You make a lot of stupid assumptions carpetbagger. When someone says they fly an Confederate flag, I don't know what they are flying since I know better and many people I hang around also know better. Now you know what you think (and you were wrong) when you hear someone say the same thing.I don't agree that the flag in question is that of traitors. It is the flag of the side that lost the civil war.
When did we start talking about the Stars and Stripes you carpetbagging subject changer?
If you can't see the relevence of discrediting (or telling it like it is) CNN with some of their reporting on the Tea Party I can't tell you very much. You were clever in a way when you implied that the BFONV represented the Tea Party without actually saying it. That way you can throw shit without really getting your hands dirty. Kind of chickenshit if you ask me. So you're a son of a bog. Are you proud of all the death and maiming caused by the IRA? Are you proud of Teddy Kennedy? Care to fess up to alcoholism? You make a lot of implications about Southern people, there are a lot of stereotypes about the Irish you know. Can you take it?
On numbers, how many slaves do you think there were? Are you referring to those long reputed numbers about 100 million Africans thrown over the side on the way to North America? So much Barbra Streisand! Now slavery existed in the U.S. for about 90 years or from the creation of the country (signing of the Constitution) to the end of the Confederacy. Before that slavery existed under English, Dutch, Spanish, and French law. So how many slaves do you think were killed (not died, because everyone eventually dies), but killed by murder, abuse, and neglect? Apparently you think it is millions. At the end of slavery there were 4 million slaves. We know this from the census records. The slaves had to be counted in order to create new Congressional seats. Now slaves were property and were worth money. No slaver owner is going to kill his slaves for fun as that cost money. A free man can be killed for no reason and without cost but a slave is dollars in your pocket. If a slave was killed it was for a reason. It is mathematically highly improbable to kill millions of slaves, It is financially impossible to do it. You are an idiot for entertaining the idea.
When I was growing up we had a pig that thought he was a dog. He chased cars and prowled the fields with the dogs. You can think you're a conservative but that don't make it so. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
On a side note.
A person from Kansas calling someone a carpetbagger. That's a joke.
Which brings to mind another joke.
Lone Ranger: "Surrounded by 10,000 Indians. We're up shit creek without a paddle Tonto."
Tonto: "What do you mean "we", Kemosabe?"
You sound like you are ashamed (at least for the purposes of your post) you live in what was part of the union then. Where you were born is out of your control. Where you live your adult life is within your control. After 20 years in MN, I've been in Texas for 38. I decided where I want to live. I don't rely on an accident of birth.
One thing I've noticed is the difference the way the Civil War is looked at. It's a much bigger deal in the South.
Up North it's no big deal, it's something we studied in school. Until something brings it to the forefront of the news.
That must be because we won
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