Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

NRA bill would OK guns in cars at work
MiamiHerald.com ^ | Feb. 08, 2006 | MARC CAPUTO

Posted on 02/08/2006 7:13:35 AM PST by neverdem

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 481-500501-520521-540541-556 last
To: stand watie; Dead Corpse
read "BLACKS IN BLUE AND GRAY" by professor H.R. Blackerby,PhD, of Tuskegee Univ.

A book of which about 40 pages is dedicated to blacks in the confederate army. It's mainly a string of disconnected anecdotes--so-and-so's servant stayed with him throughout the war and later got a pension. My favorite part is on page 38 when he says, "It will be proved that not a few blacks were in the battle charge..." but then quickly moves on to another anecdote about the SCV voting ex-slave JT Chambliss recognition for his loyalty to his master. When he wraps up the section of the book on confederate blacks two pages later, he hasn't proved what he just said he would. Maybe he means someone else will come along and do the job, although no one has yet.

Nor is Mr. Blackerby a Ph.D. or a professor at Tuskegee. He's an amateur historian who mainly worked as a publisher of pulp magazines and comic books (google his name).

541 posted on 02/14/2006 8:11:13 AM PST by Heyworth
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 504 | View Replies]

To: Heyworth

Hadn't actually gotten around to checking out the reference, but thanks for the input.


542 posted on 02/14/2006 8:17:50 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 541 | View Replies]

To: JABBERBONK
aside from "name-calling", what have you contributed to the discussion?

i asked for your DOCUMENTED SOURCE. you fail to provide same & you call me an "idiot"?????

LOL AT you.

free dixie,sw

543 posted on 02/14/2006 8:18:52 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 527 | View Replies]

To: Dead Corpse; All
btw, i note that "heyworth-LESS, the hate-FILLED" has posted something or other to you/me.

fwiw, i shunned him/her a long time ago (for posting DUMB & hate-FILLED bilge/nonsense) & i NEITHER read NOR respond to his/her IGNORANT & hate-FILLED bilge.

i have posted several times that since i shunned him/her AND he/she continues to post to me, that he/she "has no life".

free dixie,sw

544 posted on 02/14/2006 8:30:27 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 503 | View Replies]

To: stand watie; Dead Corpse
Meet Watie. He shunned me when I challenged him too many times on his imaginary sources. He once claimed that, during WW2, Texas had separately declared war on Germany and had commissioned privateers, one of which had captured a u-boat now on display in a Galveston park. When everyone pointed out that there is no u-boat on display in Galveston, he blamed it on a book which doesn't exist ("Yachts Against Subs", by LBN Gnaedinger). It's not in the Library of Congress, not in the combined university library database, not in any used bookseller database, nor cited by any academic paper. What does exist is a magazine article entitlted "Picket Patrol: Yachts Against Subs", by LBN Gnaedinger, in the December, 1971 "Motor Boating and Sailing" magazine. Watie has tried to claim that this is just a review of his book, but I've tracked down the article (my local library had it bound) and is neither a review nor does is say anything about Texas privateers and Galveston parks. (I can fax you a copy if you'd like).

I predict that rather than respond rationally to any of the above, Watie will foam at the mouth.

545 posted on 02/14/2006 9:01:37 AM PST by Heyworth
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 544 | View Replies]

To: tpaine; Luis Gonzalez
Many moons ago when I was stationed at Ft Hood I used to drink in a honky tonk in Belton, Tx. The sign on the door on the way in stated the following:

"Check your guns or go drink somewhere else."

My take on their sign as a non lawyer.

A lot of wisdom there.

546 posted on 02/14/2006 9:43:39 AM PST by jwalsh07
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 523 | View Replies]

To: jwalsh07
they MAY have meant, "make sure they are LOADED!"

fwiw, i was once the PM of "third herd" down there. i KNOW the saloons around Ft Hood. (lol)

free dixie,sw

547 posted on 02/14/2006 9:50:18 AM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 546 | View Replies]

To: Heyworth
I've had a few conversation with stand watie. Most very satisfactory. If you have had problems with him in the past, I suggest you take it up with him.

As for questionable source material, I can't say. Going off your information, there doesn't even appear to be that much. Certainly none of the online Texas historical site mention such a thing.

