Posted on 12/18/2023 11:34:36 AM PST by NorthMountain
Why is a "law" that has the effect of increasing the cost of medical care called the "Affordable Care Act"?
“There is a well-kept cemetery in Normandy, near the American Cemetery for the German soldiers who fell there.”
Spoken at a cemetery in Mississippi, “It is good to see the Confederate monument with the face of the soldier boy lifted toward the sunrise, standing there as a mute reminder of the Stars and Bars, not far from the tall steel flagpole bearing aloft the Stars and Stripes, that beautiful emblem under which you and I were born and under whose protecting folds we have lived.”
Well, look at the political party both these “things” came from....That answers it...
They already dug up General Nathaniel Bedford Forest’s grave and General Ambrose Powell Hill’s. It is ghoulish what is going on.
Forest sincerely renounced his attitudes about slavery later in life and Hill never owned slaves and believed in abolition.
BS. Maybe the feelings were genuine. You wouldn't know about those.
With time, maybe they became geniune, but contrary to the popular mythology, veterans and others who lived through the war had hostile feelings for years after the war.
And maybe I’ve been hanging out with Diogenes too much to believe that politicians have “genuine feelings” that don’t involve self-interest.
Why would I have still have such strong emotional responses to the outcome and subsequent present day antipathy to these desecrations of our history!
It is what you said!
My state, particularly, my town and surrounding areas was an absolute Civil War battleground…..
My dad , through his ancestors, was not too far removed from the horrors and desecration in his own community…….he grew up hearing about ‘the blood running down Billy Goat hill’….
His elders kept it alive!
That is my understanding as well. I have read that the sentiments expressed in that famous reunion footage were somewhat artificial, and they only pretended to be nice to each other.
And maybe I’ve been hanging out with Diogenes too much to believe that politicians have “genuine feelings” that don’t involve self-interest.
That Diogenes is the father of cynicism is one of the reasons I embrace him as a kindred spirit. That and his irreverence and delight in mockery and love of practical jokes.
There are times in my life when I think I am being too cynical, and then something happens which make me realize I wasn't being cynical enough. :)
I wish crane operators would refuse to do this.
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