https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/917497481314947072
@LindseyGrahamSC: Really enjoyed a round of golf with President @realDonaldTrump today.
President Trump shot a 73 in windy and wet conditions!
I predict that another hurricane will strike the United States or its territories within the next month.
I’m not sure what an “offence” is, but I do know what offense is. 😉
Pics or it didn’t happen?
I predict that I will Chick-Fil-A this week.
I predict it all.
Next thing you know he’ll declare tomorrow to be October 10th.
It’s only used for holidays.
This is dumb.
How so?
Lol.
“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”It seems that some have problems with the third stanza of the National Anthem. I would have no problem altering the wording to remove the offensive parts.
Rather than deleting “offensive” portions of a really old song, why don’t we just accept that it, like all art, is a product of its time? Please, let’s stop worshiping this song!
I would be able to do that, but I was thinking that maybe African Americans might not. In order to be respectful to them, I though maybe the words to the thirds verse should be changed.
EDIT: And aren’t you the guy that is supposed to be all about “respecting” our anthem?
I am about respecting it, yes.
Isn’t revising it for a modern audience disrespectful?
not if done carefully and minimally.
That third stanza should be left as is, and let’s be honest no one even knows that stanza exists,
google Star Spangled banner third stanza. You’ll see people talking about it and complaining about it.
as an example of why we shouldn’t worship a song. It’s not perfect.
I don’t worship it. For me, worship is reserved for God and Christ. No the song is not perfect, but I believe the ideals it represents are(freedom, justice, rights, equality, those sorts of things).
My point was that we shouldn’t have a national anthem at all.
Why not? Every country has one. What would be played when an American wins a gold medal at the olmpics if we didn’t have one?
Nothing, I guess?
Humid, rainy, warm, grey.
Ditto.
Update.
Suave.
While most Americans don’t own guns, most Americans do not think that gun control works.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-handling-of-hurricane-maria-is-getting-really-bad-marks/
More Americans don’t think gun control will stop mass shootings — There’s still so much we don’t know about Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in recent U.S. history. Americans, though, are skeptical that legislation can do much to prevent future mass shootings. In a YouGov poll conducted after the killings, only 40 percent of Americans think stricter gun laws will reduce the number of shootings in the U.S., and only 41 percent think Congress should even take action to reduce mass shootings.
Plus:
I’m just going to quote ABC News here on the results it got in a survey with the Washington Post to an open-ended question asking for the one word that best describes views of Trump: “The ten most common words that respondents gave were: ‘incompetent,’ ‘arrogant,’ ‘strong,’ ‘idiot,’ ‘egotistical,’ ‘ignorant,’ ‘great,’ ‘racist,’ ‘a——’ and ‘narcissistic.’”
https://kottke.org/17/10/the-united-states-of-guns-1
https://twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/611943312401002496
In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
— 2015
“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”It seems that some have problems with the third stanza of the National Anthem. I would have no problem altering the wording to remove the offensive parts.
I have never heard of the third stanza of the National Anthem before this.
Jeez.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/917091286607433728
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen.
And this thing.
SQUARE WITH QUESTION MARK
I don’t get it.
And this thing.
SQUARE WITH QUESTION MARK
Although I do wish i
WRONG CAPITALIZATION
Trump is back on his phone and is tweeting again.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/916638685914951680
I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill. ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!
And that’s not even the least of it.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/916750042014404608
Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid…
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/916751271960436737
…hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!
“Sorry!”
I see everything is going smoothly here.
Sounds a lot like the screeds by the socks of banned users early in the forum’s history.
Today, socks of banned users typically carry on their behavior, just under their new name. Rarely do you get angry, retaliatory rants from these socks nowadays.
That picture of Trump in the Oval Office is not real.
I have reproduced the bug on Chrome and Firefox.
Can’t report on Windows yet.
Occasionally when I go to an announcement thread, the formatting is mangled up, like this:
I’m not quite sure of the origin of this bug. I don’t see it consistently reproduced, too.
I found out that by clicking on somebodies account and changing the number at the end of the URL you can find every member on this forum, when I stumbled upon an account that was my first name and initial of my last name. I don’t remember ever creating an account with my own name, and I highly doubt anyone else shares my first name and last initial (I have a very uncommon first name). I wonder if I tried to create an account and it didn’t work out, but I don’t remember anything like that happening. Weird.
That doesn’t sound like something you should be able to do. Please don’t break the forum!
If we don’t plug that hole, our doppelgangers will take over. 😉
Jay discussed this here:
TV’s Frink said:
This looks related to my post about www.originaltrilogy.com/forum not working.
That’s exactly what it is.
By the way, none, the topic title can change and it won’t hurt the functionality of the link. The software only looks at the forum/category/topic ID when pulling the data, and it’s also smart enough to recognize when the topic title has changed from what’s requested in the link and redirect the user to the proper URL. There’s no need to truncate it. Actually, you hurt our search engine rankings by removing that text because keywords in the URL are a factor in page rank.
Check out this URL and how it redirects you to the proper page:
