SOUTHPARK:

[Stewart G Griffin]

There's a 79ish GMC(even though the grill says "cheby") on the latest episode of southpark.  You can see the latest episode at the southpark site.

Just some useless news i wanted to tell you.

[VileZambonie]

Post a link or pic

[Stewart G Griffin]

There's also plenty of K-5's in other episodes.

i think this is significant for several reasons:

1) The 73-87(91) trucks are still a part of the everday automotive landscape----just today i saw 4.

2) i think k-5 blazers are really popular in colorado, which is where the southpark creators are from---so i think they just subconsciously put them in there.

[Lt.Del]

nice plates

[Stewart G Griffin]

i hope you're joking?

i know alot of people find it offensive for whatever reason;  In fact, yesterday i heard a caller on the Joe Madison show (i normally do not listen, but co-worker insisted on listening to it) saying he would tear down ANY confederate flag and he didn't care if he went to jail for it.

i will probably edit it out when i get time.

[Stewart G Griffin]

edited.

[velojym]

That same K-truck was on "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" a while back, as well.

[Lt.Del]

i hope you're joking?

i know alot of people find it offensive for whatever reason;  In fact, yesterday i heard a caller on the Joe Madison show (i normally do not listen, but co-worker insisted on listening to it) saying he would tear down ANY confederate flag and he didn't care if he went to jail for it.

i will probably edit it out when i get time.

Why would I be joking?  Why edit that and try to change history that it didn't happen? I live in Va.  I live in Richmond--the capitol of the CSA.  I have many ancestors who gave part of their lives to Old Virginny, and, no, they were not slave holders.  In fact, most of those who fought in the Confederate Army were poor and couldn't afford to pay someone to take their place in battle. My ancestors were agrarian and poor.  There's nothing wrong with my heritage. They were brave and stared death right in the face.   Va seceded from the Union.  They had to fight for Virginia. Should we forget that? I am proud of their service.  There is nothing wrong with the Confederate flag if you put it in the correct light.  They fought for their state and for their liberty just four score and five years after the revolution, against what they thought was tyranny.  Had George Washington and the revolutionaries not won for what they believed in and we stayed under the British Monarchy under the Union Jack flag, would the US flag be some taboo sign for a rebellious cause?  Well General Washington won and the two most common male first and middle names became "George Washington" in his honor...I had three gr. gr. grandfathers who had those two names.   Had the South won, I believe Robert Lee would've been the two most common first and middle names for Robert E. Lee.
  
my ancestors who were in the 12th Virginia Infantry...

www.12thVa.com



My first day of college, getting ready to leave in my first car...notice the plates?



I'm tired of P.C. and people trying to change history for whatever reason.
I am glad we have come a long way in this country and I attended the first African-American (though I hate that term--Obama is an American, period) Presidential Inauguration.  www.delbridge.net/inaugural  but that shouldn't mean I forget about my ancestors' valor and be ashamed.

[choptop]

Im sick of the P.C. stuff too. Here the Confederate flag DOES NOT stand for racist white hillbillies that think slaverly was ok. Its been taken as a Redneck symbol. Its a symbol of hard working, self supporting, dont need your bailout, God fearing, family loving people who"d give you the shirt of their back if you asked, but whip you into another world if you just tried to take it. The American flag used to stand for a country that was best if left alone, now just means 'ignore anything they say, their politicians will bail us out if we get in a bind, but wont defend themselves because someone might get hurt'. Things have changed for the better in reference to slavery, and it is our history, quit messing with it. They want to deny the hollucost too because it offends people. These panty wasted, gourmet coffee drinkin, "what if we offend somebody" sissies need to find a something better to do. The world if full of offensive things, but unless you're physically being harmed, suck it up whine bag and go back to your padded sound proof room so you dont get your feelings hurt. I dont care to see a Mexican flag flying in my country, but I dont take them to court for it. What about other countries where you get shot if you dont believe, or follow what they say? Stupid politicians offend me, when can I get them abolished?

[bigkountry]

Preach on brotha chop!

I fully agree with you and SgtDel. I have a flag on my truck and on my arm...lets see someone try to take either one.

