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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback should be coasting to re-election this fall. The soft-spoken son of a Kansas pig farmer is the conservative governor of a deep red state, and he’s running in a year when Republicans will likely have a national advantage over Democrats. Instead, Brownback is now...

Off the subject of this thread, but I wouldn't be surprised if Roddenberry's vision of how things play out were not pretty close to the mark, particularly considering all the wars that are going on simultaneously.

If Klingons and humans can get along . . .

Look like straight lines to me :cool:

Actually I couldn't care less about the Fed. It's a MacGuffin. But then I don't suffer from your particular variety of OCD.

So did I. But if you're not going back, you're not in a position to put somebody else through it unless you're willing to join them.

I thought we were "really done" with this, but, since we're not, I suggest you revisit what you've written after reading up on cognitive dissonance. Granted you don't retreat into the "some of my best friends are" position, but your views are just as racist as some cracker. You don't see that...

Washington Post: Eight states, most in the South [e.g., Georgia], have election laws with strict photo ID requirements similar to the Wisconsin law that was ruled unconstitutional Tuesday. Glad to hear that Jim Crow stuff is all in the past.

The North may not have become enriched with it, but they were hardly innocent of being involved in it. It has been suggested that that is one reason why the exclusion of slavery was left out of the Declaration. As has been pointed out an untold number of times, Jefferson et al were slaveholders...

Two things. One, the attack on the WTC shattered Americans' illusion of safety and security. And the hawks took full advantage of that vulnerability by instituting all these changes. At the time, there were liberals who warned that we might not be thrilled with the consequences after the shock...

Let's just say I don't buy green bananas. Living through something is a hell of a lot different than reading about it. But then age does not necessarily confer wisdom. If one is an asshole, he eventually becomes an old asshole. Look at Dick Cheney.

Go figure. The expectation was that life would be better in the North because of all that Yankees had spouted about freedom and equality and blah blah. No one pointed out that slavery was a very lucrative source of income for the North as well (where did all those slave ships come from?). I...

Will you be enlisting?

Um hmm. I grew up in the South as well. With Colored water fountains and Colored rest rooms and Colored balconies in movie theatres. I watched black families enter restaurants once they were legally allowed to do so and be seated because they had to be and then be ignored for so long that...

Remember Andrew Landon from Daria?

How would you know? Even Paula Deen still doesn't "get" what was wrong with hiring black people to dress up as house slaves for a function. A great many white southerners sincerely believe that they aren't prejudiced. But watch them cross the street when approached by a group of black teenagers...

It would be instructive, and even enlightening, to compare our responses to the troubles in Syria, in Iraq, in Iran, in Palestine, and in the Ukraine, as well as to the children who are crossing our border.

You're not. But prejudices are learned. If one stops teaching one's children intolerance and hatred, progress can be made. As long as Southerners continue to view "nigras" as property that was unlawfully taken from them, this problem will continue.

No quickie answer here. Remember that Roosevelt did not exactly enjoy universal support, at least until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But even then there were quite a few people who preferred to supply the Allies rather than become directly involved. Then the war was over and we conceded...

Indeed. I'm old enough to remember what Democrats used to be like and stand for, which makes the whole Clinton/Obama thing that much more difficult to swallow. Or choke on. Whatever.