Read the “Grapes of Wrath” that gives you a good idea of what the sharecroppers had to endure.I have a friend from New England who lived next door to the Hamners when he was finding a place around in the area to put down roots,he had some interesting insights.Around here in that time frame people didnt have the good life the"Waltons" had.Pretty much hardscrabble-but that being said ,despite the exodus of young people,this is a pretty good place to live-if you have money-Kevin
Well I’ve finally lost count of the hypothetical mandates I would put in motion were I the King of the United States,but this crap that is currently going around has given me a heavy heart.Why are we the people being betrayed? Are the people that use this site the sanest most intelligent people in the US? What I’m specifically referring to is this ethanol mandate,take the stuff back out of our motor fuel please,I dont want to pay more for a product thats hurting our economy.
When I first heard about this alcohol business I was all for it,I thought we were just going to use up the excess corn laying around that the rats were eating up.Little did I know that this was going to be a full scale price war at the supermarket,sponsered by the American taxpayer,plus all the resources being put into something that has a negative benefit,where are the smart folks ,please.
I used to believe that the elected officals were high up on the intellegence scale,now I’m beginning to wonder if perhaps I could do just as good or maybe a little better then the current crop?“it is,what it is” Mind you,I’m not insulting thier intellegence-but why support something that flies in the face of common sense and has the potential to negatively affect our well being.Can’t we relax and let our guard down a little bit? These folks are supposed to be looking out for our welfare,not “feathering thier nests”.-Kevin
When either party gets a mandate it is a tenuous patchwork of tenuous constituencies that are like the plates twirling on poles
and it has seemed somewhat certain that the powerful oil states felt they were losing some sway and saw ethanol as a way to get the midwest to jump up on the stage to twirl a few of those plates. And just look how successful they were.
Its a shame,we the consumer lose.I felt good about the nineties,my pitiful salary approached a living wage,now it seems that prosperity retreats at warp speed-Kevin
They are looking out for our welfare(checks).
I’ve heard they’re starting to ask you if you have a firearm in your home when you go to the doctor’s office. What business is it of theirs if I do or not?
Are you serious,bscar?-Kevin
Not entirely sure, but I’ve heard it from a few people at work. Saying they’ll even ask their child(ren) if the parent(s) won’t cooperate.
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It is a tough choice, how would it have turned out if the social programs were not there. Has it helped her? If you say no I go with cut entitlements and give tax cuts for the rich, and romney for president and cut out all unnecessary programs, like the fda, cdc, etc.
Well another mandate of mine would be compulsory courses in in morality and ethics in all schools,how soon we forget the lessons of Sunday School.when I was in elementary school we had Bible class occasionally and as far as I remember no parents protested about it either.As Johnny Cash said things are going to be different when “the Man comes around”-Kevin
@kevin Well another mandate of mine would be compulsory courses in in morality and ethics in all schools
@barkydog cut out all unnecessary programs, like the fda, cdc, etc.
There in lies a problem. We have two different perspectives on what is important to spend money on and what is not. Obviously, to the haves, school lunch programs and Head Start are unnecessary, while to the have nots, courses in morality for the HAVES might be beneficial.
I agree,Dagosa-Kevin
Bing, I would argue that a convicted felon serving a life sentence does not have a “right” to any elective surgery whatsoever. I, as a law-abiding citizen don’t have a “right” to gender-bending surgery, and I doubt that any court in the land would force an insurance company to pay for it. Why should this lifer have greater rights than I do?
I don’t see any slippery slope here. It’s elective surgery. Taxpayers should not have to pay for elective surgery for incarcerated felons.
Kevin is right. Our courts have become “something to behold”.
@same
I feel the same way…and then I thought. “maybe a gender change operation to a female and keeping him (now her ) in the same prison population of men, might increase his punishment.” Maybe the judge is being too mean…
@dagosa , you missed my big if or implied butt, I am not in favor of cuts to anything for a tax cuts for the rich entitlement.
Just for kicks
In Montana, State Rep. Steve Lavin introduced a bill that would allow corporations to vote in local elections, taking the idea that “corporations are people” to new heights…
…A bill before the [Kansas] House Education Committee would make schools include evidence against climate change in science classes.
According to the bill, science teachers would be required to “provide information to students of scientific evidence which both supports and counters a scientific theory or hypothesis.”…
In Oklahoma, however, go right ahead and argue that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time. On a 9-8 vote last week, the Oklahoma Common Education committee approved the so-called “Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act.”
If the bill becomes law, it would make it illegal for biology teachers to fail students who write papers against evolution, climate change and other theories with near 100 percent approval in the scientific community.
@barkeydog
I did hear you …BTW, did you really mean. " my big…implied butt" definitly taken out of context.
I really wasn’t critiquing anything you said…just using it as a jumping off point in diversity of opinion. I see where you are comming from.
When bills like these even get considered, it makes you wonder what the class ranking of these legislators were. I wonder if it would do any good to reveal their science grades. As a retired educator, it 's hard to see how we ever made a difference. It’s like three steps forward, two steps back. These backward times are hard to take.
Glad I was not understood, being form the land of derriere, I mean Dairy air where gerrymandering investigations are demanding info and not being given info,
The courts have tried to get info on the secret redistricting by the (republi) cons, no cooperation yet, They do not know where the computers that gerrymandered districts are!
And because the recall election failed for falker, we are hoping the John Doe investigation goes to the 7th felony for falker staff, wuk? local joke.
And now…it’s déjà vu all over again.
As if voting rights were settle at one time or another. Next, the grand old party, still living in the past, will reset women’s suffrage, some how. Funny how the those who keep quoting the Constitution some how don’t think it applies to them. Instead of " if you can’t beat them, join them " their motto is " if you can’t beat them, make them irrelevant . "
Dag, I totally fail to see how you’ve drawn any of your stated conclusion out of this case.
Re: your second sentence, I quote the Constitution, and its Bill Of Rights, often, and I absolutely feel that it applies to me. I only wish the current administration felt it applied to them as well. We should all, every one of us, read these documments periodically to remind us of why the revolutionary war was fought and why the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were created. The war was fought and the Declaration written to free the colonies from an overbearing, intrusive, and unresponsive government that was draining the colonists and ignoring their wants. The Bill of Rights was written to prevent the newly formed federal government from doing the same thing that the British government was doing. It is a PROHIBITIVE document that says "the government shall make no laws (etc.). It doesn’t tell the federal government what it CAN do, it tells it what it CANNOT do. Sadly, it seems that the current administrationn considers the Bill of Rights to be irrelevant.
A literacy test was administered to determine eligibility to vote here in Mississippi in the 1950s. And the situation was quite easy to understand when a white man was given a pack of Kool-Aid and instructed to read and explain the directions for preparing it while a black man was given the instructions for setting up an azimuth mount for a telescope. As long as the civil rights leaders are veterans of the struggle of that era I can’t see how there will be any tolerance for giving up their hard fought victories. The civil rights act of 1964 in its entirety is significantly more important to blacks my age than the 2nd Amendment is to most white Americans.
Rod, you make an excellent case for the supreme court to find in the Alabama case that federal oversight is still necessary in changes to their election laws. However the briefs for the case should, and I suspect will, provide conclusive evidence that such practices are not now and will never again be in Alabama.
I still fail to see how Dag was able to interpret from the case that those of us who often quote the Constitution don’t think it applies to us. Alabama is not saying that the Constitution doesn’t apply to them, they’re presenting evidence to the court that they no longer require federal oversight to ensure that changes they make WILL comply with the constitution.
Also, as a chronic quoter of the constitution, I felt obligated to defend my honor.