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本文是作者新书Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia的第一章导论部分的节译，标
题为编者所加 翻译：陶小路
普京建造了一个庞大的掠夺性体制，其规模之大，只有沙皇时代的体制可与之“媲美”。
一
2014年年初，俄罗斯兼并克里米亚，支持乌克兰亲俄分裂分子，美国政府对此做出的应
对措施为世人所未曾见：对惩罚数位俄罗斯公民而非俄罗斯政府，惩罚措施包括冻结其
海外资产，不予发放签证。美国政府没有开动第六舰队，对俄出口贸易正常，两国之间
的文化、教育交流也未受影响，然而受到美国政府制裁的偏偏是数位与俄罗斯总统普京
关系密切的俄上层人士。
这可能是自冷战结束以来最严重的国际危机，可是美国政府却对一些个人进行制裁。这
是为何？原因是，在过去的十四年里，美国政府一直将普京视为俄罗斯合法政府首脑并
与之打交道，如今美国政府终于公开认同了一个以往数届政府私下有所知晓的事实，即
是：普京建造了一个庞大的掠夺性体制，其规模之大，只有沙皇时代的体制可与之“媲
美”。据国际透明组织（Transparency... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 2 从The Atlantic看到一篇分析俄罗斯为什么如此恐同的文章:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/why-is
Why Is Russia So Homophobic?
Communist-era justifications for bigotry don't make sense anymore. What's
behind lawmakers' opposition to gays?
A man attacks a gay rights activist during a gay pride parade in St.
Petersburg on June 25, 2011. (Reuters)
The Russian Duma unanimously approved a law on Tuesday that prohibits the
distribution of homosexual "propaganda" to minors. Holding gay pride events,
sp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Ann Coulter：过去20年，民主党专门保护金融巨头免于承担他们的自己的冒险的后果
，过去15年里花旗集团和高盛集团被用纳税人的钱拯救了4次
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35374
Can't We At Least Get a Toaster?
by Ann Coulter
01/27/2010
In the wake of the Massachusetts Miracle last week ("The other Boston
Massacre"), President Obama adopted a populist mantle, claiming he was going
to "fight" Wall Street. It was either that or win another Nobel Peace Prize.
Now the only question is which Goldman Sachs crony he'll put in charge of
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发帖数: 8227 | 5 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704508904575192430373566758.html
An Economy of Liars
By GERALD P. O'DRISCOLL JR.
When government and business collude, it's called crony capitalism. Expect
more of this from the financial reforms contemplated in Washington.
Free markets depend on truth telling. Prices must reflect the valuations of
consumers; interest rates must be reliable guides to entrepreneurs
allocating capital across time; and a firm's accounts must reflect the true
value of th |
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发帖数: 2119 | 6 Amazing way to waste tax payers' money. First, pass a law that is
controversial and ineffective and costly to
defend in court. Then, hire cronies in the PR companies to show otherwise.
Arizona, you are officially
desperate. There is publicity that is bad publicity after all.
reporters
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 参议院民主党领袖、极左的Harry Reid，现在是最富有的参议员之一，住在首府华盛顿
的超豪华的Ritz公寓中。他的财富从哪里来？
http://www.dirtymoneyharry.com/reidmoney.html
Where Reid's Money Came From
By Daxton Brown
d*********[email protected]
In the Sharron Angle vs Reid debate on October 14th, Angle asked Senator
Reid how he was able to accumulate so much wealth on a politicians salary.
One would suppose that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a fairly
important person and many in the media would already have answers to this
question. However, other than... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Ann Coulter：事实上我高兴听到奥巴马说这里没人（我假设其中包括民主党）希望生
活在任何其他地方，但为什么他们总是要把美国变成西欧？
I missed the middle section of Obama's State of the Union address when I
took a break to read "War and Peace," but I gather he never got around to
what I was hoping he'd say, which is: "What was I thinking?"
The national debt is $14 trillion, the Democrats won't stop spending, and
President Nero gave us a long gaseous speech about his Stradivarius.
