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Sandbox – 26may18

26 May 2018

[So Starbucks is going to sensitize all their employees in all their 8,000+ stores this coming Tuesday afternoon. Anyone have any idea what difference such newly sensitive employees will make when all the stores will be open to anyone wanting to get in out of the rain and cold, and take advantage of a pause that refreshes? gjr]

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202 responses to “Sandbox – 26may18”

Walt

27 May 2018

Piglet sighting!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/27/david-hoggs-publix-boycott-diminishes-same-sex-marriage-abortion-funding/
Good job Boss Hogg Jr. Less money to the Proggys too. Works for me.

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Walt

27 May 2018

Nothing better that a cat fight porn war.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/30934/jenna-jamesons-response-kamala-harris-immigration-james-barrett?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=dailywire.com&utm_term=68738&utm_content=2240509
Sen. Kamala Harris really stepped in it.
Our porn star is hotter than yours, and smarter too.

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Todd Juvinall

27 May 2018

Crabb’s blog has some McCarthyism yapping away. The Frisch and Crabb rhetoric is so funny. These are the guys that force the “Little Sisters of the Poor” to give birth control against their beliefs. These guys are the one’s that force anti-Planned Parenthood organizations to post abortion providers against their will. These are the guys that snitch on their neighbors who are having a few cocktails. You would think they were pure as the driven snow. One is a old druggie who can’t remember the 60’s and the other is a person that stole his employees taxes from the federal government to the tune of some estimates are $250,000. And they are upset that Trump and others might not like a NFL dude kneeling for the Anthem. You cannot make up this absurd comedy of these two idiots. Frisch says people hat are upset are nazis. Where have we heard that before?

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scenes

27 May 2018

http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/27/iran-deal-architect-chants-death-to-america-john-kerry/

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Don Bessee

27 May 2018

That’s hilarious scenes! Well they gave 0 one for nothing so there is still some hope.
ranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, a key architect of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, was caught on camera chanting “Death to America,” “Death to Britain” and “Death to Israel,” Israeli outlet Ynetnews reported on Saturday.
Zarif participated in the violent chants on Thursday after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered a speech in Tehran, according to Ynetnews.
Zarif’s call for the destruction of America came less than two months after he secretly met with former Secretary of State John Kerry in mid-April to try and save the Iran nuclear deal.
Kerry’s “unusual shadow diplomacy” was ultimately unsuccessful, as President Donald Trump announced on May 8 the U.S. would be withdrawing from the deal. Iranian lawmakers responded that same day by setting an American flag on fire on the floor of parliament and chanting, “Death to America!”
Kerry and Zarif were considered to be among the frontrunners for 2017’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the Iran deal.
😉

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Don Bessee

27 May 2018

Red wave, really?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/us/politics/california-primary-house.html
😉

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Scott Obermuller

27 May 2018

Wow – jonnie and Bobby must be way deep into the sauce this weekend.
The Fed ID law was passed (not proposed) back in ’05. Look it up.
There have been waivers for the states due to concerns it would be impossible to process everyone in a timely manner, but it’s been 13 years and time’s up. It doesn’t impinge on state’s rights because the states don’t have to issue a federally approved ID. You can keep your current DL or ID if you want. It’s true you won’t be able to board a plane to fly within a state without a fed approved ID but don’t blame that on Trump. The TSA is in charge of all airline safety so that’s the way it is. Been that way for a long time. I don’t like it either but you can chase that sort of baloney back to FDR when his SCOTUS decided that a farmer couldn’t grow wheat for his own family to eat without running afoul of federal regs.
As far as the NFL broo-ha-ha:
Here’s what the game operations manual says regarding the national anthem, according to an NFL spokesperson:
“The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.
During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.”
Nothing about the Amish or anyone else. Unless you’ve been hyperventilating over your Bar B Q lined with MJ. The feds haven’t arrested or threatened to arrest anyone for kneeling or laying down or what ever. It’s not a 1stA issue in any way. When you’re on the clock you do what the boss man say. If you don’t like it – there’s the door.
You can always collect garbage or work at Burger King. Then try to carry out your ‘protest’. You are out the door. Again. Trump won’t go after you nor does he care.
Meanwhile Team Penske does it again.
Tomorrow we remember those who have sacrificed all even for those ungrateful morons like Bobby and jonnie who can’t seem to understand what principles our country was founded on and the freedoms we enjoy to this day. Including the 1st and 2nd A’s.

