2011-09-21, 10:30 | Link #16681 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44606988...east_n_africa/
Obama's stance on Paletine's UN bid is clear. Also it seems the Republicans (or are they the Tea Party?) are trying to get in good with the American-Jews over Israel.
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2011-09-21, 11:05 | Link #16682 | |
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Essentially the Chinese have the advantage of over 50 years of Russian and American space flight experience to use as a guide on what works and what doesn't in order to springboard their own program. Nice to see them getting into space. Perhaps it will help move them even further over to a capitalist system as new industries become required to maintain and support a space program.
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2011-09-21, 12:29 | Link #16683 |
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Republicans’ Letter to Bernanke Questioning More Fed Action.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/...re-fed-action/
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2011-09-21, 12:46 | Link #16684 | |
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thats how conspiracy theories get started
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2011-09-21, 13:15 | Link #16685 |
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It all depends on influence and money (when it comes to elections, rather than actual world changing events that the politicians use for advantage rather really fixing things...at least near elections time). New York and Hollywood are considered large areas for politictical people to get influence with those that hold money and/or influence via one media or another.
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2011-09-21, 13:23 | Link #16686 | |
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must we resort to "THE JEWS"
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2011-09-21, 13:52 | Link #16687 |
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The american far right (especially in the South) has always been "about the jews" in that policy arena because their love-hate views on jews. When I speak to someone with those views there's this weird mix of "jews killed Jesus!!!" with "The End Times are predicated on the jews having Jerusalem!!!"
Yes, it makes my head hurt too. I mean, you there "on the ground" in Israel (or Palestine for others) have a better notion of the underlying economics and resource issues driving a lot of the anger (water supply, arable farm land, unemployment, violence as a "solution" creating blood feuds on individual level, points of strategic defense, etc). But if you want to be seriously worried, check out the views of our GOP presidential candidates on Israel-Palestine.... in many cases, its like an elementary Sunday school bit of nightmare.
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2011-09-21, 13:54 | Link #16688 |
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Depends on context. American-Jews are rather influencial and tend to vote Democratic. (I believe there are more jews in America than there are in Israel...and having worked for some, I tend to think of them as influencial and opinionated in American politics. Not to a major degree, but enough to shift the balance of power) Having the Republicans gain favor with them would have influence on the election, much like any party gaining favor with any particular ethnic grouping that is large enough to sway the vote one way or another.
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2011-09-21, 14:26 | Link #16689 | |
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2011-09-21, 14:31 | Link #16691 | |
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There used to be, it's now a lot more difficult to measure. Jews in the USA aren't as Jewish as they used to be, and a lot of it depends on how you define Jewishness. According to the Orthodox, I'm Jewish, but according to Reform Jews I'm not. It's basically due to the fact that Jews don't display nearly as many obvious signs of Jewishness any more, and they're intermarrying at a very fast rate. Suffice to say, 100 years from now, American Jewry may not really exist. outside the really religious. |
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2011-09-21, 19:41 | Link #16693 |
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House unexpectedly kills government spending bill
(Note: title is what Yahoo links it as on their main page, not my statement) Going to make fun of Yahoo here for its titling sense. Apparently, it's still unexpected to some people that one party in the house will vote down the other party's bill. Who knew!? |
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2011-09-22, 00:22 | Link #16698 |
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Noble women's higher pitched laugh (Renge), the darker noble woman's laugh (Suigintou....which I can't find a good sample), the loud Evil Emperor laugh (Zordar), or not quite as evil emperor laugh the slowly builds up in strength (Desler)?
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