Don't spin the Civil War

Washington Post ^ | 12.27.10 | E.J. DIONNE jR.

[trumandogz]

The Civil War is about to loom very large in the popular memory. We would do well to be candid about its causes and not allow the distortions of contemporary politics or long-standing myths to cloud our understanding of why the nation fell apart.

The coming year will mark the 150th anniversary of the onset of the conflict, which is usually dated to April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries opened fire at 4:30 a.m. on federal troops occupying Fort Sumter. Union forces surrendered the next day, after 34 hours of shelling.

[mac_truck]

Is clownboy pretending he's married again?

lolz.

[Thumper1960]

Isn’t it a shame those large, dark, ugly sunspots mar your fantasy of a sunny south?

Lurkers are wondering, curious.....what do you all cut your moonshine with to afford you such vivid hallucinations?
While running through the deep woods, whoopin’ and hollerin’, do you scrape off some funky tree moss and add it to your Rebel brews? Perhaps those period era woolen costumes overheat your brains and send you into a never-neverland of what could have been.

[cowboyway]

Hey! Spike! You’re scaring my wife!

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[cowboyway]

Is clownboy pretending he's married again? lolz.

You guys are dumber than a bag of hammers. LOL!

[cowboyway]

Just damn! Another spittle filled rant from the humper!

You sound like you're getting ready to kick a puppy, boy.

Are you requesting or threatening "physical confrontation"?

Requesting a physical confrontation? Please. Most of you internet bully types are usually making up for physical weakness and lack of courage in the real world so I was seeing if I could get an honest answer from you.

Does my opposition to your internet insurrection-ism irritate you so much?

Your opposition to me is meaningless. It's your opposition to freedom and America that is disturbing.

Your slavish devotion to a dead era is a mental weakness.

I also have a slavish devotion to the Revolutionary period; another dead era according to you. Do you find that to be a mental weakness, also, like most of your anti-constitutional comrades on the left?

I don't have close relatives seething with anger over issues long decided.

Perhaps, but your close relatives have a close relative seething with anger against this country, the Constitution and freedom.

There are more important things to deal with than ghosts from the past.

Then you should go deal with them, humper. My suggestion would be to deal with those anger management issues. You could start by spending less time at DU and the Huffington Post.

[Thumper1960]

Do you think all those things up yourself or do you have a puppeteer working your strings?

Really now, calm down and take another hit, pokey. It’s Sunday and even though you missed church, He still cares for ya.

Have a wondrous day, ya looney insurrectionist!

:-)

[MikefromOhio]

I guess the goats had a hard night last night LOL

[MikefromOhio]

Your opposition to me is meaningless. It's your opposition to freedom and America that is disturbing.

That's a rich statement coming from someone who idolizes a system that held people in slavery and started a war against America.....

[mac_truck]

You guys are dumber than a bag of hammers.

What's dumb is pretending that the hatred for 'yankees' you exhibit here daily isn't really a pathetic attempt to compensate for your own failure at the most important relationship of your adult life.

[cowboyway]

Hey! Spike! You’re scaring my wife!

doo doooo do-doo-doo-doo

doo doooo do-doo-doo-doo

[cowboyway]

What's dumb is pretending that the hatred for 'yankees' you exhibit here daily isn't really a pathetic attempt to compensate for your own failure at the most important relationship of your adult life.

What's pathetic is the actual hatred that you exhibit here daily for Southerners that is really a sick attempt to compensate for you own failure in life.

[MikefromOhio]

nonsensical nonsense from a nonsensical nobody.

[cowboyway]

Hey! Spike! You’re scaring my wife!

doo doooo do-doo-doo-doo

doo doooo do-doo-doo-doo

[MikefromOhio]

What's pathetic is the actual hatred that you exhibit here daily for Southerners that is really a sick attempt to compensate for you own failure in life.

What's even more pathetic is someone who claims to love freedom also shills for a system and longs for a government that kept millions in chains and started a bloody war over it. This same individual warps the noble and just cause of states rights to fit his worldview and cover for the bestial system of Slavery that the CSA practiced.

[MikefromOhio]

Pathetic.

Everyone is laughing at you and your lack of anything logic to counter with....

[cowboyway]

Hey! Spike! You’re scaring my wife!

doo doooo do-doo-doo-doo

doo doooo do-doo-doo-doo

[mstar]

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

Good question Ms Lady Sunshine and Master Cowboy. . . what does that coven of damnyankees do do do. . . and what are they do do do doing around here. . .


Well Rebs here we are at the end of yet another "Coven Fantasy Wonderland & Adventure Ride" filled with deceit, lies, slander, lust, AND special added bonus. . . a new detective game, "Who Really Is Who & Why" . . . all complete with cutting edge psychological projection methods sure to keep mental health communities busy for decades.

Now that the damnyankee coven has scurried over to fresh grounds (see Cowboy's new thread) I thought it would be fittin' to take this opportunity to dedicate my favorite "This REALLY Is You" coven song to the many "Non S" sleeper cells scattered throughout FR . No need for a "coven ping" they'll file in eventually.

Here is an earlier version of "Who Are You" by a still rather young "Who".

Because this thread bubbled over with moral compromise, old Roger Daltry just wouldn't do. . . the COVEN'S record breaking vulgarity plunging all into really gross depths of gutter morality demands a young Rodger dancing around in tight jeans.

For you REBS the more important reason, and MY reason. . . this is a great (and I think) little known version of the song. . . so enjoy;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMAUdG6KmM

[mojitojoe]

It was fabulous. An awful lot of very happy Freepers celebrated on that thread. Apparently he or she was not well like on FR and that is an understatement.

[mojitojoe]

You sound like a lovesick high school girl. He got the zot. Well deserved zot. Long lived LIBERAL TROLL and his past posts speak for themselves. JR is no dummy by a longshot, he can read and figure it out and he did. Get over it! You sound bitter and girly.