How Stupid Are They?

[rex desilets]

Truth.

[chuck]

up148 wrote:

The BS about Civil War statues was crazy. This was part of the growing pains in our country you can't make it go away.

Except they're not. There are war memorials that were erected after the war to honor the soldiers that died but they were placed at cemeteries and battlefields. These were erected long after the war in the 1890's through the 1950's and were placed in public parks and government settings, not at the battlefields or cemeteries. They were installed to commemorate the causes of the war, not to honor the fallen.

BTW, there were only 11 states in the Confederacy. There are statues erected in 31 states.

[up148]

They were installed to commemorate the causes of the war, not to honor the fallen.

I never dug in that deep Chuck. I assumed they, like most war memorials, were to honor the fallen and the leadership, even if they were wrong in their beliefs. It does put a different spin on it if their was ulterior motives.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

These were erected long after the war in the 1890's through the 1950's and were placed in public parks and government settings, not at the battlefields or cemeteries. They were installed to commemorate the causes of the war, not to honor the fallen.

A lot of people do not know or understand that, or do not want to know that - some serious undertones throughout that period and behind those actions.

BTW, there were only 11 states in the Confederacy. There are statues erected in 31 states.

Fascinating. I suspect that some of those states were not actual states at the time of the Civil War?

[HONDO74]

Maybe they should remove all the confederate states from the union.

I have read several articles where there are those that want to remove statues and pictures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson because they both owned slaves. Very offensive to many people.....

[chuck]

Some were in the north, e.g. Maryland. I'd have to check the list. Possibly Pennsylvania and the "border states".

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Some were in the north, e.g. Maryland. I'd have to check the list. Possibly Pennsylvania and the "border states".

Thanks - curious.

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You're kidding us, right, along with your posting in that other thread of wildly demented, alleged, pavement work (you, too, Rufus, with that sidewalk mentalcase mis-work, right... huh? Huh?)

P.S. Seeing the two dames, just above, makes ya wonder, surely, no matter how jaded one might be, how a person gets somebody else at a party to do that for them? Did she simply walk up to the other gal, the prospective applicator, and say, "Could you put this in here for me?"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Worry about fentanyl and opioids, and this kind of stupidity will kill you just as dead. Maybe that's the plan to delete some of our gene pool?

[up148]

Yeah, we went through the sniffing glues and aerosol spray phase, now we're into butt chugging. Unbelievable. Hard to believe people want to get F'd up that badly.

Don't worry Murph, it's not the kind of party you and I would attend.

[v8vega]

In the early 60's I fell into a group who was experimenting with drugs. Bear in mind drugs were almost non existent before this time, you had to be in a secret society and deal with criminals to get any.
Sometimes when we couldn't get anything we would chug cough syrup, the whole bottle. It had stuff in it to make you throw up if you took the whole bottle so the trick was to have the syrup in one hand and 7 up in the other and immediately a big gulp of the 7up, It was a mild high.5 spell checks

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yeah, we went through the sniffing glues and aerosol spray phase, now we're into butt chugging. Unbelievable. Hard to believe people want to get F'd up that badly.

Don't worry Murph, it's not the kind of party you and I would attend.

I have a strong feeling you are totally right. Like, totally

[rogruth]

Maybe I am just too old or not weird enough but I just can't imagine doing something like that on purpose.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In the early 60's I fell into a group who was experimenting with drugs. Bear in mind drugs were almost non existent before this time, you had to be in a secret society and deal with criminals to get any.

A convenient fiction and polite revision of history - this country has had a very long history of an association with opiate drugs and related substances in such numbers as to actively support a host of private hospitals to hide away all of the people that addicted to opiate drugs - remember laudanum? ~10% opium - it was cheaper than booze and legal through the 19th century and into the 20th - the drug of choice by the working class and pretty much available up until the 1970's.