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发帖数: 1920 | 1 WASHINGTON—A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at
the National Geographic Society to announce they had "entirely fabricated"
ancient Greece, a culture long thought to be the intellectual basis of
Western civilization.
The group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society
existing in Greece more than two millennia ago was a complete fiction
created by a team of some two dozen historians, anthropologists, and
classicists who worked nonstop between 19... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 2 a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest
rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons.
我是在新东方学会了cynic这个词，刚刚好好看了一下definition,感觉时间才是真神啊
。。。我很少用cynic这个词，因为我不是。。。这15年已经证明这一点了。。。
"some cynics thought that the controversy was all a publicity stunt"
a person who questions whether something will happen or whether it is
worthwhile.
"the cynics were silenced when the factory opened"
synonyms: skeptic, doubter, doubting Thomas; More
pessimist, prop... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 3 一战期间加拿大哈利法克斯港一艘满载炸药的货船爆炸。
同样的事情30年后在得克萨斯城也发生了一次
What happened when a ship packed with six million pounds of explosives went
up in flames
Excerpt: The Great Halifax Explosion
One hundred years ago, a massive explosion rocked Halifax when a ship—the
Mont-Blanc—carrying six million pounds of explosives caught fire in the
harbor. The following is an excerpt from THE GREAT HALIFAX EXPLOSION: A
World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U
Bacon. It describes the deadly ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20965 | 4 Chet Seligman Point Reyes Station, Ca 1 hour ago
Why do so many Chinese study physics and math relative to Americans?
The answer may be similar to why Germans, Swiss and Danes studied physics
and math, relative to Americans, prior to WWII.
That being, a long history of intellectual cultures in those other countries
and the lack of one here.
It is hard to be a cowboy and a physicist simultaneously.
Reply 1Recommend
John Mardinly Chandler, AZ 1 hour ago
Hi-tech companies like Intel could not f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 5 Collectively, we boomers were lucky. We were the most healthy, educated and
privileged generation ever born. Our youth was spent virtually worry free.
Our college educations were inexpensive, gas was economically priced, jobs
were plentiful and our futures were bright. We were the "Hippies" of the
late 1960's and early 70's. Love was free and drugs were cheap (or was it
the other way around).
Then the 1980's rolled around and we became "Yuppies". We began to believe
that success was our birthrig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4283 | 6 These comments are not nice, OK? And whoever made them probably could use a
little sympathy and should try harder to be more understanding and accepting
(of foreigners especially those of us who are east-Asian descent). However
they do come across with some valid points.
“I usually enjoyed talking to and being friends with Chinese and Koreans
who
went to HS and college and who maintained their own culture and spoke little
-moderate English (most in college were just foreign students who would
re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 7 咋判断？
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Japan's largest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier,
sailed into Sri Lanka's Colombo harbor this weekend, marking Tokyo's highest
-profile salvo in a diplomatic battle with China for influence along the
region's vital commercial sea lanes.
Japan has long provided low-interest loans and aid to Sri Lanka, helping it
transform Colombo into a major trans-shipment port tapping the artery of
global trade just south of the island that links Europe and the Middle East
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发帖数: 5309 | 8 和民主党龙虾的区别是，民主党承认自己接受福利而且感到内疚。狗屁党把福利视为理
所当然。
One reason we might love this myth as much as we do: It allows us to avoid
hard discussions about the reality of class in the United States. All too
many Americans, the beneficiaries of what I like to call the upper-middle-
class welfare state, can convince themselves that they are uniquely
deserving. When Jessica Wiederspan, now a researcher studying basic income
with Y Combinator, interviewed working- and middle-class families in Rust
Belt states, sh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 9 How to Safely Compost Human Waste
This entry was posted in uncategorized on January 12, 2018 by richardbrunt
How to Compost Human Waste
Fully Composted Human Waste
Composted Human Waste is excellent fertilizer for non-edible plants.
This is an article on how to safely and easily compost human waste. It’s
not difficult, but you MUST do it right, or people could get sick.
Human waste can be safely composted by carefully following a few simple
guidelines. These are my suggestions only, based on th... 阅读全帖 |
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s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 10 在大西洋沿岸人工地震勘探石油，会造成几万甚至几十万大西洋海豚和鲸鱼死亡。在美
国近海这么干真是史无前例的疯狂。
The Trump administration is preparing to take an important step toward
future oil and natural gas drilling off the Atlantic shore, approving five
requests from companies to conduct deafening seismic tests that could kill
tens of thousands of dolphins, whales and other marine animals.