I feel so Southern whenever I watch a Democrat give a State of the Union
addre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By Jack Kerwick
In a word, race promises to play at least as large a role in the next
election as it played in the last presidential race. Rest assured, it is on
this that Barack Obama and his cronies are counting.
For decades now, whites and non-whites have been engaged in a kind of racial
game with one another. Like any other game, when played long enough, it
becomes a ritual of a sort. But when it becomes ritualistic, there is an
imminent danger that it will be forgotten as play and be tre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 By Frank Burke
For those outside the state to fully appreciate the significance of what is
happening in Wisconsin, it is necessary to understand the local political
situation over the past decade.
To conservatives and to many moderates, the capture of the governorship, the
state senate and assembly, two House seats, and the Senate seat formerly
held by Russ Feingold, produced a feeling that can only be described as
liberation. The total Democratic control that accompanied the Doyle
administrati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33885 | 11 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: xinchong (xc), 信区: Military
标 题: 奥巴马只能是个一期总统
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Apr 5 19:39:38 2011, 美东)
理由如下：
1. His leadership style is one of consensus and compromise. This works OK in
a caretaker setting in which there are no crises and no demands for bold
changes of course. Unfortunately, this era is defined by structural crises,
and a leadership based on gaining consensus and compromise is basically a
rudderless one in this environment.
2. He does not understand economics ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By Brendon S. Peck
Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New
York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW.
That average Americans continue to stand against these job-killing, profit-
leaching forces is most encouraging. But make no mistake, the fight is far
from over.
Labor unions are in decline and desperate. Today, union membership is under
12% of the U.S. workforce -- it was over 20% in the 1980's. Among retail
unions, like the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 By Mary Beth White
In 1977, newly married and certain that my new spouse could do no wrong, I
willingly followed him into an adventure of Tennessee farming. I was a city
girl, but my new husband said we were going to raise sheep, cattle, and
horses, make tons of money, and live happily ever after. Because of the
politics of the day, the Farmers Home Administration had taken on several
newly developed loan projects and low-income families like us were given a
rosy scenario of cheap money for ch... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Here is why I disagree with democrats always wanting to take the tax dollars
,this is a real life story about government production versus private
production:
I saw Hillary Clinton being interviewed on O’Reilly some years ago. He
asked her what percentage of his income she thought the government was
entitled to. Her answer, after trying to dodge the question, was 70%.
Later in the week, a male employee asked me if I could ever vote for a woman
for president. He had Hillary in mind. I said yes, b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 By Richard Baehr
The Obama administration wants to "pivot" to jobs. A bit late, I would say.
They wasted a year pushing health care reform. That passed with zero
Republican votes in the House and Senate, and about the same number of
Republican ideas. When the Democrats controlled both branches of Congress
and the White House, they shoved their approach down the throats of
Republican in Congress, and an American public that opposed it then, and
still opposes the legislation by a 3-to-2 margi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 September 20, 2011
By Robert Gelinas
The decision of who will become the next president of the United States will
be made long before November of 2012. After the current president's most
recent tour de farce before a joint session of Congress, it is rapidly
becoming a foregone conclusion who it's not going to be.
The Obama-adoring New York Times concedes that their manufactured politician
may be in deep trouble as his own base begins to abandon him. Independents
have already done so. The righ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 October 2, 2011 - 3:59 pm - by Victor Davis Hanson
The Parting of the Clouds
In every literary, historical or cinematic masterpiece, times must grow
darkest before the sunrise and deliverance. Tolkien worked that classical
theme to great effect. A sense of fatalism overtook a seemingly doomed
Gondor — right before the overthrow of Barad-dûr and the dawn of a new
age of men. The historian Herodotus, in literary fashion, also brilliantly
juxtaposed the Greek collapse at Thermopylae (the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,4293298.
story
When even the L.A. Times starts reporting on government expenditures which
appear to be the direction of millions (or hundreds of millions) of taxpayer
dollars to companies in bed with Democrat donors, you know that such
corruption is a story not going away anytime soon.
This it is with Saturday’s article (I know it’s date says Sunday, but I
promise you I read it on Saturday) entitled “Cost, need questioned in $433-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 20 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Occupy Memphis member Mallory Pope had just finished
telling a group of about 75 tea party followers Thursday night that
politicians should not allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists and
unions when she received an unexpected invitation.
