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"Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, announced Sept. 19 that he intends to place a hold on Barbara Barrett, Trump's Air Force secretary nominee..." Is that Richard "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal? Draft Dodging, Valor Stealing, Lying, Richard Blumenthal who never served in Vietnam? That one?

#1 snopercod on 2019-10-12 08:21 (Reply)

Elizabeth Warren wraps herself in the victimhood of others? I thought that was just called being an SJW. Privileged and entitled upper middle class white people condescendingly presuming to speak for the little people in order to wallow in a little second-hand oppression. Cookie-cutter non-conformity in a little plastic box.

#2 Jerryskids on 2019-10-12 11:22 (Reply)

The Washington cherry tree story came in a biography after he had died. So he's clear on that.

#3 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-10-12 11:26 (Reply)

Of course pre-Columbian societies were brutal. You can't even write or discuss the things they did and approved of. They had wars for the express purpose of capturing slaves and concubines. They killed tortured and raped for the pure joy of it. They were literally savages with no decency. Much of the "good" things you might hear about them is propaganda and rewriting of history.

#4 OneGuy on 2019-10-12 11:36 (Reply)

...and their MS-13 descendants are flooding across our Southern border.

#4.1 snopercod on 2019-10-12 13:56 (Reply)

All through that article on Bezos, I kept thinking of the words in "Ozymandias".

#5 RebeccaH on 2019-10-12 12:02 (Reply)

Kansas Schoolgirl Arrested, Charged with Felony for Brandishing Finger Gun: She POINTED HER FINGER at me!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!!!
I'll NEVER get over that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#6 Sam L. on 2019-10-12 13:06 (Reply)

What she needs is a good lawyer to sue the school and the city. Her parents should be the one's who explain to her that she made a social mistake. The school and the police way over stepped their authority. I would also assume that whoever asked her that question may have been setting her up in some way. If true I would include that student (parents) in the law suit.

#6.1 OneGuy on 2019-10-12 16:16 (Reply)

Not all pre-Colombian tribes were brutal - or any more brutal than tribes which still existed in Europe at the time. The larger tribes, who pushed everyone else out and got the good stuff, mostly from Mexico to Peru, were incredibly savage. The MiqMaqs, not so much.

#7 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-10-12 16:27 (Reply)

What tribes were in Europe in 1500?

#7.1 RJT on 2019-10-12 18:31 (Reply)

Prussians, Scots, Frisians, Swedes, Catalonians, Sicilians, Vlachs, Magyars, Slavs, and a hundred others. We don't think of them in those terms now, but they thought of themselves that way, and looking in retrospect, it's hard to find a definition of "tribe" that keeps one and excludes the other.

#7.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-10-13 13:43 (Reply)

In other words, the history of the native peoples of the Americas shows they are no better or worse than the rest of mankind.

#8 JJM on 2019-10-12 16:52 (Reply)

It makes sense that Elizabeth Warren would go all in on supporting transgender identity issues. After all she’s a fellow traveler.

Ethnic self-ID is the only reason she got hired at Harvard.

#9 Jm01 on 2019-10-13 13:59 (Reply)

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Saturday, October 12. 2019

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