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Too much work, and fuck that new fangled instagram.
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Thats what I was thinking earlier. I didn't know she had that ass. Lemme look...
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We can agree his wife is cute.
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I agree, and I usually don't care about what "stars" think about politics. I guess I just brought up this thread is b/c he leans right and his main message is just to get educated and vote on your own.
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One movie that has stuck with me that I just watched was Sing Street . It was a great movie. I really dig movies about music though. Great 80s music https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3544112/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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This is a cool video. It shows Sir Richard Bransons Cat at 4 mil
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Yeah thats why I am thinking 50 but the cats, they are huge. If you look at any videos, the 42' looks nice, It has a nice living area, then you go 50' and it looks like a luxury condo. So I am thinking somewhere in between. It will depend on how well I do in the next 2 years.
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I agree I no longer want to talk Kanye's politics. This will be my last post on the subject. I had to look up the actual wording of the 13th. It talks about slavery and nothing else. We no longer have slaves. For what reasons Kanye wants it abolished. I don't know, but I don't see any harm( edit: well we may be slaves to robots in the future, or the other way around, so never mind), although we can agree it will never happen. I was mainly just stating that I like that he is saying to his "followers" they should be able to vote for whom ever they want. Don't let the Republican or Democrats persuade you one way or another. Vote on your beliefs that will make you and your community better. I think we can all agree on that. Article XIII (Amendment 13 - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude) Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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No, just the overall people that think that Kanye wants to repeal the 13th amendment to drive black people back in chains. He may ( I don't know him), but that seems to be the conclussion on the left.
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Unfortunately not. I would, but the only cell service that work out at our Hill Country house is Tmoblie, (ONLY USE IT A COUPLE TIMES A YEAR BUT WORTH IT TO GET AWAY FROM THE FAMILY AND NOW BE ABLE TO STREAM SPORTS). and that is just in the last 2 years. Hopefully ATT will be out there soon..
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So your Blscksplaing to Kanye saying he wants Black people back in chains?
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Cnn. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/entertainment/kanye-west-13th-amendment/index.html Twitter Ads info and privacy "We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs," West tweeted. "We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment. Message sent with love." The 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 and abolished slavery. Later Ye returned to twitter with a clarification. Twitter Ads info and privacy "The 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise," he tweeted. "Meaning it never ended. We are the solution that heals." Naturally, Twitter exploded with many people offering the same sentiment: "What the hell are you talking about?" Twitter Ads info and privacy A few fellow celebs also took West to task. "There's nothing more maddening than debating someone who doesn't know history, doesn't read books, and frames their myopia as virtue," actor Chris Evans wrote while retweeting the controversial rapper. "The level of unapologetic conjecture I've encountered lately isn't just frustrating, it's retrogressive, unprecedented and absolutely terrifying." Twitter Ads info and privacy Singer Lana Del Rey responded in the comments on West's official Instagram account. "Trump becoming our president was a loss for the country but your support of him is a loss for the culture," she wrote. "I can only assume you relate to his personality on some level. Delusions of Grandeur, extreme issues of narcissism - none of which would be a talking point if we weren't speaking about the man leading our country." "If you think it's alright to support someone who believes it's OK to grab a woman by the p**** just because he's famous-then you need an intervention as much as he does - something so many narcissists will never get because there just isn't enough help for the issue," she added. Producer Swizz Beatz addressed West's claim of being bullied backstage at "SNL" for wearing the MAGA hat. Beatz said he and West had just talked about the rapper's political fashion statement. The producer took the position that fans rightfully felt a certain way about West's support of Trump. "Ain't nobody bullying you, we love you," Swizz Beatz said. "But you gotta stop that s***, that s*** ain't right." West has insisted in the past that he is merely trying to be a champion for free thinking. In August, West attempted to make amends for saying slavery was "a choice" earlier in the summer. Kanye West apologizes for how slavery comment 'made people feel' "I don't know if I properly apologized for how that slave comment made people feel," West told Chicago's WGCI-FM during an interview. "So I want to take this moment right now to say ... I'm sorry for people who felt let down by that moment."
