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发帖数: 29846 | 1 January 9, 2013 by Baron Von Ottomatic
So sayeth New York Governor Andrew “Son of Mario” Cuomo in his State of
the State speech today as he railed against the semi-automatic rifles with a
detachable magazine politicians refer to as assault weapons and high-
capacity magazines used in said assault weapons and many modern handguns.
As much as I hate to agree with anything spouted by the gun-grabber high
command, it’s very tough for me to find fault in that statement. No one
should need ten bul... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 The Unscary Sequester
Washington is in a fit of collective terror over the "sequester," aka the
impending across-the-board spending cuts. Trying to explain the zero
economic growth at the end of 2012, White House spokesman Jay Carney blamed
Republicans for "talk about letting the sequester kick in as though that
were an acceptable thing." He left out that President Obama proposed the
sequester in 2011.
Then on Tuesday Mr. Obama warned about "the threat of massive automatic cuts
that have already... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Germany and Spain Move to Curb Green-Energy Supports .
By WILLIAM BOSTON and JAMES ANGELOS in Berlin and ILAN BRAT in Madrid
More than a decade ago, Germany and Spain created similar laws to
aggressively promote the adoption of renewable energy. The two countries
were again marching in step on Thursday—this time to fix a web of subsidies
and compensations they created for green energy that had the unintended
effect of driving up household electricity bills.
With Spain in the grips of recession, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 by Jammie
Severe fiscal tightening in the U.S. will lead to no growth or a
contraction in the first two quarters of 2013 and will push unemployment
over the 8 percent level, according to Lombard Street Research.
The knock-on effect will mean pain for the business sector, with
corporate profits falling after a hit to consumer spending power, the firm
said.
“Our view that unemployment could rise above 8 percent and that profits
will be squeezed reflects a forecast of nil to negative 20... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: sunnyday (胖头鱼。按斤卖就赚了), 信区: Biology
标 题: 财政收缩Sequestration 正式生效 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Mar 2 11:04:40 2013, 美东)
发信人: sunnyday (胖头鱼。按斤卖就赚了), 信区: Faculty
标 题: 财政收缩Sequestration 正式生效
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Mar 2 10:57:49 2013, 美东)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/obama-signs-order-begin-seq
President Obama and congressional leaders today failed to reach a
breakthrough to avert a sweeping package of automatic spending cuts, setting
into motion $85 billion of across-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 New York State Senator, Councilman Arrested in FBI Probe
By MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL, SEAN GARDINER and ANDREW GROSSMAN
Associated Press
New York state Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Democrat from Queens, speaking in
Albany earlier this year.
New York state Sen. Malcolm Smith and New York City Council Member Dan
Halloran were arrested Tuesday morning in connection with an alleged bribery
plot to tamper with the New York City mayoral race, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation said.
Also arrested in the probe: V... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 WSJ的帖子，讲得和顶楼的一模一样，你会不会也笑了？
Venezuela’s Election Downshifts Views on Economy, Debt
By Charles Roth
We hear elections have consequences, which are usually obvious if the winner
’s mandate is strong. Venezuela’s snap election over the weekend has major
implications for the economy and the oil-rich nation’s debt, thinking on
which is changing fast.
The anointed heir of Venezuela’s defunct leader, Hugo Chavez, eked out a
wafer-thin majority of votes in Sunday’s snap presidential election, a
surprise ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Boston bombs made from pressure cookers loaded with metal, ball bearings
By JAY LINDSAY and EILEEN SULLIVAN
The Associated Press
Published: 16 April 2013 11:09 AM
BOSTON (AP) -- The two bombs that ripped through the crowds at the Boston
Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned
out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball
bearings, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.
The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosiv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Governments across the eurozone have again been left counting the human cost
of the financial crisis after news that unemployment in the currency bloc
reached a record high, driven by soaring youth joblessness.
Eurozone unemployment rose to 12.1% for March, an all-time high, according
to Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union. In the wider EU
area of 27 countries, unemployment stood at 10.9%, as the rate increased in
all but eight countries compared with a year earlier.
Economists... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 847 | 10 http://www.fox43tv.com/dpps/news/local/boy-who-held-pencil-like
Published : Monday, 06 May 2013, 5:33 PM EDT
SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for
pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises.
Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing with another student
in class Friday, when the teacher at Driver Elementary asked them to stop
pointing pencils at each other.
