Ponderable

Hüsker Dü said:
That was easy, you been hanging out with LE too much:
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith said at the Texas delegation’s July 17, 2016, breakfast in Cleveland that Trump "knew what he was talking about. One-third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants. They have committed some of the most worst crimes; they have committed the rapes and the murders and everything else."

We wondered if indeed one-third of federal prisoners were in the country without legal authorization. Not so, we ultimately found. Smith was citing a slightly outdated figure of individuals sentenced to the federal pen in a given year, not the total federal prison population.

https://www.politifact.com/texas/st...-false-lamar-smith-claim-one-third-federal-i/
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Non US citizens doesn't mean illegal, does it?
 
tenacious said:
Remember when people used to get together and hangout to feel better. And now we get on our computers and freakout on each other to feel good.
Maybe the problem is deeper then you or me.
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The point at which the nutters went one way (lead down the path of insanity by supermarket tabloid personalities) and truth (actual facts) the other.

 
AUGUST 23, 2018
Spot the companies that oppose your values
By Thomas Lifson
Owing to the dominance of leftists throughout academia and the media, many corporations have caved into, or willingly adopted, the values of the progressive left. Institutions respond to other institutions more than to individuals, which why so many ostensible beneficiaries of free markets end up supporting leftist causes.

Pretty much everyone that cares understands that Starbucks, with its infamous, counterproductive “talk about race” initiative, is progressive in outlook. But many other companies quietly donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center or other leftists groups without much public awareness.

My friend who blogs under the name Bookworm, at the eponymous Bookworm Room website, has done us all a favor by collecting a database now exceeding 7,000 companies and their political positions and values. The website What Business Thinks has made this database easily accessible for you as you shop either online or at stores.

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Bookworm writes:

The site works well on both computers and mobile devices. Using What Business Thinks, consumers can quickly find whether a business is aligned with their values or hostile to them. This is the kind of information consumers should have before spending their money.

The site also has a companion blog in which I spell out in greater detail the information I’m steadily adding to the database. If you follow the blog, you can keep up with developments in the business world.

Because there’s more information out there than any one person can find, making What Business Thinks a continuing work in progress, the site also has a User Submission page that allows people to update old information, correct bad information, or introduce entirely new information — provided that it’s well-sourced.
 
tenacious said:
You're making this about building statues for evil men, while I would humbly suggest it's more about having statues of the men who best represent the ideals of the Cities, towns and villages these statues live in.

Yes FDR horribly mistreated hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans, but he also lead the country thru WW2 and saved the American capitalist system during the darkest days of the Great Depression.
Tell me, what traits to you see in Stonewall Jackson that would make you want to have a statue of him over looking your town Lion? I mean to me he was a soldier who lost in the only war he fought in. If we're going to be fare, and never mind he was a traitor... no statue for Stonewall just on account of having lost the war.
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Humbly suggest? That's funny!
It's just what the PC crowd determines is offensive...interesting.
As far as Jackson goes, the folks in that town thought enough of him to erect the stature in the first place...out of town protesters are what is bringing these statues down.
So you're good with monuments to anyone as long as the locals are good with it? If that were so many of these monuments would still be standing.
My question remains, when do we remove memorials of those who owned slaves? Morally as wrong as anyone who fought and lost the Civil War...
Where does it end? We have memorials to soldiers who practiced what amounted to genocide against the Plains Indians....
Did you see the mob that "removed" a statue at the University of North Carolina the other day? All locals I'm sure.
 
Lion Eyes said:
Humbly suggest? That's funny!
It's just what the PC crowd determines is offensive...interesting.
As far as Jackson goes, the folks in that town thought enough of him to erect the stature in the first place...out of town protesters are what is bringing these statues down.
So you're good with monuments to anyone as long as the locals are good with it? If that were so many of these monuments would still be standing.
My question remains, when do we remove memorials of those who owned slaves? Morally as wrong as anyone who fought and lost the Civil War...
Where does it end? We have memorials to soldiers who practiced what amounted to genocide against the Plains Indians....
Did you see the mob that "removed" a statue at the University of North Carolina the other day? All locals I'm sure.
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Kinda strange that you don't see a mob of people protesting to take down the Lenin statue. These antifa folks sure are weird about what they want taken down and what can stay up..
 
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