The issue of free state versus slave state as states were created from the territories was the main thing that pushed South into seceding. The proximate cause was that the South started shooting. The original goal of the North was to preserve the Union, not emancipation. There were a lot of money issues involved, certainly, although the biggest one probably was that the slave holders simply could not see a way to survive economically without slavery.
In other words, what everyone else said, except the Viking part.
I love you all so much. Thank you for existing.
Is someone trying to build a Muslim community center on the site of a former Viking settlement?
Vikings don't have mosques! They worship Capital One credit cards!
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I have to note -- those commercials crack my shit up. Every. Time.
And now, I'm worried as hell about Emeline for tonight. She's modeling for the Girl Scout council kick-off party and the woman who is organizing the girls is Muslim and wears a headscarf with "regular" clothes. She's my Big Boss in GS World and I adore her.
I worry because earlier in the summer Emeline FREAKED OUT at the Mennonite stand at the Farmer's Market. I'm hoping she doesn't freak out at Y's scarf.
Also? I'd be just as worried if Y was wearing Viking horns.
My high school mascot was a Viking. Except our sports teams weren't the raping and pillaging type. More like the finish-sixth-in-the-conference type.
And why are they trying to build a mosque in my parents' neighborhood anyway? THEY'RE LUTHERANS!
Which branch of Lutheranism?
All the Civil War! Vikings! talk just makes me think of that one ridiculously awesome SF movie that was essentially Aliens vs. Vikings.
All the Civil War! Vikings! talk just makes me think of that one ridiculously awesome SF movie that was essentially Aliens vs. Vikings.
Pathfinder! AKA Aliens vs. Vikings, AKA Karl Urban vs. Jars' lustful thoughts.
Dude, no! You are not to blame for the vikings. Your interesting facebook companion is like "BUT THE VIKINGS!" and other people are like, bzuh? And then he's like "JFK! VIKINGS!" and other people are, here, have some trufax. And he's all "CIVIL WAR! VIKINGS! WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE VIKINGS!!!"
This is making me snorfle at my desk.
I worry because earlier in the summer Emeline FREAKED OUT at the Mennonite stand at the Farmer's Market. I'm hoping she doesn't freak out at Y's scarf.
Maybe she'll think it's a pretty princessy thing?
