First Person: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America's bloodiest war, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War. (April 12)

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[ironbmike]

in honor of the war's anniversary, check out The Jerks Corps (google it) for some commentary on the war!

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 Then by your account America has nothing to worry about. We control the world oil trade so why should we be worrying about Canada? (which on a global scale, isn't even close to being the largest supplier or having the largest reserves on Earth). Canada bent over and spread their cheeks for us, it's not like were buying oil against their will. What about deficits? All you did was go off about oil, but I suppose that's okay since it's the only redeeming thing about Canada.

[victorthegreat96]

@derberg19486

@glukaschlok

No Offence , But This Is A YOUTUBE VIDEO, NOT HISTORY 101 haha

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok Its all crap, America fucked us all in the ass and never ONCE said "ah sorry" and not ONE American went to jail? Canada was forced in 1977 to join the world oil trade against our wishes by....who? you guest it America. Join and give us your oil or else. But... we are close to a deal with China to divert 60% of our production to them, just doing the American thing and going where the money is. Pipeline and oil terminal is being built to load ships right now with China's money. LOL.

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 Is that why Canada's deficit is less than it was in 1997? And the US caused high oil prices? Not BP's perpetual incompetence? Also isn't Canada the biggest exporter of oil to the US? (you know what they say, when the host is sick so is the parasite). And last I checked the faulty loans are estimated to cost European bankers no more than 2 trillion dollars over the next ten years (and that's a liberal estimate); compare that to the EU's 14+ trillion dollar deficit (lol).

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok NO! WRONG, the world was humming along GREAT, Canada where I am was booming with record exports to China and Japan and USA THEN American backed mortage bundles were found out to be worthless. Credit rating agencies and US government regulators had AAA rated about 7 Trillion in bad bundles. US had done this for so long no one could figure out where they were and how bad they were and the banks and governments that bought them as AAA were told sorry they now have junk. 100% USA.

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok Yes 100% America's fault. Every bank worldwide that failed or is suffering is due to the fact they purchased American defective loan bundles. This is a FACT. No other single item or multiple item can be blamed. Trillions in America AAA rated CRAP certifried by American Moody's and overlooked by American regulators caused the melt down. America oil traders have drive oil up to records with the largest reserves in 75 years? Wheat, corn, metals all driven up by American traders.

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 LOL Oh yes, 100% America's fault. The credit crunch just knocked down an unsustainable house of cards. Declining working class population, insanely ineffective/expensive/thuggish social programs, shitty/inflexible implementation of a universal currency (that's killing the EU right now, btw), risky loans to weakest EU nations (who are constantly begging for bailouts from those who actually have good fiscal policies), risky over investment into developing/Slav nations, etc.

[GordanMFreeman]

150 years and still stupid people racists pollute this cpuntry and make it look bad

[SuperFightingFrog]

@MrOutlawCountry  Of those state rights was to keep slavery.