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Do the right thing, America.
I don't get it. Why did the US Govt give gazillions of dollars to the 9/11 families but no reparations for slavery? ?
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Because the United States didn't become a nation of perpetual victims in the late 20th century.
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Because 9/11 shocked the nation, but taking advantage of minorities is nothing shocking or new. We still do it. We just call it "minimum wage" and Republican tax schemes now.
Why would some greedy fat bastards sitting at the top (all pasty white of course) be willing to part with their "hard earned" (hahaha) dollars for anything if they don't have to? They still don't like Blacks, Asians, Mexicans, etc., but are glad to live on their backs.
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cause the slaves were freed 150 fucking years ago.
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We give you food stamps, welfare, unemployment, section 8 housing, child care, free medical care, Obamaphones....what the fuck, did we leave something out?
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OP, you're an idiot. Are any of those slaves still around like the 9-11 families? Obviously not, they and their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren are long gone!
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I don't know, why did the US Govt take away all the land for the Native Americans force them on crappy land to survive on nothing for generations. Then why they finally figure out a way to make money, tax, tax tax them.
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Reparations are deserved and rightly so. The 9/11 people getting millions is fucking bullshit by comparison.
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Really, R4? Most black people in the US who are descendants of former slaves are not on welfare, and have never lived in public housing.
Many whites who are not descendants of slaves ARE on welfare.
Obviously you don't understand the concept of "reparations for slavery/Jim Crow."
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As another poster pointed out, kent state was a mere 43 years ago. Give their families some damn compensation!!!!
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Because 9/11 actually happened to those individuals, and not their great-great-great-grandparents.
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I have a novel idea. Why don't we just give them a free boat trip back to Uganda?
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Lets see, we have the richest woman in America, Opera, and the President of the United States both black and you still want shit that happened 200 years ago to be compensated?
Ok, how about we do that in 200 year pay scale. Here is your 15 cents, now go.
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Don't forget dumbed-down graduation requirements and employee hiring tests.
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That the direct descendants of the men and women who built this county would benefit is the whole point. They never got paid for their labor.
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I'm not sure what opera has to do with reparations, but, whatever.
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AND a free school breakfast AND lunch!
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That would actually be the fairest and most earnest attempt and putting things back the way they were.
If the OP was serious he would opt for that not cash for his next blunt.
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R16, slaves could not work for their own money. 200 years later, not only can they keep what they make, they are some of the richest people in America.
Why would someone like Opera need more compensation from current tax payers when none of us had anything do to with slavery in the first place.
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What are Obamaphones?
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Wow. OP's troll bait really has the racists crawling out of their holes.
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Are you that fucking clueless r20?
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Give you money? So you can go out and buy more crack and guns? Why don't you go back to school and get an education and keep off the porches and stoops.
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affirmative action
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I'm not necessarily in favor of reparations, but cut the racist bullshit about social programs being the equivalent of reparations. Roughly an equal number if blacks and whites are on welfare in this country, so if the program was set up as form of reparations for slavery, kick those white people off the rolls. Also, do something about the majority of African-American citizens, who apparently are getting ripped off because they are not on any form of government assistance.
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Please include PC absurdness.
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R25, that is such a bullshit analysis of the numbers. Let's say, as you suggest, an equal number of blacks and whites are on welfare. It still says blacks are predominately loafers because they are only 12% of the population.
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bu$hco decided to pay off the families of 9/11 so they wouldn't sue the airlines into oblivion.
They also didn't want all of their security fuckups that they ignored to come out during trial. Let's not forget that they were all on vacation the weeks before 9/11 and couldn't be bothered with the reports they DID get that said Osama Bin Laden plans to attack with planes. Any and all trials with the airlines would have become a trial against the government and the bu$h administration
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Shhhh, r27!
Blacks don't like to hear that statistic.
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OP, my family is Hispanic and go back generations when California was part of Mexico.
As Americans, we were not part of that whole slave trade the gringo did. Why should I, my family or anyone of us here before all that have to pay for something other people did?
How about paying us for California and Nevada, Utah, Colorado as well as most of northern New Mexico and Arizona and Texas.
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[quote]What are Obamaphones?
A freeper work of fiction.
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Your clueless R22 Stop watching Faux News
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I am a socialist and even I don't favor reparations.
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Work of fiction, R31? Move to New York, there are commercials for Obamaphones every 5 minutes on TV. The best one: some lazy fat guy says, "Now I can call my boss and tell him I'm gonna be late for work!" Seriously.
No asshole, try getting to work on time, save money and buy your own goddamn phone.
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[quote]Why would someone like Opera need more compensation from current tax payers when none of us had anything do to with slavery in the first place.
Support Opera!!! We need to support culture!!
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Gee R31, its on TV so it must be true.
Not the brightest bulb in the box are you.
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I would support Opera but my legs are not that strong.
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R30 I'm in favor for all descendants of slavery in the US regardless of ethnicity. So if you have ancestors that were slaves then you would be getting some dough as well.
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Who could forget the obamaphone lady.
Ain't she pretty and smart?
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Hey Dumbass.
Yes, I do believe that the incessant commercials running on television (and all the outdoor advertising) for free gov't tracphones is true. Are you fucking stupid?
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He R40, Call me Now!
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[quote]How about paying us for California and Nevada, Utah, Colorado as well as most of northern New Mexico and Arizona and Texas.
Would you rather be in Mexico now????
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Yes R42, but I don't have to move, I will be taking California, Nevada, Arizona and change the name back to what it was, MEXICO. Try Google some time, it's very easy.
As a token of my gratitude, you can keep Texas.
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And by the way R42, all people who reside in those former states will be required to speak the native language... Spanish.
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You're full of shit r43
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This thread is very interesting.
Most of you have screamed at me for saying "racist" things about Canada's culture of lazy, welfare-scamming, baby-breeding Indians, but it's ok to say the same things about blacks in America?
Hello, pot? This is kettle, and you've got a little smudge over there...
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Google the Mexican American War R45. Your a Dumb Ass, you Dumb Ass.
I am not going to do if for you.
So your are basally showing us you are lazy and stupid.
That info is Junior High History. Where did you grow up Texas?
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You truly are a very special fucking kind of stupid, aren't you R36/R40?
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[quote] Your a Dumb Ass, you Dumb Ass.
Oh, dear.
