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发帖数: 1822 | 1 HOMOSEXUALITY IS FOR THE BIRDS!
BY: JASE PEEPLES
8.16.2011
Another study has confirmed what we already know—homosexuality is a
part of nature.
The BBC reports that a new study on zebra finches has discovered that
same-sex pairings of the colorful birds not only exist but they also
participate in mating behavior just like their heterosexual counterparts.
Apparently the highly vocal birds sing to their mates in order to strengthen
the bond between them and this behavior is found in both he... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6165 | 2 http://cn.tmagazine.com/lifestyle/20131202/t02dc/
十多年前，我做暑期实习生时，第一次知道身为同性恋在美国首都意味着什么。当时我
在离联合车站几个街区的地方，一个国会议员从旁边经过，他跟我身边的记者们挥手打
招呼，动作夸张又温柔。
“你知道他们是怎么说他的，”其中一个记者说。他捏着嗓子尖声细语地说道，谁都知
道他什么意思。
实际上我不知道。我甚至不确定那位议员的名字。但是对于一个正为自己的性取向挣扎
的20多岁的人来说，他传递的信息清晰而令人不安：虽然华盛顿有很多同性恋，甚至在
政府高层也是如此，但是他们不是被普遍接受，而是可疑人物，常常被私下里嘲弄、取
笑，甚至中伤。
我在曼哈顿生活了六年半，十个月前搬到这里。现在我几乎认不出我20岁时第一次看到
的那个封闭、狭隘的华盛顿了。我现在生活在美国同性恋最多的地方。
不过我的话不足为信。看看盖洛普公司和人口普查局对这里同性恋人群的调查结果你就
知道了。盖洛普公司把哥伦比亚特区与美国的其他50个州相比，发现这里的女同性恋、
男同性恋、双性恋和变性人的比例最高，达10%。排名第二的夏威夷的比例只有... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 311 | 3 http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-appeals-court-rules-
The march toward gay marriage across the U.S. hit a roadblock Thursday when
a federal appeals court upheld laws against the practice in four states,
creating a split in the legal system that increases the chances the Supreme
Court will step in to decide the issue once and for all.
The cases decided were from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Breaking ranks with other federal courts around the country, the 6th U.S.
Circuit Cour... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 538 | 4 美国的农业研究和推广系统
我们都知道每个州都有一到两所大学做有关农业和其它公众利益推广的工作，这些学校
叫做land-grant institutions。有兴趣的朋友可以去读读http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university。大体上说，这些学校的指定开始于1862年的Morrill Acts， 刚开始是把联邦政府拥有的土地发给各州来建立拥有农业研究教育以及公众继续教育的大学，后来又有1887年的HATCH ACT建立农业试验站，后来又发展了Coopertative Extension。这个所谓的Coopertative Extension就是联邦，州政府，和县政府共同出钱建立的农业和其它公众项目的推广机构，这点上类似于国内的各个省份的农科院和各个地方的农业推广站。然而不同的是，在美国这些推广的人员是属于大学的编制，大学中散布于各个系的faculty通常叫做Specialists（类似于农科院的研究员），各地方的人员通常叫做Extension agents（类似于国内推广站的农艺师）。基本上来说，Specialists是联系研究人员的 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 5 "We're charged with wanting to get rid of the Japs for selfish reasons. We
do. It's a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast or
the brown men. They came into this valley to work, and they stayed to take
over... If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we'd never miss them in two
weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the
Jap grows. And we do not want them back when the war ends, either."
"I am for the immediate removal of every Japanese on the W... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 6 07-14-2012 www.sana.sy
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) website on Saturday was attacked by
foreign sides which try to prevent the Syrian national media from conveying
the truth of events and unmasking the conspiracy hatched against Syria.
After the failure of several attempts to hack the website and publish
fabricated news on it, foreign sides targeted the website with a distributed
denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack).
In the same context, anonymous sides stole SANA logo from the website a... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 电影详细介绍了为什么NJ的public school system是一个big failure.
Every parent and taxpayer in New Jersey should see this movie.
This was a great movie. It confirms all we always suspected, but we never
knew for sure. We don’t get what we pay for with our taxes. The adults run
a broken education system that benefits them and not our kids.