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Bill Tozer

27 May 2018

Scenes and Don cause it is music to my ears. How sweet the sound.
“Kerry and Zarif were considered to be among the frontrunners for 2017’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the Iran deal.”
Well, Cater got one, Gore got one, Obama got one, Kerry got…..er….then along came The Emperor God to change the course of history. Like, is this being in the current news cycle or what? That Trump is something else, I tell ya. He has a great sense of humor.
https://patriotpost.us/memes/56035-you-may-be-right
Yo Marilyn Manson, President Donald J. Trump is back in the running for your coveted NOBEL! Get your camera ready. Need to talk about your pain? I hear ya bro, dig your fro.
https://www.facebook.com/bill.tozer.9

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Bill Tozer

27 May 2018

un poco juan: jose can you see?
https://sports.yahoo.com/crowd-boos-theres-no-national-anthem-softball-game-stands-sing-cappella-version-225131766.html

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scenes

27 May 2018

Well, that’s a bummer.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/05/26/union-leaders-upset-over-trump-executive-orders-to-weed-out-under-performing-federal-employees
‘The American Federation of Government Employees, a union for federal workers, said that 700,000 members have denounced the reforms. Political opposition and potential litigation may result, union leaders suggested.
“We will see him in court, we will see him in the street, we will see him wherever we can be,” AFGE president J. David Cox Sr. said in a Washington Examiner report.
He called the orders “a classic example of this administration’s attack and assault on women, attack and assault on minorities.”’
lol. The winning never stops.

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Bill Tozer

27 May 2018

And now I will venture into a word deemed dirty by our enlighten friends on the dark side of the street.
Haselby is correct that “mere military supremacy” is not enough to sustain American exceptionalism or American patriotism in the long run. His mistake is to believe American patriotism is primarily linked to power.
America’s creed of God and liberty was forged in rebellion. Its Founding Fathers wrote a constitution that spelled out all the things its new government could not do to them. Its marines carried flags bearing coiled rattlers and the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.” It fought a bloody war over two decades against the most powerful empire in the world, a war incited by the cry of “Liberty or Death!”
The charge that American patriotism is a deadly form of identity politics overlooks a truth many intellectuals cocooned in academia and saturated in race, gender, and class ideology cannot understand: most patriots are not celebrating America’s “identity”; we are celebrating America’s ideals.
And as long as those ideals remain life, liberty, and the free pursuit of happiness, I say: God Bless America.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/patriotism-why-so-many-intellectuals-cant-understand-it

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Robert Cross

27 May 2018

In the “art of the deal vs. the emoluments clause of the Us Constitution” this: China has approved 5 new Ivanka Trump trademarks for exclusive marketing rights in China. This on top of several similar deals. It’s just a coincidence that five days later Trump announced he was working on a deal to lift U.S. business barriers against ZTE in order to save Chinese jobs. That on top of a potential $500,000 million investment by the Chinese in a theme park that just happens to be next to a planned trump resort that is in the works.
Does using the presidency to enrich your children fall under the emoluments clause?

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fish

27 May 2018

Yes….it’s most unseemly to benefit from the office while you still occupy it. You should wait until you’ve been away for 18 or so months before you formally accept your bribe!
Like I said…..you’re too short to comment here bobby! Go chat up the fatman!

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Walt

27 May 2018

OH PROGGYs. You can have your NFL.
Notice how the “rednecks” handle things.
http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/05/27/nascar-driver-honors-military-by-helping-raise-thousands-for-children-fallen-servicemembers.html
Think anyone took a knee there?

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Bill Tozer

27 May 2018

Meanwhile, a woman from Guatemala shows up at our doorstep with four children. Uneducated, can’t seek English, thinks we should let her in. There goes our safety net. Like, what does she bring to the table besides having arms stretched out, palms facing up. Hard to get freebies when your palms are facing down.
Another meanwhile, Bill O’Reily (the disgraced one) quietly raised 60 million dollars for The Wounded Warrior Project.

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Bill Tozer

27 May 2018

Guess this is what the Lefty Globalists like our HH mean when she says “it’s for the children.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ice-nearly-600-illegals-convicted-of-sex-crimes-released

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M

28 May 2018

,,,more from the hijacking the news cycle department,,,
https://www.gq.com/story/spygate-conspiracy-theory-explained

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scenes

28 May 2018

re: BillT@7:45PM
I’d say that forming a shared idea of nation is larger than the US version of Roman Virtues.
To some extent you need a lot of ballyhoo to get everyone pulling on the same rope. George Washington’s cherry tree, Honest Abe, Betsy Ross, Old Ironsides, folk songs, heroic deeds, Taming of the West, etc.
As a counter to this (h/t to the Black Pigeon Speaks vidya I’ve posted up), the Green Libertarians have invented new foundation myths based on slavery, the Holocaust done by German white people, peace loving Apaches being savagely murdered by the US cavalry, Custer getting what he deserved, smallpox blankets. I mean, really, how could you defend such an evil place?
It’s interesting watching the G. Libertarians always back whatever is perceived as the opposite of the West, no matter how ridiculous.
I’m happy to admit that I back my own people, even if the situation is unclear as to morality. Who are they for? Humanity generally? The erotic feeling of self flagellation? A love of soy milk?
The thing is, in-group preference is real and it works. Shucking it off means giving all your gold and wimmen to the neighbors.

