMB-bunnies on FR.
and anyone wonders why we'd wish them to go somewhere (anywhere) else & leave FR for good????
DU would happily accept MOST of the coven!
free dixie,sw
Norman, whom do you include in this "Union coven" you continue ranting on about?
From my post above: 'Gerhart discovered how to "buffer" aspirin in 1853, but the purified unbuffered aspirin (salicylic acid) was produced in 1838 by Italian chemist Raffaele Piria.' That does not mean that salicyclic acid was unavailable prior, just that it was then easier to mass produce it. The father of medicine wrote about using chewing willow leaves/bark to alleviate pain, just as native Americans have known about it's benefits.
As for "Aspirin", yes, the chemical substance was developed earlier, but aspirin, as "aspirin" was trademarked by Bayer in 1899 and then marketed around the world.
stand did not claim Grant ingested BAYER Aspirin. We drink small amounts of a tea made from yaupon berries during the annual Green Corn ceremony (a caffeinated diuretic for spiritual and physical cleansing), we don't take pills. I guess because it's not in pill form, mass produced by some pharmacuetical giant that the medicinal properties/caffeine are non-existant.
You and your cohorts have attempted to "prove" that Grant could not have ingested "aspirin" because it wasn't invented until 1897. I've simply proven that aspirin, buffered and unbuffered existed prior to that, and before the war.
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