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oristarA
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 02:19 am
@roger,
roger wrote:

Nothing to do with being pretty, though that might add to the charm.

She always looks so startled that her mind goes blank. When that happens to deer at night, they often get hit by moving cars.


Thanks for the excellent reply.
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lmur
 
  2  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 02:27 am
@roger,
It's only a matter of time before someone enters this behemoth of a thread requesting a Latin translation.
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snood
 
  2  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 03:35 am
@goldberg,
Said by whom?
goldberg
 
  0  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 04:00 am
@snood,
By liberal publications. Such publications call Ta-Nehisi Coates the most influential black opinion former in America, arguing that he is going to fight for black people and proscribe America's whiteness just like what Toni Morrison did ; Toni Morrison used the word whiteness several times in an article she wrote for The New Yorker.

She also talks about whiteness in a book I bought last year, which is about black literature. Ellen McGirt, who writes for Fortune magazine, is another foremost black journalist paying heed to racial issues.

goldberg
 
  0  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 04:11 am
@goldberg,
I'm no fan of Alice Walker; she wrote an anti-Semitic poem in 2017.
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goldberg
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 04:13 am
@goldberg,
The New Yorker's Hilton Als, who is black, seems to be a talented writer. Bernardine Evaristo, who's a black writer in Britain, wrote a critically acclaimed novel entitled "Girl, Woman, Other, " which won the Booker Prize.
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snood
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 04:43 am
@goldberg,
goldberg wrote:

By liberal publications. Such publications call Ta-Nehisi Coates the most influential black opinion former in America, arguing that he is going to fight for black people and proscribe America's whiteness just like what Toni Morrison did ; Toni Morrison used the word whiteness several times in an article she wrote for The New Yorker.


She also talks about whiteness in a book I bought last year, which is about black literature. Ellen McGirt, who writes for Fortune magazine, is another foremost black journalist paying heed to racial issues.




What “liberal publication”?
If it’s so widely agreed that those two people are the most influential black voices, it should be a simple matter to provide the name of just one such “publication”, and just one specific citation where they name those two individuals the two most influential black voices...

It would be a simple matter that is, unless you pulled that factoid out of the same nether region from which you produce all of your information.
goldberg
 
  0  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 05:00 am
@snood,

“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the James Baldwin of our era, and this is his cri de coeur. A brilliant thinker at the top of his powers, he has distilled four hundred years of history and his own anguish and wisdom into a prayer for his beloved son and an invocation to the conscience of his country. Between the World and Me is an instant classic and a gift to us all.”—Isabel Wilkerson.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most original and perceptive black voices today—“the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States”-New York Observer. This is a conservative newspaper.


" Ta-Nehisi Coates emerged as our most vital public intellectual. -Vanity Fair


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goldberg
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 05:09 am
@snood,
I'm not a worthy like you. Maybe you think Trevor Noah is the most influential black man on earth. I don't watch his show because he is not Jon Stewart.
goldberg
 
  0  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 05:15 am
@snood,
I think I have to take my hat and socks off to you since you are another grandee.

Just don't ask me to take the knee. I won't do that no matter what you say.

goldberg
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 05:16 am
@goldberg,
ALL LIVES MATTER.
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goldberg
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 05:18 am
@snood,
You have fun here. The muggins here has to watch a soccer game.
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izzythepush
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 05:20 am
@goldberg,
goldberg wrote:

Maybe you think Trevor Noah is the most influential black man on earth.


That would be Mobeen.

revelette1
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 09:14 am
Supreme Court rejects Nevada church plea to allow larger congregation

Quote:
The Supreme Court's decision was issued without comment. But in his June decision against the church, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware wrote that other secular institutes that partake in activities similar to a house of worship are also restricted. Other venues with congregating audiences — such as museums, movie theaters and concert venues — are subject to similar or stricter restrictions, he wrote.

"It is not enough for Calvary to demonstrate that the directive is intermittently not being enforced against secular activities," Boulware wrote in his decision. "Calvary must also demonstrate that Defendants are only enforcing the directive against places of worship."

He also rejected the comparison between houses of worship and casinos, pointing out they operate differently and that casinos also remain constricted by substantial Covid-19-related regulations issued by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

The Supreme Court in May struck down a plea from a San Diego church that California's lockdown order was inhibiting its right to free religion. That decision also fell narrowly along ideological lines, with Roberts siding with the liberal faction. Roberts argued against the court intervening in states' responses to a public health crisis.

"The precise question of when restrictions on particular social activities should be lifted during the pandemic is a dynamic and fact-intensive matter subject to reasonable disagreement," Roberts wrote at the time.


To give credit to where it's due, Roberts stays true to his ultra conservative views even if it goes against today's "conservatives" and puts him with the liberals. His decision rested on states rights. Which kind of swings in both directions depending on the case.
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snood
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 09:43 am
@goldberg,
goldberg wrote:

I'm not a worthy like you. Maybe you think Trevor Noah is the most influential black man on earth. I don't watch his show because he is not Jon Stewart.


What I think is that your opinion about who does or does not speak for black people has zero significance.

You are just a double-talking racist, and that is clear in spite of your endless word salad posts attempting to appear well-informed or timely.
izzythepush
 
  2  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 10:01 am
@snood,
snood wrote:

You are just a double-talking racist,


Exactly, you should hear what he says about the Chinese.
coldjoint
 
  -3  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 11:08 am
@snood,
Quote:
You are just a double-talking racist,

A lot of those here. They are not Trumps supporters, and either is he.
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coldjoint
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 11:37 am
Quote:

Peace-loving black Trump super-supporter shot dead hours after giving pro-Trump interview

https://www.bizpacreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/black-trump-supporter-bernell-trammell-killed-milwaukee.jpg
He was not really Black anyway, right? Police think there could be a political motive. Is that how Americans persuade voters? Communists do.
Quote:
Marxist Black Lives Matter activists are curiously silent after black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell was murdered in Milwaukee hours after he reportedly gave an interview explaining why he supports President Trump.

Police are investigating the possibility of a political motive for Trammell’s tragic killing, NewsTalk1130 reported.

According to the Daily Callout (see below): “Trammell, 60, was gunned down on July 23 near the very spot where he gave a video interview a few hours before explaining why he supported Trump. The motive is not clear, including whether the slaying was tied into Trammell’s political beliefs or Trump support.”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/07/25/peace-loving-black-trump-super-supporter-shot-dead-hours-after-giving-pro-trump-interview-951222
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coldjoint
 
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Sat 25 Jul, 2020 12:11 pm
Quote:
'Unrigging the system,' Trump signs executive orders to lower prescription drug prices

Is there a hidden racist motive behind this? I doubt it. Big pharma does not like Trump. Who likes big pharma? A long list of politicians do in both parties.
Quote:
One of the executive orders would provide discounted insulin and EpiPens to low-income Americans, which Trump said would bring the cost down to "pennies a day."

The president explained that community health centers would have to pass the savings they receive on the drugs onto their patients.

Another order would allow "states, wholesalers and pharmacies" to safely import prescription drugs from Canada –a change Trump said the Obama-Biden administration wasn't able to make

"We're standing up to the lobbyists and special interests," the president said in a White House event. "I'm unrigging the system that is many decades old."

That should sway some senior voters and others from any age group with chronic conditions like diabetes and arthritis.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/unrigging-system-trump-signs-executive-orders-aimed-lowering-prescription
MontereyJack
 
  1  
Sat 25 Jul, 2020 12:21 pm
@coldjoint,
The high prices are due to republican exemptions to big pharma from years of pharma setting drug prices which government was forbidden to negotiate on.
 

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