The planned Friday announcement by the National Marine Fisheries Service, a
division of the Commerce Department, to issue “incidental take” permits
allowing co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 11 败局已定？马杜罗停止反美过激言辞，呼吁美国继续购买委内瑞拉石油，称自己热爱美
国！
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/01/25/maduro-pauses-anti-
trump-rant-urge-americans-keep-buying-venezuelan-oil/
Maduro Pauses Anti-Trump Rant to Urge Americans to Keep Buying Venezuelan
Oil
25 Jan 2019
The Associated Press
AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro vowed to continue selling oil to the
United States on Friday soon after severing diplomatic ties with U.S.
President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 12 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HANKOW
China's Commercial And Industrial Capital.
From The Far Eastern Review.
Ever since the fateful fire which destroyed the Chinese city of Hankow
during the Revolution of 1911-12 it has been generally known that the
Chinese Government has been desirous of rebuilding the city upon modern
lines and making other improvements in the vicinity compatible with the
importance of such a flourishing commercial and industrial center. It was,
therefore, not surprising when it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 13 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HANKOW
China's Commercial And Industrial Capital.
From The Far Eastern Review.
Ever since the fateful fire which destroyed the Chinese city of Hankow
during the Revolution of 1911-12 it has been generally known that the
Chinese Government has been desirous of rebuilding the city upon modern
lines and making other improvements in the vicinity compatible with the
importance of such a flourishing commercial and industrial center. It was,
therefore, not surprising when it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 14 我可以看得到，copy paste将就看下吧
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CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Joan Wong. Photographs by Ronghui Chen for
The New York Times.
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Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?
A high-profile lawsuit against Harvard is forcing students and their
families to choose sides.
CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Joan Wong. Photographs by Ronghui Chen for
The New York Times.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Photographs by Ronghui Chen
Published Aug. 28, 2019
Updated Sept. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 344 | 15 5 Surprising Scientific Facts About Earth's Climate
1. Climate Has Always Changed—Always
All proxy temperature data sets reveal that there have been cyclical changes
in climate in the past 10,000 years. There is not a single climate
scientist who denies this well-established fact. It doesn’t matter what
your position on the causes and magnitude and danger (or not) of current
climate change is—you have to be on board on this one. Climate has always
changed. And it has changed in both directions, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 499 | 17 https://www.forexfactory.com/news/946992-are-foreign-companies-really-
leaving-china-in-droves
President Donald Trump, in defending his trade war with China, has yet again
let his Twitter fingers get ahead of reality. He tweeted in late August that
“China wants to make a deal so badly. Thousands of companies are leaving
because of the Tariffs. They must stem the flow.” This supposed exodus of
foreign firms is another element informing his view that China is under
increasing economic pressure and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1837 | 18 党的十九大报告双语全文
2017-11-06 14:51:58 （来自：新华社）
决胜全面建成小康社会夺取新时代中国特色社会主义伟大胜利
决胜全面建成小康社会夺取新时代中国特色社会主义伟大胜利
Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All
Respects and Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Chinese
Characteristics for a New Era
——在中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会上的报告
（2017年10月18日）
Delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
October 18, 2017
习近平
Xi Jinping
同志们：
Comrades,
现在，我代表第十八届中央委员会向大会作报告。
On behalf of the 18th Central Committee of the Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8422 | 19 CIA 利比亚反叛者们是来自伊拉克的基地武装分子ZT- 到底是谁利用了谁还真难说
来源: 没底 于 2011-10-30
CIA Libya Rebels are Al-Qaeda Fighters From Iraq
Politics / Al-Qeeda Mar 29, 2011 - 07:54 AM
By: Global_Research
Politics
Diamond Rated - Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleDr. Webster G.
Tarpley writes: “Serpents, thirst, heat, and sand … Libya alone can
present a multitude of woes that it would beseem men to fly from.” Lucan,
Pharsalia
Washington DC, March 24, 2011 — The current military attack on Libya has
been motivated by UN S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19737 | 20 信了吧，是技术差
By the time of the Roman Republic, which flourished during the Iron Age, the
classical world was well-acquainted with steel and the steel-making process
. Pure iron is relatively soft, but pure iron is never found in nature.
