Compare And Contrast

I doubt I will be working through Ta-Nehisi Coates 15,000 word essay making the case for slavery reparations, or a conversation about reparations, or something.

However, I can take a few quick hits and cheap shots. From an excerpt at Legal Insurrection let me pick up on this:

The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. Black nationalists have always perceived something unmentionable about America that integrationists dare not acknowledge—that white supremacy is not merely the work of hotheaded demagogues, or a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it….

"Fear masquerading as laughter"? Substitute "hope" for fear and BINGO! Ten years ago I was hoping Al Sharpton would shatter the Democratic Party with his reparations message, so now I am Keeping Hope Alive - no time like the present for Mr. Coates and the Dem Dream-On Team.

And as to the notion that "white supremacy is... a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it", we need to alert the NY Times editors, who let this piece run just a few months ago:

What Drives Success?

A SEEMINGLY un-American fact about America today is that for some groups, much more than others, upward mobility and the American dream are alive and well. It may be taboo to say it, but certain ethnic, religious and national-origin groups are doing strikingly better than Americans overall.

Indian-Americans earn almost double the national figure (roughly $90,000 per year in median household income versus $50,000). Iranian-, Lebanese- and Chinese-Americans are also top-earners. In the last 30 years, Mormons have become leaders of corporate America, holding top positions in many of America’s most recognizable companies. These facts don’t make some groups “better” than others, and material success cannot be equated with a well-lived life. But willful blindness to facts is never a good policy.

Jewish success is the most historically fraught and the most broad-based. Although Jews make up only about 2 percent of the United States’ adult population, they account for a third of the current Supreme Court; over two-thirds of Tony Award-winning lyricists and composers; and about a third of American Nobel laureates.

The most comforting explanation of these facts is that they are mere artifacts of class — rich parents passing on advantages to their children — or of immigrants arriving in this country with high skill and education levels. Important as these factors are, they explain only a small part of the picture.

Today’s wealthy Mormon businessmen often started from humble origins. Although India and China send the most immigrants to the United States through employment-based channels, almost half of all Indian immigrants and over half of Chinese immigrants do not enter the country under those criteria. Many are poor and poorly educated. Comprehensive data published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2013 showed that the children of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese immigrants experienced exceptional upward mobility regardless of their parents’ socioeconomic or educational background.

Take New York City’s selective public high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, which are major Ivy League feeders. For the 2013 school year, Stuyvesant High School offered admission, based solely on a standardized entrance exam, to nine black students, 24 Hispanics, 177 whites and 620 Asians. Among the Asians of Chinese origin, many are the children of restaurant workers and other working-class immigrants.

Merely stating the fact that certain groups do better than others — as measured by income, test scores and so on — is enough to provoke a firestorm in America today, and even charges of racism. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes.

There are some black and Hispanic groups in America that far outperform some white and Asian groups. Immigrants from many West Indian and African countries, such as Jamaica, Ghana, and Haiti, are climbing America’s higher education ladder, but perhaps the most prominent are Nigerians. Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet in 2013 nearly one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School were of Nigerian ancestry; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.

I guess those we devil whites can distinguish Nigerians from natives, or something, and don't object to yellow skin despite our nuking of Japan and our unpopular wars in Korea and Vietnam. Baffling.

Well, I would say that. Half my family tree came from Ireland in the early 1900 and were closer to being slaves than owning them. The other half of the family tree had quite a few limbs pruned fighting for the North in the Civil War, but whatever - I can't wait to find out what size check I should write to some recent immigrant from Jamaica.

Comments

[Jim Eagle]

I believe in reparations for us white early American descentdents that had to put up with the hardship fo establishising this great country. At least so far.

[Jim Eagle]

..pardon the spelling...On the wine:)

[Jim Eagle]

BTW, Mark Cuban is a succesful enterepreneur but a jerk and has a complete understanding of human psychology or human behavior. What a complete intellectually defective human being.

[Jim Eagle]

...misunderstanding...

[Jim Eagle]

Boe,

Just got an advert on TV watching the NHL game for the Marriot Muscle Shoals:) Put slots in there and Stephanie will be there in a nano-second.

[henry]

Anyone of any color who was legally enslaved in the US can petition for reparations in person. Problem solved.