"It sounds to me that y'all ought to be joining us," said Jerry Rains, a 64-
year-old computer programmer and tea party member. "You have a lot of the
same goals we have, which is to take our country back."
Pope and fellow Occupy Me... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 What liberals want to copy is the authoritarianism.
In 2008, I wrote a book called “Liberal Fascism.” That title came from H.
G. Wells, one of the most important socialist writers in the English
language. He believed, as did his fellow Fabian socialists, that Western
democratic capitalism had outlived its usefulness.
What was needed was a new, bold, forward-thinking system run by experts with
access to the most modern techniques. For Wells, the label for such a
system mattered less than the impe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 By Sarah Palin
Updated 5d 17h ago
Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's
book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have
concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a
rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock
portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full
disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a
foreign policy adviser.)
USA... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 The Obama Navy Illustrates Why America Is Sinking: PC Navy Buying Biofuel At
$16 A Gallon
In Obama’s God damn America we do truly breathtakingly stupid things and
then keep doing them until we collapse. And then of course we can also add
a healthy mixture of Obama’s crony capitalist fascism:
Navy buys biofuel for $16 a gallon
posted at 7:00 pm on December 11, 2011 by J.E. Dyer
This is going to help the Defense Department weather looming budget cuts
, for sure. Teaming up with the De... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Senator Chris Dodd Democrat is one of the two major culprits leading to the
housing meltdown. He kept the Senate from acting while Democrat Barney Frank
kept the U.S. House from taking steps to deal with scandals leading to the
collapse of CountryWide Mortgage and the scandals at Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac all led by Clinton Cronies and involving Rahm Emanuel.
In May 2007 Barney Frank and the Democrat-controlled House passed GSE reform
legislation. Legislation which was adamantly opposed by the ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 Posted on December 12th, 2011
post by Steve Oliver
The current #Occupier of the White House loves to tell us about the “failed
policies of the past…” But let’s have a look at what the real failed
policies of the past are:
The War on Poverty.
According to the Census Bureau, in 1966 the poverty rate was 11.8%. It has
remained in a range between 8.7% and 12.3% for the last 46 years. Fail.
Giving money to people with no strings attached does not eliminate poverty.
Helping those who cannot help ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Obama is a cuckoo's nestling, a little gift from the obsessively anti-
American left, who has been dropped deceptively into our mainstream politics
. Cuckoos are called "brood parasites" because they drop their eggs into
strangers' nests, to leave the hard work of incubating and raising the young
bird to a deceived mother bird. Deception happens all the time in the
animal kingdom, like all the times my cat fakes me out by mewing at the door
, only to stand there and sniff the air when I get up ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 27 hide his crony capitalism |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 By Selwyn Duke
Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn
Congress for not growing it?
It's always a disturbing experience when you're accosted with a picture of
Harry Reid, as I was upon logging on to Drudge Monday afternoon. But at
least his image bore a fitting caption: "MOST FUTILE EVER." I then clicked
the link and found myself at The Washington Times - normally a quite sane
organ of the media - and learned the meaning of the caption: the Times was
lamenti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 162 | 29 "There are also three key conditions attached to the pledge:
The foundation must continue to satisfy the legal requirements
qualifying Warren’s gift as charitable, exempt from gift or other taxes."
Why exempt from taxes? I though WB loves to pay tax.
How much did WB make from the Goldman deal, a different type of insider
trading, aka crony capitalism? People profited $100k from insider trading go
to jail. WB who stole billions of tax money from regular folks is called a
saint?
这牌坊可是用当婊子的嫖资... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8363 | 30
Now you had the nerve to mention GSax? Yeah let's find out who joined
Bush to bail bankers out. Hmmm, it's none other but your OweBummer.
See this is why you libtards are plain crooks. You guys are too lazy
to work for a legit income, so you instead want big government to take
money from the public and then redistribute it to you.
Obama kinda politicians sure take lots money from the public but keep
it mostly to either themselves or their cronies such as GSax. They do
manage to leave some scrap... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 The Church of Obama
The president his issued his own Act of Supremacy.
