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发帖数: 29846 | 1 奥巴马的白宫主管William Daley辞职了，任职1年，来自华尔街；由预算主管Jacob
Lew接任
White House Chief of Staff William Daley resigns; budget chief Jacob Lew
fills post
By David Nakamura, Published: January 9
White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley resigned Monday, a year after
taking the job, shaking up the administration’s senior management just as
President Obama gears up for what is expected to be a tough reelection
campaign.
Last January, Obama tapped Daley to replace Rahm Emanuel with high
expectations. Daley, a form... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 TEHRAN (FNA)- A new survey conducted in post-revolution Egypt found that the
Muslim nation has an increasingly deep trust and admiration for Iran and
wants a replacement of the US with Iran in their country's foreign policy.
An overwhelming majority of Egyptians support replacing US economic aid with
funds from Iran or Turkey, according to new poll results, while a
decreasing number of the subjects view the treaty with Israel as positive.
Eighty-two percent of the Egyptians questioned oppose... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 By Stephen Schwartz
The Hartford Seminary has occupied a leading position among theological
faculties around the nation in accommodating Islam, particularly in its
radical forms, since appointing its first Muslim faculty member more than
twenty years ago. Today, that accommodation extends to the murderous regime
of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
Hartford maintains a highly questionable relationship with an Islamic
religious and Arabic-language school, the Al-Fatiha Islamic Academy in
Damascus, a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 May 23, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
The Washington Post published a long Op Ed by a pair of think tankers
pretending at both being “centrists” and offering an unbiased analysis of
why politics has gotten so “partisan” these days. The pair also claim they
know how to end this messy partisanship. But what they wrote is a perfect
example of why things have become so polarized, not an example of how to fix
anything.
The authors, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, published theirs
headlined, “Wa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 May 22, 2012 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
-By Warner Todd Huston
Matthew Continetti gives the President a D plus in his grade for his first
term in office and with a grade that low, let’s hope it is his only term in
office.
Continetti notes that Obama awarded himself a “a good, solid, B-plus” not
long ago but when he visited the cacklers at ABC’s The View he decided that
he shouldn’t assign himself a letter grade because his term is “
incomplete.”
Actually, as Continetti points out, his first te... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Yet another first for the Obama administration:
The U.S. State Department removed the sections covering religious
freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released on May 24,
three months past the statutory deadline Congress set for the release of
these reports.
The new human rights reports--purged of the sections that discuss the
status of religious freedom in each of the countries covered--are also the
human rights reports that include th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Which makes ObamaCare the largest middle class tax increase on the American
people in history.
William Jacobson, legal professor at Cornell, has an opinion worth reading
on it:
Essentially the Court accepted all of the legal arguments establishing
that Congress cannot force people to participate in commerce, which
arguments were derided by the law professor establishment, but accepted the
argument that everyone thought was a sad joke and afterthought, that th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 by Bill McBride
Here is a series I'm looking forward to reading ... from David Leonhardt at
the NY Times: A Closer Look at Middle-Class Decline
Arguably no question is more central to the country’s global standing
than whether the economy will perform better in the future than it has in
the recent past.
Over the next few months on this blog, several colleagues and I will
look in some detail at the challenge and at possible ways forward, and we’
ll encourage you to weigh in with questions... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press
August 26, 2012
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — On the eve of their national party conventions, Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a close race to amass the requisite 270
Electoral College votes for victory. And the contest is exactly where it was
at the start of the long, volatile summer: focused on seven states that are
up for grabs.
Neither candidate has a significant advantage in Colorado, Florida, Iowa,
Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia, which offer a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 Left Said Right’s Linking Katrina to God was Terrible But Left Linking
Isaac to God is Fine
August 29, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
In 2005 after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast like a sledgehammer,
several folks on the right side of America’s political aisle suggested that
the devastation the storm inflicted on New Orleans was somehow a punishment
imposed on the city by God. Most on the right condemned the remarks. The
left, of course, went apoplectic in condemnation.
But, in 2012, apparen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 When Naval Institute Press decided to publish "The Hunt for Red October" in
1983, few ever imagined the book would become a hit, much less create a
literary genre.
But it did, and as a result, author Tom Clancy took his place among the
American pantheon of authors – a place that many of the reviewers in the
elite media seem to ignore, at best.
