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ONLY CIVILITY KEEPS US CIVIL
ON this date in 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
While unsuccessful, this ill-advised raid led ultimately to the outbreak of hostilities which became the Civil War.
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Bun Man just said, "Kinda like what the Gramm-Rudman Budget Reduction law (signed on this day in 1989) did to the current 'congressional civil war' huh?"
I replied, "Right you are, dude, right you are..."
Ultimately, we all have to decide how to maintain the union and live within our means...
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