O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas – small dead animals

Hear my prayer. (link fixed, sorry!)
h/t Paul

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I’m getting a “page not found” at the link

Link has some extra characters in it – until it’s fixed, this should work:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/377398/never-too-busy-do-peoples-business-california-moves-ban-confederate-flag-sales-under
I will never understand the drive to ban things you don’t like. I believe one of the most ridiculous ban movements at the moment is the e-cigarette. The same crowd that decries the (debunked since the ’90s) dangers of second-hand smoke want to ban a nicotine delivery system that produces no second-hand smoke… because it ‘looks scary’.
Well, they do the same thing with guns, so at least they’re consistent. I guess.

linky no worky

Same story, different paper.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bill-banning-state-Confederate-flag-sales-passes-5454712.php

Daisy Duke. That was a nice surprise. What was the article about again?

Hilary in daisy dukes !
I’m afraid to click, very afraid.

OOPS, my mistake.
A senior moment. And for that I am thankful.

Thank God, for a moment Wally you really had me scared. Shrillary in Daisy Dukes could turn a guy to the other side.

Of the 270 years that slavery flourished in the US and its antecedent colonies, including ALL of the Union states, the Confederate flag was used by the Confederacy for 5 years, 1861 to 1865.
Liberals are now SO thoroughly f’ed in the head that they would rather see their wives and daughters gang-raped and burned alive than see a picture of a flag.

Why I say, I say there, I believe that flag is a democrats flag, and the party of emancipation is a Republican Party

[pouts] I did use that link in one of my posts a few days ago;-)
This has to be one of the most asinine laws I’ve seen in a while and it reflects the successs of the Union side in rewriting American history. I really like the Confederate flag and have a few T-shirts that prominently feature it. This is a flag that one sees flying by many peoples homes in the S US and I’ve found to never say “civil war” there but rather “the war of Northern aggression”.
Of course, since the whole war of northern aggression was about the issue of states rights, it’s no wonder that a totalitarian moonbat would be outraged by the anti-central government message that the Confederate flag represents.

> Of the 270 years that slavery flourished in the US and its antecedent colonies, including ALL of the Union states
This is flatly false.
1780: Pennsylvania passes An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery.
1783: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules slavery unconstitutional. All slaves are immediately freed.
1783: New Hampshire begins gradual abolition of slavery.
1784: Connecticut and Rhode Island begin gradual abolition of slavery.
1787: The US bans new slavery in the Northwest Territory.
1799: New York begins gradual emancipation.
1802: Ohio’s state constitution explicitly bans slavery
1804: New Jersey begins gradual abolition.
1807: Two slaves brought into Michigan from Ontario are declared freed.
1817: New York declares all slaves freed in 1827.
1847: Slavery abolished in Pennsylvania

The ban only applies in the Capitol gift shop and on other state property. They didn’t prohibit everyone in the state from selling Confederate stuff. It would be consistent also to ban the sales of hammer-and-sickle flags and Che Guevara t-shirts, in the event that the Capitol gift shop sold those too.
Since the Supreme Court has already allowed flag-burning on the grounds of free speech, it could hardly let a blanket ban on Confederate items stand.

Hell, can’t even fly the stars and stripes without being labeled racist. You can guess the state without me giving you a clue.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/americans-now-racist-for-waving-u-s-flag/#S44t0hJ4MoF82H6A.99

Thank you for confirming that the Union states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, and Michigan all engaged in slavery. This is exactly what I stated.
The period from the first importation of slaves, until slavery was outlawed in every state was 270 years, which is also what I stated.
It’s also useful to note that the people who purchased or captured the slaves in Africa, and transported them to the US in Yankee and British ships, were Yankee and British slavers.
SOME of the purchasers of the slaves were in Southern states.

No, as I noted, what you wrote was, “Of the 270 years that slavery flourished in the US and its antecedent colonies, including ALL of the Union states”
1783 – 270 = 1513. Are you saying that Massachusetts was a colony in 1513? (In fact, slavery was banned by the Vermont Constitution even earlier, in 1777.)
The first indentured servants brought to an “antecedent colony” (Spanish Florida was not an “antecedent colony” of the US) came to Jamestown in 1619. 1619 + 270 = 1889. Are you saying that “slavery flourished in the US” until 1889?
“The period from the first importation of slaves, until slavery was outlawed in every state was 270 years, which is also what I stated.”
You stated that it had “flourished” including in “ALL of the Union states” for that long, which is something quite different.
In fact, the first documented slave for life was a runaway servant in 1640. Slavery “flourished” in most colonies beginning in the mid-1600s; Massachusetts legalized slavery in 1641, and other colonies followed suit over the next several decades. So it would be correct to state that slavery “flourished” in (nearly) all of the US and its antecedent colonies for about a century.