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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com June 20, 2011 05:20:00 PM ET
N.Y. Senator Tweets for Marriage Equality Feedback
By Julie Bolcer
New York State senator Greg Ball, an undecided Republican who asked his
Twitter followers how he should vote on the marriage equality bill, said the
feedback appears to be trending toward support of the measure, but he
refuses to budge unless the bill includes stronger religious exemptions.
Ball, an Air Force veteran who advocated against the “don’t ask, don’t
tell” policy, pose... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 2 By Julie Bolcer
MarkGrisantix390 (NY Senate) | Advocate.com
Mark Grisanti
The four New York state Republican senators who voted for marriage equality
last month have been rewarded with generous campaign contributions from
advocates including New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who joined others
in giving the maximum amount allowed to the lawmakers.
The New York Daily News reports on the donations to senators James Alesi,
Roy McDonald, Stephen Saland, and Mark Grisanti. Bloomberg, who indicate... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com January 09, 2012 09:20:00 AM ET
Republican Senator to Support Washington Gay Marriage Bill
By Julie Bolcer
Washington state senator Steve Litzow announced he would become the first
Republican in his chamber to support marriage equality, a move that could
provide a crucial boost for the legislation to be introduced as soon as this
week by Governor Christine Gregoire.
Litzow made his announcement to the Seattle Times editorial board, calling
himself a “traditional Republican... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 4 So, you’ve been eyeing that smart, attractive scientist you’re lucky
enough to know personally. You’re intrigued. Your scientist is smart, funny
, confident. Visions of Louis de Broglie or Rosalind Franklin putting on
their safety glasses and lab coats to come to do experiments with you runs
through your head..
Who can blame you? Science is a sexy occupation.
But scientists aren’t like the bimbos you usually pick up at the bar. Nor
are they the assholes you ladies continually fall for. No, scien... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2012/01/12/marriage-equality-b
剩下来的SENATORS：
Four Democrats have said they are considering supporting the proposal, with
one indicating she is leaning towards voting yes. The three others have
voted against increased recognition for same-sex relationships in the pass,
but say they are reconsidering.
Two freshman Republicans from suburban districts–Joe Fain of Auburn and
Andy Hill of Redmond–told the AP they were open to the possibility of
supporting the bill, bu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 7 New Jersey Assembly Panel Advances Gay Marriage Bill
By Julie Bolcer
NEW JERSEY STATE HOUSE (SCOTT MCPHERSON) | ADVOCATE.COM
The New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee approved the marriage equality
bill in a vote Thursday afternoon, promising to escalate the standoff
between Democratic lawmakers and Republican governor Chris Christie, who has
vowed to veto the legislation.
In its first-ever hearing in the Assembly, the Marriage Equality and
Religious Exemption Act bill passed the panel Thursda... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 8 By Michelle Garcia
MARK GRISANTI SPEAKING X390 (nysenate.gov) | ADVOCATE.COM
A New York Republican senator is losing the backing of his local
Conservative Party because he voted in favor of marriage equality last year.
In New York, a state that allows candidates to run on tickets for more than
one political party, the Conservative Party largely backs Republican
candidates. Instead of endorsing incumbent state senator Mark Grisanti,
party chairman Ralph C. Lorigo said Grisanti no longer had the t... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 9 Hemera/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- College freshman entering the University
of California system next year could be asked to identify themselves as gay,
straight, bi, or transgender when they accept their admissions offer.
The system’s Academic Senate initiated the proposal, which would add a
question to the statements of intent students fill out when deciding to go
to the University of California. The statements already include a host of
identifiers such as race, gender and ethnicity.
The quest... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 10 http://news.yahoo.com/dharun-ravi-found-guilty-rutgers-trial-21
A New Jersey jury today found former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi guilty on
all counts for using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, having
a gay sexual encounter in 2010.
