Lee Circle no more: New Orleans to remove 4 Confederate statues

Times Picayune ^ | December 17, 2015 | Richard Rainey

[central_va]

The MD legislature was arrested.

Arrest of the Maryland Legislature, 1861

[GOPsterinMA]

Have you ever been hit with a banjo?

[bert]

the N in NOLA now has a new meaning

[stephenjohnbanker]

Walter Brennan: “ You ever get bit by a dead bee? “

[GOPsterinMA]

I understand. Yes.

[GOPsterinMA]

Yeah...:)

[NFHale]

Nope.

Beer bottles, bar chairs, and a fat, flying hooker named Rosie, yes.

Banjo, no.

[GOPsterinMA]

Khent owns a banjo. With spikes on it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I didn’t know O’Donnell was once a hooker.

[DoodleDawg]

The MD legislature was arrested.

Only the pro-confederate members, fewer than a dozen.

Link

[NFHale]

Not THAT Rosie...

Long story... sigh...

It was a dark and stormy night, waaaaay back in 1983...

[NFHale]

Khent, with a banjo... hmmm....

So it was KHENT that played the kid in “Deliverance”!!!

That explains a lot...

[GOPsterinMA]

Khent: “I try to extend the butt plug of friendship and you reject it.”

[Brass Lamp]

Educate yourself. Communism didn’t exist in 1861.

Hilarious conjunction of sentences given that Marx had written the Communist Manifesto in 1848 and there were "48er" communist revolutionaries receiving high appointment in Lincoln's army.

If the South had won the war would it have ended slavery? And if the South had won we certainly would not be The United States of America. We’d look like some Balkanized mish-mash, if we had survived that long. Would you be happy with that outcome?

Brass Lamp's Second Rule of arguing with Yankees: All pro-union arguments eventually reference fantastic alternative time lines.

[shalom aleichem]

Not to belabor...but as for Jindal, even on his way out of office:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke

He should chain himself to one of those statues - block a Freeway - raise Hell!

[NFHale]

Ehh... no... don’ts wants no parts o’ dat plug.

Khent will be, forever more, the kid on the Porch in “Deliverance” with the banjo...

Done.

[farming pharmer]

The Hinson book does include some history, and the author also disputes that 'the south' went to war for the sole cause of slavery.

The slavery spin is northern propaganda near the end of the war. IMHO, the 'south' went to war secondary to northern aggression and radicalized abolitionists.

BTW, I'm not from the south, or east or west.

[central_va]

There was never an existential threat to the remaining states in the USA. None what so ever. Mr. Lincolns War was optional. The CSA wanted to leave and not conquer the North; not that any EVER thought that ridiculous notion possible.

[DoodleDawg]

The Hinson book does include some history, and the author also disputes that 'the south' went to war for the sole cause of slavery.

Not surprising.

The slavery spin is northern propaganda near the end of the war. IMHO, the 'south' went to war secondary to northern aggression and radicalized abolitionists.

Really? Who started the war and what were the abolitionists trying to abolish if not slavery?

[jmacusa]

And Russia went communist in 1848? And you’ll tell me Lincoln read “Das Kapital? Bass Lamps Third Rule: Dodge a question.