Lazarus writes, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame / Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles." While the statue’s original designers and Americans at the 1886 dedication ceremony viewed her more as an emblem of republican liberty and Franco-American friendship, Lazarus's poem redefined Lady Liberty as a maternal figure of worldwide welcome for immigrants.
Immigrants, not invaders.
The famous lines from The New Colossus establish the statue's identity as a shelter for the world's displaced:
"Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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The Board of License Commissioners recently published a preliminary working draft of the city’s first proposed change to its liquor laws in ten years. After seeing the draft, business owners are worried for their businesses. One of the major points in the proposal is that no shots of liquor or bottles of wine may be served within 60 minutes of an establishment’s closing time. Another point in the draft would require a 30- minute cooling period between each alcoholic beverage served to a patron, regardless of their level of intoxication.
As business owners began reacting, the city license commission released a statement confirming that list of changes was indeed a preliminary working draft and was shared as a means to receive feedback. “Within the working draft, we have incorporated a summary of the feedback, suggestions or questions received to date, as well as indications of where changes are based on modifications to state laws or regulations,” the statement reads.
The statement notes that the feedback on the proposed changes shows a “general consensus that they are too restrictive on the industry and the patrons.” The commission added that they are in no rush to finalize the new liquor rules and understand that the process will take time.
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Bruce Springsteen and Britain's U2 led the parade of musicians, celebrities and politicians attending the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago last week.
The hulking structure drew horrible reviews from onlookers and architects alike. It's so ugly Kenya now claims Obama was born in the United States.
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California has achieved something almost impossible in the annals of bureaucratic absurdity: It has made citizenship easier to assert for voting than sexual orientation is to document for favored utility contracting.
To register to vote, a person fills out a form, signs an affidavit, and attests under penalty of perjury that he is a U.S. citizen and California resident. The state may check identifying information against databases, but it does not generally require a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization certificate before letting him enter the electorate.
But if a small business wants to qualify as LGBTQ+ owned under California’s utility supplier-diversity system, Sacramento suddenly discovers verification. The applicant must prove the company is majority-owned and controlled by an LGBTQ+ person. How? Marriage or domestic-partnership records. Health insurance paperwork. Joint living arrangements. A letter from an LGBTQ+ chamber leader. Media coverage identifying the owner as LGBTQ+. A physician or attorney letter. Or, most absurdly, three personal-reference letters from people who have known the owner for more than a year and can attest to the owner’s LGBTQ+ status.
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The way WNBA players are treating Caitlin Clark is exactly the way
New Yorkers are treating capitalism.
They're killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
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Southside Chicago had 40 people shot and 6 killed over the Juneteenth weekend. To hcelebrate the end of Pride Month, the Chicago White Sox are wearing rainbow Kevlar.
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That figure for Mother Russia is likely a lie. When Uncle Joe wanted the last census before the war to show population growth, no matter how the numbers were crunched, they just couldn't show it. Even Robert Service says part of that figure is people purged during the war.
ReplyDeletePS The blonde's bazoobz don't bounce.
It would be interesting to see World War II Human Loses as a percentage of the pre-war population. Another interesting factoid is the percentage of men that died in a given generation by country. IIRC, something like 2/3rds of British men in their 20s were killed (which was the gateway to the feminization of the UK and why they are so severely F'ed now.)
ReplyDeleteThe Name given to the Statue of Liberty is officially "Liberty Enlightening The World." The commie puke sonnet written by the socialist Lazarus wasn't scabbed onto the base of the statue until during the progressive era in 1903. The statue was erected in 1886 and the sonnet was exactly the opposite message that the French intended by the statue.
ReplyDeleteHow long did it take chat gpt to draw the picture?
ReplyDeleteI wonder what chat got would draw if you asked it for a picture of justice in America. Would there be hangings and vigilantes or citizens going to camps?
ReplyDeleteGood to see who to avoid after they celebrated the Barak Obama Memorial Library and butt plug. What an architectural atrocity!
ReplyDelete1. What was the number of American deaths? It doesn't seem to be represented.
ReplyDelete2. I completely don't get the point of the "Pull the Lever" cartoon.
People are complaining about the results of Democratic Party policies, but still keep pulling the lever (voting for) Democrats.
DeleteThe WWII deaths graphic seems to vastly understate Chinese deaths in WWII, which should be second only to the USSR, at between 14-20 million. The WWII Museum puts Soviet deaths at around 24 million.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the Poland had the largest death toll as a percentage of the pre-war population.