LGP Political Discussion Thread - Latest news at top

[Alejandro Rojas]

Well that was John Brown's goal at Harper's Ferry...

[Gaucho]

"I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history,"

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/e ... s-had-guns

Hmmmm.

But then they'd live in Africa and that would suck, too.

[shafnutz05]

Nah, if John Brown and others would have succeeded, they would have shot the damned slaveholder plantation owners and lived a nice life, free of bondage. They could go back to Africa if they really wanted, but....you know, 'Murica

[Gaucho]

Sounds good to me.

[columbia]

He seems to have issed the fact that slaves weren't, you know, citizens.....they were enslaved because they were slaves.

[shafnutz05]

He seems to have issed the fact that slaves weren't, you know, citizens.....they were enslaved because they were slaves.

Well, that's not really accurate. They were three-fifths of a citizen. So maybe they could have gotten 3/5 of a gun?

[columbia]

Oy vey.

[shafnutz05]

Oy vey.

Ironic that southerners were the ones that wanted the benefit of gaining that additional representation in Congress, ain't it?

[Gaucho]

I feel like listening to some KRS One now.

[shafnutz05]

I feel like listening to some KRS One now.

He is a despicable bastard, for multiple reasons

[Gaucho]

[shafnutz05]

The two main reasons I hate the bastard are:

1) Free Mumia
2) His 9/11 garbage

I wasn't that tuned into the Mumia crap until I moved to Philadelphia....talk about a movement that makes absolutely zero sense. The rest is self-explanatory

[Gaucho]

My main reason I like him is:

1) BDP

[Digitalgypsy66]

He also had that terrible rap in that terrible REM song.

[Gaucho]

Not his finest moment.

[Alejandro Rojas]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakew ... of-jordan/

[Tomas]

Tattooed professor Vladimir Franc with respectable 6.84% in the 1st round of the Presidential elections

http://volby.idnes.cz/prezidentske-volby-2013.aspx
Go Karl Johannes Nepomuk Joseph Norbert Friedrich Antonius Wratislaw Menas zu Schwarzenberg!

[DelPen]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

This better be tossed

[Alejandro Rojas]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013 ... d-in-paris

PARIS - Several hundred thousand people are expected to march through Paris on Sunday against the planned legalization of same-sex marriage in the first mass protest against the unpopular President Francois Hollande. Strongly backed by the Catholic hierarchy, lay activists have mobilized a hybrid coalition of church-going families, political conservatives, Muslims, evangelicals and even homosexuals opposed to gay marriage for the show of force.

[Gaucho]

Meanwhile, 15000 protested after the murders of 3 three Kurdish activists. Good on you, mankind. Be proud of yourself.

[mac5155]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261587/Teacher-sues-school-fired-saying-discriminated-disability--phobia-young-children.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

This better be tossed

Lolwut

[PensFanInDC]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261587/Teacher-sues-school-fired-saying-discriminated-disability--phobia-young-children.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

This better be tossed

Lolwut

If I was ophidiophobic (fear of snakes) I wouldn't become a herpatologist.

[tifosi77]

He seems to have issed the fact that slaves weren't, you know, citizens.....they were enslaved because they were slaves.

Well, that's not really accurate. They were three-fifths of a citizen. So maybe they could have gotten 3/5 of a gun?

Oy vey.

Ironic that southerners were the ones that wanted the benefit of gaining that additional representation in Congress, ain't it?

No, they were zero-fifths of a 'citizen'. They were counted as 3/5 of a human for census purposes.

And it wasn't just about additional representation (read: power) in Congress, it was also, perhaps more so, about the apportionment of taxes collected.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261587/Teacher-sues-school-fired-saying-discriminated-disability--phobia-young-children.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

This better be tossed

I don't know, the facts as they are presented in the article point to a legit case. Don't know all the facts, obviously, but the article does make it seem like a retaliatory move.

[King Sid the Great 87]

People impacted by Sandy want a federal buyout of their property. I thought that they were out of their minds until I read that these type of options actually exist. What a joke. My property isn't worth what I paid for either. Where do I sign up for my buyout?

[mac5155]

"common sense"......