Popular Post jsharr ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 20, 2021 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 5 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Share #2 Posted January 20, 2021 Seems sexist. He clearly wasn't woke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 20, 2021 Share #3 Posted January 20, 2021 why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted January 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Seems sexist. He clearly wasn't woke! He most likely was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share #5 Posted January 20, 2021 Just now, Kzoo said: why? Because clearly we did not learn from our past and now almost 160 years later we are still a nation divided and killing each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Share #6 Posted January 20, 2021 1 minute ago, jsharr said: Because clearly we did not learn from our past and now almost 160 years later we are still a nation divided and killing each other. "Eight score" doesn't roll off the tongue, let alone "twelve score and five"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 20, 2021 Share #7 Posted January 20, 2021 All this math stuff makes my head hurt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 20, 2021 Share #8 Posted January 20, 2021 I think my butt is starting to hurt, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Share #9 Posted January 20, 2021 I thought it was going to be "the numbers are..............." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share #10 Posted January 20, 2021 I really cannot blame ya'll for not taking this seriously considering the person that posted it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Old Guy Posted January 20, 2021 Share #11 Posted January 20, 2021 22 minutes ago, jsharr said: I really cannot blame ya'll for not taking this seriously considering the person that posted it. It's not your fault. The forum ad just below your post makes it hard to concentrate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share #12 Posted January 20, 2021 We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted January 20, 2021 Share #13 Posted January 20, 2021 1 minute ago, jsharr said: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. I’m not sure how this will play out, but I don’t see a country where people are interested in making peace. I’m afraid the better angels have left the battlefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 20, 2021 Share #14 Posted January 20, 2021 42 minutes ago, BuffJim said: I’m not sure how this will play out, but I don’t see a country where people are interested in making peace. I’m afraid the better angels have left the battlefield. Honestly, if I look around - while walking, riding, hiking, shopping, etc.. - I just see "normal" folks just wanting to lead normal lives. Then there are the whackadoos who think there is some reason to destroy the greatest nation on Earth for some contrived and usually quite convoluted reason. The sane and/or normal folks outnumber the whackadoos greatly. I gotta hope that my experience is similar to the rest of the folks here. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 21, 2021 Share #15 Posted January 21, 2021 21 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Honestly, if I look around - while walking, riding, hiking, shopping, etc.. - I just see "normal" folks just wanting to lead normal lives. Then there are the whackadoos who think there is some reason to destroy the greatest nation on Earth for some contrived and usually quite convoluted reason. The sane and/or normal folks outnumber the whackadoos greatly. I gotta hope that my experience is similar to the rest of the folks here. So I almost never go on bookface, but I have a die-hard trumper ex-coworker that I always got along really well with (I really only talked with him back before the last administration when we went our separate ways). He always did look like a skinhead steroid user with huge tattoos and such, but he was mostly nice and even-tempered, never said racist or ridiculous stuff. He really went nuts, I had to stop even checking in on him before I stopped going to bookface because of it, though, exact one to one correlation with the outgoing administration;s arrival. I checked on him today because I wanted to see if there was some rationalization or acknowledgement that it was over, but nope, not happening. Every post a conniption about the radicals that stole the election, blah, blah, blah, antifa was behind the riots on the capitol, etc, etc. Anyway, among the people that I know, the few like that stand out because they are out of their minds. You can have weird views that differ substantially, but when you deny reality, that ain't good. It is freaky that there are still probably 50 million unhinged people out there that think that way, even after the capitol stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 21, 2021 Share #16 Posted January 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Taylor said: It's not your fault. The forum ad just below your post makes it hard to concentrate. Au contraire. It makes it easy to concentrate. Just not on the original subject. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 21, 2021 Share #17 Posted January 21, 2021 Why is it so disturbing that fanaticism is present in the population? This is nothing new. Apparently, we need to be told how to deal with it by the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted January 21, 2021 Share #18 Posted January 21, 2021 “The common and continual mischief's of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion.” ― George Washington, Washington's farewell address: delivered to Congress on September 19, 1796 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 21, 2021 Share #19 Posted January 21, 2021 Damn straight, George! I am all for getting rid of the party system. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 21, 2021 Share #20 Posted January 21, 2021 59 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: Damn straight, George! I am all for getting rid of the party system. But who do we know that can take somewhere between 70 and 80 million people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share #21 Posted January 21, 2021 55 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: But who do we know that can take somewhere between 70 and 80 million people. I reckon we could find room for them in some of the unused forums here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 21, 2021 Share #22 Posted January 21, 2021 While restraint is admirable, imposing restraint is not. Gathering the wherewithal and force to meet challenges is common enough, but those that lead us to those challenges are often acting in their own service. -donkpow, farting around, 1/21/2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share #23 Posted January 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, donkpow said: While restraint is admirable, imposing restraint is not. Gathering the wherewithal and force to meet challenges is common enough, but those that lead us to those challenges are often acting in their own service. -donkpow, farting around, 1/21/2021 Ctrl C Ctrl V - jsharr 1/21/2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 21, 2021 Share #24 Posted January 21, 2021 27 minutes ago, jsharr said: some of the unused forums here? Wut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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