Just your daily reminder that Canada is not a democracy. They should have just stayed home during WWII; they'd probably be better off as a vassel state of the Germans or Japs.
Yes, it would have been a trial on the legality of succession, and not a question the north wanted answered. If he was found innocent that would have meant they just spent the last 4 years killing people and ravaging the South without any legal justification.
Interestingly, after he was held without bail for 2 years, a bunch of prominent Northern businessmen pooled their money to bail him out; people who didn't share any of his beliefs but felt that he was being denied due process and that was wrong. I have often said that in the past we were a more principled people, and that sort of thing demonstrates it.
There was no reason the South shouldn't have been able to withdraw from the union under the basic tenets that formed the foundation of the country. The Declaration of Independence clearly states that governments are formed by men, and when men no longer feel that their government is serving their needs they are free to leave and start a new one.
To say that they didn't mean that to apply to the United States as well is to completely lack understanding of the frame of mind of the founders.
Unfortunately, slavery is such a morally repugnant institution that we have allowed the issue to be clouded by the fact that the North ended it. Saying that the North was the right side in the Civil War is basically an ends justify the means argument and wouldn't be any different then saying it's okay to deny due process to a particularly offensive criminal.
The most famous example being Italy refusing to join the Central Powers in 1914.
The irony here is that, despite being on the winning side by joining the entente in 1915, Italy basically came out of the war as if it had been on the losing side. England and France basically reneged on all their promises used to induce them to flip sides.
Now hold on here, Australia pretty much banned guns, and we all know that nobody ever hurt anyone else before there were guns...
Pilots' uniforms usually show some sort of rank, so this is even crazier to me.
FYI, the rank doesn't really mean anything; it's a position identifier. The captain of the plane will have four stripes, just like the captain of a ship. The copilot/first officer will have three. The flight attendants wear a completely different uniform and don't have any.
In the airlines, everything is about position and seniority. The most senior captains will make the most money and have the most choice in their schedules.
I had a buddy that was a senior copilot at once of the major airlines, and when he first upgraded to captain, he actually fell further down priority list when choosing their schedule because he went from one of the most senior copilots to the most junior captain. Of course that's temporary, and the move opens up far more potential for earning and greater seniority down the line.
I have no idea about seniority at the regional airlines, which pay people like shit and are generally just used as a feeder to getting a job at one of the big ones. If you have a decent mid-level white color job, you probably make more than a pilot on a regional airline.
If you're not tough enough for the Marines, not smart enough for the Air Force, and you can't swim, there's only one branch left.
Good quote, but it's fake.
A congressman saw this in a letter to the editor in the Washington Star in 1957 and had it read into the Congressional record as proof of a communist plot. That prompted the paper to research it, and they determined that the book did not exist and traced the quote back to Eustace Mullins.
I don't doubt that leveraging racial tensions was the Soviet strategy to destabilize the United States, but this quote and the book it supposedly came from are fake.
So who shot first? The cop whose body cam we're viewing is arguing with him about opening the door and all the sudden there's gunfire and she takes off running.
I'm assuming the dindu, otherwise the article headline would have said something about them shooting at an unarmed man.
There's a lot to unpack here. First, one of the things about America is that when something goes wrong the public demands a scapegoat. I think small minds don't want to deal with the fact that rarely is a problem just one (or a few) person's fault, that systems can and do fail both regularly and spectacularly. They want things tied up in a neat bow, and this conviction gives it to them: it was all a warped kid his parents failed to stop him. Let's put those three in jail, and all is right with the world. You can return to your regularly scheduled programming.
The second is that this is a further step in the gun control agenda. Anti-gun groups have been clamoring for years to hold gun owners responsible when someone gets ahold of and misuses their gun. They hit the gold mine with two very unsympathetic parents who are undoubtedly negligent. But don't think for a second these are the only kind of people they want to hold to this level of liability. Left-leaning states are already passing laws that if your firearm is stolen and you don't immediately report it to the police you are liable for anything the thief later does with it. Their goal is to dissuade people from owning guns because they become too much of a liability risk if they are lost or stolen.
Finally, even though the parents have the lion's share of the blame here, let's not forget that on the very day the shooting occurred the school did not feel that he was such a threat that he had to be sent home or the police be notified, and it sounds like they didn't even ask:
Staff at Oxford High School did not demand that he go home but were surprised when the Crumbleys didn’t volunteer it during a brief meeting.
So if the very people who were on the ground at the shooting mere hours away from it occurring didn't see an imminent threat is it reasonable to expect that his parents would have had clairvoyance into his violent future?
Once you start noticing this sort of thing, you can't stop. Media is absolutely shot through with these little turns of phrase that promote legitimacy of organizations and ideas they like and cast subtle snubs on those they don't.
