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AF, I'm so sorry to hear of your and your family's loss. You mentioned your mom's progeny in your eulogy to her, and I suppose you'll have to take solace in seeing her in every one of them as time moves on. My mom passed eight years ago - it was two weeks after her 90th birthday party, where she was surrounded by four generations (including one great-great-grandson at the time) that she treasured. Steeley Dan wrote 'Only a fool would say that' to mock Lennon's song. And you may not remember how Gal Godot (Wonder Woman) organized a video with her celebrity pals each singing a line of the song - and the video was almost universally panned: This ‘Imagine’ Cover Is No Heaven Gal Gadot's 'Imagine' Instagram video was peak cringe Gal Gadot responds to the backlash against her infamous 'Imagine' video

Guess there's no stopping the toxic masculinity - even when it comes out of a vial and is injected.

That might be the case, but there's no analysis provided for it. Figures from 2011 show single victim/multiple offenders at 12.2%, multiple victims/single offender at 6.5% and multiple victims/multiple offenders at 1.6% ... so it's not an insignificant portion of the total, nor do they provide the actual numbers of victims and offenders. The link I provided above is the first data I could find for single/multiple offenders and single/multiple victims (and it's from 2011). 48.4% are confirmed to be single offender/single victim. My big takeway though is the 28.5% of homicides that are "Single victim/unknown offender(s)" coupled with the 2.8% that are "Multiple victims/unknown offender(s)"; that's a total of close to a third, and that percentage appears to be growing (2020 saw a record low of only 54.4 percent of the country’s homicide cases cleared). I'm assuming that the OP stats are for resolved/convicted homicides - so the upwards of 45.6% of homicides that are unresolved could really skew the results dramatically in one direction or the other. Edited to add: The https://datahazard.substack.com/p/american-murder analysis is a model rather than a compilation of actual tallied data. It relies upon a lot of assumptions, and upwards of 45.6% of the data for any year is missing (for which they don't even provide proxy data for - like they do with the climate models). It'd be easy (though tedious) to get actual tallied data, but they chose the modeling route instead. To provide a warm fuzzy for the model, they ought to apply it to a number of small subsets of the total data (like a few counties) and then compare the modeling results to the actual tallied data for those counties. If they don't match, then the model is wrong.

The concept of merit is under attack everywhere but in sports, Maher concluded. “It’s a bad issue for Democrats – if they’re on an airplane, they want a cockpit that looks like America. But they also want someone who knows how to fly the plane.”

Nine years ago in Feminist Current: Why has drag escaped critique from feminists and the LGBTQ community?

According to News Wars, it was in New York:

Per bobbysandstrust.com: From his diary:

From people who never owned slaves, to people who never were slaves, in a state that never allowed slaves.

I'm down state, across the stream from St. Louis and right next door to Belleville (where the woman mentioned in the article lives). Big businesses are the only businesses that could reasonably be expected to leave the state since medium and small businesses tend to be tied to the local economy. And most big businesses already offer vacation and/or sick leave - so they'll just replace that with PTO, just like the medium and small businesses that offer vacation and/or sick leave. Who this will hurt is the medium and small businesses that don't already offer vacation/sick leave. Those won't have the option of leaving the state, so will have to either pass the costs along to their customers or else go out of business. So, I don't see this particular measure causing business to leave the state. However, Illinois is and has been very unfriendly to business over recent decades; and it's taking a toll. Six big companies moved their corporate headquarters out of the state in 2022 (Tyson Foods, Citadel, Boeing, Caterpillar, FTX and Highland Ventures). Caterpillar hasn't moved any blue-collar jobs as yet, but they're not expanding in the state (choosing other states instead). Chicago was the location for most corporate HQs, but it was difficult to recruit executives to live in Chicago, due primarily to crime. As per AARP, Illinois income tax is a flat 4.5% (which is higher that neighboring Indiana's 3.15%, but lower than Missouri's graduated tax which tops out at 4.95% and hits most workers). Average sales tax rate is 8.82%. The property tax is outrageous at about 2.08% of assessed value - only New Jersey and parts of Connecticut are higher. The median-priced home will have you paying about $5K a year in property taxes. Illinois may have the nation's worst public pension problem:

Done! Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checks

What liberals don't get about Trump voters:

Mother of two self-identifies as childless Mom Accused of Leaving Kids Alone for 7 Weeks Flashes Smile During Arrest

I'm waiting for Billy Crystal to do a skit on it on SNL; it's only a matter of time.

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I've been expecting to see the following posted here for the last week or so, but it hasn't been - so this seems like an appropriate thread to post it in. It shows one of the practical problems with reparations: should a black person with slave-owning ancestors be eligible to receive reparations? Note that Angela Davis is a reparations advocate. Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower