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mdmost

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  1. Seeing rabbits when we go on walks in our neighborhood. It's interesting because back when life was normal and people were going to work every day, coyotes were everywhere. Now, I never see them out and about or have reports of them on our neighborhood Facebook group. But rabbits are always around now. So I guess more people at home and going out for walks kept the coyotes away which allowed the rabbits to not be as hunted.

  2. 10 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    tough little bunker bitch

     

    Yes, keep digging in on all of these issues. Don't give in to libtards and race baiters (/Turkleton)! Please keep doing this so the difference between the choice of you and Biden is even more clear. 

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    Edited by mdmost

    3 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

    JFC, nobody is taking about closing police departments. Changing how they're funded, operated, and managed, yes. Talking about using funds currently earmarked for police departments to expand other services in the community, hell yes. But nobody wants to get rid of the police. Fear, fear, and more fear. 

    Shhhhh. You'll spoil his boogeyman talking points. It's much easier to equate Defund the Police with Abolish the Police. Just like it's easier to call all protesters Antifa radicals and terrorists. That way you can pollute their message that's trying to break through. Thankfully, his grip is showing signs of loosening. 

  4. We finally don’t have an excuse to stop caring. Normally we fall back into routine and stop caring. With Covid, our routine was smashed. George Floyd and the 110,000 who died from Covid might be the martyrs for the cause that finally affected change in our country: 

  5. From Peter Welpton:

    Posted by

    u/peet2

    yup

    1 hour ago

    May Ratings

    To follow up on last month’s posting, here are the latest sports talk ratings for May (from 4/23 - 5/20) that were released yesterday (6/9). As a note of interest this time frame falls deep in the midst of self-isolation, but includes NFL Draft coverage and the return of some live sports (NASCAR, soccer in Europe, etc).

    Just to revisit because it continues to be a point of contention: these numbers represent both terrestrial and streaming numbers as reported by Nielsen. As discussed at length here and why I've been posting these, other stations (and published stories about the ratings) choose not to include streaming numbers which is favorable to their narrative. But cherry picking ratings is basically like only counting touchdowns and not field goals or extra points in football. In case you missed it last month here is the provided explanation from Nielsen’s website: "In the PPM ratings service, station refers to FCC- licensed AM and FM radio broadcasts in analog and digital formats, Internet streams of a licensed radio station, and HD Radio® primary or multicast broadcasts.” (Nielsen).

    Now onto the numbers and details. Spoiler: another great month for “the little Ticket”.

    As was in April, every show on the Ticket won their time slot over its sports talk competitors.

    May represented the Ticket's best month in the last year.

    In April 46% of the Ticket’s ratings came from streaming listeners, and unsurprisingly that increased in May to 49%.

    M25-54

    6-10a: Ticket 5.5 / Fan 4.1 / ESPN 2.1

    10a-Noon: Ticket 8.4 / Fan 4.4 / ESPN 1.5

    Noon-3p: Ticket 6.9 / Fan 3.7/ ESPN 1.3

    3-7p: Ticket 8.3 / Fan 3.0 / ESPN 1.3

    M25-54 / 6a-7p / March -> April -> May

    Ticket: 5.3/#2 -> 6.4/#2 -> 7.3/#2

    Fan: 3.8/#10 -> 3.6 #10 -> 3.7 #10

    ESPN: 1.8/#24 -> 1.6/#24 -> 1.5/#23

    And yes, the “Stream is Strong” and in May the stream by itself our performs the terrestrial ratings for the Fan in Noon-3pm and 3pm-7pm.

    M25-54 / noon-3p

    Ticket Stream 3.9

    Fan 3.7

    M25-54 / 3p-7p

    Ticket Stream 3.8

    Fan 3.0

  6. 1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:

     Dotard must be seething. 

    Remember empathy? I'd love to see Trump try to replicate this speech and not look incredibly put out that someone made him do it. 

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    Edited by mdmost

    I've never been to Monticello but I know at Mount Vernon they keep a permanent exhibit that shows the slaves quarters and don't shy away from Washington owning slaves. I think there is a way to separate the greatness of these men who founded a country with the horrific trade they did nothing to stop. 20 years ago, any of these conversations were considered blasphemous and the Founding Fathers were above reproach. 

  8. 46 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yeesh.

    That's not a statue or a tribute.  

    That is a harsh reminder of what slavery was all about.  Unlike some of the statues, that has some historical value, in my opinion.

    Then put it in a museum. Instead it was a constant reminder to black people who lived there of a time when they were considered subhuman. 

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    In Fredericksburg, the slave auction block became a site for protests, and it was recently tagged with red, green and white spray paint.
     
    "I think it really hit home when there were hundreds of people at the block saying, 'Move it,'" Councilman Chuck Frye Jr. said.
     
    Frye, who grew up in Fredericksburg, has childhood memories of people mocking or spitting on the stone as they walked by. He also recalls stories of tourists taking photos with the slave block.
     
    "I think racist folks loved it, historians understood it, and black people were intimidated," Frye said.
    Frye, the only African American on City Council, proposed removing Fredericksburg's slave auction block in 2017 -- shortly after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, just an hour and a half drive's west.
     
    After consulting members of the community, all of City Council, except for Frye, voted to keep the auction block in place while adding historical context to the site.
     
    "It felt terrible," Frye said. "At that moment, I felt like I was on an island."
    But the votes against removal only increased Frye's passions.
     
    "I stayed the course," Frye said. "I'm not going to waste a cushion in my council seat."
     
    After the vote, City Council hired a non-profit -- the International Coalition Sites of Conscience (ICSC) -- that works to tell the stories of historic sites that represent pain in the community or human rights violations. The non-profit helped the city engage the community in conversations, which Mayor Mary Katherine Greenlaw said has helped Fredericksburg be "more honest about our history."
     
    "The auction block was the topic, but what you really wound up talking about were historical events of injustice and racial biases," she said.
     
    After the ICSC gave the city a report of its findings, which didn't include specific guidance on course of action for the slave auction block, Frye once again brought his proposal to remove the stone. City Council voted 6-1 to approve its removal in November.
     
    But a few months after the vote, two local businesses filed a petition to keep the auction block in place, the Free Lance-Star reported. A judge ruled in favor of the city, but one of the businesses, E.D. Cole Building, asked the Virginia Supreme Court to block the stone's removal while the judge's decision was being appealed, the newspaper reported.
     
    The legal obstacles were not cleared until April 1, according to the city, weeks into Virginia's state of emergency due to Covid-19. The auction block was removed when the state entered "Phase Two" of its guidelines on easing public health restrictions.
     
    Lee R. Lewis Jr., a 71-year-old retiree from a career in finance, grew up in Fredericksburg during segregation. He said he no longer experiences the overt racism he did as a child, but that he is glad to see the slave auction block go.
     
    "It reminds us of a time when we were mistreated, we were property, we weren't considered human beings, we weren't equal," he said. "It brings back those memories."

     

  9. 10 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    Show me another Republican president who ever had anything close to that from African-Americans in an approval poll.

    George W Bush after 9/11.

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    President George W. Bush's job ratings overall and among blacks increased significantly after 9/11. He averaged a 43% approval rating among blacks in 2001 and a 46% black approval rating in 2002. 

     

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