An entrenched racial mindset comprised of fundamental assumptions immune to review. Seeking exoneration for Charles Greenlee is a worthy cause. Launching petty, broad brush, and quizzical generalizations with respect to the article's author and branding the exoneration effort (which is not new) as "opening a wound" demonstrates such mindset. Pitts quite often misses the mark, but the Groveland Boys are emblematic of the darkest civil rights chapters of 20th Century America and the legal request to set the record straight deserves to be granted. "Devil in the Grove" won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for being a tour-d-force of historical research and meticulous footnoting while conveying a complex and multifaceted story. Read it and then we can discuss whether exoneration is appropriate.
Y'all castigate Pitts for his entrenched racial mindset, but are no different than him. Unlike the gross miscarriage of justice for the Groveland Four, the legal system worked in the Tawana Brawley case; none of the accused were brought to trial and the ringmasters of the circus were convicted of defamation. "Devil in the Grove" is a gripping book about not only the Groveland Four and the post-WWII South, but the career and a giant of a man, Thurgood Marshall. Highly recommended.
Court-martials for Pearl Harbor, but not a single disciplinary action, firing, demotion, reprimand, or any shred of accountability anywhere for anyone after 9/11. The miserable failure of NORAD and Department of Defense was glossed over and rewarded. General Ralph Eberhart was in charge of NORAD on 9/11, but was promoted to head the Northern Command in October 2002. The interim head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, General Richard Myers, sat in a meeting as the attack unfolded, but was later promoted to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Three months prior to 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld rewrote a flexible chain-of-command directive regarding aircraft interceptions, dictating that any response to hijacked aircraft would furthermore need to be cleared through him. WTF!?
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If noon and midnight were called zero'clock, we wouldn't have this problem.
Not worth providing an email address. What's in it for me? Spam? They should be payin' us...
947,219 tolls is impressive. More so considering all sections did not yet toll. Assuming a $6 average toll, that's almost $6 million revenue in a bit over a month. Once all sections toll, monthly revenue could be reasonably estimated at $4 million to $10 million. The US36 project cost $500 million, the equivalent of 50 to 125 months of estimated revenue, meaning, the project could be paid off in less than 10 years. That leaves Plenary Plenty Fat Cat riding 40 years of cash cow contract worth easily $5 billion. Shaping up to be a serious contender for the Greatest Boondoggle Ever Foisted On Colorado.
Casting the refugee crisis in an Obama/Bush context is myopic at best. The primary blame for the problem in Syria is USNATOIsrael policy to instigate and support the overthrow of a series of Middle East strongmen in order to install weak feudal states pliant to external hegemony. Bashar Assad is the latest and toughest. Proxies Qatar and Saudi Arabia finance and arm both the "moderate" Syrian opposition and ISIS, in reality, two heads on the same beast. Yes, the strongmen were bad guys, but the human suffering inflicted on Iraq, Libya, Syria, and others during the 14 year USNATOIsrael campaign of destruction across the Middle East and North Africa cannot be justified.
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