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  • #61
    Re: Re: Why is Grant on the $50 bill?

    Originally posted by MrFun

    grammar Nazi mode: "change it to somebody else -- not something else"
    [prescriptive grammar] Unless the person is actually sitting on the bill, "something else" is the correct usage. An image is a thing, not a person. [/prescriptive grammar]
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    • #62
      Originally posted by mrmitchell

      Grant was pretty much the best the Union had, which makes him about 20th in the ranking of "Best Generals of the Civil War". Sure he won a lot, but the fool could not keep body count low.
      Did he try?
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      • #63
        War of Northern Agression? You guys started the thing at Ft. Sumter, you guys took the first shot.

        The Confederate apologists show they still havent gotten over the embarassment because they were so arrogant fefore the war.

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        • #64
          Re: Re: Re: Why is Grant on the $50 bill?

          Originally posted by joncha


          [prescriptive grammar] Unless the person is actually sitting on the bill, "something else" is the correct usage. An image is a thing, not a person. [/prescriptive grammar]
          A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Capt Dizle


            Sorry to bore you but if I took the time to present a detailed report of his actions and battles it would support my conclusions. In my opinion. If I were MTG I could rattle all of that off by memory. Sorry for my mental limitations Fun guy.
            With inane comments like "Grant was nothing more than a hack" obviously it shows that you have a vehement hatred for him, rather than objectively consider Grant for who he really was -- a human being rather than some kind of one-dimensional cardboard image.
            A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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            • #66
              Originally posted by MrFun



              I corrected the typos that were in the original article you provided, Plato.
              So one track about something so much bigger...
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              • #67
                Originally posted by Odin
                War of Northern Agression? You guys started the thing at Ft. Sumter, you guys took the first shot.

                The Confederate apologists show they still havent gotten over the embarassment because they were so arrogant fefore the war.
                Ft Sumter was in South Carolina...where the Yanks had no business anyway.

                Arrogant? Probably a good characterization for the Southern attitude...Sadly. If anything, the war taught us not to use that approach again.
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                • #68
                  Originally posted by MrFun


                  With inane comments like "Grant was nothing more than a hack" obviously it shows that you have a vehement hatred for him, rather than objectively consider Grant for who he really was -- a human being rather than some kind of one-dimensional cardboard image.
                  I am sorry for being insensitive.

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                  • #69
                    The problem was that you over simplify a general who did the best job he could under the most trying circumstances.

                    Neo-Confederates accuse northerners of glorifying Grant, when neo-Confederates then turn around and glorify Lee to an unbelievably unrealistic pedestal.
                    A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by PLATO


                      So one track about something so much bigger...

                      You mean the bigger argument in which the scholary consensus today accepts the fact that the "Lost Cause" mythology is inherently racist?
                      A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                      • #71
                        What do you guys think about Colonel Angus?
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                        But he touched it too much!
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                        • #72
                          Colonel Angus might be rough, Colonel Angus might not smell like a bed of roses, but deep down Colonel Angus is very sweet.
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                          • #73
                            Neo-Confederates accuse northerners of glorifying Grant, when neo-Confederates then turn around and glorify Lee to an unbelievably unrealistic pedestal.
                            Lee was actually worth something, while Grant, if he didn't have the resources of the North at his disposal, would have fallen like a house of cards.
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                            • #74
                              Lee was actually worth something, while Grant, if he didn't have the resources of the North at his disposal, would have fallen like a house of cards.
                              Yeah, wasn't Lee originally going to fight for the North or something, but by some narrow and odd twist of fate didn't?
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                              • #75
                                First, we didn't start do-dah.
                                An even more intersting question than Grant on a fifty is, why is Lincoln on the penny ?
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