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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Fifteen Thoughts About Israel
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/fifteen-thoughts-about-israel-
cd047979ea92
1. I hate writing about Israel. The accusations of anti-semitism which
necessarily go along with literally any criticism of that nation are gross
enough, but even worse are the assholes who take my criticisms of the
Israeli government as an invitation to actually be anti-semitic. They really
do hate Jews, they really do think that every problem in the world is
because of Jews and they pos... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 239 | 3 I wonder how SYZ would think about this recent article.
Nature 472, 259–260 (21 April 2011) doi:10.1038/472259b
Published online 20 April 2011
No longer a guaranteed ticket to an academic career, the PhD system
needs a serious rethink.
The world has many problems and it will take a lot of bright, educated
people to solve them. So, on the face of it, it seems like a good thing
that more and more people are earning PhDs in science, technology and
engineering. Most countries, convinced that higher ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16989 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: chooyu (卓奥友), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国卡尔·文森号航母攻击群今起锚前往西太平洋（图)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 1 09:17:12 2010, 美东)
Carl Vinson Deploys for Training, Western Pacific
Story Number: NNS101201-01 Release Date: 12/1/2010 5:50:00 AM
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发帖数: 27535 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: wayofflyingg (小小熊熊), 信区: Military
标 题: 南方带路党民猪编辑亲自上阵在纽约时报发文，呼吁制裁中国zt
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 16 14:01:58 2011, 美东)
南方带路党民猪编辑亲自上阵在纽约时报发文，呼吁制裁中国
作者: 这就是带路党(楚.寨.绿.石) [177664:5663], 10:19:03
Why China Won’t Listen
By CHEN MIN
Guangzhou, China
THE Chinese government often tolerates, and even encourages, abuses of
power and extrajudicial punishments by law enforcement officials. These are
the underlying evils that sustain a regime that value... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1846 | 6 中国可能近一两周内进行新的反卫星武器试验
Will China Launch an Anti-Satellite Test Soon?
Associated Press, By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – 7 hrs ago..
China may be gearing up to perform a controversial anti-satellite test this
month, perhaps in the next week or two, some experts say.
For several months, rumors have been circulating within the United States
defense and intelligence communities that a Chinese anti-satellite test is
imminent, says Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists. It
could even be ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7521 | 7 “The United States should encourage
China’s participation in multilateral operations
to preserve the openness of the maritime commons.
At the same time, the United States should
work to counter, dissuade and deter China’s
apparent leanings towards developing anti-access
capabilities and exclusionary policy practices.”（pp.35 of the report.）
当然是让美国在南海去惹事了。 |
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发帖数: 8308 | 8 Carl Vinson Deploys for Training, Western Pacific
Story Number: NNS101201-01 Release Date: 12/1/2010 5:50:00 AM
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By Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Lori Bent, USS Carl Vinson (CVN
70) Public Affairs
CORONADO, Ca (NNS) -- Sailors on board USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) said goodbye
to family and friends Nov. 30 as the ship departed N... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12393 | 9 but tg did not extend his power to dissuade British French and alike to
collect yah |
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发帖数: 2914 | 10 8日欧市盘中，美元指数冲高回落，时段中国央行顾问再度警告美国务必保证中国在美
投资的安全，言论引发市场担忧，美元回吐部分早前涨幅，目前继续维持区间震荡；由
于隔夜美联储主席伯南克并未透露QE3想法，市场担忧情绪略有缓解，但短期美国经济
基本面依然不佳，估计疲软的美元走势还将维持。
中国央行顾问李稻葵最新表示，如果美国考虑债务违约，那就是在玩火，中国应尽
最大努力劝说美国不要寻求债务违约，希望美国确保中方在美的投资安全。
Yahoo上的
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_debt_bondholders
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers are "playing with fire" by
contemplating even a brief debt default as a means to force deeper
government spending cuts, an adviser to China's central bank said on
Wednesday.
The idea of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1985 | 11 南方带路党民猪编辑亲自上阵在纽约时报发文，呼吁制裁中国
作者: 这就是带路党(楚.寨.绿.石) [177664:5663], 10:19:03
Why China Won’t Listen
By CHEN MIN
Guangzhou, China
THE Chinese government often tolerates, and even encourages, abuses of
power and extrajudicial punishments by law enforcement officials. These are
the underlying evils that sustain a regime that values its own preservation
above all else, including human rights and the rule of law. .