I have been a Clancy fan since I was maybe eight years old. I read his books
constantly – to the annoyance of my eighth-grade English teacher. Of
course, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
James Williams, an attorney for Ms. Johnson, called the attempts to “impede
Justice Johnson’s ascension to the Chief Justice position… a racially
divisive maneuver
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反正你ｔｍｄ的不同意我老黑的就是种族歧视．
The unusual contest to determine who should be the next chief justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court isn’t over just yet.
Lawyers for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday filed notice that they
planned to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling last week
that settled the is... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 By Dick Morris on September 12, 2012
The post convention bounce that led to jubilation in the mainstream media
has exhausted itself and Romney is coming back strongly. Having shown Obama
as much as four points ahead of Romney in the immediate aftermath of the
Conventions, Rasmussen now has the president down to a one point margin:
Obama: 46 Romney: 45.
Instead, the fundamental flaws of the Democratic strategy are emerging: By
tying the race to unrealistic expectations of economic recovery, Obama... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Egypt’s New Leader Spells Out Terms for U.S.-Arab Ties
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEVEN ERLANGER
CAIRO — On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s new
Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to
fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect
for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to
overcome decades of pent-up anger.
A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s first democratically
elect... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 15 Considering the jokes they had done after their amb got killed in Libya. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 October 12, 2012 12:00 A.M.
An anonymous State Department official told the Associated Press last
Tuesday: “That was not our conclusion” — namely, that a notorious YouTube
video that lampooned the Islamic prophet Mohammed unleashed deadly mayhem
upon America’s consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
This denial should shock anyone who watched the news after U.S. ambassador J
. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy
SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were murdered on the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 17 黑8 will get a lot of media attention in the aftermath for sure. Community
activist一定又会到处送温暖了。
On the other hand, 那些vote early, vote often的黑蛆应该会被关在家里吧。 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 October 30, 2012 by Doug Johnson
Jonathan Chait at NYMag (with appreciative linking from Andrew Sullivan) is
all in for politicizing Sandy:
Disasters are inherently political, because government is political, and
preventing and responding to disasters is a primary role of the state. But
there is an innate tension in overtly politicizing a disaster. At the moment
of greatest urgency, emotions run so hot that it’s hard to fairly assess
the costs and benefits of disaster response. On the othe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 193 | 20 http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/265805-opin
Opinion: A Romney win would be a victory for shameless cynicism
By Juan Williams - 11/05/12 05:00 AM ET
Tweet
If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday,
it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political
campaigns in American history.
It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.
It is even harder to be a Republican in the aftermath of President Bush’s
still widel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12623 | 21 thank you. I mistaken Baton Rouge with aftermath of.Katrina |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 How Conservatives Can Win in Blue-State America: Lessons from South Africa's
Opposition
The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that
Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer
a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s
demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to
win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the
party’s core policies, from immigrati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16594 | 23 很多原因，反正GOP是没问题的，有问题的是天，是地，是DEM。
WASHINGTON -- Republicans across the country were shellshocked as President
Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s presidential election,
finishing the race with 332 electoral votes and winning every battleground
state except for North Carolina. The blame game began almost immediately, as
Republicans looked to determine how a vulnerable incumbent like Obama had
found a pathway to reelection.
The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stron... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Posted: Nov 16, 2012 9:16 AM Updated: Nov 16, 2012 9:17 AM
By FOX News
Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday
morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya
attack that "Al Qaeda involvement" was suspected -- but the line was taken
out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according
to a top lawmaker who was briefed.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who spoke to reporters after Petraeus testified
before the House Intel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17225 | 25 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Even in the off season, the pastel beach houses
lining a skinny strip of sand here are a testament to the good life.
Multimedia
Slide Show
In Alabama, a Community on Shifting Sands
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原帖地址
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/science/earth/as-coasts-rebui
A blog about energy and the environment.
Go to Blog »
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Enlarge This Image
Jeff Haller for The New York Times
Storms have repeatedly torn through Dauphin Island, four miles off the
Alabama coast, costing tens of million... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 26 I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary,
around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never
experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his
election would change everything about American politics or government, that
it would lead us out of the darkness. Nothing Obama did or said ever made
me well up with tears.
Possibly for that same reason, I have never felt even a bit of the crushing
sense of disappointment that at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Huckabee: America Removed God From Schools, 'Should We Be Surprised' At CT
Shooting?
