New Orleans Rewrites History...On Its Lampposts

you do realize you just contradicted yourself??

No contradiction. They asked if the mayor's office is going to consider removing them. They didn't raise an objection, they just asked if the mayor's office is going to add them to the list of things under consideration for removal.
 
No contradiction. They asked if the mayor's office is going to consider removing them. They didn't raise an objection, they just asked if the mayor's office is going to add them to the list of things under consideration for removal.
LoL
 
I will leave it to @Bee or @cash to go into that if they wish.

Brooks Simpson:

Dean of Honors College at ASU, prolific speaker and author, respected presidential historian/expert (often called upon to comment on the local TV news programs regarding current politics), Ulysses S Grant scholar, misguided Isles hockey fan :devilish:
 
Brooks Simpson:

Dean of Honors College at ASU, prolific speaker and author, respected presidential historian/expert (often called upon to comment on the local TV news programs regarding current politics), Ulysses S Grant scholar, misguided Isles hockey fan :devilish:
and micro aggression interpreter of lamp posts in New Orleans:bounce:
 
Okay...it took me a but to unravel this kerfuffle.

1. The media outlet who put out this story, originally, was seeking to get a rise out of the Pro-Monument folks with the "removal" comment....and they succeeded.

2. A side-bar to this tempest-in-a-teapot is how embarrassingly inaccurate the statements on the lamp bases are

3. As a result, some folks have taken the stick being poked at them and rammed it clear through the other side

4. Brooks Simpson has a wicked sense of humour :devilish:
 
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Okay...it took me a but to unravel this kerfuffle.

1. The media outlet who put out this story, originally, was seeking to get a rise out of the Pro-Monument folks....and they succeeded.

2. A side-bar to this tempest-in-a-teapot is how embarrassingly inaccurate the statements on the lamp bases are

3. As a result, some folks have taken the stick being poked at them and rammed it clear through the other side

4. Brooks Simpson has a wicked sense of humour :devilish:

and @Pat Young sucessfully sicked you and @cash on me....good job Lol

guess that will teach me:confused:
 
and @Pat Young sucessfully sicked you and @cash on me....good job Lol

guess that will teach me:confused:

Has nothing to do with you, particularly: It took me a bit to unravel what the article was originally about. I tend to bee rather linear and miss subtle humour. I threw out my interpretation of the whole kit-n-caboodle to see if I was on or off popular interpretation.

Full Disclosure: I am a fan of Brooks Simpson (Pat knows it, so it was more on me than you), so I capitalized on the opportunity to say a few nice things....and state the truth about his hockey choices :devilish:

It is not in my nature to pick fights with people in the late hours -- too tired.
 
wow you and Mr. Brooks Simpson still aren't reading the original article that clearly states the inscriptions are referring to the various countries that ruled Louisiana.....

Louisiana was in fact one of the last (if not the last) Confederate State governments to surrender.

FWIW, NW Louisiana was never conquered by any invading Army. It was never ruled, after the war, by any occupying Army. They threw in the towel sometime around 1975, I think, if even that.

:sabre:
 
Confederates were Americans. So American "Domination" (terrible word choice) includes Confederates. At the very least it should be USA and CSA, not Americans and Confederates.
 
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FWIW, NW Louisiana was never conquered by any invading Army. It was never ruled, after the war, by any occupying Army. They threw in the towel sometime around 1975, I think, if even that.

:sabre:

Really, they didn't surrender until 1975? Now that is determination. And to think some people thought Lt. Hiroo Onoda had been out of touch, so to speak.:smile:

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In 1944, Onoda was sent to the small island of Lubang in the western Philippines to spy on U.S. forces in the area. Allied forces defeated the Japanese imperial army in the Philippines in the latter stages of the war, but Onoda, a lieutenant, evaded capture. While most of the Japanese troops on the island withdrew or surrendered in the face of oncoming American forces, Onoda and a few fellow holdouts hid in the jungles, dismissing messages saying the war was over.

After losing his comrades to various circumstances, Onoda was eventually persuaded to come out of hiding in 1974.
His former commanding officer traveled to Lubang to see him and tell him he was released from his military duties.
In his battered old army uniform, Onoda handed over his sword, nearly 30 years after Japan surrendered..
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/17/world/asia/japan-philippines-ww2-soldier-dies/
 
Louisiana was ruled by the Confederacy until May of 1865.

period.

I tried to look at this statement from all angles, and sides, but, the problem was a specific example kept coming to mind: German occupied France in WWII. I would be hard pressed to say that France was still ruling France. I dare not swerve any further into modern politics et al, but it was the example that came to mind.
 
maybe Brooks Simpson whoever that is should read the article that he linked to.........
http://wgno.com/2017/03/17/lamp-pos...tcar-line-commemorate-confederate-domination/
If you look closely at the lights, the bases have four sides and commemorate countries that have ruled Louisiana. One reads, “Spanish Domination 1769-1803.” Another one marks the period France ruled. Yet another side reads, “American Domination 1803-1861 1865 To Date.”

The fourth side on the base of the new light posts reads, “Confederate Domination 1861-1865.”
Must admit I enjoy this gray snowflake response to a blog. Now, given that the guidebook says that the lightposts commemorated New Orleans history, perhaps you should trust that over a newspaper article that seems designed to troll certain people (and may have worked as we see from your reaction!).
 
I tried to look at this statement from all angles, and sides, but, the problem was a specific example kept coming to mind: German occupied France in WWII. I would be hard pressed to say that France was still ruling France. I dare not swerve any further into modern politics et al, but it was the example that came to mind.

Not a good analogy. Louisiana was not 'occupied' by Union forces, save New Orleans and a few southeastern parishes. They tried and failed. The state capital was moved to Shreveport when NO fell and that city served as provisional capital of the Confederate States after the fall of Richmond. Here are a few pics I took in Shreveport on my last visit:

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Not a good analogy. Louisiana was not 'occupied' by Union forces, save New Orleans and a few southeastern parishes. They tried and failed. The state capital was moved to Shreveport when NO fell and that city served as provisional capital of the Confederate States after the fall of Richmond. Here are a few pics I took in Shreveport on my last visit:

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All true. But didn't the Yankees establish their own loyalist government, too? Based, as I recall, in (gasp!) New Orleans?
 
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