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Anti/slavery crusader Harriet Tubman will command the $20 dollar bill
Anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman will become the first African-American to be featured on the face of US paper currency when she replaces President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. She will also be the first woman on US paper currency in more than a century. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesFascinating..........
Apr 24th, 2016 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anybody heard Guatamala massing troops on Belize border?
Looks like Lybia might have to wait.
TWIMC
Apr 24th, 2016 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quite a change for the twenty!
From a sadistic* slave owner presidemt to a americoon Calpurnia...
* (“Ten dollars extra for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of threehundred.”)
A. J.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#/media/File%3AAndrewJackson-RewardNotice-EscapedSlave-1804.png
I highly doubt it will happen after a new Prez takes over.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The racists will be grabbing their guns and 13 loop nooses to the streets. Civil war part two. But this time I see the conservatives winning. They already have a thriving sex slave market, why not a labor slave market? Oh, wait, with the wages earned in the USA, they already almost have a labor slave market.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder why “conservatives” get such a bad rap when its the “liberals” that are so bitter, angry and racist?
Apr 24th, 2016 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So strange.
Depending on what state that you might live in, it should not be a wonder to the educated or normal minded poorly educated American. What is that saying? If one person calls you a horse you ignore it, if two people call you .........You likely do not know it, but perhaps it is time to purchase a saddle.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Western or English?
6. Translation fail.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is that suppose to be a European phrase? Try harder.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Communication fail.
No that means your post #6 is unintelligible.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems like you had a translation fail on Google.
Or maybe you can't write in English.
You claim to be an American with English as your primary(only) language. Perhaps it is YOU who should learn English. Ask any English about American English.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You do know the 3 largest languages spoken in this world, do you not? And, if my English is not good enough for you to understand, I can at least say it is not my primary language, what will you use as an excuse? Also, if you cannot understand what I am saying in English, I would have to assume you have such a narrow mind corridor to understand others, no?
Do all Americans laugh at others second, third and fourth languages when they themselves can barely speak their own language properly, or just you and your kind?
Since English is the current lingua franca there's no reason to learn another.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A little piece of free advice, if you're going to attempt (poorly) to write in English you should know that there's a lot of people who may not want to waste their time cyphering out what you're trying to say. They'll just laugh and walk away.
Advice from someone who admires the concept of a devil?
Apr 24th, 2016 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That makes sense. If you can't understand what I am saying, I am more convinced that it is your comprehension skills based on the American education system, if that's what you call it these days.
Do you know that 30% of Americans believe is responsible for 9/11?
30% believe the bible is true history?
30% believe the bible is true history?
30% do not believe in evolution and the earth is 6,000 years old?
30% believe that FaceBook is a news sources?
Who really cares what you think because this is your life. As I seldomly post here, you live here. Day in and day out this is your life. Your friends must be so abundant that you have but no alternatives to turn for a social outlet. Think what you may, opinions are free and actions are reality. One thing I do know, that you make Americans look poorly educated, arrogant and egocentric. I hope you get trump as a president, but the reality is most likely that after W, the GOP will never see the white house for some time to come. Make sure that you post the day after the elections.
Good day,
PE
the 2nd amendment is your only bill or rights that as not been abused.
30% of any population is dumb.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what's your point?
How many people read that post before it became intelligible?
Good that you're taking my advice.
#12
Apr 24th, 2016 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you know that 30% of Americans believe is responsible for 9/11?
Can we have this in English please .
Thank you for stating my point! Obviously you are in that 30%! Of course, dumb people do not know that there are dumb, take lucifer, case in point.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-know-surprisingly-little-about-their-government-survey-finds/
Fortunately for Trump there are more than enough dumb americans to get him close, but no cigar.
I didn't make a point for you. Your reading comprehension is not too good either.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You could do that survey in any country and come up with the same stats.
You're really having a hard time here buddy.
