6,801

(59 replies, posted in Politics)

but it won't just be Greece, and wtih the US hell bent on maximizing debt as the best way to spur the economy, those dollars aren't going to help as much.

6,802

(67 replies, posted in Politics)

I don't really need a doctor to tell me I'm a body double for Fat Bastard

6,803

(67 replies, posted in Politics)

i don't have insurance so I can get a $80 visit if I book 2 weeks in advance, or spend 12 hrs at the ER

I generally prefer to spend 12 hrs at the ER if I have to

I've been to a doctor 2x in 6 years, once with pinkeye and once when I had cramps in my chest, arms and neck for 2 days

what happens in 2014 I dunno, because I doubt the GOP will repeal the health care bill.  I won't participate.

6,804

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

has me wondering how to ship ice cream to the UK

Q: What more could it do?
A: Case by case as it comes up - to look at it and give it a fair shake. And not find reasons not to look at it.

For example, you didn't file your paper, or it had been filed and denied. That doesn't destroy a man's right. But they're hanging people, I mean electrocuting people because they didn't follow the rules.

Q: In terms of making sure you don't exclude African Americans. Would you say it's on a historical basis that they must be included now because they had been excluded previously?
A: I guess that's one of the arguments. But the other one is that the whole comparison is faulted because there's been this discrimination for all of these years and therefore people are in a position that they wouldn't have been in if it were not for that way that passed. So the only way to get rid of the weighted past is to weigh the future. Not as much, but considerably.

Q: But what about colleagues who say that violates the whites' rights?
A: I guess it does, but I don't think the Constitution was meant to use anything that was unlawfully gained and their right is unlawfully gained. For example, your grandfather had a job that a Negro couldn't get. Your father got a job that a Negro couldn't get, therefore you have a better education than the children of those people. So somebody's got to pay for that.

Q: If I say that to a white man he says I didn't own any slaves. I didn't discriminate against anybody.
A: Did he go apply for a job and say he wasn't white? Did he accept the job knowing that Negroes had been excluded? But his father did. That's how he got the money. He got the money from his father to get educated.

Q: But he says let's call it all equal now and I'm qualified but you Negroes aren't qualified.
A: I absolutely agree with that as of 1896, Plessey v. Ferguson [the precedent setting Supreme Court decision legalizing segregated seating on trains].  I agree with him as of that time. If it had been done then I would be with you now. Well if the Plessey v. Ferguson says everybody is equal and the Constitution is color blind and they went through with that, I would say that as of now you have to face up like everybody else and that's not about the race.

Q: A 100 years later?
A: Why of course.

Q: So I say to you how much longer does white America have to make recompense?
A: I don't have the slightest idea. I don't know. I know all that's happened in the past.

http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/interviews/politics.htm

14th Amendment guarantees equal protection

Thurgood Marshall said right out that he was limiting the rights of whites to give blacks more opportunity on the theory that every white person either discriminated or inherited educational opportunities or a job from a white man who had.

It's unconstitutional and it was destroyed in California, hardly a hotbed of reactionary thought, because it inevitably leads to nonwhites suing government for being too biased in favor of other nonwhites.

6,807

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

he can't deny it
hes a frakkin ridah
yall dont wanna frak with he

6,808

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

scored with IE8

6,809

(50 replies, posted in General)

too bad you quit on politics WFS, we're debating whether circumcision is politically cheating the state of a duty to hygiene

6,810

(10 replies, posted in Community)

yikes

6,811

(50 replies, posted in General)

i'd return to the topic but I dont think we have one anymore

6,812

(67 replies, posted in Politics)

on the other hand for $300 you skip a lot of maintenance

never thought of my circumcision as optional

guess that counts as body sculpture, I feel so hip now

anyhow its the prostate that gets 1/3 of us and Idont know a way to deal with that bastard

6,813

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

you're in Ibiza right now, aren't you?

6,814

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

will be deported to Spain to stand trial for his crimes against humanity

6,815

(50 replies, posted in General)

why get so pissed?

and I think you have dropped bombs in threads and then walked away

Its American socialists I get mad at, because they are in my pocket

6,816

(25 replies, posted in General)

i never saw a whole episode

these long-term mystery series never end well imao, at least the Prisoner had the benefit of being the originator

but like I told my dad, the effect was sorta lost on me because I don't expect anything from the 60s to make sense

for me the best series finale was ST:TNG because nothing changed except Picard got cool

6,817

(50 replies, posted in General)

commander christ?

6,818

(50 replies, posted in General)

i am "close-minded" about definitions and that isolates me from a lot of the New Left and the New Right because they play games with definitions.

Like "recession"  which used to be "consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth" but now means who know what? The Bush Recession started in a quarter of positive growth and ended in a quarter with negative growth, if it did end.

so when "wealth distribution" is "proved" by indexing "trust in government" and "social mobility" then it is like telling me down is up.

6,819

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

likes to use cheat codes

6,820

(50 replies, posted in Politics)

But that would betray the whole purpose of the internet

6,821

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

asked a DI if it was John Wayne

6,822

(25 replies, posted in General)

ah but then you are not a TRUE lost fan, just a poser

the test is whether you liked the ending

6,823

(50 replies, posted in General)

Iaesu Domine
Donna eis requiem

<thonk>

6,824

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

dated fat girls from Eta Alpha Beta

6,825

(67 replies, posted in Politics)

how is hygiene the fault of the government?