Natural iron ore contains various impurities in solid solution, which harden
the reduced metal by producing irregular-shaped metallic crystals. The
Gladius is generally made out of steel.
In Roman times ore was reduced in a bloomery furnace, as the blast furnace
had... 阅读全帖 |
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y*****g
发帖数: 1822 | 21 A Feature Length Documentary by David Weissman
OPENING IN THEATERS IN SEPTEMBER!
New York – Sept. 9 Angelika Film Center
Los Angeles – Sept. 14 GALA PREMIERE BENEFIT For Project Inform
Los Angeles – Sept. 16 Arclight Hollywood
Filmmakers David Weissman and Bill Weber co-directed the 2001 documentary,
The Cockettes, chronicling San Francisco’s legendary theater troupe of
hippies and drag queens, 1969 – 1972. We Were Here revisits San Francisco
a decade later, as its flourishing gay community is... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 22 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/asias-gay-friendliest-
By Doug Hendrie, The Diplomat
‘I sometimes wish I was gay,’ says Mark, my taxi driver, risking a quick
glance as he navigates one of Manila’s extraordinary traffic tangles. ‘
Gays are very hard workers. They do well in business, in school. They are
more successful. Often, they are the breadwinners for an entire family.’ He
shrugs a little. ‘I admire them, actually. They—what is the word for
doing very well? Excel?’ Yes, I say. He sm... 阅读全帖 |
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L*******e
发帖数: 2202 | 23 这件事情的的发醇是美国心理协会发布声明，再度重申：没有证据显示孩子的成长和身
心健康与家长的性倾向存在关系，同性恋家长与异性恋家长一样可为孩子提供良好成长
条件。
APA on Children Raised by Gay and Lesbian Parents
http://www.apa.org/news/press/response/gay-parents.aspx
How do these children fare?
On the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay
parents and their children, the American Psychological Association (APA) and
other health professional and scientific organizations have concluded that
there is no scientific evidence that parenting effective... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 24 http://www.apa.org/news/press/response/gay-parents.aspx
A recent study called into question the ability of gay parents to raise well
-rounded children, but the report has been widely blasted as biased,
manipulative, and agenda-based. Now the American Psychological Association
has stepped in to reiterate its belief that gay parents are just as good as
straight parents.
"On the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay
parents and their children, the American Psychologic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 25 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020368620457711616
By JEREMY PAGE
YANJI, China—When North Korea closed its frontier with China to visitors
and trade after the death of Kim Jong Il, people here braced for a long wait
frozen.
Within 48 hours, however, many border crossings sprang open again,
underlining the reality facing Mr. Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Eun:
The impoverished country can ill afford to close itself off for long from
China—which has long been its economic lifeline.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 26 Germany blasts Britain
See the link below:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/25/germany-uk-gchq-intern
Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ's secret cable trawl
Minister questions legality of mass tapping of calls and internet and
demands to know extent to which Germans were targeted
Cameron and Merkel
David Cameron and Angela Merkel. The German government's letter is the first
major challenge to the UK over its data-trawling opera... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3365 | 27 History of World GDP
by Barry Ritholtz - August 17th, 2010, 3:00pm
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Via the Economist, we see this intriguing histogram of Global GDP (below)
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The Economist notes:
“Data compiled by Angus Maddison, an economist who died earlier this year,
suggest that China and India were the biggest economies in the world for
almost all of the past 2000 years.”