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Can you fucking read, R48? It's a Reagan-era program that Obama has actually tried to reform. George W. Bush was the one who expanded it to cell phones. It's paid for with phone bill fees, not taxes. But keep spitting out those Fox News talking points.
"Obamaphones! I saw it on TV!"
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r47 you're very good at swearing but your comprehension is in the crapper. I wasn't denying history. I asked you if you'd rather be part of Mexico now and you said "yes". I said you were full of shit which means I think you're a liar or, maybe you're just that dumb.
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Work of fiction.
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Call it whatever the hell you want, R50. I don't care if George Washington came up with the idea and FDR, Kennedy, and Reagan all got together and danced an Irish Jig while Bill Clinton had phone sex with Monica over one of these goddamn government phones. The point is, it's a wasteful program.
But let me ask you a question, you ape-brained backwards fucktard. If the government requires a surcharge on everyone's cellphone bill to pay for a government program how is that not a tax? You're either dim or delusional.
And if you think that Obama (or any other politician) is trying to curb these sorts of hand-out programs you are as shit-for-brains as anyone I ever met in my life (and I've met your mom, although we didn't do much talking I'll admit). Yeah, she's a lez. You didn't know that did you?
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[quote] I don't care if George Washington came up with the idea and FDR, Kennedy, and Reagan all got together and danced an Irish Jig while Bill Clinton had phone sex with Monica over one of these goddamn government phones. The point is, it's a wasteful program.
Then why call them Obamaphones?
Also, you do realise you're on a gay website, yes?
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R52, who cares? The only thing that article says is false is that Obama created it. Nobody cares. Obama's a lame duck with no power - get over it.
Read the article you just slapped up there - it just confirms everything everyone is trying to say about how wasteful and out of control the program is.
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R54 Yes I do "realise" that, R54. (Learn how to spell, by the way). I'm a dyke. A bad ass Harley ridin' bull dyke in case you couldn't tell. Are we allowed to post here still or has that changed?
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Why the fuck do you call them Obamaphones then??
Are they paying you for this bullshit, or are you just dumb enough to believe it?
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Actually, r56, -ise is also correct. You must be a 12 year old dyke if you sling "your mom" jokes over the internet.
Please get cancer.
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[quote]But let me ask you a question, you ape-brained backwards fucktard. If the government requires a surcharge on everyone's cellphone bill to pay for a government program how is that not a tax? You're either dim or delusional.
Paying taxes is something the government requires of its citizens.
Owning a cellphone is not. You choose to own a cellphone, so you pay the fee.
You really are breathtakingly stupid, do you know that?
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R57 you have a worse case of BPD then Jodi Arias. First you're up at R11 railing against reparations then you're down at R57 calling me a troll. Get a grip, pencil dick!
Let's review, shall we.
R5 called them "Obamaphones" R20 asked what "Obamaphones" were R36 said they are a work of fiction
Then several other people chimed in all using the same term. None of the substance of the conversation ever made reference to Obama or where the phones got started. The conversation was about the PHONES not what they should be called. So I used the term "Obamaphone" once because that's what we were referring to them as - never in the context of politics, always in the context of policy (try to learn the difference, it would make you more tolerable).
You're just too fucking stupid, though, aren't you.
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[quote] R52, who cares?
You spent the last 2 hours calling them Obamaphones, so I think you care very much about connecting the program to Obama, even though its almost 30 years old and was both started and expanded under Republican presidents.
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-ise is correct only in the context of British spelling, which only passes muster if you use it consistently throughout your writing, which you don't. Go goop yourself you pretentious ass-clown.
Cancer? Beat both cervical and breast - bring on the next one mofo. This bitch is strong!
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This might be a shock to your racist mind but not all of Mexico wants to come here or be American.
I know, you are clutching your pearls for me to just even suggest that.
The truth is, There are many happy, wealthy intelligent people in Mexico who take pride in their country. Ever been to Mexico City? I thought not.
You do know that a lot of Mexicans who work here go back to Mexico because they want to live there right? Lots of American retire there how do you explain that in your little "must be dumb to want to go back to Mexico" rant.
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They don't require you to buy a yacht either, you chillingly misinformed, uneducated inbread ignoramus. But when you do, there's a special tax on it! Just like the phone tax.
Are you really this stupid or are you "Punking" us?
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R60, one can be against reparations but support Obama. One can also do those things (or not) and recognize an obvious troll like you.
It's a very black and white world you live in, isn't it? That must be very simplistic for you.
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I used the term ONCE, at R34, after it had already been used several times.
But you know what, you go girl. You prove to the world who started this program, miss thang! Smell you, you sassy bitch - you taught the world a lesson today! Take yourself out to lunch and tell them Sue sent ya and to put it on my tab!
Oy vey!
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You are so thick R65 you remind me of when a cow mates with its own offspring - the issue just sort of drools and pees all over the place until it choked on its own feces and dies.
Nobody on this thread ever said anything against Obama. This thread never *had anything to do with Obama*. I called you BPD because you come here to state a firm opinion then turn around and call a dyke a troll for doing the same damn thing!
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Obamaphone Lady wakes up!
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Whats your problem R66? You used the term once twice who cares? You got your point across and people responded to it.
Not political yet you use a positions name? Bitch Please.
They why not the Reagan Phone or the Bush Phone or Government phone?
It's a good thing your home videos are preserved on the internet.
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I like the blue Obamaphones.
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What is your point R68? Alex Jones of Infowars is a wing-nut making money by spreading conspiracy theories to wing-nut jobs.
Here is one caught on cam:
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Because you dimwit R69, whether you like it or not that is the name that is currently used in the press for the program in articles in center/left leaning publications like Washington Post and Politico. It's become part of the vernacular when discussing the program in general (not who started it).
As to who coined the phrase, it was "community organizers" trying to sign people up for the program that decided to call it an "Obamaphone" to get more people to sign up because Obama was hip and popular around the time the program expanded its outreach. You never thought about that did you? The term came from the streets and got reported in the press, not the other way around. You think that woman in the video is a "freeper" and that's where she got the term.
Get a grip, you delusional precious little simpleton!
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The slavery era in the US is, like the Holocaust, one of those historical issues that has been severely distorted over time.
Yes, there were white slaves.
Yes, slavery has occurred throughout history, on all continents, and is colorblind. Trading or selling your captured enemy into slavery was a common tactic, including among the black Africans who helped supply those who ended up in the US and Caribbean.