Ravi, 20, was convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, witness
tampering and hindering arrest, stemming from his role in activating the
webcam to peek at Clementi's date with a man in the dorm room on Sept. 19,
2010. Ravi was also convicted... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 11 The 211-116 margin was a victory for gay rights advocates. It was also a
shock to social conservatives, who thought a 3 to 1 GOP majority combined
with a party platform that defines marriage as a between a man and women,
would secure the bill’s passage.
Deep into a debate that lasted 2 hours and included 10 separate votes,
Kingston Republican David Welch stated what by then was plain: gay marriage
is topic that divides House Republicans.
“This is an issue that is confusing, sets one section of t... 阅读全帖 |
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R****y
发帖数: 456 | 12 Sen. Rob Portman, who voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996,
says he has changed his mind on the matter since one of his sons came out
as gay in 2011.
CINCINNATI — Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is now supporting gay
marriage and says his reversal on the issue began when he learned one of his
sons is gay.
Ohio's junior senator disclosed his change of heart in interviews with
several Ohio newspapers and CNN. In an op-ed published Friday in The
Columbus Dispatch, he said the deci... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 13 美国华州新法 避用男性词中性词替代
http://www.chinareviewnews.com
中评社香港4月24日电／美国华盛顿州州长英斯利（Jay Inslee）今天将6年来通过
的相关法案签署成法，华州法令往后将使用中性用词重新撰写。诸如“渔夫”（
fisherman）、“新鲜人”（freshman）等字尾有“男人”（man）的词，将改为“渔人
”（fisher）、“一年级学生”（first-yearstudent）等中性用词。
中央社报道，华盛顿州议员2007年起通过系列法案，同意州法令根除性别偏见。
民主党籍华盛顿州参议员柯尔－魏尔斯（JeanneKohl-Welles）说：“这比我原先
想的还要大工程。”
中性词的新规定包括“熟练水管工”（journey-level plumber）改为“学徒期满
水管工”（journeyman plumber），以同义的handwriting（字迹）取代penmanship，
“信号手”（signalman）也改称“信号操作员”（signal operator）。
这份法案厚475页。
不过有些词句很难取代。比方说，由于华盛顿州军事部（... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5713 | 14 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: coolbb (kubaobao), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: <转载>与我十年长跑的女朋友就要嫁人了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 19 02:20:42 2013, 美东)
原帖：http://www.douban.com/group/topic/36210857/
昨天下午凌一尧给我发来一张照片，是一件婚纱，她问好不好看，我说还行。
她说“初五举办婚礼，和我们以前想象得一样，有鲜花拱门，有红地毯，有白婚纱黑礼
服，就是没有你。”
我说“要不要我去凑个份子？”
她半天之后才回复说:“不用了。
直播我们这十年的历程，初五删号。有人听吗？这不是一个纯爱故事，只是告诉那些正
在学校读书以及刚刚工作的freshman，我所经历的残酷社会。
2001年的夏天，我十六岁，正在读高中。即便是夜晚，气温仍然高得令人辗转反侧，黑
漆漆的夜晚满是室友们翻身和叹息的声音，而我咬着小电筒，蒙着一条薄被单，写下人
生中唯一的一封情书。我的读者叫凌一尧，马尾辫，大前额，身材娇小，细腰长腿小翘
臀。要命的是，她偏偏... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 124 | 15 看看wall street journal的报道
The Obama We Don't Know
June 4, 2008; Page A20
With Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Party nomination, it is worth
noting what an extraordinary moment this is. Democrats are nominating a
freshman Senator barely three years out of the Illinois legislature whom
most of America still hardly knows. The polls say he is the odds-on favorite
to become our next President.
Think about this in historical context. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were
relatively unknown, but both |
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b*d
发帖数: 161 | 16 转自endorse了巴马的LA Times
Nomination in hand, Obama dumps the Dem left on FISA vote
That Barack Obama jog toward the political center now that he's won the
Democratic nomination appears to have turned into a full-fledged dash today.
And there's a lot of folks on the left side of his party that are unhappy.
But, to be a Chicago kind of candid about it, whatcha gonna do about it now?
