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'Frat boys and sorrority girls' - check in
I'm glad the frat boys thread died a natural death.
Don't ask, and no, I won't link to it.
I'll just opine that it unfairly damned anyone who had ever belong to a Greek letter organization in college.
But it made me curious.
How many of us are there here?
Who are willing to admit it.
Does it matter?
Not a whit.
As I said, just idle curiosity.
Me: Delta Kappa Epsilon, University of Alabama, class of '63.
Roll tide. 
For me, it was a phase.
I pretty much left it behind when I left college.
Much of it seems pretty juvenile now.
I did enjoy the parties and social life and it was a pretty good bunch of guys to hang out with.
I don't really have any close friends from that time now.
As I said, it was a phase.
I don't regret it.
You?
Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since inauguration
WASHINGTON — President Trump, who has struggled to press his agenda in Washington but has shown a knack for unsettling opponents and triggering protests, has also become an unprecedented lightning rod for federal lawsuits filed by plaintiffs across the country seeking court relief on an unusually broad array of issues.
Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since he was sworn into office, according to a Globe tally based on federal court databases, nearly three times the number of his three predecessors in their early months combined.
The lawsuits include green card holders trying to get into the United States after his travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries; cities like San Francisco, Richmond, and Seattle suing over a plan to withhold funds from ”sanctuary’’ cities; and even a woman from Quincy, Mass., who went to court contending that the president’s actions have caused “loss of enjoyment of life.”
The dramatic uptick in litigation — Barack Obama faced 26 suits at this point in his first year, while George W. Bush had seven, and Bill Clinton, 15 — is further evidence of the unsettled era ushered in by Trump’s election and the intense fallout stemming from his early executive actions. Court filings may not be as visible as demonstrations on the National Mall, but they ultimately could exert a more lasting check on his executive power.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/05/05/trump-has-been-sued-times-federal-court-since-inauguration-day/E4AqZBYaKYHtzwfQ3k9hdM/story.html
Email to my repug congressman, Bradley Byrne, 1st Dist. Alabama
Dear Brad,
I have a serious question.
Do you work for the people of the 1st Congressional District of Alabama or just for the Republican Party?
I’m dead serious.
Is it your goal just to stay in office for as long as possible?
Or is it to actually address the problems of folks you represent?
Of course your district’s citizens’ politics are deeply Republican, for now.
Do you just represent them?
Or do you represent all of us?
You just voted to take health care AWAY for a lot of citizens in your district.
How would you feel if it was YOUR kid, or YOUR mother who could no longer afford to pay for health insurance?
I don’t think you’re a bad person.
I have to believe that you’ve just been taken up in the whole “winning is everything” mindset of our current politics.
I have to believe that deep down inside you have a heart, and a soul, and some sense of decency.
You have to quit hurting us.
Please.
(trof)
(Hometown)
My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night (1853)
It's Derby Day.
Lyrics to "My Old Kentucky Home".
Comments?
Interpretations?
Words & music by Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)
1.
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay,
The corn top's ripe and the meadows in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright:
By'n by Hard Times comes a knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good night!
CHORUS
Weep no more, my lady,
Oh! weep no more to-day!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home,
For the old Kentucky Home far away.
2.
They hunt no more for possum and the coon
On the meadow, the hill, and the shore,
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o're the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight:
The time has come when the darkies have to part,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!
(CHORUS)
3.
The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go:
A few more days, and the trouble all will end
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,
No matter, 'twill never be light,
A few more days till we totter on the road,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!
(CHORUS)
tRump's entire Air Force speech today
Surreal
Skip to 49 minutes.
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