Got change for a Tubman?

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steve58

April 20, 2016, 01:22:52 PM
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Boggit

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April 20, 2016, 07:55:15 PM
Quote from: steve58 on April 20, 2016, 01:22:52 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/20/change-for-20-treasury-to-replace-jackson-with-tubman-on-bill.html?intcmp=hpbt1
Well Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders think it's a brilliant idea... nothing to do with symbolic appeals to certain sections of voters I don't suppose... or am I getting cynical at the timing. ^-^
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Con

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April 20, 2016, 09:07:20 PM
I actually didnt know anything about her at all (blame my growing up overseas education).  I looked her up on Wikipedia and she was one tough woman.  I think her place on this bill is well deserved.  Cynical timing or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

MikeGER

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April 21, 2016, 02:05:51 AM Last Edit: April 21, 2016, 02:18:32 AM by MikeGER
playing devils advocate here  >:D

why didn't push Hillary the political correctness cancer creeping into the society all they way to the very end and put the Saudis who have flown into the Twin Towers on the dollar bills.?

Checklist:
- they had a high impact on American history and actually changed the path of the nation through times significant.
- they were "freedom fighters" .
   (well only from their point of view, but still get (secretly) admired by Millions of (Muslim) people on the planet
    and consider, when Islam manage to take over the world (or at least Europe first) that will here (in Europe) be the offical
    point of view)
- they represent a minority group in the American society

- the stunt piss of the political opponent to the max!


From a Southern States contemporary -at that time- kind of view the woman was a terrorist and a spy involved in planing the assult on Harper's Ferry?

Sir Slash

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April 21, 2016, 08:06:52 AM
Can't wait for SOMEBODY to say she looks like Aunt Jemima and call them, "Pancakes". "Biscuits" could work too.  :P
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airboy

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April 21, 2016, 06:31:24 PM
I found it weird that the President who railed against the banking industry and the Bank of the United States - was on the $20 bill.

bbmike

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April 21, 2016, 06:35:13 PM
Quote from: airboy on April 21, 2016, 06:31:24 PM
I found it weird that the President who railed against the banking industry and the Bank of the United States - was on the $20 bill.

Yes, but he did fire his guns even though the British kept a-comin'...
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Sir Slash

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April 21, 2016, 09:58:30 PM
Though there wasn't nie as many as there was awhile ago.
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Boggit

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April 22, 2016, 11:16:30 PM
Quote from: airboy on April 21, 2016, 06:31:24 PM
I found it weird that the President who railed against the banking industry and the Bank of the United States - was on the $20 bill.
Yep. You gotta love the irony. O0
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It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

Boggit

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April 23, 2016, 09:36:27 PM
Quote from: Con on April 20, 2016, 09:07:20 PM
I actually didnt know anything about her at all (blame my growing up overseas education).  I looked her up on Wikipedia and she was one tough woman.  I think her place on this bill is well deserved.  Cynical timing or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
Oh, I agree she is a good candidate for the reasons you gave. I still think the timing is manipulative.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

Greybriar

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April 24, 2016, 07:52:12 AM
Quote from: Boggit on April 23, 2016, 09:36:27 PM
....I still think the timing is manipulative.

Bingo!
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