The latest sedition of, Fox News actively makes you stupid

Just because Trump intends to do these things it doesn't mean that he all that often successful at doing this. There are certainly many occasions on deals when others have gotten the better of him. It's often an advantage to deal with someone who has an inflated opinion of himself. You may notice that for all of his talk about deal making, he is not in the real estate business any more.

 

Well, and sex tapes...allegedly

 

I think it is supposed to mean that we figured out it was bad after only a hundred fifty years where others had it much longer.

This is of course also wrong. But I think that is what it is supposed to mean?

 

How long did it take Haiti?

 

I believe Brazil and the remaining Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico and Cuba were the only places in the Western Hemisphere that got rid of slavery later than the US.

 

Officially 1793, but it was basically ignored, Independence in 1801, but people were forced back into the plantations by the revolutionary military, slavery did not end until around 1805 or so.

So officially negative 8 years, practically about 4 years.


Edit: (then again, is Haiti official independence in 1804?, if so then zero years).

I thought it was 1801, I guess something else that I was wrong about.

http://atlas-caraibe.certic.unicaen.fr/en/page-117.html

This map only covers north America, but yes since Brazil was the last one to do so in the Americans you are correct.

So the USA was the 1st to gain independence, but the 4th to last to abolish slavery in the Americas.

 

On a side note that is probably not worth mentioning. But I will

When the US was flexing their Manfest Destiny muscels and planned to annex Canada. A certain Lord Elgin of Elgin's marbles fame. Went around the southern states to let the know that those Presbyterian Canadians are all anti slavers. They would help the northern states abolish slavery if Canada became part of the US.
Thus saving Canada and opening the way to civil war.

The cliff note version.

 

Why are the first three sentences not one? Do you have a comma allergy?

 

Give him a break....he's lost a few of his marbles!

 

"Excuse me, Mr. song219? Mr. Dunning and Mr. Kruger on line two."

 

Yeah I know but it must be great fun because so many do it. Maybe we should create a special space here even more special than BS normally is for opinions.

"The reason cricket is called cricket is because the ball sounds like a cricket when it is being pitched."

 

When was that?

I know Jefferson and to some extent Madison hoped that, in the event of a second war with Britain, Canada or some part of it could be induced to self-annex. But the adventures of Winfield Scott and Jacob Brown pretty much disabused them of that hope. "54-40 or fight" was about a disputed border, not annexation.

And, of course, there was also a certain hope in the south that, for example, Cuba could be induced to join the US as a slave state, or maybe Puerto Rico-- but that too was a pipe dream.

 

Really? I thought it was because some bloody Englishman was trying to pronounce "croquet." You know, like she was a BAL-ay dancer and park the car in the GAR-age...

 

Not "pitched," but "bowled." So called because of the haircuts worn by early players.

And it's called "cricket" because in cockney rhyming slang, the insect is the word used for "wicket."

 

Fake News.

Just because I don't know anything about the subject I'm talking about doesn't mean I am wrong.

 

Having that information will come in handy when I quickly change the channel!

 

A bit too long, but still a contender to replace "fair and balance" as the Fox News slogan.

 

You're in the right forum!

 

My allergy is just to you. Don't be so F'kn petty. If you don't have anything useful say STFU.

 

Ah, another American who believes he invented the language.

 

To a huge corporation that is pressure.

 

I was just having fun with a half remembered story.

I read the story many, many years ago when I was given a stack of, then old, American Heritage Magazines. Great reading by the way.

The anexation talks were just that, talks beween British Canada and the US in about 1849. The talks came to a halt in Montreal with the comment "Canada would not wish anexation while a single slave is on our soil.
(I'm still stretching back)
They, the talks became void when 4 years later came the Reciprocity Treaty.

I bow to your knowledge rather than my memories.

PPs: it was totally separate from Polk's OT 54:40 or fight. Keeping British Canada out of the Puget Sound. That would have been war but calmer heads went for the 49th parallel. Where is was planned before Polk did a Trump.

Then came the "Pig War".

 

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