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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Obama SOTU 2010 redux: “Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in
innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by
removing its engine. It may feel like you're flying high at first, but it
won't take long before you'll feel the impact.” Ignores entitlements that
are majority of budget and all of the deficit
Obama doesn’t want to cut overspending by the government. He barely paid
cutting spending lip service at his SOTU address. Instead, he focused more
on new spendin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 By M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.
Over the past few years, numerous hearings have already been conducted on
Capitol Hill, in both the House and Senate, looking into domestic Islamist
terrorism and ‘radicalization'. Unfortunately, those hearings garnered
little attention and few tangible results - because they avoided discussing
the root causes. Those hearings instead focused only on "violent extremism"
a useless concept addressing a symptom and not the disease. Up to now the
combined efforts of the force... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Mark Steyn：卡恩事件并不仅仅是一出性侵犯丑闻，从中我们还可以看出后繁荣时代的
西方社会中，政府官僚阶层和他们的管理对象之间越来越大的鸿沟
Mark Steyn: The unzippered princeling and the serving wench
May 20, 2011|By MARK STEYN
Back when he was still the officially designated Next President of France
and not an accused rapist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was glimpsed at the annual
IMF soccer tournament wearing a T-shirt emblazoned "YES, WE KAHN!" (
Monsieur le directeur was not participating in the game: The field he likes
to play requires more horizontal exertions,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Stupid: Flavored milk banned in LA schools, but continue to serve fruit
juices containing larger amounts of sugar
From the AP via The Detroit News: Flavored milk no longer a choice in L.A.
schools
The Los Angeles Unified School District is taking a stand against child
obesity, becoming the nation's largest school system to stop serving sugar-
laden flavored milk.
The school board on Tuesday voted to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk
from schools as of July 1.
It will do nothing because the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 By Noel Sheppard | June 21, 2011 | 00:59
Unless you've been hibernating somewhere, you know that conservative author
Ann Coulter has a new book out called "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is
Endangering America."
In an email interview with NewsBusters, Coulter talked about her book,
liberals, and other subjects including how the "MSM is both part of the mob
and inciters of the mob. That’s with the exception of Ed Schultz, whom I’m
pretty sure is an extraterrestrial":
NOEL SHEPPARD: You’ve got a new... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By Monty Pelerin
The number of Obama supporters seems inversely related to his time in office
. Many wonder what happened to "The One We Are Waiting For."
Obama assumed office in difficult economic times. After a couple of years
of excuses -- which included "the problems were worse than we knew" and the
generic, all-purpose "it's Bush's fault" -- Obama now owns the original
problems and new ones of his own doing. An incomplete report card on his "
accomplishments" would include the following:... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 The spenders are negotiating among themselves how much debt they’re going
to burden you with.
There is something surreal and unnerving about the so-called “debt ceiling
” negotiations staggering on in Washington. In the real world, negotiations
on an increase in one’s debt limit are conducted between the borrower and
the lender. Only in Washington is a debt increase negotiated between two
groups of borrowers.
Actually, it’s more accurate to call them two groups of spenders. On the
one side are O... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 By Robert Oscar Lopez
As Mike Bates at NewsBusters points out, gay-themed news stories have
reached an absurd prominence lately. He was flummoxed by the amount of time
devoted by Don Lemon (CNN) to same-sex marriages in New York:
Lemon devoted most of the hour-long program to stories of men marrying men
and women marrying women. Less than ten minutes were spent on a potential
debt ceiling deal in Washington. The Norwegian tragedy warranted about four
minutes of air time.
It has been almost a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By Peter Wilson
President Obama has suggested in his last 147 television appearances that he
inherited the national debt from President Bush, who squandered the Clinton
surplus with his "tax cuts for the rich" and his unnecessary wars.
Now someone at whitehouse.gov, apparently not an accountant or an economist,
has put together an "infographic" that assigns hard numbers to these vague
assertions, explaining in detail how "$12.7 Trillion [was] Added to the Debt
Over the Last Decade." The graphi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 August 1, 2011 | Posted by Rick Rice
The race card is played once again:
“Tar Baby” — from time to time, this ugly racially charged phrase has
come up in our political discourse. Most often, the term is applied to a
situation or a thing. John McCain, for example, used it to describe divorces
. Likewise, Mitt Romney used it to describe the Big Dig. In both instances,
the Republican leaders apologized for using such a loaded word — even
though they hadn’t used it to describe an actual person.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 884 | 11 It is absolutely OK to have rich class here. But their tax rate should be
similar to middle class, if not higher...at least can not be much lower than
middle class. It is absurd.
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 by Gary Bauer
08/15/2011
The Left, as is its habit, is blaming the violent rioting spreading across
England and the United States on poverty, economic inequality and looming
government budget cuts.