No, huge plantations and utter brutality were not the norm. In the American south just before the Civil War only 25% of households had slaves and of those the vast majority had between one and nine slaves. Often slaves would be paid for work they did for third parties or, in industrial settings, work in excess of their day quota. Slaves were allowed to purchase their freedom and free blacks sometimes owned slaves of their own.
I'd be willing to bet that those shouting loudest for reparations can't even trace their lineage back to slave times. Most blacks in the US today aren't descended from slaves of the US slave era but are from later immigration.
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OK win-nug R72, then by your thinking we should all go back to calling the "Tea Party" the "Tea Baggers". Because, the original term was start by their own followers. Then finally someone used "the google" and found out what the label means to the rest of the world.
You probably are a Teabagger anyway.
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R40 has been drinking tainted Koolade.
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R74: Huh?
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Well you put a glossy coat on that R73. Yes there were slaves of all races but there is a difference winning a war and forcing their people into slavery and just going to Africa and rounding up people unprovoked and shipping them off to another land.
Also, it is true that slaves could buy their freedom but, that option only came near the end of slavery. Even then is was out of range for most to do so. Also, it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write.
Female slaves were offered a chance to buy their way out only if the produced 15 kids to replace them.
Finally 25% of households is a lot. By todays standards, if we still had slave, it would be 75 million people.
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R75 It's Crystal Light for this bad ass momma, not Kool Aid. And it's a hell of a lot tastier than that cocktail of piss and diarrhea you swill out of the toilet every night before the orderliesput you back in the straight-jacket and molest you. Just close your eyes and pretend it's Obama doing all those things to you baby - you'll come in no time! Then they'll leave you alone :)
Keep dishing it out, you feeble retrograde ejaculator. Bitch, you can't touch this!
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Wait, Americans "went to Africa and rounded up people unprovoked and shipped them off to another land?"
You're funny, R77. You had me going there for a second - I thought you actually believed that!
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Can we get back to the concept of repatriation to country/continent of origin discussion?
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Wouldn't the Brits pay the reparations, or the bulk thereof - since slavery existed much more so during the colony era as opposed to the states era?
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Slavery aside, the Jim Crow laws,... now an apology is in order for that shit.
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I will bet that most of those who want reparations cannot even name 5 countries in Africa. Re Obama phones....does the gov't pay the phone bills as well or just for the phone?
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They have been getting reparations since 1965.
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The solution is really quite simple: All those, like OP, who are in agreement that Americans of African descent are owed reparation money should get together and create a fund to which they would voluntarily donate whatever amount of money they wish to put in. At the end of whatever time period they have deemed adequate to collect the donations, that fund would then be equally divided among all of the U.S. citizens who are able to give proof that they are a descendant of at least one person who had been a slave. That would be fair and effective, no? But for some reason, it seems no one has yet been motivated enough to get the ball rolling on something like this.
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Have other countries, particularly African countries, paid reparations to descendants of slaves?
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I think the US did and are paying reparations. It's called welfare
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OP is right. The disparity in wealthy between whites and minorities is so extreme that we should do a one-off to fix it.
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A one off? A one off of what?
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Give them yours. We all know it wouldn't be a one-off. There is no such thing as one off or temporary when it comes to free money from the government.
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Did the government ever compensate the slaveowners for their slaves after the war?
I know from history class that in the years immediately prior to rebellion, this was one proposal on the table, viz., compensation.
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We fought a war to free them.
That was enough.
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The money would be blown in a weekend and wed be back at square one.
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Ask Boston.
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|reply 95
Apples, meet oranges.
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R94. It would be a good couple of days for the car and television industry!!
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Why OP? Because the government still thinks it can get away with not admitting what it did on 9.11. The cat's out of the bag on slavery.
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R28, You are correct. There was clear and specific evidence of the day and time and details of 9/11 well in advance that was 100% totally ignored by Bush et al.
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"Obamaphones" were designed for disabled people who could not afford a cell phone to contact their doctor in an emergency. Welfare and government aid does not cover phone costs. In fact you cannot even get welfare without a valid phone number. Pay phones in many cities are now a rarity.
Some say the free cell phones, with a limited number of minutes of talk time allowed per month, are now given out to anyone who knows how to falsify government aid applications, and not to the truly needy and sick. Ironically those who need it the most for survival are the least able to fill out the forms.
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|reply 100
Gay people deserve reparations for all the benefits we've been denied.
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|reply 101
Obamaphones are actually Bushphones.
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|reply 102
Free cell phones are an offshoot of the old legislation when cell phones didn't exist and everyone had landlines.
It was decided then that paying customers should subsidize other classes of customers who could not afford a regular phone for the same reasons: contacting their doctor and healthcare professionals in an emergency.
Telephone companies liked this regulation because it meant universal service for everyone.
Then they decided that they liked cellular service because it was much cheaper to deliver rather than using hard wires.
But they didn't want to give up the revenue stream of subsidized service. So they got their lobbyist to create what is now known as an "Obama phone" to the right wing Obama haters.
As someone mentioned upthread, this extension into cellular phones came about during the Bush Administration.
So you see, children, it's all about mo' money for corporations and Republicans love of same.
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|reply 103
Whatever freepers, you're losers, and you're on your way out.
Good riddance to you.
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|reply 104
Yes r5 , your head on a platter
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if it weren't for the Christians seeing you as abominations and you weren't considered social freaks, about 99% of you White male gays would be just as bigoted and racist as conservative America
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|reply 105
Takes a bigot to know a bigot, huh, r105. Speak for yourself, not others.
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|reply 106
R105, don't be fooled by a few trolls.
R5 (trolldar him) is the Early AM racist troll who's been here awhile. Ineffective. Has-been. Dinosaur.
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r19 I'm not particularly for reparations but you really don't get it. The Whites and their descendants HAVE benefited from slavery and the racist system America was built upon (check the Constitutions original definition of Black as three fifths of a man). The White privilege and power still puts most Whites at an advantage. The slave owners were compensated after the abolishment of slavery which gave them extra wealth, not to mention the institutionalized racism that put their children and descendants at a disadvantage (The Civil Rights laws had to address this in the '60s, even if it was not eliminated socially until the new millennium). Reparations may be a drastic measure but DON'T YOU DARE MINIMIZE AND DISMISS what I or my people and our ancestors have gone through.
You people really are disgusting
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|reply 108
R108. Compensation only happened in DC.
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|reply 109
I don't get it. Why do Dataloungers keep falling for troll posts, day after day, year after year?