By Mark Steyn
Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception,
sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most
Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of
church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”
Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished
to separate from was that of the British mo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/worlds-largest-solar-plant-21-bil
World's Largest Solar Plant, With Second Largest Ever Department of Energy
Loan Guarantee, Files For Bankruptcy
Tyler Durden's picture
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2012 20:14 -0400
Solyndra was just the appetizer. Earlier today, in what will come as a
surprise only to members of the administration, the company which proudly
held the rights to the world's largest solar power project, the hilariously
named Solar Trust of America... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 "Certainly it wasn’t Obama’s elitism, or his anti-Americanism, or his
sleazy Chicago cronies..."
"... or his youthful infatuation with cocaine and Marxist professors, or
his long-time association with a radical domestic terrorist, or his
membership in a church led by one of the most inflammatory Black separatist
pastors in the country. Nah, it couldn’t possibly be any of those things
that disinterested voters in the South. It must be because he is half
African. Because that’s all we ever ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 WaPo says Obama’s massive primary fail is “racism”
May 23, 2012 | Filed under 2008 Presidential Race,2012 Presidential Race,
Barack Obama,Media,Meme Watch,Race | Posted by Michael Laprarie
Tuesday night, Barack Obama was handed two more embarrassing near-defeats in
the Democratic primaries held in Arkansas and Kentucky. In the Arkansas
primary, challenger John Wolfe won nearly 42% of the vote, and in Kentucky
42% of Democrats selected “uncommitted” over President Obama. So far,
four states — ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
... but since my choice is between him and Obama, I'm willing to become one.
I was most pleased yesterday to see that Mr. Romney ain't no John McCain
when it comes to campaigning:
More impressive action from the rebels of the Mitt Romney camp as they
opened up a three-front skirmish against forces loyal to the Emperor Hussein
yesterday in Boston, Fremont, Calif., and Washington, D.C.
There was the candidate himself, giving a sharp speech about the crony-
ca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 July 4, 2012 Posted by Charlie Quidnunc
As the NY Times reports, the leader of the file sharing service was arrested
in a flurry of heavy publicity last month:
Mr. Dotcom — born Kim Schmitz and also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim
Vestor — and three others connected with Megaupload were arrested in
connection with U.S. indictments on charges involving copyright infringement
and money laundering. At the time, the U.S. Department of Justice said that
in all, seven people had been arrested aro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
In Inman Majors' terrific novel The Millionaires, a consultant explains that
there are really only two themes to political campaigns: "It's A Bright New
Day," and "Back To Basics." Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was "Bright New
Day" raised to a higher power. Now, with the choice of Paul Ryan as his
running mate, Mitt Romney has signaled that he's doubling down on "Back To
Basics." That has risks, but they're risks worth running.
The 2008 Obama campaign was all about hope a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 By: John Hayward
8/16/2012 10:17 AM
President Obama loves to tout the General Motors bailout as the signature “
achievement” of his presidency, even though current taxpayer losses on the
deal are estimated at over $25 billion. The exact degree to which the rest
of us got soaked so Obama could give GM to his union allies changes
constantly as the value of the stock held by We the People fluctuates. You
don’t remember being asked if you would like to become a GM stockholder and
willingly acc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16928 | 39 You think they are more credible than John Taylor?
John Taylor: Rules for America's Road to Recovery
As Hayek taught us, predictable policies will help restore economic
prosperity and preserve freedom.
America's economic future is increasingly uncertain. In my view,
unpredictable economic policy—massive fiscal "stimulus" and ballooning debt
, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing with multiyear near-zero
interest rates, and regulatory uncertainty due to ObamaCare and the Dodd-
Frank financia... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Carney: Poor-mouthing Obama is outraising Romney by $125m
President Obama has fooled plenty of people into thinking Mitt Romney is
beating him in the race for campaign cash. This allows Obama to pose as a
scrappy underdog and man of the people even as he raises and spends more
money than his opponent. It's quite a trick, supported by three money
machines:
First, Obama's campaign has outraised and outspent Romney's campaign.
