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The invasion of Poland was supposedly a counter-offensive to protect German civilians from Polish border raiders, too.
Germany had pictures of the dead bodies of the Polish border raiders in Polish military uniforms and everything.
Should we all stay indoors when there are clouds overhead because there is a risk of innocent lives being lost when there are clouds overhead to lightning strikes?
Life has risk.
Straight outta the Karl Rove playbook. Don't play defense, attack attack attack.
The Sweet Tea.
There's been too many lies from the US Government claiming some situation, like eating Gulf of Mexico shrimp now, was supposedly safe when everyone knew better.
...like reading what she just typed in? Yes. Python will let her "get away" with reading her code. ;-)
Here's a link to the Beginners Guide to Python...
Anyone seen any evidence this reporter made any attempt to continue to ask those questions at a later time. Or did she stop the interview the second she saw Newmark looked bad at the same time she yelled the questions once.
"School choice" is just the latest mask the right spin doctors have cooked up to dress up school segregation in.
Run over all resistance to right wing extremist ideas when the citizens are still reeling from a disaster and are too stunned about a child being dead or their house being gone to be thinking about advancing political agendas.
No trade unions to speak of... no middle class to speak of.
Without a legitimate threat of strikes costing business interests big money in lost profits, there's no reason for businesses to pay workers a reasonable wage for their labor.
American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all
Fine wines, lobster lunches and million-dollar salaries – life as a Wall Street shark was thrilling at first. But amid the extravagance, Philipp Meyer was sickened by a moral deficit at the heart of America’s financial system
"I’d been working for the bank for about five weeks when I woke up on the balcony of a ski resort in the Swiss Alps. It was midnight and I was drunk. One of my fellow management trainees was urinating onto the skylight of the lobby below us; another was hurling wine glasses into the courtyard.
Behind us, someone had stolen the hotel’s shoe-polishing machine and carried it into the room; there were a line of drunken bankers waiting to use it. Half of them were dripping wet, having gone swimming in all their clothes and been too drunk to remember to take them off. It took several more weeks of this before the bank considered us properly trained...."The financial markets operate on the principle that, at our core, we’re all basically shit: selfish, self-interested creatures. There’s a whole branch of economics devoted to proving that if you help someone, say, run in front of a speeding train to push another person out of the way, you are actually acting out of self-interest, not altruism; that what most of us would consider humankind’s cardinal virtues - love, honor, compassion - do not actually exist....The fact is, I became pretty good at making this argument myself. Until a roommate of mine, a guy named Mark Brewin, asked me: “So is that really what you want to be? A selfish animal?” “It’s not like we have a choice,” I said. “No,” he said. “You always have a choice. It’s just easier to pretend that you don’t.” Ouch. The strangest thing was, this thing I’d wanted for so long, this chance to become wealthy, was causing me more internal conflict than anything I’d ever done. I began writing a second novel, about a kid from the provinces who comes to Wall Street and is both drawn in and horrified by the culture of excess.
I understood it well. I put on 45 pounds in my first year at the bank, and, as you might guess, it was not from eating McDonalds. Occasionally I ate stuff like sushi, but mostly it was steak. We went to the good places like Sparks, Peter Luger’s, and the Strip House. We tended to look down on chains like Morton’s and Ruth’s Chris-they were for car dealers or stock brokers, not traders. Regardless of where we ate, we ate in quantity. My standard strategy was to order half a dozen appetisers, plus a steak and lobster, plus a few desserts and much wine as I could drink, as long it was under a few hundred dollars a bottle. Followed by a digestif, typically a 30-year-old port. There’s not any way to justify this except to say I was trying to catch up to my colleagues. We would treat those restaurants like Roman vomitoriums. And it wasn’t the food so much as the wine. Being a junior employee, I couldn’t really order bottles that cost more than a few hundred dollars, but the senior guys could get nicer stuff - Opus One, Chateau Latour. As long as we were out with a client, the bank paid. I remember being stunned the first time I saw a dinner bill for ten grand. But that was just the beginning.
What it boiled down to was austerity for everyone else and rampant consumption for ourselves. I never saw anyone literally set fire to money, but I did drink most of a bottle of 1983 Margaux ($2,000)...."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-ex...
I do not like them in my house. I do not play them with a mouse. I do not like Spam here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like Zynga Farm Spam. I do not like it, Sam-I-am.
How many states have gone down? Somalia. That's it.
Now how many corporations have gone down leaving the people who the corporation agreed to provide services to in deep trouble?
It's almost quite literally infinitely more risky to trust a corporation than it is to trust government.
The best most cost effective solution to health care is single payer government operation of the health care system. It's a tried and proven over decades to cut the cost of health care all over the rest of the industrialized world.
For some ludicrous reason, the beloved-by the British UK model of health care is called "communism" if it's even mentioned here
When did Great Britain turn communist? I completely missed that event.
If we don't get all that capital out of the trust funds of the rich and back flowing through the economy, yeah, we're headed a dystopian future.
I thought this point was particularly well though out.
No profit-driven model of an corporate military campaign to put down a native uprising would send state-of-the-art anything. They'd send on-hand dated military surplus weapons and equipment and troops to fire full auto machine guns, flamethrowers, napalm, white phosphorus rounds, field artillery, and lots of ammo.
State of the art military vs. peasant uprisings are useless. Watch the movie "Zulu Dawn" sometime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Dawn
Like the gatling guns on the front of A-10s and A-10s themselves the Air Force kept pulling out of retirement. Some situations just don't require anything more sophisticated than a gatling gun and something well armored and maneuverable to hang a gatling gun on the front of.
* 51 storm-related deaths in North Carolina, 90 on the East Coast, making this the deadliest storm sinceHurricane Agnes in 1972, where 122 died.
* 30,500 hogs, 2,000 cattle, 250 horses, 2.1 million chickens, and 737,000 turkeys lost in North Carolina.
* Four hog waste lagoons burst and 47 overflowed; 24 water treatment plants flooded.
* Over 7,000 homes were destroyed; 17,000 rendered uninhabitable, and at least 10,000 people were displaced in NC alone. Almost 70,000 people in the state applied for emergency assistance.
* Overall damage in NC exceeded six billion dollars, making it NC's most costly natural disaster ever, exceeding Hurricane Fran in 1997. New Jersey also listed Floyd as its worst natural disaster.
* Thirty-seven counties in eastern NC with a combined area of 18,000 square miles (an area twice the size of Vermont) flooded.
* Ten states were declared disaster areas...."
What it's actually like is doing the 10 to the x repeat of Newton seeing and Apple dropping an from a tree, the apple landing on the foot of a research assistant standing under the tree.
The scientist says, "Ooops, I should have told my research assistant to get out from under the tree."
While Cletus, Sarah Palin, and a few in denial friends go running off to Fox News and announce "I saw Jesus cancel gravity. It's a sign from God."