God speed Meade and may He watch over you (and yours) and keep you safe and sound and able to do His work.
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Wow fascinating midwestern history!MajGenl.Meade wrote:Yeah BB.... he's saying Michigan gained the UP from Wisconsin as compensation because Ohio demanded that the Toledo region should be taken away from Michigan. Ergo, Wisconsin lost the UP due to Ohio's temper tantrum
Godspeed to Africa, Meade & Mrs. Post as often as you can to let us know you're still kicking it.
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Is there something BSG knows that you should be letting the rest of us in on Gen'l?Godspeed to Africa, Meade & Mrs. Post
How do Mrs. Meade and Mr. Post feel about this?
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BSG you didn't know there were two wars between the states?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Funny, LJ. I'm surprised you cut "as often as you can" from the snip 
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Well strictly speaking it was between a state and a territory but that was because the state was blocked the territory from becoming a state.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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I admit to knowing very little about Midwestern history. Grew up in Massachusetts so I learned all the best history, and the rest just didn't seem all that relevant. 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I thought yall was talking about the Kansas/ Missouri Border War. That was a real war. Homesteads were burned and people were murdered; I think primarily because one side felt that God had sanctioned their murders.
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:Funny, LJ. I'm surprised you cut "as often as you can" from the snip
Nearly all writing could be improved by reduction. Not mine, nearly all.
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Take your malaria pills, I pray you. See you CAN have it both ways.
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Homesteads heck. The town of Lawrence was nearly burned to the ground in 1856. Those border wars were a precursor to the Civil War. Kansas was a free state, and Missouri was a slave state. Many Missouri men crossed into Kansas just to vote, causing elections to be declared fraudulent.liberty wrote:I thought yall was talking about the Kansas/ Missouri Border War. That was a real war. Homesteads were burned and people were murdered; I think primarily because one side felt that God had sanctioned their murders.
The University of Kansas opened in Lawrence in the fall of 1866. The town seems to have bounced back from the border wars and Civil War fairly well.
Civil war as defined by George Carlin: "Pardon me. Would you mind if I shoot you"?
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