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It sounds barbaric, but think about it: No "Southern Strategy." No Jim Crow laws. No rhetoric against "carpetbaggers" (i.e., loyal citizens going to rebuild the United States). No more compromises about whether minorities are actually people. No bullshit about how "the South shall rise again." Bigotry will always be with us, but we would have expelled or killed most of the bigots--and if you don't say they deserved it, then you're as much of a traitor to the Union as anyone who marched in grey.
The Southerners are a conquered people, and we should treat them as such people were treated in the Bible--i.e., without pity and without mercy.
Fuck the South.
Advice: use a tranquilizer to subdue. Then fix them to make them less territorial.
you'd cry yourselves sick if we were really gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KtOfZKt…
Also, that song sucks. If that's the best the south has to offer, we've already won.
In twenty years time they'll be manning the bulwarks, awaiting the "Godless, Socialist, Librul hordes" that never arrive.
In thirty years time, their offspring, bored to distraction (!) will venture out into the "real world" and realize their forgotten backwater of a town has been completely and thoroughly ignored for three decades, while the rest of civilized society moved forward without them.
At which point the town itself will die of atrophy and neglect, and the names of everyone who ever admitted to have lived in it - save one - will have been completely wiped off the slate of history.
And it'll serve 'em fuckin' right...
@10: Okay, we'd miss Austin. But Austin's not really part of the South.
Looks to me that the reason the song is misinterpreted is because Van Zant wrote some really dumb lyrics & then he tried to defend himself. There doesn't seem to be any ambiguity w/ "Watergate does not bother me." The only defense would be that Van Zant didn't comprehend the issue, and simply referred to political corruption w/ a smarmy reply "does your conscience bother you?" instead of an act of treason, where the presidential '72 presidential election was sabotaged and rigged. I don't give a damn what anyone's conscience is, directly perverting the voting process and our democracy is beyond the pale. Nixon, his aides & the entire staff of CREEP should have been either hanged or jailed for life for high treason.
Well, being generous, I don't think what they did was a Capital Crime, but, if it had been up to me I would most definitely have put the whole lot in a Maximum Security Penal Institution (tm) for, say, 20 years or so.
In which case, Colson's conversion probably would have been a lot more genuine under the circumstances, and we wouldn't have had a longer break before being subjected to Liddy's pseudo-paranoid fantasies, if nothing else. And Paisley would have been a minor footnote - oh, what. Paisley is still a minor footnote.
20-20 hindsight, and all, you know...
Too sleepy to get into the Watergate bit.
gosh, so sorry you don't like our song.
what are your songs?
Seattle - how about 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?
(or "Singing in the Rain"?)
For you yankees?
gotta be something by the Boss-
we know; "My Hometown" (you know, the guy moves his family South at the end of the song...)
although our personal favorite would be "Downbound Train" (oops, the guys wife dumps him and goes South to find a real man...)
don't like the Jersy thing?
how about the Piano Man? "Allentown"?
perhaps you have other ideas?
please share....
Sweet, let's allow the parents to hold their own proms, so next time the school can't get sued, and the parents can claim that the party is private and they can invite (or not) who they want.
Kids, just move away from the south as soon as you find yourself checking out your own gender, save yourself the heartache.
Oh, those states seem to keep their cities under control pretty well.
All Southern and Border states have outlawed homosexual marriage, all but one by State Constitution.
Most also outlaw homosexual domestic partnership and specify that they will not recognize DP or marriage from other states.
Those measures pass with huge margins, 75-86% in Deep South states- so the Houstons and Atlantas of the South won't cause us no nevermind....
btw, Rhett, you err in calling it our fantasy- you'll see it was the disgusted/disgusting liberals with their Hitler fantasies dreaming of expelling and exterminating us.
Actually, when we go it will be because the liberals are begging us to, and paying us off to do so-
"Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians."
@23 Polls are showing, our support is growing, yours is dwindling. It's just a matter of time. Your kind is not long for this world.
