Muscatine

Geez, I don't recall saying I don't have a side, and don't know what peanut butter has to do with anything, other than sandwiches.  And if you want snide remarks and lack of respect, I can manufacture some, but others here are much better at it than me.

Those PB&J's have been a wonderful treat all my life. THANK YOU MR. Sumner!

But yes you did. You said many things quite curtly as it were, perhaps not entirely to me, but there is a comment out there where you took a defensive posture by not "choosing". Understandable and WISE, but it's here among these pages somewhere. As for Peanut butter, well that's the point Max. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT,  (and I didn't say sandwiches),because to me, Google IS a peanut butter. Oh I know what you meant but so what, it's not my source and doesn't mean anything to me. Just as neither does the suggestion you made regarding my knowledge of the history of this country, and where that might come from "Professor." You obviously feel it's important enough to lay claims of deceit but NEVER offer anything else. If it's so important to make assertions, back em up. I offered you a bone, I gave to you and got nothing but veiled innuendo or silence. Don't care about me, who I am or what I'm on this earth to do? then quit kicking that sleeping dog. In keeping within my own mantra and ideology of relationships with my fellow countrymen, I'll get past it. (smiling yet) Is it Geez or Jeez?

I'm not a masochist so your offer to be snide or rude isn't necessary. But what you clearly feel and say isn't, you're wrong, it is. Learned how to tell the difference there in School also. History is a funny thing, especially if we fail to understand it. But one thing is utterly CLEAR regarding history. No matter how hard you wish, it won't change even if we learned it from a book.

God Bless

Please Big.  Don't be silly.  We can say even a jury during a trial is but an opinion, of course it would be silly to some degree, but we could.  I can't make anyone think, but it borders on silliness to deny the obvious before you.  But, many do. 

Apparently Treat, I managed to strike some nerve as you have been able to read an awful lot into the two sentence replies I usually offer.  It all boils down to your interpretation, I suppose, as in all matters.  By your way of looking at things, I've chosen a side, been "curt", challenged your view of our country's history, claimed deceit while never offering anything else, made unbacked assertions, thrown out veiled innuendo, been rude, don't care about you, kicked dogs, and didn't learn history in school.  Now that's quite a bit of information gleaned from a sentence or two.....a masterful skill on your part I must say. 

The fact of the matter is that while I try and get an occasional point across, I take more pleasure in pointing out the foibles and futility of those who think that they have all of the answers, and rely on bendable, moveable sources to back their assertions, much as I could do by providing 27 links on the internet proving the existence of Bigfoot.   I try and make a point, and be gone. I know I don't have all of those answers.    Your pleasure, on the other hand, comes in providing volumes of homespun wisdom tempered by years of experience that I gather we are supposed to believe because.....well I guess because you say so.  It's a challenge sifting through all of the chaff to get to the occasional kernel, and I doubt I'll sift much longer.  But if it gives you pleasure, I hope you'll continue to put up those 5000 word essays.   It doesn't hurt anyone.