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The Minsky Moment

#6090
November 01, 2018, 03:33:07 PM
I would have assumed he was referring to the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875, since:
(a) they were written, sponsored and passed by Republicans, in the first instance over the veto of a Democratic President, and
(b) it fits chronologically.
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--Joan Robinson

Eddie Teach

#6091
November 01, 2018, 04:27:02 PM
Wasn't he technically a Republican, having run on a ticket with Lincoln?
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The Minsky Moment

#6092
November 01, 2018, 04:34:31 PM
I think technically both ran on a unity ticket.  I don't think Johnson ever left the Democrats.  He ran as a Democrat in 1868.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Syt

#6093
November 01, 2018, 04:42:20 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Admiral Yi

#6094
November 01, 2018, 04:44:06 PM
Time?  Your meme generator needs to get out more.

Syt

#6095
November 01, 2018, 04:53:39 PM
Comment from my niece's husband, an Army Sgt: "If they try'n charge the border there'll be a lot of dead spics that day."
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

dps

#6096
November 01, 2018, 05:03:29 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 01, 2018, 11:26:23 AM
Are there even any people in Congress left that had the option to vote on it?

Nope.  No one in Congress right now was there before the mid-70s.

viper37

#6097
November 01, 2018, 05:15:58 PM
Your sister, she was like that growing up in Europe or she changed once in the US?
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Syt

#6098
November 01, 2018, 05:19:43 PM
She was actually pretty liberal/pronounced non-patriotic.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Habbaku

#6099
November 01, 2018, 06:49:49 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 01, 2018, 04:53:39 PM
Comment from my niece's husband, an Army Sgt: "If they try'n charge the border there'll be a lot of dead spics that day."

Yikes.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Oexmelin

#6100
November 01, 2018, 07:03:17 PM
It's utterly unsurprising. There is a real gleeful desire on the sociopathic right to unleash lethal violence upon others - upon liberals coming to take your guns, upon Democrat traitors, upon migrants crossing the border, upon the press which peddles fake news against the beloved president.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/1/18053638/cnn-carried-donald-trump-immigration-white-house

But yeah, the lack of civility of Maxine Waters - that's the big problem. 
Que le grand cric me croque !

Syt

#6101
November 02, 2018, 03:31:37 AM
You know, every once in a while my reaction to the crap my family posts still goes beyond eye rolling and into "Whoa WTF?"

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#6102
November 02, 2018, 03:32:58 AM Last Edit: November 02, 2018, 03:34:47 AM by Syt
The link in that image is .... yikes.
https://o4anews.com/

Though to be fair it was shared from this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/LionsAreKing2020/posts/?ref=page_internal
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

garbon

#6103
November 02, 2018, 04:18:40 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on November 01, 2018, 01:16:36 PM
Weren't those laws abolished due to Civil Rights Act?

Alabama only got that removed from their laws in 2000.
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Tamas

#6104
November 02, 2018, 05:02:44 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 02, 2018, 03:31:37 AM
You know, every once in a while my reaction to the crap my family posts still goes beyond eye rolling and into "Whoa WTF?"




WTF
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