HarryBalzack

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My niece went there for undergrad and then to Auburn for pharmacy school. Being at Auburn made her wish she'd gone there for undergrad.

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Was it the horse cock or cow shite that did that for her?

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Why?

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To be fair, he does have a reputation for coming in places he shouldn't.

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Ga Tech (original SEC member)?

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Wait, I thought nothing before 1940, or so, counted. So confused.

Are they still using metrics that have shite to do with quality, like how many first-generation students enroll as freshmen or how many are off-white? A few years ago they had Florida A&M ranked higher than all but like four SEC schools.

Georgia's explanation is even better. Their legislature passed a declaration of why they did it. Literally. LINK

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The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic. This hostile policy of our confederates has been pursued with every circumstance of aggravation which could arouse the passions and excite the hatred of our people, and has placed the two sections of the Union for many years past in the condition of virtual civil war. Our people, still attached to the Union from habit and national traditions, and averse to change, hoped that time, reason, and argument would bring, if not redress, at least exemption from further insults, injuries, and dangers. Recent events have fully dissipated all such hopes and demonstrated the necessity of separation.
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Such are the opinions and such are the practices of the Republican party, who have been called by their own votes to administer the Federal Government under the Constitution of the United States. We know their treachery; we know the shallow pretenses under which they daily disregard its plainest obligations. If we submit to them it will be our fault and not theirs. The people of Georgia have ever been willing to stand by this bargain, this contract; they have never sought to evade any of its obligations; they have never hitherto sought to establish any new government; they have struggled to maintain the ancient right of themselves and the human race through and by that Constitution. But they know the value of parchment rights in treacherous hands, and therefore they refuse to commit their own to the rulers whom the North offers us. Why? Because by their declared principles and policy they have outlawed $3,000,000,000 of our property in the common territories of the Union; put it under the ban of the Republic in the States where it exists and out of the protection of Federal law everywhere; because they give sanctuary to thieves and incendiaries who assail it (slavery) to the whole extent of their power, in spite of their most solemn obligations and covenants; because their avowed purpose is to subvert our society and subject us not only to the loss of our property but the destruction of ourselves, our wives, and our children, and the desolation of our homes, our altars, and our firesides. To avoid these evils we resume the powers which our fathers delegated to the Government of the United States, and henceforth will seek new safeguards for our liberty, equality, security, and tranquillity.

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Then, they published a list of terms for reconciliation. page 17 See if you can find one point that references the tariff, cotton profits, ag taxes (whatever tf those are?), or states rights (as a overarching concept...of course they reference their right to enslave). I concede that point 9 isn't about slavery directly, but it's still about White supremacy.

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That inasmuch as Georgia is resolved not to abide permanently in this Union without satisfactory guaranties of future security, the following propositions are respectfully suggested for the consideration of her Southern Confederates as the substance of what she regards indispensable amendments to the Constitution of the United States, to wit:

1. That Congress shall have no power to abolish or prohibit slavery in the Territories or any place under their exclusive jurisdiction.
2. Each State shall be bound to surrender fugitive slaves, and if any fugitive slave shall be forcibly taken or enticed from the possession of any officer legally charged therewith for the purpose of rendition, the United States shall pay the owner the value of such slave, and the county in which such rescue or enticement may occur shall be liable to the United States for the amount so paid, to be recovered by suit in the Federal courts.
3. It shall be a penal offense, definable by Congress and punishable in the Federal courts, for any person to rescue or entice, or to encourage, aid, or assist others to rescue or entice, any fugitive slave from any officer legally charged with the custody thereof for the purpose of rendition.
4. Whatever is recognized as property (such as, I dunno, slaves) by the Constitution of the United States shall be held to be property in the Territories of the United States and in all places over which Congress has exclusive jurisdiction, and all kinds of property shall be entitled to like and equal protection therein by the several departments of the General Government.
5. New States formed out of territory now belonging to the United States, or which may be hereafter acquired, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people thereof may determine at the time of admission.
6. Congress shall have no power to prohibit or interfere with the slave-trade between the States, nor to prohibit citizens of the United States passing through or temporarily sojourning in the District of Columbia from having with them their slaves and carrying them away, but it shall be the duty of Congress to provide by law for the punishment of all persons who may interfere with this right in the same way as is provided for in the foregoing third proposition.
7. No State shall pass any law to prohibit the citizens of any other State travelling, or temporarily sojourning therein, from carrying their slaves and returning with them; and it shall be a penal offence, definable by Congress, and punishable by the Federal Courts, for any person to entice away, or harbor, or attempt to entice away or harbor, the slave or slaves of such citizen so travelling, or temporarily sojourning.
8. The obligation to surrender fugitives from justice (e.g. slaves) as provided for under the Constitution of the United States extends, and shall be held to extend as well to fugitives charged with offences connected with or committed against slavery or slave property as to any other class of offences, and for the purposes of this proposition, whatever is defined to be a criminal offence in one State shall be deemed and held a criminal offence in every other State.
9. The Supreme Court having decided that negroes are not citizens of the United States, no person of African descent shall be permitted to vote for Federal Officers, nor to hold any office or appointment under the government of the United States.

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I could use some new gear.

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Saw a story today regarding teachers noticing that kids have really lost desktop computer skills over the past decade.

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I taught at a laptop high school circa 2008. They had the same problems then: if they had a open a Word document they'd sit there for hours in befuddlement and claim it was impossible, but could navigate the far reaches of Ukrainian servers to find cheat codes and pirated movies.

They don't lack the ability to learn it, they lack the will to invest the energy into doing so. That's nothing new, unfortunately. It's why every time there's a massive software/systems conversion at my current employer you see all the folks who are eligible to retire do so instead of learning the new system.

We found one against some property in a trust that my wife controls. I think someone at the finance company got happy writing parcel numbers and this one was the next, sequentially, after the adjoining property, which was the one who owed the money. The lawyer sent them a letter and they notified the clerk that it was an error.

Crazy, though, that they can manage to get that posted without having to show any proof of debt.

What's his source for this information?

I see where she's gotten on the Ozempic. Still ugly as a mud fence.