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For the record, the reason people of African descent live in the Caribbean is the same as why they live in the continental U.S. Transatlantic slavery. Because the Caribbean islands mostly grew sugar (a ludicrously lucrative cash crop back in those days) the slave masters had little reason to...

Theoretically, we want the best and brightest working in the White House. Nobody wants chumps and chumplowskies in charge of the day to day work of the executive branch of the government. That being said, if you want the best then you have to pay them at least competitively. $80,000 is a...

Wow, this thread is still near the top. Paging doctor alien Elvis, you are needed in thread coo coo.

The shoe thing that the school is trying to accomplish is to allow children freedom of expression. If a boy wants to play house, who cares? Let the kid do it. And the idea that the world will not conform to the environment presented in a pre-school is not unique to this school at all. Since when...

Holy cow, is that in Detroit? She is literally sorroundes by abandoned homes.

To be clear, the O.R guy wants pro life folks to provide info about abortion providers who are local to the communities where the pro-life folks live. He is not asking for info about where abortion providers live. The FL Independent could have chosen their words better. As it's written, the O.R...

Typical white privilege. You complain that others assume they will be understood speaking in Spanish, while simultaneously assuming that others should understand you when you speak in English. This is straight up hypocritical UNLESS we are assuming that English is what people SHOULD speak. I...

On one hand, the pledge means nothing and so it is not a big deal. Everything after the words "to the flag" are just describing the thing being pledged to. Given the timing of the pledge's initial existence, it is clear that the indivisible part was aimed at folks living South of a cartain Mason...

Color me not that impressed. In the UCC we had an African American President of the denomination in 1976.

Linkypoo What do yall think? My first reaction is that, having sat through a few high school valedictorian speeches, if he only got to give half his speech, he probably still talked twice as long as he should have. Second, I hesitate to give a judgment on the decision without seeing the...

We've got the American Jesus, / See him on the interstate. / We've got the American Jesus, / He helped build the President's estate Who knew that Bad Religion was so influential?

Who cares? When did Hollywood agree to be a neutral social force?

Well, apparently they DO have the authority because they did it. The point I am making is that with minors, the presumption is that they do not have the right to do something, rather than the other way around for adults. One can argue (I did when I was a teen) that democratic citizens are...

Entering into binding legal contracts, getting married, enlisting in the military, running for public office, renting an apartment, buying firearms, driving, having consensual sex. This is just what I came up with off the top of my head just now. There is even more that happens once you are on...

Yeah, I read it, I just don't believe everthing I read on the internet. <<<SHOCKER!

What a shocker, there is freedom of religion in a country that was founded largely on the desire for freedom of religion. Intellectual intimacy?

Also, the point is that the climate change in Greenland had catostrophic effects. This awesome PBS thing I watched argued that the climate change led to the Vikings needing to do huge amounts of pillaging and whatnot just to survive. Climate change leads to unrest and war over increasingly...

If somebody has already said this, I apologize but kids in high school don't have all the same constitutional rights as adults. There is no right to have a free student press, for example. Principals absolutely can censor student newspapers and prohibit students from distributing on school...

Hold on a sec. Why would the military need a program to allow one person to control ten accounts? THAT IS ALREADY SUPER EASY. We even have an intartubes name for it. The "y'all are sheeple!" people really need to think stuff through with, you know, common sense before spreading these weird...

Postscript. Although that little epistle in the back does say that a day is like a thousand years in God's sight and vice-versa, Camping seems to have missed that a thousand years in God's sight is also "like yesterday when it is passed" or like "a watch in the night". What is 1000 multiplied...