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Toemeesleather wrote: however, it's 1891 again


LMAO....my little north georgia teabagging town has a black mayor....not that that means anything to you.

New black mayors make a difference, one Georgia town at a time

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2 ... towns.html

Good read.

Johnette's Daddy wrote:

Professor Tiger wrote:You should visit my hometown, the ATL. You'd really like it here. I do.

Is that the city that is stealing water from Alabama?

A lot of women I know moved to Atlanta to find good men. Mostly what they found were gay men.

Then tell them to look outside the Piedmont park area. Buckhead rocks.

And please tell me how Alabama deserves water from Lake Lanier, which is 150 miles away from the Alabama line.

Alabamians are just mad that when Birmingham stiffed Delta's offer to build a big airport there back in the '50's, and they chose to build it in Atlanta instead. We wound up with Coca Cola, Emory, GA Tech, GA Pacific, Home Depot, CNN, the CDC, the Falcons, the Braves, the Hawks, etc. while they got rusting empty steel mills, a few hospitals, and countless trailer parks flying Roll Tide flags.

P.S., We also got the Varsity (tip of the hat to Toe).

Professor Tiger wrote:

Johnette's Daddy wrote:

Professor Tiger wrote:You should visit my hometown, the ATL. You'd really like it here. I do.

Is that the city that is stealing water from Alabama?

A lot of women I know moved to Atlanta to find good men. Mostly what they found were gay men.

Then tell them to look outside the Piedmont park area. Buckhead rocks.

And please tell me how Alabama deserves water from Lake Lanier, which is 150 miles away from the Alabama line.

Alabamians are just mad that when Birmingham stiffed Delta's offer to build a big airport there back in the '50's, and they chose to build it in Atlanta instead. We wound up with Coca Cola, Emory, GA Tech, GA Pacific, Home Depot, CNN, the CDC, the Falcons, the Braves, the Hawks, etc. while they got rusting empty steel mills, a few hospitals, and countless trailer parks flying Roll Tide flags.

Because water flow and access rights are some of the oldest laws known to man. Just because you are "up river" doesn't mean that you can dam the water off and leave all lands "down river" dry. Judge Magnuson was correct, and the Army Copr of Engineers aren't going to make the same mistakes that caused the suit in the first place.

Moron.

Was Magnuson a Bryant or Saban appointee?

Anytime I have a conference or meeting in Buckhead I cringe. It's the worst traffic on the face of the planet.

From the NYT....


Hillary Clinton set out 10 months ago to inspire and energize the Democratic Party, hoping to bring together the rising American electorate of black, brown, young and female voters into a durable presidential coalition. But buried beneath Mrs. Clinton’s wide-ranging and commanding victories on Tuesday night were troubling signs of a party that has not yet rallied to her call.

Democratic turnout has fallen drastically since 2008, the last time the party had a contested primary, with roughly three million fewer Democrats voting in the 15 states that have held caucuses or primaries through Tuesday, according to unofficial election results tallied through Wednesday afternoon.

It declined in almost every state, dropping by roughly 50 percent in Texas and 40 percent in Tennessee. In Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia, the number of Democrats voting decreased by between a quarter and a third.


The falloff in Democratic primary turnout — which often reveals whether a candidate is exciting voters and attracting them to the polls — reached deep into some of the core groups of voters Mrs. Clinton must not only win in November, but turn out in large numbers. It stands in sharp contrast to the flood of energized new voters showing up at the polls to vote for Donald J. Trump in the Republican contest.

Who woulda thunk a republican New York billionaire would be face of American populism in 2016? Perot I could kinda understand, but Trump? Stranger and stranger...

I hope Trump wins it all so that it at least blows up the entire system on both sides to hopefully to make real change.

It will be interesting if he does. And very amusing...

Not as amusing as you getting hit by a bus.

hedge wrote:Who woulda thunk a republican New York billionaire would be face of American populism in 2016? Perot I could kinda understand, but Trump? Stranger and stranger...

Or that a majority of evangelicals would skip over one of their own (Cruz) to vote for an arrogant, profane, thrice-married, womanizing, Presyterian-In-name-only Casino owner. A sign of the apocalypse.

BigRedMan wrote:I hope Trump wins it all so that it at least blows up the entire system on both sides to hopefully to make real change.

I agree BRM. They all suck. I doubt the FFs envisioned a ruling class.

Professor Tiger wrote:

hedge wrote:Who woulda thunk a republican New York billionaire would be face of American populism in 2016? Perot I could kinda understand, but Trump? Stranger and stranger...

Or that a majority of evangelicals would skip over one of their own (Cruz) to vote for an arrogant, profane, thrice-married, womanizing, Presyterian-In-name-only Casino owner. A sign of the apocalypse.

This.

I'm watching Willard M. Romney take shots at Trump and thinking "Trump is going to eat this dude up."

Like the GOP needs to take strategic advice from a spectacular loser and the incarnation of the Establishment.

Romney's like Marie Antoinette trying to put the mob of torch-bearing peasants on her lawn back in their place.

This is an extreme case of blinded arrogance on the part of the establishment. Trotting out Romney? Why would they think that a guy who lost the last election is going to persuade anyone? On top of it all there is a video of him saying the opposite about Trump when Trump endorsed him in 2012. It just solidifies the electorate of just how phony and corrupt they are, not Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-e92jqug0w

Romney attempting to vilify Trump reminds me of Hillary saying..."I sent no emails that were top secret"

Toemeesleather wrote:

Hillary Clinton set out 10 months ago to inspire and energize the Democratic Party, hoping to bring together the rising American electorate of black, brown, young and female voters into a durable presidential coalition. But buried beneath Mrs. Clinton’s wide-ranging and commanding victories on Tuesday night were troubling signs of a party that has not yet rallied to her call.

Yeah Hillary will need to mend some fences with the Bernie bots, no question. Pretty mild stuff compared to The Donald - seems his security team now strip-searches anybody connected to the RNC. Any packages from republican establishment-types are turned away..

Trump a Threat to American Democracy According to Romney and McCain - AP, Reuters, Fox, ABC NBC CBS. ESPN, hell everybody

well, there's that

BigRedMan wrote:I hope Trump wins it all so that it at least blows up the entire system on both sides to hopefully to make real change.

I suppose that'd be a wet dream for survivalists and militia-types. Oh - ammo dealers too.