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Quote:1kiki, you are getting testy.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And constantly LYING about what people post is why you're a used asswipe, and nobody credits a fucking thing you post.
In the 1990's I built safety shutdown systems for petrochemical plants. The people on duty when a plant exploded tended to shade the truth, doing their worst to avoid culpability for what happened. Lied, or at least misdirected, in other words.
But the control room records told the real story. Did the people on duty correct themselves when their story disagreed with the story the control room recorders showed? No, but they did get testy that their stories weren't being believed.
You are not really interested in the real story, are you, 1kiki? You are committed to your fake story. You know what the real story says about the GOP.
The real story is Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:These "bubbles" happen because the wealthy want them. It is their ideas, not the government's. Not the government, but the Wealthy, and their prejudices, direct America.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
I just want to point out that I think we're in a stock market bubble. Before that was a bank / investment bubble. Before that was a housing bubble. And before that was the dot.com bubble. And before that was the S&L bubble.
Without real overall growth, government needs these bubbles to create good economic averages. Without the bubbles averaged in, the actual dismal state of the real economy would be exposed.
EVERYONE in government since the 70's wants to keep those bubbles frothing!
Why a Banking Heiress Spent Her Fortune on Keeping Immigrants Out
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-a-banking-heiress-spent-her-fortune-on-k
eeping-immigrants-out/ar-AAFNPSB
An heiress to the Mellon banking and industrial fortune with a half-billion dollars at her disposal, Mrs. May helped create what would become the modern anti-immigration movement. She bankrolled the founding and operation of the nation’s three largest restrictionist groups — the Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies — as well as dozens of smaller ones, including some that have promulgated white nationalist views.
In many ways, the Trump presidency is the culmination of Mrs. May’s vision for strictly limiting immigration. Groups that she funded shared policy proposals with Mr. Trump’s campaign, sent key staff members to join his administration and have close ties to Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration agenda to upend practices adopted by his Democratic and Republican predecessors.
More at www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-a-banking-heiress-spent-her-fortune-on-k
eeping-immigrants-out/ar-AAFNPSB
It's fascinating what ideas lurk in the tiny brains of the rich and powerful. More thrilling is the story of how their wealth spreads those ideas into the big World.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the 2015 nuclear deal. One line in particular stood out from the rest: “There is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms.”
Huh? The Iranians were violating an agreement — before it even existed?
Is it any surprise that even the foreign minister of Iran took to Twitter to join the online ridiculing of the White House?
Javad Zarif @Jzarif tweeted:
Seriously?
https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1145856200262737921
The Trump administration’s lies on the topic of Iran are now beyond parody. There is, however, nothing funny about them. U.S. government lies can have deadly consequences: Never forget that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and children, not to mention more than 4,400 U.S. military personnel, are dead today because of the sheer volume of falsehoods told by the George W. Bush administration.
So it is incumbent upon journalists to do in 2019 what they collectively did not do in 2003: Check the facts, challenge the lies, debunk the myths.
More at Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/14/trump-iran-worst-lies/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Maybe Trump can get your boy Mueller fully on board and it will all come full circle.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:1kiki, you are getting testy.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And constantly LYING about what people post is why you're a used asswipe, and nobody credits a fucking thing you post.
In the 1990's I built safety shutdown systems for petrochemical plants. The people on duty when a plant exploded tended to shade the truth, doing their worst to avoid culpability for what happened. Lied, or at least misdirected, in other words.
But the control room records told the real story. Did the people on duty correct themselves when their story disagreed with the story the control room recorders showed? No, but they did get testy that their stories weren't being believed.
You are not really interested in the real story, are you, 1kiki? You are committed to your fake story. You know what the real story says about the GOP.
The real story is Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I know with a little digging I can find quite a few times where you've blown your cool.
Best to remember this from that glass house you're living in.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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In the US, unlike in other developed countries, the minimum wage is a political issue. That means it gets raised irregularly and unpredictably. And that causes a bunch of problems for American workers and businesses.
Every other developed country with a minimum wage has some sort of commission or formula to determine what the rate should be. Some countries consult with business leaders and union representatives, and nearly all of them involve economic experts. And they review it every year or two. In the US, though, it’s in the hands of politicians.