But how is this possible in a world where outsiders fee... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 73 | 12 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Why China Won’t Listen
By CHEN MIN
Published: November 15, 2011
Guangzhou, China
THE Chinese government often tolerates, and even encourages, abuses of power
and extrajudicial punishments by law enforcement officials. These are the
underlying evils that sustain a regime that values its own preservation
above all else, including human rights and the rule of law.
中国政府常常纵容，甚至是鼓励法律执行官员滥用权力以及法律之外的惩罚。这些是这
个把自己的存续压过人权和法律的政权背后的罪恶。
But how is this possible in a world where outsiders fee... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6727 | 13 太有趣了
Dee Woo first gained international attention by writing a personal letter to
Barack Obama in October 2010, attempting to dissuade the US from initiating
a trade war with China. As a result, he was featured in much of the
Mainland Chinese media, as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore, Macao, Malaysia,
Canada and the US, including by the Wall Street Journal. He has gone on to
publish numerous commentaries in many influential newspaper and magazines in
Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan and the US,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 14 古有赵王为秦王击缶，以相娱乐，今有.....
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击卫星为大统领贺，以相娱乐.......
http://freebeacon.com/china-to-shoot-at-high-frontier/
简要翻译：美帝说TG近期将试射代号为Dong Ning-2（“东宁”？是“动能”吧？）的
反卫星武器，击碎位于高轨道（12,000 miles到22,236 miles高，GPS卫星在这个高度
）的卫星靶标，但是因为担心影响到观海同志的总统连任，这个计划被延期到美帝总统
选举之后........
China to Shoot at High Frontier
U.S. Intelligence: China to conduct test of more powerful anti-satellite
weapon capable of hitting GPS, spy satellites, but after U.S. election
BY: Bill Gertz
October ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 481 | 15 傻逼,这个数据早就被人打脸了,
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/30/opinion/frum-guns-safer/index.htm
Government figures from the National Survey of Criminal Victimization
suggest 100,000 uses a year of guns in self-defense against crime, the vast
majority of these uses being the display of weapons to deter or dissuade.
There are some problems with these government numbers, beginning with the
fact that they are based on data from the early 1990s, when crime rates were
much higher than they are today. The number of cr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 536 | 16 中国可能近一两周内进行新的反卫星武器试验
Will China Launch an Anti-Satellite Test Soon?
Associated Press, By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – 7 hrs ago..
China may be gearing up to perform a controversial anti-satellite test this
month, perhaps in the next week or two, some experts say.
For several months, rumors have been circulating within the United States
defense and intelligence communities that a Chinese anti-satellite test is
imminent, says Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists. It
could even be ... 阅读全帖 |
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p*****c
发帖数: 20445 | 17 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: Guanish (灌泥水), 信区: Biology
标 题: 有学者和团体正式呼吁抛弃“影响因子”了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon May 20 11:15:31 2013, 美东)
NSF、NCI 等也准备修改简历的格式，强调重要的工作、发现和结果之类的。链接：
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/05/call-to-aband
Title: In 'Insurrection,' Scientists, Editors Call for Abandoning Journal
Impact Factors
More than 150 prominent scientists and 75 scientific groups from around the
world today took a stand against using impact factors, a measure of how
often a journal is cited, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9761 | 18 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/world/asia/china-dissident-sa
China Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U.
By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the dissident legal advocate whose escape from
house arrest to the American Embassy in Beijing last year provoked a
diplomatic crisis, said he was being forced to leave New York University
over concerns that his activism was harming the university’s relationship
with China.
In a statement released Sunday, Mr. Chen said university officials... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4877 | 19 一个纯进口国，从能源到工业制成品都要外国输入，卢比贬值了5.1%。
很有点像1985年时期的中国。但是中国当时能源自给，有前人留下的基础设施，有交通
，重工， 和其他没有让邓公卖光的造血企业。
MUMBAI: The rupee weakened 90 paise against the dollar to close at a record
low of 58.77 on Tuesday, moving in tandem with a slide in the value of most
emerging market currencies, with the domestic currency and the Russian
rouble leading the fall.
The sharp fall in the value of the rupee will spur inflation and force the
government to hike prices of fuel. It also increases prices of local gold
vis-a-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 20 Taiwan is Moving Closer to China, So Why Isn't the U.S. Freaking Out?