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发帖数: 918 | 28 Falun Gong worse, survival crisis have already occurred, in order to bluff
round media at fraud, in order to create a "flourishing age". No donation
was also pull in "cheating", it seems that Falun Gong has many beggars! But
in order to cover the face, ugly face, Falun Gong gave so much, not just
stealing gold master companies or individuals in the name of a Prates,
showing a shiny gold powder, the Falun Gong's trick. The Kaplan letter
design consultants (Hongkong) Company "unfortunate lying in ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1094 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: NewNote (新天地), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 济南裸体坠楼女生有4本日记？警方拒交还家属
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 30 08:41:54 2016, 美东)
山东临沂齐鲁师范学院外语系女大学生李娜（化名），于12月18日凌晨从学生公寓阳台
裸体坠楼身亡。至今，家属一直不能接受警方和校方的结论。家属提出若干疑点，其中
包括警方为什么拒绝将女儿的4本日记交给父母。
在李娜坠楼事件发生后，有网民曝料称 “李娜写有4本日记”。李娜的父亲李贵（化名
）告诉澎湃新闻，截至目前，他没有看到孩子的日记。济南警方称，日记正在拍照留存
，但拒绝透露其中内容。
12月26日早晨6点，李娜家属从学校所在地回到了临沂老家。李娜的表姐称，家属希望
带走李娜遗体，但遭学校拒绝。学校要求家属，要想带走李娜的遗体，需同意警方“自
杀、排除他杀”的调查结果，并且向学校和李娜三个室友公开致歉，学校出于人道主义
给予家属3万元人民币赔偿，家属才可以带走李娜遗体和遗物。
据报，李娜坠楼5天后，23日，齐鲁师范学院高新校... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on January 12, 2011
Facing huge budget difficulties, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been
showing other states how to survive -- namely, by taking on the government-
employee unions.
Christie's battles with the teachers unions over the past year have produced
countless YouTube hits. And last month, he got a law passed to limit wage
hikes from labor arbitrations between the state and public-employee unions
to an average 2 percent an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 20岁以上美国黑人男性就业率只有56.9%，是1972年有历史记录以来的最低点
Employment rate for black men at record low
By Zachary Roth
If the election of America's first African-American president was expected
to give blacks an economic boost, it hasn't emerged yet. Indeed, the
percentage of African-American men with a job has dropped to its lowest
level since records began in 1972, according to the government's monthly
jobs report released last week.
Even as the economy added a better-than-expected 244,000 jobs, the
per... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 As the White House lobbies to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, why not
instead raise its moral ceiling? After decades of rewarding bad behavior, it
is in the government’s best interest—and perhaps even its duty—to
promote the morals and values that made our nation great.
The Obama administration wants Congress to raise the debt ceiling so our
government can borrow more than the almost $14.3 trillion currently allowed
by law. Conservatives want any debt increase tied to spending cuts, and a
rece... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 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: 15 | 34 Random thoughts on the passing scene:
The next time a member of the British royal family gets married, I hope they
elope and spare us all another 24/7 media orgy.
Does the "not guilty" verdict in the Casey Anthony child murder trial mean
that the jury succumbed to the confusion between "beyond a reasonable doubt"
and "beyond any conceivable doubt"? The word "reasonable" is not put in
there just for decoration.
We seem to be living in an age when nobody can be bothered to answer their
telephone, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 35 A news radio talkshow.
Hosts talked about buffoon like Odumba whose academic records never
got exposed - while media kept quiet on the issues. Guess the records
would reveal Odumba was a foreign student from Dumbland Africa.
Then this guy called in, apparently sounding "black". He asked hosts
to give President some respect...... whoa, they are begging for respect.
He forgot to mention his skillsets in the field of class war waging.
All he put in his speech, as funny as it sounded today but excit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 The observed response of the climate to more CO2 is not in good agreement
with predictions.
By WILLIAM HAPPER
During a fundraiser in Atlanta earlier this month, President Obama is
reported to have said: "It gets you a little nervous about what is happening
to global temperatures. When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning
of March, you start thinking. On the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice
weather."
What is happening to global temperatures in reality? The answer is: almost
nothing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”
—A senior intelligence official previously involved with the Utah Data
Center
In the small town of Bluffdale, Utah, not far from bustling Salt Lake City,
the federal government is quietly erecting what will be the crown jewel of
its surveillance empire. Rising up out of the desert landscape, the Utah
Data Center (UDC)—a $2 billion behemoth designed to house a network of
computers, satellites, and phone lines that stretches across ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 What’s Your Plan?
By Mark Steyn
April 14, 2012 4:00 A.M.
In the end, free societies get the governments they deserve. So, if the
American people wish to choose their chief executive on the basis of the “
war on women,” the Republican theocrats’ confiscation of your
contraceptives, or whatever other mangy and emaciated rabbit the Great
Magician produces from his threadbare topper, they are free to do so, and
they will live with the consequences. This week’s bit of ham-handed
misdirection was “the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 By Robert Weissberg
How are we to understand the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement? Is it, as
many on the left insist, a commendable reaction to "obscene" inequalities in
wealth? Or is it, as according to the right, a union-financed, thinly
disguised Obama-supported ruse to stir up egalitarian envy? Both
interpretations are partially valid, but let me offer a different take, and
one that links OWS to countless similar political outcroppings that have
flourished since the 1960s.