“It’s an interesting thing, we ask why there’s violence in our schools
but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so
surprised that schools would become a place of carnage? Because we’ve made
it a place where we do not want to talk about eternity, life, what
responsibility means, accountability. That we’re not just going to have to
be accountable to the police, if they catch us, but we s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4718 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 GunsAndGears 讨论区 】
发信人: IcyLi (IcyLi), 信区: GunsAndGears
标 题: Utah 6th grader points gun to classmate's head
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 19 12:30:25 2012, 美东)
Utah 6th grader brings gun to school 'for protection' in Sandy Hook
aftermath, points it at classmate's head during recess
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/scare-guns-found-s-hig
The unidentified little boy said his parents told him to bring the unloaded
.22 pistol to school for protection following the Sandy Hook massacre.
A... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3422 | 29 Four days after the deadly school shooting in Connecticut that left 20
children and six teachers dead, two Republican governors have spoken
favorably of considering proposals to put guns in the hands of teachers and
administrators.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry expressed support for allowing school districts to
determine whether teachers can carry concealed handguns in class, which at
least one Texas district already permits.
"In the state of Texas, if you go through the process, have been trained,
and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 NRA Membership Increasing 8,000 A Day After Sandy Hook Shooting
Posted: December 20, 2012
NRA membership rolls are rising rapidly at a record-setting pace, increasing
by 8,000 new NRA members per day since the Sandy Hook elementary school
shooting. According to Fox News, both the number of individual contributions
to the NRA and their average amount have risen significantly in the period
following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
Unlike many who are using the school shooting as a political ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 Sandy Victim in Obama Photo Op Gets Form Letter Thanking Her for Supporting
the Troops
by Jammie
For all the phony outrage over a delay in federal funding (blaming the GOP,
of course), where is Chris Christie and the media to express their outrage
over this insensitivity?
On October 31st, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a soon-to-be-
reelected President Barack Obama joined New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
for a survey of the devastation at the Jersey Shore. In Brigantine, Obama
embrac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 The left’s thuggish attempt to silence the National Rifle Association in
the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre continued this weekend as
groups began targeting hotel chains that give NRA discounts. The
disproportionate focus on the NRA in the wake of Sandy Hook smacks of
politics: Connecticut is one of the most heavily gun controlled states in
the nation and the Sandy Hook shooter violated multiple gun laws in
perpetrating his crimes. Obviously, the NRA is also an interest group that
re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 Obama: 'We will find out who did this'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, responding to the explosions at
the Boston Marathon, says the United States does not know "who did this or
why" but vowed that whoever is responsible "will feel the full weight of
justice."
He said: "We will find out who did this and we will hold them accountable."
Obama made his remarks Monday evening from the White House about three hours
after two explosions detonated near the marathon's finish line. At least
two... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 In the aftermath of the failure of gun control amendments in the Senate,
most attention has been focused on the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey
provision to expand background checks. While that provision wouldn't have
prevented Newtown or any other recent mass-shooting and made mostly cosmetic
changes to federal law, it went down to bi-partisan defeat. The bigger
story, however, is that Obama's signature proposal, a ban on assault weapons
and extended magazines, was overwhelmingly rejected by the S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 In a piece published earlier today, Big Journalism made note of the fact
that, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, ratings confirm that
CNN has now lost its "Big News" ratings dominance to Fox News.
For over a decade, whenever major news broke, Americans were simply expected
to abandon their regular news source to tune in to CNN. What we've seen
lately, though, and without a doubt during the Boston Marathon terror attack
, is that this is no longer the case. Fox News is now, if you... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 For the Boston Bombers, the President is Just Putting On Ayers …
April 20, 2013 | Posted by Ken Marrero
I have listened, with fascination and horror, to the President’s words
since the Boston bombing.
I found them a dispassionate litany of the obvious that did little to
inspire or encourage. Among them, he noted:
… on days like this there are no Republicans or Democrats – we are
Americans …
…that all Americans stand with the people of Boston.
and
… we salute all those who assisted i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2047 | 38 -- Emily Miller is senior editor of opinion for The Washington Times.
Attorney General Eric Holder has confiscated George Zimmerman’s gun. Even
though Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of Trayvon Martin,
the Justice Department on Thursday ordered the Sanford police to put a hold
on the evidence from the trial, which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun.
It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows Mr. Holder to
stop a police chief in Florida from returning a firearm to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 45 | 39 "and that all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was
involved in the same kind of scenario that, from top to bottom, both the
outcome and the aftermath might have been different," Obama said.
