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But will the government take the money from his wife, children, grand children, brothers and others who have dispersed it in bank accounts around the world? Wil the gobernment see that they suffer like his victims?
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that we threw the book at Madoff, who ripped off the rich, but paid off the bankers who robbed us average Joes?
WHERETHEHELL IS MY ERA???
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LOL!
GOP = Grand Old PARTY!
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/29/obama/
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Greenwald is dead-on with this article.
Hampy, I mentioned this great find at The Widdershins. Looks like Glenn's Kool-Aid may have finally run out.
I remember that Kool-aid was like cheap chewing gum. The flavor was all gone before we got to the bottom of the picher.
I much preferred what they served at Camp Wamsutta. Bug Juice.
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I never got koolaid as a kid...only iced tea, milk, orange juice or water. It is nothing more than colored sugar water anyway. No food value at all. What the heck is bug juice?
I just found this:
When I first heard about that coup in Honduras, I didn't know what to think. Now that I know what happened and why, I'm appalled that Hillary would join the likes of Chavez, Ortega, and Castro in calling for the reinstatement of Zalaya.
Honduras and the UnTwitted “Coup”
How can Hillary and Obama decry the overthrowing of a tyrant who violates the constitution? What are they afraid of?
see what you can dig up.
It's always based on who they consider a friend, not how they rule. If Amedingusbat was overthrown by the military we'd be overjoyed.
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I just read that our government won't declare it a coup, because all govenment aid from the U.S. would immediately stop.
I'm really happy about this. I hate discrimination of any kind.
High Court Rules for White Firefighters in Discrimination Suit
Of course, justice Ginsberg had a different view.
as right-wing judicial activism.
I'm with you, Ron. Discrimination of any kind makes me mad. Probably a result of having lived with it all my life.
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Creeper, I hate to pry but could you please tell us more about the discrimination you've lived with all your life? I may be forgetting something you've already mentioned. I've only had to deal with anti-Semitism, reverse discrimination, and prejudice against long-haired bearded white guys. Here's how I looked on my student ID card in 1971:
My ears are sticking out because of all the hair tucked behind them.
But then, and there are no pictures, I looked like Janice Joplin. 18" of frizz and one earing.
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Funny thing was, that summer I was part of a NSF-funded water quality study and featured on a local NBC affiliate looking like that. Also, my wife to be chose me to be her boyfriend on the 4th of July that year. Yep, Saturday is one of our anniversaries.
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...in 1971.
The discrimination I referred to is that faced by every female in this country of my generation. We learned from infancy that there were some things girls just "couldn't" do. Athletic facilities for women when I was in school weren't just inferior...they were non-existent. There were no inter-school women's sports, period. On the work front there were promotions that went to lesser-qualified men, harrassment by male co-workers and a laundry list of jobs that women couldn't even apply for.
Yes, you read that right. As a matter of fact, until I was in my twenties, the "help wanted" ads in the local paper were actually separated into two sections..."Help Wanted - Male" and "Help Wanted - Female".
A car loan? Forget it. Even at the age of twenty-one, with a full-time job, I had to have a co-signer.
And then, of course, there was the subtle societal discrimination. A single woman who walked into a bar was immediately classified as a slut. Let the same woman walk in with a date and she could've been Saint Mary.
I'll never forget the day my female co-worker at a radio station was given a raise while I, who had been there a year longer, was passed over. My boss explained to me that she needed that raise because she had four children. Never mind that she also had a husband with a good job.
One of the most memorable days of my life was the day the factory for which I was a labor cost accountant hired its first women in the plant. Damn, that was good! They were running saws and welders and drill presses and grinders and, to the chagrin of management, turning out twice as much work as the men.
We lived our lives against a backdrop of discrimination. It's hard for people to understand, especially folks like yourself who are not biased. Reasonable people tend to think everyone else is reasonable. Definitely not so.
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I guess I look at that kind of discrimination as a thing of the past. I've been living with a woman in complete equality for over 36 years and I've known her for 38 years. We worked together with the ACLU to get the records of hundreds of protestors who were illegally arrested and detained expunged. We marched together with members of NOW in support of Roe v. Wade. I did all the housework, shopping, laundry, and cooking for 30 years while she worked. At the same time, I was doing landscaping, renovations, consulting, and teaching. My wife was the president of the professional guild, an AFSCME local, at the LoC for several years and then an executive at the Law Library of Congress until she retired. While she was doing that, I was an adjunct professor at GW and a computer consultant.
As a union official, my wife testified before Congress on the Library's budget annually and was often quoted in local papers on various issues. She once worked on a discrimination case against a black Library worker and got him reinstated. She had to fight a court battle of her own since the Library was discriminating against her due to her union activities. The case bounced around in DC Superior Court a few years and the Library finally gave up and gave her a new job at the Law Library. She ended up running the place when her boss retired.
When I was a kid and we encountered anti-Semitism, we moved. We lived in various apartments around the periphery of DC but finally moved into a new home when I was 7. Even then, I had to contend with an anti-Semitic kid. Six years later, we moved to Charlotte where they had restricted swimming pools. The only way I could swim was by joining a Jewish country club. Ironically, I spent a couple of weeks in SC at a YMCA Fresh Air Camp.
Basically, although my family, my wife and me all had to deal with some sort of discrimination, we were never victims of it because we always found a way around it or some way to deal with it. To be a victim, you'd have to accept the constraints placed on you but we never did. If I couldn't get a job, I went somewhere else.
My motto is, if this doesn't work, what does?
Creeper, your reply makes me think of something Shirley Chisholm once said...."Of of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
Good Ruling...And I too...Hate Discrimination of any kind...Our Constitution and Democratic Process go a Long way into efforts to establish.. Freedom..Equality and Dignity to all Our Citizens ...AND equal JUSTICE under the Law...with an Eye on that Constitution..and Bill of Rights...I am in Favor of any Court Ruling that supports Our Constitution and Anti discrimintion Laws against any Race, Creed or Color..
EQUAL Justice under the LAW...I Hope we, as a nation can and will End racial and Ethnic Hatred..and that we Behave more like the Citizens Our Founding fathers Hoped and Intended we would Be..With our Constitution and its PREAMBLE..to GUIDE us..
Barack Obama was elected in part to fix America’s health-care system. Now is the time for him to keep his word
A bolder president would start by attacking two huge distortions that make American health care more expensive than it needs to be. The first is that employer-provided health-care packages are tax-deductible. This is unfair to those without such insurance, who still have to subsidise it via their taxes. It also encourages gold-plated insurance schemes, since their full cost is not transparent. This tax break costs the government at least $250 billion a year. Mr Obama still shies away from axing it, as do the main congressional plans on offer; but it ought to go (albeit perhaps in stages).
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The second big distortion is that most doctors in America work on a fee-for-service basis; the more pills they prescribe, or tests they order, or procedures they perform, the more money they get—even though there is abundant clinical evidence that more spending does not reliably lead to better outcomes. Private providers everywhere are vulnerable to this perverse incentive, but in America, where most health care is delivered by the private sector rather than by salaried public-sector staff, the problem is worse than anywhere else.
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telling us to understand what is and to flow with the natural order of things.
Something about your small furry body being the point of the Lao-Tsu quote.
Now that I think about it, no wonder P'zane ate that post. It was awful.
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