[VileZambonie]

Pretty much NOTHING offends me unless it's a personal attack on me. I don't know why people are so easily offended by words and symbols. It's pretty ridiculous. When we were kids we called each other names but never meant it as a personal attack and we'd say things like "how gay" meaning we didn't like something but now that is considered an offensive word even if it's not directed at someone or their sexuality. This country needs to lighten up and stop being offended by every little thing... and if something like a rebel flag offends you how can you watch south park or family guy? 

[Stewart G Griffin]

i really don't know much if anything about the confederate flag.  i just know that some people are deeply offended by it which is why i edited it out.

i will officially remain neutral(while leaning slightly towards the malcontents----if there are that many people offended and if there is this much heated debate, then there must be something negative about it?) on the subject.

[Lt.Del]

there must be something negative about it?)

Oh yeah, there is something negative about it.  The people who don't know the true history want to assume the flag is synonymous with slavery and pro subjugation because of a group that formed after the civil war and used it as a symbol for such.  And because politicians don't want to appear racist, they go along with the "few" who make it a federal issue based on wrong pretenses.  And the 'majority' won't say a thing for fear they may seem racist. 

So, those of us who have pride for their ancestors and heritage are stomped all over and told to get rid of this supposed 'symbol'.

To me, it means an outnumbered  and outresourced army giving a superior force in both numbers and resources a run for their money for 4 full years. Them boys did good for what they had!  They stood up and I am proud.

[Jim Rockford]

unedit it Stewie  nothing wrong with it, If it offends someone, let then go somewhere else. Its getting bad when just the American flag offends someone, Never thought I would see the day that happened in my almost 40 years on this earth, ESPECIALLY some third world immigrant that comes TO my country and tells someone they should take it down cause they are offended well you know what , Go get stuffed and hitch a ride BACK to the cesspool you came from,  You're in My country now.

[Lt.Del]

And you know, there is another thing we need to realize (then I'll step down from my soap box)

There is a metaphor going on here if you see it correctly. The Rebel flag, to me, is a stance against the majority ruling over the minority.  I'm not talking race, I am talking voice in Washington, D.C.  The agrarian South, with far few numbers, were being told what to do by a larger voice from the North, who were more industrialized and populated, in the mid 19th century.

We have politicians now who want to limit everything America stands for.  Read the Bill of Rights.  I wish politicians would every morning.  George Mason would not sign the Constitution when first asked to do so because it did not contain limits of a Federal Congress--the rights of the people. The first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution then changed that.  If you read Virginia's Bill of Rights, then read the Constitution's Bill of Rights, they are the same.  George Mason wrote Virginia's Bill of Rights long before it was adopted in the U.S. Constitution. (George Mason, of Gunston Hall was Washington's Mt. Vernon neighbor, just so happens to be the namesake of my Almer Mater GMU).  

So, politicians want to limit our rights and appoint Supreme Court Justices that will do just that and re interpret what had been laid out centuries ago.  Folks, we have to take a stand now.  If it comes to being rebels against the larger, stronger government, then so be it.  That is what the Rebel flag means to me. Nothing more, nothing less. Standing up when being oppressed by a large and strong gov't.

Go to amazon's website and type in "Farhenheit 451" as a title of a book (Ray Bradbury) and read the summary.  Type in "Animal Farm".  Type in Orwell's "1984", Huxley's "Brave New World",  as titles as well and read those summaries.  Look at the plots of these books and ask yourself one thing,  "Are we headed that way?"

My brother is 18 months older than me.  As two brothers, we never saw eye to eye on little growing up issues and we fought all the time.  He was always bigger than me, but, I stood up each time when I knew i was right (which was most of the time  ).  I knew I would get my butt kicked, but, I had to take a stand.  I did.  I got knocked sensless most times.  But, I made my point--I wasn't going to be walked all over (figuratively) without a fight.  This is what the Confederacy means to me.

Va Bill of Rights, 1776

http://www.constitution.org/bor/vir_bor.htm

U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights, 1791

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html




Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper burns, ie: books burn.  Remeber, Nazi's were a true historical goup and they burned books.
http://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/0812415558/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256911949&sr=8-26


Brave New World

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256912181&sr=1-1


1984 and Animal Farm
http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Farm-1984-George-Orwell/dp/0151010269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256912308&sr=1-1