"When I asked him about it, he said, 'Well I was being a Marine and the
other g... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Perry signed a bill making drug screenings mandatory for recipients of
unemployment.
Bill Hethcock
Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill that will require mandatory drug screening as
a condition for the receipt of unemployment compensation benefits by workers
in some fields.
Senate Bill 21 authorizes drug screenings for Texans receiving unemployment
benefits who work in fields where drug testing is mandatory for employment.
Those fields are designated by the United States Department of Labor, and
includ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Remember how, during the media's failed months-long crusade to push for gun
control, the GOP was under siege 24/7 from left-wingers like Chuck Todd, Joe
Scarborough, and Wolf Blitzer armed with polls that showed 80% wanted
background checks tightened, including a majority of Republicans?
Part of the media strategy (CNN turned their entire network over to the
partisan cause) was relentless concern-trolling. The cries that the GOP was
doomed if our 2nd Amendment rights weren't further restricted c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Tehran can continue to enrich uranium at 10,000 working centrifuges.
Updated Nov. 24, 2013 10:18 p.m. ET
President Obama is hailing a weekend accord that he says has "halted the
progress of the Iranian nuclear program," and we devoutly wish this were
true. The reality is that the agreement in Geneva with five Western nations
takes Iran a giant step closer to becoming a de facto nuclear power.
Start with the fact that this "interim" accord fails to meet the terms of
several United Nations resolut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 http://online.wsj.com/articles/shire-gets-revised-abbvie-takeov
AbbVie Nears $54 Billion Shire Deal
Deal Would Be Latest 'Inversion' Play
By Hester Plumridge
connect
Updated July 14, 2014 2:13 p.m. ET
LONDON—U.S. drug maker AbbVie Inc. ABBV -0.02% is close to clinching
a deal to buy Dublin-based Shire SHPG +2.23% PLC for more than £
31 billion ($53.6 billion), in what would be one of the largest so-called
inversion deals through which U.S. companies are seeking a lower corpo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 By Andrew Stuttaford
January 9, 2015 7:40 AM
Reuters:
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered Muslims by publishing
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad 10 years ago, will not republish Charlie
Hebdo’s cartoons due to security concerns, the only major Danish newspaper
not to do so.
“It shows that violence works,” the newspaper stated in its editorial
on Friday. Denmark’s other major newspapers have all republished cartoons
from the French satirical weekly as part of the coverage of t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth braked more sharply than initially thought
in the fourth quarter amid a moderate increase in business inventories and a
wider trade deficit, but strong domestic demand brightened the outlook.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.2 percent annual pace, revised down
from the 2.6 percent pace estimated last month, the Commerce Department said
on Friday. The economy grew at a 5 percent rate in the third quarter.
Growth is poised to pick up in the first quarter now ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Déjà Vu Weather? No, It's a Recession!
New Seasonal Pattern?
Yesterday Fed Governor Stanley Fischer proclaimed U.S. Economy Should
Rebound After ‘Poor’ First Quarter.
“There’s definitely a rebound on the way already, and we’ll see at
what speed it proceeds,” Mr. Fischer said during an interview on CNBC. “
The first quarter was poor. That seems to be a new seasonal pattern. It’s
been that way for about four of the last five years.
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said Wednesday that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 480 | 18 Hillary Clinton's 9 eyebrow-raising email comments
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-9
1. "What, like with a cloth or something?"
2. "Those messages disappear all by themselves."
3. "No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy. After all, what good did that
do for me?"
4. The White House wouldn't have been hacked "had they been using my server."
5. "Maybe the heat is getting to everybody."
6. "Now I think it's kind of fun. People get a real-time, behind-the-scenes
look a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Donald Trump: 'Sometimes' I carry a concealed handgun because 'I feel much
better being armed'
Donald Trump says that he occasionally carries a concealed gun.
In an interview with CBS' Face The Nation on Sunday, host John Dickerson
asked Trump if he ever carried a concealed weapon.
"Sometimes," Trump responded, according to a transcript.
When asked about if more people should carry concealed guns in the wake of
violent mass shootings, the current Republican presidential front-runner
said that wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 My 5-year old, $1,200 KitchenAid dishwasher is leaking again because its
third replacement motor is failing.
