Teh Confederacy is persecuted!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Patroklos


Thats the difference between America and Euroland.

Nope. In NYC if you go into a restaurant and order tea they assume you mean hot tea. Otherwise you ask for an iced tea. Serving someone an iced tea if they didnt ask for it would be as odd as serving someone iced coffee if they ordered just "coffee". IIRC it was the same in Boston and Chicago.

I didnt encounter iced tea as the default until I went moved to Florida. Here in Nova, it varies, with the type of restaurant, the season, etc reflecting our border status.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Wycoff


Yes

cause in Williamsburg Brooklyn they like their hot tea with lots of sugar.

[Ramo]

If promoting fascism itself is against the law, then these guys could be guilty. If the regime promotion part of the law is significant and distinct from a less specific "promoting fascism" law, then I don't think that flying a Confederate flag could satisfy that element of the law.

I'm pretty sure it is against the law in Poland. It certainly doesn't make sense to ban praise of fascist regimes that existed in the past, but not ban support for fascism (again, not that I'd support either).

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Patroklos
I would expect that from a person whose culture's culinary claim to fame is baked beans.

Baked beans? I'm not a Yankee, either. I grew up in Maryland's Appalachians. The only dish that I can think of that would be representative of my culture would by venison and ramps (wild onions).

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Ramo
I'm pretty sure it is against the law in Poland. It certainly doesn't make sense to ban praise of fascist regimes that existed in the past, but not ban support for fascism.

In Germany you can't fly the Third Reich swastika, but you can belong to the NDP. I'm not saying that these political crimes make sense or are consistent, I'm just saying that there might be a difference about what political activity is and is not banned in a particular country.

[Ramo]

IIRC, the NDP just doesn't go far enough to warrant banning. The NSDAP is illegal in Germany (as are other parties considered "anti-constitutional")...

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by lord of the mark cause in Williamsburg Brooklyn they like their hot tea with lots of sugar.

Sorry for the confusion. It used to say Virginia under my name, and I don't remember changing it.

[Patroklos]

venison and ramps

Good eatin

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Good eatin

Yes it is.

[lord of the mark]

and a very logical use of local resources, at least in western md, I might add. (ive eaten venison only once, I believe, at the Skyland Restaurant in Shenandoah Nat Park IIRC,which, I presume followed traditional mountain recipes. Yes it was good.)

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Wycoff
Northern Virginia isn't the south anymore.

So he likes to think anyway.

[Zkribbler]

Northern Virginia isn't the south anymore.

It's true! The Army of Northern Virginia surrendered in 1865.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
stars in the USA flag should be replaced by tiny frogs

That's my vote, and I'm darned proud of it.

Best post in the thread

[SlowwHand]

Thank you. Thank you vury much.

Originally posted by Wycoff


You can get unsweetened tea pretty much anywhere in Williamsburg. I'd say it's more prevelant than that sludge you call sweet tea.

Buddy Guy didn't write "Unsweetened Tea", now did he?
No, he did not. He did, however, write an album called "Sweet Tea".
Rocks your little theory even more, I'd say.

[Sprayber]

For years the only Confederate flag flying around these parts was the one attached to the state historical marker and nobody really paid much attention to it. Over the past few years flags have been popping up in people's yards and one very large pole out in a cow pasture. Most of them are the Confederate battle flag that you can get anywhere but at least one guy put up the third Confederate flag with the battle flag in the canton. Generally they annoy me. I was born and raised in the South and love it's culture but the flying the flag of a dead goverment strikes me as living in the past and not a particularly great past at that. The sacrifices that were made time and time again on the battlefield were admirable but it was for a very distasteful cause. I keep hearing about states rights and I can appreciate the argument but in the end everyone knows the reason for the whole mess.

Now speaking for a position of a person who loves to look at flags, the Confederate flag is one of the more striking flags out there and I've always loved the design of the flag (not the square battle flag but the rectangle version that is common today)