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cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 04:15 pm
@blatham,
Indeed, I also hope it's a good sign for the future of journalism and the media.

With the access of the internet, many have dropped their subscription from the print media. We still subscribe to the Sunday San Jose Mercury News. We take it to PB to have our coffee, relax, and read the paper.
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cicerone imposter
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 04:19 pm
@georgeob1,
I disagree. The 1964 Civil Rights Act under Johnson is a good example of how government did help civil liberties and rights.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
Civil Rights Act - Black History - HISTORY.com
www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act
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Debra Law
 
  4  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 04:31 pm
@georgeob1,
georgeob1 wrote:

You are dead wrong in just about every category of your preemptive judgments about me. Though I do reject the contemporary group identities imposed on us by current fashion , as well the associated distortion of our constitution, which addressed the rights of individuals as opposed to groups. My experience in life has taught be that individal variations everywhere are generally greater and far more significant than the supposed differences in these group identities. I have also observed that little lasting good has been accomplished by government action based on such group identity.


Notwithstanding what you just wrote above, you previously wrote that you approved of government action, i.e., singling out groups, for differential treatment such as depriving same-sex couples the right to marry (a right enjoyed by similarly situated opposite-sex couples). Thus, your positions from one posting to the next are contradictory. The Fourteenth Amendment expressly prohibits any state from depriving any person of equal protection of the law. It says what it means, it means what it says. No distortion there. States do not have any authority to discriminate against similarly situated persons.

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Finally I recognize that the only real solution to these issues is the recognition of the significant individual qualities of people in preference to the relatively insignificant group categories with which we currently label them. The assumption that increased government directed and enforced efforts to correct past wrongs, with even more group identity based enforcement, won't have far worse and lasting adverse side effects than the thing it ostensibly seeks to rectify, strikes me as ludicrous.


That's a lot of words to swim through and try to figure out what you're saying. Are you railing against desegregation? What is you beef? Be clear.

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I have longed practiced those principles in my daily and professional life, while, at the same time, trying hard to avoid the sappy banalities of political correctitude.. It has served me very well indeed.


You haven't stated in this particular post with any clarity what principles you live by. You previously announced that voters in California had the right to use the power of the state to discriminate against gays. And you are wrong, both legally and morally.


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Do you really know that the Extermination of Jews in Europe during WWII "didn't teach me anything" or indeed that I needed to be taught anything at all in that area? It seems to me that you are being rather presumptuous and prejudicial... not to mention undeservedly offensive.


I am saying what many of us have already said: Donald Trump is a racist and a bigot, among other horrible things (e.g., misogynist), and you're okay with that. Why would you be okay with that when history has taught us about the evil that flows from such ugliness?

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Mass exterminations are a continuing feature of the modern world - from the extermination of native peoples in the new world (largely, but not all, through inported diseases) ; to the famines in Ireland which killed 4 millions in a three year period the 1850s (all while the country was a net exporter of food to England , from farmland seized and appropriated by the English) to the extermination of the Circassians by Nicholas I in ~ 1875; the extermination of Armenians by the Ottomans in 1915; the extermination of Ukranians, Lithuanians Tatars and irreconcilables by Lenin and Stalin; the Holocaust in WWII Europe; and the exterminations of Mao on China and Pol Pot in Cambodia that followed. The list is long indeed. The still ongoing extermination of non Moslems in Mesopotamia, Syria and Africa suggests we have not seen the last of it. .

It appears there may be far more to this than you to realize, acknowledge or even understand.


I am aware of man's inhumanity to man. The reason so much attention is given to the Holocaust is due to the vast similarities between Hitler's rise to power and Trump's rise to power and his clear use of Hitler's playbook. That is something you have yet to acknowledge.
blatham
 
  6  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 04:42 pm
https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBhcaHR0cDovL2ltZy53b25rZXR0ZS5jb20vd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMTYvMTIvU2NyZWVuLVNob3QtMjAxNi0xMi0zMS1hdC0xMi41My4xMC1QTS5wbmcUqAkU7gQcFIQGFJQDAAAWABIA&s=ucQ6MdhqVxmOnkH2IMJFi6hRjMR8Rf7f24aq9w0TXFc
Debra Law
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 04:56 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

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Shouldn't the fourth grade snot be washing out the **** stains in his shorts instead of taunting his "many enemies"?

At the very least, this guy is a putz. But that's far more generous than I'm prepared to be.
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Quote:
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty…We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.” – Edward R. Murrow

If you think 2016 has been a wild and rough ride, just wait ‘til you get a load of 2017.
Given everything we know about Donald Trump from his divisive, demagogic presidential campaign, the next four years will be a stress test for the American system.
LINK
That bolded portion is exactly correct. I wish I had more confidence the system will be able to bear what's coming over the horizon. Because it is the system which is coming under attack.


