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jblailock

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tenureplan said:
"He won't listen to you shooting down everything that he said logically. He'll just spew more liberal ********."


Do you see the irony?
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I guess not. What is ironic about me not wanting to converse with a liberal who hates Mississippi? I was not replying to him or you or the other 3 or 4 guys that have jumped in on my question.

I was supporting johnson86-1
 
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BeardoMSU

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jblailock said:
I thought it was pretty clear that these were 2 separate questions.
If you've read very many posts from esplanade91, you will realize that he hates Mississippi with a passion. I have no idea why you jumped in and started bringing up racists.
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I don't see the correlation with someone discussing the things they dislike about their home state and them "hating it with a passion".
 
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johnson86-1 said:
That's just not plausible. He probably witnessed everything he wrote, but obviously he cherry picked what parts he witnessed to write about. Even the Neshoba County fair isn't that homogenous, unless he pointedly avoided talking to anybody not carrying a confederate flag.
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This..
 
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maroonmadman said:
What is all this 'proud heritage' that the flag is supposed to represent? I ask this question as a 50 something year old white guy who has spent most of my life here. Both of my Great Grandfathers fought for the confederacy. I'm as white as they come. What is it we'll lose if we remove a symbol that a good portion of our population associates with racism and slavery? Last I checked we LOST the war. We got our asses handed to us. It was ill conceived and stupid to think we could take on the north without an army or navy or any type of industry to support a war when they had all those things. We continued to fight via Jim Crow and LOST again. Every time we have butted heads with this issue we have LOST. Yet we continue to defiantly wave our symbol - the symbol of the loser. And not only that but we erect statues on every courthouse lawn in the state dedicated to 'Our Hero's' as the inscription on the one here in my home town says. How much of a laughing stock would say, Alabama, be if they erected a monument to their 6-3 loss to us outside Bryant-Denny stadium and had their fans walk past it before every home game? That's exactly what we do. No wonder we're last in everything we do. We proudly wave the symbol of the loser.
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I've been trying to succinctly write my thoughts on this matter and you have done it. The prevalent "poor, ole, picked-on Mississippi" idea. Our state still waves the flag of the loser. We need to not "stand fast"...we need to "rise above". It's time to move on...into the future.
 
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fishwater99

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It's only a matter of time before the Ole Miss Rebels become the Mississippi Black Bears. The PC police should be all over it right now.

"Even the Ole Miss football coach, whose team is named “the Rebels” for the Confederate troops of yore, said the flag should bite the dust."
 
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Wizard.sixpack

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The whole state is full of 17'n redneck inbreds that wouldnt give 2 ***** about the state flag until there is talk to take it away. Just typical of those types of people. I saw a post on facebook of a guy that said " I feel the same way about the flag as I do my guns...If you touch them, it wont be pretty." Somewhere along those lines. I don't even think the dumbass owns a gun.
 
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Tin Cup Cowboy said:
I'll be 40 this year. I remember as a small child learning in school about the differences in flags, U.S., state, etc. I recall never understanding why our state flag had that portion attached to it, that flag was not anything I learned about in school at that time but I knew what it was. It never made sense to me. Unfortunately as I've grown older it's become much clearer why it's there and why it continues to be there.
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Im 34. On our school calendar, it wasnt MLK day, it was robert e. Lee day. Dead serious. This was is the 90s. You really cant understand how messed up a lot of stuff is until you move.

Best and worst people on tbe planet are from MS.
 
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BeardoMSU

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DesotoCountyDawg said:
That's a reach. Are you saying charities cant do improvements to their facilities and equipment?
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No, I know they do, and that matters too, but just like the church "improvements", I think context would matter a good deal. Are things being purchased with the explicit purpose of making a difference in the community, for public outreach, foreign aid, etc., or are they just fluff items to improve the organization's already comfortable situation?

Making "infrastructure" type improvements to increase the functionality, if you will, of the organization is perfectly fine with me. However, using those same funds that are regarded as "charitable giving" to purchase a fully loaded tour-style bus, complete with satellite, flat-screens, Bose, etc., does seem a bit superfluous, especially considering what they are using it for (I'm talking about a situation I know of first hand). And btw, I'd have the exact same stance knowing my charity (or church, for that matter) used money to send their execs (or deacons, pastors, etc.) on an all expense paid luxury "retreat" with the gifted funds. Another example: a good friend of mine goes to a church where the pastor wears a different designer suit every Sunday, complete with gold cuff-links and fancy shoes, all of which is funded through the church's tithing. I'm not talking Jos. A. Bank or Mens Warehouse, either.
 
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KurtRambis4

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churches in the state buy million dollar busses and $10,000 suits on the reg do you think there are? I can't think of any, in JX.
 
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JackShephard said:
Good gosh, you really are an insufferable jack ***. You would also think after 7 years of stimulus failed to stimulate the economy that certain people would get a clue. 7 years of failed policies haven't clued people in - complain about that for awhile. Al Gore's hockey stick never happened, we have had a 15 year "pause" in warming, evidence points to a mini ice age coming, and yet we have still wasted billions fighting the windmill that is man made GW. Complain about that. Maybe if we weren't wasting trillions of dollars every year giving out welfare, free houses, free phones, free food, fighting GW, free health insurance, "stimulating" the economy, bail outs, sending foreign aid to our enemies, and - insert another 100 liberal money wasting policies here - we would actually have enough money to better fund the things that are actually important (EDUCATION, law enforcement, border control, etc). You can't have your cake and eat it too. Rant over. I'm out.

By the way - yes, get rid of the flag. I've never heard one good reason to keep it. The article is embarrassing.
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This is literally the stupidest thing ever posted on the internet. PLEASE tell me you don't have a degree from MSU.... please...
 
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drt7891

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The flag itself is only a representation of the attitudes people have that hold us back. The same attitudes that are completely contempt in blaming everyone else for our being dead last. We are doing this to ourselves... the flag itself doesn't hold us back.
 
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But wouldn't you agree that those churches are a vast minority? I get what you're saying but I think you're generalizing too much.
 
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HammerOfTheDogs

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You take away 18 counties in the Mississippi Delta, the State of Mississippi is in the middle of all the statistics good and bad. Those 18 counties always skew Mississippi badly.
 
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