Finally successful dunking!

Not that any of them are, but we stayed in a La Quinta the other night that was very definitely not Slim-approved. IDK if that chain has gone way downhill or if this particular hotel is just about to lose their franchise, but it was bad.

Used to be that LQ was a fine option for a late-night stop. Nothing fancy, but clean and usually modern, or well refurbished if not modern. I hadn't stayed in one in years, but with the only other choices being a Super 8 and a Days Inn, we went for it. This proved to be a mistake. It was, at least, clean, though it smelled of cooking. The "maintenance," however, was like they had hired lazy vandals. The ceiling tiles in the bathroom weren't fit into their tracks, and a large portion of the ceiling in the main room was water damaged around a sprinkler head, which seems to have hit the curtains when it went off as well. The bathtub faucet leaked, and that LQ signature "light up mirror" flickered.

Oh well. Not sure what I expected from Decatur Alabama, but LQ is definitely on my "check out the reviews for this given location" list now. Like Days Inn, they seem to have no brand standards and the quality is just all over the map. Either that, or the entire brand has gone to crap since Wyndham bought the chain in 2018. IDK which.

Garick the type of dude to write a three paragraph review of a La Quinta inn in Alabama on a poker website

Cut-and-paste from my Tripadvisor review, ldo.

LQ's were never great but the chain has declined a good bit in the last 20 years.

Oddly enough I could have given you some solid hotel recommendations (Skip approved/not slim approved) for Decatur, AL. I used to cover the Huntsville area and have spent 200+ hotel nights in Decatur.

Because it was written using broad language that was later applied to all. Should also be noted that in northern states it did apply to free blacks as well. The Moors also had a treaty with us for a bit that had it apply to them as well.

So later on it became an inclusive document. But not at the beginning

Was Leviticus referenced? Isn’t that an Old Testament book, having nothing to do with Jesus?

The document never changed. People's behavior did. The document was always a weapon in the battle for freedom.

The constitution has never been amended? Are you sure


Garick is your GT score over 137?

That quote (paraphrase actually) comes from the Constitution? Are you sure?

Done engaging with you.

Pro-Slavery-Lobby has left the chat.

the Old Testament (is that the Bible?)

Why did you reference this Garick?

Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

I'm sorry. Town didn't seem to have much going for it, at least at my "drive through on Hwy 31" glance.

Apparently they have a strong lesbian community, though. We were at a bar in Montgomery while we were waiting to hear on our offer on the house, and a group of lesbians came in for their first meet-up since COVID hit. They were telling a lot of stories, and one of them was the irony of how many lesbians end up in "Dickatur."

Someone was never a road grinder.

Ancient anti-slavery voices tended to focus which people should not be enslaved such as yes for foreigners, no to countrymen. AFAIK slavery was everywhere in the ancient world so these voices were quite different from the status quo.

It would not have been that hard to found a classical blood and sand country. The document that read something like This Kingdom of the Anglo-Americans where no Englishman shall be subservient to Foreigners. If that is the country you want, you do not lead with anti-tribal language, conceived in the spirit that all men are created equal.

Thus the people condemning the Founders are against the milestone of equality in the modern world.


*Dickhater

It’s taken a decade, but finally a post from you that made me smile

and...I have my 5h chat contributor on block

There is still slavery today in much of the world. People still know it’s wrong

I was there for work so didn't give a ****.

It actually is a lot bigger place than you think. Really spread out with a decent river walk type of place.

Not going

NewAcct: I highly suggest this book: https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-.../dp/0060995068

Thread has been something else lately. Keep it up folks

Mason slid into my DMs and asked me to spice things up

BGP sounds like a good book I’ll have to check it out. Lately people have been discussing what happened to the Neanderthals? It seems like most people think they were bred away or killed off.

Knowing humans I’d say we hunted them until extinction cause we are mean mfers


Also did y’all know mfer is a racist term and I shouldn’t use it.

Before we leave I want DWC Garlick to audit my summary of the slavery non-issue at the Founding. It was a no-brainer because;

The Southern states would not have joined the North if it meant Abolition. No slavery = No American Revolution

Likewise the Southern States would not have signed the US Constitution with Abolition, it was hard enough to pass with the Great Compromise of slave = 3/5 citizen. No slavery = No United States.


I doubt genocidal extermination is possible with stone axes. If the subjugated people can breed with the dominant they eventually merge.

Slavery: it's not good folks.