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IDK- the 'grab them by the junk in chief' strikes me as an idiot. How any woman could vote for that guy is beyond me.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:04 pm By: Big Bob

The backgrounds of some of the judges who have failed to recuse themselves from some of these cases really should raise peoples eyebrows. One of the ethics standards in law is to "avoid even the appearance of impropriety". There has been a lot of well targeted comment about the judges in the New York cases, but the judge in the Georgia case was a political contributor to Fani Willis' political campaign, as was the judges wife. While that might be a borderline conflict of interest on his hearing the overall case, I was appalled that he heard the motion to remove her from the case, where it was a much more blatant conflict of interes. Of course, he ruled in her favor on that one. Willis is currently facing a primary challenge, and it weems to me a judge from outside the district should have been called in to hear that motion, not have it go it front of one of her campaign contributors wearing a black robe.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:04 am By: Steven P. Rader

It is good to see that Europeans follow science on gender, unlike Biden who follows wokeness.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 7:02 am By: Rino Hunter

President Dwight Eisenhower proudly displayed a portrait of General Robert E. Lee in the Oval Office at the White House his entire presidency. In his own words, here is why Eisenhower so respected General Lee:

"General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.

From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.

Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall."

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:09 pm By: John Steed

"Bob" - I'm under no illusion that it makes any sense to attempt to debate someone living in a world of delusional thinking. You are a demonstrable chronic liar. Also, putting false dialog in someone else's mouth is disrespectful and just another way of telling an untruth. That is indicative of character, in your case lack of.

I will stick around to point out your more egregious falsehoods whenever I have time. It's just so easy.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 3:59 pm By: Van Zant

JS- your response only re-enforces my argument. When the source of information becomes more important than the information itself, something is wrong.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By: Big Bob

I do not remember ever seeing Newsmax or Fakebook cited or linked on the BO, and I could probably count the tiny number of times I have seen Fox cited on one hand.

Bobbie's positions, on the other hand, could be easily found at Think Progress, the left's Talking Points Memo, or even the Daily Worker. He is way off the left side of the spectrum.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:08 pm By: John Steed

There Little Bobbie goes again with his Common Core math. Before, he claimed Jim Crow lasted 120 years, and now he is down at least to 100, but the correct factual answer is about 60 years. Jim Crow laws came in around the turn of the century across the south. North Carolina adopted its first one in the 1899 legislative session but most of them were in the 1901 session.

Those laws were motivated by the Democrats trying to regain control in some states or maintain control in others as white small farmers abandoned the Democrats in the mid 1890s over a feeling that the Democrats were the party of the wealthy special interests (hmmm, a lot like today) and abandoned it for the new Populist Party. The Populists then ran a fusion campaign with the Republicans. The Democrats responded with a white supremacy strategy to divid those white small farmers from the Republicans, and keyed in on the fact that most blacks of that era voted Republican. The Democrats did not wake up one morning and decide they hated blacks. Instead, it was a matter of political strategy to recapture the white small farmer vote from the Populists who were allied to the Republicans.

I do not condone what the Democrats did. My own party, the Republicans voted against all those Jim Crow laws when the Democrats put them through the legislature and I would have joined them if I were living in those times. But I do recognize that rather than being inherently racist, the Democrats of that period decided that pushing racism and white supremacy was a winning political strategy for them to recapture the white farmer vote they had lost to the Populists. There cynical use of the race card in those times for political purposes is as evil as the way the Democrats do it now with DEI.

The looting, arson, rape, and murder of white and black Southern civilians by Sherman, Sheridan, and Stoneman, not only violated the Geneva Convention of 1863 but also violated the Common Law of War as those officers and others had been taught at West Point. Sherman's idea of "total war" was not much different from the Serbs in Bosnia. What Sherman did was a war crime by today's standards and also by the standards of his own period.

FIghting for southern indepdence was NOT a sin, but vicious attacks on our history IS totalitarian.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 1:49 pm By: Conservative Voter

I get that trumps an idiot.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 12:06 pm By: Big Bob

Nobody in their right mind would have any respect at all for the crooked New York courts.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 11:45 am By: Bubba

if you cant respect the system when you lose, there is something very wrong.
MAGA - they even shoot their dogs

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:00 am By: Big Bob

Really? How many free blacks in antebellum south again? That's just one example of many. You have no credibility, BB.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Van Zant