[Captain Hate]

Exhibit A on Forrest Gump Cantor doing his RINO best to screw everybody:

Of course we have our own Nonsense Caucus, also looking for ways to pass amnesty over the objections of a large fraction of Americans. Eric Cantor is claiming that the ENLIST bill -- which would let "DREAMers" enlist in the military -- is off the table, but it's only off the table while he has a potentially serious primary challenge from David Brat.

I'm tired of being lectured that keeping imbeciles like this roadkill wearing fool in power is the only thing that saves us from the barbarians. I hope Brat sends him packing to whatever shithole in Virginia he crawled out of.

[Miss Marple]

Ah, good evening Captain Hate, and may I echo your feelings about Cantor.

He seems to have a tin ear when it comes to speaking to the base, and therefore I have to assume he either despises us or is an incompetent leader.

[Jane on Ipad]

I predict an executive order.

[narciso]

Well l've often contended it's more about culture than class, the ethnic enclave, which
Amy Chua, the 'Tiger Mom' with an always provocative bent, put forward in her latest book, she lists eight sub groups with the common traits to succeed,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Miss Marple, as somebody who billed himself as a "conservative" in 2008 Cantor must have some sort of confusion about what that word really means. Or he's just another Repuke sellout.

[maryrose]

Obama can executive order all he wants. Immigrants who have done the process correctly or those holding green cards will not be pleased. I expect this type of over-reach on his part will only end badly for him and his leftist party.

[MarkO on the road, closeted in a Marriott in Newark.]

The Brown case was for injuctive relief. No damages. Irreparable injury.

The calculation of such damages, proof of individual injury and a legal basis on which to assess today's taxpayers would seem impossible.

So, Congress can ladle out more. But, if that were the end of it, perhaps it would be worth the effort.

I would want signed releases.

[Centralcal on iPad]

Cantor is a dull man with a dull mind. Doesn't belong in "leadership" position.

[maryrose]

I disagree about Cantor. I think he has done alright. remeber he stood up to Obama during debt crisis and made him mad.

[Jim Eagle]

For space nuts: Morpheus Makes Free Flight at Kennedy.

Of course, this is all to hide the fact that Vlad has our balls in re Space fllight and the ISS. Nice try Obama regime via the NASA.

[maryrose]

I like Hensarling better however

[Miss Marple]

maryrose, Yes, but then why does he always talk about us like we are morons and pick the very issue which is bound to enrage the base?

[Jane on Ipad]

After Obama, there will never be an end to it.

[Miss Marple]

Regarding reparations, I am willing to fork over an ungodly amount to them if they will sign a document in which they promise to

1. Never collect public benefits except Social Security

and

2. SHUT UP.

[Miss Marple]

I am sorry, Dr. West (Sharpton, Jackson, Conyers, etc.) You signed this document and accepted reparations. By law you are prohibited from discussing racial issues on broadcast television and radio, unless you want to refund the money to the US Treasury.

[Miss Marple]

Idea for new cable channel:

Whiner TV. Put them all on that channel and see what type of audience they get.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

We'll have to disagree on Cantor, maryrose. Yes I remember him exposing the JEF early on but he's been doing nothing but driving the amnesty bus and enraging the base with secret or rushed votes with more commiecrat support than Repub backing ever since then. Just another worthless non-JOMer from Virginia.

[clarice]

HEH.

[daddy]

Here's that 3,000 year old Assyrian statue moments before those moronic Syrian Islamists took out hammers and pounded the thing to rubble:

God Bless the West for having saved so much of human antiquity from such imbecilic barbarians, yet "When I became the NASA Administrator...he (President Obama) charged me with three things: One was that he wanted me to re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, that he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.

Science, math, and engineering. Got it.

[Miss Marple]

Gosh darn it daddy, I hate seeing willful destruction of artifacts due to absolute ignorance.

I wish someone would take a hammer to them!

They really are an impossible culture, the Jihadists.

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate! Captain Hate!

Forbed Magazine doesn't like Pence's Healthy Indiana 2.0 plan, which they say is using Mitch Daniels plan as a veneer for Medicaid expansion!

I TOLD you that was what he was doing!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/05/16/did-2016-gop-contender-indiana-governor-mike-pence-just-embrace-obamacares-medicaid-expansion-2/?utm_content=bufferc4b6c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Miss Marple, I was very grateful for that primer on the evils of Mike Pence you delivered in person. I am now firmly in the anybody-but-Pence camp. He strikes me as the type of snake that Rove likes to handle.

