From: bugo on


"Free Lunch" <lunch(a)nofreelunch.us> wrote in message
news:j5fn465uba3l4eaalfrb423832er80d7g1(a)4ax.com...
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:55 -0300, Clark F Morris
> <cfmpublic(a)ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in misc.transport.road:
>
>>On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0500, Rich Piehl
>><rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>much snipped
>>>
>>>This from the person who didn't know that it was the Republicans that
>>>brought about civil rights laws in this country - not the democrats.
>>
>>The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were by the Republicans but the
>>1964 Civil Right package was by the Democrats or are you referring to
>>some other civil rights laws?
>>
>>Clark Morris
>>>
>>>Google European Socialism and do some reading for a change.
>
> The Republicans of today are nothing like the Civil War Republicans.
> There's a reason that minorities do not vote for the GOP and that is
> because the GOP has betrayed its roots and made it acceptable for
> Republicans to be racists and to be publicly indifferent to the needs of
> the elderly, the sick and the poor.

And don't forget the Dixiecrats, racist Democrats who switched to the GOP
over the civil rights bills. These same former Democrats ended up acquiring
great power in the GOP. Their policies still haunt us to this day.

From: Rich Piehl on
On 7/24/2010 9:19 PM, bugo wrote:
> "Beam Me Up Scotty" <Then-Destroy-Everything(a)Blackhole.NebulaX.com>
> wrote in message
>> Democrat-Socialist one term wonders.
>
> Your "socialist" is getting so old. As I said, go live in North Korea
> for a year and you'll see how un-socialist our current leaders are.
>
> I wish our leaders were actually socialist. It would be funny watching
> the right-wing nutjobs heads really spin.


Failure to acknowledge that you are wrong and I am right and have the
facts to prove it - noted and logged.
From: Rich Piehl on
On 7/24/2010 9:10 PM, bugo wrote:
> "Rich Piehl" <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
> news:egM2o.47289>> So LBJ was a Republican? Nice revisionist history.
>>
>> No, it is you with the revisionist history
>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/25/michael-steele/steele-says-gop-fought-hard-civil-rights-bills-196/&usg=AFQjCNGXmVC7qTOMctcGzVXkAWj26ws1AQ
>>
>
> Michael Steele? You can do better than that. Don't you have any Rush
> O'Becknitty quotes?

Obviously you didn't read the article. The article is confirming that
Steele (and me) are correct and you aren't.

Maybe not reading is the source of your problem.
From: Rich Piehl on
On 7/24/2010 11:20 PM, US 71 wrote:
> Hey Rich, got a question: do you smoke? I don't remember.
>
>
>

Nope
From: Rich Piehl on
On 7/24/2010 9:48 PM, Clark F Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0500, Rich Piehl
> <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>
>>> much snipped
>>
>> This from the person who didn't know that it was the Republicans that
>> brought about civil rights laws in this country - not the democrats.
>
> The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were by the Republicans but the
> 1964 Civil Right package was by the Democrats or are you referring to
> some other civil rights laws?

You need to read the fact check article, too.