这番话不是公然质疑和否定美国的司法体系吗？作为现任总统，为了自己的政治利益或
“族群感情”贸然攻击司法制度，影响司法独立，何其的不成熟不专业！！！估计老大
一批当年投票给他的人都在后悔了。 |
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发帖数: 1532 | 40 "outcome" and the "aftermath" |
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发帖数: 21627 | 41 Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-
Programmer?
A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was
arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him
, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But
Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old
father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 埃及内政部长躲过炸弹刺杀，21人受伤
A car bomb targeted the convoy of Egypt’s interior minister Thursday in the
first assassination attempt since former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster,
but the official survived the blast.
The attack against Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police force,
signaled the arrival in the capital of the sort of insurgency-style attacks
that have been escalating in the Sinai Peninsula.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the car bomb explosion,
which went off in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 September 11, 2013 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Today we have a great example of a polling firm allowing its political
ideology to get in the way of its work. On Tuesday, Sept. 10, two anti-
Second Amendment State Senators in Colorado were recalled by huge margins.
In the days before the recall vote took place, Public Policy Polling (PPP)
had conducted a poll that showed that the senators were about to be
eliminated by voters but the firm refused to publish its own poll because
the left-wing pol... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 October 9, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
If you are under 30, if you are not very wealthy, and even if you are
healthy your healthcare insurance costs will soar thanks to Obamacare. And
you won’t have any choice in the matter, either, or you will be labeled a
criminal under the law.
Robert Graboyes has some of the facts at the US News.
“Millennials’ life prospects have already suffered under the weight of the
Great Recession and its aftermath,” Graboyes points out. But it is about
to get worse.
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发帖数: 2964 | 45 Because when bubble burst, they did not have someone like Bernanke/Paulson
who knew how to deal with the aftermath. Tax hike at the peak of Asia
financial crisis shot itself at the foot. Instead of increasing tax revenue,
the economy plummet, tax revenue down sharply. And they are in a deflation
environment ever since. |
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发帖数: 15 | 46 Borrowed some wording from congressmen's letter and logged in my own
complaint.
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It is with a deeply disturbed heart that I am writing to formally complain
about "Kids Table" segment aired on 10/16/2013 in Jimmy Kimmel Live show by
ABC Network. During the segment, Mr. Kimmel asked 4 children how the US
should pay back the debt owed to China. When one of the children suggested
to "kill everyone in China", the audience laughed and Mr. Kimmel
acknowledged with an "intere... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15 | 47 Borrowed some wording from congressmen's letter and logged in my own
complaint.
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It is with a deeply disturbed heart that I am writing to formally complain
about "Kids Table" segment aired on 10/16/2013 in Jimmy Kimmel Live show by
ABC Network. During the segment, Mr. Kimmel asked 4 children how the US
should pay back the debt owed to China. When one of the children suggested
to "kill everyone in China", the audience laughed and Mr. Kimmel
acknowledged with an "intere... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: meidi (meidi), 信区: Military
标 题: Chinese massacre of 1871
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Oct 27 16:39:26 2013, 美东)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871
Contents [hide]
1 Riot and massacre
2 Location
3 Causes
4 Aftermath
5 Representation in Literature
6 See also
7 Footnotes
8 Further reading
9 External links
The Chinese massacre of 1871 was a racially motivated riot on October 24,
1871, when a mob of over 500 white men en... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 MMA Fighter Kills Home Invader
A professional mixed-martial artist killed one home invader, put another in
the hospital with facial injuries, and sent two more fleeing on New Year’s
Day in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The four assailants, reputedly all gang members, allegedly forced their way
into Joseph Lopez’s trailer home after issuing threats against the cage
fighter. The mixed-martial artist claims self-defense in the killing, with
his lawyer noting the presence of his fiancee, her sister, and t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1540 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: oosmart (oosmart), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国式逻辑：韩亚事件消防员压死女生叶某后，三番消防局长严禁消防员装头盔摄像机
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 15 13:34:04 2014, 美东)
美国式解决问题的逻辑 - 没人知道就好了：
在消防员自己头盔录像证明了中国叶姓女生是被救火车压死的以后，三番消防局长命令
禁止一切消防员在头盔上装摄像头。
此消防局长还是一女的，狠。
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-fire-chief-bans-helmet
San Francisco's fire chief has explicitly banned firefighters from using
helmet-mounted video cameras, after images from a battalion chief's Asiana
Airlines crash recording became public and ... 阅读全帖 |
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