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Message 1997353 - Posted: 8 Jun 2019, 4:07:04 UTC - in response to Message 1997346.  

A step in the right direction?
Columbine High School could be torn down to end 'morbid fascination'
I'm surprised that the place is still there after all this time.
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Message 1997400 - Posted: 8 Jun 2019, 13:59:12 UTC - in response to Message 1997353.  

A step in the right direction?
Columbine High School could be torn down to end 'morbid fascination'
I'm surprised that the place is still there after all this time.

Broke local government. It would be there until it starts to crumble.
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Message 1997461 - Posted: 8 Jun 2019, 20:59:04 UTC

Mervyn Kershhttps://apnews.com/534c921592f34ff9b4d5a20a6e171ea0 wrote:
“Don’t allow bullies to grow strong ... because then they turn against anyone they want to,” he said, “Don’t wait to see if they carry out their words — if they are bluffing.”
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Message 1997956 - Posted: 12 Jun 2019, 21:48:37 UTC

Got to LOVE TRANSPARENCY. Yeah?

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/06/12/obama-administration-deleted-ice-speeches

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Message 1998066 - Posted: 13 Jun 2019, 18:55:59 UTC

https://apnews.com/8130920d179c4ae0a08ca76a89dbc4bb
Prosecutors stunningly dropped all criminal charges Thursday against eight people in the Flint water scandal
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Message 1998067 - Posted: 13 Jun 2019, 18:57:56 UTC

Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up!
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Nearly a year after U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter suggested his wife was to blame for their alleged misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds, Margaret Hunter pleaded guilty Thursday to a single corruption count and agreed to testify against her husband at his upcoming trial.
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Message 1998101 - Posted: 13 Jun 2019, 21:55:25 UTC

Police forensics contractor 'sent phones to Fone Fun Shop'

Another triumph for Government outsourcing:

One of the country’s largest digital forensics laboratories has been stripped of its accreditation after a former employee reported concerns about the handling of evidence at the business.
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Message 1998342 - Posted: 15 Jun 2019, 21:40:46 UTC
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Neo-Nazi website hit with $4.1 million defamation penalty

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/neo-nazi-website-hit-4-1-million-defamation-penalty-n1016886
More of this needs to happen.
There is a regular poster who often quotes that site.
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Message 1998344 - Posted: 15 Jun 2019, 21:48:28 UTC - in response to Message 1998342.  

Neo-Nazi website hit with $4.1 million defamation penalty

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/neo-nazi-website-hit-4-1-million-defamation-penalty-n1016886
More of this needs to happen.
There is a regular poster who often quotes that site.
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Message 1998379 - Posted: 16 Jun 2019, 0:40:38 UTC - in response to Message 1998370.  

My error, I confused Stormer for Caller, the message is similar.
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Message 1998459 - Posted: 16 Jun 2019, 21:38:01 UTC - in response to Message 1998448.  

[The Daily Caller is Conservative and The Daily Stormer is Neo Nazi.
The Daily Stomer is Conservative and also Neo Nazi.
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Message 1998460 - Posted: 16 Jun 2019, 21:39:20 UTC - in response to Message 1998459.  

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Message 1998461 - Posted: 16 Jun 2019, 21:45:19 UTC

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Message 1998566 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019, 17:46:26 UTC

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Message 1998589 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019, 20:29:00 UTC - in response to Message 1998566.  

Dim getting much brighter.
That must of hurt them Republican Riggers. :-O
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Message 1998797 - Posted: 19 Jun 2019, 11:34:03 UTC

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Message 1998865 - Posted: 20 Jun 2019, 0:43:08 UTC

"It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in my memory, with which one need have no fear of death, or dread dying of any wound; and so when I make it and give it to thee thou hast nothing to do when in some battle thou seest they have cut me in half through the middle of the body— as is wont to happen frequently,— but neatly and with great nicety, ere the blood congeal, to place that portion of the body which shall have fallen to the ground upon the other half which remains in the saddle, taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly. Then thou shalt give me to drink but two drops of the balsam I have mentioned, and thou shalt see me become sounder than an apple."

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MAN O LIVE!!!!! NOW dAt is a SUPERDon!!!!!

And BIG BIG BIG SUPERTrump Keeps Getting CUT IN HALF by HATERs and dA GREATEST GENIUS of ALL TIME 'BalsaMIZES' and KEEPs ON KEEPin' ON!!!!!

Yep. SIX mO YEARs of GREATNESS!!!!!

C'mon HATERs - KEEP CUTTING and BIG BIG BIG DON Keeps On MAKin' AMERICA GREATER

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Message 1998867 - Posted: 20 Jun 2019, 1:01:38 UTC - in response to Message 1998865.  

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Message 1998894 - Posted: 20 Jun 2019, 8:30:35 UTC
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Very sadly, I have not 'read deep', but I do have in my possession a copy of Hugh Thomas's 1997 book "The Slave Trade: the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870" (Simon & Schuster Inc., New York: I have the UK Picador edition, published the same year).

It opens with Zurara's description of a slave market in Lagos in 1444, following the arrival of 235 slaves from West Africa. They are described as being from a variety of [I presume} tribal backgrounds, from 'white enough', through mulattos, to 'as black as Ethiops' [sic - perhaps Nubians]. Thomas goes on to say that the slaves captured by the Portuguese raiders included men and women who had already been enslaved by the Azanaghi - shown on the map as occupying the area in West Africa between the Atlantic and Timbuktu.

And so on.

I'm sure that if I read the remaining 800 pages, I'll find descriptions of the events that Eye (sorry, should that be Dull? I find it hard to tell them apart) refers to: they are a documented part of the well-studied historical record. I'm only surprised it's taken him so long to discover them.

But the fact that sins were committed by both buyers and sellers all those centuries ago doesn't make them right - even by the standards of the time. Zurara's eye-witness report of that first slave market is quoted:

"What heart could be so hard as not to be pierced with piteous feeling to see that company?" ...
You can read the rest for yourselves.

P.S. We do all know that the Roman empire was built on slavery too, don't we? Thomas's estimate is that half a million captives were required every year between 50 BC and 150 AD.
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Message 1998898 - Posted: 20 Jun 2019, 10:26:35 UTC

The Russian polar bear suspected of walking 1,500 km (!) in the wrong direction from the Arctic Ocean coast to Norilsk in Siberia is now caught.
A worrying new claim suggests the animal could have been grown indoors for pelt trade.
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/caught-the-norilsk-polar-bear-needs-urgent-medical-help-say-experts/
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