Hey mac, what kind of irons do you have.

Wow. Where would you get a dress for something like that? Some of them look like debutante type dresses, but most of those look straight out of a movie set.

I guess I don't think much of the whole north versus south thing. I grew up in the midwest but most of my Dad's family is in the south (Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle-which my relatives call "LA"- lower Alabama). I never considered myself any better or worse than my "southern" relatives.

I have a confession. When we did our Civil War day in 8th grade, they split us up into the Union and the Confederacy. We got hats to wear. I wanted to be confederacy. You guys had way better food! I got stuck in with the Union.
See Rifles for Waitey (sp?) as a reference.

Just got a set of Titleist 735CM's. Golf club designs are so screwed up right now...but I really like the feel of them. They had a club testing day at the Country Club over Easter Weekend and I hit them a few times. Really like the feel and they have less weight on the heel....which I like.

Yeah I'm probably going to get the 755's. I'm coming off a hiatus, and I think they'll give me enough playability to improve without being completely unforgiving.

Learning and preserving history is a different thing from taking "pride" in your association with the past. If the people you are taking "pride" in did shameful things as well as good things, you should feel that shame to the same extent you feel pride. But that's not what I see people doing. I hear people linking themselves to honor, and sacrifice, and other noble qualities their ancestors had, but when it comes to filthy, hateful things their ancestors did, the same people say, well, they were just doing what was typical in their historical context, and I'm not responsible for the things they did, so I am not really associated with the filth and hate. Well, how can you be linked to one and not the other?

If you're German, you can learn and preserve of all the great things Germany and Germans have done throughout history. But if you tell me you feel personally proud of your association with Beethoven, you should also feel personally ashamed of your association with Goebbels. To pretend that your heritage is all about the good stuff is to sanitize history. It's dishonest.

But in some ways, doesn't getting rid of all the confederate symbols sanitize history as well? That's one of the things about the Georgia flag thing that seemed especially dumb. As long as the flag was what it was, we had to remember why. Changing it can be seen as progress, but it also allows people to forget about why the flag was changed in 56.

Not really...it could be viewed the same as a swastika. No one likes to see those plastered all over the place but no one has ever forgotten the horrors of world war 2 and nazi Germany. Not that I'm comparing the confederate flag to Hitler, it's apples and oranges, but you get what I mean.
People only forget when you allow them to forget.

Because I don't think it is as clear as the swastika example, I'm not sure you are right. The flag is a symbol that people feel really different about depending on their historic and political outlook. I don't want to spend even more time and energy in Georgia on the flag since it's simply a symbolic, rather than real issue, and so the present flag is a step forward in that regard. But it also allows people to tell themselves that we may be further along than we really are, and that there's a consensus that doesn't really exist.

Then to be fair Black History month should include less than noble examples as well.

I use that because the previous poster did...but that same principle would certainly change any sort of pride festival, month, rally...

I think Cypress Gardens no longer exists.:(

While I love the Confederate flag and all the history it represents, the way Arkansas respects it's history is in a word, respectful. On our flag is three stars, one for each countries we have been under, including the Confederacy.

Cypress Gardens looked like it was going under, but was purchased by new investors. I think they are planning to put in rides, but keep the Belles.