Representatives here in washington the turks have spent millions of dollars over the years to beat back any motions that would bring sanctions against the economy or senior figures in the government and also to try and define what happened to more than a 1000000 armenians at the end of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the farce world war and the on sanctions passed with bipartisan support and overwhelmingly essentially what the house of representatives is saying to donald trump is that he must impose sanctions against senior figures in the government against those who planned and carried out the military incursion into northeast syria particularly those that targeted the kurds and also calls on donald trump to develop a Long Term Plan to defeat eisel and all this coming just a short time after the house of representatives passed a resolution which said that the u. S. Should no longer associate itself with the denial of the Armenian Genocide essentially talking about what happened to th
They are, in henry james words, perfectly equipped failures. And i wanted to talk about them beginning with huck finn because i think huck finn is americas literary declaration of independence. And i felt that at the end of huck finn that people started moving out and going to other landscapes of america. So babbitt becomes the antihuck which is the standardization of thought. That is what is really threatening us today, indifference, sleeping consciousness which is all the things that is talked about. Okay. And then carson [inaudible] and then, of course, the great, the incomparable James Baldwin who was not just a writer, not just an africanamerican writer, not just a gay africanamerican writer, not just an american writer, but a writer. Who speaks to all of us and whos so important today. And i think we should remember baldwin. I dont have time to go into it. And i want to end by a quote from mark twain. Mark twain gives a talk to what he calls the mayflower tribes, the descendants
For racial insensitivity once its made public. Will clippers owner Donald Sterling sell the team, now that hes banned for life . Will his fellow owners force him . Who would buy it . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The national lead, it started coming down and it still has not stopped. Deadly storm system that has tortured much of the eastern half of the nation for days creeping up the eastern seaboard, causing some of the worst flooding in a generation, 37 Million People now at risk. The Florida Panhandle up through new england catching deluge now. Today its hard to tell the gulf coast from the actual gulf. Heres something you dont see every day, even in florida, airboat replacing cars as the best mode of transportation. This is just blocks from downtown pensacola. There are reports of people still trapped by Rushing Waters like these. Pensacola got more than 17 inches of rain in 24 hours. Thats more than a quarter of its average annual rain total in jus
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