Today, the freshman senator from Illinois voted in favor of the FISA bill
that provides retroactive legal protection to |
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发帖数: 61690 | 17 ep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, is switching parties
to become a Republican, Fox News learned Tuesday.
Griffith is expected to make a formal announcement in an afternoon press
conference.
Griffith, a retired oncologist and businessman, succeeded former Democratic
Rep. Bud Cramer, who retired earlier this year, in a hard-fought contest for
the northern Alabama seat.
Republicans thought that district would be hard for Democrats to hold
without Cramer on the ballot, but Griff |
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发帖数: 897 | 18 WASHINGTON -- For a guy who insists that federal bureaucrats make too much
money, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sure doesn't mind handing
out handsome government raises of his own.
Cantor, the Virginia Republican who has led the GOP charge this year to
freeze federal salaries, has boosted his congressional office's payroll by
81 percent since coming to Congress in 2001 - about 8 percent per year
through 2009. When he became minority whip last year, the office's personnel
expenses we... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/22/columbia-university-studen
Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town hall meeting
on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus, the New York Post reported
Sunday.
Some students yelled "Racist!" at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and
former army staff sergeant who was awarded the Purple Heart after being shot
11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008.
Maschek, 28, bravely stepped up to the mike Tuesday to issue an i... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 Why police should not be unionized: "Lawyer for Ohio police threatens state
legislator who voted against unions"
Lets put aside for now that government workers shouldn't be unionized at all
since there is no profit motive, not working conditions issues from the
past, no cap on compensation, that unions negotiate with themselves being
that they sit on both sides of the 'bargaining' table and that the ultimate
boss - the taxpayers - are completely locked out of the process. But there
is an even da... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: May 7, 2011
Colleges and universities have long offered majors in religion or theology.
But with more and more people now saying they have no religion, one college
has decided to be the first to offer a major in secularism.
Starting this fall, Pitzer College, a small liberal arts institution in
Southern California, will inaugurate a department of secular studies.
Professors from other departments, including history, philosophy, religion,
science and sociology, will... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 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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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 At the end of a Washington Post op-ed criticizing John McCain for labeling
Republicans who oppose intervention in the Libyan war “isolationists,”
George Will writes (emphasis added):
Regarding Libya, McCain on Sunday said, “I wonder what Ronald Reagan
would be saying today.” Wondering is speculation; we know this:
When a terrorist attack that killed 241 Marines and other troops taught
Reagan the folly of deploying them at Beirut airport with a vague mission
and dangerous rules of engagem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 24 Mitt Romney, his presidential aspirations suddenly endangered by Newt
Gingrich’s rapid resurgence, is employing aggressive new arguments in an
effort to disqualify Mr. Gingrich as a credible choice to Republicans,
calling him “zany” in an interview on Wednesday and questioning his
commitment to free enterprise.
But in an acknowledgment that he might not be able to reverse Mr. Gingrich’
s momentum quickly, Mr. Romney and his team are bracing for a far rougher
slog through the early Republican nom... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 25 http://rackjite.com/web/newt_gingrich.htm
“Newt Gingrich is a draft-dodging, dope-smoking, wife-divorcing, deadbeat-
dad, which I assure you, meets all the standards of accuracy set by Rush
Limbaugh.” Molly Ivins.
There is no doubt who the two most powerful men in America were in 1995.
Sadly, it was the ethically challenged Mr. Gingrich and the flatulent
propagandist Mr. Limbaugh. Bill Clinton was been reduced to the most
powerful man in The World, which no real America gives a hoot in Hell abou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 零蛋总统！奥巴马预算案没有得到任何一个众议员支持，无论共和党还是自己的民主党
，连续第二年得到0票
GOP Rep. introduces Obama budget, measure gets 0-414 drubbing [VIDEO]
By David Martosko - The Daily Caller 9:39 AM 03/29/2012
ADVERTISEMENT
By a stunning 0-414 tally Wednesday night, the House of Representatives
voted down a budget proposal based on President Barack Obama’s 2013
recommendations. Congress hadn’t seen a budget vote that lopsided since
last May, when the Senate voted down an Obama budget plan by a 0-97 margin.