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|reply 110
The government did not give gazillions of dollars to 9/11 families with no strings attached. They only got the money if they promised not to sue the government or the airlines.
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|reply 111
They Neo-Cons attacked the USA on 9/11 and raided the US Treasury to buy the silence of the victims' families.
I want reparations from the Neo-Cons for the Iraq War.
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|reply 112
It's not all about slavery, or at least it shouldn't be. That century after slavery was abolished but blacks were free in name only certainly didn't help things.
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|reply 113
Because the planes didn't hit a poor black neighborhood.
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|reply 114
r105 and r108 here. To those who arent the troll or the racists please forgive my rantings.
It really is emotional sometimes because as a Black gay I have heard form older gays how White gay clubs refused them entrance. I guess they were too "urban" for them. It has cause some distrust in me of White gays because I have to wonder what you guy really do think about other minorities. I mean the "please dont let them be Black..." replies I see in some threads and how easy it is to fall back on stereotypes when it comes to brown people really has me disappointed sometimes on this site. I do like the topics of discussion and the "pointless" bitchery on this site but I do have to wonder whether you guys really think that way of people like because it comes up so often, almost as if some of these generalizations are the truth about Blacks.
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|reply 115
Thank you, R110. Really makes you wonder.
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|reply 116
But R115, please understand that it's only a couple of people making those posts. Apart from trolldar, (they have a few proxies) they're fairly obvious because they use the exact same wording in their posts or refer to the same things in their posts. They're the same people who will make a "fag" or "'mo" joke in another thread. Trolls are trolls. They want to upset you, so don't let them.
One of the racists will be make a post, change proxies and then make another about 3 posts later. It's like clockwork. I've been here a long while, and the patterns are obvious. One other, as has been referred to, spouts racist swill in the early morning, around 2:00 AM. Clockwork.
"Divide and conquer" has always been a freeper tactic. Don't fall for it.
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|reply 117
Thanks for the explanation r117 although I've heard that situation posed before, I often wonder why would someone, even a troll go through all that trouble just to make the same posts over and over again on a thread. It just seems pointless to me. It made more sense that many other with similar views would feel more confident in making these anonymous statements, especially of someone else had previously started the ball rolling.
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|reply 118
The "Obamaphone" program has been around for decades, but it was previously only for landline telephones, otherwise known as the monthly surcharge for "Universal Lifeline Service" on your telephone bill. It was expanded to cover cell phones by GW Bush.
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|reply 119
Don't be fooled about who gets the ball rolling.
Note the time of this thread, and when R5 gets rolling.
How come so many racists are up at 2:00 in the morning posting? Because it's not "so many."
Some of the worst racist and phobic posts have been posted at 2:00 AM. There's nothing that will convince me that this is a coincidence.
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|reply 120
Yes, the cellphone program was started by Reagan, and then super-funded by Bush.
But don't expect freepers to let facts get in their way.
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|reply 121
I'm astonished this is at 120 posts.
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|reply 122
The program has NEARLY TRIPLED in size from $800 million in 2009 to 2.2 billion in 2012.
So, yes, it's fair to call them Obamaphones!
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|reply 123
What the 9/11 families got was "hush money" to keep them from asking questions.
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|reply 124
Gee, r123 do you think that The Great Depression II with Republican George Bush at the helm of the ship of state might have had something to do with people giving up traditional phone service (because they could no longer afford it) and naturally took advantage of Reagan's Lifeline program?
You logic is like trying to blame the huge uptick on unemployment benefits on Obama. You probably do this as well.
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OP you sound like a fool. Show me one single person from slave days who is still alive and I'll say wholeheartedly, GIVE HIM THE MONEY!! Otherwise these bums today who just want some free money from the tax payers can fuck off.
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You should fuck off R126. It's a tort case and damages should be awarded. It's not the families of slaves that are asking to be compensated because the Know it won't happen. I just know its the right thing to do.
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R127. How do you just know that. What is the formula? What would be the burden of proof to qualify? Who pays? Does everyone, regardless of how long they have been in the US and whether or not their ancestors chuck in the same amount? Do tell how you just know all of this.
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R127, it's well past the statute of limitations. Even then, if it's not families of slaves that are asking to be compensated then they having no standing in the case.
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Black people aren't even the ones talking about reparations. So...
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Just because the statute of limitations is up doesn't mean it's not a tort case .
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So...if someone is bi-racial do they get half the money?
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Reparations should definitely be paid, but not to individuals. It would make more sense to provide free education at any private or public university for minorities, free health care; 0% interest home and business loans, and a 50-year income and sales tax vacation.
The problem isn't whether a minority person was around when white Americans were actively enslaving blacks, committing genocide against American Indians; imprisoning Japanese in internment camps, or lynching Chinese - it's that the world the minority person is born into today is quite different than it would have been had there been none of these white supremacy policies by US governments that allowed all of this to happen.
Basically, whites have actively profited at the expense of minorities until very recently, but minorities are still disadvantaged because whites have had such a head start. The point of reparations is to level the field by having whites reimburse minorities for the advantages they stole from them.
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Jesus, some of you are really hardcore racists.
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What was so wrong about slavery anyway? Didn't these people get food to eat, shelter at night and clothes on their back?
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It just chaps my hide that there hasn't even been an attempt to address the issue. Okay thread closed.
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The only people with an honest beef are the Native Americans. The rest can all just stfu and go home.
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As part of the soon to be public Midget Manifesto, they will be seeking reparations as one of their key pillars of activity.
Dark days are ahead.
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Octoroons everywhere are hastily revising their lineage!
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Aren't all the slaves dead? You can't give them money.
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Do t beat yourself up OP, unless of course you are mixed race and then have at it. Just make sure your minority half wins
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How would this work for multiracial people? Most AAs have some white ancestry, so would the reparations be apportioned according to bloodlines? If so, wouldn't many white-identified and white-appearing people come "out of the woodwork" claiming 1/16, 1/32 or even 1/64 descent from a slave?
Also, how will descendants of slaves be identified? Barack Obama is a prime example of an AA who is not descended from slaves. The government can't just assume every black person in the US is descended from slaves.
Many AAs migrated from the Carribean. They are likely descended from slaves, but they weren't US slaves. Surely we can't be held accountable for someone's ancestor who was slave to a foreign power.