You'd probably be better served in a Spanish forum.
lol....you are funny. I always enjoy when I can laugh at Americans, especially their assumptions. Assuming I am having a hard time and to assume I am spanish in nature. What I am doing is giving the posters here a show with lucifer the unknowing guest of honor.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course you did not make my point equally your name does not represent evil.
I assumed you were Spanish because English is not your first language.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There's a lot of Latams here.
Care to clarify?
Clarify? As you do?
Apr 24th, 2016 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shall we engage in 20 questions? You are seeking information on my while you remain anonymous. You start with your residential state and I will provide mine.
Of course Obummer got his way and put the ugliest African they could find on the bill. For sure there will be a multitude of people who refuse to accept these notes at a checkout counter.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0divert, divert, divert...help, help......divert.
Apr 24th, 2016 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 020 questions?
TWIMC
Apr 24th, 2016 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A much better picture of Mme. Tubman for that new Yankee bill...:
http://media.vogue.com/r/h_1320,w_1320/2016/04/22/harriet-tubman-memes.jpg
Chuckle chuckle...
1 Englander (#)
Apr 24th, 2016 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anybody heard Guatamala massing troops on Belize border?
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No not heard nothing yet.
With this dollar bill , I presume we will see this in more US films,
???????????
You know, when they refer to a name on the bill rather than its value,
just saying like.
Your link doesn't work, Think.
Apr 25th, 2016 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dany Berger,
Who cares what the Americans put on their money?
lts good hard solid currency & if anyone refuses to take it because they don't like some ones picture, then they should forfeit the right to possess said banknote.
Reminds me of a story l heard of a diehard Afrikaner who refused to accept the new Botswanan banknotes because they had a blackman on them.
What a dipstick. Money is money & the Pula was/is(?)a stable currency.
Don't know what happened to the fool.
Maybe he was deported.
(24) Isolde, dahling...
Apr 25th, 2016 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are quite helpless for a (home) naval engineer to be..., aren't you?
Lack of intellectual challenges on them windblown Islands..., posting before having your first cup of coffee in the morning... or just playing the old feminine card?
1) If a link (you are interested in seeing) doesn't work, you just cut/copy and paste it to your browser text window or Google nd... Voilà....!
2) It is Anglo Turnip Klingon at (20) you should direct your philippic at...
Not German Danny Berger...
My regards to Mr. I
El Think
Think Turnip, sweetness & light, you are just hopeless at most things, aren't you?
Apr 25th, 2016 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why should l do extra work because of your ineptitude & laziness?
But you are right as per my remarks to dear old Dany Turnip.
Poor lad, probably crying now hes been blamed for what he didn't do!
lt was indeed M Klingdon who said what l thought Dany had said.
l'll just go out into the storm & kill myself.
Or have some more coffee.
Mr I won't even acknowledge your existence.
Don't be silly, chère Isolde...
Apr 25th, 2016 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't go out into the storm and kill yourself...
You still have a couple of good years before turning 40....
Besides..................... Without you................ Who would feed the cat...?
Ugh... Think you make my skin crawl sometimes. It's like seeing an old man with his hand down his pants at the local swimming pool.
Apr 25th, 2016 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@28
Apr 25th, 2016 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0damn you... now, that's what I'll always visualize when he posts on MP
Well Skip...that's Australia for you...I have never ever seen a man, old or otherwise at a local swimming pool with his hand down his pants....
Apr 26th, 2016 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0You have some strange thoughts...
29
Visualise....
Of course you haven't Voice. Doesn't mean people haven't seen you.
Apr 26th, 2016 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Allegories are just lost on some people.
Allegories based on your....shall we say, vivid imagination...or is it experience....
Apr 26th, 2016 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(30) & (32)
Apr 26th, 2016 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)))
Weak one, voice.
Apr 26th, 2016 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 030. I heard they have lots of problems with the peaceful Muslims in German pools. Seems to be okay in their peaceful culture to rape young boys now and again if its an emergency
Apr 26th, 2016 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Merkel has done her people a great disservice and it may be the key reason the Euro breaks apart.
l never thought that the German government would drop so low.
