i am not going to blowtorch you. you made a reasonable
statement that you do not care for bush's court
choices. at least you are not saying you oppose him
for something else when in fact you oppose his court
choices. i was not aware that a choice had been
advanced. when did the senate let one through?
--- Michael H Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Trish,
> The real reason for the civil war was not economics
> or slavery, the real
> reason for the war was the issue of states rights
> and the federal
> government. We will have another civil war before
> too long, if Bush has
> his way. He's already made me hopping mad by
> securing Sutton's
> advancement to the appeals court. I think Bush
> would've made an
> excellent southern Democrat of the civil war era.
> The political
> landscape has flipfloped from the civil war era.
> That may be the
> reason behind the anti civil war feelings. People
> don't like to be
> reminded of the fact that the state's rights issue
> has been fought over
> already. =20
> OKAY, I=92m GOING TO PUT ON MY ASBESTOS UNDERWEAR SO
> KEN CAN BLOWTORCH
> ME!!!!!!!!!! .,lol :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Trisha Cummings
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:15 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: earthquake
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> I was just making a funny. To be honest the Civil
> War and the
> Confederacy
> are history - you don't wipe out history. To this
> day we have Civil War
> re-enactments, Civil War Monuments, National Parks
> made out of the
> battlefields. This is a huge part of US history, and
> it should be
> remembered
> - boths sides. While thru the years - its hallmark
> has been ending
> slavery -
> the I believe was it based on economics - ending
> slavery was a small
> part. I
> think they are crazy to want to destroy that
> mountain art piece - it is
> an
> art piece, it represents history. I know here in
> Alexandria - in the
> center
> of town - we have a Confederate Soldier Statue and
> memeriol. I hear
> rumblings about removing him! I get upset - it
> honors the soldiers -
> they
> died - they deserve to be remembered. History
> immotalizes the victors
> but
> the vanqished have the same story. They were they
> brave, they died for
> their
> beliefs, and they are someone's father. brother,
> son, mother, daughter,
> sister, they can also be remembered because but for
> a twist of fate -
> they
> would be the victors.
>
> OOOPPPPPS - sorry I got long -
> Trisha
>
>
> > actually the confederate flag was dunped a couple
> of
> > years ago in a midnight session of the
> legislature.
> > lots of complaints. the new governor wanted to go
> > back, let the people vote. i think he knew the
> > majority would go back to the pre-1956 flag that
> had
> > no confederate battle flag as part of it. it was
> not
> > anti confederate since the klan and other groups
> had
> > wheyleighed the flag for their purposes.
> > once it was voted on then the issue hopefully
> would be
> > put to bed altogether.
> >
> > if you want anti confederate, there is a group
> that
> > wants to take the conferate memorial off of stone
> > mountain.
> >
> >
> > --- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Probably caused by all the confederate soldiers
> > > rolling over in their graves
> > > - as Georgia is the state dropping the
> confederate
> > > flag - Righ?
> > >
> > > Trisha
> > >
> > >
> > > > the earthquake was 4.5. hey, maybe georgia
> will
> > > fall
> > > > in the atlantic before california falls into
> the
> > > > pacific.
> > > >
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