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I had to look up Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic.[1] Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Adolf Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews.[2] He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel Prison for 1+1⁄2 years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Bonhoeffer was accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler and was tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office). He was hanged on 9 April 1945 during the collapse of the Nazi regime.
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Is it really not over 'til the fat lady sings?
Kari Lake
Strap On
At the time of 9/11 I bought "Islam for Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to Islam" thinking I would try to educate myself.
The only thing I remember was that martyrs who die in Jihad don't get "72 virgins" but rather 72 faceless persons to give you eternal delights... and maybe some of them have cocks...
"I have no reason to have such a negative opinion of her."
She's hating the 1950's.
I had a history professor (leftist, natch) who taught us that Eisenenhower sat down with Earl Warren (when Ike was going to appoint him to the USSC and make him Chief Justice) and Ike insisted that Warren end segregation. I don't know if Ike was being "woke" or if he was just making sure there were enough fighting men in the event of a "hot war" with the USSR... I know Truman desegregated the military, but apparently that was just an Executive Order.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/executive-order-9981.htm#:~:text=On%20July%2026%2C%201948%2C%20President,desegregation%20of%20the%20U.S.%20military.
"the last segregated army units were not dissolved until 1954." I'm guessing that happened with the Brown vs Board of Education decision...
[EDIT] Before I get called out on speaking before thinking, I know the Armed Forces of the United States has its own laws, so the Brown decision and the 1954 final desegregation may be merely coincidental... Clearly the President (Ike) wanted desegregation... I think the President, as Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces, could probably implement segregation again today. Would it be politically unpopular? Probably. But at the end of the day it's like Andrew Jackson and John Marshall - "Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it..."
I suppose you're not supposed to pass another vehicle on the right side, probably true even if traffic is being slowed for a funeral.
Don't Leave Me This Way, I don't think I ever knew who sang it. Disco.
Irreplaceable
Crap you must older than ME. Is this Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon or the TV show?
This business with paying off Stormy Daniels - is this the same thing that Senator John Edwards did back in 2008, or is it different in some way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards
Following his 2008 presidential campaign, Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 3, 2011, on six felony charges of violating multiple federal campaign contribution laws to cover up an extramarital affair to which he eventually admitted. He was found not guilty on one count, and the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining five charges, as the jury was unable to come to an agreement.[2] The Justice Department dropped the remaining charges and did not attempt to retry Edwards.
"The Minimum will always the minimum." Precisely.
The guy who was making $20/hr yesterday doing "some task that requires a skill higher than the minimum wage" is now thinking "I need a higher wage."
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If we insist on subsidizing purs, it would be better if we just bumped up food stamps, housing vouchers, free bus rides, more free clinics, etc. And give all those subsidies to everyone rich or poor.
This woman likely preferred the 1940's...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/24/little-rock-arkansas-school-segregation-racism
"I wonder what is causing it?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.
I really enjoyed Waimea Valley.
https://www.waimeavalley.net/
Pearl Harbor essentially takes a whole day, I don't recommend it.
"Mother Theresa is also widely despised by many people now."
I had to look this up. She and her sisters were baptizing people without their knowledge or consent. That's wrong, I agree. Also kind of silly from a theological point of view IMO.
She also advocated for a priest that was a child molester.
I actually don't know what her Missionaries Of Charity was about. It seems to me like it was primarily hospice care for the poor.
She didn't advocate for birth control or abortion. None of these religious organizations do, unfortunately (IMO)
The average annual wage per industrial worker (including men, women, and children) rose from $380 in 1880 ($11,998 in 2023 dollars) to $584 in 1890 ($19,126 in 2023 dollars), a gain of 59%.
Gilded Age
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses combined with political corruption.
It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Western United States. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, and industrialization demanded an increasing unskilled labor force, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. The rapid expansion of industrialization led to real wage growth of 40% from 1860 to 1890 and spread across the increasing labor force. The average annual wage per industrial worker (including men, women, and children) rose from $380 in 1880 ($11,998 in 2023 dollars[1]) to $584 in 1890 ($19,126 in 2023 dollars[1]), a gain of 59%.[2] The Gilded Age was also an era of poverty,[3][4] especially in the South, and growing inequality, as millions of immigrants poured into the United States, and the high concentration of wealth became more visible and contentious.[5]
When he was on the radio, Thom Hartmann used to say that the middle class in America was strongest in the 1770's and the 1970's.
All this talk about how great the 1950's were...
it helps when you have the only functioning factories in the world because everyone else is destroyed in WW2.