Sir, you are prophetic:
U.S. Flag Blasted by United Methodist Official
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Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
‘Answer “Cause your down here....’
LOL!
Bad, bad, Badeye!...you owe me a keyboard.’
Not me, a young private from over a 150 years ago owe’s you a keyboard.
I just relayed a rather well documented exchange among hero’s from a bygone era.
I would bet, this fools sees nothing wrong with Mexican CRIMINALS flying the Mexican Flag on the street corners of America.
Had the South done that what would they have had to secede over in the first place?
I’m a Yankee and love what the Confederate Flag stands for. To me it says nothing about race but so much about freedom and it’s costs. Too bad they don’t teach proper history in our public schools.
‘A steamroller would be more appropriate, based on how he eventually won the war.
Hmmmm...take stuff from people and destroy railways or kill Southern men in the field in a futile bloodletting? Gee, what a horrible man Grant was...’
To be clear, I admire both sides. The whole era is facinating to me, and the wife and I are traveling to Gettysburg within the next month or so to pay homage to them all.
‘Why look it up, when you can make it up?’
Because it was the truth and well documented as such.
Those two are currently sitting on death row awaiting punishment for their crimes. What more do you want?
quick snag amused!
Southerners also forget they had a built-in advantage in the Constitution of counting 3 out of every 5 slaves for representation. Imagine that if, say, Texas could do that today with illegals!
Not there's a case of the pot calling the kettle black if ever there was one. IMHO, of course.
BINGO.
You couldn't distill Yankee bigotry any purer if you tried.
Oh, I don't think them responsible for it. I just wonder why they tolerate it, when it does so much lasting damage to a symbol they revere. For example, see the public and vocal reaction of true Christians to the Phelpsies. I don't see the same sort of loud opposition to the misuse of the CBF. But, maybe that's because the MSM doesn't show it.
A young boy steals his daddys' fishin' line.
Alligator lays on banks of a riverbed.
And if you didn't know any better, you'd swear he's dead.
These are a few I'm in love with.
Part of the reason I go back.
To Caroline, Mississippi flowing, georgeous Georgia.
Now if you think I'm happy down here, you're on the right track.You ain't just whistling Dixie, cause the cattle call's calling you home.
So put me down there where I want to be.
Plant my feet with Robert E.Lee.
Bury my bones under a cypress tree.
And nver let me roam.
The cotton balls geeam and cow gives cream for the babys' sake.
And pa comes in full of gin, and he's mean as a rattlesnake.
And the well runs dry, and we cry and cuss the garden hose.
And Moma draws a bucket full of creek water, just to wash our clothes.
Repeat chorus.
You Ain't Just Whistling Dixie
by David Bellamy
You know, I have lived all of my life in the south, raised in the South....I have a lot of black friends. I don't want to enslave anyone, nor does any southerner that I know. The conferderate flag is a symbol to many of brave men who fought and died in the war between the states....many for a cause they might not have even understood. It represents some, not all, of the old fashion notions of Southern gentility, of less federal government, of an adherence to the 10th amendement to the Constitution of the United States. It does not, nor has it ever represented a desire to enslave people. It may have been so asserted by liberals without a cause but who needed to divide a country, which is what they do best, for their liberal cause. Robert E. Lee was, perhaps, the finest man this country ever produced. He abhorred slavery, and loved his homeland, Virginia. In Gods and Generals, it is reported that he said, overlooking the coming battle at Manassas. "They see this country as part of map. To us it is where we love, have children, bury our family. It is part of us." The history of Southern gentility was real. The nonsense that Southern states are defined as on par with apartheid is an often repeated lie by those who have not spent any time here. Keep your northern Katie Couric, John Kerry, and their ilk. I'll be pround to throw in with people you don't even know. Like Curtis Wise, my neighbor, who would give the shirt off of his back to a stranger in need, and ask nothing in return. The elitist would look at this and ask, "Why?" They could not possible understand enjoying a sunset from my back porch, or watch the cattle graze the pastures or watch a clutch of blubirds fledge and work the moma and daddy overtime, or watch the black damselflies fly over a pool of water in the creekbed. You know, it doesn't cost a thing. I don't hear people who are not from the south take in what they were given freely.
I know your statement was true, I was simply making an observation about the person you had posted to.
“Lawyer Richard Ney”....that says it all right there. Probably a trial lawyer, and thus, a Democrat. He can bite my ass.
I am Cajun French from Bayou La Fourche,La. I fly the battle flag of the 4 th La.Militia which bears no resemblence to the Confederate flag.
I also had a great grandfather who was with the 18th Miss.regiment and their battle flag was also different than the Confederate flag.
After the war of 1861-65,the South was so beaten down it was thought they would never recover.
The South has risen with a boom in industry and conservatism.
Kamsas is not a “Border State”. For the most part it’s pure Yankee.
‘Had the South done that what would they have had to secede over in the first place?’
States Rights, primarily.
The fact was the writing was on the wall about slavery before the first shot was fired at Ft Sumnter. But by that point, the politicians rhetoric had reached a fevered pitched we’ve only seen once since, and that was the day after Pearl Harbor.
Its revealing to note the number of fist fights and ‘canings’ that took place in the five years before the outbreak of war in the House and Senate. Not to mention the number of duels, responded to or not, offered up.
Everybody thought it would be one big battle, and over.
Sir, you are prophetic:
U.S. Flag Blasted by United Methodist Official
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839021/posts
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