[aruanan]

For kstewskis's sake, I'll repost what posted earlier today on a different thread on the same subject for someone of a similar outlook:

To: Logical me; Solson

So paul revere was warning the British troops? Hardly. Warning shots? Bells? No...Sarah Palin screwed up and can’t admit it. At the end of the day, she’s just another politician.

What we have here is, as Rush would say, "a glittering example of colossal ignorance." The person in question has grown up hearing a certain story, assumes it to be exhaustive of the historical narrative in question, hears another account of it by someone he is predisposed to disbelieve and to discount and then assumes that the difference between what he has grown up believing to be true and what he has heard that augments it must necessarily arise from something defective in the one he is predisposed to disbelieve and to discount. This is not only an example of colossal ignorance, but of intellectual arrogance (and laziness) for not bothering to see who was correct, blithely assuming that whatever he believes must exist in some sort of one-to-one correspondence with reality--you know, the typical liberal mindset.

To set you straight (and to see whether you are able to admit your ignorance or, like a liberal, keep chattering the same old line):

Here's the whole story of Paul Revere's ride:

Revere confronted 2 British regulars manning a road block as he headed north across Charlestown Neck. As he turned around, the regulars gave chase and he eluded them. He then continued on to Lexington, to the home of Jonas Clarke where Sam Adams and John Hancock were staying. There, his primary mission was fulfilled when he notified Adams and Hancock that "The Regulars are coming out!" (he never exclaimed, "The British are coming". This would have made no sense at the time since they considered themselves British).

Revere and Dawes then headed for Concord and came across Doctor Prescott who then joined them. They decided to alarm every house along the way.

Just outside of the town of Lincoln, they were confronted by 4 Regulars at another road block. They tried unsuccessfully to run their horses through them. Prescott, who was familiar with the terrain, jumped a stone wall and escaped. Revere and Dawes tried to escape and shortly into the chase they were confronted by 6 more regulars on horseback. Revere was surrounded and taken prisoner. Dawes got away as they were taking Revere into custody.

The British officers began to interrogate Revere, whereupon Revere astonished his captors by telling them more than they even knew about their own mission. (HA!) He also told them that he had been warning the countryside of the British plan and that their lives were at risk if they remained in the vicinity of Lexington because there would soon be 500 men there ready to fight. Revere, of course, was bluffing.

The Regulars had Revere remount his horse and they headed toward Lexington Green, when suddenly, they heard a gunshot! Revere told the British officer that the shot was a signal "to alarm the country!". Now the British troops were getting very nervous (hehe).

A few minutes later, they were all startled to hear the heavy crash of an entire volley of musketry from the direction of Lexington's meeting house and then the Lexington town bell began clanging rapidly! Jonathan Loring, a Lexington resident captured earlier, turned to his captors and shouted "The bell's a' ringing! The town's alarmed, and you're all dead men!"

The British officers then talked urgently among themselves and decided to release their captives so as they would not slow their retreat.

Remember how Sarah Palin said "Let's party like it's 1773" and the usual suspects, many of whom excoriated her on the matter of Paul Revere, berated her for not saying 1776? But she was referring to the Boston Tea Party that took place in 1773, not 1776.

Come on, separate yourself. Don't spend your time with such clueless jerks.

So paul revere was warning the British troops? Hardly. Warning shots? Bells? No...Sarah Palin screwed up and can’t admit it. At the end of the day, she’s just another politician.

What we have here is, as Rush would say, "a glittering example of colossal ignorance." The person in question has grown up hearing a certain story, assumes it to be exhaustive of the historical narrative in question, hears another account of it by someone he is predisposed to disbelieve and to discount and then assumes that the difference between what he has grown up believing to be true and what he has heard that augments it must necessarily arise from something defective in the one he is predisposed to disbelieve and to discount. This is not only an example of colossal ignorance, but of intellectual arrogance (and laziness) for not bothering to see who was correct, blithely assuming that whatever he believes must exist in some sort of one-to-one correspondence with reality--you know, the typical liberal mindset.

To set you straight (and to see whether you are able to admit your ignorance or, like a liberal, keep chattering the same old line):

Here's the whole story of Paul Revere's ride:

Revere confronted 2 British regulars manning a road block as he headed north across Charlestown Neck. As he turned around, the regulars gave chase and he eluded them. He then continued on to Lexington, to the home of Jonas Clarke where Sam Adams and John Hancock were staying. There, his primary mission was fulfilled when he notified Adams and Hancock that "The Regulars are coming out!" (he never exclaimed, "The British are coming". This would have made no sense at the time since they considered themselves British).

Revere and Dawes then headed for Concord and came across Doctor Prescott who then joined them. They decided to alarm every house along the way.

Just outside of the town of Lincoln, they were confronted by 4 Regulars at another road block. They tried unsuccessfully to run their horses through them. Prescott, who was familiar with the terrain, jumped a stone wall and escaped. Revere and Dawes tried to escape and shortly into the chase they were confronted by 6 more regulars on horseback. Revere was surrounded and taken prisoner. Dawes got away as they were taking Revere into custody.

The British officers began to interrogate Revere, whereupon Revere astonished his captors by telling them more than they even knew about their own mission. (HA!) He also told them that he had been warning the countryside of the British plan and that their lives were at risk if they remained in the vicinity of Lexington because there would soon be 500 men there ready to fight. Revere, of course, was bluffing.

The Regulars had Revere remount his horse and they headed toward Lexington Green, when suddenly, they heard a gunshot! Revere told the British officer that the shot was a signal "to alarm the country!". Now the British troops were getting very nervous (hehe).

A few minutes later, they were all startled to hear the heavy crash of an entire volley of musketry from the direction of Lexington's meeting house and then the Lexington town bell began clanging rapidly! Jonathan Loring, a Lexington resident captured earlier, turned to his captors and shouted "The bell's a' ringing! The town's alarmed, and you're all dead men!"

The British officers then talked urgently among themselves and decided to release their captives so as they would not slow their retreat.

Remember how Sarah Palin said "Let's party like it's 1773" and the usual suspects, many of whom excoriated her on the matter of Paul Revere, berated her for not saying 1776? But she was referring to the Boston Tea Party that took place in 1773, not 1776.

Come on, separate yourself. Don't spend your time with such clueless jerks.

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ARU: If I use my epithet I usually use for Richmonder drivers “dumber than dirt” for people like KWski, who won’t even take 5 seconds out to do a simple google search, considered to be bad form?

If so, I won’t say it. Because ignorance isn’t always dumb. But it does frequently come from dumb...