DC Tom

I'm talking about contemporary letters from soldiers on both sides of the lines who were fighting for their respective states/countries. Including no small number of Southern blacks who fought for the Confederacy, frequently in mixed-raced units (a book of whose letters I have next to me on my desk.) And why do I give a ***** what Prager U says? I've studied this myself, I don't need a half-assed online university to speak for me. Thomas J. Jackson taught slaves to read, in order to emancipate them. Should his statues be removed?

I was ready to call him an idiot for misspelling "forum." You're a ***** idiot. Go away.

Again, contemporary correspondence says otherwise.

You can relatively easily read contemporary letters that demonstrate most people were not fighting for or against slavery. Or look at the summaries of the debates, particularly in border states (Virginia, Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, etc.) Hell, the Union Army nearly mutinied after the Emancipation Proclamation, because they were fighting to preserve the Union and were aghast at the idea that they might be fighting for black slaves (again, borne out in contemporary letters). It's interesting to note, too, that those contemporary letters show that the Confederate Army was less segregated than the Union Army.

Must be one of the earlier ones, Mark II or III. The late-war panzers had lousy gas mileage, and the Tiger was known for eating final drives.

There were no statues of Nazi generals. There are statues of Frederick the Great, von Moltke, and even Ludendorf (I believe). The Germans don't tear them down, giving the explicit reason of them being part of their history, and they don't wish to divorce themselves from and hide the negative aspects of their history. But nice try.

Did you type this with mittens on?

"Barely enough?" So what I get from that is...this is, finally, no longer Obama's economic rally?

Much different, more respectful culture. The North hated Confederate generals far, far less than we do today. Consider the North's memorialization of Stonewall Jackson... https://erenow.net/biographies/rebelyellstonewalljackson/47.php Imagine any of that being said now about him. There was a much greater sense then that the Civil War was "Americans fighting Americans," rather than now, of "Americans fighting evil traitorous bastards."

It's like we're watching the script of Dumb and Dumber 3 unfold live.

Many of the voters said the next day "Oh, you can vote for someone from the losing team? If I'd known that, I'd have voted for Thurman Thomas." Enough said that to swing the vote his way. No, I don't have a link. Search the NYT archives. It's where I read it after the game.

Peter Frampton

But...why a giraffe?

Same reason the Senate doesn't have to hold a vote on a Supreme Court nominee. And the same reason the House can make impeachment rules up as they go along. What the branches do is determined by the Constitution. How they do it is up to them and them alone. Pelosi could decide to impeach Trump by weighing him against a duck, and it would be Constitutional.

Thurman would have won MVP anyway, except many of the MVP voters didn't know you could vote for someone on the losing side.

CWII will end in a week when the left surrenders after Starbucks runs out of soy milk due to the Red State embargo of soybeans against the coastal cities.

Them: Home Alone and Die Hard are basically the same movie. Me: maybe they're different movies, but Kevin McAllister is John McClane?

I know. I used to know someone who golfed at Congressional - they called mulligans "Clintons." At least Clinton was relatively good-humored about being a known cheat. If you caught Obama cheating, he'd send the IRS crawling up your ass.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-i-have-done-more-for-christianity-than-jesus He's actually got a point...

I would guess it's an important theological question that many, many, many people would care about.

No, they'd tell us that although she formally recorded a 102, those extra 68 strokes were the fault of the oppressive, misogynist patriarchy. So she really would have scored a 34 if not for Russian collusion.

Makes me believe he's still an idiot.