The Obama administrationós promises to deepen economic and military ties
with allies in the Asia-Pacific region have fallen flat in light of
budgetary
realities. Defense cuts totaling nearly $1 trillion over the next decade,
and the necessity of focusing diplomatic and military attention on the
Middle
East, most notably Syria, exposed the gap between the White Houseós
unrealistic
expectations and the reality of limited resourc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 21 现在为止年轻人很少加入obamacare，上的大多老弱病残，如果这个趋势不扭转，没多
少人能负担得起market place的保险了。
收音机里已经有人宣传罚款没什么可怕，如果不退联邦税的话，政府无法强制收钱。
Obamacare: Not Enough Young, Healthy Enrollees to Offset Costs
Younger, healthier Americans needed to make Obamacare financially viable are
not signing up in sufficient numbers. Most enrollees have been people over
50, many with preexisting medical conditions.
The skew toward the older crowd raises concerns that there will not be
enough payments from young people to offset the cost of provid... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 22 RapEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian police have arrested one
man and are looking for four other suspects after two teenage girls were
gang-raped and then hanged from a tree in a village in the northern state of
Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.
The two cousins, who were from a low-caste Dalit community and aged 14 and
15, went missing from their village home in Uttar Pradesh's Budaun district
when they went out to go to the toilet on Tuesday evening.
The following morning, vi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 23 http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/26/washingtons-big-china-screw
In March alone, France, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom have now all
agreed to join a major, China-led initiative that could one day rival the U.
S.-led World Bank in size and influence. It’s called the Asia
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and since China formally established
the bank in October 2014, it’s attracted dozens of member nations. It’s
also raised hackles in the United States, whose officials initially
attem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 24 原来美国州立监狱是收钱的，住宿伙食衣服都算钱，给家里寄账单，付不了就记账以后
还，很多州看一次病5刀，德州是一年收犯人100刀医疗费。
At least 2 states let prisons charge the families of dead ex-prisoners for
their food and health care
Nearly every state lets prisons and jails charge inmates for their own
incarceration — room, board, clothing, and doctor's visits — in a
phenomenon called "pay-to-stay."
We don't know exactly how many prisons and jails take advantage of "pay to
stay." The latest survey, done in 2005, found that 90 percent of jails
surveyed charg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 37081 | 25 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday committed
its fractious members to their first oil production limits in eight years.
Now comes the hard part.
OPEC has agreed to cut production by about 1.2 million barrels per day, or
about 4.5 percent of current production, to 32.5 million barrels per day.
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia faces the unenviable tasks of policing cartel
members and keeping crude prices within a range that will relieve pressure
on oil-producing countr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 26 Bannon一直在Trump的竞选团队里面， 1月20日被appointed to the National
Security Council. 这个人发明了·Alt-right这个term, 就是白人至上主义，反对一
切合法的非法的非白人移民，踏踏实实的潜在的纳粹主义。 Trump这个举动被很多人认
为stone cold crazy. Bannon本身也是劣迹斑斑，三婚三离，婚内暴力。 怎么居然让
这样的人管national security council. 真让人感到心惊胆战。
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发帖数: 10426 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: swordsman (撸迅), 信区: USANews
标 题: 公司开除参加纳粹集会的员工是违法的！！！！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Aug 15 14:52:17 2017, 美东)
现在很多人在推特上人肉参加VA纳粹集会的人，然后把通知对方的公司，让公司开除参
加纳粹集会的人。
但是，公司开除参加VA纳粹集会的员工是违反很多州的法律的，比如加州法律规定公司
不能开除或惩罚off-duty时参加合法政治活动的雇员，也不能指定相关的规则限制员工
参加工作外的政治活动，无论这个活动是新纳粹还是黑命贵。
Dear Littler: Can A Boss Fire Someone for Off-Duty Political Activities?
BY ZOE ARGENTO ON JANUARY 20, 2017 PRINT DOWNLOAD PDF
Dear Littler: I saw one of my employees on the local news the other night
particip... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4185 | 28 Pressure from Beijing officials seeking Mr. Guo’s return sparks frantic
response from Trump administration—and Pennsylvania Station, JFK airport
standoffs
Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese businessman, sat in the sun room of his
apartment on the 18th-floor of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on New York’s
Fifth Avenue. With him were four officials from China’s Ministry of State
Security, whom Mr. Guo had agreed to meet.
For many months, Mr. Guo, from his self-imposed exile, had been using
Twitter to make... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 29 The Trump administration’s new plan to punish legal immigrants
By Editorial Board
THE TRUMP administration’s crusade against illegal immigration tends to
grab the headlines, but it obscures the equally concerted attack on the
legal variety — including authorized immigrants with valid documents, many
of them with U.S. citizen spouses and children, who lead settled, productive
lives in the United States.
Among the most radical examples of that campaign is a proposal, reported by
The Post, that wou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 30 是一个什么腺体里喷射出来的。问题是怎么可能会喷射这么大量呢？
This Is What Comes Out When a Woman Ejaculates
Everything you want to know about the elusive squirt.
