This thing really hacks me off.
There are a lot of men who had to fight. They had no choice. And they died.
It dishonors their service.
Remind me again which party Paul Ryan is in?
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‘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. ‘
POS SCUMBAGS have no place eliminating the history of the republic.
HOORAY most republicans voting against the ban. Some of these criminals finally got something right?
Wonders never cease.
It needs to be better understood that Lyin’ Ryan, like the Boner before him, were both from majority Marxocrat districts. That is why these scumbags were voted in as House Leaders, because they could “reach across the aisle” and advance Marxocrat policies. Since they were both RINOs, the Marxocrats, too, would vote for them as House Leaders. The sick thing is that they both broke a tradition that required House Leaders of either party to not put bills up for a floor vote that were not supported by a majority of their respective party members. The breaking of this traditional practice is how the RINO leadership repeatedly votes against their own party for bills that Republicans, allegedly, do not want yet see implemented time and again by enabling the minority Marxocrats to prevail with political cover.
Ryan strikes again.
At our decoration day last month, while looking at my Great Grandfather's monument we could also see the stone of his younger brother who was killed in October of 1861. He of course was not buried in a veterans cemetery.
It's possible that National Cemeteries in the south started before the Civil War do have both Union and Confederate dead interred. It's like that with the Chalmette National Cemetery, which was begun after the War of 1812. Two Confederates are buried at Shiloh National Cemetery.
The DVA also has relations with state cemeteries. Those in the South may have Confederate soldier burials. Whether state or federal regulations apply there, I don't know. Most likely federal, given the way things are.
The battle flag is not the official Confederate flag known as “the Stars and Bars” or “the Bonnie Blue Flag”.
Later the battle flag was incorporated in it but not at the start of the Civil War.
People still confuse the STARS AND BARS with the Battle Flag.
There are several other Confederate Battle Flags that do not cause a Pavlovian foaming at the mouth from Liberals.
States rights? Bull Shit! For the southern states, it was out of the frying pan and into the fire. Ask yourselves, "Why did every state, which in their noble and honorable bid for independence and self-determination, and in their glorious effort to unchain themselves from the yoke of tyranny that was the North, .......pledge allegiance to the Confederacy?" Not one of those states stood on their own. What was it that attracted them to the Confederacy? What was the principle peculiar institution that was central to the "Confederacy"?........and which, in order to join the Confederacy, every state had to agree to?
I love my rebel brothers, and even though us pansy boys from the North kicked your F'ing a**es, you boys shouldn't be taking it out on Lincoln. And like Abe, I would never deprive our country of your Battle Flag. You should rather be taking it out on the very bad and evil people whose aim in life it was to rake in oodles of cash from the sweat of another mans labor. They used you as their cannon fodder. Lincoln knew exactly what those guys were up to (re: House Divided Speech). He details their blueprint. He knew full well that the Dred Scott Decision was a major stepping stone in the plans of Slave Power Aristocracy. That decision declared that a black was something less than a human and, in fact, had no standing to bring a case into court. The best you guys can come up with is that President Lincoln may have once said something like, "what about the tariffs/revenue?" Y'all still don't grasp the man's intellect and humor. Especially in light of the fact that half of his country was up and leaving merely due to he himself being elected. And don't forget that he had vowed, in his First Innaugural, to protect all federal property should the south leave. Bear in mind also that a fruitcake named Jeffy Davis, himself, made the decision that Anderson be ordered to "evacuate" Fort Sumter, in so many hours, or the bombardment would commence. And that bombardment did commence with the firing of so much of the artillery that been being maneuvered into position to surround Major Anderson in the preceding days and weeks. Any one who reads the whole story, with an open mind, knows that the Majors confusion over the apparent conflict in his directions were due to the meddling of Sec of State Seward.
Let us all remember that there are fine distinctions between the terms "the South" and "the Confederacy". The CSA put the South in a position of defending itself, hearth and home, in it's War against the North. No, slavery was not on life support. In no way, shape or form was it inevitably going to soon die out on its own. That was the cause of the Confederacy. The cause of the Confederacy was the continuation in perpetuity, and the expansion, of Slavery. Slavery was the very cornerstone of the Confederacy!! The causes of the Confederacy and the causes of Johnny Reb,.........we're not aligned. I will go so far as to say, that well by now, a true Southerner would be condemning the "Confederacy". End Rant.
“But Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both supported the measure.”
Gutless, spineless, collaborating, vile, scumbag. I hope a Democrat beats this bastard. It would be worth it to get him out of Congress.