That 2011 Senate sla... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 By Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan, Published: May 18 | Updated: Saturday,
May 19, 11:10 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When scholars gathered at Harvard last month to discuss
the political tumult convulsing China’s ruling Communist Party, a demure
female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome was listening
intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi
Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent for the party’s top job.
Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, enrolled at Harv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 by Rossputin
On Monday, in a New Jersey court, Judge Glenn Berman sentenced Rutgers
University student Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail for crimes which emanated
from his freshman-year spying on a former roommate with a webcam. That
roommate, Tyler Clementi, was seen briefly kissing another male. Ravi’s
snooping – and then “tweeting” about it and sharing the video feed with
several friends – is widely assumed to have been a factor in Clementi’s
September, 2010 suicide, accomplished by jumping off ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Posted By Josh Rogin Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 4:03 PM Share
Echoing the laments of pundits like Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, U
.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood argued Saturday that China outpaces
the United States in building major transportation infrastructure like high-
speed rail because of its authoritarian system and because the Chinese don't
have the Republican Party holding up progress.
"The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in
their country... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 Written by
Michael Cass
The party of Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. and Jr. won’t
have a standard-bearer — or at least not one it can stomach — in Tennessee
’s next U.S. Senate race.
Less than 24 hours after a man espousing conservative and libertarian views
surprised the state’s political scene by winning the Democratic nomination,
the Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed him, saying he’s part of an anti-
gay hate group.
The party said Friday that it would do nothing to help Mark ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 Arizona is hosting several competitive primaries Tuesday, including a GOP
battle for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl and a
Democratic fight for the seat held until recently by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
But Arizona’s big matchup is between two House Republican freshmen elected
in 2010 with tea party support, Reps. Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.
The fight was personal and hard-hitting from the outset, and that harshness
has only ratcheted up in recent days. Supporters of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 32 军版的破熊今天好不容易贴了和有的意思的，俺借其中一段：
Am I right to hate me Asian Mom, White dad?
Ok so I just took a freshman sociobiology class. And I learned that Asian
males have what would be called "beta male" characteristics. Less
aggressiveand violent, communitarian based, intelligent and weak. Basically
the worst combination for sexual selection in America. Reading the darwinist
blog onestdv, a commentator even suggested that loser white males should
marry asian females, and their daughters would look hot, but t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 WashingtonDC 讨论区 】
发信人: llin (一路陌生人), 信区: WashingtonDC
标 题: 最高法院Affirmative Action庭辩
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 10 20:55:31 2012, 美东)
几个月前，不少朋友给80-20的petition签过名。这两天的事儿跟这里的孩子爹/妈们或
多或少有关系。
Supreme Court scrutinizes university's use of race in admissions
途中的女孩是Abigail Noel Fisher 现在是22岁。2008年她因为被UT Austin拒收而把
学校送上法庭。
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57529863/supreme-court-scru
背景资料：
Plaintiffs Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz applied to the
University of Texas at Austin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9616 | 34 ivy freshman不是有２０－３０％是asian吗？aa只affect public school,private
school也就是做做样子，招的应该比州力少多了。
NCAA里，私利的老黑运动员都不多，象ivy,vandy,ND, Stanford, Duke |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Bob Dunn (formerly of the Fed, RIP) used to teach Economics at GWU and we
left his freshman course knowing 2 things beyond a shadow of a doubt:
1) of land, labor and capital, all but land are "footloose" and move to
where they are the most productive (to your point), and
2) public sector borrowing causes 'crowding out" of the private sector in
capital markets; the bigger the public sector spend, the less capital
available for the private sector.
