Weenerlobo | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:06 am     Fluff, you're joking, right? |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:10 am     Nope! |
Weenerlobo | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:14 am     Maris, I am no defending Mr. Lott's words or actions. My opinion is clearly stated previously in this thread. I am addressing the media feeding frenzy, which happens on numerous and varied occasions. It's ugly. Any time soon I expect to see a headline to the effect that Mr. Lott never owned a pair of BLACK SOCKS! |
Weenerlobo | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:18 am     Ok Fluff, here's a history lesson for ya: For Fluff Note the word "hysteria" |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:21 am     Heheheheee! Thanks. Heheheeee! How am I supposed to know about stuff that happened in 1692 if I was born in '83??? Heheheee! None of my history classes in high school ever went back that far!!! If they did, how would I even remember??!! LMBO!!! |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:23 am     Heheheee! On a more serious note. Heheheee! I don't know if this situation can be directly compared to the other one. I'm not saying that Lott is a racist. But what he said last week, and what his voting record says tells me something that I don't need to hear. |
Heyltslori | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:26 am     It's amazing to me that the Salem Witch Trials were not mentioned in any of your history classes. I wonder who decides what gets left out as each year goes by. |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:28 am     Everything we learned was rushed. So if we did learn it, there's no way I could remember it. That's why I couldn't stand history. Ugghh! |
Bastable | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:30 am     I'm with Maris. This is no Witch Trial. Lott earned this. If only we could pull more corrupt and amoral politicans down with him. The media does go crazy, but it does that on a different topic every two weeks. God forbid we get the REAL news. Or they'd have been telling us about how we have avowed racists in charge of our government YEARS ago. Today's disturbing question: What horrible things are the media not telling us today because they don't "sell"? Then again, why learn about Lott's racist background at all? It happened before I was born. Fluff...we're all lucky Weenerlobo was born in 1684. You might want to head to the video store and pick up "The Crucible." It's about Salem. Winona Ryder's in it, so I think you can relate.  |
Squaredsc | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:31 am     gal, you don't have to worry about hurting my feelings. and im so sorry that your brother has to be involved in that mess. but, and i know i will probably get slammed for this. but it is odd that the two most powerful african-americans in the usa today haven't commented on this. or at least i haven't seen it anywhere that they did. if someone has read something from them please let me know. but the uncle tom'g is a seperate issue which i will not comment on 'cause it will open up another whole can of worms. |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:34 am     Fluff, if you get the chance read "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. It's a great piece of literature based upon the Salem Witch Trials. You won't be able to put it down, and it may whet your appetite to learn more. |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:35 am     You are HIZZELARIOUS Bastable, just HIZZELARIOUS !!!!!! Heheheheheeeeeeee! ROTL!!!!  |
Bastable | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:36 am     Yes, Squaredsc, I think the main worry is that we've elected politicans who apparently don't believe in the Constitution. |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:36 am     Hey wait..... Bastable....are you calling me a thief????  |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:37 am     Bastable: jinx!! |
Bastable | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:38 am     GAL, you call four minutes apart a jinx???  |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:39 am     You're post hadn't posted while I was typing. I was on a chat line and typing my note at the same time.  |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:41 am     Besides, Bastable - you should be telling that young'un to pick up some literature and use her imagination instead of getting her history from ol' sticky-fingers. |
Bastable | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:44 am     Yeah, but it's a play, and I wanted our Reagan-years pipsqueak to enjoy the artwork in the spirit in which it was intended to be seen. Besides, kids don't read today! They watch TV and join online TV fan clubs! |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:44 am      |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:45 am     I just can't imagine, though - we had that friggin' book shoved up our collective wazoo's just about every year in literature and in history classes. Great play, but enough already. |
Maris | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:46 am     if the two most powerful african-americans are Colin Powell and Codaleesa (sp?) Rice the reason you have not heard from them is that as part of the Bush White House they have all been instructed to give no comment on this issue. There is a historical/traditional reason that the White House issued the directive to the staff. Historically there has always been a great deal of sensitivity on the part of the Senate about the White House injecting itself into the Senates business. |
Fluff | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:48 am     Uhhh....Gal...welcome to the 21st Century.....HEHHEHEHEEEEE! Okay....running away now..... |
Bastable | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:51 am     Fluff:  |
Weenerlobo | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 09:00 am     All this activity has worn me out. Being 318 years old is totally getting to me. |