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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    Do you understand the effect of "secession?" Who acted to divide this country?
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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    I don't think semi-permanent flags and markers are permitted. It seems that the placement of U.S. flags does occur on a temporary basis on Memorial Day and Veteran's Day. I agree that the same dignity and respect should be provided to each individual interred in these cemetaries. But, that...
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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    No I don't support burial in a Veteren's Cemetary if the only military service was under the Confederate Flag. Assuming Geoff is correct, that didn't happen unless the person died in the care of the U.S. Military. I do not support any special honor other than the honors bestowed on all buried...
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    Drive to Williamsburg

    65 is not a realistic speed on the stretch through Delmarva that isn't limited access, the bridge tunnel or I64. Lots of speed traps. You may also encounter lots of beach traffic in Del and MD if you are beach season. Then there is also rush hours traffic down into Del.
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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    We shouldn't be surprised about the victors decisions on monuments. When discussing the cemeteries, I meant to differentiate between those that died in battle and those whose death occurred many years after the conflict - the veterans.
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    Are You A Recliner??

    I recline except During the meal service. I haven't figured out how to get out of my seat without pulling on the seat in front if they are reclined . . . my body doesn't bend those ways. If the set in front is not reclined, I can usually manage. We'll be trying premium economy on our net...
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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    The memorials to, and cemeteries for, German soldiers killed in the war exist as they should. They are not nearly as grandiose as the American and Allied cemeteries and memorials. As the it should be. But, what you don't see are veteren's cemeteries or special for those veterans that died...
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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    As far as war memorials . . . Have you visited sites in Western Europe, including Germany, where German Soldiers killed in battle are buried? Have you seen any swasticas, or WWII German flags there? Nope, that didn't happen. Not on identified grave sites, not on memorials for the unknown, not...
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    ? For Retail Workers

    DD loves Dansko.
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    Unfathomable: Church Massacre

    This poster was merely repeating what SC officials stated to the media. It rapidly became accepted. Yet today as we watched the relic lowered, we saw that clear evidence that SC officials didn't give an accurate accounting. Today, the SC State Police Honor Guard simply cranked the flag down...
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    USA Women's Soccer

    Regardless of the rational, the charges were dropped. And any punishment, such as a suspension, ought to stop at that point. The state's decision to appeal is a non-issue unless and until they prevail. But hey, it's all moot as the sport's National Governing Body chose not to act in any...
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    USA Women's Soccer

    Get real! FIFA doesn't have jurisdiction over an off the field, out of competition incident like this. It's solely up to US Soccer to take action, if any is taken. But it's all water over the dam at this point. The incident took place in June of last year and a judge dismissed the charges...
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    George Takei calls Clarence Thomas "A Clown in Blackface."

    That works as long as you ignore nixon's "Southern Strategy." A strategy that turned the "party of Lincoln" on its ear and opposed all the things that undid Jim Crow.
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    CA Gov signs the vaccination bill in to law

    TDAP is really more important for the "P," pertussis, than it is for the "T," tetanus . In part because of antivaxers, pertussis is making a comeback and it is hitting infants and toddlers too young to be vaccinated. Apparently, a person can transmit pertussis without actually being sick with...
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    George Takei calls Clarence Thomas "A Clown in Blackface."

    Wow, just wow. Not only should you apologize for that rant, an apology beyond "sorry," you should be embarrassed. Call him out bad decision by bad decision, but to use the same tactics and language that the race baiters use is just shameful.
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    George Takei calls Clarence Thomas "A Clown in Blackface."

    Would it surprise you to learn that the census in those days did breakdown race of what we now call Asian into separate races of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean? That data helped enable the round up. So perhaps not only the internment was racist, but the census too?
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    USA! USA!

    Jersey Girls don't pump gas, but they sure score goals! Way to go Carli!
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    CA Gov signs the vaccination bill in to law

    Absent proof of vaccination, you can rent one of these at Guest Relations
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    TVland pulls Dukes of Hazard

    Did the piece of cloth get blamed or was a symbol of fear and hatred that is used by segregationists and secessionists who wish for a return to their white supremacist values get blamed for the terroristic attack.
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    George Takei calls Clarence Thomas "A Clown in Blackface."

    Yep, we all remember Pearl Harbor. A military base in a U.S. Territory with a larger Japanese population than the West Coast. And a territory that was socially accepting of Asian people. A territory that did not blanket confiscate property and intern people. But we forget a important fact...




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