But there are limits. Even Bob Dole is de-- wait, he’s still alive?? Never mind!
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Yeah, they even keep dick cheney’s battery charged for some reason. It’s really cruel to the american people. They ought to save the energy for something worthwhile.
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Slavery is wrong. Nazis are bad. Intelligence and competence are desirable traits.
Why is it so hard for so many people to grasp these simple concepts that have been omnipresent in every aspect of education, media and culture for decades? How the fuck did these become controversial?
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This, of course, is exactly what the UK did when it abolished slavery in 1833.
You could argue for it on pragmatic grounds, if it were the only way of getting the legislation passed. But never, as many previous commenters on this thread have said, on moral grounds.
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And the UK taxpayer was still paying off the loans taken out to pay those “compensations” until 2015.
It probably won’t come as a surprise that if you look for the descendants of the slave owners you’ll find them still in power.
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The republican machine doesn’t seem to trust its figureheads to speak for themselves. Recall when Herman Cain returned from the dead to post innocuous conserva-speak on twitter. I wonder if it’s possible that these… um… “thought provoking” opinions are another aspect of that automation.
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Technically, as I said, Marshall retired. But his health was failing apparently. I honestly don’t remember how ill he was at the time. However, for him to have retired while a Democrat was in office, he would have had to retire by 1980. He would have been 72 then, but had only been on the Court for 13 years, and probably wasn’t thinking he’d have to serve another 12 years before another Democrat was in office. And his health was probably fine in 1980. Plus, partisanship hadn’t gotten completely out of control yet. So I’ll give Marshall a pass. RBG should have retired, though. Souter at least did retire right after Obama was elected, so things could be worse.
Meanwhile, polling at around 1%:
I wonder why this walking, talking contradiction is struggling to find support among either hard core conservatives, moderates or liberals? Here’s a recent quote explaining her position on the goings-on in Texas:
Also polling at 1% is Angelyne, that lady made famous by the billboards that were all over Los Angeles in the 80’s and 90’s. I’m skeptical of many of her political positions but do support the “bubble bath day” part of her platform:
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I also took photos and shared them with my out of state friends.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so depressing.
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He sounds like as much of an asshole as France was. Haiti is still unable to recover from the burden of paying for its freedom.
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I am FIRMLY standing up for NOTHING
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The only thing Jenner cares about is herself.
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The horror of reparations for slave owners and not slaves is that slave owners, in droves, would take their slaves out of county when census takers came to enumerate slaves. Enslavers would boast an enormous “personal property” figure to the enumerators, most of whom were collateralized enslaved people. The slave census, though, would have scanty numbers of hostages.
Since enslavers were taxed on their hostage “property”, this meant that poorer taxpayers actually footed the bill for their reparations, aka welfare for the well-to-do. In reality, enslavers did not have to pay for any upkeep for their hostages after Emancipation, while the freed hostages had no jobs, no cash, and no housing unless they returned to the enslaver.
Finally, the Dirty South had huge sway over Congress after the advent of Jim Crow laws and voted themselves even more subsidies than before.
Modern Republicans are the ultimate Cadillac Welfaristas.
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So what? Actuarial tables are a good first-approximation. Say her chances of dying are 8%. Still not comforting. Rich people are not immortal.
hostages are bargaining pieces. You don’t give them up until the police show good faith.
Nothin’ doin’.
I give you one hostage
when you bring my wife, and one for
the helicopter, one for the jet, and
the rest can come home on the jet.
(Dog Day Afternoon)
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Jellyfish do have eyes, though, and while predatory are often quite beautiful. Would it be too on the nose to instead make their mascot a coronavirus? It is after all the one part of the natural world they’ve been trying not to destroy.
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They were probably running all kinds of scams. During the Panic of 1837, it was found that there were a lot of mortgages against slaves which apparently didn’t exist, or multiple mortgages against the same ones.
Except during reality checks like that, no one looked closely at it. The mortgages, good and bad (all evil) were bundled up in bond issues, bought by investors in the north and Europe, then lent out many times over through fractional reserve banking. It was too big to fail.
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OK Mr. Tom
That’s Uncle Tom, not “Mr.”
Welcome to BB.
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