JimMIA
There's more to life than mice...
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- Feb 16, 2005
She was depicted on the bottle as a happy servant thrilled to be cooking for her white family. Yessuh massa.A logo of an African American woman is demeaning??? Wow, just wow. I believe her nephew came out and was very disappointed with this irrational move, or maybe that was Uncle Ben?
OMG, so you see the NYPD sitting on their butts not working??? Wow, just wow and how do you know this??? Any proof?
Don't forget to plaster huge smile on your face and dance a jig as you exit from the room.She was depicted on the bottle as a happy servant thrilled to be cooking for her white family. Yessuh massa.
I was going to suggest the multiple punctuation marks also, but someone beat me to it.I know how to turn this back into a drinking game thread. Anytime you see the word “wow”
Actually, your "God given right" doesn't extend to a message board. The owners of the board get to decide whether you can express your opinion. Same with your employers. THEY get to determine what you're allowed to say at work. Businesses you frequent get to decide what you say on their property. If you truly had a "God given right to express your opinion", they couldn't do that.Nothing to hide! It's my God given right to express my opinion, just like everyone else on here. And sorry, but I am not hateful, never have been but that's what people like you do when someone has a difference of opinion, start with the insults. It's OK, believe what you want to make yourself feel better. Pray for NYC, it needs it!
I guess I'll answer my own questions.Was the mayor elected a month ago? How has crime been over their entire term? NYC is generally a very low crime city so even a small uptick might just be noise.
Crime has so many influencing factors that I would severely caution anyone to reading too much into small (less than 1 year) data sets. For example, Chicago always sees a spike in shootings the first warm weekend of the year. If that weekend happens to be earlier than the year before, you might see a spike in year over year data due to that.
Make up your mind. Earlier when I posted the stats and said some crime is down you responded with "But shootings are up!!!!" Now when I post about murders being down you say what about other crimes.Are murders the ONLY crimes that can be committed?? Look at the NYPD article that has been posted a few times!
Is this the official checklist?
Since we went all junk food yesterday tonight there will be turkey meatloaf stuffed with spinach and cheddar, golden mashed potatoes and fresh green beans.Yes, we need to bring all the food posts back in. This was entertaining. I'm hungry now.
Yes, yes it is, although it’s missing All Lives Matter, plus a bunch of others.Is this the official checklist?
Hasselback chicken with spinach and Boursin cheese and baked zucchini sticks.Since we went all junk food yesterday tonight there will be turkey meatloaf stuffed with spinach and cheddar, golden mashed potatoes and fresh green beans.
Health food?!Since we went all junk food yesterday tonight there will be turkey meatloaf stuffed with spinach and cheddar, golden mashed potatoes and fresh green beans.
It's there..top row second block. I'm sure we will be informed of the "bunch of others"Yes, yes it is, although it’s missing All Lives Matter, plus a bunch of others.
Agreed! I’m going to need a lot of carbs to soak up all this alcohol I had to drinkHealth food?!
I'm boycotting
I think most good people can agree that indulging and expanding the institution of slavery is our country's original sin. The nations stole the entire lives value from tens of millions of human beings. That's a lot to yada yada past with a "but things happened".was some of it right--no-- but way back in time they did what they thought was right for that time--but things happened
Please keep in mind that most of those statues were not put up before or during the civil war but 100 years later in response to the civil rights movement. Think about that. 100 years after the confederate defeat, confederate states started putting statues up to celebrate the generals of their traitor army. Why would we do this?statues are being taken down or destroyed--even disney is changing some of there classic rides that have been around since the beginning
For years now, quiet and peaceful protests have gone ignored or mischaracterized and punished. Quietly taking a knee, for example, to draw attention to a real injustice has lost people their careers. A right my grandfather died in a German ditch to protect.well my word the protesters that came out of the woodwork were insane!!!
It is. It has been for a long time. I would like to believe that the current struggles are a just painful symptom of healing. I don't believe that, but compared to some of the things I have seen people believe, it's not so far flung.sad sick world
We have a friend who is a commercial fisherman and he came home Thursday with some incredible Red Snapper...so we got a couple of pounds (except that his scale is messed up because I'm sure he gave us at least 3 1/2-4 poinds).Since we went all junk food yesterday tonight there will be turkey meatloaf stuffed with spinach and cheddar, golden mashed potatoes and fresh green beans.
We well know about forced labour. There are as I noted memorials and plaques and artistic honourings all around the country. Just around the Reichstag alone along with the holocaust memorial there are memorials to the Sinti and Roma, and a very well done memorial to 'homosexuals persecuted under Nazism' (along with memorials to those killed trying to escape the DDR, which is another thing we discuss and remember) Every major city in Germany has a permanent museum to discuss what happened. The documentation centre in Munich is very clear of why that city embraced National Socialism, and there are pictures with faces clearly displayed, and names, so that we can see our own people who participated.
The museum to resistance in Berlin doesn't just show who resisted, or why it wasn't easy, but talks about the lack of resistance amongst much of the population.
It's virtually impossible to walk anywhere in Germany without seeing something that acknowledges our recent past (both the times of National Socialism, and what came after ie the times of the DDR) We are fully aware and we acknowledge this in literature, television, film, museums, memorials, and random street art.
So very true, bavaria. Those memorials remind people of a very sordid, evil past time in your country's history, not a glorified time. They were created to give people the ability to learn about those in your country who caused so much suffering and death for so many years as well as their victims. Many statues here in our country memorialize and hold up to praise people who were traitors and enemies of our country, fighting for the evil cause of maintaining slavery in the United States. Those atrocities in Germany and surrounding countries that occurred 80 years ago under Hitler's regime should never be forgotten, but rather the memories of them forever present to remind current and future generations what can happen if a country slowly slides into autocracy and evilness.And since that poster brought up IG Farben, here is the memorial on that site. http://www.wollheim-memorial.de/en/home
It is really difficult to avoid in daily life what happened in our recent past, and using Germany as a bad example is quite laughable when we are generally seen as one of the best for acknowledging our past. We've moved beyond the generation born at the end of the war who used to say 'why am I to blame? I wasn't born then!' to my generation and younger, who have this as part of our lives.
I fully admit to having capitulated to opiods, if I misunderstood, and apologies for any rambling.I think you misunderstood the point. That poster didn't use Germany as a bad example of anything, laughable or otherwise.
The German industrial war machine, often complicit with the horrors of WWll, was allowed to continue afterwards and be part of the necessary rebuilding of continental Europe.
No contentious statues to tear down today but certainly no squeaky clean legacy either.
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