Ron Paul: Why didn’t the north just buy the south’s slaves and free them that way? (Insults Lincoln)

Hot Air ^ | 3-31-10 | Hot Air.com Staff

[rustbucket]

Your song link reminded me of listening in high school to the cheerleaders up on stage singing and dancing to “Are you from Dixie?”

Or the entire student body of that large high school standing up and cheering when the band would play “Dixie.”

Or going to my wife’s college reunion and listening to a girls’ choir singing about the beauty of the South.

[Non-Sequitur]

As far as Southerners go, clearly you've been watching and believing too many Deliverance reruns.

Or reading too many Idabilly and cowboyway posts. Either way if makes one glad not to be a Southerner.

[the OlLine Rebel]

And Sowell is likewise lettered in Economics, not History.

What’s your point?

As to “verboten” - some would say the same of the entire USA in 1776. So what? It has no relevence now to what the man thinks.

[Non-Sequitur]

I guess I misjudged...

Oh don't go getting upset with him. Rustbucket and I go back a long way. I've known him for so long I consider him to be an honorary Yankee.

[Non-Sequitur]

And Sowell is likewise lettered in Economics, not History.

That when it comes to being an historian, Walter Williams makes a mediocre economist.

[rustbucket]

Ah, I found a couple of YouTube videos of "Are you from Dixie?"

Here are the lyrics in a 1915 version. (I'm old, but not that old.) Link

And here are a bunch of cheerleaders and a band. No words in this short version. Link

Amazing what you can find on YouTube.

[Non-Sequitur]

As to “verboten” - some would say the same of the entire USA in 1776.

But not in 1860. Except in certain parts.

So what? It has no relevence now to what the man thinks.

But is a conveniently overlooked part of the cause he supports.

[rockrr]

Then by all means carry on...;)

[rustbucket]

Rustbucket and I go back a long way. I've known him for so long I consider him to be an honorary Yankee.

I blush. In return I award you a photo of my great-great-grandfather's Southern Cross of Honor.

[rockrr]

That’s quite the family heirloom. I’m impressed.

[Idabilly]

They are Great indeed!

You should like this:

Bury Me in Dixie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9a2mEolIcs&feature=related

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

He’s an internet bully, he sucks at math, and he thinks Obama is my boy.

In other words, just another member of the Keyboard Konfederacy.

[southernsunshine]

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/161151/1222643

Another blast from the past. Chose this version for the visuals. She also has a version of Amazing Grace that will give you chill bumps.

We took the little ones on a day trip over to Old Washington today. It’s somewhere they always like to go for a quick getaway. A really neat place. The preservation is superb.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend:)

[rustbucket]

The Confederate Medals of Honor were given out by the United Daughters of the Confederacy around the turn of the century to surviving Confederate veterans. So, there are lots of those medals around. It was not rare like a US Medal of Honor, but still it means something to us.

The ancestor whose medal we have and whose name I bear in part was born in Illinois and came to the Texas frontier with his parents at the age of nine. He served in a Texas Frontier Brigade fighting Indians and Jayhawkers until he was old enough to join the Confederate Army like his four brothers. After joining the Confederate Army he fought at Mansfield.

Those Texas Frontier units had the same requirements and service that Texas Rangers did, and in material that he wrote he called his unit Rangers.

We have a photo of another of my ancestors wearing one of the medals. He really earned his. He was a Union man, but when his state seceded he joined a state unit and fought for the South. He later was captured and spent 18 months in Rock Island Prison, apparently not succumbing to periodic offers of a pardon/parole if he agreed to join the Union Army and fight out West.

[Idabilly]

“Or reading too many Idabilly and cowboyway posts. Either way if makes one glad not to be a Southerner.”

At least you'll stay in Illinois or Kansas :)

Job well done in my book.

Gutting a Deer or Filleting a catfish is an art that I'd rather teach my own youngins’. I personally don't have time to teach anyone how to fend for himself.

You might check with Cowboy because I'm all booked up.

He may be kind enough to teach you how to handle a Horse.

[rustbucket]

Thanks for the link. I have always loved her voice. She was singing in Boston coffee houses when I learned about her before she became really famous. Her father worked at MIT where I was a student at the time. I had a local record shop back home order her first album for me. They had never heard of her.

[rustbucket]

Here is one of her singing when she was young. Barbara Allen. This song was on her first album, IIRC.

My own favorite version of Amazing Grace was by Joan Collins. Amazing Grace.

[rustbucket]

Whoops. Judy Collins.

[cowboyway]

He may be kind enough to teach you how to handle a Horse.

Probably wouldn't have any trouble getting rockrr or mikefromohio or bubba to clean the sheath.

[cowboyway]

He’s an internet bully,

Boo!