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发帖数: 29846 | 1 July 18, 2011 | Filed underHealth Care | Posted by Rodney Graves
And you thought the ACORN expose was shocking.
This time James O’Keefe and his band of citizen journalists record state
employees helping self professed drug dealers and pimps hide assets while
applying for Medicaid.
VIDEO: RAMPANT MEDICAID FRAUD EXPOSED – PART 1
Project Veritas
Washington, D.C.—James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas today
released its latest undercover investigation. Citizen journalists have
uncove... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 14, 2011
Considering the debate around President Barack Obama's health care plan and
the lawsuits filed against it, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan's written
answers to some of the 13 written questions relating to Obamacare that
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans submitted to her during her Supreme
Court confirmation process were remarkably simple and straightforward.
"No," she said.
That was how she answered question No. 2, which inquired if she had eve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 California Tax Revenue Plunges
Inquiring minds have noticed a huge plunge in California Tax Revenue for the
month of February compared to February 2011.
That is a 22.55% plunge in spite of the fact that this February was a leap
year adding a day to the calendar.
Madeline Schnapp, at TrimTabs Investment Research sent me a quick note
regarding that plunge a few days ago.
Madeline writes...
Hello Mish
I came across this little tidbit from the February report from the
Comptroller's office of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 By Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson
On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v.
United States, involving the constitutionality of the State's effort to
combat illegal immigration. In one sense, it was a rematch between former
Solicitor General Paul Clement, arguing for Arizona, and the current
Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, contending for the United States. The
two had squared off just a month before in United States v. Florida, the
battle royale over ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 Newly released documents show Zimmerman passed lie detector test, Reuters
ignores
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
The media lynching of George Zimmerman continues.
Yesterday, a slew of documents were released by the prosecution, including
details of a voice stress analysis test I alluded to back in early April.
Those details, reported by The Smoking Gun, follow:
A day after killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman passed a police lie
detector test when asked if he confronted the teenager and... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 6 Déjà Vu Pension Woes
Going into debt to fund pensions seems like a ridiculous thing to do,
especially for a company had a chance to shed more of those pension
obligations in bankruptcy.
Please consider the Wall Street Journal story GM Wants to Up Credit Line
General Motors Co. is in preliminary talks with banks to potentially
double its $5 billion line of credit as the auto maker looks to strengthen
its balance sheet and shrink pension obligations, according to people with
knowledge of the d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1637 | 7 Lz, why not post this paragraph for reader's convenience?
"Cohen, the immigration lawyer, said that though the calls inquiring about
Canadian citizenship will continue for the next few months, he feels
Americans are simply too loyal to leave the country they love.
"I've had Americans tell me this: When your national anthem plays, the hair
on their arms stands up, and that's not like most people in the world," he
said. "Americans at the end of the day are just a very patriotic group, and
it doesn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Obama’s Wife-Beating Brother Crushed in Kenyan Election
by Jammie
Oh well, now he can get back to his personal war on women now that his
political hopes took a beating.
President Barack Obama’s half-brother, Abong’o Malik Obama, won’t be
the second member of his family to launch a political career. Mr. Obama was
defeated in his bid to be governor of Kenya’s Siaya County this week in
what seems to have been a very large margin.
Mr. Obama is the eldest child of President Obama’s father. Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 GunsAndGears 讨论区 】
发信人: Commissar (柯宓同志), 信区: GunsAndGears
标 题: 反枪派市长，Bloomberg的朋友，因酒后乱开枪被捕
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Apr 8 14:20:55 2013, 美东)
One of Michael Bloomberg's outspoken "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" has been
arrested in a gun-related incident.
James Schiliro, the mayor of Marcus Hook, Penn., is facing multiple criminal
charges, including reckless endangerment after a drunken encounter resulted
in the discharge of a firearm:
According to court documents, the mayor is accused of h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 201 | 10 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ahmaswh (ahmaswh), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国外交政策杂志: 绝密的NSA对华黑客组织-TAO
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jun 10 17:51:46 2013, 美东)
Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
Deep within the National Security Agency, an elite, rarely discussed team of
hackers and spies is targeting America's enemies abroad.
This weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings
with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two
leaders spoke at length about... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Democratic Officeholder Fraudulently Took $58K in Federal Disability
Payments
July 9, 2013 - 1:24 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
(CNSNews.com) – Raymond E. Salva, a former Democratic member of the
Missouri House of Representatives, has pleaded guilty to illegally taking $
58,816 in federal disability payments while he was working as a state
legislator earning $30,000 a year, according to the Office of the Inspector
General of the Social Security Administration.
In a plea agreement reached on June 26,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1096 | 12 The division of the human family into its two distinct branches occurred
some 10,000 years ago, a few hundred years after the flood... Humans
coexisted as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers.
In the pivotal event of societal evolution, beer was invented. This epochal
innovation was both the foundation of modern civilization and the occasion
of the great bifurcation of humanity into its two distinct subgroups:
Liberals and Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Christie vetoes 3 gun-control bills
By Matt Katz, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
Posted: August 18, 2013
Gov. Christie rejected three major pieces of gun-control legislation Friday
that Democrats passed following last year's fatal school shootings in
Connecticut.
Despite proposing a ban on purchases of the Barrett .50-caliber gun and
similar weapons in April, Christie vetoed a bill that would have done just
that.
He said Friday that the bill went too far, in that it would have
criminalized current and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Exclusive: Rand Paul wants Chief Justice Roberts, all federal workers, to
enroll in Obamacare
Posted By Alex Pappas On 12:40 AM 09/23/2013 In Politics | No Comments
Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he
does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health-care plans of any
federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore.
With some in Congress arguing lawmakers and their staff should not get
subsidies to cover their health insurance as Pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 By James Delingpole Environment Last updated: September 25th, 2013
On Friday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers its latest
verdict on the state of man-made global warming. Though the details are a
secret, one thing is clear: the version of events you will see and hear in
much of the media, especially from partis pris organisations like the BBC,
will be the opposite of what the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report actually
says.
Already we have had a taste of the nonsense to come: a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 奥巴马说‘我们还发现买保险是件复杂的事情’。多谢分享，天才，或许在政府管理1/
6美国经济之前你该多想想”
Thus Spake Obama
The incompetence of our neo-monarchy
By Mark Steyn
t is a condition of my admission to this great land that I am not allowed to
foment the overthrow of the United States government. Oh, I signed it
airily enough, but you’d be surprised, as the years go by, how often the
urge to foment starts to rise in one’s gullet. Fortunately, at least as far
as constitutional government goes, the president of the United States is
doing a g... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Detroit's abandoned buildings draw tourists instead of developers
Detroit has seen an uptick in history buffs and photographers visiting its
ruins since its bankruptcy filing.
By Alana Semuels
December 25, 2013, 4:33 p.m.
DETROIT — He'd heard stories of ruin and blight, but that didn't prepare
Oliver Kearney for what he saw:
Prostitutes roaming the streets at 8 a.m., rubble-strewn parking lots
overrun with weeds, buildings taken over by bright pink graffiti, the
message scrawled on blackboards i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 by Jammie
Seems to be a lot of this going on. Clearly they realize there’s no hope of
regaining control of Congress.
South Jersey Congressman Rob Andrews will resign from Congress later
this month to take a job with a prominent Philadelphia law firm, a source
close to the situation said Tuesday morning.
Andrews, a Democrat in his 24th year in the House, will resign around
President’s Day weekend, the source said. He will take over a public
affairs job at the firm, according to the person... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Flailing de Blasio On the Run: “I’ve never been against charter schools”
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
This pathetic schmuck vowed to do away with charter schools since he’s in
the back pocket of the teacher’s unions. But a funny thing happened on his
way to steamrolling them: The public is fighting back. Two months into his
term he’s down in Obamaville approval-wise, is being called Oblasio and is
now even getting hammered on MSNBC.
