Yes to Independence 8.0

10 Responses to Yes to Independence 8.0

1. No-Man says:

   March 17, 2013 at 11:20 pm

   Was there helium in that cigar?
2. Lew says:

   March 18, 2013 at 12:00 am

   I liked his line about the absurdity of a single city dictating policy to a nation as large as the United States. A common sense point not made often enough. That is pretty f-ed up.
3. Ed the Department Head says:

   March 18, 2013 at 2:16 am

   Isn’t this William Rome?
4. Matt Strictland says:

   March 18, 2013 at 3:36 am

   A Yankee but not a damned one I’d say.
5. DixieGirl says:

   March 18, 2013 at 1:21 pm

   Often, many southerners don’t mind being around Colonials. Whether they wound up on the north or south side of the war, they had been in the country over a century, and (if the man is telling the truth about his background, since anyone can claim anything nowadays) another century before the revolution. Generally, the longevity in the country makes the Generational Americans have some agreement.

   What’s funny is how he “loves ny” but wouldn’t live there and hates everything about it, lol.

   That often seems a “yankee” thing. A THING is separate from their “real” experience of it. Leaving it, hating taxes, hating the experience of living there—- would add up for some other peoples to “hating it.”

   Maybe he means he loves the memories of his family there in better times, as the southerners in the south.
6. DixieGirl says:

   March 18, 2013 at 1:55 pm

   — was trying to say: it’s often seemed more of a yankee thing to “separate the doer from the deed,” which seems based in “christian” sensibility. Since you have an immortal soul, and Christ (supposedly) died just so you won’t be accountable for anything (forgiveness)— you are this great person always (immortal soul) who just happens to DO BAD THINGS.

   Most Southerners I know see a person AS WHAT THEY DO. If you DO something bad, you ARE a bad person. (You have to be held accountable for doings, which is what you ARE).

   It was my understanding that’s why southern wasps are always called “judaized,” since “forgiveness” doesn’t mean your acts don’t matter (since Jesus will take accountablity for your wrongs).

   Yankees separate the “Self” from what they do. Where Southerners ARE what they Do.
7. Mosin Nagant says:

   March 18, 2013 at 5:55 pm

   Notice that the “true Yankee” as he calls himself is preparing to “transplant” to the “Left Coast” of all places, so it seems the good words for the South may represent just one of his interests or viewpoints.
8. Mosin Nagant says:

   March 18, 2013 at 5:57 pm

   Rootless cosmopolitans appreciate, enjoy, shape themselves to fit, and exploit, all kinds of diverse cultural settings.
9. Rudel says:

   March 18, 2013 at 7:56 pm

   “Rootless cosmopolitans appreciate, enjoy, shape themselves to fit, and exploit, all kinds of diverse cultural settings”

   LOL!!!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBj7Fky1K_U
10. Mr. Rational says:

    March 18, 2013 at 10:58 pm

    I’m not a Yankee, I’m just one of those getting ready for as much as 9 more inches of white stuff to land on the ground in the next couple of days.

    I wouldn’t trade it for California.  Even the Mestizos here speak unaccented English.