The NJEA nails the escape hatch shut for inner city kids by running a smear
campaign against the idea of school choice either by vouchers or charter
schools.
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 8 奥巴马之下，无奇不有：高盛案中真正大获暴利的一方却没有被起诉。而该基金的老板
John Paulson给了民主党数万美元的捐款。只是巧合？
Hedge fund manager in Goldman Sachs case is major Democratic donor
By Alexander Bolton - 04/16/10 06:06 PM ET
The billionaire hedge fund manager at the center of an alleged fraud hatched
at Goldman Sachs, a leading investment bank, has given tens of thousands of
dollars to both parties.
Campaign fundraising records show that John A. Paulson, founder and
chairman of the hedge fund Paulson & Co., gave $30,400 to the Democratic
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发帖数: 45 | 10 数万美元也拿来说事儿？
r u kidding?
hatched
of
Democratic |
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发帖数: 81 | 11 This is because there is no evidence that can implicate Paulson. There is
nothing illegal about shorting something on the financial market. The
evidence however points to the fact that GS intentionally injected toxic
asset into their CDO products and marketed it to its own customers. It is
definitely a fraud. I seriously doubt that this is an isolated incidence. It
must be GS's culture.
BTW, It is ok you are against Democrates. It is just purely studip if you
don't use your brain.
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发帖数: 27968 | 12 这事是高盛金蝉脱壳吧
hatched
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Democratic |
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发帖数: 3104 | 13 paulson没有做任何违法的事
委托gs设计cdo是个很正常的生意
他为什么要被起诉？
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Democratic |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 14 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8076771/Penguins-are-not-gay-
they-are-just-lonely.html
Penguins are not gay, despite new evidence of homosexual behaviour in the
wild, they are just "same sex flirting" until they find a mate, according to
a new study.
The homosexual behaviour of male king penguins has already been noted in
zoos.
Now in a new study, scientists have found the evidence of male pairs in the
wild. The research found that more than a quarter of the colony in
Antarctica were... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/11/bipartisan_group_of_senators_c.html
Bipartisan group of senators calls for ethanol subsidies to expire
By Greg Sargent
In a clear sign of momentum against ethanol subsidies, a bipartisan group of
more than a dozen senators has signed onto a letter urging Senate leaders
to let the subsidies expire during this Congress, a move that could put many
officials in a tricky political spot and could even have ramifications for
the 2012 presidential race.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 16 Senate Republicans staged the first successful filibuster of a judicial
nominee since 2005 on Thursday, dealing a blow to the Obama administration
on the long-stalled nomination of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Only one Republican joined Democrats Thursday in supporting Liu, who needed
60 votes to break a filibuster. Meanwhile, 52 Democrats voted ‘yes’ to
open debate on the 39-year-old University of California, Berkeley professor
’s nomination. One Democrat voted no. The fin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Congress Discovers That the Sun Rises in the East: GAO Finds Link Between
Tax Complexity and "Tax Gap"
by n*****[email protected] (Dan Meyer)
The Government Accountability Office recently released a study which
indicated that the voluminous amount of content in the U. S. Tax Code and
Regulations can lead to errors and understated taxes.
While the GAO said that some of the complexity could lead to properly
measuring income or identifying risk areas for noncompliance; they also said
that compliance co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 By ROBERT PEAR
Published: November 23, 2011
¶ WASHINGTON — Dr. Donald M. Berwick, the official in charge of
Medicare and Medicaid, who became a symbol of all that Republicans dislike
in President Obama’s health care policies, said on Wednesday that he was
resigning.
Drew Angerer/The New York Times
Dr. Donald M. Berwick met with opposition from Republicans.
¶ His temporary recess appointment was due to expire at the end of the
year. He will step down at the end of next week.
¶ Mr. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Peter W. Dunn
Buried in an ostensible jobs bill signed by President Obama last year is a
little-noticed job-destroying government regulation that threatens to
trigger a massive outflow of capital from the American economy.
