Cold Mountain Trail

@thouartthat

If you are – then that means the consequences of option 1, as well.  I cannot even fathom how much destruction that will bring down on us.  There is a reason a lot of other Countries are taking lockdown and quarantine very seriously, a reason even our longtime allies in the European Union have banned travel from America.  It isn’t -…[Read more]

This is what tRump should have been doing to help end this pandemic. Making sure people go help they could afford. But of course he has no idea what he should have done.

Over reach is what it is becoming. The statues, etc. that were placed to glorify slavery and the civil war’s support of slavery should come down. They did nothing to help build the United States. However, some of what is happening today is targeted at statues that were put up for real historical reasons that have nothing to do with racism despite…[Read more]

Because tRump never reads anything he is not interested in or that will not offer something to him. IMO he and the GOP are just using this to draw our attention away from all of their other failures.

Tearing them down doesn’t actually improve any one’s life. I don’t know how it got to be a “fad”. Meanwhile, where’s the desperately needed police, economic and healthcare  reforms???

@mrdmk and @coldmountaintrail for that info. I thought Buckley had an anti-racist line in the 70s. He always wrote well, using solid, irrefutable logic IF you granted him his assumptions, which were sometimes unstated.

I didn’t know about his dad, oil, and imperialism. That’s very good to know.

A nihilistic fad, at that. Take out your frustrations by tearing down a statue, any statue! Perhaps political movements should just concentrate on Confederate icons; anything else will be overreach and cause a backlash against the whole thing.

This could also have been done by agents provocateurs, such as police. Who knows? I knew things had gone…[Read more]

If a large chunk of their customers is unable to pay existing utility bills now, how much worse is it going to get? That could be the real reason Dominion and Duke don’t want to make large investments right now.

The Republican Party is loaded with scum. Those Democrats that would have their party emulate the Republicans, those like Bill and Hillary Clinton, well, they are scum too. Racist scum.

Thanks, Pam. That was a good piece.

That’s what I was thinking.

These are the rules:

rule #1) Dead men do not talk

rule #2) When all else fails, see rule #1

Hey, right now I am getting around $400 a month and drive a Pirus. Where does that put me?

This is so bad, but true…

When the conservative editor and intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr., ran for mayor of New York in 1965, he may have been the first conservative to endorse affirmative action, or, as he called it,<b> </b>“the kind of special treatment [of African Americans] that might make up for centuries of oppression.” He also promised to crack down on lab…[Read more]

I never knew Buckley was such a white supremacist in the 50s. I think he changed his tune a little later–did he? I’m not sure–but his own words in the article are absolutely damning to the movement he helped to create.