[Rhodes22-list] for Brad's eyes and those who reason only ...

[Herb Parsons]

Sorry John, let's just say that your word for it wouldn't be good enough 
for me, you do keep records, right? If we're just going to say what the 
percentage is, we can say.

Not interested in your social security. That's not giving, that's the 
government taking.

As to your Wiki entry, thanks for confirming what I was trying to say. 
It's good to see you are actually capable of learning. 1830 was a tad 
later than the founding father's period.


John Shulick wrote:
>
> "I've got a heck of a deal for you. I'll buy your boat from you 
> at the price that I determine is fair, and you can chose to accept it or 
> .... oh wait, that would be your only choice.
>
> You do understand the implementation of eminent domain, right?"
>
> If you came for my boat I would sink it. If you came for my house I would
> burn it. If you came for my land I would render it unusable. You could have
> it after you have have hauled my dead body off it. 
>
> "The only thing you can do to a free man is kill him." Robert A. Heinlein
>
> "You need to study history a little closer. The trail of tears happened 
> LONG after the founding fathers did their thing, you can't blame that 
> one on them."
>
> Excerpt from the Wikipedia
>
> The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native Americans from their
> homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United
> States. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the
> Choctaw Nation in 1831. Many Native Americans suffered from exposure,
> disease, and starvation while en route to their destinations, and many died,
> including, for example, 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee. Thousands of
> enslaved and free African-Americans (as slaves accompanying their Native
> American slaveowners and as former runaway slaves that were assisted by,
> assimilated by, or married to members of the tribes) accompanied the removed
> nations on the Trail of Tears.
> In 1830, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole
> (sometimes collectively referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes) were
> living as autonomous nations in what would be called the American Deep
> South. The process of cultural transformation (proposed by GEORGE WASHINGTON
> and HENERY KNOX) was gaining momentum, especially among the Cherokee and
> Choctaw. Indian removal was first proposed by THOMAS JEFFERSON. Andrew
> Jackson was the first U.S. President to implement removal with the passage
> of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1831 the Choctaw were the first to be
> removed, and they became the model for all other removals. After the
> Choctaw, the Seminole were removed in 1832, the Creek in 1834, then the
> Chickasaw in 1837, and finally the Cherokee in 1838.
>
>  "I'll make my tax returns for the last 
>  10 years public on here to show how much I've given to charity if you'll 
>  do the same." 
>
> To many pages to post, HOWEVER I'm Prepared to release my annual social
> security statement showing what I've earned in my lifetime and will write in
> how many jobs I had to work to make it along with what I gave to
> charity.(Care to dance?)
>
> John Shulick
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