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Secession ball stirs controversy
The SunNews.com ^ | 12-3-2010 | Robert Behre Charleston Post

Posted on 12/03/2010 4:39:40 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

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To: Colonel Kangaroo
I think you ought to be proud of your ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. Its the secessionist politicians who behaved shamefully.

That's just stupid, kolonel. The politicians couldn't have gotten anywhere without the backing of those who were willing to take up arms and defend their homes from invasion.

321 posted on 12/04/2010 6:36:50 AM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Frequently I’m no great fan of the NAACP’s rhetoric on the Civil War. Too often they make the 16 year old rebel farm boy soldier into a combination of Benedict Arnold and the Grand Dragon of the KKK.

And you and the rest of the coven ain't far behind them with your rhetoric here of FR even going so far as accusing some of us Southrons of that or worse.

322 posted on 12/04/2010 6:39:38 AM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: southernsunshine
Don't worry rockrr, I will still extended appropriate courtesy to you and your's(sic).

Starting when?

It's called "the right thing to do."

Uh huh, yeah, sure.

Sorry your life is bitter, but can't help ya with that.

LOL. When all around you appears a certain way perhaps it is time to look within and reassess you own attitudes.

What's fascinating to me is your willingness to hang your hat (so to speak) on the conduct of your Lost Cause Loser buddies. I know that you are not stupid so you understand the hypocrisy involved in condemning the behavior of one while ignoring, or even worse subtly encouraging the same behavior in others.

But there it is. Your outrage is selective and phony as a confederate dollar bill. Y'all will pardon me if I don't get too worked up over it? ;-)

323 posted on 12/04/2010 6:47:13 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr
Starting when?

Anytime you have younguns' on a thread. Just let me know.

LOL. When all around you appears a certain way perhaps it is time to look within and reassess you own attitudes.

You're still showing it, rockrr. Perhaps it will help if you take your own advice.

What's fascinating to me is your willingness to hang your hat (so to speak) on the conduct of your Lost Cause Loser buddies. I know that you are not stupid so you understand the hypocrisy involved in condemning the behavior of one while ignoring, or even worse subtly encouraging the same behavior in others.

You obviously don't get the "mama grizzly" thing. It's just natural and applies to fathers too. Your style of parenting is on display.

But there it is. Your outrage is selective and phony as a confederate dollar bill.

Outrage? LOL! Selective? LOL! I have sense enough to grasp there are eyes which are too young to be viewing certain things.

Y'all will pardon me if I don't get too worked up over it? ;-)

I tend not to care what you do or do not get worked up over.

324 posted on 12/04/2010 7:14:36 AM PST by southernsunshine
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To: Non-Sequitur
And had I known the very young and impressionable sensitive southernsunshine offspring were on the thread I would never have posted that picture.

Fixed it for ya. And I know you wouldn't have.

325 posted on 12/04/2010 7:17:58 AM PST by southernsunshine
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To: southernsunshine
I tend not to care what you do or do not get worked up over.

Uh huh, yeah, sure.

326 posted on 12/04/2010 7:51:27 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Non-Sequitur
You do it. Fix it. You have 5 minutes to find the photos online, chop them and upload them, then get them posted on FR. go for it. I didn't try to make it look good dearie. If I wanted to, I could, it's not that important to me. It was on the fly. Go to freakingnews.com and learn something. That's just rich coming from you dearie post the stupidest, corniest pictures of anyone here on FR. You can't even find good photos relevant to a thread and upload them to post here. How many times have you posted that same old tired black and white photo of a guy with his head up his $$$?yawn.
327 posted on 12/04/2010 8:38:08 AM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: central_va

Not only am I RINO boy, but, if it weren’t for me, your secession dreams might come true.

I’ve just put out the word to keep that Lincolnesque noose around the neck of the Confederacy.

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
-Abraham Lincoln


328 posted on 12/04/2010 9:43:29 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
And you love your country so much that you can't wait to get the hell out of it?

Still posting lies, I see. Link to the post where I've stated that I can't wait to get the hell out of the country. I know that you've got a Southron database with all our posts recorded and it's widely recognized that you're the king of cut-n-paste so this shouldn't take long.

I suppose that makes sense in what passes for twisted Dixie logic.

I've always argued that men have the natural right to choose their own destiny. You've always argued that we all are bound together in some sort of perverse perpetual union even if it means lose of liberty.

So I ask: whose logic is twisted? And I answer: NS, The Caliph of the Coven.

"Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson

329 posted on 12/04/2010 10:03:55 AM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
The Sons of Confederate Veterans plan to hold a $100-per-person "Secession Ball" on Dec. 20 in Gaillard Municipal Auditorium. It will feature a play highlighting key moments from the signing of South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession 150 years ago, an act that severed the state's ties to the Union and put the nation on the path to the Civil War.

Kind of funny how people who play the populist card with such ferocity love to dress up and cavort like the ruling elites of a slaveowning society.

I suppose human nature is involved. Pure populism and pure elitism are pretty much impossible, and just about everybody is somebody's snob and somebody else's slob at the same time, so there are bound to be inconsistencies and hypocrisies where populism and elitism are concerned.

