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I think it was granny Clampet who said. "General Lee only gave Grant his sword so he could polish it for him".

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Those interviews are totally depressing. Is History even a class anymore? I know a lot of facts have been culled out of the books so we can't call a bad guy a bad guy anymore.

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Which Texas idiot would that be, Bush or Perry? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">These people VOTE by the millions too. Next time you wonder to yourself &quot;how in the hell did this idiot get voted into office?&quot; this is why. </div></div>

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Is $18 Trillion more than $9 Trillion.......???????

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sixtiesmuscle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Which Texas idiot would that be, Bush or Perry? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">These people VOTE by the millions too. Next time you wonder to yourself &quot;how in the hell did this idiot get voted into office?&quot; this is why. </div></div></div></div>

Just like the Chicago experiment called Cabrini Green??

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O.K. you guys win. How can I argue with that flawless logic. I just find it a little funny that the examples used of the &quot;idiots&quot; that vote were from Texas &amp; Oklahoma. Obviously, not hotbeds of liberal thinking. I doubt we'll ever agree on much outside of cars, so why do we have to endure these discussions on a fun car site. If I want to get aggravated I'll just turn on Fox News for my &quot;fair &amp; balanced&quot; news of the day. I'm done now,so you can throw any stones you want and I won't respond.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kwhizz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is $18 Trillion more than $9 Trillion.......??????? </div></div>

At the point does it even matter?

No winners in my family during the &quot;Recent Unpleasantness&quot;. Missouri was a border state, so my grandfather's grandfather fought for the Confederacy; his brother fought for the Union.

The 3rd Missouri Cavalry (CSA) and 5th Missouri infantry (USA) met and fought against each other at the battles of Vicksburg and at Shiloh. The two brothers lived through the war and never spoke to each other again. In fact, that is why my name is spelled like it is (&quot;Seymore&quot; vs the more traditional &quot;Seymour&quot;): my relatives changed the spelling so as to not be associated with their estranged Yankee relatives.

K

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Keith - That is some impressive (tragic too) family history, fortunately, passed down through the years. It is important that a family doesn't lose sight of this stuff.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sixtiesmuscle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">O.K. you guys win. How can I argue with that flawless logic. I just find it a little funny that the examples used of the &quot;idiots&quot; that vote were from Texas &amp; Oklahoma. Obviously, not hotbeds of liberal thinking. I doubt we'll ever agree on much outside of cars, so why do we have to endure these discussions on a fun car site. If I want to get aggravated I'll just turn on Fox News for my &quot;fair &amp; balanced&quot; news of the day. I'm done now,so you can throw any stones you want and I won't respond. </div></div>

Political posts are creeping back into the Ynet. Another car forum I read has a &quot;politics and religion&quot; forum and it is a total train wreck every day of the week. Even when someone makes a reasonable post the trolls just blow it up with bat-$hit stuff and any human level of dialogue is impossible. (I stick to the technical forum on that site.)

Read the following humorous bit on why we are often wrong when we attempt to argue and convince one another that our point of view is the right one. It's good for a few laughs.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19468_5-l...-you-think.html

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Just a reminder from Mr. Clary, posted waaay back in 2007:

&quot;Some of you might like this and some might not. There is getting to be too much political commenting and it is detracting from what this web site is about. We all have different political views and that is every Americans right but this web site is about cars and a nice place to get away from the world of politics. Starting now, any political posts will be deleted. Please understand that even though what you post might be approved by others in your thread, there are many other readers that are distancing themselves from the threads and site because of the political banter. One goal of this site is to bring us lovers of Supercars together, not get us into political arguments.&quot;