Strap someone to a board, hold an LCD screen over thier head, and play him 16 hours of “The View”.

I bet McCain is glad that the VC didn’t think of that at the Hanoi Hilton.

keep waiting!!

On April 26, 1865, Gen. Johnson surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Gen. Sherman in South Carolina following Gen. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Grant on April 9th. These were the two largest field armies of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. April 26th is the date most states celebrate as Confederate Memorial Day, though some have others. Confederate Memorial Day was a legal holiday in many Southern states until fairly recent times and US Memorial Day was not. In the north the holiday was originally Decoration Day specifically to honor Union dead in the Civil War. After WWI, Memorial Day was established as a legal holiday to honor all US war dead.

While the two largest Confederate armies ceased to exist on April 26th, Kirby Smith’s Army of the Trans-Mississippi didn’t surrender until May 26th. The last Confederate field unit to surrender was Bg. Gen. Stand Wattie’s Cherokee Brigade on June 23, 1865. The last military unit to surrender was the CSS Shenandoah in Liverpool, England on November 6, 1865. Shenandoah had all but destroyed the US whaling fleet off Kotzebue, Alaska in June and July, 1865. On Aug. 2, 1865, she learned from a British ship that the CSA had ceased to exist. Cap. Waddell ordered her guns stowed and, with both the US and British Navies seaching for him, made for England via Cape Horn and the Atlantic.

The US never recognized the Confedate States’ government nor did it recognize a state of war with the Confederate States. Consequently, there are no formal surrender instruments between any governmental entities.

That fact that very few recognize the Stars and Bars is a great example of
how lacking our liberal public education system is. Our history is taught in the context of liberal talking points and as FM mentioned, liberals feel the only important factor relating to the Civil War is the racism factor.

I have to confess something.f I live in a Chicago, Illinois suburb. I fly the Stars and Bars (that’s not the Souther Cross, btw) on my flag pole right underneath the US flag every single day!

I get a kick out of the fact that not a soul around here knows that it is the First National Flag of the Confederacy.

The Race Baiters and Poverty Pimps with their allies in the Atlanta CofC, were going nuts over the representation of the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag in the canton of the Georgia State Flag. They righteously demanded the return to the pre-1956 flag because of the purported racist connotation of the switch. The pre-’56 Georgia Flag was in fact the Stars and Bars 1st National Flag of the Confederate States but with the Georgia Seal in the canton.

that eluded me when posting — “desecration.” Thanks AC!

A reply to me. And of course, your spot on. It is usually some unemployed type or a low level govt bureacrat with the militant “you owe me” attitude. However, it is a lot more prevelant than you might think. And the sad part is that such a mindset redounds to their own demise. For instance, when studying hard and making good grades is considered “acting white,” the result is that it ruins their OWN lives and sentences them to lives struggle. Just ask Bill Cosby

And that’s another reason I am so adamant about illegitimacy. I’m not making any kind of editorial remark about people’s behavior for crying out loud! But I know the prospects for anyone, of any race, raised in a single-parent home are quite dim – ON AVG ! Sure, Madonna’s children probably won’t suffer, but MOST children in single parent homes, hollywood fiction aside, will grow up in poverty, use drugs, drop out of school, be arrested and spend much of his or her life in and out of prison. Such outcomes are no longer debatable by serious people.

And yes, many folks out there have to work for min wage. I guess I’ve spent at least half of my adult life working menial jobs. However, what such jobs should tell people is that they are not going to improve unless they work for it. Govt can’t give it to you and Ophra probably won’t. They are meant to serve as motivation to improve one’s self – a quaint notion even now.

Sure, the govt can move you into a luxury apt, but it cannot by so doing, or by any means other than allowing a marketplace of opportunity to thrive unfettered, make you a better person. Or give you the characteristics and growth which come only from striving and achieving. All it can do is keep you in everlasting servitude and dependence on govt hand-outs.

I know the Bible is unpopular these days, but it instructs that we are to be joyful in our suffering, because suffering brings perseverence, and perseverance patience, and patience character and character hope and hope will not be disappointed. Man, Jim Crow is over and Slavery is long gone. the only thing holding back poor blacks is a boatload of self-righteous white apologists who claim that minorities cannot make it on their own, that they must somehow be dependent on the govt.

You might argue that it easy for me to say, but I say “why?” I carried cinder blocks and went to school at night. I drove a recycle truck and went to school at night, I did without cable and fancy cars while working my way through school, I wore a tool belt and made seven dollars an hour with a bachelor’s degree. I worked my way slowly and agonizingly up the latter. And so did my father and his father before him. Why can’t anyone else.

And yes, I feel for the young girls who drop out of HS to have children. But what exactly can the govt or you or me do to prevent that? Is there any sentient being in this galaxy or the next who does not know that dropping out of high school and having children is an almost ironclad guarantee of poverty? How exactly does one stop that? By rewarding such people with luxury apartments? Somehow I don’t think so.