It was, and remains, one of the most spectacular things I’d ever witnessed.
A dozen women, my then-partner among them, shooting arcs of liquid the air
from from their genitals for the very first time, in unison. What had begun
90 minutes earlier as a fairly granular anatomy lesson in a Brooklyn
townhouse had seamlessly morphed into something resembling the fountain ... 阅读全帖 |
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w*p
发帖数: 16484 | 31 FBI Urges Universities To Monitor Some Chinese Students And Scholars In The
U.S.
June 28, 201910:16 AM ET
U.S. intelligence agencies are encouraging American research universities to
develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from
Chinese state-affiliated research institutions, as U.S. suspicion toward
China spreads to academia.
Since last year, FBI officials have visited at least 10 members of the
Association of American Universities, a group of 62 research universities,
wi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 32 U.S. stocks rose Friday, reversing losses in premarket trade, after the
Labor Department estimated that the American economy added 136,000 jobs in
August, enough to let the unemployment rate to fall to a 50-year low of 3.5%
, but not to dissuade the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates
further this year. |
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发帖数: 5093 | 33 The $15 minimum wage was supposed to hurt New York City restaurants — but
both revenue and employment are up
Critics would have you believe that upping the minimum wage in restaurants
will lead to massive layoffs and closures. But since raising the minimum
wage to $15 per hour nearly a year ago, the restaurant industry in New York
City has thrived.
I’m a professor with a focus on labor and employment law. My research on
the minimum wage suggests a few reasons why this might be true.
What hasn’t ... 阅读全帖 |
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m******n
发帖数: 15691 | 34 没关系
继续给link 打脸
From part of wiki
Chief of Staff of the United States Army
On August 17, 1953, Ridgway replaced General Collins as the Chief of Staff o
f the United States Army. After Eisenhower was elected President, he asked R
idgway for his assessment of US military involvement in Vietnam in conjuncti
on with the French. Ridgway prepared a comprehensive outline of the massive
commitment that would be necessary for success, which dissuaded the Presiden
t from intervening. A source of tension wa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2474 | 35 http://freebeacon.com/china-to-shoot-at-high-frontier/
China to Shoot at High Frontier
U.S. Intelligence: China to conduct test of more powerful anti-satellite
weapon capable of hitting GPS, spy satellites, but after U.S. election
BY: Bill Gertz
October 16, 2012 5:00 am
China’s military is set to conduct a test of a new and more capable anti-
satellite missile that United States intelligence agencies say can knock out
strategic satellites in high-earth orbit, according to U.S. officials.
However... 阅读全帖 |
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m******e
发帖数: 536 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: meditate (meditate), 信区: Military
标 题: 中国可能近一两周内进行新的反卫星武器试验
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 5 00:58:39 2013, 美东)
中国可能近一两周内进行新的反卫星武器试验
Will China Launch an Anti-Satellite Test Soon?
Associated Press, By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – 7 hrs ago..
China may be gearing up to perform a controversial anti-satellite test this
month, perhaps in the next week or two, some experts say.
For several months, rumors have been circulating within the United States
defense and intelligence... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 37 As 2011 draws to a close, PinkNews.co.uk takes a look back at the most
important stories of the last twelve months.
This year saw real change around the world when it came to LGBT rights. Many
political milestones were reached, but as some countries progressed, other
states faced international criticism for attempts to restrict their citizens
’ rights.
10 – 66 boys in Malaysia sent to “gay cure” camp
A Terengganu state official said in April that 66 boys aged between 13 and
17 were identified by... 阅读全帖 |
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a******c
发帖数: 291 | 38 That is why Democrats urge people to sign up for Obamacare. These people
will be a very large voting block for the Democratic Party.
Same reason why Republican try to dissuade people from signing. |
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M*V
发帖数: 3205 | 39 Taiwan is Moving Closer to China, So Why Isn't the U.S. Freaking Out?
The Obama administrationós promises to deepen economic and military ties
with allies in the Asia-Pacific region have fallen flat in light of
budgetary
realities. Defense cuts totaling nearly $1 trillion over the next decade,
and the necessity of focusing diplomatic and military attention on the
Middle
East, most notably Syria, exposed the gap between the White Houseós
unrealistic
expectations and the reality of limited resourc... 阅读全帖 |
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f********4
发帖数: 2883 | 40 A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, against a person to kill
him or her. These threats are usually designed to intimidate victims in
order to manipulate their behavior, in which case a death threat is a form
of coercion. For example, a death threat could be used to dissuade a public
figure from pursuing a criminal investigation or an advocacy campaign.