Apr 26th, 2016 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On par with the PC ldiots in the UK.
lts all planned, whoever planned it required a certain amount of muslims & have let that many through & now slammed the gate shut(Greek-Macedonian border).
lts like drafting cattle.
I'll leave the interpretation up to you Voice.
Apr 26th, 2016 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems you are more interested in the allegory than the meaning. As I said, “allegories are just long on some people”.
Your allegory is meaningless...Skip
Apr 26th, 2016 - 11:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...you assume Mr. Think is old...because he says so...
...you assume that Isolde is young...because she says so...
I bet you believe that YB has a very high IQ...because he says so...
I'm inclined to believe nothing until proven...
All I see is a bit of reciprocal banter passing forth between two posters of indeterminate ages...
@37 Skip
Apr 26th, 2016 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Seems you are more interested in the allegory than the meaning”
In fact, voice seems oddly fascinated by the image.
...and you always seem oddly fascinated by Skip....;-))))
Apr 26th, 2016 - 11:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@40 ... you're always jealous when anyone but you is getting attention.... !
Apr 26th, 2016 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am fascinating. But anyway......
Apr 26th, 2016 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Your allegory is meaningless...Skip”
No it isn't. That is just your opinion. So it would be correct to say that to you my allegory is meaningless.
“...you assume Mr. Think is old...because he says so...”
He has actually claimed this more than once. Why should I disbelieve him. If he doesn't want to be known as old he shouldn't say he is.
“...you assume that Isolde is young...because she says so...”
I have never assumed this.
“I bet you believe that YB has a very high IQ...because he says so...”
YB is far from stupid but far from smart.
“I'm inclined to believe nothing until proven...”
That is your right. I am not impinging on that right. However on an anonymous forum you must take some things at face value. For instance I have never once doubted that your in Scotland. What would I gain by doubting this? If you aren't then that is a reflection on you not me.
“All I see is a bit of reciprocal banter passing forth between two posters of indeterminate ages...”
Indeed that may be all you see. It is what you fail to see or choose to ignore that is more telling.
I'm waiting for voice's fascinating riposte...
Apr 27th, 2016 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Naw...
“All I see is a bit of reciprocal banter passing forth between two posters of indeterminate ages...”
Apr 27th, 2016 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0...is the only fact that is undoubtedly true...
Yes, all you see is a fact..... I didn't claim otherwise.
Apr 27th, 2016 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sooo....your allegory is based on what you believe....
Apr 27th, 2016 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0and my statement is factual and undoubtedly true....
Glad we cleared that up.....
:-)))
Apr 27th, 2016 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed!
Apr 27th, 2016 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0I imagine that Jackson's demotion pleases the British. Jackson was, after all, the general who so totally whipped the British.
Apr 28th, 2016 - 02:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0@49 Hepatia,
Apr 28th, 2016 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Only immature twats like you, dwell on such things.
It's been 240 years...
240 years..... LOL
Apr 28th, 2016 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@49 Hepatia,
Apr 28th, 2016 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0What the Americans call the “War of lndependence” & what we know as rebellion of people who didn't want to pay their fair share of a defence tax or perhaps a British civil war was actually a British domestic quarrel that has got nothing to do with late-comer Latinos such as yourself. Kindly keep your snout out.
And as for being “whipped”, the colonists were not doing too well until the French(Spanish & Dutch) helped them.
After all the rebellion had been going on for about 4 or 5 years before the French came to America's aid.
And as a lot of Americans don't like the French, l am baffled by this.
More anti-British hate from Hepatia.
lt must really fester, ay Hepatia, that we flogged your ass in 1982?
Love l♥
#49
Apr 28th, 2016 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0As one of the Daughters of the Revolution I am sure that this is one of your proudest moments. 240 years and still crowing.
How about this one to balance the books
history.com/this-day-in-history/massachusetts-begins-ill-fated-penobscot-expedition.
A small British force whipped a superior US naval force and army. The worst US naval defeat until Pearl Harbour.