[Miss Marple]

captain Hate, apparently he pitched this crummy idea to the AEI, and was called on it, couldn't answer some questions too.

It is very easy to mouth platitudes in the conservative cause.

It is another to actually have conservative policies and to behave as an honorable man.

Plus: Ken doll hair!

[narciso]

the Horde had this in the sidebar;

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/05/21/interview-mark-steyns-passing-parade/http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/05/21/interview-mark-steyns-passing-parade/">http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/05/21/interview-mark-steyns-passing-parade/">http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/05/21/interview-mark-steyns-passing-parade/http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/05/21/interview-mark-steyns-passing-parade/

I disagree a little with Steyn, we're not facing Callaghan in Obama, we're facing Tony Benn or Michael Foot,

I see the Salafi swarm somewhat the djinn of old, Tony Badran, back in the mid 00s, showed how cynically Bashir's Top men, allowed his own territory to set up networks that attacked
Coalition forces, some of those teamed up with tribesman in Anbar, this is the core of ISIS and the Nusra Front, old habits and skills die hard, and when the uprising began
along the Euphrates, the trails reversed back
into their territory

[Jane on Ipad]

Megyn Kelly just went brilliantly nuts over the VA scandal. It was a delight.

[narciso]

Well Bernie Sanders, really has earned his nazgul stripes, tonight.

[Jim Eagle]

Sissy's

Although its about time. Even when I was flyijng the buffer it was a constant adjustment of electirical functionsl all analog and unlike today in the digital age. Why this has taken so long is another story...

The story is: If its not broke don't fix it.

[peter]

I wouldn't be surprised if they do that to some famous western art....

[pagar]

"Compare and contrast"

Christian Fired, CAIR given everything they want at Home Depot.

Lun

[MarkO on the road, closeted in a Marriott in Newark.]

Is it wrong, I mean really wrong, to lust after Meygn?

[Jim Eagle]

I look like Morgan Freeman

No, you look like the dunce you are but if you want to look like a bigger dunce then go for it.

[rse]

If you think there is nostalgia on the New Deal, you should read the resurrection of the Great Society.

http://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/05/the-great-society-50-years-later/

Still going to be a hermit, but will need my books and an internet connection to stir up trouble. Jane's Island may be the only place in the world where a consensus would be fun to create.

[narciso]

That was a rhetorical question, Mark O?

[Dave (in MA)]

--DanRiehl ‏@DanRiehl 45m
So, they've now arrested more ppl for photographing a Senator's spouse than will ever be arrested for letting veterans die on wait lists
--

[Jane on Ipad]

Mark, it's not the least bit wrong.

I can't believe you are still stuck in that closet!

[rse]

Anonamom-don't say I don't remember you. http://www.icic.org/connection/blog-entry/blog-affordable-care-act-opens-hospital-doors-to-greater-community-investme

[narciso]

The good news in Brian Singer's new offering from accounts, is shorn of much of the transgressive matter that has gotten him in trouble, recently, the bad news, it jumps the helicarrier circa 1973?

[MarkO out of the closet]

If rhetoric would work.

Jane, I'm out. Yes. Out of the Newark closet.

I'm higher than Robin Williams in the 80's. More than 30,000 feet. It's a miracle.

[Miss Marple]

rse,

I told my daughter I was really learning to appreciate the life style of the illustrator Tasha Tudor.

She lived on a New England farm without electricity, no TV or any other communications, raised goats, vegetables and flowers, and walked around in a long Victorian-type peasant dress. Her favorite period was the 1830's.

Once every couple of months she would send in illustrations to earn some money.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Christian Fired, CAIR given everything they want at Home Depot.

I know, pagar. What insane times.
Fired for supporting marriage? Fired for transgender remarks?

Think of all the ugly things said about Americans that went to tea party rallies. Nobody cared. Cro magnons, wanted to kick our teeth in. All the Christian bashing. Nobody is fired for THAT crap....& they shouldn't be.
It is that the double standard & selective outrage has just gotten too much. How can any of us sing, "the land of the free,..." anymore?