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scenes

28 May 2018

There’s something oddly fascinating about watching someone else’s train crash.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5776629/Judge-calls-drastic-rethink-way-use-knives-kitchens-stabbing-cases.html

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fish

28 May 2018

Posted by: M | 28 May 2018 at 07:41 AM
Oh Keach…..the bleating geriatric……complaining that the narrative isn’t going the way he thinks it should!
If there was ever a time for #Sad this is it!

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M

28 May 2018

,,,While the dodger in chief lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier,,,
,,,man from S***hole country rescues kid and is offered citizenship by trump bro Macron,,,
,,,would trumpski would ever think of such a thing???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/real-life-spider-man-scrambles-061542988.html

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M

28 May 2018

,,,trumpski can’t spell,,,
,,,emblematic of trumpski administration,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/retired-english-teacher-corrects-trump-124218998.html

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M

28 May 2018

,,,“closed borders, white nation, now we start the deportation.” ,,,
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357643-white-nationalists-march-through-tennessee-town

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Walt

28 May 2018

6.5 more years to go Dougy! Ain’t it grand?
You should be happy about your “white nation” claim. Your not called KKKeachie for nothing.

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Walt

28 May 2018

Dougy. Your sweety is barking again.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/05/27/maxine-waters-trump-use-of-term-witch-hunt-to-criticize-mueller-probe-is-a-russian-tactic/

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Paul Emery

28 May 2018

Tell us about your military career Don Bessee…

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Walt

28 May 2018

Mad cow setting in Paul? This day is to honor our dead.
Give it a rest.

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Bill Tozer

28 May 2018

Scenes
You are right that the Tommy Robinson silencing is a big story. Arrested for standing outside a trial, saying nothing. Not taking a side on Robinson’s views, , but there seems to be a pattern in the Western Developed Countries (Canada to the EU to Down Under) to not talk about who exactly and precisely are the perpetrators. Silence the Inconvenient Truths. Stumbled upon this this morning.
“After repeatedly contacting the police station, Lisa was told three weeks later that the incident had never even been officially recorded in the system.”
https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/28/18/54/female-gang-attack-melbourne-woman-injured
There is more than one way to do a news blackout.

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George Rebane

28 May 2018

re M 1013am et al – the hatred is so vitriolic that, when no policy issues are available for denigration, events in other nations are brought to bear on our president in the most unfavorable of lights.
The question remains – why do they then want to continue living with us as citizens of the same nation? Do they have some other means in mind for resolving the Great Divide?

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scenes

28 May 2018

“why do they then want to continue living with us as citizens of the same nation?”
Beats me.
The peculiar thing is that Green Libertarians don’t really have a nation, they have a sort of anti-nation. It’s a shallow kind of bonding that would disappear with any pressure.
Lacking an enemy, they’d merely squabble among themselves.

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scenes

28 May 2018

BillT: “There is more than one way to do a news blackout.”
The Tommy Robinson news blackout was interesting because it was so obvious.
The word came down at Airstrip One for the newspapers to drop coverage. It probably didn’t take ten minutes for the sites to get scrubbed, minus a couple of examples. Dunno how the exceptions occurred.

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Walt

28 May 2018

But Scenes. That’s the kind of Gov. Paul subscribes too. “M” is right there with’m.

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Paul Emery

28 May 2018

Donald Trump, tell us about your military career? Oh you had bone spurs … poor big fat orange boy.

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Gregory

28 May 2018

Punchy 1256pm … so, how fat was Donald Trump when he was military age? Do you have a photo in mind?

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jon smith

28 May 2018

GR 11:04
“why do they then want to continue living with us as citizens of the same nation?”
Pretty baseless and arrogant assumption.