The U.S. economy is in bad shape. Many want the federal government to fix
it -- to end the deficits, create jobs, and get America back onto the track
of growth and stability. President Obama came to Washington with great
promises: to restore international respect for the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 20 Washington (CNN) -- The Senate on Saturday approved a compromise spending
bill to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year -- a day
after the bill won approval from the House of Representatives.
The bill now heads to President Barack Obama for his signature. Obama signed
a continuing resolution passed by the House to keep the government funded
through next week while the bill's details are finalized.
The almost $1 trillion measure passed on a 296-121 vote in the House on
Friday... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 21 “Beware, America. The Muslims are coming, and they look and act
suspiciously like you.”
December 30, 2011 | Posted by Rick Rice
That’s the opening line from a WaPo piece announcing an Arab-American
comedy tour aimed at combating what the comics are calling Islamophobia.
Hmmm.
When I see any accusatory word whose suffix is phobia, I’m immediately
suspicious. Usually those throwing such words about are those who are also
throwing an agenda at us.
But I digress… let’s first excerpt the piece:
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 作者:美国参考
2012-01-05 18:00:30
缺席投票（Absentee voting）
缺席投票能够让无法前往投票站投票的选民参加投票。选民可因不同原因无法在选举日
当天前往投票站，例如身居国外、身患疾病、在旅行途中或服兵役等。缺席投票让登记
选民可以邮寄自己的选票。联邦法律《服役公民与海外公民缺席投票法》（Uniformed
and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act）确定了总统大选举的缺席投票规则。
所有其他类型选举的缺席投票规则由各州制定，因而有所不同。在俄勒冈州，所有选举
投票都以邮寄方式进行，但选民也可以选择亲自前往郡投票站投票。
公民表决提案（Ballot initiative）
公民表决提案（有些州使用proposition，即“提案”一词）是美国直接民主的实例，
公民可以以这种方式提出立法措施或修订州宪法。一些提案旨在废除现行的某项州法。
各州对将提案付诸选举投票所需要的签名人数有不同规定。这些提案在大多数、但不是
在所有情况下，需经简单多数批准。另见公民复决（征询民意提案）。
博客（Blog）
博客为网上博客（w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 23 http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID
History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010
Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision
Heritage Foundation's 1989 report is considered to be the conceptual origin
of the health insurance mandate.
The concept of the individual health insurance mandate is considered to have
originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1993,
Republicans twice introduced health care bills that contained an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 By CHARLES FORELLE And DAVID ENRICH
LONDON—Investors fled from Spanish government debt on Monday, an immediate
rejection of the country's planned bank bailout by the constituency it most
desperately needs to impress: the buyers of its own government bonds.
The market rout puts Spain and the euro zone in a dire position. The bailout
plan—in which Spain agreed to accept up to €100 billion ($125
billion) to recapitalize banks—was hatched to alleviate the concern that
Spain itself could be d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 By Damian Paletta
The U.S. government appears on pace to hit the $16.394 trillion federal
borrowing limit sometime in January, a bit later than the Obama
administration had initially projected, according to recent data.
The Treasury Department reported on Friday that the government actually ran
a surplus of $75 billion in September, meaning it brought in more money than
it spent, a rarity these days. That means the government has averaged a $90
.8 billion monthly deficit over the past 12 months.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 by Jammie
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases that could —
but likely will not — establish a nationwide, constitutional right to gay
marriage. The cases leave the high court plenty of escape hatches from
taking a big step the country may not be ready for yet, said William
Eskridge, a constitutional law scholar at Yale Law School who contributed
the legal reasoning that helped decide one of the cases, a challenge to an
anti-gay marriage referendum in California.
The ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 Trenton paid $1,000 to install President Obama bust commissioned by indicted
Mayor Tony Mack
Alex Zdan/The Times By Alex Zdan/The Times
on December 13, 2012 at 8:15 AM
A bust of President Barack Obama, ordered by the city of Trenton, which will
be dedicated by Mayor Tony Mack in City Hall on Dec. 13, 2012 Courtesy
Photo
TRENTON — Some city money may have been used to fund a project to install a
bust of President Barack Obama at City Hall, despite claims by Mayor Tony
Mack that the funding came ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 Frank Owens Wrote:
The idiots in Kalifornia have done it again. They have counted their
chickens before they hatched, and now they have egg all over their faces. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Small-business owners across the U.S. are bracing for the health-care law
that kicks in next year, fearing it will increase the cost of providing
insurance to employees.
