Lee/Jackson Day

And thus commence the annual "Whitey Complaining About Martin Luther King Day" festivities.  Let teh games begin.

We had exams yeterday and wednesday, so today is a teacher work days, haha

I was off yesterday, and i took off today, because I didn't feel like going.

We have spirit week soon. We get to go to a movie and do cool stuff. We also have alot of days off! Fact: did you know that if you go to the bathroom for ten minutes every class every school day you will miss 25 school days.

Snake6 wrote: eliminator wrote: We have spirit week soon. We get to go to a movie and do cool stuff. We also have alot of days off! Fact: did you know that if you go to the bathroom for ten minutes every class every school day you will miss 25 school days. Isn't spirt week supposed to Homecoming Week? Football seasons over. .Ryan wrote: No, why would be get out on a day celebrating soldiers in an enemy nation's Army? We might as well have Rommel day..... Here, Lee and Jackson are not Enemy Generals here. They are Patriots.

Yeah in the south its a whole different story, but the thing is, we can't have a holiday for half the country.

I've never even heard of this holiday. Plus, 'Desert Fox' is a much cooler nickname than 'Stonewall'.

Snake6 wrote: Seriously though, Does Germany celebrate any holidays based on people?

I don't believe so - I think it's mostly Christian holidays.  Come to think of it, I am hard pressed to think of another country that celebrates "people holidays" like the US.

Snake6 wrote: .Ryan wrote: No, why would be get out on a day celebrating soldiers in an enemy nation's Army? We might as well have Rommel day..... Here, Lee and Jackson are not Enemy Generals here. They are Patriots.

Hey there smart guy, you don't live in the Confederate States of America. You live in the USA, the country that beat the CSA in the civil war, thereby ended the existence of the country. And, they aren't patriots. They fought to split the nation in which they lived, and freakin Lee was in the US Army and no doubt took an oath to that nation. That is inherently unpatriotic. The Civil War was the biggest cluster screw of reactionary idiocy in this country's history and the leaders of the nation that started the whole thing should not have thier own holiday. Idiot.

Edited by .Ryan - 13 January 2006 at 3:41pm

.Ryan wrote: Snake6 wrote: .Ryan wrote: No, why would be get out on a day celebrating soldiers in an enemy nation's Army? We might as well have Rommel day..... Here, Lee and Jackson are not Enemy Generals here. They are Patriots. Hey there smart guy, you don't live in the Confederate States of America. You live in the USA, the country that beat the CSA in the civil war, thereby ended the existence of the country. And, they aren't patriots. They fought to split the nation in which they lived, and freakin Lee was in the US Army and no doubt took an oath to that nation.(Alot of Officers in the American Revolution were former officers of the British Army. So when the US secedded from Britain, they join the American Army. I guess that doesn't make them Patriots)  That is inherently unpatriotic. The Civil War was the biggest cluster screw of reactionary idiocy in this country's history and the leaders of the nation that started the whole thing should not have thier own holiday.(Read your history my Firend. Go open up a text book before going on some wild-ass guesses. The Battle that opened the war was that of Ft. Sumter in South Carolina. After the CSA secedded from the US, South Carolina became the soverign territory of the CSA, the Old Abe decided he was not going to give the CSA what was rightfully thiers, so we took it by force.) Idiot. (So now you have to call people names because you dont have the facts to back up your statements. Classy)

The Declaration of Independence Specifcally states:

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

"it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

This is an Excerpt from the Dec. of Ind. This is the mandate on which the CSA seceeded from the Union. It is perfectly legal to seceed from a government which is imposing on your rights. The US was imposing on the Sates right to choose what is best for the people of that state.  Slavery never came into the eqaution until the Emacipation Proclaimation, Lincoln was pressured into annoucing the Emacipation by the Radical Republicans that controlled Congress. The fact of the matter is that States, prior to the War of Northern Agression had every right to seceed the Union at whatever time they felt that their rights were being imposed upon. Lincoln, refused these rights which the states were intitled to.