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Bill Tozer

28 May 2018

Guess the last President to serve in the military was George H W Bush. Got shot down in his bomber during WW2. Got plucked out of the water by a sub, I believe. George W. Bush served in the Air Nat’l Guard, but the media at the time said he did that to get out of doing “real” military service and he joined the reserves solely to get out of active duty. I can see their point., albeit I don’t have to agree with it. I feel there are many ways to serve your country when called, and many ways to answer the call when not called, but that’s just me. Rosie the Riveter comes to mind.
Service in the reverses or National Guard was always considered weekend warrior stuff….until the Iraq wars. Then the AF reserves started doing 3 month stints, at bases scattered around the globe, not always in a war zone.
Reagan did not serve in the military, the POTUS before George H W Bush. Carter served in the Navy, the POTUS before Reagen. Nixon served in the Navy as well. We all know General Ike served, the last General to be elected President.
Whether one served or not, one can still be commander-in-Chief. Whether one served or not, anyone can pause to remember those who sacrificed all. You don’t need to be a first responder to honor fallen first responders, nor a domestic violence victim to attend a candlelight vigil for victims of domestic violence.

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Gregory

28 May 2018

Here’s the speech Jeff Flake had given minutes before I saw him loitering nearby last Wednesday…
http://time.com/5289380/jeff-flake-harvard-commencement-address-president-trump/
My wife and my son, with his fiancee, were in Cambridge for the commencement ceremonies when he got to wear the cool red power robe with the stripes on the sleeves, and then celebrated with a dinner at a three Michelin star restaurant in NYC the next day after taking the train south from Boston.

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fish

28 May 2018

Posted by: jon smith | 28 May 2018 at 01:34 PM
Pretty baseless and arrogant assumption.
…..and you call my responses “ adolescent”.
Rather than assuming your usual pseudointellectual pose you’d like to take a crack at responding to George’s assertion!

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Walt

28 May 2018

Paul is on the pissy side today. was bone spurs a valid 4F rating at the time Paul? Yes or no? You have proof he didn’t have them? Spill it. John Kerry your hero? A grain of rice in the ass that was sent there by his own hand grenade when he blew up a sack of rice.. Yup, that was purple heart worthy. An enemy collaborator if you ask me.
I’m glad you save the backs of Generals. Can’t have them carrying their own luggage and golf clubs off the aircraft. Seems you were good for something in that hospitality squadron.

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Don Bessee

28 May 2018

While the po’ ol’ putin party parrot is regurgitating his approved narrative he forgets the facts of the situation.
According to National Archives, among approximately 27 million American men eligible for military service between 1964 and 1973, the draft raised 2,215,000 men for military service (in the U.S., Southeast Asia, West Germany, and elsewhere)
https://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-draft/
So Trump is part of the 92 percent of drat numbers that never served. 😉

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jon smith

28 May 2018

fish-
“why do they then want to continue living with us as citizens of the same nation?”
Who in the world suggested that we want to continue living with you?
As I said, George’s is a baseless and arrogant assumption.

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Don Bessee

28 May 2018

Wait, what, did hell freeze over?
A new editorial in the Harvard Crimson — the student publication of Harvard University — now calls for the campus to be more accepting of conservative students following an extensive 18-month “diversity and inclusion” study by the university’s administration which found that only a “startling” 1.5 percent of the faculty identified as conservative while 83.2 percent are liberal.
“These statistics do not reflect America: 35 percent of Americans identify as conservative, 23 times the fraction of the faculty survey’s respondents, This stark divide has harmful effects on the University’s ability to train our nation’s leaders, and it risks alienating current and potential conservative students. It has also likely contributed to the declining trust of Americans in higher education, which has deleterious effects. Much more work is needed to make this important element of diversity a priority. We believe the University must emphasize hiring professors with diverse beliefs and backgrounds who can challenge prevailing campus ideas through tough ideological conversations,” the editorial reads.
The students are interested in “expanding the diversity conversation” here.
“Increasing ideological diversity — and making students who may disagree with mainstream campus ideas more welcome — should be worked toward beyond merely hiring intellectually diverse faculty, however. Initiatives to promote campus conversations in which beliefs are questioned should be encouraged, as should giving students the resources they need to feel comfortable but not unchallenged in their identities. By doing so, we expand the diversity conversation to make as many students feel as welcome as we can,” the editorial recommends.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/27/inside-the-beltway-harvard-diversity-now-includes-/
😉

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fish

28 May 2018

Posted by: jon smith | 28 May 2018 at 02:17 PM
Every time peaceful dissolution is suggested the left loses its mind! One only need look at the hysteria around the State of Jefferson discussions to get a sniff of what George is talking about!

