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  Weekend Music Thread Play your favorite songs, share jokes and memes, maybe drink a few beers and enjoy! Someone suggested that we play some cover songs, and while I decided not to have a theme I don't mind starting things off with one of my favorite covers.  The reason why I love this cover is because of Duane Allman's guitar.  According to one story, this was supposed to be part of a solo album by Duane.  Unfortunately, he was killed before he could finish it so Johnny Jenkins laid down a vocal track and released it.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Digger’s Purpose and Standards This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise. Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators kn...

  Comply or Die: The Only Truly Compliant Person in a Police State Is a Dead One by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / April 23rd, 2021 If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you . Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. — Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department Americans aren’t dying at the hands of police because of racism. For that matter, George Floyd didn’t die  because he was black  and the cop who killed him is white. Floyd,  who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck  for more than nine minutes, died because America is being overrun with militarized cops—vigilantes with a badge—who have almost absolute discretion to decide w...

  Virginia to revamp math curriculum, CANCEL advanced courses prior to last two years of high school to force racial equity 23 Apr, 2021 21:35 Get short URL A diagram shows Virginia's new "pathway" for math curriculum designed to create more racial equality.  ©   Virginia Department of Education 26 Follow RT on There's no need to worry about that ‘racist’ trigonometry, at least in Virginia, because the state is eliminating advanced math courses for all students prior to the 11th grade, all in the name of equity. The Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI) plans over the next few years to force all students in grades six through 10 to take the same  “foundational concepts”  courses for their grade level, according to Loudoun County School Board member Ian Serotkin, who was briefed on the plan earlier this week.  ALSO ON RT.COM Parents fume as BLM campaigners subvert America’s top high schools in the name of diversity & get ‘racist’ entrance ...

  Protesters In Minneapolis George Floyd Square ‘Autonomous Zone’ List Special Rules For White Visitors By   Emily Zanotti • Apr 22, 2021    DailyWire.com • Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images George Floyd Square, the area of Minneapolis where George Floyd died last May while in the custody of Minneapolis police, has become a “cop-free” “autonomous zone,” now also has special rules for white people who turn up to honor Floyd by visiting his makeshift memorial. A sign near the entrance to the “autonomous zone” calls the area a “Sacred Space for Community, Public Grief, and Protest,” according to Fox News reporter Matt Finn , who took a photo of the flier listing guidelines for visitors. The sign “urges visitors to ‘honor the space as a place to connect and grieve as caring humans,'” but notes that white people visiting the memorial should abide by a more restrictive set of rules. White people are asked to “decenter” and “come to listen, le...