Second, the Democratic National Committee outraised and outspent the
Rep... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 41 How Stupid is Obama?
By J.R. Dunn
We've long been aware that the One is not quite the superior intellect he
was sold as. Obama, we were told, was the rare possessor of a mind with the
profundity of a Socrates, the breadth of a Goethe, and the penetration of a
Newton. An intellect unrivaled on the current American political scene,
and possibly without equal in this country's politics since the beginning.
Events have certainly demolished that little trope. Within weeks of the
inauguration, some... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2987 | 42 最后说一句，Obama的问题不是政策走向的问题，而是完全他的个人能力的问题。
比如说投资公司，他也投资公司，每家都倒闭；romney也投资公司，别人挣了好几亿美
元至少吧？
Part of the reason o8's investment all went bankrupt was because of crony
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Exactly four years ago last night Sarah Palin stood on that outdoor Arizona
stage while John McCain gave a concession speech to this little-known Barack
Obama fellow, whom Americans had just elected on a hope and a prayer.
Palin, one of the most exciting and controversial political figures to
emerge in modern times, had given the lackluster Republican campaign its
best chance of winning and thrust it well into the lead by mid-September.
But she was not allowed to speak that election night in 200... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 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: 29846 | 45 by Jeffrey Lord
Twinkicide.
Death by Liberalism.
This time it's Twinkies.
In October it was Newsweek.
Who's next? What does this lemming-like liberal instinct mean for America?
What is it that bakers and editors had in common as they looked into the
abyss that would spell their own professional death? And then jumped?
Answer: They'd rather be dead than Not Liberal. Unfortunately for the rest
of us -- they are not alone. Worse, they are in charge.
Presented with multiple opportunities to survive ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 46 Really hate Damn Dems and their Pighead leaders.
OBAMA'S, "FISCAL CLIFF," PLAN
By Ken Taylor
Republicans are talking surrender, saying they are willing to, "negotiate,"
with Obama about the, "fiscal cliff," which allows the Bush tax RATES, (not
cuts), to expire December 31st as well as massive cuts in the military
through sequestration. The GOP negotiating tool is to end tax, "loopholes,"
and deduction for the, "rich," but not changing the rates. In other words
double talk because when the ded... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 It is not often that I find myself in agreement with the editorial page of
the New York Times, but I did on Wednesday. The Times criticized the $1.92
billion settlement agreed to by HSBC as “a dark day for the rule of law.”
No bank executives, according to the LA Times, were charged. While $1.92
billion sounds like a lot, it is about 0.06% of the banks $2.6 trillion in
assets. All banks stretch the limits and meaning of regulation. HSBC, the
world’s third largest bank, and one that has been freq... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Requiem for a Despot: the Death of Hugo Chavez
By John A. Huettner
President Hugo Chavez, the acerbic tinpot who declared a Bolivarian
revolution in Venezuela, demonized America, and resurrected tired leftist
politics throughout Latin America, died Tuesday of cancer. Strongman and
Vice President Nicolas Meduro announced the death saying Chavez died about 4
:30 p.m. local time.
During his 14 years in power, Chavez made a career out of trashing
capitalism and the United States and fomenting unres... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 The jihadists’ favorite American lawyer, Lynne Stewart, reportedly has
Stage 4 breast cancer. Her radical friends — ranging from the “Party of
Socialism and Liberation” and “Workers World” to Pete Seeger, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal — want her freed
from jail. There’s only one decent response to the Lynne Stewart Fan Club’
s criminal-coddling demand:
No, hell, no.
The way the bleeding hearts tell it, this harmless grandma got thrown in the
slammer by Big Bad... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10109 | 50 https://secure.freedomworks.org/images/content/pagebuilder/
ObamaCareExemption.jpg
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Insulting.
That’s the only word that describes Capitol Hill staffers getting an
exemption from ObamaCare’s harmful effects.
Congressmen and their staffs were supposed to suffer the same effects every
other American will under ObamaCare.
But thanks to lobbying by President Obama, the Office of Personnel
Management has declared Congressmen and their staff will get a special deal.
Your Tax dollars will cover 75% of... 阅读全帖 |
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