tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post1792401530369945045..comments2023-09-24T04:57:04.216-07:00Comments on Backsass: Addressing the Escambia County CommissionersConnie Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07275270830868170850noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-47907677132943003752015-03-17T07:00:44.887-07:002015-03-17T07:00:44.887-07:00"Mr. Bowden died in February",
Small f..."Mr. Bowden died in February", <br /><br />Small fact, why let it get in the way of Shrimpson's truth???<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-59998245531909935902015-03-16T17:17:40.252-07:002015-03-16T17:17:40.252-07:00Right. I was couching the argument in the viewpoin...Right. I was couching the argument in the viewpoints common to the public debate these days -- the ones you see on comment threads following news stories and such. I used concepts that were likely to be at least somewhat familiar to the people who were in the commission chamber -- but I brought in a comparison they probably hadn't thought of before. Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-56169972654544222382015-03-16T16:29:23.735-07:002015-03-16T16:29:23.735-07:00...but as to the founding principle-
"The gr......but as to the founding principle-<br /><br />"The grand foundation principle of all Government in this country, lies in consent of the governed. Take away this corner stone of principle, and all laws fall of themselves; and Government exists, by its own will, as a monstrous usurpation....<br />South Carolina has simply insisted on the grand leading idea which constituted the foundation stone of the Confederacy--that the Government was one which derived its existence solely from the consent of the governed. She has refused her consent any longer to the rule of the Federal Government.<br />The right of secession is the due result of the recognized principle upon which the Confederacy was founded..." <br />Charleston Mercury, February 6, 1861BorderRuffianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880353575450977712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-39547641450304236092015-03-16T13:42:02.528-07:002015-03-16T13:42:02.528-07:00Simpson's again assassinating his own intellec...Simpson's again assassinating his own intellect just for the pleasure of wielding the put down... <br /><br /><i><b><br />Brooks D. Simpson<br />March 16, 2015 at 10:57 am<br /><br />“Although, indeed, there were people working behind the scenes to bring back the flags… the late Earl Bowden of the Pensacola News Journal …”<br /><br />So a dead man was working behind the scenes …Pensacola’s an interesting place. </b></i><br /><br />Mr. Bowden died in February, about three weeks before the county commission's re-vote on the flags. After the vote removing the flags in December, he wrote an editorial for the PNJ urging the return of the flags. And while I have no proof he worked behind the scenes on this issue, knowing his history of involvement with the community, I have no doubt about it. <br /><br />Given Simpson's long history of denigration, I also have no doubt that such put-downs give him a wicked dopamine rush....<br />Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-33413724092636572592015-03-16T10:58:48.313-07:002015-03-16T10:58:48.313-07:00Thanks, George.
Thanks, George.<br />Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-14938858703760883182015-03-16T10:37:07.197-07:002015-03-16T10:37:07.197-07:00Heck I have so many atrocities committed by the Ya...Heck I have so many atrocities committed by the Yankees that I created a website.<br /><br />http://confederatepows.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/page.php?6Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-73673813970804137362015-03-16T09:50:10.672-07:002015-03-16T09:50:10.672-07:00When push came to shove, they chose political inde...When push came to shove, they chose political independence above keeping slavery...Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-6783476135920555762015-03-16T09:36:03.432-07:002015-03-16T09:36:03.432-07:00Bakur-
"without taking into account the despe...Bakur-<br />"without taking into account the desperation the Confederacy found themselves in"<br /><br />Desperate or not it was done.<br /><br />Lincoln was desperate when he issued his EP.BorderRuffianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880353575450977712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-86475140393486171582015-03-16T09:35:25.836-07:002015-03-16T09:35:25.836-07:00Simpson said, "She’s not a great public speak...Simpson said, "She’s not a great public speaker. But now I understand why she uses outdated images of herself. She’s vain."<br /><br />Well, duh, <b><i>I'm not a public speaker at all,</i></b> and this "speech" was completely impromptu...