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Twitter Ads info and privacy Outrage ensued. Abolish the abolition of slavery? Huh? West clarified: He just meant we should amend the amendment, not abolish it. “The 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise . . . meaning it never ended . . . We are the solution that heals.” Twitter Ads info and privacy So let us ask this possibly dicey question: What, exactly, was Kanye trying to say? There is a fair chance he was referring to what’s called the 13th Amendment’s “exception clause,” as many speculated on Twitter. It’s the part of the amendment that literally allowed slavery and involuntary servitude to continue across the country, on plantations and within the barbed-wire fences of prisons. Scholars and prisoners’ advocates argue that its impact is still felt today through prison labor. Here’s the full wording of the amendment: The amendment was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, designed to extend constitutional rights to African Americans and former slaves, including citizenship and equal protection under the law in the 14th and voting rights in the 15th. (The 14th Amendment recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, but it was muted, in part because it took more than a century of oppression of blacks before it had any serious impact, scholars say.) The 13th Amendment was proposed in part because of well-founded fears that the Supreme Court might nullify Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. But the exception clause of the 13th Amendment was a “convenient sleight of hand,” said Dennis R. Childs, an associate professor at the University of California at San Diego and author of “Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration From the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary.” Prisoners have been protesting this clause for decades. In August, prisoners in 17 states launched a three-week strike to protest being forced to work for meager wages in contemptible conditions — all of which they traced to the 13th Amendment’s exception clause. Last year, advocates for prisoners launched a march on Washington in which they called for the “end to prison slavery.” And perhaps most popularly, in 2016, the acclaimed Oscar-nominated documentary “13th,” directed by Ava DuVernay, traced the exception clause from the era of convict leasing after the Civil War — when prisoners were forced to work for private plantation owners — to today’s system of mass incarceration and prison labor. “There’s a reason why this was written into law,” Childs said. “They needed to have a legal cover for [re-enslavement], and the best way to do that was to use [African Americans’] poverty, landlessness, joblessness — their collective dispossession — and the Jim Crow legal system as an excuse to re-enslave that population.” At the time Congress debated the amendment, Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the anti-slavery Republican, spoke out forcefully against allowing slavery to continue through the penal system, urging that the Senate Judiciary Committee revise the language to remove that part. But nobody seemed to hear him out. As Sumner noted during floor debates in 1864, the exact language of the 13th Amendment can be traced to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory — except as a punishment for a crime, back when there were no prisons. But why abide by last century’s code of human indecency, Sumner wondered. “Now, unless I err, there is an implication from those words that men may be enslaved as a punishment of crimes whereof they shall have been duly convicted,” he said. “There was a reason, I have said, for that at the time (1787), for I understand that it was the habit in certain parts of the country to convict persons or to doom them as slaves for life as a punishment for crime, and it was not proposed to prohibit this habit. But slavery in our day is something distinct, perfectly well known, requiring no words of distinction outside itself.” “To my mind [the words in the exception clause] are entirely surplusage,” he said. “They do no good there, but they absolutely introduce a doubt.” He proposed new language, but the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t want it. Here’s Sumner’s proposed 13th Amendment that never was: “All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave: and the Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper to carry this declaration into effect everywhere within the United States and the jurisdiction thereof.” [Bodies believed to be those of 95 black forced labor prisoners from Jim Crow era unearthed in Sugar Land after one man’s quest] Sumner got his told-you-so moment in the years after the amendment’s passage, Childs said, when states started using the 13th Amendment to re-enslave people convicted of crimes for a term of years, selling them at auction to the highest bidder. Most notoriously, in the Southern states, tens of thousands of people, overwhelmingly black, were leased by the state to plantation owners, privately owned railroad yards, coal mines and road-building chain gangs and made to work under the whip from dusk till dawn — often as punishment for petty crimes such as vagrancy or theft. “The 13th Amendment’s exception clause allowed the convict-leasing system to flourish and grow, and it became the dominant form of imprisonment throughout the south,” said Robert Perkinson, who teaches at the University of Hawaii and who has studied the convict-leasing system extensively. “Thousands lost their lives in the process, and it was hugely profitable for state governments. It was an important part of the establishment of the Jim Crow segregationist system. And it served as a blueprint for the harsh, retributionist imprisonment that became, tragically, the dominant form of American incarceration all the way into the 21st century.” As the “13th” documentary explores, many scholars, Perkinson included, have pointed to this convict-leasing system as the birth of mass incarceration and the “prison industrial complex.” It refers to the belief that private prison companies’ bottom line and prisoners’ production of goods for private businesses, such as furniture or license plates, is a main driver of mass incarceration. West himself railed against it in “New Slaves,” on his 2013 “Yeezus” album: “Meanwhile the DEA/teamed up with the CCA” — a private prison corporation — “They tryna lock n—-s up/They tryna make new slaves/See that’s that privately owned prisons/Get your piece today.” But as for his latest cryptic Twitter outburst on the subject? DuVernay, for one, said on Twitter that she would bite her tongue. “I’m consciously choosing to tweet about plant-based burgers and not current statements about the 13th Amendment from a certain MAGA follower,” she said. “Respectfully, please don’t @ me. I can’t do nothing for him.” Twitter Ads info and privacy Twitter Ads info and privacy Twitter Ads info and privacy Morning Mix newsletter
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I searched Kany SNL on Youtube. All I could get was people recording their screens. If there was a left message, there would be a great video of it..
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You may not agree with his politics. I love what he is saying. He wants everyone to think for themselves and vote on what they believe in.
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I don't think she is a good candidate for the dems.
