House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries

politico.com ^ | 6/23/16 | Matthew Nussbaum

[ColdOne]

A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.

The flag ban was added to the VA funding bill in May by a vote of 265-159, with most Republicans voting against the ban. But Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both supported the measure. Ryan was commended for allowing a vote on the controversial measure, but has since limited what amendments can be offered on the floor.

[rockrr]

What’s not amusing are the neo-yankee hatemongers who are helping the likes of Obama to strip the South of its history.

Unfortunately for southerners much of that is due to klowns like you, not any mythological "neo-yankee hatemongers".

[Pelham]

Throwing mud is your hobby, not mine.

But since you indulge that habit mostly when you have no good answer there is that compensation.

[rockrr]

“neo-yankee hatemongers”

[Pelham]

And?

[rockrr]

And it shows just how much like Hellery Klinton you are. It’s not just the fact that you are a prolific liar - it’s that you don’t have the stones to admit your behavior.

[Pelham]

“neo-yankee hatemonger” is simply descriptive. You’re not a neo-confederate. And hatemongering the South is your routine behavior. It’s not like you’re alone.

If you don’t think that is a fair description of your behavior on any and all threads concerning the South then get the opinion of other regulars to these threads.

[Pelham]

Three in one post. That must be a record even for you.

[rockrr]

“neo-yankee hatemonger” is simply descriptive.

In the same way that klown is simply descriptive.

[Lazamataz]

Don’t push it.

We Southrons WILL rise again.

And THIS time, we got NUKES.

[rockrr]

The way I see it the south has already risen again. There’s far more industry and commerce going on in southern states than in the rustbelt.

No thanks to klowns like pelly.

[Pelham]

I don’t think we will need the nukes. A sense of humor and clarity of thought appears to reduce some of them to self destruction. We just have to stand back and watch the show.

[savedbygrace]

TY

[savedbygrace]

You are changing the subject. Byes.

[DoodleDawg]

Dunmore’s Proclamation. The Philipsburg Proclamation. Both would have ended American slavery nearly 90 years earlier.

But they didn't. So what would have caused Southern slave owners to end slavery on their own 90 or 100 or 120 years later?

[PeaRidge]

Three quarters of a million had no relevance. Brainwashing on display here.

[DiogenesLamp]

Foreign ships were prohibited by law from engaging in coastal trade between US harbors. Federal law cut them out.

One thing puzzles me though. Charleston used to build ships. How did the Northern shipping interests wreck the ship building industry in Charleston?

It seems to me the South could have built their own ships. Were they undercut in price by Northern shipbuilders selling below market? Why didn't the South continue to feed it's own ship building industry?

But this benefit also cut their profits. Business was business and our men in Washington ensured that we would have most of it.

And that is exactly the story told by this map, though some do not wish to recognize it.

[DiogenesLamp]

To Hell it wasn’t about slavery. Tell me something professor, if the South had won the war would it have freed the slaves

. No. You don't get to whine about the lack of morality of the South until you demonstrate that the North was going to be moral.

Had there been no war, would the North have freed the slaves?

Get the Beam out of your own eye before you worry about the mote in your brothers.

[DiogenesLamp]

In a pigs eye they would have freed them.

You are right. Had the Union continued to have 3/4ths of their Federal budget paid for by slave labor, the Union would most definitely *NOT* have freed the slaves.

So long as they were sucking up that slave earned money, they were just fine with slavery.

On the issue of slavery, the Union and it's defenders are just lying hypocrites.

[DiogenesLamp]

What flag was attacked on December 7, 1941? What flag was attacked on September 11, 2001? The flag you speak preserved the Union and bought about the end of the evil of slavery. The Stars And Bars fought to preserve that institution.

For four score and seven years, this was the flag of slavery.

Stop lying about Union support for slavery. The Union *SUPPORTED* slavery until the Southern states tried to get away from them.

[DiogenesLamp]

Lincoln initially wasn’t opposed to slavery.

And here you finally say something relevant. Yes, so long as Lincoln's New York masters were making huge profits off of slavery, and so long as slavery was paying 3/4ths of the bills for the Union government, Lincoln regarded it as a necessary evil.

Had the South capitulated quickly, Slavery would have persisted in the Union for decades longer.

Stop trying to con us with your false assertions of morality. The decision to end slavery was a military/political strategy decision, not a moral one.