But Rick Levi, a business owner in Des Moines, Iowa, is among those
considering the government's escape hatch: paying a penalty to avoid the law
's "employer mandate."
Under the Affordable Care Act, employers with 50 or more full-time workers
will be required to provide coverage for employees who work an average of 30
or more ho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 BuzzFeed: Hey, Even al Qaeda Thinks We Have Weak Gun Laws
by Jammie
Geez, this is just pathetic.
Mark the occasion well, for this is the week in which the gun control
movement became so desperate to restore the balance of the firearms debate
in favor of groundless emotion that it recruited al-Qaeda as an ally in its
fight.
The NRO links to an insipid item from a Buzzfeed cub reporter.
Even Al-Qaeda was arguing that America’s background check system was
weak and made guns easily obtainabl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 Massachusetts Democrats To Force Governor To Seek Waiver From Obamacare
Provisions
Josh Archambault Josh Archambault, Contributor
An awkward future conversation between Governor Patrick and President Obama
about the ACA in MA?
A very interesting ACA development is taking place in Massachusetts today as
the state that “inspired” Obamacare tries to reconcile its current law
with the new federal law. Push back in the compliance effort is coming from
an unexpected source, the senior Democratic budge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 by Jammie
A resident of Somers, NY, located in northern Westchester County, has been
wondering who’s been stealing his “Repeal NY SAFE Act” signs, so he sets
up a hidden camera.
Lo and behold, look who’s taking them:
Oops.
A man in Somers, N.Y., hatched a plan to catch the individual
responsible for allegedly stealing his pro-gun signs repeatedly from his
front yard. He bought a trail cam, set it up near the sign — and then
waited.
When he learned that his sign had been taken yet again, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3299 | 33 这三个共和党党棍提了一个和obama care 类似的方案
three Republican Senators — Tom Coburn (Okla.), Richard Burr (N.C.), and
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
就是这个保险的谁付钱不一样。
obama care:收入25万以上付3.8%的obama care tax。医疗器械公司出剩下的。
共和党的提案:对公司的保险证35%的税。我们公司给我们付了$16000,我就要多交$5000
的税。共和党这届选举滚淡。想给富人大公司降税都想的变态了。 |
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发帖数: 9638 | 34 【 以下文字转载自 Medicalpractice 讨论区 】
发信人: Aplusplus (Hakuna Matata), 信区: Medicalpractice
标 题: 昨晚的总统演讲（zz）
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 29 13:08:58 2014, 美东)
What President Obama will say:
"Let me be clear."
"Make no mistake."
"There are those who disagree."
"The mess I inherited."
"the worst recession since the Great Depression"
"I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and that's all I need. I'll take
executive action. Where Congress won't act, I will."
"We can do better."
"It won't happen overnight."
"W... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 House Oversight Subpoenas Lois Lerner’s IRS Computer Hard Drive
June 17, 2014 - 5:11 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
(CNSNews.com) – Because the IRS told Congress late last Friday that former
IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer had apparently crashed and her emails
from January 2009 to April 2011 were now lost, the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena today for that computer hard
drive, other electronic devices, and all communications and documents
related to that PC crash... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Federal court invalidates some ObamaCare subsidies, separate ruling
preserves them
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to ObamaCare on
Tuesday, ruling against the legality of some subsidies issued to people
through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
The ruling is likely to be appealed. And a separate federal appeals court --
the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals -- hours later issued its own ruling on
a similar case that upheld the subsidies in their entirety.
But the decision... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 37 这种新闻虽然在具体细节上不一定准确，也许楼主可以澄清。但是类似的情况（确实是
发生过的。
2011年，加州 Mother’s Day Celebrations Banned as Sexist。
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2011/05/mothers-day-celebrations
“Declaring celebration of Mother’s Day sexist, the California Department
of Health and Human Services has proposed regulations that would criminalize
the celebration. ”
California State Assemblymen Sonci Degiorno took up the cause at the
Assemply level, “People need to understand that they can’t simply have a
holiday that offends part o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1633 | 38 民主党劳模议员GUTIERREZ RESENTS GOP STEM VISA BILL
“
That is not America. There was no special line for PhD's and Master's
Degree holders at Ellis Island.
