Calvin Coolidge born July 4 Hero to tea partiers

[Dante]

OH! Now I know why all you republicans get all wet when Coolidge's name comes up. He was Reagon #1. Take from the poor and give to the rich! That worked out well for everyone!

Can you give us an example of how Coolidge or Reagan took from the poor and gave to the rich?

I'm not holding my breath on that request.

If one were to give a tax break and cut programs to pay for the tax break it would be an example.

But you are stuck. This may help, I am not sure: http://www.usmessageboard.com/the-flame-zone/123737-planck-telescope-reveals-ancient-cosmic-light.html

 

[Dante]

Yet, almost all state's rights arguments made by Southerners concern issues based on race.

Jeez! You are so ignorant of your own inherent racism! It'd be even funnier if you were white too. Nothing like self loathing to really cleanse the palette. Yes all white southerners who love the concept of states rights are so they can put darkies back on the plantations like they're supposed to be. Whatta jackass you are. Northern condescending racism is SO much more tolerable.

Idiot. Self-loathing is an apt label for whites who feel guilty about admitting their own racial prejudices against the non whites amongst us.

Your attack is sad. You refuse to admit what I posted is factual, so you attack me?

 

[Dante]

I never said it was all about racism. Yet, almost all state's rights arguments made by Southerners concern issues based on race.

Is that so? Unlike you I actually live down here and I've never heard a southerner make a states' rights argument based on race.

Of course not. That is my point. Making arguments that ignore race. Like the Civil War was not really about slaves and niggars?

Lots of Southerners have come forward and apologized for Southern attitudes. Then there is the little bit of crap about the Confederacy and the flag. It's racial, yet some will ague it's about culture. Yeah, slave owning culture.

Here's a new line I heard from a Southern cracker trucker recently: " We didn't lose the Civil War. We stopped fighting so hard when we realized all you Yankees wanted was our niggars and not our women"

say's lost, without the code phrases or gymnastic word games of Southern apologists.

The state Right the South wanted, was to own other fuckin' human beings. Hundreds of thousands of people died and were crippled, to get rid of slavery.

 

[Dante]

So Dante kicks Big Fits' ass, and Fits infers that he knows it.

yep, in so many words.

 

[2Parties]

This is why the prohibitionist tea partiers love Coolidge

In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's government decided to turn to chemistry as an enforcement tool.

Some 70 denaturing formulas existed by the 1920s. Most simply added poisonous methyl alcohol into the mix. Others used bitter-tasting compounds designed to make the alcohol taste so awful that it became undrinkable.

To sell the stolen industrial alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed chemists to "renature" the products, returning them to a drinkable state. The bootleggers paid their chemists a lot more than the government did, and they excelled at their job. Stolen and redistilled alcohol became the primary source of liquor in the country. So federal officials ordered manufacturers to make their products far more deadly.

By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons, among them brucine (closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, formaldehyde, chloroform and carbolic acid. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added -- up to 10 percent of total product.

The results were immediate, starting with that horrific holiday body count in the closing days of 1926.

Public health officials responded with shock. "The government knows it is not stopping drinking by putting poison in alcohol," New York City medical examiner Charles Norris said at a hastily organized press conference. "Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible."

His department issued warnings, detailing the dangers in whiskey circulating in the city: "Practically all the liquor that is sold in New York today is toxic," read one 1928 alert. He publicized every death by alcohol poisoning.

Norris also condemned the federal program for its disproportionate effect on the country's poorest residents. Wealthy people, he pointed out, could afford the best whiskey. Most of those sickened and dying were those "who cannot afford expensive protection and deal in low-grade stuff."

When the government poisoned booze: A national experiment gone awry

 

[Dante]

I never said it was all about racism. Yet, almost all state's rights arguments made by Southerners concern issues based on race.

Is that so? Unlike you I actually live down here and I've never heard a southerner make a states' rights argument based on race.

You are young......missed the Civil Rights movement

Does he know what a Maccaca is? Does he know the head of the GOP under W. apologized for the GOP's blatant racism inherent in their Southern strategy?

Now Steele is being attacked like crazy.

Steele makes anti-Obama comments that the general party membership applauds, and the white leadership, many Southerners and old time racists, attack Steele as unfit, for voicing general party feelings?

Steele claimed that Afghanistan was a war of “Obama’s choosing,” and now white GOP leadership wants him to resign because of that. I guess it's killing tow niggars with one stone, eh?

 

[Oddball]

 

[Ragnar]

Is that who this threads about?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I never said it was all about racism. Yet, almost all state's rights arguments made by Southerners concern issues based on race.

Is that so? Unlike you I actually live down here and I've never heard a southerner make a states' rights argument based on race.

You are young......missed the Civil Rights movement

It's 2010, not 1965.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

If one were to give a tax break and cut programs to pay for the tax break it would be an example.