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Elizabeth Warren Finally Admits That She's Probably Running For President Photo by Win McNamee/Getty @EMZANOTTI October 1, 2018 8.2k views At a town hall event in Massachusetts over the weekend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) finally admitted she's considering running for president in 2020, upending months of denials. "After November 6, I will take a hard look at running for president,” she told the crowd, according to The Hill. The audience gave her a standing ovation. Warren is the first Democratic candidate to declare an interest in challenging likely Republican nominee, current President Donald Trump, in the 2020 midterms. Others, like Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have been raising their profiles through interviews and events, and still others, like Sen. Cory Booker (D-NY) have quietly opened operations in early states like Iowa, under the guise of helping Democrats there compete for Warren has been less than coy about her presidential ambitions, though she's kept any mention of future plans out of the media until now, likely because she's in the midst of a re-election campaign (and finding out a candidate will abandon their post within the next six months, with the start of the next presidential campaign, is not a selling point to voters). She has, however, been quietly streamlining her public image, sponsoring a handful of bills aimed at increasing her ties to the Native American community and reforming her fiscal policy agenda from progressive to more middle-of-the-road.
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I guess I will add vids as I watch them that are informative. This was 41" Lagoon. Lagoon is on of the bigger manufactures I have learned.
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Sling, Directv Now,, PS Vue all offer a trial. That is the cool thing about going without cable. You can try it for a week. I enjoy Direct Tv now, but it is all about what channels you want, etc. My 2 cents
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Remembering hearing wildly racist stuff from regular folks
BNB replied to Brisketexan's topic in Daily Texan
So, b/c my grandfather and dad were racist, I can't be non racist? What about I took a Minorities in America class in college. Does that help. In my class, my final paper was about I don't think racism will end anytime soon.(10 years ago) It will take us to continue to procreate with each other. I think some of the most beautiful people in the world are from people procreating between races. Halle Barry, Dwayne Johnson, Barack Obama, etc... https://www.ranker.com/list/biracial-celebrities/celebrity-lists -
I agree, but a lot of sailors think it sucked due to lack of authenticates. I have also enjoyed: Adrift: based on a true story. It shows the worst of what can go wrong. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6306064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Another movie based on a true story. Kon Tiki - Based on a 1947 voyage to prove people sailed across the ocean. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613750/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 White Squall. I was a big fan when I saw this in High School. Kids on a ship, learning to sail and getting an education. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118158/?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true Maidentrip. Another good movie about a the girl going around the world. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2555268/ Wind (1992) - A great film on sailboat racing. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105824/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Some Good Documentaries: Red Dot https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4157550/?ref_=ttls_li_tt Dark Water: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460766/
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Remembering hearing wildly racist stuff from regular folks
BNB replied to Brisketexan's topic in Daily Texan
I've been avoiding this thread, b/c I am not proud of where I came from as far as race. I remember my Grandfather calling the black guys helping him out of the car at the Abilene County Club "boy". That was my first realization of racism as a kid in elementary school. My dad wasn't a really a racist, but he had a property management company in Austin until he passed in the 80's. I would go around to his properties with him on the east side as he collected rent for his owners. I remember him telling me there were (the N word) and black people, meaning, people that paid and didn't. I went to Travis Elementary and Fulmore (soon to be renamed) as a kid. My best friends were Hispanic and black. I remember still my first day at Travis High, and some how over the summer races were divided. People I knew from Fulmore, they wouldn't talk to me and I wasn't supposed to talk to them. I don't know what happened over that summer. I was a kid, so I didn't question it, just went along. This was around 87 when I was a freshman. After getting my ass kicked and getting knives pulled on me, my parents moved me Circle C to Bowie High, first graduating class, pretty much all white. but one of my best friends graduating was black) I had a guy I worked with at Dell in cubicles. He told people I was jealous of his wife, I never mad any reference to that. ( He was black, his wife was white). First time I was called a racist I was like, WTF. Since then, Austin isn't much of a diverse city. One of my best friends is Vietnamese. I met a black, gay guy a few years back and we became best friends. He was down on his luck, so I let him live with me for a yr. That's all I got. This is the white shaming thread, right? -
Who's going to be the first one banned from Surly?
BNB replied to BigDHornfan's topic in Please do this better?
Thx Onboard. I will try posting my Conservative thoughts more. I am far from racist, etc. II grew up in 78704 and my best friends were Hispanic and black. My grand ma paid for Camp Stewart every year. I guess it was expensive. When I shared my yearbooks they gave me shit for all the non white people in it. I met a black gay guy at a bar years ago and we became good friends and roommates up until I got tired or having a roommate in my 40s. -
Wow. I'm in S. central Austin. I pay $50 after tax for google for 100mb/s ( I d/l a lot, but feel I don't need to pay $70 for 1gb/s.)
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Just starting out, even though I have been dreaming of this for 20 years. I have been watching a lot of youtube videos on repairing boats. I have always been a fix it guy. I have watched videos of people talking about spreadsheets. Saying, one should only pay a certain percent on a boat, so I am scaling back on an expectation of spending 500k to maybe 400K or 350k for my first boat. To handle all the fees for being in another country, fishing, LTE, boat maintenance, etc. I have been reading on the forum Cruisers Sailing Forum. Hopefully that is a good one. I know I have tons of reading and work to do in the next few years. I hope that anyone here will give mewith any experience and knowledge. I have been told so many times in my life you can't do this and that, that is out of your reach. I have overcome for most of that. This is something I have wanted for almost half my life. I don't think any one can talk me out of it.
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