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Afterburner Burned, Rises a la Phoenix

Posted on | January 7, 2010 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

I’m 95% in agreement with Bill Whittle’s essay:

I’d like to reserve a little room to fall short of guessing the motives of anyone on the left. Some may simply believe the Progressive hogwash with which they’ve been raised. Let’s oppose it, but not generally attribute any explicit diabolical motive.

Also, there is just a teeny bit of irony in quoting Joshua Chamberlain at the end of the clip. In some ways, the Tea Party insurgency resembles the States rebelling against the Imperial Fed more than the Progressives (for all they promote a soft slavery) resemble the Confederacy.

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18 Responses to “Afterburner Burned, Rises a la Phoenix”

  1. cargosquid
    January 7th, 2010 @ 2:13 pm

    Whittle 2012!

  2. cargosquid
    January 7th, 2010 @ 9:13 am

    Whittle 2012!

  3. SDN
    January 7th, 2010 @ 4:34 pm

    Smitty,

    Remind me again which party were the slavery supporters in the Civil War? From the plantation to the collective, Copperheads have been the party of slavery since the 19th century.

  4. SDN
    January 7th, 2010 @ 11:34 am

    Smitty,

    Remind me again which party were the slavery supporters in the Civil War? From the plantation to the collective, Copperheads have been the party of slavery since the 19th century.

  5. Nancy
    January 7th, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

    I have to disagree with you concerning who resembles whom. To me, the Tea Party group more resembles Joshua Chamberlain’s picture of the North. They are the great unwashed, the blue-collar, the non-elites, farmers and fishermen, “No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what YOU do, not by what your father was.” (Joshua Chamberlain speech in the Killer Angels)

  6. Nancy
    January 7th, 2010 @ 11:52 am

    I have to disagree with you concerning who resembles whom. To me, the Tea Party group more resembles Joshua Chamberlain’s picture of the North. They are the great unwashed, the blue-collar, the non-elites, farmers and fishermen, “No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what YOU do, not by what your father was.” (Joshua Chamberlain speech in the Killer Angels)

  7. Stogie
    January 7th, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

    SDN, yes and where did they get their slaves? They purchased them from Northern slave traders. Where did those Northern capitalists get their capital? From dealing in slaves.

    Where did the Eastern seaboard get the cotton for its textile mills? From the South, and they had no moral qualms about who picked it.

    Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland all stayed with the North, even thought they owned slaves. Some Union generals owned slaves.

    Bill Whittle doesn’t have a CLUE when it comes to the Civil War.

  8. Stogie
    January 7th, 2010 @ 12:38 pm

    SDN, yes and where did they get their slaves? They purchased them from Northern slave traders. Where did those Northern capitalists get their capital? From dealing in slaves.

    Where did the Eastern seaboard get the cotton for its textile mills? From the South, and they had no moral qualms about who picked it.

    Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland all stayed with the North, even thought they owned slaves. Some Union generals owned slaves.

    Bill Whittle doesn’t have a CLUE when it comes to the Civil War.

  9. Nancy
    January 7th, 2010 @ 6:32 pm

    @Stogie – Having lived in Southern Maryland, I can tell you the people that live there now will tell you that Maryland stayed in the North because they were an occupied state, not because they had much choice in the matter.

  10. Nancy
    January 7th, 2010 @ 1:32 pm

    @Stogie – Having lived in Southern Maryland, I can tell you the people that live there now will tell you that Maryland stayed in the North because they were an occupied state, not because they had much choice in the matter.

  11. Roy Jacobsen
    January 7th, 2010 @ 8:06 pm

    [Fe]Yeah, let’s all get into a pissing match about which side of the Civil War was the most noble and upright. Sounds like a great idea. [/Fe]

  12. Roy Jacobsen
    January 7th, 2010 @ 3:06 pm

    [Fe]Yeah, let’s all get into a pissing match about which side of the Civil War was the most noble and upright. Sounds like a great idea. [/Fe]

  13. ConantheCimmerian
    January 7th, 2010 @ 8:28 pm

    @Stogie,

    Thank you Stogie, at least that much needed to be said. I am so tired of all the Southron hatred that in endemic. We are the South and we tried to save the Constitution. Secession was Constitutional and slavery was not the cause of the war.

    Learn some history people, and don’t take it from the Yankee slant. Other than that what Wittle said was not bad.

  14. ConantheCimmerian
    January 7th, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

    @Stogie,

    Thank you Stogie, at least that much needed to be said. I am so tired of all the Southron hatred that in endemic. We are the South and we tried to save the Constitution. Secession was Constitutional and slavery was not the cause of the war.

    Learn some history people, and don’t take it from the Yankee slant. Other than that what Wittle said was not bad.

  15. SDN
    January 8th, 2010 @ 1:51 am

    Considering that my great-uncle got his nickname of Buttermilk Bill from the Confederate artillery soldiers he delivered it to at Battery Spring outside of Lisbon AR, and I’ve never lived north of the Mason-Dixon, you can kiss my grits.

    It’s unfortunate that states rights and slavery got co-opted, but the point remains: Democrats love slavery. Anywhere in the world.

  16. SDN
    January 7th, 2010 @ 8:51 pm

    Considering that my great-uncle got his nickname of Buttermilk Bill from the Confederate artillery soldiers he delivered it to at Battery Spring outside of Lisbon AR, and I’ve never lived north of the Mason-Dixon, you can kiss my grits.

    It’s unfortunate that states rights and slavery got co-opted, but the point remains: Democrats love slavery. Anywhere in the world.

  17. ConantheCimmerian
    January 8th, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

    God struck down Stonewall Jackson

    In seceding from the Union, Southerners resisted the will of God. William Tecumseh Sherman was God’s instrument for striking down the rebellious South. The “hand of God” can be seen in Abraham Lincoln’s ascendency to the presidency.

    So says brothers Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart in “Seven Miracles that Saved America.” In justifying the creation of Lincoln’s North-dominated Union, the Stewarts repeat the foundational myth that slavery was the central issue of the Civil War. That myth, of course, justifies Lincoln’s revolution against the decentralized Republic of Republics in order to forge the centralized national security state we have today, complete with citizen surveillance and endless war — all in the name of promoting democracy.

  18. ConantheCimmerian
    January 8th, 2010 @ 9:47 am

    God struck down Stonewall Jackson

    In seceding from the Union, Southerners resisted the will of God. William Tecumseh Sherman was God’s instrument for striking down the rebellious South. The “hand of God” can be seen in Abraham Lincoln’s ascendency to the presidency.

    So says brothers Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart in “Seven Miracles that Saved America.” In justifying the creation of Lincoln’s North-dominated Union, the Stewarts repeat the foundational myth that slavery was the central issue of the Civil War. That myth, of course, justifies Lincoln’s revolution against the decentralized Republic of Republics in order to forge the centralized national security state we have today, complete with citizen surveillance and endless war — all in the name of promoting democracy.