Thats all.
These people are insane.
Gimme a freakin break, these idiots are truly psychotic.
I believe Winston Churchill said that Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War.
But the Jaw-Jaw is pointless now. This will come to war in our nation, and whether Florida serves as any sort of breadbasket for one side or the other during the Second Civil War is not important to me.
Bert just called Philadelphia the outhouse of the north. Philadelphia has a long history of social injustice and organized crime
There’s a degree of hyperbolic over-reach a person with a functioning brain can pull off.
And then, there’s asshats like Hamby.
Well Peter Hamby, your first name has an alternate origin also.
Oh good grief! I hate the state run media! These reporters are the scum of the earth.
Hooker has Civil War origins too.
Ask your mom about that, Hamby.
I seem to remember the term referring to my tummy when I was growing up.
Is this satire?
What is supposed to be the implication?
The phrase “breadbasket” as an economic term is as old as the references to Egypt as the “breadbasket” to Rome we see in the works of the ancient historians and many thereafter. It’s on the “A” list of overused historical metaphors.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860#Results_by_state
According to Merriam Webster, the colloquialism “breadbasket” originated in 1753.
Not sure what civil war the term breadbasket originated in, but it was not ours.
Seriously, the media is becoming a Saturday Night Live skit.
I can see where HAMby might be offensive to muslims.
NPR also has some disgusting views on racial code words.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931280/posts
Double-secret code words...
Wednesday
apple
napkin
chair
lunch
gum
glass
tire
house
dog
writing
walk
go
table
bird
pen
You should immediately report anyone using such words to SPL to be declared a racist bigot.
It is your patriotic duty to The Won.
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So, it would be racist to use the phrase “punched in the breadbasket?”.
Also, back to the racist theme: It would probably be more racist to note that Zimbabwe used to be known as “the breadbasket of Southern Africa” before Mugabe implemented his land reforms than to relate the fact that Florida supplied food during the Civil War, and hence was known as the “breadbasket of the South.”
For some actual facts, a little googling indicates there were different areas referenced as the “breadbasket of the South,” prior of course to today’s events.
The main references were to the Shenandoah Valley of VA, with a number of references to various Georgia counties and even to Atlanta, which would seem to have been more of a “bread shipping point.”
Not one reference to Florida for the phrase in 50 Googles.
In any case, VERY little wheat would have come out of FL during the War, though it was a major source of cattle and salt. Which would seem to make it more of a “hamburger basket.”