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Please explain how we got our asses handed to us in Korea and Vietnam, bea... Explain to me why the catholics don't vocally denounce the travesties wrought by their religion, from the crusades through to the child molestation still occurring. Calling muslims "diaper-heads" is oh so incredibly mature, much like me calling you a white-trash redneck. If anyone is out to get us, it's dumbasses like you.
You are correct--BEA is way off base. The male Muslim head cover, called a Kaffiyeh and secured by a Iqal, is actually made of a lightweight cotton and/or rayon, more like a bedsheet than a diaper. So, I do have to take BEA to task, we should probably be calling them 'sheetheads' since that's a lot closer than the heavy fabric of an old-style cloth diaper. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Personally, I don't take "Redneck" as a pejorative. I am proud to be from Redneck stock.
"Rednecks" are ethnic Scots who immigrated from Ireland between the late 1600's up to about the Revolutionary War and settled, mostly, in the Southern colonies. They mostly settled on the frontier, on land the English didn't want. Their numbers included people like Daniel Boon, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson and many other notables.
From J. Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America: "They came to America and took the land that no one else wanted, a difficult movement to sell in today's politically correct environment, since in the eyes of many they took it from the Indians.
Their legacy is stained because they became the dominant culture in the South, whose economic system was based on slavery. No matter that the English aristocrats of the Tidewater were slavery's originators and principal beneficiaries, or that the typical Scots-Irish yeoman had no slaves and actually suffered economic determent from the practice.
They suffered 70% killed or wounded in the Civil War and were standing proud in the ranks at Appomattox when General Lee surrendered--but in today's politically correct environment this means that they were "racist" soldiers of the Nazi-like Confederacy.
They are a culture founded on guns, which considers the Second Amendment sacrosanct, while literary and academic America considers such views not only archaic but also threatening. And yet it is not hyperbole to say that Al Gore lost the 2000 election by going against them on this issue, causing Tennessee and West Virginia to vote for George W Bush."
"...Because "sophisticated" America tends to avert its eyes from the bellicose and often warlike nature of their journey, it also is inclined to ignore or misunderstand this culture..."
Other "dumba$$ Rednecks" included Ronald Reagan, Gen George Patton, WWII's most decorated solider Audie Murphy and most of the CSA's soldiers and cavalrymen.
No, I'm proud of my Redneck heritage; of my ancestor who was a Revolutionary War Captain from NC, or those who settled the Mississippi frontier; my g-g grandfather who joined the CSA Cavalry (1st Miss--Davenport's) in 1863 at the ripe old age of 16 and by 18 was a veteran of 2 1/2 years of fighting.
"Redneck" may be a big insult amount the self-anointed elites, but it isn't to people who know a little history.
Speaking of history, your contention that we "had our asses handed to us in Korea and Vietnam" is absolutely baseless.
Why don't you vent your anger at our enemies and not stick up for them instead of lashing out at a regular American like BEA? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif