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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
RE: Planned Parenthood
This isn't in reference to the same video Fiorina was pointing to regarding the "brutality" of Planned Parenthood, this was the sit-down, lunchtime conversation with a PP higher-up that was being discretely recorded (and rather extensively edited, to my understanding).
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"The purpose of the insane damages claim is punitive: to make sure that they never do anything like it ever again lest they get hit with another such lawsuit.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with “Fox and Friends” on Sunday. “This was not handled the way Bernie Sanders handled his problem, I will tell you.” (Mr. Trump was referring to an event earlier this year where Mr. Sanders handed over his microphone to protesters and left the stage.)
Yesterday, Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, told CNN that “the campaign does not condone this type of behavior.”
The protester, Mercutio Southall, 31, who co-founded a Black Lives Matter chapter in Birmingham, described to a local news outlet being physically assaulted after he and his fellow protesters began recording their presence at the event. A cellphone was knocked out of his friend’s hand, he said, and then some punches were exchanged. Mr. Southall said that a Trump supporter threw the first punch, and he then swung back.
Political correctness goes to war with history.
I was fine with changing the name of Amherst,and happy about taking the names of Confederate traitors off things, but with Wilson it seems to be a slippery slope. I don't like the guy much, and think he is overrated as a President, but where does this end?
Fair for Its Day does need to be taken into effect, i think.
Changing names isn't the same as changing history.
Nobody is trying to change any facts, just the name on a building and if a person should be honoured.
The blatant fearmongering in that meant I didn't read it though, it was to painfully and full of massive leaps of logic.
Anyway, so other don't have to suffer. Some group of unstated size wants stuff named after Woodrow Wilson to be changed to being named after something else. On the grounds that Wilson was (like pretty much the entire political establishment at the time) pretty dam racist.
Apparently this means that the US is about to fall into a Stalinist dictatorship where the weather of yesterday can be changed by decree today, or some such bullshit like that.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
True, though in all due fairness one could argue Wilson was not all that fair for his day, from what I remember he re segregated the Federal government,it had previously had some level of integration. Mind you this is just me remembering off the top of my head, so I could be mistaken.
edited 23rd Nov '15 7:58:19 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.The article's about Princeton's Wilson PIA school. His contributions to IA are formidable, noble, and long-lasting. However, the "public affairs" part of the school is there too, where he did do the damage to U.S. public service.
Could be worthwhile to change it, or at least to promtoe a pro-inclusion institute within the school.
It's probably much worse over here, we argue about rather some of the people in question, i.e Wilson, were douchebags. I can't imagine their are still schools in Russia named after Lenin, and you changed Stalingrad back to Volagrad, even after Stalingrad become the more well known name.
It really depends on the atmosphere around it in the US.
If it's a public opinion changed over time thing there is usually one hell of a fight to change it. If it's a reactionary thing it gets changed in days, IE Freedom Fries and all those German named Midwest towns that changed their names during WWI.
edited 24th Nov '15 4:12:56 AM by Memers
I imagine that a few restaurants followed suit, but the change was so clearly a political stunt that it didn't stick.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

A lot of ugly stuff will come to light, like what?