Today is Wonkette Manifest Destiny history day! Well, there was this General Custer once who got himself and all his men killed after killing a ton of Indians himself. New Mexico GOP lobbyist and prominent local RNC official Pat Rogers remembers this well. It sears his every moment of consciousness. And he is
The Inquisition, whoa whoa whoa The Inquisition, here we go I know you're wishin' That we'd go awaaaaaay But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!
The Zulus wiped out the British army at Isandlwana partly because their cartridges were stored in special crates with heavy straps that required a specific type of screwdriver to open.
I mentioned this to my cousin. He said "I've been there." Facing the Red Army during a Cold War standoff on the border of West and East Germany, he asked his machine gunner if he was ready to rock and roll and the answer was "We can't open the ammuntion boxes."
I believe you'll see that post-Civil War he had various problems and issues, was given another brevet ("battlefield") promotion to General, fell out of favor, worked his way back to active command, and was a Lieut. Col. or Col. at the time he was killed on the hills above the Little Big Horn.
This is certainly true of the Indian Wars. It's the Fetterman Massacre - but the Battle of Wounded Knee.
We often read and hear that the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq are the longest in American history. Well, the Korean "police action" is some sixty years and counting.
And the American war with the Sioux? Say we date it from the mid-Civil War when the Minnesota outbreak took place - up until Wounded Knee.
Overall, our war with the First Americans began about 1622 and I'm not completely sure it's over yet...
I see what you did there.
Cunt libel!!!
The Inquisition, whoa whoa whoa The Inquisition, here we go I know you're wishin' That we'd go awaaaaaay But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!
The Zulus wiped out the British army at Isandlwana partly because their cartridges were stored in special crates with heavy straps that required a specific type of screwdriver to open.
I mentioned this to my cousin. He said "I've been there." Facing the Red Army during a Cold War standoff on the border of West and East Germany, he asked his machine gunner if he was ready to rock and roll and the answer was "We can't open the ammuntion boxes."
Litte Big Man!
BJ:
I believe you'll see that post-Civil War he had various problems and issues, was given another brevet ("battlefield") promotion to General, fell out of favor, worked his way back to active command, and was a Lieut. Col. or Col. at the time he was killed on the hills above the Little Big Horn.
This is certainly true of the Indian Wars. It's the Fetterman Massacre - but the Battle of Wounded Knee.
We often read and hear that the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq are the longest in American history. Well, the Korean "police action" is some sixty years and counting.
And the American war with the Sioux? Say we date it from the mid-Civil War when the Minnesota outbreak took place - up until Wounded Knee.
Overall, our war with the First Americans began about 1622 and I'm not completely sure it's over yet...
And the cedar cheese.
Prommie, you can't claim firsties on TMBG and call somebody "gramps" on the same day.
<French Horn call>
When was this "V-J-J Day?"
Aliens?
ISWYST
If they alienate overweight people, they'll lose their voting base. At least in the South.
ng:
Make sure it's "wide stance."
Isn't posthumously demoting him from General to Colonel actually a bit more disrespectful?