Posted on 09/29/2017 2:37:51 PM PDT by workerbee
Bless her little heart.
My son is in the Marines. He said his drill instructors told him in boot camp none of their lives mattered, they were all worthless.
Now they are heroes. And they compare a thug robbing a store to people that serve our country?
a judge just ruled that BLM isn’t an organization so they can’t have a flag now can they?
Bonnie Blue is better. No clue at all.
That’s what my “confed” friend does up in his neck of the woods, with all his friends from his organization who ID with confed. Hilarious going thru western MD and seeing all these nice blue flags with simple white star on them.
No, could be.
I was pleased 2 years ago almost reaching my dad’s boyhood home in backwoods Maine (NOT the touristy shore at all) only to see an old wood clapboard house roadside with lots of flags and other symbols - including the Battle Flag pinned up on one side of the house. Very prominent, very visible.
wonder when she moved to there to now be offended.
It wasn't about one thing. Simplistic statements are easy to refute, and aren't helpful to the cause of continuing to show respect for the symbols of the Southerners of that time, persons who put their lives at risk to protect the region they considered home and to prevent it from being invaded.
Of course slavery (and the climate that led to it being more economically profitable for Southern crops) was a major root cause of the sectional differences that led to the formation of the Confederacy. Under the Confederate Constitution neither the Confederate Congress nor the state legislatures could could pass laws ending slavery ("No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."). Unlike under the U.S. Constitution, abolishing it -- even in an individual state -- would have required a constitutional amendment.
The Confederate Constitution did contain provisions that strengthened the institution of slavery, but that doesn't mean that all persons who fought for the Confederacy --- or who had a loyalty first to their native region -- were doing so to defend slavery. Most didn't own slaves but identified with the South and wished to defend it. Slavery played a role in the separation, but the Confederate flag and monuments to Confederate soldiers represent the South, not just slaveholders.
It would have been nice to pay the young ... lady ... a visit and explain to her that her carpet-bagging ass was needed up north ... like around Hudson Bay.
I don’t think she will be able to do without those 4-5 Big Macs every day to help come up with that money.
(alternative ending): She has more chins than a Chinee phonebook.
indeed
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