In many jurisdictions, death threats are a criminal offense. Death threats
are often covered by coercion statutes. For instance, |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 Most times, the short barrel is going to have to answer the call
by Richard Johnson
07/12/2011
Handguns are very popular for self-defense in the United States. There are a
variety of reasons for this, many of which have to do with convenience.
While we all recognize that a 12-gauge shotgun is probably better at
stopping an assailant, how easy is it to tote one around all day?
In 2009 alone, more than 4.5 million handguns were manufactured and imported
into the US. While many of these firearms ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 Max Hastings反思英国骚乱：多年的左派教条催生了不讲道德、不学无术、依赖福利、
凶狠野蛮的一代年轻人
Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated,
welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
By Max Hastings
Last updated at 12:49 PM on 10th August 2011
A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in
which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black
reporter named Joe Strickland.
He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media
folk about how sorr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 April 27, 2012 by Kevin
Via Resouceful Earth we received news of a story on EE New’s Greenwire
reports that the Obama Administration is actively working, one must assume,
to “Keystone” the Pebble Mine project in Alaska under the auspices of the
Clean Water Act.
U.S. EPA is defending its review of large-scale development in Alaska’s
Bristol Bay watershed amid strong concerns from state leaders, including
Attorney General Michael Geraghty.
At issue is the controversial Pebble Limited Par... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 August 2, 2012 by Doug Johnson
Why?
Well because it sells so well with the Daily Kos and Huffington Post crowd.
Reid knows his charges are baseless, but he also knows that he’s unlikely
to be proved wrong, so what the hell.
In an article about the Romney camp firing back at Reid, there’s this:
According to a source familiar with Reid’s thinking, the majority
leader, a former boxer, considers himself a political street fighter now,
willing to throw a punch and get hit back big time for a ca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5610 | 45 其实都是光看电视，不看数据，不自己分析的。
吃福利最多的是主流人种的低收入的那些，但是这都不是太大的问题，只要经济增长了
，吃福利的人就会下降。关键是经济增长问题。
把眼睛老是往某些少数民族盯，真是没出息。
但是美国政府开支中最大问题是medicare，这个是67岁以上医疗全包，很多费用是在临
终前3个月上面花费了巨大金钱，这个和什么种族根本没有关系。美国政府其他开销不
是大问题。所以Obama的Obamacare方向没有问题，就是timing有问题。
以下是一个doctor的建议，如果cut 美国medicare cost by 50%，他说的不见得全对。
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug12/cut-healthcare-in-half8-12.
Some time ago I told you how I could cut health care costs in half and
provide every American with the healthcare they need (not necessarily the
healthca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Government-funded film critics do grotesque damage to freedom of speech.
By Mark Steyn
I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the American flag, and very
attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a federal republic is the
single “O” logo symbolizing the great gaping maw of spendaholic
centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs,
eerily mimicking the bloody finger streaks left on the pillars of the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi as its staff were dragged out by ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 U.S. Economic Growth Slows To a Crawl in First Quarter
Frigid Weather, Weak Exports Curtail Activity
WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy nearly stalled in the first quarter as weakness
overseas hurt exports and frigid weather curtailed business investment.
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced
across the economy, grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.1% in the
first quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That matched the
second-weakest quarterly r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 The Palestinians Are About To Get What They Asked For By Joining The ICC
As the old saying goes, be careful what you ask for-you may get it. Last
week over the objections of the United States, Israel and Jordan, the
Palestinian Authority applied for membership in the International Criminal
Court, and today it is beginning to face the repercussions. An independent
Israeli organization filed war crimes complaints in the ICC against senior
Palestinian officials, the Israeli Government may weigh in ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Atlanta Fire Chief Fired for Expressing Christian Beliefs
January 13, 2015 - 12:37 PM
By Ryan T. Anderson
Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was fired on Tuesday by Atlanta Mayor
Kasim Reed. Why? Because, on his own private time, Cochran wrote a book
expressing his biblical understanding of sexual morality.
At the center of this controversy is whether governments should push those
who hold traditional beliefs out of government jobs. The decision by the
mayor is out of step with American values of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 Texas Gov. Abbott wants state law against 'sanctuary cities'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday embraced cracking
down on local governments that ban police from asking about a person's
immigration status, after previously saying little about contentious "
sanctuary city" policies since taking office.
His support follows conservative activists criticizing the Republican
governor for not prioritizing get-tough immigration measures early in his
term. It also follows the Dallas Co... 阅读全帖 |
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