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Big Hollywood : The Civil War According to Hollywood

Mon, 2 May 2011 14:56:16 +0000

SOunds like this fellow has studied Jubal Earley's "Lost Cause" fantasy that just because a rank and file union army claims to not be fighting to end slavery and rebel battle lines not to protect it, doesn't mean that that wasn't the CAUSE of the war regardless. Confederate President Alexander Stevens said it best: "The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution—African slavery as it exists amongst us; the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right." - March 21, 1861.

Big Government : Poll Confirms America's Entitlement Culture...Even Among Tea Partiers

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:54:54 +0000

So let me ask you point blank. Did Schaeffer misrepresent the poll results? Pretty simple question.

Big Government : Poll Confirms America's Entitlement Culture...Even Among Tea Partiers

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:53:13 +0000

I guess the WALL STREET JOURNAL (that liberal rag) part of that escaped everyone? That's why I read Schaeffer's piece because of the very fact the the WSJ was involved in the poll...and I assume why he commented on it. I am assuming he is a businessman and thus gives the WSJ some modicum of credibility. So did the crazed TPers here not see the WSJ part? Or did they prefer to close their eyes and cry "I'm not listening! I'm not listening!" Maybe, perhaps, the author is right and the Tea Party has some real hypocrisy in it. You honestly think people will take out of Social Security ONLY what they put in plus normal interest? The moment they go a dollar over, that extra $$ must come from the present generation and thus does an entitelment become de facto welfare.

Big Government : Poll Confirms America's Entitlement Culture...Even Among Tea Partiers

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:18:54 +0000

Holy Crap! Are you people that dumb? The poll is a search, click, click away! For those of you who have opposable thumbs, here...the author's right. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A...

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:43:18 +0000

I suppose for people who think that them coloreds shoulda know'd their place, I guess Lincoln is a burr in their saddle. Actually he was our greatest president, so you're off just a tad.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:25:40 +0000

Do tell redneck boy. As one who wrote my thesis on the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and the Empancipation Proclamation that followed, I would LOVE your opinions which could have been shat right out of the gutter of a klan rally. Are you one of those who denies that that war was about slavery? Do you really want to do this? Be forewarned, I will ask you a LOT of questions...usually the ignorants in this debate tend to talk themselves into a corner under corss-examination backed by the historical record. So let's do this. You're move. Tell me what the war was REALLY about then Johnny Reb. This should be fun for me.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:16:51 +0000

I know you probably can't stand this damned Emancipation document but it carried a little more weight than that OFT-QUOTED sans context statement of Lincoln's that people think negates what followed. And let me ask you, who cares what he thought. What matters is what he did. He had hoped to save the union without ripping it asunder over slavery, yes. But he came to see that it could never survive half-slave and half-free not jst for practical reasons but for moral reasons as well. That slavery was a birth-defect of the nation that could only be corrected through its complete erradication. YOu might want to read up on Lincoln besides Wiki. Just a thought. I did my dissertation on the Emacipation Proclamation and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and its impact both on Lincoln and the nation as a whole. So yeah, I've read that quote that closeted racists like to toss so many many many times sans context out to make them feel that their own predjudices are justified.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:16:27 +0000

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:10:14 +0000

Stogy. 3/5 compromise of 1787. Missouri Compromise of 8120. California compromise of 1850. What did these all have in common. Oh, and learn how to construct a proper sentence: "you are aware, I presume that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (who wrote the Declaration of Independence) and most of the other Founding Fathers were slave owners, don't you?" end it with 'aren't you.' You reveal your hick redneck roots right there. Spit-TAAANNG! The rest of your drivel I learned in the third grade..or as you would call it, 'grad school'. Make a point and we can talk.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:29:58 +0000

I hear that the Nazi party founded Israel too? And Adam Smith founded the USSR. Hmmmm. Where IS that magic history book.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:26:04 +0000

"Don't tread on me. I'm busy stompping n*****rs!""

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:25:00 +0000

No. That is a class of racism all on its own. At least rednecks can delude themselves into think the battle flag is anything but a symbol of racial oppression...even though it was adpopted as a symbol by the KKK and the desegregation defiers who slapped it on the GA and MI flags in the 50s.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:14:59 +0000

The debate will only never end in CSA wannabe revisionsit land. The rest of us living in the real world know the war was and always has been about slavery. Regardless of what the men in the ranks THOUGHT they were fighting for.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:13:08 +0000

I am reading it. Hmmm. It says here: "All men are created equal." Something about rights of life, liberty, etc etc etc ... and YET the CSA, had it won, would have taken three million fellow Americans with it in chains. Interesting. No mention of one's pigment in that Declaration that I can see. Maybe you can show me the "whites only" section. Anyway, the right govern themselves so they could so what exactly?

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:09:26 +0000

noslave...I wasn't aware that the Army Of Northern Virginia were such gentlemen when they entered Pennsylvania and ransacked the state during their brief two-week tour in June 1863 before Meade et. al put the smack down on your boys at Gettysbueg and sent them home with their tails between their legs. LOL.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:58:43 +0000

It was incorporated into the official flag of the CSA... Battle Flag On Whit Field (later a red bar added to it to not be confused for a sign of truces). The original Stars And Bars from a distance looked too similar to Old Glory and caused considerable confusion in the early battles...hence the change. First on the field, then eventually the seat of govt. FYI

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:56:30 +0000

Yep. Dem Darkees woulda been kept in their places eh "noslave" (irony alert!!)?? Spit-TAANG!!!

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:55:37 +0000

Of course it does. Because slavery WAS the cause of the Civil War. The underlying issue from which all others grew. Jefferson in 1820 called slavery "The Death Knell Of The Union". Indeed it was.

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:54:13 +0000

States' RATS to do what exactly?

Big Hollywood : Kid Rock’s Use of Confederate Flag Sparks NAACP Protest

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:53:42 +0000

If the men fighting under that banner had won the war, slavery would have continued well into the next century in all likelihood, given what we saw with the imposition of Jim Crowe laws and the durability of Apartheid in a first world country well into the modern age. SCS is right. As Samuel Johnson said way back in 1775: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?"