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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Teresa on May 20, 2008, 09:41:15 PM

Title: Century old rednecks.
Post by: Teresa on May 20, 2008, 09:41:15 PM
A scene of a bunch of low-class rednecks trying to hold on to their guns and religion.

(http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj216/marshalette/rednecksforconstitution.jpg)
Title: Re: Century old rednecks.
Post by: Diane Amberg on May 21, 2008, 01:23:50 PM
Huh?
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Post by: sixdogsmom on May 21, 2008, 01:42:03 PM
What?
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Post by: frawin on May 21, 2008, 02:24:06 PM
Teresa, I understand and agree that this is what some candidates would like the people to think. In all of my years I have never seen worse candidates running for President.
Frank
Title: Re: Century old rednecks.
Post by: Diane Amberg on May 21, 2008, 02:50:52 PM
Even that painting is fiction. All those people were never in the same place at the same time for the painting. Totally put together, but a nice representation of the events, none the less.
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Post by: Wilma on May 21, 2008, 03:27:00 PM
So, is this painting the "only half of what you see" part of what to believe.
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Post by: flo on May 21, 2008, 04:05:54 PM
 ??? how do we know all these people were not together at the same time?  But I do get the point Teresa is trying to make. At least I think I do.  That the right to own guns and the right to worship in your own way is nothing new???
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Post by: sixdogsmom on May 21, 2008, 04:22:48 PM
Isn't this supposed to be the first continental congress that met in 1774?  ::)
Title: Re: Century old rednecks.
Post by: Teresa on May 21, 2008, 09:28:49 PM
It is tongue in cheek.

Except that the rednecks now days that some people and a couple of the candidates assume gun owners to be.. are still fighting and trying to hold on to our rights and constitutional amendments.

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Post by: pam on May 26, 2008, 01:22:34 PM
Lol, Teresa. Good one, least I'm in good company when people tell me I'm a redneck!
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Post by: Diane Amberg on May 26, 2008, 01:35:56 PM
So put on a hat!  :laugh: :laugh:
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Post by: Wilma on May 26, 2008, 02:03:11 PM
Diane, Teresa, what is that picture and who painted it?  Archeobabe is burning up my computer, trying to find it.
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Post by: pam on May 26, 2008, 04:09:12 PM
which hat you want ? My stetson or my red flamed dodge ball cap?
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Post by: Diane Amberg on May 26, 2008, 04:41:31 PM
Wilma, the painting is "The Signing of the Constitution" by Howard Chandler Christy 1940.
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Post by: Wilma on May 26, 2008, 05:38:20 PM
Thank  you, Diane.  We could tell it was something like that but we didn't know for sure.
Title: Re: Century old rednecks.
Post by: Diane Amberg on May 26, 2008, 06:07:51 PM
Pam, you need your stetson to protect your neck.   and Flo I never did answer your earlier question. According to old dated ledgers and notes that were kept, delegates came and went quite often. They signed papers when they were in town and often had to go back home for instruction, or wait for couriers to bring information. Even the paintings don't show everyone who took part at some point. For the most part, these men also had businesses and farms to run, so many were not in Philly all the time,
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Post by: pam on May 26, 2008, 09:03:23 PM
lol, bein called a redneck doesnt really bother me. Guess I got a better idea of what it means than they do :) I'll just be the redneck over here with my garden and my guns and trucks and independance intact :) and no chips on my horses :P LOL
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Post by: sixdogsmom on May 26, 2008, 09:34:59 PM
We missed you Pam!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Century old rednecks.
Post by: pam on May 27, 2008, 06:45:04 AM
why thank you ;) missed conversin with you all myself lol