Mayor Bill de Blasio spent nearly half an hour this m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent
design, anyone?
By
Eric Metaxas
Dec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET
In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have
accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science
progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it
turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is
that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising
place—s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Why Are Economists' Predictions So Damn Awful?
Economists have bought into the transitory soft patch thesis of the Fed,
hook line and sinker. Please consider Economists’ Forecast: Here We Grow
Again.
Forecasters in the latest Wall Street Journal survey estimated the U.S.
economy contracted at a 0.3% pace in the first quarter because of hits from
winter weather and the West Coast port slowdown. But the panel, on average,
sees annualized economic growth of 2.8% in the second quarter, supported... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2964 | 22 OK, mother fuckers who jumped on Prof. Xi, repent!
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Feds drop charges against Temple professor accused of selling sensitive
information to the Chinese
Tricia L. Nadolny, Inquirer Staff Writer
Last updated: Friday, September 11, 2015, 5:34 PM
Federal prosecutors are seeking to dismiss their case against the Temple
University professor accused of selling sensitive U.S. defense technology to
entities in China.
Xiaoxing Xi had remained a facul... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 If Rachel Dolezal Has a ‘Right’ to Be Black, American Public Policy Will
Have to Play Catch-Up
by Charles C. W. Cooke June 17, 2015 12:09 PM
@charlescwcooke
Echoing sentiments that have been hinted at by MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry
and The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, a professor of law and sociology at the
USC Gould School of Law today argues that Rachel Dolezal has a “right to be
black.” Here’s her conclusion:
Dolezal’s case forces us to examine our society, which made her feel
that passing... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 189 | 24 To better appreciate how philosophically erratic Donald Trump has been over
the years, consider this: Less than three years ago, Donald Trump was
criticizing Governor Mitt Romney’s comments about “self-deportation.”
Today, Mr. Trump is advocating forced (and mass) deportation.
The Trump record on this matter is worth reviewing. A few days ago on NBC’s
Meet the Press, Mr. Trump endorsed mass deportation of the estimated 11
million illegal immigrants in America.
“They have to go,” he said.
Then, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Sweden's Migration Projection Doubles in Three Months (And It Won't Stop
There); No Cash, Just Vouchers (Hah!)
Sweden is feeling migration strain. In the last three months, Sweden's
Migrant Projection Doubled.
This was easily foreseeable by bloggers like me, Dave Stockman, Acting Man,
Zero Hedge etc. Yet, somehow government leaders failed to see this coming.
Sweden will receive as many as 190,000 refugees this year, according to
official estimates, more than double the projected number envis... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Robot Theory
The battle of robot theory is on. Bank of America paints one picture and
McKinsey another.
Let's investigate both theories.
Automation Will Change Jobs More Than Kill Them
As reported by the New York Times, McKinsey says Automation Will Change Jobs
More Than Kill Them
The report, published on Friday and written by two members of the
McKinsey Global Institute, the consulting firm’s research arm, and another
McKinsey employee, adds a twist to the debate over the likely nature and
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发帖数: 5635 | 27 Same reporter that is breaking the #CruzSexScandal for National Inquirer is
the same that wrote the John Edwards story. Just saying. |
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发帖数: 1 | 28 Todayshow cohostMatt Lauerthen asked Trump about LGBT advocate
Jenner, who is a transgender woman — not to mention a lifelong Republican.
"If Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower, and wanted to use the
bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?" Lauer
inquired.
"That is correct," Trump replied.
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-cait |
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发帖数: 6571 | 29 San Jose是所谓“Sanctuary city”，非法移民的天堂。
Sanctuary cit is a term that is applied by some to cities in the United
States or Canada that have policies designed to not prosecute people solely
for being illegal immigrants in the country they are currently living in.
These practices can be by law (de jure) or they can be by habit (de facto).
