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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Judge Allows White Ala. Town to Return to Segregation
tl;dr: White families in Gardendale, AL wanted to break away from the county's schools because they didn't want their kids going to school with black kids, and despite recognizing that their reasoning amounted to nothing but sheer racism and that it would ultimately cause nothing but problems, the judge let them do it anyway.
Ain't this a federal law violation though?
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.But seriously, there are a terrifying number of people who believe all of that, right up to the moral righteousness of their ancestors (and the moral degeneracy of those who fought to stop them) who fought for pretty much the worst cause anyone had ever fought for until about 75 years later, some mustachioed asshole started a war for even worse reasons (and somehow, that asshole also has defenders).
I have no sympathy for the South, their cause, or their army. Should have been Reconstructed so much harder.
Forrest Gump is going to be mad.
But yeah, why Alabama? Why so regressive?
The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.@Mc Tagg; Maybe, but since they won the case someone now has to sue them for it, and that takes money.
In any case, it seems like they're making more school districts, which I'm not sure anyone can actually stop them from doing, for any reason.
While I'm sympathetic to the idea, it's worth noting that most Presidential candidates are in their 50's and upwards. Putting geriatrics through boot camp strikes me as a really, really bad idea.
And introducing a Germany or Scandinavia-style civil service draft would probably be impossible both in the current political climate and from a logistics perspective. You're just dealing with a much larger, much less densely populated country.
edited 29th Apr '17 2:29:25 AM by math792d
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.Under Eisenhower the USA also had a rather high corporate tax rate (50% I think) as well as a progressive income tax (90% top tax rate). He was a fiscal conservative who actually wanted to maintain a "balanced budget".
Eisenhower also started NASA, pushed desegregation forward, expanded Social Security, and created DARPA. So we kind of owe the Internet to him too. Oh, and the Departments of Education, Welfare, and Health were also instituted under his watch.
And in his farewell address, he tried to warn the USA against letting the Military Industrial Complex have too much influence.
edited 29th Apr '17 4:49:41 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedAnother quote that, in hindsight, is kind of darkly humorous:
Trump executive order aims to allow Arctic drilling
The US president said it would create "thousands and thousands" of jobs, despite a downturn in the oil market.
It could undo a ban put in place by Barack Obama in order to protect swathes of the ocean from development.
But Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the decision was better than being held hostage by "foreign entities".
Getting rid of Mr Obama's environmental protections was one of Mr Trump's promises to voters while on the campaign trail.
As he signed the order, called the America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Mr Trump said: "Our country's blessed with incredible natural resources, including abundant offshore oil and natural gas reserves, but the federal government has kept 94% of these offshore areas closed for exploration and production.
"This deprives our country of potentially thousands and thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in wealth."
It is debatable how much income might be generated by a reversal of Mr Obama's order. Worldwide prices for oil have dropped in recent years, with a review by news agency Reuters finding the amount of money oil companies spent in the central Gulf of Mexico's annual lease sale dropped by more than 75% between 2012 and 2017.
Meanwhile, environmental groups have already said they will challenge Mr Trump.
David Jenkins, president of Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship, a non-profit conservation group, said: "The Trump administration's hasty move today toward expanding offshore oil drilling ... defies market realities and is as reckless as it is unnecessary."
What has President Trump said about your country in his first 100 days?
@Eisenhower: I'd personally rank him as one of our top five presidents. He's probably the last great Republican president we've had and he laid the groundwork for a lot of the achievements the US had in the 20th century.
@Last Republican before Southern Strategy: Yeah, this is pretty obvious when you look at the maps. The south, which was once a Democratic stronghold, suddenly flipped to Republican around the time of the Civil Rights act. The people didn't just pick up and move. Their affiliation changed. The fact that this isn't obvious to anyone with a brain is ridiculous.
Anyone know anything else about this? Fox News changes up it's lineup with new show
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/331070-fox-news-announces-new-show-the-fox-news-specialists
?
Also this is shameful. The EPA taking down it's climate change page.
edited 29th Apr '17 8:25:34 AM by megaeliz
edited 29th Apr '17 8:15:02 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Well, I said it before and it bears repeating-the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt died the day after Eisenhower left office. By that time, Kennedy had stepped in on a wave of populism and the Republican party reached a breaking point. When Nixon lost, the party put him out to pasture and roundly rejected his warnings and the hard won lessons during his campaign. After Kennedy died, they though they had the next election in the bag and did not consider Johnson a serious incumbent threat.
They propped up Goldwater despite the warning signs, continued to ignore doomsayer Nixon, and you know what happened. When the remnants of the Republican party started picking up the pieces, Nixon spun his own clique of supporters into a serious force and put his foot on the throat of the party: he told them "my way or off to the scrapheap with you."
edited 29th Apr '17 8:36:34 AM by ViperMagnum357
So, been on a trip yesterday, and I just caught up with the last 20 something pages, I want to say a little about the "Gen Z is totes alt-right!" thing: the idea came from a study by marketing firm The Guild
, and later was strongly propelled by the likes of the Daily Heil, the Telegraph and Fox as a propaganda point. The study itself is torn to pieces here
, so you'll see it's really not something that should be given a lot of attention. Now, we still shouldn't ignore the issue of the alt-right growing in spaces where young people can be easily influenced by them, but it's probably not as big a thing as the spin makes it sound.
EDIT: Another counterpoint to that meme
.
edited 29th Apr '17 9:38:59 AM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVI just want to say this in case people hear Trump say something about his Napoleonic period
- He failed his hearthcare reform, twice
- His attempts at stopping sanctuary cities were blocked.
- He made tensions in the Pacific worse
- And he made no progress on that wall of his (thankfully)
"Most successful of any president" my ass.

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