The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Brigadier-General States Rights Gist - October 31st, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

Morning Mayor.

I heard in Washington State there are some communities banning Halloween celebrations because it offends the Wiccans. How far we've gone down the raod of diversity.

[SAMWolf]

This is starting to sound like most home projects, "The Neverending Project"

[Samwise]

Parents do play some really mean tricks with naming their children.

Yeah, poor Hobbit Lass Gamgee. :^)

[Soaring Feather]

~You Raise Me Up~

[society-by-contract]

The first time I came accross the name States Rights Gist in the Shelby Foote books, I re-read the sentence half a dozen times, thinking it was a misprint. Then a friend explained to me that in the 1820s-1840s sectionalism, federalism and polycentricism were on the minds of many folks, especially southerners.

Walter Brian Cisco recently published a full-leng biography on Wade Hampton and I was happy to see the box from the History Book Club on Friday. Cisco has also written a biography on Gist, titled States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War.

good post - thanks

[E.G.C.]

I just turned our computer back on. We had a shower with some thunder and lightning move through. I do not like to run the computer when there's thunder and lightning.

We had 12 kids come by for Halloween. It was fun. There was a carnival at the church on the highway at the same time.

Bedlam was exciting yesterday. Right down to the wire. OU 38 OSU 35 was the final.

How's it going, Snippy?

[Aeronaut]

Hiya Sam.

[snippy_about_it]

...parents should have been flogged for giving him that name

LOL. In my past life when I worked for the Government, you should have seen some of the names folks were giving their children. I remember one from back in the mid 80's, (a girl of course) named Equal Rights Amendment. I don't recall the last name but it was something common, like Jones or Smith. I've seen worse names like Misery, Grief, etc. Those parents should get what they asked for. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Aeronaut.

[snippy_about_it]

Jack O' Lantern: An Irish Pumpkin.

LOL. I can't believe I've never heard that before. Zombie is a good one, too!

[snippy_about_it]

Hopefully you'll finish soon and get a well deserved long winter's nap.

[snippy_about_it]

It does say it all but to the choir I'm afraid. Won't change any of the idiotic dims minds.

[snippy_about_it]

I've always hated Halloween. I just never thought it was a good idea to have children go up to stranger's houses and get candy. Then we tell our children not to accept candy from strangers. Of course in the "old days" you knew your neighbors, but I know for a fact that the past 20 years or so I've not known 99% of the people coming to my door for treats.

[snippy_about_it]

...we must fight hand in hand with our allies and never leave them on the battle field. Every day we hear about an American soldier killed there, so any retreat, any surrender would be a High Treason. Overwhelming majority of Poles say that we should stay there even at a very high price, at the price of death of the hostage.

Matthew this a beautifully written sentiment. May God Bless our Polish allies.

[snippy_about_it]

I re-read the sentence half a dozen times, thinking it was a misprint.

The first time I heard it was while watching something on the History Channel. I thought I was hearing things, huh?... what?, then I thought it must be a nickname and immediately headed for the computer to google it. Pretty cool I thought and just had to find enough to do a thread on him.

I'd love to get the book on him, perhaps the library will have it. Thanks for fallin in today sbc.

[snippy_about_it]

Ahhh. The Foxhole Sunday theme song. Sure is pretty. Thanks feather.

[w_over_w]

Morning Glory Snip & Sam~

Another great read about a military mind who knew the country he was fighting for and the true freedom it sought.

"It is no accident that most would choose to associate themselves and the children they loved with the family they had so recently served. This simple but profound statement of shared names across racial lines says more about how both black and white saw their relationship in the antebellum south than I ever can. Family in the South extends far beyond race. In these things I speak only for myself and the people I have known, cared for, and loved in this region. It is my hope that we can and will continue to find a new tomorrow together."

~Steve Batson, Descendant of W.D. Batson, Co. C, 16th S.C. Regiment~

. . . off to Fellowship, will talk later. God bless.

[snippy_about_it]

The Sam and Snippy store is coming along. Sam hung the temporary sign a few days ago. The drywallers have come in and now the primer is being applied. Hopefully by the end of this next week they will turn it over to us and Sam and I can start our own build out of the space.

Sam checks out the workmanship