How is this germaine to the topic of this thread?

548 posted on 02/14/2006 10:06:41 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 545 | View Replies]

To: Dead Corpse
How is this germaine to the topic of this thread?

It's germane to Watie's credibility. When Watie starts spouting his bile about me, it's germane to defend myself by explaining some background to his attacks. When Watie cites the Blackerby book, it's germane to say it's not nearly the ultimate source that he claims it to be.

(By all means, track down a copy and see if I misstate the book's contents or the author's credentials.---Amazon's got one for $4)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0916620158/sr=8-12/qid=1139940620/ref=sr_1_12/103-3267343-9565442?%5Fencoding=UTF8

549 posted on 02/14/2006 10:16:02 AM PST by Heyworth
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 548 | View Replies]

To: jwalsh07
jwalsh07 wrote:

Many moons ago when I was stationed at Ft Hood I used to drink in a honky tonk in Belton, Tx. The sign on the door on the way in stated the following:

"Check your guns or go drink somewhere else."

My take on their sign as a non lawyer.
A lot of wisdom there


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


And if the 'businessmen' here were wise, they would not object to their employees checking their guns at the door of an on site gun locker.. -- Or leaving them locked in the trunks of their cars in the company lot..

But sadly we see no wisdom in FReepville. We see empty rhetoric about defending real estate property rights by banning another type of property [guns].
550 posted on 02/14/2006 10:42:36 AM PST by tpaine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 546 | View Replies]

To: Heyworth
Your first post on this thread was a post to stand watie. Nothing to do whatsoever with the thread content and marginalizing an already marginal point. Subsequent posts are equally as irrelevant.

It's good to know that sw doesn't always 100% fact check. Ok. Fine. Got it.

Now take your flame war elsewhere please.

551 posted on 02/14/2006 11:10:01 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 549 | View Replies]

To: tpaine
And if the 'businessmen' here were wise, they would not object to their employees checking their guns at the door of an on site gun locker.. -- Or leaving them locked in the trunks of their cars in the company lot..

Oh, I emphatically agree. I just don't think it's wise to invite the government in.

But sadly we see no wisdom in FReepville. We see empty rhetoric about defending real estate property rights by banning another type of property [guns].

Do you have the right to invite me into your home on the proviso that I carry no weapon with me?

552 posted on 02/14/2006 1:36:55 PM PST by jwalsh07
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 550 | View Replies]

To: stand watie
fwiw, i was once the PM of "third herd" down there.

Preventive Maintenance guy, Post Menopausal Guy or Provost Marshall guy? :-}

553 posted on 02/14/2006 1:40:34 PM PST by jwalsh07
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 547 | View Replies]

To: jwalsh07
And if the 'businessmen' here were wise, they would not object to their employees checking their guns at the door of a work site gun locker.. -- Or leaving them locked in the trunks of their cars in the company lot..

Oh, I emphatically agree. I just don't think it's wise to invite the government in.

It's a States ~duty~ to defend our right to carry arms. The companies insist they can ban or fire. The rule of [constitutional] law settles the dispute. --- How else can it be resolved ?

But sadly we see no wisdom in FReepville. We see empty rhetoric about defending real estate property rights by banning another type of property [guns].

Do you have the right to invite me into your home on the proviso that I carry no weapon with me?

I don't think I do. I see such a 'command' as being akin to making an illegal order in the army. I am under no obligation to obey an illegal order to disarm myself.
-- Sure, ordinarily, most people are polite & comply with weird social requests from their hosts. -- But disarming yourself to please a control freak boss at work? -- No way & no thanks, -- I'll keep my pocket knife..

554 posted on 02/14/2006 2:21:07 PM PST by tpaine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 552 | View Replies]

To: jwalsh07
fwiw,Provost Marshal has only ONE "L".

i was the "3-Corps PM".

free dixie,sw

555 posted on 02/14/2006 2:25:31 PM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 553 | View Replies]

To: jwalsh07
my beloved would probably say "Post Menopausal Guy", i.e., "Cloud's Syndrome", as i'm entering my 6th decade of life.

rotflmRao.

free dixie,sw

556 posted on 02/14/2006 2:59:32 PM PST by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 553 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 481-500501-520521-540541-556 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson