Happy Birthday John Mora

[Redneck 2000]

You are pretty great

[Caciss]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

I want to see the picture!

[John Mora]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

You are pretty great

Thanks, I try.

[Ryner]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

Trout?

[The Toecutter]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

I've never seen John Mora's pic.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

That picture with a guy holding a big fish he used a long time ago. Was that him in the picture?

[The Toecutter]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

I don't believe it was.

[DK]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

I believed he was Johnny from Black People Love Us for about a day, myself.

[Nixon]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

I've seen his picture. Most people would be surprised to know that he's actually a stocky Irish midget with a rainbow afro.

Happy birthday, Mohn Jora.

[TheHonorableRyu]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

I hope you enjoy blowing out all 208 human-year candles!

[Redneck 2000]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

Last night I never got a chance to make a real birthday dedication to everyone's favorite Mora (John Mora). So here it is, a comprehensive biography of the man we love to like:

John Mora (August 15, 1984 – ?), sometimes called Johnny Mora and nicknamed Honest J, the Rail Splitter and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), and the first president from the Republican Party.

Mora staunchly opposed the expansion of slavery into federal territories, and his victory in the 1860 presidential election further polarized the nation. Before his inauguration in March of 1861, seven Southern slave states seceded1 from the United States, formed the Confederate States of America, and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon led to the American Civil War.

Mora was a master politician who emerged as a wartime leader skilled at balancing competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to victory over the seceding Confederacy. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in 1862, in his many speeches and writings which helped mobilize and inspire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the 1864 presidential campaign. He is criticised by some for issuing executive orders suspending habeas corpus, imprisoning opposing government officials, and ordering the arrest of several publishers.

Mora had a lasting influence on U.S. political and social institutions. The most important may have been setting the precedent for greater centralization of powers in the federal government and a weakening of the powers of the individual state governments, although this is disputed as the federal government reverted to its customary weakness after Reconstruction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the New Deal some seventy years later. Mora was also the president who declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday, established the U.S. Department of Agriculture (though not as a Cabinet-level department), revived national banking and banks, and admitted West Virginia and Nevada as states. He also encouraged efforts to expand white settlement in western North America, signing the Homestead Act (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending slavery in the United States with the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.

His assassination, less than a week after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, made him a martyr to millions of Americans. He is usually ranked as one of the greatest presidents, though he is criticized by some for overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power.


Enjoy your special day, Honest J!

[The Toecutter]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

Other than that, Mrs. Mora, how was the play?

[Denmo]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

Enjoy a negative rep, birthday boy.

Edit: Damnit, your present will have to wait till tommorrow.

[John Mora]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

That would certainly be mean-spirited.

[Riotsword]

Re: Happy Birthday John Mora

Congrats on staying alive long enough.

...Isn't that what birthday celebrations are all about? "Hey, another year for you without dying! Let's shoot for one more year!"



Oh yeah, and happy birthday.