Hardly anyone in the UK knows about this and would care even less.
Ancient history with no relevance today. It's only childish, ignorant bums like you, feeding on your own petty prejudices who could think of a remark like yours.
LatAms love to bring up ancient history like it's somehow valid today.
Apr 28th, 2016 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0@53 Clyde15,
Apr 29th, 2016 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hepatia tries to masquerade as an American but he/she/it is really an Argentine.
#55
Apr 29th, 2016 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would go with “it”! There was more than a bit of sarcasm in my post!
She doesn't even write like an American.
Isolde,
Apr 29th, 2016 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Flogged AR's ass last year, as the Falklands ice hockey team won the SA int'l tournament!!
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/24/anti-slavery-crusader-harriet-tubman-will-command-the-20-dollar-bill#comment439088: The War of Independence!? We are talking of Andrew Jackson, no George Washington. Despite that I am told that you British do not study American History at school I continue to be surprised and shocked at how little you know about the US.
Apr 30th, 2016 - 01:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or, as occurs to me as I write, are you actually referring to Jackson and his torture as a child by the British. And the death of his family caused by the British and leaving him an orphan. Given the psychopathic and sadistic nature of British culture I am inclined towards this interpretation.
I do not, as you claim, hate the British. I consider the British only in the context of US national interests. And in that context the British are freeloaders. They are bums. They are unworthy of being an ally of the US. They should be dumped. And their incessant lobbying and whining aimed at entangling the US should be rejected. And the same goes for the rest of NATO.
While writing this post I recalled a day that, as a young woman, I drove south east out of NOLA with a song, then at the top of the chart, playing on the radio. The words of the song included:
“They ran through the briers.
And they ran through the brambles.
And they ran through the bushes.
Where a rabbit wouldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch them.
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.”
I've not heard this tune in such a long time now so I did a quick search. And this came up:
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/24/anti-slavery-crusader-harriet-tubman-will-command-the-20-dollar-bill#comment439088:
So, enjoy.
Worst attempt at wedging I've seen on here.
Apr 30th, 2016 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0And by an Argentinean who prefers to live in a post-colonial construct of the British rather than the Spanish.
@58 Hepatia,
Apr 30th, 2016 - 08:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Quite impressive. Did you get an American to write this for you?
So now you are talking about the War of 1812-1814 which the Americans definitely did NOT win although l've no doubt that they teach them that they did.
1) the Americans tried to invade Canada & failed.
2) the British burned America's capitol city.London was not even threatened.
3) both sides won individual battles, but the best British troops were busy fighting Napoleon & the British troops fighting in the Battle of New Orleans were garrison troops who had been at Capetown for ten years & had never fought a battle before.
Against woodsmen who knew the area, they didn't do too badly.
4) the Royal Navy blockaded the American coast & ruined American trade.
5) And then when the major battles against Napoleon were almost over & the British Government got ready to send seasoned troops to America, the Americans quickly sued for peace.
l would say that on the whole WE won the War of 1812, not the USA.
We went on to get ourselves an Empire & were never again seriously threatened by America until 1945.
Although they had plans in the 1930s
Really Hepatia, you should not get your facts from Hollywood or silly country music.
But anyway, why should all this bother you, an Argentine?
#60
Apr 30th, 2016 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you heard this record the chances are you are in your dottage....as your post reveals. It was in the UK charts in 1959 by Lonnie Donegan and Johnny Horton. So that puts you well into your 70's
You are not worth the effort of replying seriously. I could tear your diatribe apart with FACTS....not rubbish from your demented imagination.
Your main aim is to start a rift between UK/US posters with your embittered hatred of the UK.
Are you related to our geriatric Think or an amalgamation of the Argie Troll hate machine ?
I suppose your next post will be something about 25 years ?
By the way, did you read the article about Penobscot ?
@61 Clyde,
Apr 30th, 2016 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0l think that Hepatia would make an ideal wife for Think.
They are so much alike that one could almost say that they are the same person……
No that couldn't be right. Could it??
