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The author of the article was using this finding as an excuse for the government to take even more control of the healthcare system, including price controls on drugs. It’s sad that more people don’t understand that getting the govt. involved is the cause of the high prices, not the solution!
Throughout history, on every continent except Antarctica, slavery was a way of life. Japan was first to outlaw it in 1590, but it was the West, primarily the UK, then the US, that first fought to eliminate it. The Brits stationed warships off the West coast of Africa to stop slave ships & the US banned the importation of slaves in 1807, early in our history.
And the founding fathers planted within the US Constitution the ideals that ultimately caused the crisis of conscience leading to over 350,000 Union soldiers giving their lives to eliminate it, 40,000 of whom were Americans who were Black & died under the same flag too many athletes now despise.
CRT won’t teach that the Ashanti & Dahomey tribes in Africa had practiced slavery for at least 600 years before they ever saw a white man. And they were happy to sell their slaves to the slave traders. White men rarely left the coast of Africa to go inland (the scene in Roots was not accurate).
I read it was because Trump was insisting they continue to say the election was rigged, and use that as the defense – and the lawyers did not want to do that (It would be a great way to lose the case, wouldn’t it!).
in reply to: Trump’s top impeachment lawyer has left his teamWouldn’t some people be proud to have their heritage honored by being depicted on a widely popular product?
What about Starbucks? Wendy’s? Col Sanders? Aunt Jemima? Mrs Butterworth?
Then there’s Uncle Pennybags, Pillsbury Doughboy, Frito Bandito, Gerber Baby, or even the Burger King or Snap, Crackle and Pop…
Have I missed any?
What ever happened to “Truth to Power?”
The UK Evening Standard article (Booker beware: Airbnb can scan your online life to see if you’re a suitable guest) says…
Airbnb has developed technology that looks at guests’ online “personalities” when they book a break to calculate the risk of them trashing a host’s home.
Details have emerged of its “trait analyser” software built to scour the web to assess users’ “trustworthiness and compatibility” as well as their “behavioural and personality traits” in a bid to forecast suitability to rent a property.
It comes after complaints from London hosts that guests thought to be suitable have held rowdy parties at properties. They include a woman who said her £2.5 million flat was wrecked by hundreds of drug-fuelled ravers after renting it out for a “baby shower”.
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/airbnb-software-scan-online-life-suitable-guest-a4325551.html
Engadget recently had an article about Air BnB:
The Evening Standard reported on Airbnb’s patent for AI that crawls and scrapes everything it can find on you, “including social media for traits such as ‘conscientiousness and openness’ against the usual credit and identity checks and what it describes as ‘secure third-party databases’.”
They added, “Traits such as “neuroticism and involvement in crimes” and “narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy” are “perceived as untrustworthy.”
Breitbart has recently written about this:
More left-wing journalists are waking up to the fact that unaccountable Silicon Valley corporations are ranking Americans with a system that bears a growing resemblance to China’s totalitarian “social credit” system
Is this really legal???
“The horrific things that occurred were wrong,” said John F. Calvelli, vice chairman international of the National Italian American Foundation, “but it’s also wrong to use 21st century norms to judge a 15th century explorer.”
History has some truly evil people. Columbus is certainly not one of them. Most often, history is not made up of perfect people and evil ones, but of complex people who must be understood in context.
What is happening at the hands of Columbus’ detractors is political, not historical. Two cultures meeting for the first time in 1492 was no easy thing, but blaming Columbus for everything that went wrong hides the truth about him. It also obscures the great things that the countries of the American hemisphere have accomplished.
Who is this Tucker Carlson, and how can he possibly say,
You’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people.
Is this the twilight zone?
Who is this Tucker Carlson, and how can he possibly say,
You’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people.
Is this the twilight zone?
What if it said:
“While there are varied opinions on killing based on religious beliefs, as persons with deep faith commitments, we affirm a person’s right to decide when to continue to be a parent or shrink their family,”What if it said:
“Because we trust bank robbers, we know that these decisions are informed by tremendous reflection and not taken lightly,” the letter states. “When a person decides that shooting people is their best option, they need community support not obstacles preventing safe access to the money in the bank vault.”It is hard to believe the prosecutor actually said “we have enough evidence to convict…” but then dropped the charges anyway.
I’m surprised that I agree with David Axelrod:
Hate crimes are loathsome. Faking them is insidious and shouldn’t be excused.
in reply to: Jussie Smollett charges dropped