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Thanks for all these updates Eshiben5!! You rock

There is no loser when you do it right

They're still trying to change this? Good grief! People need to find time to see things that are way more offensive. Some folks complain about everything nowadays...

Smart lady! Well good luck to her in her studies and exactly I'm trying to avoid the broadcast side of things... I may have some connections in ball aerospace that I'm hoping might work out but if not its off to grad school

URGENT

Holy hell.... euro just updated... were looking at quite the event a lot more extreme than I expected

My friends in I were discussing it in class earlier and they were lowballing it at 6", now were looking at 12, with up to 20 in central VA. we came in for our second class today and I heard them discussing it. Decided to check the models again and it seems the storm track is spelling trouble for VA. Track has moved north from NC giving us a nice black color, and central VA a white color... id post the picture but I pay for the site... and I feel like that's illegal or something so ill refrain. Give me a second ill see if I can find another site...

Either way fact of the matter is Blacksburg we could be looking at 15-20" and an epic snow event. Prepare accordingly the model should zero in on the next 24 hours with what's gonna happen!

if I was Smart

nicely done

She graduated from Miami, and now... well... she doesn't have a Master's yet, and non-broadcast jobs in meteorology are few and far between for Bachelor's degree holders, so she's an oceanographer with the Navy. But she's starting grad school in the fall, hoping to become a meteorologist by trade instead of just by degree.

I love all those pancakes in the highlights... Just nickname this guy IHOP

True, but I've never seen the term Sooner as necessarily offensive to anyone in Native American Nations. Have you seen it to be? It's offensive that they were torn from their land and onto reservations to allow the Sooners to grab the land but that was an act of the government's not the Sooners.

well since you asked:

Your premise was that Congress has no authority to make this change regarding Native Americans. My point was not specifically regarding this premise, rather that Congress, and the government, in general has in our countries history made sweeping changes to the societal norms of its people. The Civil Rights Movement being my example.

Now regarding Native Americans things get particularly interesting. The constitution mentions the federal governments relationship with native Americans only a handful of times. The pertinent issues can be summarized as 1) Territorial Sovereignty, which many believe is only related to the lands they live on but in fact has been extended to the sovereign right of Native Americans on it's image an extension of their right to regulate trade. 2) Plenary Power, in that Congress (and not the other branches of government) has the right, responsibility and ultimate authority to all matters regarding Native Americans. This is why this article says Congress and not Senate. and, 3) a Trust Relationship, whereby the federal government has a "duty to protect" the Native American Nations.

The Trust Relationship is precisely what was used when the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights pressured schools to change mascots previously, and precisely how they can pressure the Redskins to do so now if they so choose to.

With regards to those changes by universities many argued about other potentially offensive names like the Fighting Irish showed you could have an Native American mascot, but the Trust Relationship proved that Congress had the right to push these schools to change. They also created an investiture consideration to mascot names and imagery, so that the Fighting Irish argument could not be used. Meaning, since there is a vast majority of Irish Catholic's involved in Notre Dame that they had the right to use that name. And thus and Native American school can use a Native American mascot if they so wish, or as with the Seminoles consent of its use outside of their territory.

Congress can tell the Redskins to change and they would have to change.

Oh, my point was just the play in Landover, which is when the dumpster fires typically occur (on the football field).

But Congress has made it so Difficult for the Klan to "conduct business" through various civil rights statutes and laws that they have indeed created social change.