Who is the King of the U.S.A.?

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Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home
Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone
I grew up on music that we called western swing
It don't matter who's in Austin,Bob Wills is still the king

Lord I can still remember,the way things were back then
In spite of all the hard times,I'd live it all again
To hear the Texas playboys and Tommy Duncan sing
Makes me proud to be from Texas where Bob Wills is still the king

You can hear the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville Tennessee
It's the home of country music,on that we all agree
But when you cross that ol' Red River hoss that just don't mean a thing
Cause' once you're down in Texas,Bob Wills is still the king

Well if you ain't never been there then I guess you ain't been told
That you just can't live in Texas unless you got a lot of soul
It's the home of Willie Nelson,the home of western swing
He'll be the first to tell you,Bob Wills is still the king

As for your first point - sure, Lincoln was more concerned about saving the union first and foremost. But even if Lincoln could have ended the war without abolishing slavery, that doesn't preclude the possibility that slavery couldn't have been tackled after.
As for the south rebelling over federal interference in state affairs - that is largely historical revisionism, with the exception to the fact that the south was dead certain Lincoln was going to take away their slaves. The irony is, it was their very rebellion that ultimately led to the end of slavery. And while slavery wasn't officially the war aim of the north at the beginning, it certainly was in the Confederacy. The Confederate states made it clear that they were rebelling for the preservation of white supremacy and the enslavement of blacks.
Regardless of Lincoln's official policies, we in fact know that Lincoln was personally very antislavery. And while he had considered recolonizing freed slaves either in Africa, or South America, he had grown as a leader and a human being while in office, till he concluded whites would have to learn to live with blacks. Proof of that lies in his final speech, in which he spoke of voting rights and citizenship for newly freed slaves - the same speech, which in fact cost him his life, as John Wilkes Boothe, who had been in the audience, swore he would kill Lincoln.

You will not know your limits and worth without testing yourself.

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DL

Ideally, what should happen is a money cycle. In a perfect world, our money would just circulate and circulate so that it is used to meet all our needs but it doesn't work because people like to hoard it and that messes up the balance, the perfect model of money recycling, kind of like carbon or oxygen in the atmosphere. Money should do the same thing but it gets clogged up in bank accounts or leaves the cycle somehow and that creates problems and debts. If everyone just keep getting money, spending it, getting it, spending it, their entire lives, the cycle would keep going and it would be perfect.

damn that infernal serpent! if he hadn't have meddled, things likely would still be peachy. he messed up the divine plan.

Yeah, but the Devil just put on a snake costume, and ever since, our slithering, legless brethren have been getting bad press.

that is why I said "infernal" serpent I believe "knowledge" is more than what humans were designed for handling en masse. humans have been winging it [and doing a mediocre job] ever since fall from grace.

uhum, that old narcistic-parenting 'god' ? and then you're wondering why it's a such sh***y place around here ?

Wow you didn't get filtered.

this almost ties in with tonight's "coast to coast" about AI and how mankind can't possibly win that battle. the AI entity may ultimately be the king of all unless we nip it in the bud somehow.

That wealth is in a bank is it not and the bank is doing the recycling. Right?

Or do you think that some rich goof is sitting in his own vault with the green?

https://www.google.ca/search?q=scrooge+ ... d=0CCcQsAQ

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DL

Indeed. God sure screwed up in putting her on earth. What a dumb idiot.

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DL

Yes. By us concentrating on her, God, the real prick, gets the non-thinking sheep.

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DL

What if pure unemotional logic is the better way? Should we not embrace ha better way?

To condemn it before even knowing what it is seems counter productive.

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DL

IMHO, not if it ends up marginalizing humanity out of existence.

Who is King of the USA?

Elvis Presley, of course!

Can't believe anyone's even asking that question.