Craigslist shut down its hookup ads section today. Congress passed a law holding website owners responsible when criminals used their sites for illegal sex trafficking.
PinkNews and Salon are telling me that LGBT (and promiscuous straight folk) are pretty upset about losing their anonymous hookup ads.
Hey guys, doesn’t it suck when your rights get infringed because someone, somewhere broke the law?
In related news, the Democrat Left is marching for gun control today.
Today is Tide Pod Puppet Moppets Day, …as the boy-tenor sings,
“…I look to the sky but there’s nobody watchin’
A hero was born from a soul that’s forgotten
So now the world belongs to me
To live and to die by the word that is spoken
The legend’s a lie and the silence is broken
So now the world belongs to me, the world belongs to me”
…Enjoy!
I’ll be watching from the Biergarten.
Can’t they just use Grindr, Scruff, or Squirt?
The claim that the 3/5 Compromise “deemed” blacks 3/5 of a person galls me no end. It’s illustrative of the ignorance of our founding documents that’s common today.
The 3/5 Compromise required that only 3/5 of the slaves in a state could be counted in the census, instead of all of them as the slave states wanted. This reduced the representation, therefor power, of the slave states in Congress. It actually benefitted blacks.
Strange, he doesn’t look a day over 228.
@3 – exactly. The lack of any knowledge of history is a big reason so many people have no objection to their culture and traditions being discarded like last week’s fish. They don’t know any better and have no interest in learning anything.
Black freemen counted-fully in election-censuses, and before “King Cotton” slavery was a dying institution. And 1/3 to 1/2 of the Africans in the Southern Colonies were “free” or were to be freed in their lifetimes when the Constitution was written. It was the insatiable demand for Southern cotton and nearly-inhuman labor conditions and labor demands required in cotton cultivation that re-invigorated slavery and reinforced the racial-aspects of degradation.
The irony is that I’m thinking about buying a handgun or maybe two now. I’ve always owned a shotgun for home defense but these a*holes coming after the 2cnd amendment because they can use “the children” as an excuse is having the opposite effect they think for many of us. If they really gave a damn about the kids they’d harden school security and allow teachers concealed carry.
Slaves were victims. Freeing the slaves was less of a gracious act than it was a moral imperative.
What followed slavery was an evil imposed on the black skinned people by Southern Democrats who were determined to keep the blacks “in their place.” If the black ever became 3/5ths of a person, it was during “reconstruction” and the Jim Crow years which lasted until the Republicans jammed the Civil Rights Acts down the throats of the Democrats in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.
The Democrats have done a remarkable job of convincing the blacks that their woes were caused by slavery alone. They never, ever take any responsibility for what they, the Democrats, did to keep black people in the state of being second class citizens after slavery was abolished.
Most people are quite unaware of the dearth of slave narratives written by slaves. There are about 115 in total. (Even after slavery was abolished, not many of the former slaves could read and write.) There are quite a few interviews of slaves, but they are, of course, subject to the mind-set of the interviewer. Most of these interviews were done by the WPA authors in the 1930’s which was a full 65 years after the abolition of slavery. Many of those WPA interviews were second hand “remembrances” of family lore told by the children of slaves.
Isaac, a slave of Thomas Jefferson was interviewed about 25 years after Jefferson’s death in 1825. It is an incredible window into plantation life. Jefferson loathed slavery in principle, but lacked the moral courage to attempt the plantation life without slavery. Nine presidents owned slaves, six presidents did not free their slaves and the other three have interesting, convoluted stories concerning slavery.
Meanwhile, indentured servitude, child labor, and the wage-labor factory system, the mill system and peonage were common practices in the “free states.” “Owing your soul to the company store” moved south after slavery was abolished.
Like all demagoguery, the villains are targeted for political reasons and the history is warped to fit the narrative. What is especially forgotten in the slave story is the how the slaves were provided from the slave traded in Africa and later in the period from the slave breeders in Brazil and the Caribbean. England, the Dutch companies, Spain and Portugal were heavily invested in the buying, transporting and selling of “human chattel.” Like the drug trade, the consumers make the market profitable. Jefferson owned, we believe, about 150 slaves. We know the histories of only a few of them. The rest were the responsibility of overseers who managed the system outside of the pages of recorded history.
There are plenty of fish in the sea and too many do-gooders going to the bathroom in it.
Oh Gee, where are all the married guys going to get off without their Criaglist personals?
@7 Colion Noir on Why You Shouldn’t Get Into Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMHdcRNEkc
Well, I did find three good buddies on Craigslist back in the day, with “Looking for JO and Frot, oral negotiable, NO ANAL, can host.”
One was a gay black dude who was fascinated by the “J/O Club – Circle Jerk” vibe and introduced me to some good ’70s pr0n on DVD featuring such themes.
The second was a white guy who looked a little bit like Dennis Franz, and was finally going through a divorce now that the kids were in college and he figured, “What the hell, I want some cock.” Fantastic in bed.
The third was a bi-married Christian guy who also figured, “Well, the kids are in college now and getting old enough to fend for themselves.” He was the sweetest, but we both knew he was committed to his wife, so that ended, too.