Finally, many AAs are directly descended from free blacks. In the early days of colonial America, many were not slaves but indentured servants who worked to buy their freedom. Some might be able to claim descent from an earlier slave relative, but surely someone whose family was freed generations or even centuries before Emancipation is not eligible for the same reparations as one whose was in bondage up until the very end.
These are just some of the questions that lead me to think this is not such a simple issue. It would be impossible to fairly and accurately distribute reparations today.
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[quote]That the direct descendants of the men and women who built this county would benefit is the whole point. They never got paid for their labor.
God, there are people stupid enough to think that slaves "built this country"?
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Well, smell you, R142!
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[quote] God, there are people stupid enough to think that slaves "built this country"?
Your stupidity is sad. The only thing sadder is your willingness to display it.
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Lots of people "built this country". Slaves did a lot of it but so did many poor immigrant groups. The Irish-, Italian- and Chinese-Americans make this same claim, as do other groups. All can legitimately point to some project or effort, like railroads, city-building or taming the West, that their "people" were overwhelmingly involved in, but America was built by Americans, no hyphens.
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Because there haven't been slaves in 150 years. It's kind of late now.
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Fuck you, OP, you troll. No reasonable, rational African American considers reparation as anything but an intellectual game.
But I think gay people deserve payment for systematic, ongoing denial of civil rights, which costs us a great deal of money and loss of both liberty and pursuit of happiness.
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I hate to say it, because it makes me no better than some of the miserable gays on here, but as a black person the racial hatred on here makes me glad to see gays hated on and denied their rights. At least you get to see what the hatred feels like.
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My ancestors came in after 1900 at the turn of the century and faced their own issues in terms of discrimination. They came here before welfare, not speaking English, and were forced to assimilate and work hard to support their families despite awful working and housing conditions. Where are my reparations???
I obviously say that jokingly as I do not expect the government to send me a check for such nonsense. That being said, I in no way, shape or form want my taxes going to pay for "victims of slavery". My ancestors never owned slaves and faced their own challenges coming to this country.
Between welfare and affirmative action, more than enough has been done by U.S. government in terms of aid. Reparations is just another way to receive a free handout.
Enough Is Enough Already!!!
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R148, I think I posted more than once that descendants of slavery aren't ASKING for anything. I agree with you, it poses an intellectual dilemma at this point in time. That was the point of my post although I didn't make it clear enough. I just remember watching one of the 9/11 widows on a talk show one day telling us all how she spent her 8 million dollar settlement on bags and shoes. (her husband was killed) If taxpayers can be ok with this but not some type of compensation for the victims of slavery (AGAIN, KENT STATE WAS A MERE 43 years ago.)There is at least 1 high school in the country that had their FIRST integrated prom this year 2013! It boggles the mind.
The Unites States has never even apologized.
It is equally disgusting that the colonists, so by paying taxes to the british govt that they moved across the ocean and robbed, raped and spoiled, killed and tortured innocents for financial gain are hailed as "great men"
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That should be "so offended"
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I honestly hope OP isn't really a lesbian and is just a freeper. I would be embarrassed because she's confirming every stereotype of lesbian that gets thrown around here. Not to mention that she's an angry ignorant person.
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The public payout to the 9/11 families was in exchange for their agreeing not to sue everyone in sight, especially the airlines.
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If the slaves built this country, then their descendants are destroying it!
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R155. Sing it louder!
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Some say reparations = hiring quotas/affirmative action.
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OP, that's what Liberia was supposed to be -- a country in Africa that was set up to be the home of freed slaves from America. The capital city, Monrovia, was named after US president James Monroe who supported the idea of having freed slaves return to Africa. English is the official language and mostly everyone have English names/surnames. It's like one big Atlanta.
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Hey, we women put up with more shit. The government would even take away our US citizenship if we married someone who wasn't a US citizen. Male ex-slaves got the vote before we did. We STILL don't have pay equity!
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But really, it has only been slightly more than 50 years since blacks could be legitimately called "free" in this country. People citing AA and welfare are idiots. Since the 80s, social benefit programs have been severely eroded or even abolished. So, at best, you're talking 25 years (1965-1990) where even the most remote attempt to right the wrongs of the past was attempted. 25 years out of nearly 400 years of subjugation.
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Thanks R160.
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I had to sit through THREE showings of Lindsey Lohan in "Georgia Rule". Where are MY reparations??
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Don't exaggerate the timeline.
150,000 slaves arrived from Africa after U.S. independence, all but ten thousand by 1809.
Of the 350,000 slaves arriving before that time, about 10,000 arrived before 1715 and the rest after.
So for the overwhelming U.S. slave descendants, slavery started less than 300 years ago, but more than 200 years ago.
However, official freedom came almost 150 years ago, giving a period of enslavement of 50-150 years, or 100 years on average. Granted, they were still "subjugated" for another 100 years, but it has been 50 years since the Civil Rights Act.
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Sarah Palin welcomes you to Alaska with 100 acres and a mule.
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And people say we are over race in this country. The racists all found each other after Obama came into office. Ahh, gotta love the freepers and their keyboard courage. It's such a delightful thing. Try saying one of these snide remarks to a black person's face & see if you live to tell the tale.
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Fuck you, racist homophobe at R149. I'm a gay white male and I *TRY* not to be racist. I say *TRY* because I recognize a little xenophobia is inherent to human nature and because we all can do things that hurt others unconsciously, but I do always try to do the right thing regardless of someone's race or ethnicity. I make a conscious effort to judge each person as an individual and not let the things I've witnessed and endured first-hand as an inner-city white resident of a large city with a large African American population affect my feelings towards an entire race. I was beaten up regularly by black kids in HS, I've been mugged, hassled constantly and endured a home invasion all by black men. I also ride the bus and subway daily to work, 'NUFF SAID.
I still thought nothing of buying a house with black neighbors on several sides, and I try to stay conscious of my white privilege and to always give everyone the same fair chances and equal shots. Hell, I even support affirmative action, despite suffering more than one career setback while less qualified applicants were promoted as obvious quotas. I still recognize I probably got more breaks along the way than they did, but it doesn't negate the sting of knowing I worked longer, harder and performed better, but still got held back because of my skin color.
If I can endure that and still not hate black people--in fact, to continue to endure it daily and then to actually defend and empathize with black people--than I think you can take a few obvious race-baiting trolls on an anonymous website without revoking your support for equal rights for gay people.
So fuck you, you shit-stirring homophobe. You're as racist as Archie Bunker for conflating all gay white men with racists.
