Joey 2 Scoops!Posted By James Brown |
Is this some sort of come-on? Save it for someone else Rich, I've been happily married and monogamous for over 35 years.Originally Posted by Richard Davis
FYM, it appears you're a bit butt hurt.
Joey 2 Scoops!Posted By James Brown |
Good to know.Originally Posted by Richard Davis
FYM, nah, if I was gay, I'd want a real man, not a man who thinks that Riding the rapids is the equivalent of being a tough guy.
And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..Posted By James Brown |
Hi Rod:Originally Posted by Rod KaufmanWell, unlike Trump, any of Biden's choices for all of his picks elsewhere in the judicial system are approved as "qualified" by the American Bar Association. TEN of Trump's picks were rated as "unqualified":
https://ballotpedia.org/ABA_ratings_during_the_Trump_administration
And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..Posted By James Brown |
Of course they do. You must know some conservative lawyers who you could ask, besides me?Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Hi Jim,
The ABA begs to differ: "The ABA is a non-partisan, voluntary membership organization. Neither the ABA nor the Governmental Affairs Office has a political action committee, makes political contributions, or endorses candidates for office."
https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative_work/about/
And now the Quota filling will begin, as Biden checks all his boxes..Posted By James Brown |
We do know that for sure. One thing I'm curious to see. Will a lot of the R's in the Senate vote to approve Biden's candidate, even though he or she is liberal, assuming he or she is otherwise qualified? That was the way it used to be done. Recently however, party line votes are the norm. Wonder how it will shake out.Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Well, the main thing is we know whoever Biden's pick will be, Rich will be against it so it doesn't really matter, now does it!?
Transportation Sec'y Buttigieg celebrating the collapse of the racist bridge in Penn.Posted By James Brown |
Hi Greg: Obviously bridges and other inanimate objects can not be racist. Even so, I don't have any trouble believing that the city authorities in the early 1900s up through probably the 60s or 70s made highway routing and other infrastructure decisions with the racial makeup of the neighborhoods most impacted in mind. Not the only factor of course, but definitely one factor. A lot of land has to be seized by the government to put a highway through an urban corridor. Do you think they took that land from the white-bread country-club banker and lawyer neighborhoods? I doubt it.Originally Posted by Greg ShafferAnyone buying into the concept of racist bridges and highways is......nope I am not even going there.
Transportation Sec'y Buttigieg celebrating the collapse of the racist bridge in Penn.Posted By James Brown |
Hey Lyin' Rich:Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Sorry pal, I don't need to present evidence to counter a psychotic, mentally deranged theory propagated by whackos on the far left like yourself.
The task is on loons like you to present evidence to support your fruitcake narratives which occur on a daily basis.
When your side of the political aisle promotes theories like the one above, I don't need to feed into your psychosis.
Has there been racism in society. OF course there has. Is it keeping black people down today. No, in 99.9% of cases, racism plays no role whatsoever.
Your screaming about "systemic racism" is absurd.
You can't produce examples that are rooted in hard evidence and so you come up bizarre assertions, such as the overpasses were lower in some areas of black neighborhoods and such that prevented "black transport" buses from going under them.
I've heard that stupidity coming from you insane leftists now a number of times.
My challenge to you is to put up evidence and reasoning that supports your insanity, then I'll look at it.
Until then, you're spitting in the wind.
Transportation Sec'y Buttigieg celebrating the collapse of the racist bridge in Penn.Posted By James Brown |
Greg, I just re-read your post. Sounds like we agree on a couple of things: 1. Financial considerations drove a lot of municipal infrastructure decisions. 2. Racial bias drove some number of municipal planning/infrastructure decisions. 3. Buttigieg is using #2 to promote his own agenda.Originally Posted by Greg ShafferAnyone buying into the concept of racist bridges and highways is......nope I am not even going there.
That idiot spent a couple months at home on "maternity leave" and what was the 1st thing he threw out there when he returned to work? Did he jump in and begin working on the supply chain crisis? No....this idiot jumped in with both feet promoting the idea that bridges and highway are racist.....
Have there been some decisions made when considering the routes, locations that have the appearance of racism being used in that process? Sure.....When you look deeper what you really find is that 99% of the time those decisions are firmly rooted in finances. Have there been some exceptions? Certainly. They are however not the norm. What the left wants is to call the exceptions the norm to promote their agenda......
Lets say a bypass is being proposed which most every city of any size has......There are proposals for routes made. Some go thru middle, upper class neighborhoods and some go thru poor ones. Taking into account the properties involved must be by law purchased at fair market value, in most cases the route chosen in the end will be the one that costs less.......Those decisions are financial not racial. In the rare cases where racism did actually play a part (and there have been SOME) the left wants to seize on this and present it as the norm.....well its NOT and no amount of putting up links to rationalist propaganda will change that......
For those of you who cannot separate the wheat from the chaff on this one all I can say is wake up and smell the coffee.....
I know how it is with New Year's Resolutions...Posted By James Brown |
Hi David - Rich was lying, it is what he does.Originally Posted by David CotterellR. Davis: "I was going to pretty much quit posting anything here, unless it was a brief remark now and then."
Dave
Transportation Sec'y Buttigieg celebrating the collapse of the racist bridge in Penn.Posted By James Brown |
My first statement was an overly pedantic reply to your, "Anyone buying into the concept of racist bridges and highways is......nope I am not even going there." I am not stupid and do not think you are either. I never intended you to think I was calling you stupid. I try not to be rude on this forum, with the obvious exception of my interactions with Richard.Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
Are you trying to convince yourself that inanimate objects cant be racist???? What on earth is the point of that statement? Do you mean to imply that *I* think they can? Surely you are not that stupid.
There are laws that say the government cant "seize" your land for these kind of projects without paying fair market value, I am sure there was a time when that was not the case. So what?......What you may think COULD BE racist in the way many tend to be built in poor neighborhoods is simple economics and in most cases no more than that.....I could care less about the failings of the past. Racism has been dying for decades, just let it DIE.....LOL
As for Mayor Pete.....he isnt worth the air he breathes.