No it wouldn't an example because the recipients getting the benefits of said "programs" aren't earning it. It's being handed to them, therefore, it's not their money.

Try again.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I never said it was all about racism. Yet, almost all state's rights arguments made by Southerners concern issues based on race.

Is that so? Unlike you I actually live down here and I've never heard a southerner make a states' rights argument based on race.

Of course not. That is my point. Making arguments that ignore race. Like the Civil War was not really about slaves and niggars?

Lots of Southerners have come forward and apologized for Southern attitudes. Then there is the little bit of crap about the Confederacy and the flag. It's racial, yet some will ague it's about culture. Yeah, slave owning culture.

Here's a new line I heard from a Southern cracker trucker recently: " We didn't lose the Civil War. We stopped fighting so hard when we realized all you Yankees wanted was our niggars and not our women"

say's lost, without the code phrases or gymnastic word games of Southern apologists.

The state Right the South wanted, was to own other fuckin' human beings. Hundreds of thousands of people died and were crippled, to get rid of slavery.

This is 2010. That may have been the reason 150 years ago, but nobody down here makes a states' rights argument so they can own slaves, you douche. You're completely ignorant. As far as bigotry and racism goes, sure there are racists down here. There are plenty of them in Boston too.

 

[Ragnar]

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"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude. One of the first signs of the breaking down of a free government is a disregard by the taxing power of the right of the people to their own property. It makes little difference whether such a condition is brought about through will of a dictator, through the power of a military force, or through the pressure of an organized minority. The result is the same. Unless the people can enjoy that reasonable security in the possession of their property, which is guaranteed in the Constitution, against unreasonable taxation, freedom is at an end. The common man is restrained and hampered in his ability to secure food and clothing and shelter. His wages are decreased, his hours are lengthened. Against the recurring tendency in this direction there must be interposed the constant effort of an informed electorate and of patriotic public servants. The importance of a constant reiteration of these principles cannot be overestimated."

Calvin Coolidge, At Memorial Continental Hall, June 30, 1924

 

[JakeStarkey]

Taz, now you are being disingenuous if not outright immoral. There are many white folks down here that back the 10th Amendment because of race. Don't you gloss this fact, or you gut any reason why anyone should read your comments.

 

[rightwinger]

Is that so? Unlike you I actually live down here and I've never heard a southerner make a states' rights argument based on race.

You are young......missed the Civil Rights movement

It's 2010, not 1965.

For most of us

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Does he know what a Maccaca is? Does he know the head of the GOP under W. apologized for the GOP's blatant racism inherent in their Southern strategy?

Now Steele is being attacked like crazy.

Steele makes anti-Obama comments that the general party membership applauds, and the white leadership, many Southerners and old time racists, attack Steele as unfit, for voicing general party feelings?

Steele claimed that Afghanistan was a war of “Obama’s choosing,” and now white GOP leadership wants him to resign because of that. I guess it's killing tow niggars with one stone, eh?

Yeah, the Republicans down here are so racist that they elected Michael Steele head of the RNC in the first place. They are so racist that the South Carolina Republican Party elected a black man to be their national committeeman and the North Carolina Republican Party elected a black woman to be their national committeewoman. A black man just won the Republican nomination for South Carolina's First Congressional District and an Indian-American woman just won the Republican nomination for Governor.

You know which black person down here has been getting burned, though? Alvin Greene, the black man who won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate and the Democrats are absolutely furious about it. I guess you were right after all. There are a lot of racists down here and they belong to the same party that owned all the slaves.

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[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You are young......missed the Civil Rights movement

It's 2010, not 1965.

For most of us

And which year are you living in? It's a bit hard to tell.

 

[JakeStarkey]

You are young......missed the Civil Rights movement

It's 2010, not 1965.

For most of us

I have been dealing with this nonsense down here for about 40 years. I will be glad when the generation before mine and most of mine (but not me!) have crossed the Great Divide.

The youngsters here apparently think the older generations are stupid about race: they are 100% right.

 

[Oddball]

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exultation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.


Prescient man, was President Coolidge.

 

[rightwinger]

Taz, now you are being disingenuous if not outright immoral. There are many white folks down here that back the 10th Amendment because of race. Don't you gloss this fact, or you gut any reason why anyone should read your comments.

In America's history there have been three instances when a significant number of states pushed states rights issues

1. Slavery

2. Civil Rights

3. The First Black President

In each case they claimed it was not about blacks and how they are treated but some vague concerns about state sovereignty

I never saw states threaten to secede over womens suffrage, abortion, the Viet Nam War... all extremely controversial issues

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Taz, now you are being disingenuous if not outright immoral. There are many white folks down here that back the 10th Amendment because of race.

Bullshit. Prove it. Either put up or shut up.

I heard the word ****** more times growing up in Massachusetts than I have ever heard anyone use it down here. Folks down here reconciled that problem a long time ago. It's the people back north who still haven't moved on.