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I love you R166.
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R149, Don't let them turn you into them. Always remember what they are capable of.
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Just because they wanted to attend school.
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I cannot watch Eyes on the prize its too gut-wrenching.
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Several of my ancestors were killed in the Spanish Inquisition. I want MY reparations, god dammit!
The Romans fed a couple of my ancestors to the fucking lions. I want reparations for that too.
Buncha fuckin' crybabies!
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Idiot troll @ R171 oh yeah that is an apt comparison.
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Lauryn Hill told a judge in her tax evasion case yesterday that she is "the child of former slaves and I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me."
Lauryn's parents were and English teacher and a computer programmer. She grew up in a posh NJ suburb where she was close pals with Zach Braff. She was accepted to Columbia where she studied until she dropped out to star on CBS TV's As the World Turns and then a bunch of hit movies including Sister Act. Then she became a huge platinum selling singer. Hey, I want that economic paradigm imposed on me!
Anyway, after hearing and considering Lauryn's diatribe, the judge did revise Lauryn's - she added mandatory mental health treatment onto the jail time she had already imposed!
Some people just can't catch a break.
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I think Lauryn Hill went into hiding and someone was after her. Or she is a paranoid or both.
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Lauryn Hill fired up a never-ending doobie with Bob Marley's son in '98 and is due to land back on earth in 3-2-1....
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What would it hurt to pay the decendants of the slaves 1.5 million dollars each? It sounds like a lot, but it would be a drop in the bucket for them and would help the economy at the same time. Reparations HAVE to be paid and it WILL happen, like it or not. It's only right. I have confidence and I think most of America agrees with me.
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[quote] 1.5 million dollars each
For an accident of birth basically?
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R177 is making fun, R178.
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Not $1.5 mlllion.
If it had been done in the late 90s it would have been $40,000 per household. Now, unfortunately, the gap between white and black households is something like $90,000.
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It is a known fact Hill is mentally ill... a paranoid schizophrenic ... who has refrained her own lawyer from declaring that face as exculpatory.
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R177 I would love to know what burden of proof would be required to get the $1.5M. Also curious how you think this wouldn't amount to much money. I'm guessing you weren't a math major?
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her face and facts
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I had an ancestor who was hung for witchcraft in Salem. He had land, animals, and property seized.
I would like a pig for reparations. A fat one.
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R185, this isn't a dating thread.
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USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will be keeping a closer eye on meat and poultry imports from Canada. It will include stepped up testing as well as a more thorough review of Canada's food safety and inspection system.
The tests that FSIS will increase include Salmonella, Listeria Monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7, says USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety Richard Raymond. Shipments be held until testing is complete and products are confirmed negative for the pathogens. There also will be increased re-inspection efforts to confirm that they are eligible to pass through the U.S. border.
This action follows an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that caused illnesses in eight states as part of the Topps Meat Company recall. Still, Topps was not the E. coli source; it was Ranchers Beef Ltd., a Canadian firm that sold Topps beef trimmings for hamburger.
So, the focus will start with companies that export beef to the United States, says Raymond.
Of course, the Canadian meat industry is not happy about the development. One beef-industry official reacted that the US. testing policy amounts to "a disruption of trade, a disruption of price and a disruption of production" that "simply can't be justified." Some argue that it violates existing treaty obligations under the North American Free-Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.
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I never really like cranberries growing up. It didn't matter if they were fresh or canned. They just weren't good. Until a couple of years ago, a friend brought some to our Thanksgiving dinner. She had given me a jar a couple weeks earlier, but I hadn't opened them yet, so I didn't know what I was in for.
The difference in these are the spices added. This is one recipe I have not changed!
4 c cranberries
1/2 c water
3 cinnamon sticks
5 whole cloves
5 allspice berries
2 c sugar
Put the cloves and allspice in a little spice bag or a tea thingy. Yep, that's what I call it. Add that to the water and cranberries. Cook till they pop. Add the sugar and cook down a bit.
That little white thing is cheese cloth. The kids played with my tea thingy one too many times and I don't have any spice bags so I made one.
The cranberries are perfect on pancakes! I jar them and eat them year around because you can only get fresh cranberries in the store during November and December.


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At Intel, we continually strive to improve our operations and minimize our impact on the environment. In our view, a commitment to sustainability requires a broad portfolio of efforts. To this end, we pursue new ways to reduce emissions and improve energy management through conservation, renewable energy, efficient building design, and other efforts. We incorporate environmental performance goals throughout our operations.
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Echo Point
Munnar, Munnar
Echo Point - It is located at a 15 mins ride from Madupatty Dam. According to the nomenclature, it is aptly named on its feature. You can hear your own voice echoed from distant mountain. In addition to that, the picturesque of the location is marvelous. Paddle-boat facility is available here. Horse-riding can also be done here. A good market is also there at this point.
Blossom Hydel Park
3 Km From Munnar Town, Munnar
Blossom Park- This park is situated near the Munnar town. Only 2km away from the market area of the town. Though one could hardly see any blossom of flowers, but no doubt it is full of blossoming beauties :P. There is facility for a no. of fun activities also in the park e.g Water-Balloon walking, Air Gun, Bow & Arrow etc. A good place to kill some time. Of course, an excellent place for lovebirds and couples.
Koolangal River
Relaxing Bath in the river of pebbles
Photo Point
Towards Mattuppetty, Munnar
Photo Point - It'll fall on the way to top station, only a few km away from the town. There is nothing there to see except that lush green symmetric tea garden that will fall to the left of the road. We clicked some photos and move forward. I still don't know what on earth that hoarding was doing there.. !!!
Rajamalai (Eravikulam) National Park
It is located in the Idukki district of Kerala and is the first National Park in Kerala and is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage sites,
Rose Garden
NH 49 Road, Munnar
Rose Garden - There is a Rose garden only 2km away from the town in the Madupatty direction. The enrty fees per person is RS 20/- and extra for still and professional cameras varries from RS 20/- to RS 50/-. They have a good collection of flowers and decorative plants. We clicked 100s of photos there. But to our utter misfortune, the memory card got corrupted all of a sudden and left us in a havoc state as there were 1500+ photos. But Thank God !! I had a back up memory card. We continued with the photography session. Later I retrieved around 1200 photos from that corrupted card. Well... something is better than nothing ! On that same route we had also covered Forest Honey Bee Hive, Shooting Point, Elephant Arrival Spot(But No Elephant was there !! :( ).
