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Marketwatch is starting to enjoy using the word "downgrade". Irene downgraded And also.... Maybe a foretelling of things to come?
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2011-08-28, 22:33 | Link #16163 |
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Powell says Cheney taking 'cheap shots' in book
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...08-28-15-12-10
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2011-08-28, 23:05 | Link #16164 | |
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2011-08-29, 02:17 | Link #16165 | ||
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I sometimes doubt what these "journalists" were thinking when they wrote their articles.
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And sure, taking care of the 4.3% percent of the Catholics is the main reason that this guy is made the head of the province. I mean, really? Given the special position of the province (it literally surround Beijing on all sides), loyalty as a dog is what they are looking for in him, and if he does well, he might get a position in Beijing after that. |
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2011-08-29, 07:14 | Link #16167 | |
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Might as well let him helm one of the aircraft carriers after China built 3 more to invade Taiwan with - he makes the perfect model for a "glorious war hero". *sarcastic* EDIT : Japan Puts On Elects New Sanitary Pad Premier
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2011-08-29, 08:21 | Link #16168 |
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They were pretty quick to elect the next guy, though I suppose they probably decided it in advance before Kan resigned.
But, eh, this guy doesn't seem particularly charismatic to me... It feels like the DPJ is just LDP 2.0. They have no excuse, because they hold large majorities in parliament... |
2011-08-29, 10:52 | Link #16171 |
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Big oil companies may have to give up Iraq gas
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77S1TO20110829
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2011-08-29, 11:32 | Link #16172 | ||
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i love this comment, the Right is blaming the Left for the Iraq war
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2011-08-29, 12:11 | Link #16173 |
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Its even worse... poor Savannah05 apparently can't even remember more than two years ago. Those of us paying attention remember when the Bush Administration made that very assertion that the oil/gas revenues from Iraq would cover the costs and that's why we could leave the war costs "off the books". But then, we also see that Savannah's assertion fails because they "prove it" by calling anyone names who challenges it.
Verbal thuggery Mussolini would be proud of Anyway.. this strident and increasing tendency to rewrite facts and blow confusion about does not bode well for what is left of US democracy. "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ignorance is just as good as knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov.
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2011-08-29, 12:17 | Link #16174 | |
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2011-08-29, 19:17 | Link #16175 |
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Bush Sr. is definitely a "liberal" by the standards of these neo-tards, as is Dole, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, and OMG! Eisenhower.
Bush, Jr. was simply not focused enough on the goals of people like Cheny and the Koch brothers and their ilk - so he wasn't sufficiently in line with their goals. http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Ar...y_Species.html is actually a pretty on-target assessment of the plutocrat war to destroy the uppity middle class that appeared in the 20th century. Even Eisenhower called these plutocrats and their minions "stupid" (exact words). Where *are* those guillotines?
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2011-08-29, 19:39 | Link #16176 | |
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2011-08-29, 19:45 | Link #16177 | |
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2011-08-29, 20:19 | Link #16178 |
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Dole was alright, but the Democrats had his number, so the last "old warhorse" was put out to pasture along with the old ideals. Basically the remains of the Republican party figure they can't win using the old ways since the Democratic party changed a lot in the 1960s to 1980s to counter Nixon and Reagan. Clinton is not an old timey Democrat, and niether is Obama.
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2011-08-29, 21:07 | Link #16179 |
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As I said earlier, 100 years ago the Republicans were more like the modern Democrats and vice versa. Well, not entirely. The Republicans of 1911 were the party of the Northeast and Midwest and favored high tariffs. (They were very pro-business, but the tariffs somewhat made up for that.) The Democrats of 1911 were the party of the South and West and especially before the Civil War favored smaller government and farming interests (think of Thomas Jefferson, often said to be the founder of the modern Democratic Party, as well as Andrew Jackson). At the same time though, they were also heavily represented by new immigrants in the inner cities, especially the Irish. (Enter the Kennedys.)
And it was the Republicans who spearheaded the original Progressive Era in the early 1900s, such as Wisconsin Senator Robert LaFollette and of course Theodore Roosevelt. Democrat William Jennings Bryan meanwhile ran for President in 1896 vowing to establish free silver along with the gold standard. I'm not sure whether that would've fit on the left or right sides, but Bryan's proposal was quite popular in the West (especially in states with large silver deposits). Bryan was also an extremely popular fundamentalist evangelist, and about 30 years later he served as the prosecutor during the Scopes Trial. Imagine a modern-day Democrat in that position. It's difficult to say when exactly the poles began shifting, but one could most likely draw the line at the election of conservative, small-government Warren Harding in 1920 and certainly with his successor Calvin Coolidge (Ronald Reagan's favorite president). Woodrow Wilson was the first big-government Democrat (though his stance on civil liberties during World War I left a lot to be desired). And then culture clashes and debate over Vietnam added the whole cultural definition. In a nutshell, conservative Southerners were alienated by mostly Northern hippies and went to their former arch-nemises. But some indescrepancies persisted; John F. Kennedy was actually a friend of Sen. Joe McCarthy and even defended him at some points. He only joined the Senate in censure when he was pressured. Meanwhile my grandma from Connecticut hasn't voted for any Republican since at least Reagan, but she's still a registered Republican. |
2011-08-29, 22:36 | Link #16180 |
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Bank of America to sell China bank stake for $8.3 billion
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77S2MO20110830
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