<br /><br />Yeah, I'm vain. So what? <br /><br />(Although if I had newer photos of myself, I'd probably use them. The most recent photos I have are the ones my hubs made about four years ago to use on the back cover of my novels... <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Connie-Chastain/e/B002KL46IE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1" rel="nofollow"> http://www.amazon.com/Connie-Chastain/e/B002KL46IE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1</a>)<br /><br />Leo said she watched my segment three times... That's a little creepy. She then proceded to tell me what I should have said. Actually, thanks to the yearly Fiesta of Five Flags, people here are very familiar with the significance of the five flags to Pensacola. And not just here. The Five Flags brand of the city is known throughout the South and beyond (a circumstance mentioned at least once during the debate, if memory serves). It might be nice to have a historical marker acknowledging the Five flags, but there is no actual need of one.<br /><br />Besides, my purpose was to point out that the flag -- the American (sic) flag -- so many people had mentioned almost worshipfully in contrast with the Confederate flag's negatives, has negative baggage of its own -- and I believe I got that point across.<br /><br />Leo ends with, "Her only hope is there are people knowledgeable about actual history working behind the scenes because she is pathetic." My only hope? What a silly sentiment, particularly in view of the fact that the flags were back up and flapping on their poles at the bay center four days before Leo posted at XRoads.... <br /><br />Although, indeed, there were people working behind the scenes to bring back the flags... the late Earl Bowden of the <i>Pensacola News Journal;</i> one of the County Commissioners, Grover Robinson IV, a seventh generation Pensacolian, <a href="http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Grover_Robinson_IV" rel="nofollow"> http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Grover_Robinson_IV</a>; Phillip White, who researched and wrote this document during the city's Five Flags flap in 2000, <a href="http://westfloridaflaggers.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_48.html" rel="nofollow"> http://westfloridaflaggers.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_48.html</a>, who I spoke to briefly at the meeting to renew acquaintance ... and numerous others...<br /><br />Given the love of denigration exhibited by that crowd, most especially Simpson, I'm actually surprised the reaction from those quarters wasn't markedly worse....Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-12344237823477170802015-03-16T09:17:32.556-07:002015-03-16T09:17:32.556-07:00BR, there have been minor stirrings at XRoads abou...BR, there have been minor stirrings at XRoads about my appearance before the county commissioners, but not about the Grant Administration reference. Which I admit is a little surprising, given Simpson's worship of the scoundrel....<br /><br />Mousy Tongue says, "She makes light of plantation slavery conditions..." Actually, I did no such thing, but it's a typical leftist mindset to say that pointing out the negatives of one situation is making light of another negative situation. This reminds me of the school lunch funding debate in the 104th Congress. These aren't the actual numbers, just for illustration purposes ... but they voted to fund the program with an 8% increase instead of a 10% increase, and libs from one end of the country to another shrieked and had seizures, saying they had<b><i> cut the program.... </i></b><br /><br />About the Confederate government's willingness to end slavery exhibited by Kenner's mission, Rob "Tu Quoque" Bakur sez, "Then spends time attempting to white wash the Confederate History of slavery; without taking into account the desperation the Confederacy found themselves in." <br /><br />Well, there's only so much you can say in two minutes .... Obviously, this is too much of an abstraction for Bakur to process.... There were <b><i> lots of things</i></b> I wish I could have said but didn't have time for ... the KKK's association with the US flag, for example (which in my notes, but barely legible, ha. I was using my small tri-fold wallet as a "clipboard" under the receipt, and the leather surface was soft and didn't support the paper well. I'm surprised my notes turned out as legibly as they did.)<br />Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4211529354680229185.post-67133592867458701132015-03-16T06:03:46.065-07:002015-03-16T06:03:46.065-07:00Well done/said.
"genocide of the Plains Indi...Well done/said.<br /><br />"genocide of the Plains Indians by the <b>Grant</b> Administration."<br /><br />...-this will hit a nerve at a certain flog. Expect a reaction from those quarters.BorderRuffianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880353575450977712noreply@blogger.com