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary
Idukki District, Munnar 685612
The Kerala Forest Development Corporation (KFDC), offers a daily excursion to KFDC Flower Garden, Rajamalai (Eravikulam), the Lakkom Waterfalls, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, a visit to the Interpretation Centre Karimutty, Marayoor Sandal Division, the Alampetty Caves and Dolmens, and the Tea Museum. The trip is in an air-conditioned minibus, priced at Rs. 1,200, and includes all entrance fees plus mineral water, a memento, tea and snacks at Lakkom Waterfalls and Alampetty, with lunch at Chinnar. The trip is to be booked in advance with a non-refundable deposit of Rs. 500 per person. A minimum of 10 persons is required for this excursion to operate.
Carmelagiri Elephant Park
Mattuppetty Road, Munnar
We made a quick stop at the Carmelagiri Elephant Park en route to Mattupetty but did not opt for any ride. I leave it to individuals to decide whether they would like to indulge in it. The park offers various options which range from a 1 hour ride and even half day or full day elephant ride.
Tea Gardens
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Mattupetty Dam
In the way to top Station, Munnar
It is located from 13kms from Munnar, it has rich tea plantations and the Shola forests close to Mattupetty are great for trekking the Mattupetty dam and the lake are beautiful spots to relax.
Pallivasal Falls
Devikulam, 8 Km from Munnar, Munnar
Attukal Waterfalls
Nirar Dam
Near Kodaikanal, Valparai
We were ready for the days trip by 9 and after breakfast we went to fill up the tank and the headed towards Nirar dam. It was 15 kms away from Valparai. The roads were good for about 5-6 kms after which it was very bad. We could barely see the tarmac which costed us a tough ride. But the dam was very located at a place in the middle of the forest which was green silent and had an amazing view.
Pambadum Shola National Park
(Kerala) Koviloor Rd Vattavada, Idukki
Pampadum Shola National Park, with an area of 1.3 sq km, is the smallest national park in Kerala. The national park falls within the Allinagaram Reserved Forest and is also part of the Anamalai Sub-Cluster, a region under consideration by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The literal translation of the name "pampadum shola" is "the forest where the snake dances", implying the rich density of flora and snakes in the region.
Anamudi Shola National Park
Kanthalloor-Perumala Road, Kannan Devan Hills, Kanthalloor
Castillo De WoodsWhy stay at Castillo De Woods: The property located in Koviloor, Munnar presents the best way to explore the nearby Anamudi Shola National Park. Your stay includes wildlife watch, horse rides, elephant rides, an off-road drive and camp fire to keep you warm by the night.Perfect for: Castillo de Woods accommodates eight people and is perfect for a gang that's planning a vacation together, be it business travellers, friends or a family.
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Anamudi Peak
Idukki District, Munnar 685602
Being the highest peak in India outside the Himalaya's, Anamaudi is truelove breathtaking. It isn't like the mountains you see in the northern district of India, covered in snow like a fairy tale, but is rather lush green and smooth. Surrounded by random water bodies and greenary, Anamudi makes for a pituresque location at the least. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to go to the top due to elephants and expected bad weather. We stayed a while and allowed it to humble us.
Kundala Dam Lake
Top Station, Munnar
Blossom International Park
3 Km From Town, Munnar
Ideal Safari
Chithiraporam, Power House, Munnar 685565
Cardamom Hills
Western Ghat
Muniyaras Caves
Kanthalloor Road, 1 Km from Marayoor, Marayur
Thoovanam Falls
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Marayur
Chinnakallar Waterfalls
Chinnakallar, Valparai
Keezharkuthu Falls
Idukki, Near Thodupuzha, Munnar
Lakkam Waterfalls
Lakkam, nearby Vagavurai Estate, on the way to Marayoor from Munnar, Munnar
Aranya Naturals
Srishti Welfare Centre, Tata Global Beverages Limited, Munnar 685 612
Thoovanam Falls
Devikulam, Munnar
Power House Falls
Periyar wildlife Sanctuary Road, Thekkady, Munnar
Nyayamkadu Waterfalls
10 Km From Munnar Town, Munnar
Thommankuthu Falls
Idukki, Munnar
Anamalai Wild Life Sanctuary
Coimbatore District, Pollachi
Ripple Waterfalls
Munnar 685565
Green Field Spices and Herbal Garden
NH 47, 14th Mile, Machiplavu, Adimali, Munnar 685561
Aliyar Dam
Coimbatore District, Near Pollachi, Valparai 642001
Aazhiyaar Dam
Pollachi Valparai Road, Coimbatore 641101
Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park
Western Ghats, Topslip, Pollachi, Coimbatore 642133
Grass Hills
Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, In Shola Forest, Valparai
Chinnakanal Waterfalls
Main Road, Chinnakanal 685612
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I wake up like most every morning. Stumble downstairs, turn on the computer and wait for M to make an appearance. Gather up all the school stuff, double check the time I'll be picking her up and go out to start the car. At this point, we're none too early. Put the key in the ignition and it won't start. Nada. I have battery power so it's not that. I try again and again. It makes a sound like it wants to start but it won't. Megan makes a mad run to school as we live close enough and I begin the process of trying to decide what is wrong with the car. I call for a tow truck and make arrangements with the dealer for service. Mr. Tow Truck Driver arrives promptly and the car starts. Isn't that always the fear, make that appointment and all symptoms miraculously disappear? That's always my luck. Something with the emissions and cold air might have flooded the lines. All appears to be working but the confidence level in my 3 year old car has taken a severe hit.
It's 9:30am, I'm showered and ready to face the day save for the lack of coffee this morning. No time to make any so now, I think I'll put on a pot and enjoy the rest of the morning.


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He looked at his reflection in a mirror and laughed ruefully.
"You should have seen what I looked like five or six weeks ago," he added.
"You ought to have let me come out and nurse you," said Cicely; "you know I wanted to."
"Oh, they nursed me well enough," said Yeovil, "and it would have been a shame dragging you out there; a small Finnish health resort, out of the season, is not a very amusing place, and it would have been worse for any one who didn't talk Russian."
"You must have been buried alive there," said Cicely, with commiseration in her voice.
"I wanted to be buried alive," said Yeovil. "The news from the outer world was not of a kind that helped a despondent invalid towards convalescence. They spoke to me as little as possible about what was happening, and I was grateful for your letters because they also told me very little. When one is abroad, among foreigners, one's country's misfortunes cause one an acuter, more personal distress, than they would at home even."