Haven't read much history, have you? Of course reading isn't your strong suit. Why not try and get that GED again? Third time's a charm, you know. Anyway, if you'd spent a little less time sitting in the back of the classroom chewing tobacco and a little more time listening you'd know, among other things, that the Bible's not a history book.
Oh yeah, and I love how the Southern states keep their cities "under control". That's why Houston elected a lesbian mayor.
Can she get married in Houston?
Like I said, Bubba, get your GED, or maybe just try reading some history. No one's dreamed of "expelling and exterminating" you. That's what psychologists call "projection". Just because you want to drive out or kill anyone who doesn't fit into your white, Baptist society doesn't mean that those of us who disagree with you feel the same way.
And even if there are cities who've passed such measures, do you expect them to stand up to legal challenges?
Maybe you should wear some eye protection at your next cross burning, Bubba. Those cinders are impairing your vision.
you funny boy!
'States', Rhett- 'states'.
Is it 5 o'clock where you are?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A proposal that would void an Atlanta city ordinance requiring associations such as the Druid Hills Golf Club to extend marriage benefits to gay couples cleared its final hurdle in the General Assembly on Thursday.
House Rules Committee Chairman Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) introduced the bill, which would prevent local governments across Georgia from enacting laws requiring organizations to extend domestic benefits to gay couples.
Sen. John Wiles (R-Marietta) carried the bill in the Senate.
“There’s no right for a city government, state government or county government to provide benefits to unmarried persons,” Wiles said from the Senate well.
Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) said that legislators were using the issue of domestic benefits for gay couples to pander to voters.
“We use the term ‘local control’ in education and law enforcement,” Fort said. “But when it comes to discrimination … we don’t want local control. When it comes to the city of Atlanta, local control means nothing. It means nothing at all. It’s the height of hypocrisy.”
Michigan isn't in Dixie but they try.....
Ruling goes against same-sex benefits
Defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, as Michigan voters did with Proposal 2 in November, also signals the end of health care and other benefits for the same-sex partners of public employees in the state, according to an opinion issued Wednesday by Attorney General Mike Cox.
The opinion came in response to a question about benefits for employees of the City of Kalamazoo. The same legal theories would apply to public schools and universities which offer same-sex benefits, said an official in the Attorney General's Office who asked not to be identified.
In the absence of a contrary opinion from a court, the attorney general's interpretation of the law is generally binding on state agencies.
"The bottom line is that the law is what the law is," Cox said. "This is the logical outcome of what the voters approved."
Your Atlanta story also says the bill "cleared its final hurdle" but there's no information as to whether it actually passed.
And, as I said, the laws may not survive legal challenges. Ever read the 14th Amendment? I'm thinking specifically of the part that says, "nor shall any State...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
It's very simple, Bubba, so simple even you should be able to understand it. Allowing others to live their lives and enjoy the same legal protections you enjoy is not in any way an infringement upon your rights.
That's a far cry from your claim of a trend toward cities "making it illegal for cities to grant the same benefits to same-sex couples that married couples already enjoy".
I'm glad you're demonstrating some literacy skills, but you really need to work on your reading comprehension.
Alleged is trying to prove that Dan's a transphobic biphobic hater by quoting every last yahoo who said so on the web. It's rather disturbing that he cares that much.
actually those were only the first four hits on google.
it must be quite a shock for a credulous asskissing fanboy like yourself- maybe you should have your mommy censor it for you...
Oh, and look, @41 he's using his second-favorite tactic. When fabrication fails he reverts to distraction.
wow
we feel really bad.
maybe we can regain some credibility by
mocking brutally bashed homosexuals and
using transgenderism as a slur.
How about you gain (regain, for you, is impossible by definition) some credibility by at least attempting to be grammatically correct and cutting back on your addiction to the [Enter] key.
Sin?
How quaintly Southern.....
yeah.
we're pretty sure that's illegal.
Great, now I'm picturing zombie confederates staggering out of the graveyards they've all been in for quite some time.
(Sorry for continuing the off-topic-ness.)
now Rhett, we know your momma tells you everybody does it but she lied to you.