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How about an African slaves perspective? One key sentence from my last post was: "maybe from an author not on your preferred reading list?"

I can provide a title or 2 if your interested.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 5:38 pm By: Big Bob

What this really does is put most of the DACA illegal aliens on Medicaid by presidential directive from Biden. The reason is that Obamacare is a continum of programs and for those under a certain income limit, that puts them on Medicaid, which is totaly paid for by taxpayers. Few of the DACA illegal aliens will have an income to put them in any Obamacare category other than Medicaid.

In contrast, LEGAL immigrants are statutorially not eligible for Medicaid or any other welfare program for at least five years after arrival.

This is yet another outrage where Biden has by executive directive made illegal changes in laws passed by Congress.

Commented: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 10:42 am By: borderhawk

Overheard:
“Don’t show me the law, show me the judge.”
I've also heard it said: Never hire a lawyer from Washington,NC.

But, if you intended to do it anyway... do some research. Find out which lawyers that your Judge wines and dines with. It matters here... probably Everywhere!

And remember the great thing about small towns is this: IF you don't know what you are doing, then just ask someone, because they Know. LOL

Last thought: Why is it that none of the opinionated people here, give a darn about our corrupt local Govt? I think I know why, local govt is so corrupt that we citizens fear it MORE than our State or Federal Govts. Revenge and ignorance is popular among small minds in small govts.

"Give a person an ounce of power and you will quickly learn their true character!"

Whatever became of the public records requested of the Washington Housing Authority? They just thumbed their nose at ALL of us and have NO fear that they will be held accountable... no one is.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 4:03 pm By: Washingtonian

A book? How about "The Great Republic", a history of the United States written by former Britich Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill? If you bothered to read that, as I have, you will find Churchill's viewpoints on the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 very similar to American viewpoints.

As to the War Between the States, both the northern and southern versions leave out things. Both are politicized and always have been. Some on each side even objected to their side's slanting of the war, like Sherman who after the war objected that the war had not been about slavery and if it had been, he would have fought for the south.

The most objective viewpoints on the war are those from people in other countries who observered or studied it, like Sir Winston Churchill, who devoted a chapter in his book on US history, "The Great Republic" to the causes of the war. Churchill concluded that the main cause of the war was a rupture between two competing concepts of government that had existed since the founding of the county, between the concept of a powerful cental government espoused originally by Alexander Hamilton and represented in 1860 by Lincoln and the north, on one hand, and concept of limited government, originally espoused by THomas Jefferson, and represented in 1860 by Jefferson Davis and the south, on the other.

The north's narrative of the war being about slavery was also disputed by two contemporary observers of high stature. Novelist Charles Dickens, a leader in the British anti-slavery movement described the north's attempts to say the war was about slavery as "specious humbug designed to conceal their desire for economic control of the southern states." Similarly, Karl Marx wrote "the war is not about slavery, it is a war of economic subjugation by the north against the south."

Then there is British political philosopher Lord Acton, best known for his quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" who praised the Confederate constitution as being a great example of democracy that corrected the defects in the US Constitution.

As Churchill wrote, the south stood for limited government, something that is badly needed now. Those Jeffersonian concepts would solve a lot of what is wrong in America and in the western world. President Jefferson Davis, in his memoir, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" (another book you should read) pointed out that the principles of limited government were lost when the south lost the war, and he correctly predicted the continued increase in the power of the federal government that has occured since that time.

I can see why a big government advocate such as yourself does not want the limited government perspective of the south and of Thomas Jefferson taught. And it is amusing that someone such as yourself who does little but regurgitate the far left narrative would try to tell others to read different viewpoints.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 11:23 am By: John Steed

I stand by my post. To automatically disqualify is wrong. That's happened for too long in this country.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Big Bob

Biden has put a particular focus on bringing Venezuelan migrants into the country, but they seem to be the migrants most prone to crime. 1,000 Venezuelan migrants arrested for crimes in one city in 3 months is very telling. Biden's migrant pipeline has also brought Venezuelan crimimal gangs into our country, including the extremely violent Tren de Araguq criminal gang.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 10:12 am By: borderhawk

DEI is, indeed, an "ism" as I will explain.

The issue here is DEI, not ADA. Nice attempt to deflect, but you are wrong. These are categories that the Buttigieg-led DOT, which is over the FAA has set out as hiring preferences under DEI. It is hard to imagine anyone in most of these categories having the physical or mental ability to properly function as an air traffic controller. Any ADA complaint would be quickly dismissed on that basis. The Biden FAA is trying to recruit people in these categories as air traffic controllers and give them a preference over well qualified applicants. Do you want someone with a severe intellectual disability or a psychiatric disability controlling the takeoff or landing of a plane YOU are on?

But then again, you previously said you thought people with criminal records should be hired in retail businesses.

DEI is an "ism". It is pure Marxism. The "E" in DEI stands for "equity", which in the Orwellian newspeak of today's far left is a term for equality of result. That concept comes straight from Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and is completely contradictory to the democratic American concept of equality of opportunity. If you are for DEI, you are a Marxist.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 6:29 pm By: Rino Hunter

Are you sure? Americans and Britons may agree that both wars happened, but are you sure both sides would see those wars in the same light? When you get away from the where and when, I'm willing to bet interpretations of the events, causes and outcomes begin to diverge.
If one wants to educate themselves in regard to this bit of history, one would need to examine both sides.
And that is exactly what happens in a university history class. Remember education isn't so much about memorizing facts as it is about seeing the world from various points of view. Yeah we all memorize facts, but what separates the educated from the un-educated is the ability to understand the complexity of human endeavors. The nuance.
Its important because it leads to understanding. The more we understand each other, the easer it becomes to coexist in our shared home.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 3:14 pm By: Big Bob

I think the point is an employer should not dismiss an application due to an ADA recognized disability. Upon further review an employer can still hire who they think is a best fit.
If you automatically disqualify people you might miss something and it isn't right. No person should be automatically disqualified from a job.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 2:57 pm By: Big Bob

Okay, lets take the Revolutionary War or even the War of 1812 where the US fought the UK. There are not going to be significant differences in they way they are presented in modern British accounts versus modern American accounts. Both sides of those conflicts will present objective history.

Where the problem comes in is where some ideology, like the communists or the woke are trying to politicize history, and that is when the distortions start flying. It is the totalitarian ideologies that are absolutely the worst for this. As George Orwell wrote. "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 10:37 am By: John Steed

RH- that is an exaggeration and isn't true.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 9:58 am By: Big Bob

Objectivity is a standard totally unknown to the "woke" far left like Bolshevik Bob, and that is why he just cannot seem to comprehend it. To hin, everything revolves around race, when in the real world, it does NOT. They are all gung ho to tear down history that does not fit their narrative or agenda, like widespread destruction of historic monuments.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 9:02 am By: John Steed