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GOP Congressman moves to block Harriet Tubman

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Carl Herrera, Jun 20, 2016.

  1. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    The only history anyone needs to know on this topic is Steve King's history. We know why he's behind this and it has nothing to do with the historical significance of Andrew Jackson.
     
  2. Buck Turgidson

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    Please expound on this statement.
     
  3. Cohete Rojo

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    Well, there was no certain way for previous indigenous populations to demarcate claimed lands since they were not literate prior to the arrival of European settlers.
     
  4. Rocket River

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    Define Literate.

    Rocket River
     
  5. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Other than the fact they were living on the land of course.
     
  6. glynch

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    What is the history?

    Post lunch slump and two lazy to google.
     
  7. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    On illegal immigrants

    “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of mar1juana across the desert.”

    “We could also electrify this wire (on the border) with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”



    King comparing immigration laws to picking a dog

    “You put out a beacon like the Statue of Liberty and who comes here? The most vigorous from every country that has donated legal immigrants to America. The cream of the crop. We’ve always had bird dogs around our place. In our family there’s a black lab and white lab, a yellow lab, and my brother has a chocolate lab. Well, you go in and you look at a litter of pups, and you watch them. You watch how they play — they run around a little bit — and what do you want? You want a good bird dog, and you want one that’s gonna be aggressive? Pick the one that’s the friskiest, the one that’s in games the most — not the one that’s over there sleeping in the corner. You want a pet to sit on the couch, pick the one that’s sleeping in the corner. That’s — so, you get the pick of the litter, you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. We got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet because it’s hard to get here; you had to be inspired to come. We got the vigor from the planet to come to America. Whichever generation it was, and then we taught our children that same thing.”



    Other amusings.

    In addressing the famous Republican Rep. Todd Akin quote that the female body has the ability to prevent pregnancy in cases of incest or statutory rape, King told a reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest. “Well, I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way.”


    “Harry Reid can defend those ghoulish and ghastly and gruesome practices that Planned Parenthood is advocating along with child prostitution and illegal immigration. He can play defense on that.”


    Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is defending comments he made that the families of child migrants "give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico" because White House policies had created a "huge magnet" for migrants.
     
  8. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    I just don't think this is what our Congress should be focused on.
     

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