FILIBUSTER

[pansypoo53219]

i was reading in my 1891 encyclopedia britannica and got to FILIBUSTER. and not a political term yet. it was the name for PIRATES before BUCCANEERS.

how appropriate.

[Voice for Peace]

1. and today be "talk like a pirate day"

aarrrr

[valerief]

2. Well, shiver me timbers! nt

[The Wielding Truth]

3. And the Republicans have plundered and ravaged. It fits.

[The Magistrate]

4. In The United States,Ma'am, The Most Common Use Of The Word In The Nineteenth Century

Was to denote armed expeditions aimed at taking over one or another of the Central American republics, with an eye towards seeing it absorbed into the United States a la Texas. These were private, speculative ventures, though sometimes clearly smiled on by elements of our government. Though largely forgotten nowadays, at least up here, they were fairly common occurrences before our civil war.