Why are barns painted red?

Because after the Revolutionary war when the British packed up and went home they left behind gallons and gallons of red paint which was snapped up by Army/Navy surplus stores. The surplus stores let it go for a song.

As the farmers returned from deployments and came back to their farms that had been run down in their absence they realized the barn needed a good repainting. Being cash strapped they bought the British army surplus paint and repainted their barns with it. It became the mark of the Revolutionary war veteran.

Following this, the usual gang of posers followed suit to cash in on the glory of the real soldiers and it spread like wildfire. Barns have been painted red ever since.

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George Washington's white horse really wasn't white.

It was light grey. The reason it is called 'George Washington's White Horse' is because on the old black and white televisions the horse looked white on the six O'clock news.

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Ahh, yes. Lexington and Concord.

The Minute Men got torn up badly at Lexington Green because they went toe to toe with the British.

However as the British went to Concord and marched back to Boston and got ripped to shreds by Minutemen and others picking them off as they hid behind billboard and phone poles.

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After the war the Sons of Liberty were hauled before the EPA for failure to file an enviromental impact statement before they threw the tea into Boston Harbor.

They narrowly escaped criminal prosecution. The charges were filed early in 1784 just after the war ended but the case dragged on with legal delays until well into 1787 when the Constitution took effect.

The Sons of Liberty escaped prosecution narrowly as when the Constitution went into effect it was pointed out that ex post facto prosecution was forbidden.

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Paul Revere was taken to trial after the war for horsing around and waking people up all night.

Fortunately the statute of limitations saved him fron a $50 fine. The war started in April 1775 and ended in in Sept of 1783. The statute of limitations for disorderly conduct was 5 years.

Back then $50 was a lot of money!

WTF. Why not? 

If the left can rewrite history then so can I.

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