But as usual, the conventional liberal wisdom has it exactly backwards. The
lawlessness is a result not of too little government but rather of overly
indulgent governments and collapsing families.
In London and other parts of England, young rioters have set hundreds of
fires, looted and destroyed hu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 By Matthew Vadum
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more
benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are
particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.
It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive
segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precise... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 By J.R. Dunn
Obama is finished. It's not so much the past six weeks, rough as they were,
as his own actions and responses that have finished him. His showdown with
Congress over the debt limit, which he then ran away from. His
bewilderment at the fact that markets responded to that level of stress with
a serious slump. The lousy job numbers, which anybody but Obama and his
kept economists could have predicted. His insistence on his precious
vacation at a time when the country was deeply sha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 by Kyle
The Occupy Wall Street movement has gotten a lot of press lately. Basically,
the movement amounts to a mass of people who are pissed off about the
direction the country is taking and have decided to set up shop not only
near Wall Street but all over the nation. And that’s fine, so far as it
goes. I understand and share some of their frustrations. But what I don’t
particularly like is their approach. Who exactly are they trying to
influence? Congress? State governments? Then why are they ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 16 The meeting actually lasted forty-five minutes, and Jobs did not hold back.
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” Jobs told Obama at the outset.
To prevent that, he said, the administration needed to be a lot more
business-friendly. He described how easy it was to build a factory in China,
and said that it was almost impossible to do so these days in America,
largely because of regulations and unnecessary costs.
Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was
hopelessly an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 By KAREL JANICEK AND VANESSA GERA, Associated Press
December 14, 2011
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Of all the twists in Europe's debt crisis one of the
oddest must be this: Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans, long the
recipients of massive amounts of Western aid, are being asked to contribute
to an emergency fund for indebted Western European states.
That plan, decided at a European Union summit Friday, is sparking resistance
— and some outrage — from eastern Europeans who see a huge injusti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 December 17, 2011
By Matt Palumbo
There are many myths that proponents of socialized medicine commonly use to
advance their cause. One thing that is true, however, is that rising costs
are a major flaw in the current system. In due time, this problem could
well constitute a "crisis."
There are many different ways to combat rising costs: rationing and price
controls, increasing subsidies to health care (and thus further masking
costs), or market competition. Rationing has its obvious consequen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21367 | 19 nah, i don't expect santa claus
i am just explaining situation to you
you cannot be benefited from yelling "you lie" to those global warming
activists
because millions of people ARE making money from this scientific absurdity.
you yell and vote and change an officer, that's all you can do. but the new
officer will still act according to the rules of capitalism regardless of
his
promises in campaign. that's it.
i completely agree with you that concluding anthropic global warming is an
outright li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Modified: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 5:09pm PST
The Kaiser strike that promised to be the largest walkout in the company’s
history — wasn’t.
More than 21,000 nurses, mental health providers, optical workers and others
were called to strike Kaiser Permanente Tuesday, but far fewer appeared
to have shown up at the picket lines by the middle of the day.
The numbers remain in dispute, however.
Two-thirds of the Kaiser nurses in Northern California crossed the picket
line, Kaiser said.
“Nonsense,”... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 巴马带来的改变：“只有在今天的华盛顿，才有总统绕过自己宣称的不许雇用游说人的
禁令，雇用游说公司的老板”
By Dana Milbank, Published: March 6
Three years into his presidency, Barack Obama has finally overcome his pesky
, puritanical aversion to K Street.
As a candidate, Obama pledged that lobbyists “will not run my White House.
” But on Monday, the president brought in one of this town’s most
prominent lobbyists to run his White House — or at least a nice piece of it.
Ricchetti achieved this feat — getting around the ban on lobbyists serving
in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 by Sarah Palin on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:41pm ·
The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to
grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our
President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all
every day and must be addressed.
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President
Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for
any office, but I’m more than happy to acc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Newt Slams the President as a member of the “Flat Earth, Sierra Club
Society.”
Earlier today Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland,
President Obama claimed that anyone attacking his absurd reliance on wind
power and algae to solve our massive energy problems are members of the “
Flat Earth Society.”
Obama even went so far as to attack “one of my predecessors,” Rutherford B
. Hayes who Obama quotes as saying that telephones are great but “who would
want to use them”? “This is why h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Hollywood’s Vision of Conservatives: Nasty, Filled With Hate, And Near
Psychotic
April 5, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Aaron Sorkin is about to unleash his vision of what conservatives and
Republicans are like in a new HBO series called The Newsroom and it ain’t
going to be pretty. It seems like more proof that liberal Hollyweirders don
’t know anything about conservatives. They are all Pauline Kaels now.