We aren't allowed to support marriage or we might be fired?? What is going on?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I sent an email last week to Home Depot asking them to make a public statement concerning their new position regarding Sharia compliant policies. After their response(below)I'm left wondering if they're simply ignorant of CAIR's ulterior motives and history, or conforming out of fear. Or maybe they'll just do anything for business:

Good Afternoon _____,

It's not unusual for stores to tailor their communications efforts to
the local culture. A large number of our customers in Dearborn are Arab
Americans, so this was a well-intended effort by this one store to
promote good customer service, not Sharia Law. I appreciate your
feedback, but I can assure you again that this was a well-intended
effort by this one store to provide good customer service in this
community.

Your reference number is 53137088.

Sincerely,

The Home Depot-Customer Care
2455 Paces Ferry Rd.
Atlanta, GA. 30339
1-800-553-3199
thdCustomerCare@homedepot.com

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I think it's wrong to not lust after Megyn; that applies to both sexes.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk

Teleprompter manufacturers had better get ready to pay reparations.

[rse]

BTDT-

I suspect it has much to do with the new Civil and Human Rights museum next door to the aquarium that HD stock built.

Beyond the minimum wage the Diva has been taught (not math, grammar, or Chemistry principles) but that any criticism of Islam indicates prejudice. The instruction is clearly designed to shut off facts should they meander along anyway.

[Threadkiller]

A large number of our customers in Dearborn are Arab-Americans

Hyphenated as the Founders intended.

[narciso]

there's also Laura Logan, who I can only fault for hanging out with Michael Ware, that gossipy
scapegoating piece in New York, indicates something wrong with the writer,

[Miss Marple]

Heading to bed.

Good night, all!

[Threadkiller]

MM, thanks for the Cspan pic on the last thread.

LOL!

[daddy]

daddy--just got an email asking for money to support Sarah Palin for Senate in Alaska.

Anonamom,

I would save your money. From where I sit I believe it is impossible for Sarah Palin ever to win another elective office in Alaska. She has been successfully painted as an embarrassment, and people would be loathe to vote for her simply to prevent the rest of the country from looking at Alaskan's as ignorant rubes.

Currently there are 3 Republican candidates in the race against Begich.

1) Dan Sullivan has the backing of the RNC and has the best numbers currently against Begich, which is why the out of state Begich money is running continual smear ads against Sullivan on TV and radio. I don't see any Begich ads running against any of the other 2 Repub candidates, therefore they view Sullivan as their prime opponent.

2) Mead Treadwell is the current Lt Governor and is somewhat of a local favorite (single dad raising 3 kids) and for a while he had slightly better polling numbers than Sullivan, but he stumbled a bit in a debate a few months back by accusing Begich of supporting a Carbon Tax (which he roundabout does) but since it wasn't as clear as Treadwell made it sound and has plausible deniability, the ADN and Begich and all the state media went after Treadwell and slightly diminished him, and that may have been why the RNC put their support behind Sullivan.

3) Third guy is Joe Miller, Sarah's pick last time, and from what I see his numbers are falling thru the floor in regards to Begich, or to either of the other 2 Repub candidates. I think Miller's numbers are about what Sarah would get if she ran again up here---down in the low teens at best.

In my view Sarah seriously running would be handing the seat over to Begich. I cannot believe that the outfit trying to get funds to draft Sarah is an in-state outfit. If it is, IMHO they are seriously deluded.

[daddy]

Ha! On catch-up, just after posting the above, I saw this from Narciso posted just below Anonamom's comment:

It's not a real thing, anonamon, she doesn't endorse the effort,

Thanks Narciso. I'm glad to hear that. She is an exceptionally bright woman in all respects and it is a gross shame on us up here that Alaska can't have her in elective office.

[daddy]

Can Americans of Irish descent get in on this reparation stuff, or is it still "Irish Need Not Apply"?

And how much of the un-Commonwealth can I get out of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for hanging my great great great great granny for WitchCraft?

[Bori]

On the topic in the thread, the new essay does blame Democrats, though not directly for some of the problems which is refreshing, at least. The acknowledgement that White Democrats are just as responsible.

[Jane on Ipad]

Janet,

Dave just posted a NY Times article on my Facebook page that the whole point of the tea party was racism. The ACA was just a beard.

I keep learning the most bizarre things about myself that I never knew.

[daddy]

Off with the dogs.

