New Facts Emerge About Boston Tea Party

[Lorizael]

That's a reasonable conclusion, which is terribly ironic.

[molly bloom]

Jefferson owned slaves and boned one on the reg. I'll take his outdated ideas with a grain of salt.

Sally Hemings may even have been (technically) related to him- since she came to Jefferson from his wife's family. The menfolk there 'enjoyed' their female slaves too...

By Madison Hemings's and other accounts, Sally Hemings and some of her siblings were the children of John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law, making her the half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson (1748-1782). Elizabeth Hemings and her children lived at John Wayles' plantation during his lifetime.

http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account

[pchang]

Related, but not incestuously. That would have been more juicy.

[Alexander's Horse]

I really like Fox because they always position the women so there is a chance of an upskirt,

dirty dogs

[Ben Kenobi]

I'll take his outdated ideas with a grain of salt.

Interesting how 'watering the tree of liberty' is outdated when it concerns fascists like yourself.

[DaShi]

I really like Fox because they always position the women so there is a chance of an upskirt,

dirty dogs

Well, they are very selective about who they allow on the air.

[Sava]

God damn. I didn't realize they had so many blondie bimbos.

[Uncle Sparky]

They use the Stepford Casting Agency.

[Dr Strangelove]

Wait until you hear about the part where George Washington ended it by shooting an Indian redcoat with his laser eyes.

George Washington started the first world war.

[Sava]

GW killed Franz Ferdinand?

[Dr Strangelove]

Maybe not entirely correct here - but the Stamp act was passed by parliament without the consent of the colonists, withdrawn and then restored and replaced by other taxes. And some of the Sons of Liberty were killed in the conflicts prior to the revolutionary war. And yes, tea was one of the commodities which were subject to the tax.

What's the beef here, or is this one of the usual, "tell lies about conservatives who get the broad strokes correct, but miss a fine detail along the way?"

Not true, the Stamp Act was a tax on printed documents passed in 765 Tea was taxed under the Tea Act, a separate peice of legislature passed in 1773.

Is it American History you teach?

[DinoDoc]

Not true, the Stamp Act was a tax on printed documents passed in 765 Tea was taxed under the Tea Act, a separate peice of legislature passed in 1773.

Is it American History you teach?

America didn't exist in 765.

[Sava]

prove it

[DinoDoc]

prove it

You first.

[Sava]

I'm no geologist, but I'm pretty sure there are rocks all around use that can be carbon dated older than 765... AD or BC