The premise of the series gives us a famous, trusted, objective, unbiased
cable network new... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 No, Left-Wingers, the ‘Founders’ Did NOT Approve of Mandates or Obamacare
April 16, 2012 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Every few weeks leftist supporters of Obamacare will float the “fact” that
our founders passed the first “national healthcare law” claiming that
this supports Obamacare. The truth is, though, the history they claim
supports them doesn’t in any way prove that the founders would approve of
mandates in general or Obamacare in particular.
This failed historical analogy is once again... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Mark Steyn is unmasking the idiot memes we're told are important by Obama's
supporters:
AxelrodA couple of days ago, Obama campaign top dog David Axelrod threw
in the towel on the dog war. "I thought it was a little absurd to talk about
what the President had done as a 10-year-old boy," he sniffed to MSNBC's
Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will
ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in
the history of the Republic. For t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Cuisines from My Stepfather
By Mark Steyn
April 28, 2012 4:00 A.M.
A couple of days ago, Obama-campaign top dog David Axelrod threw in the
towel on the dog war. “I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what
the president had done as a ten-year-old boy,” he sniffed to MSNBC’s
Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will
ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in
the history of the republic. For those coming late to the feud, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 Look--nothin' up my sleeve, presto! In a typical exercise of Old Media "
ethics," Vogue erased from the Internet its embarrassing puff piece on the
wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
In 2011, to much international derision, Vogue published "The Rose of the
Desert," a puff piece on Asma al-Assad, the wife of the dictator.
Unfortunately for Vogue, almost immediately after the piece was published
that February, the whole Assad facade began to crumble in a most precipitous
way as the revolts a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 May 23, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
The Washington Post published a long Op Ed by a pair of think tankers
pretending at both being “centrists” and offering an unbiased analysis of
why politics has gotten so “partisan” these days. The pair also claim they
know how to end this messy partisanship. But what they wrote is a perfect
example of why things have become so polarized, not an example of how to fix
anything.
The authors, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, published theirs
headlined, “Wa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years
of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the
New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic
party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the
American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The
issue remains as fresh as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama
is trying to move the United States toward European-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 June 16, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
A young Maryland boy named Joshua Eisner, 14, committed suicide early in
June. He used a reproduction civil war era black powder rifle to do it. Now
his father is launching an ill-advised and unnecessary drive to force more
gun laws on Marylanders, pushing an idea he wants called “Joshua’s law.”
According to his obituary, young Joshua was interested in music and history,
the latter being why he owned the old-style firearm. News reports say that
he left no no... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Thomas Sowell
Jul 04, 2012
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political
life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often,
Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmosphere, and start
forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who
trusted them to do right by them, to use their wisdom instead of their
cleverness.
President Bush 41 epitomized these betrayals when he broke his "read my lips
, no new taxes" ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 By: John Hayward
8/16/2012 10:17 AM
President Obama loves to tout the General Motors bailout as the signature “
achievement” of his presidency, even though current taxpayer losses on the
deal are estimated at over $25 billion. The exact degree to which the rest
of us got soaked so Obama could give GM to his union allies changes
constantly as the value of the stock held by We the People fluctuates. You
don’t remember being asked if you would like to become a GM stockholder and
willingly acc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 By Michael F. Haverluck
A lawsuit that challenges the placement of the cross at the site of the 9/11
attack on the World Trade Center alleges atheist plaintiffs have suffered
serious physical and mental illness because the religious symbol has made
them feel excluded.
Nonsense, says a new friend-of-the-court brief to be filed Monday in the
case by the American Center for Law and Justice. The brief, which carries
the signatures of more than 100,000 people, argues there have been no known
sighting... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1773 | 35 Just heard from NPR today, some school districts would raise employees'
salary dramatically right before their retirement to increase the amount of
pension they would get. How absurd. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 CNN Hides Facts: Cairo Riots Not About ‘Offensive’ American Movie, But
Freedom of Blind Sheik The Goal
September 14, 2012
Just before the crowd in Cairo, Egypt erupted in violence against the U.S.
embassy there, CNN’s cameras were in the capital interviewing protesters
who said that the main purpose for their protest was to have Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman (known as the ‘Blind Sheik’) released from a U.S. prison. Yet
as soon as the riots began, CNN began to push the false story that the
riots were ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1637 | 37 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-14/mitt-romney-s-worst-we
Mitt Romney’s Worst Week Ever: Three Explanations
Mitt Romney has been under siege this week, not just from reporters but from
some fellow Republicans. His troubles have three main sources.