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Financial Scandal Shakes Yugoslav Leaders
By HENRY KAMM, Special to the New York Times
Published: September 10, 1987
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 9— A financial scandal involving one of Yugoslavia's largest companies has embarrassed the country's political leadership and the man scheduled to become the country's next President.
The state-run company, a major food producer, had issued promissory notes estimated at $350 million, but possibly worth as much as $500 million, to at least 57 banks, and perhaps as many as 63, it was disclosed late last month. The company, Agrokomerc, is unable to meet its obligations, as are several of its creditor banks. The scandal was disclosed at a time when Yugoslavia, whose foreign debt is at more than $17 billion, is preparing to discuss with its creditor banks and the International Monetary Fund a further rescheduling of its obligations.
Revelations of the scope of internal indebtedness are expected to intensify demands by foreign creditors that Yugoslavia put itself under a standby agreement with the monetary fund, giving the I.M.F. the right to insist on rigid fiscal and economic austerity.
In a nation where perhaps half the industrial and commercial enterprises habitually lose money and are kept going only by infusions of state funds, companies have traditionally bailed one another out with loans that are not backed by cash.
One effort to deal with the losses is a stricter bankruptcy law. Under the law, which took effect this year, companies habitually in debt could be forced into bankruptcy. But if strictly applied, the law could eliminate 7,000 companies and 1.5 million jobs. As a result, Yugoslav political analysts and economists do not expect it to be widely enforced. Unemployment is about 1 million in a work force of 6.8 million.
The Agrokomerc scandal has been depicted as evidence that the Government of Prime Minister Branko Mikulic is unable to deal with Yugoslavia's deepening economic problems.
The Yugoslav press has reported that the State Auditing Office discovered that promissory notes worth $8.8 billion were created between enterprises or between banks and enterprises last year alone, and that this partly explains why the monetary supply expanded by 109 percent in 1986. Inflation at the end of August was 116.6 percent compared to August 1986.
When Mr. Mikulic took office last year, he had a reputation of authoritarianism. But he has failed to instill the discipline that Yugoslav and creditor bankers and economists see as the only way out of the economic crisis.
In this decentralized nation of six federal republics and two autonomous provinces, each jealous of the other's prerogatives and those of the Federal Government, Mr. Mikulic is also hurt by the fact that Agrokomerc is from his republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Company Executive Arrested
The company's chief executive, Fikret Abdic, is a member of the Central Committee of the republic's Communist Party and a member of the Federal Parliament. On Tuesday, Mr. Abdic's arrest on the charge of counter-revolution was announced. Moves have also been initiated to purge the party of officials connected with the scandal.
The State Auditing Office has demanded the arrest of 92 officials of Agrokomerc and creditor banks. Six senior company officials had previously been charged with malfeasance.
Mr. Abdic has embarrassed the national political leadership by stating that his principal political supporter was Hamdija Pozderac, the Bosnian member of the collegial federal Presidency. Under a system of rotating leadership, Mr. Pozderac is to be the country's nominal President next May.
Mr. Pozderac has denied a personal connection with Mr. Abdic, but the link between political leadership in the republic and its top enterprises will clearly be an embarrassing issue in next year's Presidential succession.
Until the disclosures, Agrokomerc was considered a successful company, employing 13,500 people and exporting to 22 countries. Suspicions have been voiced in the press that its downfall was not its commercial operations in food production and processing but extraneous ventures it undertook under political pressures, such as creating enterpises with little chance of commercial success.


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State Title: Associate Vice President, Research Program Services
Provides primary support to the Vice President of Research and Commercialization for the administrative oversight of all contract and grant pre-award, award set-up and post-award research administration, including post award accounting functions, and has operational oversight over the compliance, conflict of interest and export control areas. The role is charged with strategic planning, achieving measurable contributions to the ongoing clarity of roles and responsibilities in Research administration functions, streamlined business operations, continuous improvements in administrative communications and accountabilities, preparation of research statistical reporting, fiscal matters involving the Research and Commercialization budget, and partners with the university Human Resources office concerning Research personnel administration.
Develop and maintain strategically directed, scalable, efficient Research administration teams, promoting a culture of high performance and continuous process improvement.
Provide leadership and guidance in establishing and maintaining an appropriate infrastructure for the research enterprise, formulating and implementing goals and objectives.
Directly or through staff promote efforts to improve and simplify research administration, and provide ongoing oversight.
Develop, implement and maintain standard operating procedures and policy for all aspects of research
Responsible for overseeing all projects/budgets established in Sponsored Research fund groups and oversees staff
Ensures Research Administration facilitates faculty research while monitoring project activity and ensuring that all project activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and policies and procedures.
Responsible for research data and/or statistical reports to federal and state agencies, BOG, and to UCF Institutional Knowledge Management, as may be required.
Supervise staff involved with pre- and post-award activities through the life-cycle of a funded project, including proposal review and submission, award review and negotiation, post award financial management, and close-out of the project.
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Supervise staff managing budgetary duties for the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
Operationally engages with regard to ORC Human Resource functions within a dual reporting structure and partnership with university Human Resources.
Remain current in research administration policies and procedures and render recommendations regarding policies and procedures pertaining to Research administration, as necessary.
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Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and seven years of appropriate experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and nine years of appropriate experience.
|Additional Minimum Requirements
10 years research administrator leadership preferred.
Certification in one or more areas of research compliance such as Certified Research Administrator.
Knowledge of relevant federal, state, and local regulations relevant to the conduct of research.
Research administration experience in Higher Ed.
Experience with electronic research administration systems.
Experience with policy development.
Master's Degree preferred.
|Special Conditions
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|Requisition Number
|Job Open Date
|Job Close Date
|Open until filled
|Academic Affairs
|Office of Research & Commercialization (Research)
|Annual Salary
|$178,000 to Negotiable
|Type of Appointment
|If Visiting A&P, please specify timeframe
|Job Category
|Work Schedule
Monday through Friday
|Work Location
|Orlando (Main)
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Supplemental Questions
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Do you have a master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and seven years of appropriate experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and nine years of appropriate experience?
- Yes
- No
Optional & Required Documents
- Curriculum Vitae/Resume
- Cover Letter
- Other Doc 1
- Other Doc 2
- Other Doc 3