Gusty winds will continue today with mountain snow showers. A reported funnel cloud in appomattox has killed at least one person, and injured several others. 20 homes have been destroyed, and more than 100 are damaged. Wdbj7s Amanda Kenney is at one of two shelters in appomatox where volunteers are waiting to help victims. Kimberly, the appotmatox Community Shelter has cots, blankets, and pillows to keep victims comfortable. Just like the rest of the town, the shelter does not have electrcity. Theres no heat here, but the lights are staying on thanks to a generator. Wednesdays storm caused Severe Damage throughout the county. Homes are damaged, trees and power lines are down, and the electricity is out. Right now. Dominion is working to repair a damaged metering point that serves appomatox Virginia Governor Terry Mcaullife has also declared a state of emergency. That means Public Safety agencies can devote every storm response and recovery. The Virginia National guard has already soldi
Contrast to the old ones. We had people like governor pilling, senator mccain and had a great role during the 2008 president ial election. That was a lot of fun. And Christopher Walken and the scarlet johansson. So its probably more than 100 interviews. How important is saturday night live to politics or has it always been a political show lacks right in the beginning when chevy chase fell down i think its an important part of the political process every four years when theres a president ial election you look at saturday night live to see how they are going to characterize and a brand of some of the characters. Governor sarah palen told me she thought people overestimated but it may not actually materialize in the voting booth like somebody thats going to vote for mccain and appealing doesnt say im going to vote for obama and biden but its an mh of somebody like bush 41 it gives us a sense of who we are fairly or unfairly. You wrote for the Washington Post and the political town. How
It was quite a long time ago. What troubles me about 12 years a slave that as you know the free northerner from new york state who was kidnapped and taken for 12 years he argues that the cruelty is mainly the fault of the system, that you are bound to have people who will exploit civil slaves terribly if you have a system like this. He is arguing the system is very uneconomical and if you take solomon northrops views on free labor versus slave labor, he will not be able to explain why slavery in the south was so immensely productive even though they were using so much to drive the slaves on and on. That raises an interesting question. The other part of your question was about zionism. Zionism of blacks and jewish. Were you thinking of that . There is a new article in the israeli leftwing magazine which draws a distinct parallel between the treatment of palestinians today and the israelis and black slavery in the world. The author again and again draws a complete parallel and it meds th
Behalf of the center and the new york office i would like to welcome you all here for what i think is a momentous and landmark event for us, an evening honoring the launch of david brion daviss new book. I have a couple of acknowledgments and a brief introduction and then we will start the program an alternate over to the speaker. I would like to begin first of all but sending my thanks to my colleague and friend dr. Bragman who is the person who arranged or this event that brought dr. Davis in the center together i would also like to thank michelle from the publishers of the book. She is the gilda lerman institute for the help of operation in arranging this evening. I also would like to very much welcome and recognize alan and francis members of the board of trustees who have taken their time to come here this evening as well. Thank you for that. A few brief words of introduction. One of the reasons i was so glad and jumped jump at this opportunity was because this work and the work o
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