The hatred runs deep in both(?)of them.
lt must really grip their brain(?)that we flogged their ass in 1982.
l'm glad, l revel in it.
They are both losers from a loser country.
Please try it again amigos, so we can flog your asses again.
l have relations in the states(US Citizens)& l'm convinced that Hepatia is no American. The relations agree with me.
As soon as l get off this F.R.E.D.(Flaming Ridiculous Electronic Device), l will look up Penobscot.
Cheers, Clyde15.
l'll read about
So Hep is a Southern Redneck with a fondness for Country Music....
Apr 30th, 2016 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah that figures...
I prefer these lyrics...
Run Dolley – run Dolley – Run! Run! Run!
Run Dolley – run Dolley – Run! Run! Run!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Goes the British guns.
Run, Dolley, run, Dolley, run.
63. How would you know anything about the USA? I doubt you've ever been here.
Apr 30th, 2016 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The British arrogance, stupidity and 2,000 years of rape, incest, pillage, invasions and let's not forget abuse of the man without a title, aka.....commoner, can never be over stated. The best Era of the middle ages was the plagues. I wonder how many millions of Europeans died in the name of the biggest plague known as royalty. But that is history right? Ok, 2 suggestions to the current Brits.........showers and dentists. If I may a 3rd.......soap.
Apr 30th, 2016 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hehehe.........nothing like shining a light up the Brits dirty Olde Arses.
Without Europe you wouldn't exist where you do....
Apr 30th, 2016 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is that an Irish name you have adopted...yup I think it is....
@65 “Will Ferrell”
Apr 30th, 2016 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uh, oh, it looks like “Sussie” aka “Ron 57”
is back - along with his signature pederasty
The real Will Ferrel is intelligent and amusing....this miserable ersatz copy is an uneducated buffoon who has nothing worth saying but does so anyway.
Apr 30th, 2016 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He also seems to have an anal fixation....is this an Argie trait ?
Plagues ? If I remember correctly the “clap” was brought back from the Americas by Spanish sailors.
As to Royalty causing deaths, so did the French revolution, the years when Cromwell ruled and not forgetting the plague of the Spanish inquisition, persecution of the Huguenots, the Ottoman Empire in Europe etc.
Unless you are of Chinese or Indian extraction you are an inferior by-product of Europe. Enjoy your lowly status...it's all you have. Staring like a child in a sweet shop window and knowing that you are getting nothing. Boo Hoo.
@68 Clyde15,
Apr 30th, 2016 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The standard of our opposition is exceedingly low.
Think, Hepatia & now this new(?)joker, Will-Ferrell.
lts easy to dismantle their lies.
Whats happened to that idiot, DanyBerger? hes been quiet lately.
Haven't heard a peep from loser Marcos either.
Must be their days off at the RG Ministry for Disinformation.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/24/anti-slavery-crusader-harriet-tubman-will-command-the-20-dollar-bill#comment439317: This from a person who does not know the difference between President George Washington and President Andrew Jackson. You are so ignorant and xenophobic that you lack the confidence to comment about America at all. And, like most incompetent people, you lack the competence to appreciate just how incompetent you are.
May 02nd, 2016 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0@70 hepatitia
May 02nd, 2016 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's deep. Really deep... :-l
#70
May 02nd, 2016 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0And, like most incompetent people, you lack the competence to appreciate just how incompetent you are.
I take it that this is self criticism.
@70 Hepatia,
May 02nd, 2016 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0lncompetent, shimcompetent. yebo.
l'm pretty sure that l have a better grasp of……just about everything much, much more than you.
lts obvious that you know very little about American history.
You knew sod all facts about 1812 for a start. snigger.
Stick to your ridiculous 25 years rant.
Bet you know a lot about Argentine history, though Heppy, old girl?
Like how we thrashed your useless army in 1982.
And how your “brave” marines took off when they heard that the Gurkhas were coming.
Fancy a rematch? no thought not.
Ah well.
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