Analytics wrote:Personally, I'd be inclined to say don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
I'm a conservative, and bcspace doesn't speak for me. When our parties and candidates lose elections, we don't take the ball and go home. We work to change minds. I am sick and tired of people on both sides who have nothing but hate and contempt for those who differ from them ideologically. I am thankful that the zealots are the (noisy) minority.
Of course bcspace doesn't speak for you. I'm personally convinced he couldn't sincerely believe the stuff he posts, and is just a pimply-faced troll trying to pull people's strings for craps and giggles.
To clarify my comment, the Declaration of Independence implies that in certain circumstances, groups have the right to "dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them." If I were Abraham Lincoln, I would have done the same thing I would have done had I been King George III.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Analytics wrote:Personally, I'd be inclined to say don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
Indeed.
There is a book out about projecting what it would be like if the old Confederate states left the United States (I can't recall it's name) that I've wanted to read. It looks to what America might look like without the southern states.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
Bond James Bond wrote:There is a book out about projecting what it would be like if the old Confederate states left the United States (I can't recall it's name) that I've wanted to read. It looks to what America might look like without the southern states.
Found the book:
Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession by Chuck Thompson
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
Bond James Bond wrote:There is a book out about projecting what it would be like if the old Confederate states left the United States (I can't recall it's name) that I've wanted to read. It looks to what America might look like without the southern states.
Found the book:
Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession by Chuck Thompson
Very cool. Thanks to technology (that was undoubtedly designed by yankees), I've already downloaded it to my Kindle.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
I really don't see the point in trying to change minds. It seems like secession is in the best interests of both sides.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
I really don't see the point in trying to change minds. It seems like secession is in the best interests of both sides.
That book is trying to change minds toward the idea that secession is in the best interests of both sides.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
Bond James Bond wrote:That book is trying to change minds toward the idea that secession is in the best interests of both sides.
The idea of secession is lunacy.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
The North paid a heavy price to keep control of the south. I wonder why that was worth it to them.
The idea of secession is lunacy.
Even if both sides wanted it?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Bond James Bond wrote:That book is trying to change minds toward the idea that secession is in the best interests of both sides.
The idea of secession is lunacy.
Obviously.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
You seem to imagine that people in the south are monolithically conservative and "red" whereas everyone in blue states is a liberal. That's silly, as is the idea of secession.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado