The good news about the Kennedys is that they recently turned sixty-five, making them eligible to collect Social Security and Medicare, which in turn will free up their time to write more books about how much they despise the socialist policies of the federal government.
Wake Forest — For those who want to go to school in NC and can’t get into UNC or Duke. Not sure what the nonsense about Celts versus Saxons was about but I hope he isn’t a history major.
SF WalkerApril 26, 2013 / 6:35 am
Yes, the Celts versus Saxons thing is a favorite theme among these folks; it’s rubbish, of course, but that’s never stopped them before. And they think we’re brainwashed!
No joke. Half of his “point” passed off as fact are far from accurate. Not to mention he builds much of his rhetoric off of Cracker Culture which isn’t entirely accurate on Ulster-Scott migration patterns in the country, and routinely forgets to point out that Pennsylvania was a major settlement point for many of those migrants.
SF WalkerApril 26, 2013 / 1:52 pm
Exactly–that’s where the Ulster-Scots part of my family settled–in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. His argument also neglects the fact that the descendants of Germans and Englishmen were in abundance in both sections of the country.
Hey, that student newspaper has the same name as Wofford’s! Who knew…
It’s also a “great day” when Carl Roden joins the show to troll someone’s page.
Did someone actually reference the Kennedy’s in a positive way?
Yes.
The good news about the Kennedys is that they recently turned sixty-five, making them eligible to collect Social Security and Medicare, which in turn will free up their time to write more books about how much they despise the socialist policies of the federal government.
Wake Forest — For those who want to go to school in NC and can’t get into UNC or Duke. Not sure what the nonsense about Celts versus Saxons was about but I hope he isn’t a history major.
Yes, the Celts versus Saxons thing is a favorite theme among these folks; it’s rubbish, of course, but that’s never stopped them before. And they think we’re brainwashed!
No joke. Half of his “point” passed off as fact are far from accurate. Not to mention he builds much of his rhetoric off of Cracker Culture which isn’t entirely accurate on Ulster-Scott migration patterns in the country, and routinely forgets to point out that Pennsylvania was a major settlement point for many of those migrants.
Exactly–that’s where the Ulster-Scots part of my family settled–in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. His argument also neglects the fact that the descendants of Germans and Englishmen were in abundance in both sections of the country.