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Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dies
The Hill ^ | 7/17/2020 | christina marcos

Posted on 07/17/2020 9:13:11 PM PDT by bitt

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To: a little elbow grease

Other than the size of their heads what’s the difference?


121 posted on 07/18/2020 6:37:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: a little elbow grease

Other than the size of their heads what’s the difference?


122 posted on 07/18/2020 6:37:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: a little elbow grease

123 posted on 07/18/2020 6:45:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: caww

little difference


124 posted on 07/18/2020 6:46:53 AM PDT by a little elbow grease ( ....... F.Lee Levin)
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To: bitt

He was 80.

So is Fauci. Maybe there’s hope.


125 posted on 07/18/2020 7:22:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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To: Kevin in California

This racist fraud claimed that Tea Party people called him a n’ger. LIAR caught by audio!


126 posted on 07/18/2020 7:29:30 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: bitt

I watched the Fox News obituary live this morning, at 9:00 Am EDT. The thing that struck me was the repeated use of the words to the effect that Lewis did not hate his enemies. If he did not hate Bush and Trump, did he love them? Or did he just love the men who cracked his skull in 1965?


127 posted on 07/18/2020 7:31:44 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Which is the evil twin?


128 posted on 07/18/2020 7:32:03 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: Jane Long

Elijah Cummings died a few months ago.

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0N7Yr2vo/disrespect-in-death-rep-elijah-cummings-confused-with-rep-john-lewis


129 posted on 07/18/2020 7:35:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Dummies would definitely do a lot less damage.

The problem with legislators is not that they don’t work hard enough, but that they work too hard!

Do we really need more laws?

Every new law is at its core a restriction of some freedom. I would be quite happy to pay them their full salary and have them work only one month out of the year.

I think we should make it much more difficult to pass new laws, and easy to repeal old ones.


130 posted on 07/18/2020 7:44:19 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: bitt

Probably. And it’ll be another cheap grifter race pimp.

Can’t have a hole in the agenda now, can we....


131 posted on 07/18/2020 7:55:04 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: MplsSteve
I actually saw Bond speak, in Grand Rapids (at the community college, a predictably lib speaker series), prior to that election. He professed a love of the Mills Brothers (not kidding) and during the Q&A he said, in reference to some brain-dead racist question about "the system", doesn't matter if the game is crooked, it's the only game in town. That's actually good advice, and beats the hell out of burning **** down. Lewis was just an opportunistic liar.

132 posted on 07/18/2020 8:36:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bitt

To embrace a party that embraced the KKK in its hey day, was not on the side of civil rights legislation in the 60s yet strutted like he was as tall as MLK, ‘tis a shame.

He and many others that have “led” the battle(s) to secure freedoms and liberties already provided for says a lot about him and his followers.

Time , money , lives.. by the hoods’ful have been wasted under leadership like his and his party.

Sadly, the up and comers of the party seek total destruction of society to reform it to their taste, and sadly, he would probably support that too.


133 posted on 07/18/2020 10:31:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: lewislynn

That wasn’t Lewis, nor Donald Payne as erroneously cited in the article. It was idiot extraordinaire Rep. Major Owens who made that infamous speech. He was the father of actor Geoffrey Owens, the clueless son-in-law of Heathcliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” (married to eldest daughter Sondra).

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=sVQTX9jkG8uZ_QbK0JLoBw&q=major+owens+sharks&oq=major+owens+sharks&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIGCAAQFhAeOgUIABCxAzoCCABQ8glY9iFgliVoAHAAeAKAAbkDiAHzFJIBCjEyLjEuMC4yLjKYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiYgcO4y9fqAhXLTN8KHUqoBH0Q4dUDCAw&uact=5#spf=1595102387176


134 posted on 07/18/2020 1:00:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: The Colts Repeat

Until he wasn’t. Which curiously coincided with his election to office.


135 posted on 07/18/2020 1:02:11 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: NFHale

Not this seat, unfortunately. It once was briefly sane in the ‘60s when it elected Fletcher Thompson, a Conservative Republican. When Thompson retired in 1972 to run for the open Senate seat against Sam Nunn (and he should’ve won), it then elected the first of three rotten leftists, beginning with Andrew Young.


136 posted on 07/18/2020 1:05:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: SunkenCiv

I think Lewis hated Bond because he was “too White.” Their voting records were both horrific and indistinguishable from the other (Communist/racist). Bond was more of a show horse and publicity hound.


137 posted on 07/18/2020 1:08:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: MplsSteve
"Lewis won the run-off narrowly primarily by winning huge margins among white liberals who were alarmed at Bond’s fiery rhetoric. Lewis was thought to be calmer and more well thought out."

Pretty rich, ain't it ?

138 posted on 07/18/2020 1:13:27 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Bond stood in his way. That's the ultimate reason in any criminal gang.

139 posted on 07/18/2020 1:16:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Same mindset.


140 posted on 07/18/2020 1:19:00 PM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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