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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Hamilton Samuels]

Omaha had a statue of Boyardee,  outside a Con Agra plant.  DK if it's still there.   Anyone who's eaten Beefaroni may wonder why it hasn't been tossed in the river.

I remember the Chef Boyardee commercials WBW for Beefaroni and the way we customized them.

Beefaroni's really neat
Beefaroni smells like feet
Beefaroni tases like sheet

Hurray for Beefaroni!

Reminds me of the show with Chuck Connors. "Branded".

We changed those lyrics, too.

Branded.
Sitting on a toilet bowl.
What do you do when you're branded and ain't gotta roll?
To prove your a man, you must wipe it with your hand and then you're..
BRANDED!

[barton]

Clearly,  we're all deep in the boomer demographic.  I remember both those song rewrites all too well.   

The Douglass speech is a great read.  I am always struck by the flow of eloquence which follows these lines of great modesty in the intro...

You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium. With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together....   


https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

[barton]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/what-matters-july-1/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3d3kxCeT9YZA0WR2EuLvn7W5A9sA35WjFtGWd-MVYJRPbtuY1jzddeP0A

The schools situation is a complete crisis. And completely unfixable

IIRC some Scandinavian countries have tried to develop childcare supports that allow a firewall between children and their older relatives.   I think we need to at least look into that,  because of the great need children have for in-person learning.   The punch from a generation psychologically stunted by isolation will make coronavirus look like a love-tap.   

[Hamilton Samuels]

Getting woke in Beantown:
https://youtu.be/QtUgq2Q1ivA

I'm sure things are better since this video was made. A year ago.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Another great New passes on.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/carl-reiner-daughter-donald-trump-blm-133531852.html
RIP, Carl.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Ghislaine Maxwell's NH house was called "Tuckedaway", and she bought it with cash for over $1,000,000.

Time to tuck her away for a few decades.

https://news.yahoo.com/ghislaine-maxwell-arrested-1-million-113809279.html

[bambu.]

Negev desert?
People could live there.
Desalination plants...pump water from the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.

Not many.
How many folks live in Australia's interior?

Not many...but there's no need for more to do so.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/07/02/sheriffs-office-investigating-orion-township-parking-lot-altercation-caught-on-video/

Whiteness sure is ugly.

Self defence.

[Kam]

Some of their ilk were spies for Japan, in Hawaii and elsewhere.
Only way to protect America was to put all in camps.

Why haven’t they put you in a camp yet, you nazi fuck?

Speaking of Nazis,
just watched a true story movie 'The Zookeeper's Wife'...family who owned the Warsaw Zoo in 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland.
Jews in Poland relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. ...resistance,  how the family hid Jews in their Zoo villa basement ...smuggled out 300 during the war.

Jews from the ghetto, ...men, women,  small children.packed into trains and relocated .
Who could blame Jews from then on deciding that would never be happening to them again?
Who can blame Jews in the world today for making ""whatever it takes" their motto.

"Look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will."

Then you understand Black Lives Matter.

[Kam]

Negev desert?
People could live there.
Desalination plants...pump water from the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.

Not many.
How many folks live in Australia's interior?

Not many...but there's no need for more to do so.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/07/02/sheriffs-office-investigating-orion-township-parking-lot-altercation-caught-on-video/

Whiteness sure is ugly.

Self defence.

Felonious assault.   She is looking at 4 years in jail.

[LarryBnDC]

Knicks

Buy the kids some donuts that will keep them happy for awhile, but they aren't the ones driving the car and i'm not sure they know how to get where they want to go or where the local voting precinct is, as many have never voted before. 

Have a safe 4th and good luck outrunning the torpedos, because they're surely coming.

In this context you don’t outrun torpedos because they are tethered mines. You go through the minefield.

What you don’t understand about this generation you belittle as children is they are the most informed generation in history having grown up on social media. They can out organize and out mobilize better than anything you have ever seen.

They’re coming out college and high school into this shit and they aren’t stupid.

[bambu.]

Negev desert?
People could live there.
Desalination plants...pump water from the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.

Not many.
How many folks live in Australia's interior?

Not many...but there's no need for more to do so.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/07/02/sheriffs-office-investigating-orion-township-parking-lot-altercation-caught-on-video/

Whiteness sure is ugly.

Self defence.

Felonious assault.   She is looking at 4 years in jail.

How else was she supposed to get the aggressive, shouting, banging on her car people away from her?
They knew exactly what they were doing, and she fell for it?

[barton]

How is it "self defense" when it is you who is inside a car (which presumably locks)  and backing your car right at a pedestrian?

Gosh,  Officer,  I was so afraid my panel was going to be dented or gore deposited on the undercarriage when I finished running them down....

When did conservatives get so utterly fucking stupid?   

[Kam]

Negev desert?
People could live there.
Desalination plants...pump water from the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.

Not many.
How many folks live in Australia's interior?

Not many...but there's no need for more to do so.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/07/02/sheriffs-office-investigating-orion-township-parking-lot-altercation-caught-on-video/

Whiteness sure is ugly.

Self defence.

Felonious assault.   She is looking at 4 years in jail.

How else was she supposed to get the aggressive, shouting, banging on her car people away from her?
They knew exactly what they were doing, and she fell for it?

How about anything else? 
She should have acted like she was unarmed and done almost anything else. 
Not every american is loaded for bear in the parking lot.   
This is the problem with gun culture.

They knew what they were doing? 
I've been in there situation where a car backed out of a spot and almost hit me.
I slammed against the back of of the car.
The guy got out and yelled at me and I kept walking.
I knew what I was doing in as much as I was protecting myself from being hit by an automobile.

[bambu.]

How is it "self defense" when it is you who is inside a car (which presumably locks)  and backing your car right at a pedestrian?

Gosh,  Officer,  I was so afraid my panel was going to be dented or gore deposited on the undercarriage when I finished running them down....

When did conservatives get so utterly fucking stupid?

What was the woman doing behind their car, after all that had gone on, she knew they were leaving, and had started to reverse?
Was she there on purpose?

[Kam]

What if the woman in the car was black and the woman walking behind the car was white?