My descriptor ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 RALEIGH -- North Carolina has become the 31st state to add an amendment on
marriage to its constitution, with voters banning same-sex marriage and
barring legal recognition of unmarried couples by state and local
governments.
North Carolina is the last state in the South to add such an amendment, and
supporters hoped for a resounding victory.
Incomplete returns show the amendment up 61.05 percent to 38.95 percent.
Primary turnout was heavy. Though there were many other races on the ballot,
inclu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Wednesday, 04 Jul 2012 12:11 PM
By Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
To the 13 families living in the Western Pennsylvania village of Venice, Gen
. George Washington was an arrogant, elite Virginian who dared to claim
ownership of the land where they had built log cabins, grown crops and
conducted their lives for nearly 15 years.
To them, he was “the first true 1-percenter,” local historian Clayton
Kilgore said, recalling Occupy protesters’ description of wealthy Americans.
Washington repre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 42 到底不是他自己写的，真不错，全是丫做不到的。
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
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Following is the transcript of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,
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发帖数: 3803 | 43
Absolutely.
I wouldn't doubt their original intentions.
But, things got off hands when they impose this on a country
and moreover they have gone so far even "pushing" a government
to set aside taxdollars to shed on "poor" but unrelated distant
lands.
They became more evil only in recent years when the
motive has been bent to unilaterally benefit the targeted
people no matter how bad the economy and budget have been.
They lifted it to the level of moral and legal grounds to
oppress the oppositio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8800 | 44 Check one comment ZZ
somehow I feel like mainland before 1987
http://sanctification.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/obamas-plans-refuted-in-wizard-of-id-cartoon/
Sue says:
November 13, 2008 at 12:00 pm
This cartoon could actually be more FACT than FICTION! There is an
organization that has a plan to provide free food, housing and health care
to ALL.
And the answer to the little blurb “…then what do we need jobs for”.
People will still need money to buy cars, TV’s, vacations, etc. Greed and
capitalism w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 45 The Bible on the Poor
or, Why God is a liberal
The Bible contains more than 300 verses on the poor, social justice, and God
's deep concern for both. This page contains a wide sample of them, and some
reflections. It's aimed at anyone who takes the Bible seriously.
As you read these passages, you will very likely feel a good deal of
resistance (possibly at first manifesting itself as indifference). American
churches have departed strongly from Biblical values in these areas, and
even created a r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 97 | 46 Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in
northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s
political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,”
the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But now 90, the prime minister’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, not only left
poverty behind — she became outright ric... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 阿尔及利亚政府消息，23个人质死亡，参与劫持人质的全部32个恐怖分子被杀
Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages
By PAUL SCHEMM and KARIM KEBIR
Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed
a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff
with Islamist extremists that left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all
32 militants involved, the Algerian government said.
With few details emerging from the remote site in eastern Algeria, it was
unclear whether... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Can You Guess How Many Straw Man Arguments Were in Obama’s Speech?
Jan. 21, 2013 5:20pm Mytheos Holt
President Obama has an, at times, well-deserved reputation for delivering
his speeches well. Certainly, the president made an impression today when he
delivered his second inaugural address calling for a bolder, more expansive
government that would be committed increasingly to the principles of
liberalism, with characteristic soaring rhetoric.
Unfortunately, another characteristic was also in evi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Countries That Cut Debt, Taxes And Spending Are Thriving
By ALAN REYNOLDS
Posted 04/03/2013 05:24 PM ET
Several European countries, including Cyprus, have been mired in economic
stagnation or decline for five years or more.
Yet other countries in Asia and Latin America have flourished. What are the
weakest economies doing wrong? What are the strongest doing right?
Economist Jim O'Neill coined the acronym BRIC in 2001 to refer to four
economies which showed great potential then and now — Brazil, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 SAP Defies Industry Trend .
By FRIEDRICH GEIGER
SAP AG, SAP -3.98% the world's third-largest software maker by sales,
continued to outperform its business-software peers Friday as flourishing
sales of database and Web-based applications pulled profits higher.
The company, based in Walldorf, Germany, outshone main rival Oracle Corp.,
ORCL +0.87% posting a 17% rise in net profit to |
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