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First off, I have no beef with you or anyone else in here because we all try our level best to respect each others differences hillbilly, so I can certainly understand you disagree with my own personal philosophy... However, I do object to calling me names like you just have or to worse, associating myself with the communist party because nothing could be further from the truth!!!! In fact, My Grandfather, My Father and his Uncle's were some of the most intense Anti-Castro/Anti-communist fighters the CIA ever knew!!!
So how dare you defame my parents,my grandparents, and my honor and how uninformed are you hillbilly??? Oh yeah and who in the heck died and made you some sort of expert??? I ask this because you sure do write like some kind of amateur to me
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And learn how to spell for crying out loud - especially if you're going to talk trash in here!!!
I'm a WOLF in sheep's clothing!!! Get it straight bottom shelf!!! That's the Pledge of Allegiance hillbilly! we're talking about the Constitution... You're calling me communist eh??? Well then read this bonehead!:
Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. In his Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897). This guy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance So, look, listen and learn - CAPECHE???
And here's some more about this author of the pledge:
"His original Pledge read as follows: 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' He considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans. [ * 'to' added in October, 1892. ]""Dr. Mortimer Adler, American philosopher and last living founder of the Great Books program at Saint John's College, has analyzed these ideas in his book, The Six Great Ideas. He argues that the three great ideas of the American political tradition are 'equality, liberty and justice for all.' 'Justice' mediates between the often conflicting goals of 'liberty' and 'equality.""In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the 'leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, 'my Flag,' to 'the Flag of the United States of America.' Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored.""In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer."
"Bellamy's granddaughter said he also would have resented this second change. He had been pressured into leaving his church in 1891 because of his socialist sermons. In his retirement in Florida, he stopped attending church because he disliked the racial bigotry he found there."So get you data correct hillbilly otherwise, mind your own business and stop making yourself look like a fool in here okay little buddy??? Sheeesh do they ever come out of the woodwork fr crying out loud!!! Here's the link to the stuff I pasted in here:
http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htmEnjoy the read!!! Remember folks, THIS IS THE OFF TOPIC BAR & GRILL!!! NOT THE WELDING RELATED FORUM SECTION OKAY hillbilly???
Henry