And that goes about as well as you’d expect.
Republicans against, Democrats for, wage raise stymied.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Our Caesar: Can the country come back from Trump? The Republic already looks like Rome in ruins.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/08/is-there-hope-for-the-amer
ican-republic-after-trump.html
The American system has a vulnerability Rome didn’t. We have always had a one-man executive branch, a head of state, with exclusive and total command of the armed forces. There is no need for an office like Rome’s dictator, who serves only 6 months, for when a systemic crisis hits, because we have an existing commander-in-chief vested with emergency powers who can, at any time, invoke them. The two consuls in Rome shared rule and could veto each other; what defines the American presidency is its individual, unitary nature. Over the past century, moreover, as America’s global clout has grown exponentially, and as the challenges of governing a vast and complicated country have spawned a massive administrative state under the president’s ultimate control, what was once designed as an office merely to enforce the laws made by the Congress has changed beyond recognition.
So what happens when a populist celebrity leverages mass resentment of elites to deploy that power — as Marius and Sulla and Pompey and Caesar did — in ever more expansive, innovative, and authoritarian ways?
When you think of how the Founders conceived the presidency, the 21st-century version is close to unrecognizable. Their phobia about monarchy placed the presidency beneath the Congress in the pecking order, stripping him of pomp and majesty. No newspaper bothered even to post a reporter at the White House until the 20th century. The “bully pulpit” was anathema, and public speeches vanishingly rare. As George F. Will points out in his new book on conservatism, the president of the United States did not even have an office until 1902, working from his living room until Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing.
Some presidents rose above this level of modesty. Lincoln temporarily assumed far greater powers in the Civil War, of course, but it was Teddy Roosevelt who added celebrity and imperial aspirations to the office.
FDR, as president for what turned out to be life, revolutionized and metastasized the American government and bequeathed a Cold War presidency atop a military-industrial complex that now deploys troops in some 164 foreign countries.
Kennedy — and the Camelot myth that surrounded him — dazzled the elites and the public.
Reagan ushered in a movie-star model for a commander-in-chief — telegenic, charismatic, and, in time, something of a cult figure.
And then the 9/11 attacks created an atmosphere similar to that of Rome’s temporary, emergency dictatorships, except vast powers of war-making, surveillance, rendition, and even torture were simply transferred to an office for non-emergency times as well, as theorists of the unitary executive — relatively unbound by Congress or the rule of law — formed a tight circle around a wartime boss. And there was no six-month time limit; almost none of these powers has since been revoked.
Like Roman commanders slowly acquiring the trappings of gods, presidents have long since slipped the bounds of republican austerity into a world of elected monarchs, flying the world in a massive, airborne chariot, constantly photographed, and now commanding our attention every single day through Twitter.
More at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/08/is-there-hope-for-the-amer
ican-republic-after-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweeted:
Biggest crowd EVER, according to Arena people. Thousands outside trying to get in. Place was packed! Radical Left Dems & their Partner, LameStream Media, saying Arena empty. Check out pictures. Fake News. The Enemy of the People!
Great news! Tonight, we broke the all-time attendance record previously held by Elton John at #SNHUArena in Manchester, New Hampshire!
8:11 PM - 16 Aug 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162562469283471360
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In the US, unlike in other developed countries, the minimum wage is a political issue. That means it gets raised irregularly and unpredictably. And that causes a bunch of problems for American workers and businesses.
Every other developed country with a minimum wage has some sort of commission or formula to determine what the rate should be. Some countries consult with business leaders and union representatives, and nearly all of them involve economic experts. And they review it every year or two. In the US, though, it’s in the hands of politicians.
And that goes about as well as you’d expect.
Republicans against, Democrats for, wage raise stymied.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Well... It looks like Vox finally got rid of Carlos Maza and his race-baiting and hate-mongering.
Let's see if Vox can continue to take the steps it needs ahead of time to gain a shred of integrity and something worth saving overall before the missing link media goes the way of Blockbuster Video.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweeted:
Biggest crowd EVER, according to Arena people.
If he manajez to stay out uv prizon, he will be doing theze rallyz till he'z 100 and idiots will keep buying tikits.
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