Very interesting factoid that I didn't know: Roy Cohn was one of McCarthy's aides. Wow.

Thank you for the link. This is a great article from beginning to end. I highly recommend it. I put it in my favorite places so I may read it again, and reread it often over the next four years.

blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 05:07 pm
@Debra Law,
Yes, it's a very good piece. And this...
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Roy Cohn was one of McCarthy's aides.

Yeah. I did not know that either.
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blatham
 
  4  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:12 pm
Donald Trump is a comic book villain.

And his supporters are comic book villain-supporters.

Soon to be published by DC Comics (of course)
blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:17 pm
@blatham,
And if you buy that particular issue, DO NOT THROW IT AWAY! It will be worth at least 38 water-units in the post-apocalyptic economy.
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Frugal1
 
  -1  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:27 pm
@blatham,
That is funny.
Happy New Year!
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TomTomBinks
 
  1  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:33 pm
@blatham,
perfect
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blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:33 pm
To aid the artists, let me suggest for visualization themes, use that statue of Trump naked that was put up on the streets in New York. Add a robotic right hand (make of 13 carat gold) for pussy grabbing.

...and a Russian accent, please
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blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:45 pm
How upside down are things? Consider that if all reporters addressed Trump as "President Smegma-Breath", we'd probably be better of than now
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blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:25 pm
I hope you'll all consider buying my new book of children's stories titled "Alligator **** House".
glitterbag
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:36 pm
@blatham,
Ugh, Roy Cohn, the original mold for perfectly slimy bastards who would turn their own mothers out as working girls. Yes, he was the epitome of soulessness. He smoking turds in purgatory if he's lucky.
blatham
 
  4  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:51 pm
@glitterbag,
"Smoking turds". He'll have to mix in some tobacco to get them to burn properly but he is smart and a winner so he'll get it done.

I confess a spiritual malady. I am depressed.

Robin Williams is gone. Hunter Thompson is gone. Leonard Cohen is gone. And Donald Trump is here.

I didn't expect the End Days to be this vulgar.

wmwcjr
 
  3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:56 pm
@blatham,
"Submitted for your approval, a nightmare in orange. . . ."

Forgive me, Frugal (and the rest of you).

Happy New Year, all! Smile
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blatham
 
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Sat 31 Dec, 2016 11:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-Q_zpuJGU

Trump doesn't laugh. But this guy laughs real good. I am going to miss him.
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McGentrix
 
  -1  
Sun 1 Jan, 2017 12:53 am
@Debra Law,
Debra Law wrote:

That's a lot of words to swim through and try to figure out what you're saying. Are you railing against desegregation? What is you beef? Be clear.


Aren't you allegedly a lawyer? You'd think reading comprehension would be one of the things that would be considered a common necessity for lawyers. I've seen too many contracts for you to claim that paragraph was too difficult for you to grasp.

Debra Law wrote:

I am saying what many of us have already said: Donald Trump is a racist and a bigot, among other horrible things (e.g., misogynist), and you're okay with that. Why would you be okay with that when history has taught us about the evil that flows from such ugliness?


Your saying something doesn't make it true. You probably once said that Hillary would be the next President and look how that turned out. You are wrong on too many things to try playing some morality cop.

Debra Law wrote:

I am aware of man's inhumanity to man. The reason so much attention is given to the Holocaust is due to the vast similarities between Hitler's rise to power and Trump's rise to power and his clear use of Hitler's playbook. That is something you have yet to acknowledge.


blatham
 
  3  
Sun 1 Jan, 2017 07:50 am
Trump has intel data no one else knows.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing lingering skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the election, said on Saturday evening that he knew “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, and that the information would be revealed “on Tuesday or Wednesday.”

...He added: “And I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else. And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.”
LINK

There is nothing this man cannot do. No problem he cannot solve. No mystery he cannot unravel. No subject on which he is not an expert, a genius even. Take for one example, governmental communications systems:
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Mr. Trump, who does not use email, also advised people to avoid computers when dealing with delicate material. “It’s very important, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way, because I’ll tell you what, no computer is safe,” Mr. Trump said.

“I don’t care what they say, no computer is safe,” he added. “I have a boy who’s 10 years old; he can do anything with a computer. You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier.”
Frugal1
 
  -2  
Sun 1 Jan, 2017 08:02 am
@blatham,
There is the possibility that Trump has global connections that no one else has.
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