Committee decides to continue flying cotton-silk blend Confederate flag

Charleston Net ^ | 1/31/02 | ap

[Twodees]

What some people don't realize is that veterans of both armies held reunions together at battlesites, including Gettysburg and shook hands, embraced each other and saluted the courage and honor of their opponents. Those men would be embarassed to know that their descendants are speaking in evil terms of the men they admired.

Thanks for your response, Lancer.

[Non-Sequitur]

If you don't know what you're talking about, just stay away from this kind of thread.

That never kept most of you sothron fanatics away. John Adams, Sam Adams, John Hancock, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin were opposing the British while most of the southerners where still wondering what all the fuss was about.

[Non-Sequitur]

So after months of argument, time, and effort the cotton-silk blend won out over the nylon. It's still a wonder to me how y'all lost in 1865. (/sarcasm)

[TwoBit]

I saw a T-shirt once that had a Confederate flag on it. Under the flag it said, "100% COTTON - AND YOU PICKED IT". Now thass bound to piss off some of those Anti/NeoConfederates/of Color!!!.....ROFLMAO

[TwoBit]

My theory, based on sentence structure and grammar usage, is that this one is an old member who either got banned or destroyed his own credibility so that a new ID became necessary. I've seen this tactic used before and it is either one or two guys.

Yeah, there's a lot of disgruntled leftists (Clintonistas) out there from the AOL Confederate Flag Controversy Board that have WAY too much time on their hands. I'm thinking MULTIPLE screen names for yahoos like these. Some of these cats must lose sleep over waitng for responses on this board. Pathetic bastids.....

[TLI]

My country does not make liberty a mandate- you are welcome to participate but not to destroy.

Well golly gosh thanks for your much needed permission.

the gift of having been born in my country- the United States of America.

Dang! Can I breath some of your air as well?

No need to thank me- you're welcome.

Don't worry your pointed little head about waiting to be thanked, with an attitude like that you will be "thanked" soon enough, just hang around a while.

If you are not happy as an American you may exit- no hard feelings.

I humbly quiver in your exalted presence.

I believe I can speak for everyone here that we are ecstatic with being Americans (with a few brits, Canadians and others sprinkled in) and most all present completely enjoy this forum.  I will not even get into my contributions to this Republic other than I was and still am happily making them.
So... what the he!! is your problem?

BTW, I, as I am sure many others here will agree, could not care less about "your hard feelings."  Frankly, I find your posts childish and, well, stupid.  I can safely say that I have never posted to this forum trashing someone as much as I have with you. 

Don't bother with a reply, I am done with you.

[dixiepatriot]

>>Southern states committed treason against the United States of America.

ROFL!!! Where did you attend school? Fisher Price University?

The United States exists today because they chose to "secede" from the British empire. The Declaration of Independence is the most famous act of secession in our history, though modern rhetoric makes "secession" sound somehow different from, and somehow more sinister than, claiming independence. Furthermore, three states (New York, Rhode Island and Virginia ratified the Constitution with the provision that they could later secede if they chose; the other ten states accepted this condition as valid.

It was not secession that was unconstitutional, but the suppression of secession. The North fought the Civil War by allowing its chief executive to exercise dictatorial powers, raising armies and money and suspending civil liberties without consulting Congress, ordering the arrest of Chief Justice Roger Taney, and even arresting the Maryland legislature and installing a puppet government. This was "government of the people, by the people, for the people"? What happened to "the consent of the governed"?

Of course, the Northern enemies of secession weren’t always rigid in their principles. They did allow a pro-Union part of Virginia to secede from Virginia. That’s how West Virginia was created. And since Virginia never ceded that territory as prescribed by the Constitution, that was the only real case of unconstitutional secession. To make matters worse, the North never admitted that Virginia had legally left the Union. How, then, could it be split without its legal consent?

After the war, the North forced the seceding states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of re-admission to the Union it insisted they had never legally quit! Yet most of those states had already ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, so they were apparently back in the Union after all!

The hypocrisy is dizzying. But wars aren’t necessarily won by the intellectually consistent.

Go play in the sand junior. The subject of history is apparently over your head.

[TwoBit]

Go play in the sand junior. The subject of history is apparently over your head.

I think Ol' Junior, here,and NonSquirter (Walt) are one in the same. Did you ever see them together? Spooky ain't it?

(Twilight Zone music....)