Rather than re-up the insurance for $300 and spend months waiting for
KitchenAid to grudgingly install a new $600 motor, I decided just to replace
the entire washer.
So here are some of the fun facts I learned about where dishwashers are
heading because of ever-tightening government (i.e., EPA) appliance “energy
efficiency” standards:
Dishwasher life expectancy has decreased from abou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18403 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: onetiemyshoe (onetiemyshoe), 信区: Military
标 题: From福岛With Love: TPP环环相扣
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Feb 4 21:45:56 2016, 美东)
请看时间：
1. 福岛核泄漏2011年3月11日
2. 希拉里PIVOT TO ASIA Article。 2011年10月
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/americas-pacific-century/
3. 美国从伊拉克撤军：December 2011
4. TPP是PIVOT的经济支柱。
日本是主要得利者。
5. Jimmy Kimmel's "killing everyone in China" skit
2013年10月
6. 东海ADIZ dispute: November 2013
7. 安培拜靖国神社：December 2013
。。。中间应该还有很多环。。
8. 安培访美，大力倡导TPP: April 2015
h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 “Just Say No”: Austria Announces Daily Quotas on Refugees: Yearly Flow
Reduced to 37,500 from 1,000,000
Feb 2016
Posted by mishgea | February 16, 2016 2:04:49 | Economics
Austria Announces Daily Refugee Quotas
Earlier today, Austria announced daily quotas on refugees arriving at its
borders. With that announcement, the last hope for Merkel’s refugee sharing
program finally bit the dust.
The reduction in the number of migrants Austria will accept is staggering.
Last year 1,000,000 refugees flo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1218 | 23 我在华人上贴的
这个是english version。我刚给 https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contact发了
如果有想要share，feel free to do so，注意一下format就好了
Suggestions for TRUMP on 3/10 debate and Rally around country
1) Visually describing what will happen under Hilary as a president? The
control of conservative Supreme Court will forever be lost. The trend can’t
reverse. American will forever lost its founding father’s belief and
foundation on which great America is built. For example, the freedom of to
speak truly, facts based st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1218 | 24 谁有空，帮帮宣传一下这些建议，我会给他的website发过去的
7/31, 选战进入关键阶段，还有3个月，这三个月里trump要冷静，戒骄戒躁
Suggestion on July/31, the election goes into the key stage. In the next
critical 3 months, Mr. Trump should be calm, stay visionary and avoid being
arrogant and emotional.
key messages "how to make america great again"
1）law and order - restore justice, fairness and order
2) bring back jobs, bring back working class dignity, bring back wealth to
working family
3) Politician only make promise. I am with you. I am your voice.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2053 | 25 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-just-exposed-america
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump just revealed an
inconvenient truth about U.S. debt, the outspoken and often controversial
Peter Schiff told CNBC in a recent interview.
Last week, Trump joined CNBC's " Squawk Box " to discuss a wide range of
topics including U.S. debt , interest rates and replacing Fed Chair Janet
Yellen . It was Trump's comments about potentially renegotiating the more
than $19 trillion in ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 26 Poll: Trump, Clinton in statistical tie
Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a statistical tie in a head-to-head match-
up for the presidency, a new national poll released Wednesday finds.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton with 41 percent support to Trump’s 40
percent. Nineteen percent of voters are still undecided.
Trump is surging since Ted Cruz and John Kasich exited the GOP race. Last
week, Clinton led Trump by about 13 points in the same poll.
Polls are showing a race between Trump and Clin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 27 WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments in the 2016 campaign for the
presidency. All times EDT:
2:45 p.m.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is equating Donald Trump's comments about a U
.S.-born judge of Mexican heritage with Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor's description of herself as a "wise Latina."
Republicans have widely criticized the presumptive GOP presidential nominee'
s claim that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel can't preside fairly over a
case involving Trump University because... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 293 | 28 (￣▽￣)"，在美国幼儿园都要学 Constitution，楼主居然都可以开始质疑。
不管对不对，法律上目前不管你怎么说都不能禁，只能tighten. |
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发帖数: 5309 | 29 Really? Wait to see how the noose on Trump's neck tightens as time goes by
and stories become more and more interesting. |
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发帖数: 6571 | 31 With the WikiLeaks email scandal already causing the resignation of Democrat
Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Clinton and the Democrat
Party may now face legal risk regarding violations of campaign finance
guidelines.
