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July 13th, 2019, 03:26 PM | #351 |
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If saving the planet from climate change is the goal, wouldn't Al Gore be the best possible candidate? I always liked Gore. He strikes me as such a sincere guy. Who can listen to him talk about the impending doom of the earth from man-caused global warming and not be genuinely moved? |
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I don't think so. I got pulled over on a road that is a notorious speed trap, while doing exactly the speed limit. Why? I didn't stop for a little old lady standing at the edge of a cross-walk. On Christmas Eve.
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Colombia was punished worst of all the towns and cities Sherman passed through, worse than Charleston even, because Colombia hosted the convention in which the CSA states formed the Confederacy. It was the scene of the crime. Also, unlike in Savannah or Georgia generally, Sherman's men got drunk and this intensified their aggression and mean spirit. But for example, Miss Laconte noted how Sherman had set a guard on the town hospital and the guard prevented looting and arson here,, though some of the rampaging soldiers would have done it and tried to do it. After a sleepless and very anxious night, the head doctor's wife implored a passing officer to restore discipline, and he did, although making his contempt for the CSA civilians absolutely clear. Quote:
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Sherman's troops in Georgia encountered emaciated escapees from the Confederate POW Camp at Andersonville, That they did not take reprisals on Confederate civilians is a testament to their humanity.
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Reform of drug pricing not working out
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1U809O
It seems that Mr Trump's campaign promise to bring the runaway inflation in the price of prescription drugs in the United States has not been achieved and looks unlikely to be achieved. The proposed reform would have required health insurers to credit the value of rebates from drug manufacturers back to the patients instead of charging them full retail price for their drugs and pocketing the rebates as a windfall profit. It is not yet clear why Mr Trump has decided to withdraw this proposal. He hasn't had many progressive ideas so the loss of this one is a pity.
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July 14th, 2019, 09:23 AM | #356 | |
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After sobering up, I got several tickets for speeding, but far less than could have been issued as I was a routine offender like many California drivers. However, my latest vehicle was less responsive than my earlier cars and I noticed that my reactions had noticeably slowed about 15 years ago. That ended my scofflaw driving career. If one obeys the traffic laws, there is little chance of being stopped because the cops have so many offenders to choose from. |
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That General Sherman, by modern standards, committed war crimes is indisputable. Only a fool would attempt to argue otherwise. Contemporary letters written by the Union's own officers document war crimes including men captured and being summarily shot or having their throats cut. Sherman himself received these written documentations and was entirely aware of their happenings. More importantly, Sherman's March to the Sea was not a military operation against other armed soldiers. Far from it. The very purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to literally terrorize the civilian populations. The actions he took were deliberately calculated to inflict maximum physical and psychological damage on the innocent non-combatant populations he targeted. Sherman's campaign was one of domestic terrorism. |
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B. His army was in contact with Confederate forces who were conducting a fighting retreat the entire time. C. Both Sherman's expedition and Sheridan's similar operation in the Shenandoah were aimed at denying food and military supplies to Confederate armies in the field. It should also be remembered that these operations followed Robert E. Lee's raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1863, Morgan's raid into Indiana and Ohio, and the continuing action's of irregular Confederate guerrilla units. Civil wars are ugly and messy with both sides guilty of excesses. Charleston was burned without Sherman's orders. It is generally believed that the Union soldiers were reacting to the long agitation for secession originating in South Carolina, the secessionist convention held there, and the attack on Fort Sumter that initiated the shooting war. The North was fighting to preserve the United States as a nation. The South was fighting to expand chattel slavery into new areas. All of the "Lost Cause" romantic fictions cannot conceal the fact that the leaders of the Confederate States purpose was to continue and expand the brutal enslavement and degradation of human beings based on their skin color at a time when the rest of European civilization had abolished the practice. |
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General Lee's troops in Pennsylvania abducted free Black people and sent them south to be sold into slavery.
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I may have missed why the Civil War posts started but I would like to know what it has to do with the 2020 elections?
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