It's never worked on me, but I imagine it's terribly effective on normie cattle.
I'm completely failing to see a crime here other than "actions that damage the image of the Democratic Globohomo Party".
She was convicted of "conspiracy". Conspiracy to what? Where I live, laws are based entirely on the value of the item- your neighbor cut down 100-year-old tree that was the centerpiece of your landscaping? You're only going to recover the value of the lumber in court, they give zero fucks about the impossibility of replacing it or the intangible value of the thing. So what is the going market value for a diary that someone has already filled out?
Cue the mainstream media completely ignoring the story, or claiming he made it all up to impress somebody.
That was my take away as well. I wonder how many of those defendents regret not bringing weapons and taking some scalps in hindsight.
Why is some guy named "Oliver" whose profile pic looks like Mr. Bean bashing someone who is not Japanese for having opinions on Japan?
The city receives on average 1,800 to 2,000 applications a year from homeowners who want to alter their heritage properties, city staff told CBC Toronto in an email. "Almost all are approved,"
So what's the issue with changing the dangerous stairs then? Sounds like the work would be approved.
A city staff report to the TPB concluded the home's designation had little to do with its association with Caldecott. Instead, the report says the home is worth preserving because it was designed by prominent Toronto architect Eden Smith and because of the unique structural qualities he brought to the building.
Adam Wynne, a board member and chair of the Toronto and East York Community Preservation Panel, told CBC Toronto his own research shows that Caldecott only lived in the house for a few months before he died in 1907.
So, the heritage designation is not tied to the original owner, who barely lived there anyway. They're full of shit and are looking to modify the house in some way prohibited by the heritage status. The racist bullshit is just a pretext.
and his wife, entrepreneur and former Real Housewives of Toronto actor Roxanne Earle,
It's "actress" if you're a female, and I hardly think being a rich bitch in a reality show makes you one.
At this level of influence, I will keep my politics to myself.
Apparently he's a slow learner, but at least he learned.
Celebrities need to keep their mouth shut about politics. They have no special insight, and all it does is split their fan base.
the Arabs want to annihilate the state of Israel, you can call them monsters... We are not doing to them, they are doing to us.
Perfect! Substitute Arabs for Jews, and Israel for Germany, and you've got a typical quote from probably any Nazi rally in the 1930s.
There is zero self-awareness in this lady when she talks.
My fervent wish is that the Israelis and the Palestinians wipe each other out, both of them are a blight on this planet.
That being said, it's unintentionally hilarious that the group of people who won't shut up about the Holocaust 80 years later are also the ones who are most willing to discriminate against an ethnic minority within their borders. If Jews didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any at all.
If you want a watch something decent watch the original Shogun series.
I'm not a student of Disney history, so your post prompted me to do a little research. It sounds like Roy prevented Disney from being broken up was running things during the Disney Renaissance of the early 1990s, which is definitely the high point of the company in our lifetimes.
On the downside, his feud with Michael Eisner is what put Bob Iger in charge in the first place back in 2005. But that was probably inevitable anyway since Iger was Eisner's protege.
Am I the only one wondering how a couple of Jews have had a stranglehold on Walt Disney's company since the 1980s?
You're right. A single vote from a thoughtful person who researched the candidates and the issues and considered both their interests and the interests of the people as a whole when deciding who to vote for is outweighed by two burnout druggies who vote for the guy that says he's going to legalize narcotics. Now multiply that by millions.
Absentee ballots should be all but eliminated. Make election day they paid holiday so that no one has any excuse not to vote. The only people who should be voting remotely are military stationed out of state and people hospitalized or with disabilities that physically prevent them from getting to a polling site.
It will never happen, but I also think that you are not a net taxpayer you shouldn't be allowed to cast a vote. I don't let the guy at the office who isn't chipping in for lunch have a say on where we're buying from, so why do we let people with no stake in the matter vote on how to spend everyone else's money?
That's true. The only thing I can think of is a battery of tests that measure both your intellect and your character. Stupid=slave caste, but so would smart but evil. They would also have to be opaque enough that people couldn't figure out the "right" answers and coach their friends and relatives. Unfortunately, this idea will never be more than an intellectual exercise.
I don't doubt that it's technically possible to devise such tests, but I think in practical terms they could never be created for several reasons. First, anyone involved in building and administering the test system will taint it with their biases or attempt to use inside knowledge for their friends and family.
Second, it would require the world to acknowledge the big lie: all men are not created equal, they have various degrees of value based on their abilities and character. People are not going to tolerate having their rights and privileges adjusted to match their worth, because most would undoubtedly see a decrease in their autonomy as a result.
The worst con in history was those insufferable "women's rights" groups getting a gender that makes up over 50% of the population labeled a "minority".
Get fucked, whore.