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Bill Tozer

28 May 2018

1)Welcome home, Gregory.
2) Concerning George Boardman’s last column in the Union, he referenced another Other Voices’s column, The Royal Box. The reference was to Martin Luther King’s most famous quote about judging others by the content of one’s character, not the color of one’s skin.
I am afraid that we may all live to see the day when MLK’s statues will be torn down, schools and parks named in his honor renamed, and who knows what else. There is nothing, absolutely nothing coming out of acamedia that gives me hope this will not happen eventually, contingent upon SJW’s continued push they are espousing at every turn.
Harvard is having commence ceremonies exclusively for black students in some departments and white students will have their separate ceremonies…per the University. Evergreen College is back at it, declared No White Day again. Whites are prohibited from campus on that day. The news about a bar in Oregon having Reparations Day once a month where whites are not allowed to attend, albeit donations from white people are encouraged and eagerly accepted.
The idea of taking any individual and grouping him/her into an entire broadbrush category based solely on the color of the indivual’s skin color is the very definition of racism, be it in a bar in Oregon or from the ivy covered halls of Harvard University.
The color blind society is much ridiculed in today’s world and is the very antithesis of what SJWs and the humanities departments across America teaches, not to mention other forums. The politics of Identity is not everything, it’s the only thing.
On a more hopeful note, reading the comments about Reparations “Happy Hour” is that some Black Americans are upset that other POC are being grouped in with blacks Americans for the free drinks. Black Americans have the unique history (among all POC here) of being enslaved on distantant continents and brought forceably to this country. The slaves were not indigious to this continent, (or hemisphere) as Native Americans and Hispanics were. The point is the black experience is unique for the aforementioned reason, and some are not taking kindly to Reparations Day at the bar being hijacked by “others”….other POCs not intended to be in their group to receive reparations, akin to some complaints of those Born Woman objecting to transsexuals freeloading on their movement and organizations
The silver lining is the fractured nature of Identity Politics will afford me the opportunity to watch them eat their own, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Somebody has to be the most deserving of the victim class status. The bad news is Martin Luther King’s life’s work may have been in vain. Judging by the content of character instead of the color of one’s skin? The victimization group mentality laughs at the very notion. In fact, that is called racist thinking.

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Paul Emery

28 May 2018

Tell us about your military experience Don.

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Walt

28 May 2018

Paul. who did you have to do to get that gravy job you had?
I’m sure some others would have loved to shine officers shoes and put mints on top brass pillows.

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Walt

28 May 2018

Crapper says,,
“why do they then want to continue living with us as citizens of the same nation?”
Who in the world suggested that we want to continue living with you?”
Your free to leave any time. Lil’ Kim loves you.

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Todd Juvinall

28 May 2018

Walt you are too funny. I never served as I had a high lottery number (326) and I was married with a kid and decided I would not volunteer. Thank you for your service and George and Russ. Paul Emery shined shoes for the generals? Wow! I did not know that. No wonder he is so pissy all the time.
As for the illegals, the kneelers and the whiners of the left. Please get a ticket and go find the place oin earth you like better. We will send you a care package until you establish yourselves. Bye-Bye!

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Todd Juvinall

28 May 2018

The Memorial Day gathering at the park in GV was well done. Thanks to all you who have served and given your all. My dad, his dad and his brother are on the wall there. I sat along with Dan Miller and the GV Council members. I was not aware that Dan Miller served in the Army and was in Germany in 1969-70.

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Gregory

28 May 2018

Toes 235pm
Ummm… not exactly. While black students did have unofficial ceremonies that kinda looked like graduation ceremonies the day before… the degrees were conferred en masse on Thursday AM, from baccalaureate to Doctor of Philosophy, and the paper handed out in Diploma Awarding Ceremonies in the afternoon. The Black ceremony was not official. Just a place where they can be themselves without the people of pallor or the non-URM minorites suing to not be discriminated against looking on.
Part of that is that to fit the teeming masses yearning to get a look of their loved one, only two tix were available per person for the main ceremony and there just weren’t enough to meet demand. My son was told that if Rosie and I wanted to be sitting in the damn good seats the PhD student tix would be, we’d have to be there at 645AM Eastern time to get to them. There were satellite auditoriums that had video feeds and we chose to see the early festivities from there. As it was, with the formalized “wheras and wherefors” and the domini-domini you’re all graduated now, it took about an hour.
As an aside, a Harvard president of the 1930’s was quoted as saying Harvard U’s College of Education ‘was a kitten that ought to be drowned’, to use an older rural phrase borne of hard choices on the farm… had he seen what it had come to in 2018, he’d have gotten the bucket and gone to work.

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