Alabama Elects Blue!!!!

Ben Reilly wrote:I'm gonna let both of our threads stand

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Doug Jones, a Democrat who once prosecuted two Ku Klux Klansmen in a deadly church bombing and has now broken the Republican lock grip on Alabama, is the state’s new U.S. senator.

Here are some facts about Jones:

CLOSE TO HOME

Jones, 63, grew up in the working-class city of Fairfield, just west of Birmingham, an area where steel mills once belched smoke that left a rust-colored haze hanging over the metro area. His father was a steelworker and so was one of his grandfathers; the other worked in a coal mine. Jones spent time working in a mill when not in school.

Now an attorney in private practice, Jones lives just a few miles from his hometown in the hilly suburb of Mountain Brook, Alabama’s richest locale with an average family income estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau at $225,000 annually.

DEMOCRATIC ROOTS

Jones got his start in government as an aide to the last Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama, the late Howell Heflin.

After graduating from Samford University’s law school in 1979, Jones worked as staff counsel to the Judiciary Committee for Heflin, and Jones still considers Heflin a role model.

Heflin cited his health in retiring from the Senate, and Republican Jeff Sessions was elected to replace him in 1996. Jones will now assume the seat vacated by Sessions when he was nominated as U.S. attorney general by Fake President Trump. Republican appointee Luther Strange has held the seat in the interim.

CHURCH BOMBING

Years before running for Senate, Jones made a name for himself prosecuting two KKK members for the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, a brutal crime that killed four black girls in 1963.

One Klansman was convicted in the blast in 1977, and a renewed investigation was underway by the time President Bill Clinton appointed Jones as U.S. attorney in Birmingham in 1997. Jones led a team of federal and state attorneys during trials that resulted in the convictions of Thomas Blanton Jr. in 2001 and Bobby Frank Cherry in 2002.

Last year, Jones was among the speakers who urged Alabama’s parole board to refuse an early release for Blanton. The board agreed, and Blanton remains in prison serving life for murder.

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smelly-bandit wrote:

Angry Andy wrote:"Fake News"
Wails Stench.

Not really

God emperor trump knew this would happen

Cass wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:I'm gonna let both of our threads stand

Ohhh snap! Same time as well. Great minds Sir. And A mighty fine victory

eddie wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

Not really

God emperor trump knew this would happen

Do you have a statue of him erected?

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:

Do you have a statue of him erected?

No, but there's some pretty good porn clips of Trump with an erection, the Russians have.  

smelly-bandit wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

No, but there's some pretty good porn clips of Trump with an erection, the Russians have.  

the same Russians you say don't pose a threat to the US and are quote unquote a paper tiger??

very convenient these Russians eh quill??

eddie wrote:

Cass wrote:

Ohhh snap! Same time as well. Great minds Sir. And A mighty fine victory

When something is good you have to say it twice.

Original Quill wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

No, but there's some pretty good porn clips of Trump with an erection, the Russians have.  

the same Russians you say don't pose a threat to the US and are quote unquote a paper tiger??

very convenient these Russians eh quill??

The Russian economy is the equivalent of Italy.  In terms of a conventional war machine, it is a paper tiger.

But a clever tiger, eh?  

Original Quill wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

the same Russians you say don't pose a threat to the US and are quote unquote a paper tiger??

very convenient these Russians eh quill??

The Russian economy is the equivalent of Italy.  In terms of a conventional war machine, it is a paper tiger.

But a clever tiger, eh?  

nicko wrote:"in terms of a conventional war machine it's a PAPER TIGER",    fOR FUCKS SAKE Quill, when it comes to war and weapons your an ignorant child !

smelly-bandit wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

The Russian economy is the equivalent of Italy.  In terms of a conventional war machine, it is a paper tiger.

But a clever tiger, eh?  

thought you wanted to reduce spending on the US military??

you wouldn't only be weakening the US military but strengthening the Russian paper tiger by default,thought you would want them to stay weakened?

Original Quill wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

thought you wanted to reduce spending on the US military??

you wouldn't only be weakening the US military but strengthening the Russian paper tiger by default,thought you would want them to stay weakened?

Nonsense.  We broke Russia's back, and showed up the paper tiger with the Star Wars Defense.  The key, militarily, is economics, not guns.

Everyone has guns.  The economy is the real weapon.  During WWII, six months in we sank four line carriers of the Japanese with two carriers, and a gimp carrier (Midway Island).  The real weapon(?): in one year we built some 25 Midway Class carriers.  Fookers didn't stand a chance.  Same with Russia.

We don't need to stockpile guns, spears and granades.  We could take all that money and build and equally great healthcare system.  The military is for the threat outside; the health system is for the threat inside.

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Original Quill wrote:

sb wrote:right

And the capacity to build 25 Essex class carriers in a single year was the strength of economics, not weaponry.  

The Germans could build the most beautiful tank in the world, the Mark II, but could only produce 262 of them.  FCS, we could turn our 25,000 Shermans a month, and though they weren't as good, that many tanks could be in more places at once.

Economics and manufacturing capacity win wars.  The military budget only supports toys-R-us for generals and admirals.