The term generally applies to cities that do not allow municipal funds or
resources to be used to enforce federal immigration laws, usually by not
allowing police or... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 30 Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic
National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors
, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won
a say in the drafting of the party’s platform.
In one of the 29 voicemails released, a woman who donated $300 to Clinton
called the party finance director Andrew Wright and said she was angry the
party was acquiescing to Sanders by allowing liberal activist and prominent
San... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 32 Feds Raid Home, Office, Pub of Philly Union Boss Tied to DNC and Clinton
此人与DNC，希拉里关系密切。
And in June, Johnny Doc inked a project-labor agreement with the DNC, vowing
not to strike or picket; in exchange, Democratic officials used union labor
for hundreds of convention-related positions. Johnny Doc posted Facebook
photos of himself at the convention site last week and told the Philadelphia
Inquirer his union spent more than $80,000 on parties attended by local
power brokers.
同时贪污工会的会费。自己开酒吧，把工会的钱... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24123 | 33 不能这么判断。是他自己没忍住，最后一段时间乱说话搞砸了
Final days
An infamous incident took place late in the campaign. McGovern was giving a
speech and a Nixon admirer kept heckling him. McGovern called the young man
over and whispered in his ear, "Listen, you son-of-a-bitch, why don't you
kiss my ass?" The heckler confirmed this to an inquiring journalist and the
remark was widely reported. By the following night, "KMA" buttons were being
worn by people in the crowds at McGovern rallies. |
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发帖数: 9531 | 38 one review:
On April 14 this is what the owner of this restaurant wrote about Donald
Trump. Today she accuses him of sexual harassment.
"I am in a unique situation being that I am the only former Apprentice who
operates a business where Mr. Trump's supporters can walk in, express their
admiration for him and inquire about my experience. Mr. Trump has a great
deal of support in Huntington Beach, Ca!"
"We hire a diverse crew and embrace anyone who is honest while working hard.
Mr. Trump is cut fro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 39 Anti-Trumpers, Leave the Kids Alone
Debra J. Saunders
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Posted: Nov 15, 2016 12:01 AM
Hillary Clinton voters, I feel your pain. I've been on the losing side more
times than I cared to be. It's painful and personal. I would venture to add
that Donald J. Trump's victory probably is more bitter than a Clinton win
would have been for conservatives because you didn't see it coming. You lost
and you were sucker punched. Ouch.
For most of you, the approach voiced by Kevin Eckery, a GOP consultant who
d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33224 | 40 "According to Wanda Murren, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of
State," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday, "the deadline for a voter
-initiated recount was
Monday, Nov. 21."
有些报纸说voter initiated deadline过了，有的又含糊其辞。
感觉PA的人自己都不清楚 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 41 Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have all announced they’ll be carrying
the hearing live, and CNN already has a countdown clock to Comey’s
testimony — usually reserved for elections and major events.
FOX News will also carry the hearing, and MSNBC is expected to announce its
plans soon. CNN.com plans to livestream the testimony without requiring a
log-in to a cable provider.
At least two bars in D.C. have announced they will be opening early for the
10 a.m. hearing, and offering drink specia... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 42 Time Warner Shareholders PISSED Over CNN Bias
Mr. Bewkes, we have urged you many times to make CNN more objective. You
have admitted to us in 2014 the need for more balance. We praised you last
year after CNN President Jeffrey Zucker also acknowledged this and acted on
the need for more diverse views. But bias is apparently worse than ever. As
shareholders, we are concerned about the repetitional risk to our investment
in Time Warner as CNN appears to be a key player in the war against the
Trump... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1623 | 43 O8的DOJ任命Special Counsel/Prosecutor去inquire that matter了没？ |
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发帖数: 897 | 44 Arizona Rep. Trent Franks allegedly made unwanted advances toward female
staffers in his office and retaliated against one who rebuffed him,
according to House GOP sources with knowledge of a complaint against him.