The June 22 WikiLeaks disclosure of 19,252 hacked emails appears to show a
pattern of senior officers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)
scheming and colluding to favor Hillary Clinton and oppose Senator Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) during the 2016 Democrat primaries ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1757 | 34 By DANIEL HENNINGER
Sept. 14, 2016 7:24 p.m. ET
2019 COMMENTS
Hillary Clinton’s comment that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are “
racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”—a heck of a lot of
phobia for anyone to lug around all day—puts back in play what will be seen
as one of the 2016 campaign’s defining forces: the revolt of the
politically incorrect.
They may not live at the level of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables,” but it
was only a matter of time before les déplorables—our own ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 35 With polls tightening nationwide, Hillary Clinton on Monday ramped up her
efforts to win over skeptical young voters, while also warning them that
Donald Trump represents a dire threat to their futures.
"This is going to be close," Clinton said, before ticking off the urls and
phone numbers her campaign is using to organize this voting bloc. "We need
everyone off the sidelines. Not voting is not an option, it just plays into
Trump's hands."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/clinto... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4797 | 37 The leaked tax return, first reported by NBC Affiliate WNBC, was received in
the same fashion as the prior leaked return, arriving in a manila envelope
with a return address of Trump Towers in New York City. And just as the
previous return was verified as authentic by a former accountant of Trump’s
responsible for preparing his taxes, so too has the authenticity of this
new 2013 document been verified, according to the unnamed source in
possession of the documents.
As for charitable donations, M... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 38 下面一段来自原文：
She said she’ll not add a penny to the national debt. Which means that
immediately on taking office she’s got to either raise taxes by $500
billion and change or reduce spending by that amount. Because the budget
deficit is that $500 Big Ones and change at present and the deficit is the
amount being added to the national debt each year. The problem with this
being that that’s also some 3.5% or so of GDP and an immediate fiscal
tightening of that amount would put the US economy back int... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 41 October 25, 2016
November 8: Trump +5
By Andrew Grant White
Conventional wisdom says Trump's a dead duck, and we all know how prescient
is conventional wisdom. Only two weeks left until election, and
RealClearPolitics (RCP) puts Clinton about 6 points ahead. So confident is
Hillary (supposedly) that one newspaper now urges her to divert some from
the presidential campaign and help Democrats in Senate and House races. We
should be so lucky.
Back to the point. Presidential polls are split into... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 42 October 25, 2016
November 8: Trump +5
By Andrew Grant White
Conventional wisdom says Trump's a dead duck, and we all know how prescient
is conventional wisdom. Only two weeks left until election, and
RealClearPolitics (RCP) puts Clinton about 6 points ahead. So confident is
Hillary (supposedly) that one newspaper now urges her to divert some from
the presidential campaign and help Democrats in Senate and House races. We
should be so lucky.
Back to the point. Presidential polls are split into... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 453 | 43 https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/homenews/campaign/302571-are-the-polls-skewed
-against-trump
Want a tough job? Try being a pollster two weeks before Election Day.
Donald Trump is ripping pollsters and the media, arguing the surveys are
biased against him because many include too many Democrats in their sampling
surveys.
Conservative news sites have pounced on Trump’s arguments, pointing to a
trio of national polls that show the race between the Republican
presidential nominee and Democrat Hillary... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8227 | 45 老川这是势如破竹呵！
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-is-the-presidential-race-tightening/
And our forecast gives Trump better odds than most other models because it
accounts for the possibility of a systemic polling error, a greater risk
than people may assume. A 16 percent chance of a Trump presidency isn’t
nothing — as we’ve pointed out before, it’s about the same as the chances
of losing a “game” of Russian roulette. And 15 percent is about the same
chance we gave the San Antonio Sp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 46 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: mocc (无可), 信区: Military
标 题: 德州要变蓝了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 27 23:42:46 2016, 美东)
If this is the case, Trump's shrinking lead may be less a rebellion against
conservatism and more a rebellion against Trump himself, reflected in a
tightening race in other historically red states like Arizona and Utah. |
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发帖数: 6571 | 47 WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials said Friday that the new
emails uncovered in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of
a private email server were discovered after the F.B.I. seized electronic
devices belonging to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton, and her
husband, Anthony Weiner.
The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner sent to a
15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that
it had uncovered new emails rela... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1016 | 48 security should be tightened. |
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