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Palin: Goddess of Rhetorical Nonsense. What a ninny.
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Originally Posted by Sco
I think she spent a little too much time at the Beck University. If she wasn't so stupid, I would almost believe that she is intentionally trying to create a spoof of herself.
A Beck University degree is all about milking the simpleton market for profit and wealth by running your mouth at it. It's really that simple, run your mouth and the money flows in. Fox, Savage, Levin all know about this market, and they're wealthy.
There is no love for America in any of this. It's jingo-for-profit.
There are numerous news reports this morning that Wikipedia articles on Paul Revere are being rapidly editted back and forth, as Sarah Palin's supporters try to alter their content to make her bizarre, incoherant remarks in Boston appear to reflect reality.
That's right, folks, when your candidate screws up, just alter the historical record! If some confluence of events allows Palin to become president, she'll have to invent a new cabinet position- Secretary of Truth! Whoever gets the job will be a busy dude!
Anyone read 1984?: "(S)he who controls the past, controls the future"
Did Orwell see Palin coming???
Good job, your Chocolate ration has been incresed from 22 to 20 grams
It's not news to me nor should it be to anyone that the British army was seizing ammunition that could potentially be used against them. That's warcraft 101. They weren't going house to house asking for colonists to turn over their weapons. Because the colonists lived in the colonies, where potential threats were all around. They weren't disarming the colonists, they were removing ammunition stockpiles that they feared would be used against British soldiers.
Snarky comments aside, unlike Palin, I actually DO know my history.
What kind of ammunition? if memory serves, the only weapons available were flintlocks, and they used primarily round balls that were commonly molded by the owner of the weapon in which they were fired. Pewter was a suitable substitute for lead in a pinch because of the low melting temperature. Today's tea service, tomorrow's bullets.
It's not news to me nor should it be to anyone that the British army was seizing ammunition that could potentially be used against them. That's warcraft 101. They weren't going house to house asking for colonists to turn over their weapons.
First, I am not capable of performing the mental gymnastics that would lead me to conclude that seizing ammunition from the colonists is not exactly the same thing as disarming them. A gun without ammunition is nothing more than a fancy stick.
Second, the possibility of disarming the colonists was debated in the councils with General Gage, and this was reported in the press at the time. The colonists were clearly concerned that Gage would attempt to seize weapons from the colonists.
Third, there were instances of British troops seizing weapons from colonists. For example, on Sept 29 1774 it was reported that property including 12 rifles belonging to Mr. Samuel Phillips of Andover was seized by the British Captain Bishop while he was transporting them on a ferry across the harbor. Rumors were widespread that British troops were routinely confiscating weapons. There is no doubt that the colonists had a reasonable fear of being disarmed even if widespread disarmament was not yet being implemented.
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Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge
Because the colonists lived in the colonies, where potential threats were all around. They weren't disarming the colonists, they were removing ammunition stockpiles that they feared would be used against British soldiers.
By this logic I would conclude that since that the residents of south central Los Angeles live in a dangerous area with high rates of violent crime the local politicians must have a policy of enabling those residents to carry weapons to protect themselves against this present danger. Since when has the presence of danger been sufficient cause for tyrants to allow subjects to be armed?
As I said in my OP in this thread, the history clearly reflects that a proximate cause for the beginning of hostilities in the Boston area was the concern by the colonists that the British would disarm them. It was only one of many causes the colonists had against the British, but it certainly was a factor that should not be ignored.
What kind of ammunition? if memory serves, the only weapons available were flintlocks, and they used primarily round balls that were commonly molded by the owner of the weapon in which they were fired. Pewter was a suitable substitute for lead in a pinch because of the low melting temperature. Today's tea service, tomorrow's bullets.
The British confiscated powder stores throughout the Boston area.
You may have heard recently something about that Sarah Palin telling a reporter that Paul Revere warned the British on his famous rousing revolutionary ride. Now, that so many Americans have wallowed in their smug confirmation that Palin is an idiot unqualified for anything but repeating sixth-grade history, how far, wide and fast do you think the contradictory news will spread that the former governor of Alaska was indeed correct?
This is from LA Times reporter Andrew Malcolm, so you can't scream right wing sourcing.
She was right, the left is wrong (again), and now they want to say history is being rewritten to excuse their raking of Palin over the coals at every opportunity. Just a heads up: She isn't our candidate. Kind of like Libya isn't a war, only in reverse.
Palin got it right the Left got it wrong, welcome to the truth.
The well-known fable is Revere's late-night ride to warn fellow revolutionaries that....
...the British were coming. Less known, obviously, is the rest of the evening's events in which Revere was captured by said redcoats and did indeed defiantly warn them of the awakened militia awaiting their arrival ahead and of the American Revolution's inevitable victory.
Palin knew this. The on-scene reporters did not and ran off like Revere to alert the world to Palin's latest mis-speak, which wasn't.
The well-known fable is Revere's late-night ride to warn fellow revolutionaries that....
...the British were coming. Less known, obviously, is the rest of the evening's events in which Revere was captured by said redcoats and did indeed defiantly warn them of the awakened militia awaiting their arrival ahead and of the American Revolution's inevitable victory.
Palin knew this. The on-scene reporters did not and ran off like Revere to alert the world to Palin's latest mis-speak, which wasn't.
Do you think Sarah Palin knew that really, or was she winging it trying to remember that there was lamp if by land, and two lamps if by sea?
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A Beck University degree is all about milking the simpleton market for profit and wealth by running your mouth at it. It's really that simple, run your mouth and the money flows in. Fox, Savage, Levin all know about this market, and they're wealthy.
Palin got it right the Left got it wrong, welcome to the truth.
