Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina and I are not among those Southerners who forget the the big rub in that period was that our region fought for the concept that it was just fine to own human beings so long as they were inferior breeds the concept still couds the politics of our part of the world--just look at election maps ric On Dec 9, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I love the South and would miss it terribly. There are plenty of us who > don't fly Confederate flags, support Obama, vote Democratic, and don't > stereotype others. > > Tina > > On Sunday, December 9, 2012, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: >> Usually pronounced Wah uv Nawthen Agression, this is the term that > residents of the US South (Sore Loosers) use to describe the American Civil > War. These can be, but not always are the same people that have large > Confederate flag decals on their pickup trucks. It is an inaccurate > description. President Lincoln was brilliant and far seeing, and realized > that if this succession was to become fact, there would be no end, and what > is the USA would become a hodgepodge of tiny nations led by who knows what. > There are many of us, however, who wouldn't miss the south a bit. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: philippe.amard >> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:10 PM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Desensitization >> >> could it be Vietnam? >> ph >> >> Le 9 d?c. 12 ? 23:39, Douglas Barry a ?crit : >> >>> >>> "Don Dory" <don.dory at gmail.com> wrote >>>> >>>> nasty deaths from smallpox and ebola. Or consider the images from the > War >>>> of Northern Aggression where there were stacks of limbs outside the > medical >>>> tents. >>> >>> Don, as an Irishman living in Ireland and unfamiliar with many terms > used in the States, what was the War of Northern Aggression? Do you mean > the Korean War? I never saw those images. >>> >>> I presume you don't mean the American Civil War as I thought that > started with the Confederacy attacking Fort Sumter? Well it did according > to all those school history books (European) I read 50 years ago. >>> >>> Maybe school books are different in the USA.... >>> >>> Douglas >>> _________ >>> Douglas Barry >>> Bray, Co. Wicklow >>> Republic of Ireland >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information