Massacre at historic African American Church in Charleston

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting Dorsey.

BTW, how strong is your accent?

[derspiess]

So the Nazis co-opted Washington and Commies co-opted Lincoln.  Odd how that worked out.

Washington makes a poor Nazi hero, considering how much he respected the Jews.

And Lincoln was very pro-business, which a far left prof of mine used to angrily admit.

Is there a far left in the US?

Oh, not at all.  Especially not on college campuses.

[alfred russel]

Interesting Dorsey.

BTW, how strong is your accent?

I have no accent at all.

My grandfather had a strong accent. My father had an accent. I don't have one.

FWIW, growing up my father was determined I wouldn't have an accent. He thought it would be a burden in life that people would assume I was uneducated. I would get in trouble and go to time out for saying words that were accented. I'm not sure that is why I don't have an accent though. Since I was 10 I've mostly lived in South Florida and Atlanta, which aren't places with accents.

[Lettow77]

 I had a similar experience with 9/11. I was very young at the time, I believe in fourth or fifth grade, but already quite in earnest about the South's independence. But I lived in a very small bubble and took it as a matter of course that my feelings must be shared by the wider body of Southerners, and islamic terrorism was an unknown, unheard of element. So that when I heard that there was a major attack on New York City and D.C, I assumed it was the beginning of a general Southern rising. My good humor and enthusiasm for our chance at independence was almost universally repudiated by the people around me, and the realization that most people did not, in fact, seek the discomfiture of the yankees and reassertion of independence at the soonest possible point was a major event for me.

[alfred russel]

I had a similar experience with 9/11. I was very young at the time, I believe in fourth or fifth grade, but already quite in earnest about the South's independence. But I lived in a very small bubble and took it as a matter of course that my feelings must be shared by the wider body of Southerners, and islamic terrorism was an unknown, unheard of element. So that when I heard that there was a major attack on New York City and D.C, I assumed it was the beginning of a general Southern rising. My good humor and enthusiasm for our chance at independence was almost universally repudiated by the people around me, and the realization that most people did not, in fact, seek the discomfiture of the yankees and reassertion of independence at the soonest possible point was a major event for me.

That actually isn't similar at all. 

[Admiral Yi]

It's similar to the extent that it's the opposite. 

[Caliga]

Southern terrorists launched 9/11 ? 

Shirley you can't be serious, Lettuce.

[Lettow77]

 I mean, I was very young. Islamic fundamentalists may genuinely have been something I'd never, ever heard about.

[dps]

Interesting Dorsey.

BTW, how strong is your accent?

I have no accent at all.

It you're not mute, you've got an accent.  It might not be a traditional southern accent, but you have an accent of some sort.

[Tonitrus]

But more importantly, what does he call a soft drink? 

[alfred russel]

Interesting Dorsey.

BTW, how strong is your accent?

I have no accent at all.

It you're not mute, you've got an accent.  It might not be a traditional southern accent, but you have an accent of some sort.

Generic American I guess.

Living in Atlanta, a soda is almost always a coke. 

[The Brain]

America should just have let the South go. Problem solved.

[Martinus]

[The Brain]

[Valmy]

She doea know it was a "battle" flag doesn't she? Helping to kill people was it's purpose.

The flag didn't kill anybody. Of course neither did t-shirts. But I bet if Che fans were shooting up churches those shirts would be banned by Walmart as well.