glenster
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Norm MacDonald
by glenster inadult language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtaklglvigk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i22pk7qhgok.
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(dumb?) Fox News Host says Stupid Things to Scholar Who Wrote About Jesus
by fulltimestudent inwhether this woman asked these questions of her own accord, or they were written by staffers, is not the point.
the real point is how can people in a country with some of the world's best universities ask such dumb questions.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqhmllq-odw#at=13.
... and if you wonder what reza aslan's views are about jesus, listen to him here, courtesy of all saints church in pasadena a few days ago.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zi4o242d2s.
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Rutherford's Paradise - Film Footage of Beth Sarim
by RayPublisher ini just added this to my youtube channel, jwstruggle.
i know that we have some resident authorities on the history around jf rutherford and i am anxious to see what they make of it.
(leolaia i'm talking to you lol!).
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glenster
Cool find! He's probably just happy to be giving himself a rich man's estate. I'm sure I remember a photo of him at the pool sticking his tongue way out (ew) at the camera but I haven't seen it on the Internet in years.
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The President addresses the Nation
by designs inin a speech that is considered one of the most personal given by the president, or any past president, president obama speaks about treyvon martin being him 35 years agoand- violence, prejudice, the reach and limits of the states and the federal government, and the soul searching to follow.
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he, the president, invokes martin luther king's- 'the content of character' quote to spark a healthy debate in this country.. www.cnn.com.
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Zimmerman emerges to help family escape overturned car in Sanford, Fla.
Police say George Zimmerman helped rescue a family trapped in an overturned ve-
hicle off a Florida highway last week, Zimmerman's first known public sighting
since his acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.The incident occurred on July 17 in Sanford, Fla., near the intersection of In-
terstate 4 and State Road 46, officials confirmed to NBC News. The rescue was
first reported by ABC News.Zimmerman and another man were assisting a family of four when officers with
the Seminole County Sheriff's Office arrived on the scene of the accident. A
blue Ford Explorer had traveled off the road and rolled over, according to offi-
cials.Zimmerman and the other man were helping the two children and their parents get
out of the overturned vehicle, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said. The
former neighborhood watch volunteer left the scene after making contact with po-
lice and did not witness the crash.There were no injuries to any of the vehicle’s occupants, according to police.
A Seminole County jury found Zimmerman not guilty July 13 in the death of 17-
year-old Martin. Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense on Feb. 26, 2012.Since then, Zimmerman’s family has said the 29-year-old was in hiding and had
received death threats. Zimmerman’s parents said in an interview that they don’t
even know where their son is hiding.The verdict has prompted rallies and protests. Protests in Los Angeles and Oak-
land, Calif., turned violent as demonstrators called for an overhaul of the jus-
tice system and repeal of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/22/19618495-zimmerman-emerges-to-help-family-escape-overturned-car-in-sanford-fla?liteMaybe he related to somebody pinned down who couldn't get up.
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The President addresses the Nation
by designs inin a speech that is considered one of the most personal given by the president, or any past president, president obama speaks about treyvon martin being him 35 years agoand- violence, prejudice, the reach and limits of the states and the federal government, and the soul searching to follow.
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he, the president, invokes martin luther king's- 'the content of character' quote to spark a healthy debate in this country.. www.cnn.com.
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1932 presidential election — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 1936, African-Americans were added to the coalition (African-Americans had
previously been denied the vote or voted Republican). For instance, Pittsburgh,
which was a Republican stronghold from the Civil War up to this point, suddenly
became a Democratic stronghold, and has elected a Democratic mayor to office in
every election since this time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election#Realigning_elections_in_United_States_historyFor political scientists, 1964 was primarily an issue-based realignment. The
classic study of the 1964 election, by Carmines and Stimson (1989), shows how the
polarization of activists and elites on race-related issues sent clear signals to
the general public about the historic change in each party's position on Civil
Rights. Notably, while only 50% of African-Americans self-identified as Democrats
in the 1960 National Election Study, 82% did in 1964, and the numbers are higher
in the 21st century. The clearest indicator of the importance of this election,
was that Deep Southern states, such as Mississippi, voted Republican in 1964. In
contrast, much of the traditional Republican strongholds of the Northeast and
Upper Midwest voted Democratic. Vermont and Maine, which stood alone voting
against FDR in 1936, voted for LBJ in 1964.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election#Possible_modern_realigning_elections_in_the_United_StatesThe South, which had started to vote increasingly Republican beginning in the
1930s, continued that trend, becoming the stronghold of the Republican party by
the 1990s.[32] Political scientists Richard Johnston and Byron Schafer have ar-
gued that this development was based more on economics than on race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#Political_repercussions1964 - the inspiration
In 1964, Barry Goldwater accomplished a task that, until then, had been seen as
physically impossible -- he won five states in the Deep South for the Republican
Party, which had been seen for the past hundred years as the party of Abraham
Lincoln and the defeat of the Confederacy. He was able to do this because of his
voting record against civil rights legislation versus the incumbent, Lyndon John-
son, who was in favor of civil rights. The South had, until that point, been a
solidly Democratic voting bloc, often called the "Solid South." Nixon, taking
note of this, campaigned on subtle race and states rights themes in 1968 and 1972
in an attempt to keep the Deep South in the Republican column.
That white Southerners could be persuaded to vote Republican in presidential
races by the 1960s is attributable to the greater power of race than class by
that time. For the first half of the 20th century, white Protestant voters in the
South tended to be quite populist on economic issues, forming an important part
of the "New Deal coalition" and supporting government infrastructure projects
like the Tennessee Valley Authority. However, they were quite conservative on
race and other social issues. For decades, class was more important than race be-
cause of the greater poverty in the South, but with growing affluence after World
War II, race began to be more important than class. The Civil Rights Movement
that began in the 1950s and gained momentum in the 1960s put race in sharper per-
spective, while other cultural changes in the 1960s (the sexual revolution, the
counterculture, the New Left) also drove white religious conservatives away from
the Democratic Party.
