Why would anyone listen to anything said by the man who singlehandedly created Brexit?
athos77
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Got a source for this that wasn't created a mere 76 days ago, just in time for the election season?
I'm reading Erik Larsen's new book on the start of the civil war, and he's pointing our some interesting things. Like in letters and dispatches, the southerners rarely used the word 'slaves', preferring to use 'hands' or 'Negroes'. They thought of themselves as a kind of nobility, even going so far as to have competitions where they'd try to lance rings from horseback, or decapitate a dummy from horseback - medieval knight stuff. They came up with all kinds of justifications as to why slavery was okay - they were a superior race, the negroes were used to it and didn't mind, they were saving the slaves from the economic uncertainty of the job market, etc. One guy had a section in his handbook on how to whip his slaves so that they were still able to work afterward.
They were taught to be proud of all this. After defeat, they immediately came up with the Lost Cause hypothesis and started teaching that, because they were honorable, noble men and the northerners just didn't understand Southern people or their culture. They've never truly understood or admitted they were wrong, and they keep pressing that mindset into each of the next generations as they arrive.
High point of the solar cycle, best time for auroras :)
.Israel said it was carrying out "a precise counterterrorism operation to eliminate Hamas terrorists and infrastructure" in the area.
A precise operation meaning that you're just going to level the entire place and everyone in it? "Kill them all and let God sort them out"? Fuck your genocide.
State police said they received a request for assistance from UVa police at approximately 9 a.m. Saturday. That was an hour after the university says UVa Police Chief Tim Longo asked the protesters to voluntarily remove the tents and after “officials began attempts to collect the tents and were met with agitation and chanting from demonstrators.”
Oh no!! Not agitation and chanting!!!! How threatening! Whatever shall we do?!
So, anyone who's not in the 1%? Because that's that it feels like.
Fucking bullshit.
the worker, a 35-year-old South African man, was caught trying to deploy a lifeboat from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship west of Vancouver Island. The ship’s security escorted Sogoni to the vessel’s medical center for an evaluation [where] he “became irrational and attempted to leave” and “physically attacked a security guard and a male nurse". [He then] ran to another exam room, where a 75-year-old patient was inside, [and] stabbed the woman in her arm, hand and face, then [stabbed] one guard in the head and stabbed the other guard’s back and shoulders.
Every little bit helps. For all we know, your vote helps decrease the credibility of any challenges come the fall.
One of my neighbors moved out and I've mostly been murdering the tiger lilies he planted in the common areas. (He said he liked them and the deer would keep them in check. The deer only ate them in the spring, and he 'liked' them because then his pitbulls could chase the deer. Fucker . Then one of the other neighbors' dogs chewed on the lilies and got sick, so ....)
Anyway, I've replacing them with a mix of like 20 local pollinator plants, chosen for a mix of both pollinators and seasons. Trying to figure out how I can get some rain barrels in to feed the new gardens without pissing off the HOA, and carrying on the eternal battle to let the HOA let us install solar (beyond the two panels we hid in the backyard, but we can't get any more in there).
Common area veggie garden has finally settled in, and the apple trees should be bearing fruit in another year. [The berry bushes we snuck in the woods are doing nicely, and the local animals love them!]