First, the candidate himself. One example suffices here: his perplexing
failure, many years ago when he first decided to run for president, to move
his fortune out of Switzerland and the Caribbean, two places synonymous with
financial subterfuge,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 by Jammie
Fresh off a four-year investigation into Sarah Palin’s uterus, Andy
Sullivan now has done has an in-depth look at his own colon. How’s the view
up there, Andy?
As the fall has turned crisper, a second term for Barack Obama has
gotten likelier. This may, of course, change: the debates, the Middle East,
the unemployment numbers could still blow up the race. At this point in 2004
, one recalls, George W. Bush was about to see a near eight-point lead
shrivel to a one-state nail-biter b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Government-funded film critics do grotesque damage to freedom of speech.
By Mark Steyn
I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the American flag, and very
attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a federal republic is the
single “O” logo symbolizing the great gaping maw of spendaholic
centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs,
eerily mimicking the bloody finger streaks left on the pillars of the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi as its staff were dragged out by ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Obama Spokeswoman Fears Obama Will Be Too Professorial For Low-Information
Voters in Debates
by Jammie
Boy, these Obama hacks are spinning furiously in advance of the debate this
week. The latest schtick has him being so dazzlingly brilliant the great
unwashed out there will be unable to fully digest his magnificence.
“[W]hat the American [people] are looking for is not just a
professorial list of facts or accomplishments or even goals,” Obama
campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 By Patrick Goodenough
October 12, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – When it comes to foreign policy portions of Thursday night
’s debate, both Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Rep.
Paul Ryan made assertions that were not strictly accurate. Among them:
IRAN
Biden: “Iran is more isolated today than when we took office. It was on the
ascendancy when we took office. It is totally isolated.”
Biden: “The ayatollah … [presumably supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]
sees the world for the first t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 October 28, 2012 |
by Dan Karipides
Near where I grew up in Ohio there was a town called Hamilton. Fair or not,
Hamilton was a town that was not known for much. Or rather, it was that town
you were kinda glad you weren’t from. The was even a sign in the style of
the Hollywood sign along the banks of a river that cut through the town that
was something of a local joke. Back in 1986, the powers that be decided
they needed something to make Hamilton special. Their big decision? They
changed the n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 by n*****[email protected] (Mike Mish Shedlock)
ADP has announced revised methodology to "enhance" its monthly job reports,
no doubt because its prior numbers simply were grossly inaccurate.
Indeed, I stopped commenting on ADP numbers because I thought they were
absurd.
Let's take a look at their revised methodology. Here is the ADP Jobs Report
for September using the revised methodology.
"Private sector employment increased by 88,200 jobs from August to
September, according to the September ADP... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 306 | 44
Maybe. But sexual discrimination and racial discrimination are a lot worse
in China. Of all absurdities, I just don't understand how Chinese women put
up with being addressed as "美女" all the time, mostly in contexts where
looks are completely irrelevant. Besides being sexist, this comes across as
being extremely unprofessional. Try addressing your female colleagues as "
honey" here and see what will happen to you. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates
favored by the Republican establishment: nice, moderate losers — people
with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking
points they may have.
The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least
as far as 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey ran against President Harry Truman.
Dewey spoke in lofty generalities while Truman spoke in hard-hitting
specifics. Since then, there have been ma... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 by Jammie
Now that Obama has thrown him under the bus, the sycophant media will try to
discredit anything he testifies about if it goes against the White House
party line. But now a public citizen, let’s hope he feels free to actually
tell the truth this time and not peddle the absurd YouTube video nonsense.
Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify about the Libya
terror attack before the House and Senate intelligence committees, Fox News
has learned.
Petraeus had origina... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 November 15, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
In yet another facile example of the Old Media equating President Obama’s
presidency to the greatness of Abraham Lincoln’s, NBC News correspondent
Kevin Tibbles used the occasion of the opening of the new Lincoln movie
helmed by Director Steven Spielberg to do just that.
On Saturday’s NBC Nightly News, Tibbles reported on the opening of a movie
that has widespread Oscar buzz, Spielberg’s Lincoln a project that was more
than a decade in the making.
Tibble... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Thursday, 15 November 2012
by Quin Hillyer
The old professor mused aloud, half to himself: “Why don’t they teach
logic at these schools?”
That line came from the great children’s classic and Christian allegory
, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The fictional professor’s lament (
about two siblings’ confusion about which of two stories to believe),
written some 60 years ago, still applies today. Along with logic, basic
arithmetic and linguistic skills sometimes seem horribly ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 651 | 49 I find it absurd that you accused others of racism when in fact you are the
one posting borderline racial hatred towards Chinese on this board.
In your own words, this is even more shameful and disgusting.
Asian
women
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发帖数: 2964 | 50 Essentially the Congress made two contradictory laws: the annual budget and
the debt ceiling. |
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