That the Stars and Stripes doesn't necessarily mean all happiness and apple pie to everyone may be best illustrated by drawing a parallel to the British Empire. If everything wasn'…

what do people think of the ideas of right and wrong interpretations of stuff? Specifically, to me the US flag is a symbol for the values of liberty, equality, justice, etc. on whi…

Unless you're brown, black, yellow or red.

??? I don't understand.

Add user name (Equality) plus post (Unless you're brown, black, yellow or red.) Result: Equality, unless you're brown, black, yellow or red. Which I have to disagree with being …

yes indeed, disecta, you're completely right (and well put, too!). I had understood that part. what I was having trouble with was that nobody here said (and certainly I would Never…

I believe HTML has been shut off in these forums. Although you can still use the UBB code to accent your posts.

ahh, thanks for the link. IMHO that UBB instead of HTML is exceptionally dumb. brackets better than standards?! what crappy forum sw! (although I do like the smilies ) --------…

Ya know, I don't hate the confderate flag. I hate every racist asshoIe that feels the need to fly it and wax nastolgic about the glory of the rebel south. That flag wasn't a banner…

"wanted the right to do what was best for themselves" ???? sorry bud, ya done fell off the earth on this one... the rat bastards wanted their slave labor, wanted to maintain the…

wlonh is absolutely right here.from someone who has done a great deal of research on the topic (and written a rather large paper on it), a couple of words about the secession. in m…

and Jeff Davis was a coward: he fled the Confederacy dressed in women's clothes!! no, the Old South was a disgrace, plain and simple and so is that damned flag that Jesse Helms an…

Well, I don't think ThinkInsane was incorrect in his posting at all. He merely stated that the confederate flag was a symbol for people who felt the need to do what was right for …

disectamac is right. The bloodiest American war was fought over economics--specifically, slavery. Northern states progressed beyond an agrarian society to a technologically advan…

Don't get me wrong, the very thought of one person owning another turns my stomach. I was refering more to the issue of state's rights. I feel slavery is one of the ultimate evils.…

I agree fully Bockie. In fact, there have been rumblings in Atlanta about changing the state flag... Unfortunately, Atlanta is nothing like the rest of Georgia. This is a state th…

I'm very glad we are all in agreement that slavery was bad and that the confederate flag should not be glorified. there certainly are a few cities in this country which could use a…

'States Rights' is a sham and a codename for subverting the Constitution and its Amendments, and has always been used that way imnsho

certes, ce que tu dis la est correcte en toutes details.

i like one-liners, my friend distillage tempus fugit

nunc diu tacebo, domine fororum. valde.

I've been wondering this for some time, and I don't know if the admin's can even find out this info, but I'll ask anyways... Of the people who are still actively posting in the Ma…

not I, said I; far from it, said I; I will shut up now, think I

Who's been a member that is still around? or who was THE first MacNN member? I don't know exactly how long I've been around for but I was a member when Wlonh was at 400 posts or s…

whose member is the longest? well my word, that is a bit personal... i hear it is Milton Berle who has that honor...