I have a month off for vacation so I should lose some weight and get fairly fit all over again due to our daily treks, but I can also tell that with so much daylight up here now I won't be seeing any stars above until I go back to work and take another trip late next month.

[jimmyk]

My great-grandparents were persecuted under the czars, perhaps Putin would send a little natural gas money my way for reparations? I'll let the Egyptians off the hook, it's been over 3,000 years.

[narciso]

So Coates is a Panther baby, a college drop out,
much like Tourette's syndrome, a former contributor to the Village Voice, yes he's exactly who should guide our dialogue on race,

[Rick B]

"I'll let the Egyptians off the hook, it's been over 3,000 years."

You're nuts. Just think of the compound interest. Don't forget your claims on Iraq and Italy as well.

On the same basis, I'd invite every black who feels deserving of reparation to file their claims in Africa. The original African slave catchers and sellers lived there, not here.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

I thought we already did reparations. Is this gonna be for the people too lazy to fill out Pigford forms that say some long-ago relative thought about farming? or was near some dirt at some point? Wasn't Pigford just "reparations"?

[Stephanie]

Put slots in there and Stephanie will be there in a nano-second.

Yep. Never been to Muscle Shoals.

I'd love to go just to check out the ummm..mating rituals of the local wild-a-beasts at the local watering hole, too. IYKWIM. I'd pay extra for running commentary from the JOM gang.

Top Gun or What Women Want?

[Patriot4Freedom]

NK - Have a great time enjoying the sights in Normandy!

If you've rented a car, I'd highly recommend you visit some of the small tasting rooms where Calvados is produced in Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandie), even though it's not harvest time.

A visit to Monet's studio/property at Giverny is always worthwhile.

LUN is some good info on Normandy trips from Fodors.

[Stephanie]

Fodor's. Didn't they hire a guy whose group tried to burn down the Vatican?

A free ten minute session with Stephanie on How to Win At Penny Slots to anyone who knows the movie reference. ;)

[Patriot4Freedom]

Stephanie - Wishing your Mom a speedy and complete recovery. She will be in our prayers, too. Keep your spirits up !

[jimmyk]

Just think of the compound interest.

Rick, I'm shocked at your insensitivity. You know that interest is not permitted under Sharia law. If you were a Home Depot employee you would get sent up for reeducation.

[Danube on iPad]

"Hyphenated as the Founders intended."

Who can doubt that the Founders had a clear intent as to whether the hyphen should be used? Who can doubt the importance of the question, not only to the Founders but to our very selves?

[Threadkiller]

Pavlovian-American

[Stephanie]

I like Pavlovian-American! Instead of LIV how about PAV? It really gets to the nub of the issue.

Good doggie..er voter, have a treat!

[glasater]

I thought Pigford covered reparations...silly me.

[Rick B]

jimmyk,

The tortious act predates the hallucination known as shariah and the interest rate applicable at the time of the commission of the act should apply. The only matter left to determine is whether agricultural or commercial rates should be used as there was no maritime aspect involved. I believe commercial rates should apply due to the victims having been primarily engaged in construction and the manufacture of bricks. Let's just agree to 12% and run the spread sheets.

[Danube on iPad]

The merits of the Founders' intent regarding hyphenization remains unaddressed, as of course it will continue to be.

Perhaps some point was to be made in the original post, but it is certain that we will never know what that point was. We do know that there are loons who communicate with the Founders via Ouija board concerning every manner of arcane issue, but the Ouija Mystic can never share the basis of his insight with the disciples.

[Threadkiller]

A War for independence isn't insightful...

[Threadkiller]

Pavlovian-American

[Captain Hate]

Levin was all over the Senate donks trying to bend over Snyder on changing the Redskins name by pointing out the long history of racism of the party, including Slick's mentor, J William Fulbright, Robert "Exalted Cyclops" Byrd and now the Donald Sterling of the Senate, Harry Reid.

[narciso]

Fulbright ended his career lobbying for the UAE, which is the largest country in that biz

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/05/report-gitmo-terrorists-receive-better-medical-care-than-us-veterans-video/

Byrd had some gripe about the Iraq war, which I couldn't quite get, he probably sympathized with the Baathists

[Gus]

I'm with my pal Henry. I've told people many times. The first "former slave" from our Civil War era and before, who rings my door bell gets all my guitars and my 68 Mustang. As for native Americans??? I was born in Maryland.

