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 Topic: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Kraichgauer
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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:27 am Subject: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
They were but a small minority in the bigger scheme of things.
The primary purpose of that war was the re-unification of the United States, not the moral crusade you make it out to be.
Of course t ... |
| Topic: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:58 pm Subject: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
That was actually a copy & paste from one of our other discussions on this topic.
I figure I might as well recycle. 
The emancipation proclamation was just another log thrown on the fire ... |
| Topic: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:52 pm Subject: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Envy? According to whom? Neo-Confederates?
As I had stated, the war had started out as a war to keep the country together, and for many - if not most - that remained their primary motivation. ... |
| Topic: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Kraichgauer
Replies: 42
Views: 540
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:52 pm Subject: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
| The incentive of the average northerner was to keep the United States from dividing and then very possibly dividing again and again into smaller countries until it became a second bloody Europe. About ... |
| Topic: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Kraichgauer
Replies: 42
Views: 540
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:33 pm Subject: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
/\ You give Lincoln too much credit. The average American in the Union states was much more for preserving the Union than abolition.
We've already had that discussion, though.
Lincoln was able to ... |
| Topic: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Kraichgauer
Replies: 42
Views: 540
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:12 pm Subject: What is your favorite president/PM in your lifetime? |
Losing the south would have been inevitable. And as they represented the conservative wing of the Democratic party, with it's support of segregation, it's for the best.
The working class had never b ... |
| Topic: Novelizations |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:03 pm Subject: Novelizations |
I remember Dean Foster's novelization of the movie Alien, which was pretty decent as I remember (granted, I had read the book back when I was in either grade school or junior high).
-Bill, otherwis ... |
| Topic: Godspeed James "The Sopranos" Gandolfini |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:57 pm Subject: Godspeed James "The Sopranos" Gandolfini |
I just heard on MSNBC that actor James Gandolfini has just passed away while attending a film festival in Italy. No cause of death has been given.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
| Topic: US Government wants to take firearms away by force! |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:32 pm Subject: US Government wants to take firearms away by force! |
Of course the President can't kill anyone who he wants to - at least he shouldn't be able to. That being the case, one has to consider the messenger - that being Fox noise - and with that the rea ... |
| Topic: do you strive to be a true christian? |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:29 pm Subject: do you strive to be a true christian? |
If you believe in aspergers, you are not a real Christian.
Thesis, please?
Believing in aspergers means having more faith in the words of a shrink or the words of a scientific theory than in the w ... |
| Topic: US Government wants to take firearms away by force! |
Kraichgauer
Replies: 195
Views: 5388
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:26 pm Subject: US Government wants to take firearms away by force! |
I'm sorry, but the paranoia was just too mind numbing, so I had to turn the video off.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
| Topic: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
Kraichgauer
Replies: 130
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:22 pm Subject: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
To be sure, Barry's overstepped his bounds with this preventative detention bullshit - even for me.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
| Topic: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:28 pm Subject: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
Bush got us into two quagmires which Obama got us out of. Bush had allowed his Wall Street friends almost wreck the country, while Obama had pulled the country out from the precipice.
No, he did ... |
| Topic: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
Kraichgauer
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:24 pm Subject: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
He's only followed Bush with national security issues.
You mean the same ones he explicitly campaigned against? The same ones that you undoubtedly vocally opposed when Bush was at the helm?
Bu ... |
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