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Sense of Events
Sense of Events
Southern slaveholders were rapists. We know this because only 73% of the DNA of African-Americans is African; the rest is Caucasian with a small fraction of Native American. Most of the admixture of DNA, a McGill University study concludes, occurred before the Civil War, that is, when slaveholders and their white employees could use female slaves at will. Keep that in mind the next time Foghorn Leghorn sounds off about the honor of Southern womanhood. To own slaves is wicked; to rape female slaves and sell one's children by them is disgusting in the extreme. Yet that is what the Old South did, and the DNA evidence proves it.
Southern slaveholders were rapists. We know this because only 73% of the DNA of African-Americans is African; the rest is Caucasian with a small fraction of Native American. Most of the admixture of DNA, a McGill University study concludes, occurred before the Civil War, that is, when slaveholders and their white employees could use female slaves at will. Keep that in mind the next time Foghorn Leghorn sounds off about the honor of Southern womanhood. To own slaves is wicked; to rape female slaves and sell one's children by them is disgusting in the extreme. Yet that is what the Old South did, and the DNA evidence proves it.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Will we ever understand the beginning of the universe? | Aeon Essays
Will we ever understand the beginning of the universe? | Aeon Essays: To solve these mysteries, cosmologists must make guesses about events that are absurdly remote from us. Guth’s theory of inflation is one such guess. It tells us that our Universe expanded, exponentially, a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. In most models of this process, inflation’s expansive kick is eternal.
Friday, August 18, 2017
American Digest - WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary....
American Digest - WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary....: An American president during the shooting phase of the last Civil War put it this way:
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
— Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address� http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
— Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address� http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
Sense of Events
Sense of Events: The mayor of a small town in a middle America state had a problem. The old bridge, which was the only way out of town, was in a state of disrepair and needed to be rebuilt.
So he called in three contractors to bid on the job: one from Cincinnati, one from New York, and one from Washington, D.C.
"$3 million," said the man from Cincinnati. "$1.5 million for the supplies. $1.5 million for the labor."
Next, the Mayor met with the New York contractor, and asked him: "How much to build the bridge?"
"$6 million," said the New Yorker. "$3 million�for the supplies. $3 million for the labor."
Finally, the Mayor brought in the contractor from Washington D.C., and asked him: "How much to build the bridge?"
"$9 million," said the man from Washington.
"$9 million," the Mayor repeated, aghast. "That's three times more expensive than the lowest bid. How do you break that down?"
"Easy," said the Washingtonian. "$3 million for you. $3 million for me. And $3 million to hire the guy from Cincinnati."
So he called in three contractors to bid on the job: one from Cincinnati, one from New York, and one from Washington, D.C.
"$3 million," said the man from Cincinnati. "$1.5 million for the supplies. $1.5 million for the labor."
Next, the Mayor met with the New York contractor, and asked him: "How much to build the bridge?"
"$6 million," said the New Yorker. "$3 million�for the supplies. $3 million for the labor."
Finally, the Mayor brought in the contractor from Washington D.C., and asked him: "How much to build the bridge?"
"$9 million," said the man from Washington.
"$9 million," the Mayor repeated, aghast. "That's three times more expensive than the lowest bid. How do you break that down?"
"Easy," said the Washingtonian. "$3 million for you. $3 million for me. And $3 million to hire the guy from Cincinnati."
American Digest - WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary....
American Digest - WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary....: “Black people who were never slaves are fighting white people who were never Nazis over a confederate statue erected by Democrats because Democrats can’t stand their own history anymore.. yet somehow it’s Trump’s fault.” — Jeff Laffite Jones�
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