Surely, this is not beyond the grasp of Washington... 阅读全帖 |
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b*x
发帖数: 5456 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 Chicago 讨论区 】
发信人: Beida101 (北大学子), 信区: Chicago
标 题: 美国的精英学校招不到聪明的穷孩子
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 9 12:37:08 2013, 美东)
但是如果你是一个聪明的穷孩子，而且考上了 TJHSST 或者 Northside College Prep
， 那你上精英大学的几率几乎是百分之百！
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168889785/elite-colleges-struggle
Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids
by Shankar Vedantam
January 09, 2013 3:31 AM
Across the United States, college administrators are poring over student
essays, recommendation letters and SAT scores as they sele... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****k
发帖数: 310 | 37 【 以下文字转载自 Chicago 讨论区 】
发信人: Beida101 (北大学子), 信区: Chicago
标 题: 美国的精英学校招不到聪明的穷孩子
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 9 12:37:08 2013, 美东)
但是如果你是一个聪明的穷孩子，而且考上了 TJHSST 或者 Northside College Prep
， 那你上精英大学的几率几乎是百分之百！
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168889785/elite-colleges-struggle
Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids
by Shankar Vedantam
January 09, 2013 3:31 AM
Across the United States, college administrators are poring over student
essays, recommendation letters and SAT scores as they sele... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 767 | 38 "消防救援队能够提前20多分钟抵达现场，有可能还能活命"
In this indiana case, an asian mom and all her three kids dead even rescue
came in 6
min.
Drive safly please!
/www.theindychannel.com/news/woman-3-daughters-dead-after-van-enters-pond
Icy road conditions are believed to have been a factor in the deaths of a
woman and her three daughters after their van entered a retention pond near
Carmel on Saturday night, police said. A van driven by Batul Abbas, 47, of
Hamilton County, apparently slid off 141st Street and entered ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 39 多看了幾篇網路新聞, 感覺很不妙喔!
媒體已經這麼用力把他打成壞蛋了.沒有都要被講成有了, 真無辜也一定會被栽贓的,
不然這些義憤填膺的愛國人士面子往哪擺啊!
a one-way ticket
fleeing country
potentially carrying highly confidential military secrets and rocket
technology from NASA labs
the security breach
computers that likely contained sensitive information
a direct threat to our country
The Chinese have the most comprehensive spying program in Washington that
has ever been. They make the KGB look like they were the junior varsity or
freshman team.(中國的間諜本事讓KGB都變成小兒科)
Jian... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: veggie (歪叔), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国华州新法 避用男性词中性词替代
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Apr 24 11:38:16 2013, 美东)
美国华州新法 避用男性词中性词替代
http://www.chinareviewnews.com 2013-04-24 19:16:51
中评社香港4月24日电／美国华盛顿州州长英斯利（Jay Inslee）今天将6年来通过
的相关法案签署成法，华州法令往后将使用中性用词重新撰写。诸如“渔夫”（
fisherman）、“新鲜人”（freshman）等字尾有“男人”（man）的词，将改为“渔人
”（fisher）、“一年级学生”（first-yearstudent）等中性用词。
中央社报道，华盛顿州议员2007年起通过系列法案，同意州法令根除性别偏见。
民主党籍华盛顿州参议员柯尔－魏尔斯（JeanneKohl-Welles）说：“这比我原先
想的还要大工程。”
中性词的新规定包括“熟练水管工”（journey-level plumber）改... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****g
发帖数: 21627 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: tite (农村WSN), 信区: Military
标 题: 可否Sue Frank Wolf 抹黑伤害华人名誉?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri May 3 17:24:55 2013, 美东)
这玩艺在没有证据的前提下高调间接指称所有华人为潜在中国间谍。每一个在美华
人和后代将受牵连。可否大家捐款请一好律师起诉它?
本人愿意捐$1000。
Rep. Frank Wolf accused Jiang of being 'a Chinese spy' during a news
conference
After Jiang's arrest in March, Rep. Wolf, whose district includes the
research facility, accused Jiang of being 'a Chinese spy' during a news
conference on Capitol Hill.
Wolf said he spoke out after whistleblo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 GOP Proposal on Canceled Coverage Garners 39 Votes From Across Aisle Despite
Obama Veto Threat
By COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON, SIOBHAN HUGHES and JON KAMP CONNECT
Updated Nov. 15, 2013 9:57 p.m. ET
More than three dozen House Democrats rebuffed a White House veto threat and
backed a Republican plan to change the health-care law, underscoring the
tensions among members of President Barack Obama's party a day after he
proposed his own fix to tamp down complaints.