The allegations, which reached Speaker Paul Ryan and top GOP leaders in
recent days, led to Franks' sudden resignation this week. Franks originally
announced that he would resign on Jan. 31, 2018. But just hours after
POLITICO inquired about the allegations, he sped up his resignation... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 45 译者前言
在上一篇《Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois
Culture》即《美国版真理大讨论：美国奋斗文化崩溃的代价（译文/原文）》于2017年
8月9号发表之后，在美国的思想界和文化界引起了轩然大波。原文的作者宾夕法尼亚大
学法学院教授Amy Wax受到了来自各方面的攻击：包括但不限于宾夕法尼亚大学法学院
33名教授联名写公开信要求开除她，宾夕法尼亚法学院的院长要求她休长假，学界和舆
论界的持续炮轰。
2018年，2月16日 Amx Wax教授在《华尔街日报》发表了一篇新的文章《What Can’t
Be Debated on Campus》继续探讨美国的核心价值观和言论自由所遇到的问题。
译文
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今天的美国校园中充斥着所谓言论自由和价值观自由的夸夸其谈，嘴皮子上夸张地支持
着自由表达和观点多样性。但我通过最近撰写有争议专栏文章的经历，了解到，其实大
多数这种夸夸其谈是没有多大价值。只有当人们面对他们所不喜欢的言论时，才能看清
楚他们的这种夸夸其谈究竟是不是他们真实的想法。
我与圣地亚哥大... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3630 | 46 首先，这些人不是过过场子上上课就回家的weekend warriors，是经过严格训练，刀山
火海，死人堆滚过来的正式军人。有着良好的军事素质和纪律，整个事件里，没有造成
大量死伤就看得出来。是真正的军人才能做得到的。和喝着啤酒，裤带里别着枪的红脖
是两种不同的人。你不如跟任何一个参过美军的人说他们之前是红脖，参了军之后还是
红脖，你看他们会怎么说？
第二，他们用的枪是强行从国民警卫队的兵火库里抢/偷的，并不是他们自己拥有的。
他们之前有的只不过是手枪。
第三，你再看看最后他们抗争的结果怎么样？
“The new GI government of Athens quickly encountered challenges including
the re-emergence of old party loyalties.[35] On January 4, 1947, four of the
five leaders of the GI Non-Partisan League declared in an open letter: "We
abolished one machine o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3630 | 47 1.那为啥这地区腐败的政府这么久，就没有那后来500多2A防身的人挺身而出反抗？但
当60名退伍军人挺身而出之后，其他人都突然窜出来了？
2. In response to cussing and taunts from the deputies, and the actions so
far that day, Bill White, leader of the "fighting bunch," told his
lieutenant Edsel Underwood to take 5 or 6 men and break into the National
Guard Armory to steal weapons. The GIs took the front door keys from the
caretaker and entered the building. They then armed themselves with sixty .
30-06 Enfield rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns and ammo. Lone... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 48 The manager of a Philadelphia Starbucks has left the company after sparking
national outrage for calling the police on two black men who were waiting in
the store for a friend.
A company spokeswoman told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the manager’s
departure was a “mutual” decision. |
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发帖数: 29853 | 49 By contrast, the dissent rests its inter-
pretation on legislative history. Post, at 3–5; see also post,
at 19–21. But legislative history is not the law. “It is the
business of Congress to sum up its own debates in its
legislation,” and once it enacts a statute “‘[w]e do not
inquire what the legislature meant; we ask only what the
statute means.’” Schwegmann Brothers v. Calvert Distill-
ers Corp., 341 U. S. 384, 396, 397 (1951) (Jackson, J.,
concurring) (quoting Justice Holmes). Besides, when i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: EUV (奶特都是卖国贼), 信区: Military
标 题: 读书了，警察与赞美诗
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 21 17:26:50 2011, 美东)
On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk
high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their
husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may
know that winter is near at hand.
A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to
the regular denizens of Madison Square, and giv... 阅读全帖 |
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