Potemkin Village??
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Daniel Morrow wrote:
> Yeah, yeah.
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> Another one of those "check the sources" historians with no respect
> whatsoever for the transcendental value of "truthiness."
>
> You probably think all those children in the Theresienstadt films
> weren't happy either, even though they were, clearly, laughing,
> dancing, and performing in plays . . . and OFFICIAL government
> sources . . . not the mention the International Red Cross . . .
> provided documentation showing, among other things, they were even
> better fed than the poor German soliders fighting godless Communism
> on the eastern front.
>
> I am shocked . . . shocked . . . by your clever, hidden suggestion
> that slavery wasn't just ducky.
>
> I should also warn you that section 4, paragraph 3, of article 5 of
> the new patriot act allows wiretapping and "sneak and peek" home
> searches of valley-dwelling intellectuals whose contacts can be
> linked in five steps or less to either Thomas Jefferson or Kevin
> Bacon.
>
> So . . . to sum up . . ONE word: James Madison. Just four steps
> away from Bacon . . . and, probably from that other guy as well.
>
> Hrrmmph.
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> Dan
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> On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:21 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> To my recollection, no serious scholar who has examined the
>> evidence has concluded that slavery was a benign institution
>> which, given a choice, any rational young person would
>> chose
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