Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
Better than never getting past the First Grade!
NFL Boycott - Will FedEx Peak be easier...in current events?
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DriveInDriveOut
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I just want to make friends!
Quite the contrary. The push to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill took off in the 1960s at the behest of those in the mental health profession. The consensus was that new medications and local treatment could replace traditional institutionalization at a lower cost with greater success. It didn't, as many in the profession came to realize years later.
There was also a series of state laws and federal/state court cases beginning in the 1960s that made involuntary commitment much more difficult. Additionally they limited the amount of time that many patients could be held against their will in such circumstances. These actions, too, also had the support of the psychiatric profession.
To argue that mass deinstitutionalization of the crazies was a Reagan phenomenon is to ignore the preceding two decades in which most of it happened.
Doesn't mean they would be unable to drastically increase taxes on your retirement income.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I could always work for you.
Sportello
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Ha hahahahahaha.
Group Calling National Anthem Lyrics Racist, Anti-Black
The California NAACP is pushing to get rid of the national anthem that they’re calling racist and anti-black.
The California NAACP is pushing to get rid of the national anthem that they’re calling racist and anti-black.
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I wonder if there is a petition anywhere that I can sign for California to secede?
Only if Texas goes with.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Can we throw in Jersey?
BrownArmy
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..."And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave..."
This verse doesn't get a lot of play, but Mssr. Key was as racist as racist comes.
He believed blacks were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”
Land of the free, indeed.
But you know, that's history, so why dwell?
BrownArmy
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We've come along way in some respects.
History of slavery
And we still have plenty of room for improvement.
Humans can really
things up.
But this country for all its problems is still a great one.
History of slavery
And we still have plenty of room for improvement.
Humans can really
things up. But this country for all its problems is still a great one.
What, we can't use the song now?
BrownArmy
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I think we should still sing the song, just realize it's history.
And if you choose not to sing the song, well no big deal.
Serf
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I hope they double down. Keep the insanity rolling. Self immolation.
newfie
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I would enjoy seeing that.
newfie
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its all about being black.
