<t> Echo this.&nbsp; I really have to think that if you are going to go to the trouble of&nbsp;printing a 181 page manual, you want people to be able to read it.&nbsp; At least the epilipsy warning on the&nbsp;very first page and the limited warranty on the very back page&nbsp;are written on white ...

<r> beevor_fan:&nbsp; If you sent me an email, it looks like it might have gone astray.&nbsp; Perhaps you wrappped it around 3 cigars and it was&nbsp;found by Yankee troops.&nbsp; More likely it was intercepted by sbc's overactive spam filter or continues to circulate in the ether.&nbsp; However, I ...

<r> Hey beevor_fan:&nbsp; I also am a noobie who has been fooling around against the computer but want the spice of a real opponent.&nbsp; If you have not received an answer to your request, email me at <EMAIL email="lvaces@sbcglobal.net"><s>[email=lvaces@sbcglobal.net]</s>lvaces@sbcglobal.net<e ...

<t> It's interesting to read Shelby Foote's own take on his biases in the bibliographical notes at the end of volumes I and II of his "Narrative". At the end of volume I, he writes:<br/>
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"One word more perhaps will not be out of place. I am a Mississipian. Though the veterans I knew are all ...

A logical syllogism:

1 - The release date is before the end of June.
2 - May 14 is before the end of June.
3 - Therefore, the release date is May 14.

Works for me [:)]

hmssws - How do you expect them to notice your request for an update if you don't put a lot more question marks in the subject heading? Do it again, and do it right this time.

<t> flanyboy - My posts were in answer to ColinWright's statements about the "myth of Grant's great generalship" and putting him at the same level as Hood.&nbsp; I do not know how you can look at Grant's overall record and not see a record that proves great generalship.&nbsp; If you want to say that ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Well, I don't see winning with a stronger army as proof of much of anything. Else we get 'Norman Schwartzkopf: Military Genius.' How 'bout those Germans overrunning Poland? Real proof of great generalship. <br/>
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Look: Grant had his strong points. For one, as Lincoln ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Question, where is this Whole Fleet of Ironclads coming from ? <br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> McClellan should be at least a 6 on tactics, people fail to realize while his Initiative should be a 0 as he was incredibly hesitant McClellan was quiet possibly the best tactician in the union army. To his credit he was the only general Lee never caught napping, the 7 days ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Sorry, no good story about why they're there. I asked Eric, and he says some of the beta-testers wanted them. Since the beta-testers represent all of you, that means you guys wanted them too.
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>he clearly felt exposed at Fort Moultrie. But I believe he had orders to surrender if necessary rather than fight to the death<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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It is true that Anderson had orders saying he was not expected to "fight to the death". He was still expected to ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Just out of curiosity, does anyone know Lee's views on secession? It was well known that he couldn't fight against Virginia and would defend it, but he may not have agreed with secession in principle.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Now we have your rather pointless jibe equating the Southern States with Nazi Germany and suggesting that my refusal to discuss morality of the secession issue puts me in the same category as an apologist for the Holocaust<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Greyshaft - The point ...

<r> Jonathan - To people like us with libertarian political leanings, consent of the governed is enough, but southern society then (or now) was certainly not libertarian. Reiyrc's challange was to say why the southern revolution of 1860 was wrong in the southerners' own terms. The southerners of ...

<r> Greyshaft - Let me ask you this, if the question before the house was "The Holocaust - right or wrong?" would you be satisfied by saying, well according to the laws of Germany in place in 1944 it was legal, so who are we to come around later and say it was wrong?&nbsp; <br/>
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<t> Reading Reiryc's response to my post moves me to discuss a bit more the correct use of judging the past from the present. The point in my posts has not been that the moral beliefs of the southerners were wrong because our current morality is better. It is the very different point that what they ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Easily. We could learn from and understand the views of the past and apply them to the situation. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<r> [blockquote]<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> <br/>
[blockquote]Which is where I have issue with your argument...putting it in modern terms. [/blockquote]
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Reiryc - Of course we discuss this in modern terms, we are modern men and women, how could we do otherwise?&nbsp ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>My point was actually that most 19th century northerners would have said the same thing. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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This point gets at what is so complex about the whole situation. You are right that most northerners of the time would have said that blacks were inferior ...