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Captain, I agree that DB's comment was all of what you said. When this case first began, my first inclination was that this officer could have likely been charged while having his weapon un-holstered. If that turns out to be the case, the officer may have been well within his duties to fire...

Who really gives a shit about trading in here? He doesn't spam the boards near as much as Pisser and others in here have. He is respectful, respected and has provided valuable insight. Perhaps the only reason someone would put DB, or anyone in here on ignore, is because they're tired of...

Perhaps I am showing my ignorance here, but when did the republican party ever NOT defend profits over public health and environmental good?

Well, at least the crickets haven't gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon yet...

That comes as no surprise to me. As I've pointed out, the southern republican takes the technical card and makes it trump over the truth card. This is how they've been taught to operate- to cover the truth with glaring ignorance. And the mass duping continues... I'll now clear the room for...

It's almost laughable if not for the sad truth- 150 years later and republicans are still teaching their young that the civil war wasn't even about slavery. And people wonder why our country is so fucked up? It's a shameful disgrace.

I don't think I could say most either. But only because, the technical reasons belie the truth at the heart of the matter. Obviously, there were millions who didn't want to lose their slavery rights, but not all of them would have actually fought a war to protect those rights. Millions of...

But republicans, and especially those of the south, are being taught a quite different history. The Republican propagandists have been busy convincing their young that the war wasn't even about slavery. All across the south, and elsewhere, they insist that war was only about the taxation to...

damn.

I wasn't disagreeing, but rather expounding upon that insight, and relating it to those who have come to believe that the war had little or nothing to do with slavery. For Lincoln, the only reason for the use of force would be to keep the Union intact, as you have said. This was only about...

Your twisting of words and your ability to conjure the views of others is clear for all to see. Lincoln never said he would "INVADE THE SOUTH" as you would have him say. Instead, he clearly states the opposite. "The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property...

This is true for some, but for the reformed republicans- the ones who stopped listening to their grandfathers' history lessons, and began to discover the truth; their POV may read something more like this: "The American Civil War had far less more to do with slavery than what we're taught/led...

My book reading phase was long ago, and as I haven't read a book from cover to cover in decades, I have doubts that I ever will again. I also have doubts that some who have read my last post, has learned anything they hadn't already known since pre-high school. But, as arrogance has been...

No, I don't believe racism to be the white man's HIV. Their's nothing wrong with racism, if you take it for what it is. I'm a racist. Blacks can on average run a little faster and jump a little higher than white people. Environment adds attributes which work for those particular...

Well I haven't followed all of his content, but if he's crying "Racism!" or "Fascism!", he's not the only one in here. :rolleyes:

But Lincoln wasn't responsible for 600,000+ lives either. He was just a good politician like all the Pres'z. The reason all those people died was because the southern states wanted to secede, which hopefully all have learned by now, just ain't gonna happen. Let's imagine Texas as an example...

Well of course a good many yanks hated blacks, and a good many that didn't, hated the thought of them having freedom. Point being , the moral voice of reason was the prevailing voice in the war and emancipation- regardless of the so called "rights" lawyers like Lincoln thought the constitution...

His family has asked that we not watch, so I wouldn't know if they did or didn't. I don't disagree that the terrorists thought mohammad, frazier, popeye, or whoever might have told them to kill this guy. But his family has stated the reason it was taped and fed to the public, was so that...

I'll admit that if the world's fate were hanging in the balance, and it all came down to you being able to distinguish shit from apple butter; well...I guess we'd have at least a tiny sliver of a chance.

The Reagan administration decided the best way to to combat hornets was to arm other hornets with bigger and more powerful stingers. This apparently has had the opposite effect as was hoped for and intended. I think the Obama admins gave us a MUCH better example of how these types of threats...