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Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« on: July 29, 2018, 03:15:16 am »
Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city

By Morgan Gstalter - 07/28/18 10:37 PM EDT

A new report from Austin, Texas’s Equity Office about existing Confederate monuments suggested changing the city's name.

The report identified several neighborhoods and 10 streets named in honor of the Confederacy or William Barton, a slave owner dubbed the “Daniel Boone of Texas," that could be changed, The Austin American-Statesman reported Friday.

Austin’s namesake, Stephen F. Austin — also referred to as the "father of Texas" — opposed efforts by Mexico to abolish slavery in the Tejas province, saying freed slaves would become “vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace,” the newspaper noted.

Renaming the state’s capital would most likely require a citywide election because the name has been denoted in the city charter.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/399374-austin-city-report-on-confederate-monuments-suggests-renaming
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2018, 03:18:49 am »
 **nononono*   *****rollingeyes*****   22222frying pan
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2018, 03:33:46 am »
Where this can lead to and some probably think this way already, is to return a whole lot of the Southwest to Mexico, what do they call it? Aztlan?  I don't think that will happen for decades though, with any serious concern.  Beyond 2050.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2018, 04:40:43 am »
I wish the rest of Texas would vote to move the Capitol.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2018, 05:49:28 am »
They'll eventually scrub George Washington from everything because he was a slave owner.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2018, 04:21:01 pm »
WOW! Who knew you could change history you find to be politically inconvenient by just changing the name of a city?

HOODATHUNKIT?
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2018, 04:29:59 pm »
One small point - in the last 30, 40 years, people have moved into Austin from places other than Texas.  Austin is in a beautiful area and has many natural resources.  But, Austin/Travis County/The University of Texas at Austin has become an insular little bastion of redness.  Unfortunately we are seeing this in most big urban areas now.  Socialism thrives in cities.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2018, 05:42:51 pm »
They'll probably rename it Guevaraville.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2018, 05:51:45 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 04:29:59 pm
One small point - in the last 30, 40 years, people have moved into Austin from places other than Texas.  Austin is in a beautiful area and has many natural resources.  But, Austin/Travis County/The University of Texas at Austin has become an insular little bastion of redness.  Unfortunately we are seeing this in most big urban areas now.  Socialism thrives in cities.

John Dewey did his work very well and as a result anyone remotely conservative need not apply at a public university anywhere in this country today.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2018, 05:58:02 pm »
Maybe they'll revert to it's original name, Waterloo.

The first documented permanent settlement in the area dates to 1837 when the village of Waterloo was founded near the confluence of the Colorado River and Shoal Creek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Austin,_Texas
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2018, 06:02:27 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 29, 2018, 05:58:02 pm
Maybe they'll revert to it's original name, Waterloo.

The first documented permanent settlement in the area dates to 1837 when the village of Waterloo was founded near the confluence of the Colorado River and Shoal Creek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Austin,_Texas

Isn't that from an imperial power?
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« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2018, 06:10:50 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 06:02:27 pm
Isn't that from an imperial power?

The settlement was named in 1837, by 1836 the Texas Revolution was over and the Republic of Texas was independent.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2018, 06:29:33 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 29, 2018, 06:10:50 pm
The settlement was named in 1837, by 1836 the Texas Revolution was over and the Republic of Texas was independent.

No, I meant "Waterloo".
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2018, 06:48:00 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 06:29:33 pm
No, I meant "Waterloo".

Waterloo Texas, not Waterloo Belgium. ****slapping
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2018, 06:51:35 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 29, 2018, 06:48:00 pm
Waterloo Texas, not Waterloo Belgium. ****slapping

Yes, but....oh, nevermind.   Too hot to argue.   :beer:
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2018, 06:58:52 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 06:51:35 pm
Too hot to argue.   :beer:

You got that right! And we just had a scare. Our power went out. Thank goodness, it was only for a few minutes.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2018, 07:06:48 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 29, 2018, 06:58:52 pm
You got that right! And we just had a scare. Our power went out. Thank goodness, it was only for a few minutes.

That would be awful!  It did happen to me once last summer, and I went and got a hotel room for the night.  Too hot to sleep here.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2018, 07:12:31 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 07:06:48 pm
That would be awful!  It did happen to me once last summer, and I went and got a hotel room for the night.  Too hot to sleep here.

Growing up, we didn't have any air conditioning. Just a whole house fan. I'd sure hate to go back to that now.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2018, 07:22:15 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 29, 2018, 07:12:31 pm
Growing up, we didn't have any air conditioning. Just a whole house fan. I'd sure hate to go back to that now.

Yes, little kids seem to handle the heat better.  I'm pretty sure it would kill me now.   :cool:
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2018, 07:44:08 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 07:22:15 pm
Yes, little kids seem to handle the heat better.  I'm pretty sure it would kill me now.   :cool:

We lost power for 2 weeks from Hurricane Ike. I only had a 2.5kw generator. So no AC. We made it thru that OK. But that was in September.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2018, 08:24:48 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 29, 2018, 07:44:08 pm
We lost power for 2 weeks from Hurricane Ike. I only had a 2.5kw generator. So no AC. We made it thru that OK. But that was in September.

You're not on Entergy too, are you?
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #21 on: July 29, 2018, 09:25:20 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 08:24:48 pm
You're not on Entergy too, are you?

Nope. Centerpoint. 

At the end of the first week, there was a push to repair all the lines in my subdivision so they could power us all up. My service line angles off a pole in my neighbor's yard. Well a strain relief broke for my lines on that pole. Instead of taking a few more minutes to reattach my line to the pole, they cut my lines and powered up the rest of the neighborhood. After a few more days without power, I made up a billboard on the corner of my yard pleading for help and spelling out what Centerpoint and Georgia Power and Light had done to me. A neighbor who worked for Centerpoint came over to give him the story. I took him and showed him. He promised to send a crew over, but it took several more days. A Georgia Power and Light crew came over. They were all apologetic and fixed me up. However the crew that cut my 3 Phase lines neglected to mark the phases. When they restored my power, I checked and found they connected the Bastard Leg correctly, but crossed the other 2 legs. I sent them on their way and uncrossed it myself at the breaker box.
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2018, 10:00:53 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 29, 2018, 06:51:35 pm
Yes, but....oh, nevermind.   Too hot to argue.   :beer:

Have a cocktail. Get nekkid and sit in the pool.  It is calming. 
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
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Re: Austin city report on Confederate monuments suggests renaming city
« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2018, 01:57:31 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on July 29, 2018, 10:00:53 pm
Have a cocktail. Get nekkid and sit in the pool.  It is calming.

Would have to add ice cubes to make it tolerable.  :cool:
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