The Republican plan, a response to uneas... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Joke 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Joke
标 题: 美帝议员们加入接力绝食了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 4 12:14:49 2013, 美东)
接力绝食24小时。
Several House Democrats are joining activists fasting on the National Mall
for immigration reform, though their hunger strikes will be much shorter.
Freshman Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) began a fast Tuesday that his office
said would last 24 hours.
He began his fast as SEIU member Eliseo Medina, who had been fasting for 22
days, ended his strike.
“I hope to be able t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Posted: Dec 13, 2013 1:34 PM Updated: Dec 13, 2013 4:27 PM
By DAN ELLIOTT
Associated Press
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - A student who went to his suburban Denver high
school Friday armed with a shotgun and looking for a specific teacher shot
two students, including one critically, before apparently killing himself,
the local sheriff said.
"The teacher began to understand that he was being looked at and exited the
school. One student confronted the armed student and was shot," Arapahoe
County S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5637 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 SanDiego 讨论区 】
发信人: spectrum805 (spectrum805), 信区: SanDiego
标 题: 现在加州大学的录取原则
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Feb 16 01:39:53 2014, 美东)
对于本州学生，加州大学有两个录取的Tracks。
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requiremen
If you're a state resident who has met the minimum requirements and aren't
admitted to any UC campus to which you apply, you'll be offered a spot at
another campus if space is available, provided:
1. You rank in the top 9 percent of California high school students,
according t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 46 http://www.igorbirman.com/about
Soviet-born congressional candidate looks to make history
By Lee Ross
Published April 10, 2014
Igor Birman, shown here, is running for Congress in California.
During the darkest days of the Cold War, some in Washington feared a
Communist infiltration inside the highest reaches of the government. It
would have been unimaginable then that a man born and raised in Soviet-era
Moscow would mount a strong challenge for a seat in Congress, with a
rallying cry of freedom ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 Calif. Democrats walk middle path in health debate
April 12, 2014 - 11:03 AM
By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Ami Bera has been making a habit lately
of bucking his own president and voting with the Republican majority in the
House as it moves to amend or overturn parts of the national health care law.
Bera, a physician who favors expanding access to health coverage, said that'
s consistent with his position that Congress should keep what works in the
law and ... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******y
发帖数: 21396 | 48 嗯，这些选民连续傻逼了太多年了：
Bush's Record of Shame
George W. Bush's past is, to say the very least, shady. He stands as the
only American president with a criminal record. As the new hero of the party
that, prior to his election, touted "character" as the ultimate defining
characteristic of any American president, this Republican icon's past
demonstrates a man who is chronically definitively bereft of character, to
say the least.
This record chornicles Bush's less-than-reputable past up to the year 2001,
i... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******y
发帖数: 21396 | 49 麻痹的，DC的宠物保护组织都去哪儿了，对2016的共和党古巴仔候选人那么不关心？
附现场录像一枚
http://www.newsweek.com/senator-ted-cruz-booed-stage-supporting
Senator Ted Cruz Booed Off the Stage—for Supporting Israel
Republican presidential hopeful and freshman senator from Texas, Ted Cruz,
was booed off stage Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.—and he’s probably
happy about it.
The Tea Party rock star, who famously fomented last year’s government
shutdown over funding for the Affordable Care Act, was slated to be the
keynote speaker at a ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******s
发帖数: 9926 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: saiholmes (saiholmes), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 好文 SVCA洛杉矶时报投书 Asian Americans would lose out under affirmative action
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 2 11:23:33 2014, 美东)
Asian Americans would lose out under affirmative action
Los Angeles Times
By YUNLEI YANG
A Recent Field Poll claimed that most registered voters and Asian Americans
in California support affirmative action. Based on the poll data, Karthick
Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy and political scienc... 阅读全帖 |
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