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Gus, I'm a native American too. I think those sooper jeanyusses mean aboriginal Americans or indigenous Americans. Words, what do they mean?

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Extraneus wrote on the last thread - "I hate it when my wife makes lentils instead of goat meat."

I didn't "get it", but Steyn references the story - http://www.steynonline.com/6362/how-to-handle-a-woman

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Everything is a mess. :(

[Dave (in MA)]

You know that interest is not permitted under Sharia law. If you were a Home Depot employee you would get sent up for reeducation.

Cool. I can take my sweet time paying off my Home Depot card, then.

[Captain Hate]

Maria Cantwell (Dimwit-Washington), leading the effort to drum up other dumbasses in the Senate to hector Dan Snyder, has a high school in her state, 90% Aboriginal American, with the nickname "Redskins" which has adamantly refused to change the name which they regard as a point of pride. Excellent knowledge of constituents imo.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

At the very least I want equal rights. If atheists can be offended by crosses or if someone is offended by seeing a Bible or a “One nation under God, indivisible” pin...
then I'm offended by seeing a Muslim head scarf. I'm offended by seeing a totem pole or a ying/yang symbol. I'm offended by the term 'mother nature'.

Either outlaw everything, or, OR....let's go back to FREEDOM.

[Gus]

Capn, as a good and dutiful libtard, I must point out to my fellow LIBTARDS, that NO ONE is a NATIVE. We are all a result of the same BIG BANG.

[Gus]

Capn EXXXXXCELLENT point. So the peeps that Libs want to protect from offense, say that they are not offended and are proud to be called REDSKINS and it's on the floor of the Senate.
And on the other hand, blacks/rappers et al, are ALLOWED TO CALL THEMSELVES....NIGGER, NIGGA etc.

Discuss.

[Beasts of England]

@JiB: Really? It's a pretty nice place, and they have a lot of 'Swampers' memorabilia in their lounge, but not sure why they would be advertising down your way in Florida. Odd. You are, of course, welcome to come on up and give 'er a whirl!

[Beasts of England]

I think reparations are a great idea! However, the Native Americans have to be first in line and are due a check at least of factor of ten greater than any slave descendent. And as a 1/16th, or maybe a 1/32nd, Comanche, I want my check now!

I also promise to never say another disparaging word about you evil honkies! Hey you palefaces, get off my lawn land!

Be right back, gotta go download the 458 Italia Spyder configurator...

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

I absolutely believe blacks are owed reparations.

Every black kid who had to grow up in a home broken by the left wing welfare plantation or in a neighborhood full of left wing promoted drugs and left wing tolerated crime and violence, living in left wing created tenements deserves some smug white lefty's house, job, car and wife.

Then the lefty can go live in the utopia he loves to build for others far, far out of his sight and mind.

[Beasts of England]

We could just give them San Francisco, Ig. I'd call that a win-win.

[Gus]

Do the NATIVE AMERICANS who butchered other NATIVE AMERICANS owe reparations???

Just wondering?

[Stephanie]

Give em Berkshire Hathaway and Quantum Fund.

[Beasts of England]

You're not reading something correctly, Gus. Didn't you know that all NA's were peaceful hunter/gatherers, living in harmony with the land and with one another? I don't even think they we owned weapons...

[Beasts of England]

You can have my BRK.A when you pry my cold dead hands off of it, Steph!

[Stephanie]

LOL. I just picked some companies that are primarily controlled by libs. Add in all the solar companies, too. And that wacky enviro lib's company. Surely those champions of wealth redistribution, Buffett and Soros would have no problems with my choices would they?

We could give the academic endowments a 20% haircut and give that to them, too. NO problems with that either, right?

Put their money where their mouths are.

[daddy]

If this is about slavery and reparations, where's Mochelle and the WhiteHouse's twitter tag:

#Reparations For Our Girls

On the other hand, if are we still excusing slavery by Boko Haram because of poverty, then why doesn't much of Southern slavery get the same excuse.

[Gus]

Yes, the NA's are just like the ILLEGALS, coming here for LOVE!!

Jeb Bush is DEAD to me. In fact, Jeb Bush was never alive to me. This stuff is simple. If you're logical, lucid, honest and not a pandering simp.

[anonamom]

I can't find anything worthy of posting from the overnight news.
Happy Friday!