They’re just pandering to the yahoos in their constituencies.
Mencken said they would support something as repulsive as cannibalism if people in their districts practiced it. He said they would serve missionaries for dinner.
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We do have a state fossil (Columbian mammoth) and a state ‘gem’ (petrified wood) that is another fossil
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They should move Roy Moore’s Ten Commandment’s monument and the Noah’s Ark Museum to Tennessee.
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Wherein the distance of the stones forming a circular enclosure is exactly three times the distance straight across that enclosure.
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I like your thinking. It is time to end bothsiderisms and declare the confederates traitors and white supremacists.
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We’re apparently also working on declaring a state dinosaur (only one femur of one individual of one species has ever been found in the state) in addition to our state fossil and fossilized state gem.
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Well, they wouldn’t want to be irrational.
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Well yeah. Nashville is a huge tourist town. So is Memphis because of Graceland. But the people most likely to visit those places strike me as the people least likely to honor a boycott on account of NBF Day.
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I think most states pick their State Symbols without necessarily trying to conform to some consistent list of symbol types. I didn’t find a State Book for Texas, but Michigan has one and it’s lovely: The Legend of Sleeping Bear
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He was a job creator.
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Bound to be a few running things in the state Capitol.
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TN needs to pay a lot in reparations, and the bill keeps mounting.
Republicans have declared again and again that they are the party of extreme racism and treason. It is plain as day that they are all that in spades, and little else. Reconstruction was not done right: the forbearers of today’s Republican party, i.e, the Confederates, should have been obliterated, Sherman style.
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The boycott that would sting the most would be NBA and other professional sports teams, where there would be plenty of support for taking down NBF day. Another angle would be boycotts of General Motors, Nissan, Volkswagen, and also Bridgestone tires. They all have manufacturing plants there. Nashville also hosts corporate conventions and other events. Overt racism doesn’t sell, when it’s a national corporation. This just needs more national media spotlight exposure than it’s getting now.
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It’s that “exactly three times” claim that makes it fantasy. That and a flat earth model and a magical beginning…
Though the aliens blowing up Sodom and Gomorrah could go either way…
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I always assumed the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was specifically technological.
And friggin’ petty.
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“I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want me to be a slave”
I’m sorry…it’s unfortunate…but that makes you the biggest fool in the chamber today.
I wish the leg would stand down. There is no rational, compassionate, reasonable, sensible, or moral justification for honoring anything or anyone even remotely associated with slavery.
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That’s why they love Trump. He made them feel like they’d actually won after all.
Which, when you consider the utter and complete flip of the two political parties over the past 100 years, particularly the past 50, and the way the Senate and Electoral College disproportionately over-represent Republican States, may be true.
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I am moving to this state in three months. Oof.
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State’s official book of what?
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