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The President addresses the Nation
by designs inin a speech that is considered one of the most personal given by the president, or any past president, president obama speaks about treyvon martin being him 35 years agoand- violence, prejudice, the reach and limits of the states and the federal government, and the soul searching to follow.
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he, the president, invokes martin luther king's- 'the content of character' quote to spark a healthy debate in this country.. www.cnn.com.
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The President addresses the Nation
by designs inin a speech that is considered one of the most personal given by the president, or any past president, president obama speaks about treyvon martin being him 35 years agoand- violence, prejudice, the reach and limits of the states and the federal government, and the soul searching to follow.
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he, the president, invokes martin luther king's- 'the content of character' quote to spark a healthy debate in this country.. www.cnn.com.
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I didn't explain before why I recommend
"Ethnic America: A History" by Thomas Sowell
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0465020755
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699670.Ethnic_America
http://books.google.com/books/about/Ethnic_America.html?id=M2GfO8IOq8cCIt's the history of various ethnic groups in the US from the time they got here
onward. One point to take from it is most of the ethnic groups, when they first
got to the US, formed their own neighborhoods. It makes sense in a way--they
spoke the same language and could help each other along.But with only a couple of exceptions (the Japanese are one, maybe a little
surprising after WWII), there was also distrust of outsiders and distrust from
outside. There was a higher degree of crime, drunkenness, fights, poor educa-
tion, unemployment, etc., till they assimilated better. (Native American reser-
vations are a little like an institutionalized version with about half faring
better trying to make their way outside of one.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation#Law_enforcement_and_crime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_social_statistics_of_Native_AmericansThe African Americans are a special case due to the usual 'centric intolerance
but also pseudoscience about better and worse races and leftover rationalizations
originating when they were used for slavery. The separateness was more extreme
and assimilation is not complete: there's still segregation, more explicit and
implicit racism among Republicans, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States#Contemporary_segregation"The survey also found that some 79% of Republicans expressed explicit racial
prejudice compared to 32% of Democrats. The implicit test too showed that 64% of
Republicans had racial prejudice compared to 55% of Democrats, while independents
came in at 49%."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/27/racial-prejudice-worsened-obamaRationalizing inferiority due to the problems feeds the problem. The helpful
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The President addresses the Nation
by designs inin a speech that is considered one of the most personal given by the president, or any past president, president obama speaks about treyvon martin being him 35 years agoand- violence, prejudice, the reach and limits of the states and the federal government, and the soul searching to follow.
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he, the president, invokes martin luther king's- 'the content of character' quote to spark a healthy debate in this country.. www.cnn.com.
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Thought crime:
Wrong. Thinkcrime in 1984 was when it was determined, often by telescreens, that
someone had a criminal thought against the gov't. This would be to think that
someone else has a criminal thought with no more evidence than the thought of the
thought, I think, which is a forced thought of imaginable thoughts because it
either wasn't thought through or they were through with the thoughtful and would
rather be thought well of by the thoughtless who think they know what you think
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The President addresses the Nation
by designs inin a speech that is considered one of the most personal given by the president, or any past president, president obama speaks about treyvon martin being him 35 years agoand- violence, prejudice, the reach and limits of the states and the federal government, and the soul searching to follow.
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he, the president, invokes martin luther king's- 'the content of character' quote to spark a healthy debate in this country.. www.cnn.com.
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glenster
PS: if they have a case to determine if TM's civil rights were violated, the
prosecution will focus on GZ's report, nominal look for TM's whereabouts on the
other side of the block and halfway back, and confrontation, and claim the motive
was implicit racism. That's clearer when there's no apparent motive for someone
to hassle someone of a different race, in this case an African American.Defense will say GZ was trained to report someone walking around without appar-
ent purpose on people's lawns at night in the rain. TM seems to have chosen a
property on the north side of the block for privacy for a phone call instead of
his father's back yard to the south. GZ didn't identify by race till asked.GZ went to the other side of the block for an address to give the police admit-
ting he was still curious where TM went. But he's recorded as wanting the police
to handle it.If we look for an extra motive for GZ's look for TM's whereabouts, the most ap-
parent choice would be TM's stare-down, confirmed by Jeantel as unfriendly.
TM's insensitive remark to her about someone of another ethnicity wasn't years
ago but during the event in question. GZ started saying there's something off
about TM, he was acting like an a**hole--a tough guy--a punk, a reaction someone
of the same race would likely have, when TM acted territorial about an area that
wasn't his territory with his stare-down and confrontational approach. GZ's
reaction indicates that made TM seem to be acting oddly even more to him.GZ claims to have given up determining TM's whereabouts and was returning to
his truck when TM appeared. Jeantel has TM claim GZ was following him, but even
if we open up the possibilities of the paths of the two men TM could have been
home or mostly there instead of no farther south by this time if he wanted to be.The one who made the initial insensitive comment or got physical first are un-
certain. We're more sure of events once we have TM using his knees to pin GZ's
arms to the ground while punching his face.Prosecution will have to show there was no apparent reasonable motive for the
report or look on the parallel street, then make a case that, beyond a doubt,
racism is left as the ulterior motive. Such things happen, and it's important
we try to diminish how often, but I don't know how the prosecution expects to win
their case with these people as the examples.Another bunch of money will be spent for the protesters, Sharpton, Jackson,
etc., who won't get what they want again, get upset again, and we'll foot the
bill again.