But if you rail against overprivileged elites wouldn't you feel some hesitation in celebrating one very powerful and privileged ruling class from long ago? And if you favor a hierarchical society, would you really feel comfortable stoking populist passions for social and political leveling?

I guess the idea is that for neoconfederates, the secessionist leaders were "our own" people, but one has to wonder if Davis and Lee would have felt the same warmth towards their crackpot supporters today.

The Confederate leaders weren't a bunch of guys who got together in the garage to talk about guns over a beer. They were a self-conscious ruling elite with the faults of other elites in history.

If you're a Southern nationalist I guess it all does make sense in a funny way, but it's the libertarians and populists who mess things up, by making it about liberty or equality in the abstract, rather than about local masters versus distant rulers.

330 posted on 12/04/2010 10:04:48 AM PST by x
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To: x

Excellent point.

Those same secessionists who attempted to rip our nation apart wouldn’t object to the likes of pokie, cva, or idabooby cleaning their spittoons, but otherwise wouldn’t be seen in public with them.


331 posted on 12/04/2010 10:25:03 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: cowboyway

“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
-Abraham Lincoln


332 posted on 12/04/2010 10:57:12 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
A friend of mine is down in Charleston right now, celebrating his 10th anniversary. He and his wife are both big history buffs (he's the one I usually drag along to the Civil War battlefields and reenactments) and they are planning on hitting all of the major historical sections of Charleston, from Fort Sumter to the Yorktown.

I am exceedingly jealous. ;-)

333 posted on 12/04/2010 1:04:20 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: mac_truck

That is interesting. I’d never heard of them before. Thanks for the link.


334 posted on 12/04/2010 1:05:58 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: mojitojoe
How many times have you posted that same old tired black and white photo of a guy with his head up his $$$?y

Every time it's warranted. Like now, since it's obviously where you store your own head most of the time.

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335 posted on 12/04/2010 1:14:17 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: cowboyway
NS, The Caliph of the Coven

Cowboyway, the Mortimer Snerd of the Lost Cause Brigade.

336 posted on 12/04/2010 1:16:47 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Colonel Kangaroo; central_va
Benedict Arnold and the Grand Dragon of the KKK.

An interesting little story.

Back in the early 1980's a friend of mine was first stationed at Fort Knox, so he and his wife were looking for an apartment off post until they could save up to buy a house.

Curtis, who is black, had to report in to his new unit, so his wife, who is white, went to the apartment complex to sign for the apartment. Everything was fine until that evening, when Curtis arrived to look things over.

The complex owner/manager was waiting to give them a walk-thru, and he did a double-take when Curtis walked up and introduced himself. The guy suggested that Curtis and his wife might want to consider looking for another apartment, possibly in Radcliff or Elizabethtown.

When Curtis asked why they wouldn't want to stay there, they other guy informed him that he was the Imperial Grand Dragon of the KKK.

When Curtis first told me this, I thought he was pulling my leg, but my dad, who was stationed at Fort Knox in the 1970's, told me that the Army actually encouraged its black soldiers to avoid Shepherdsville, since it was the headquarters of the KKK up until just a few years ago.

337 posted on 12/04/2010 1:19:13 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?


338 posted on 12/04/2010 1:29:52 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: rockrr; x; Idabilly; central_va; southernsunshine; mstar; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Those same secessionists who attempted to rip our nation apart wouldn’t object to the likes of pokie, cva, or idabooby cleaning their spittoons, but otherwise wouldn’t be seen in public with them.

I see Clueless in Seattle is back.

Hello punk. What part of the South did you say you were from?

Your statement above is typically punkrr stupid, which is exponentially more stupid than say, ns stupid, which is pretty damn stupid.

First of all, nobody 'ripped' a nation apart (were you crying when you typed that?). The South began a new nation. The yankees still had their country but disHonest Abe's vanity and legacy was more important to him than human lives.

Second, based on my family history, if I were living in 1860, I would have been a slave holding planter.

Third, given the above, I would have had my slaves (some of your ancestors perhaps?) clean the spittoons.

Fourth, Southern planters, elites as you and x called them, did not share the same snobbish attitudes as yankee elites, which is true today. We don't look down on people based on their skin color, education or income level they way you yankees do. It's a Southern thing and you and x and ns and the rest of the coven just don't get it.

Well, punkrr, I've got to get started feeding my pure-bred horses (if this was 1860, my slaves would be doing that) and then I'm heading to my gun room to reload some ammo, drink some PBR's and spit some Copenhagen. It's gonna be 308 or "seven point six two millimeter, full metal jacket" tonight. Would you like me to tenderly write your name on one of them?

"Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson

339 posted on 12/04/2010 2:03:27 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: campaignPete R-CT; wku man
I’ve just put out the word to keep that Lincolnesque noose around the neck of the Confederacy.

The State of Idaho has now entered the room!

Nothing better than some "Hope" delivered by the Sovereign State of Idaho. Federalist beware, these ol' boys are frost bit and pissed off.. There be monsters in these here woods.Photobucket

340 posted on 12/04/2010 2:37:24 PM PST by Idabilly ("I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. ...)
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