There was not asterisk on the Statue of Liberty that said your IQ must be
this high to enter.
”
AC21是共和党的Orrin Hatch发起，24个co-sponsor大部分是共和党, 没有AC21办了140
也不能换工作，作用大不大？小布什用executive order给老中加了29个月的OPT, 奥巴
马用executive order给非法劳模发工卡，并且常年公开声称不大赦劳模就不改革合法
移民，如此赤裸裸的歧视合法移民左棍们都视而不见？更别说H1b Advanced degree那
两万个名额也是共和党给加上的。
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Terrorist Arrests in Germany, Belgium; Nine Warning Signs Ignored; Could
Attacks Have Been Prevented?
In the wake of the terrorist activity in Paris that killed close to 150
people in eight separate attacks, the Investigation Widens to Germany and
Belgium.
Three Key Developments
● Belgium charges two men in connection with the Paris attacks
● Germany arrests five people in a town close to the Belgian border
● France has authorized the distribution of an antidote for nerve gas
The investigati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 40 CRUZ的解释是他站在监视中央银行（和PAUL）站在一起。而且它是PAUL的提案的共同发
起者之一（见下证据）
这个投票属于孜孜不倦型。PAUL和共和党的努力有目共睹。但每次都被民主党阻挠过不
了。
那天投票，CRUZ知道肯定过不了，而且还有个2A大会，所以没去投票。而那个投票也因
为民主党年复一年的阻挠，一直过不去。
这是CRUZ的口头回应
I strongly support auditing the Fed. Indeed, I was an original co-sponsor of
Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed bill. Unfortunately, it was clear early on that
yesterday’s vote wasn’t going to succeed (it fell 7 votes short). And, at
the same time that the vote was scheduled, I had longstanding commitments to
be in New Hampshire — for ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1183 | 41 don't count the chicken before they hatch |
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发帖数: 1183 | 42 don't count the chickens before they hatch.
be mature. |
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发帖数: 1 | 43 Trump昨天赢了三个州，不仅Trump开始为过去两周的屈辱开始反击，别人也开始反击。
看看Romney和Rubio还嚣张不？
好文链接：
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/09/hey-republicans-stop-
好文内容：
Will Republicans please stop insulting Trump voters? Just stop. I know that
many hate Trump, but his voters too?
Mitt Romney derides Trump voters as “suckers.” Others have sneered that
Trump has an army of “low information voters” who have been “duped,” and
that “these people” shouldn’t be able to decide on the fate of a Grand
Old Party. Trump’s voters, th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 42116 | 44 美国华府《国会山庄报》（The Hill）网站7日引据共和党资深联邦参议员海契（Orrin
Hatch）指出，共和党可能于全国党代表大会征召该党籍国会众议院议长保罗．莱恩（
Paul Ryan）选总统，海契并表示，原因在于莱恩是最能团结共和党的人选。
海契说，相关的推测会发生是很自然的事情，毕竟莱恩是国会山庄最杰出的领导人之一
，且是足以让各阵营团结一致的领袖人物。
《国会山庄报》引据海契说，莱恩在2012年曾膺任共和党总统候选人罗姆尼竞选搭档，
虽然他近来一再重申无意角逐白宫宝座，但多数共和党公职人员认为，莱恩可能成为拯
救共和党今年总统选战的白骑士。
最新民调显示，莱恩若代表共和党选总统，将以6％的差距败给民主党的前第一夫人暨
前国务卿希拉蕊．柯林顿。
莱恩出身共和党少壮派，已婚，育有1子2女。他1998年以28岁之龄即当选联邦众议员，
并连任8届，民望深厚。莱恩热中健身，颇上镜头，深受传媒青睐，向来是保守议题代
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f******s
发帖数: 983 | 47 Hatch地位再高，在摩门教徒心里没教会高，教会先知说一句话抵他一百句 |
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M**Q
发帖数: 477 | 48 senator reid to comey: you may have broken the law
好像是叫 Hatch Act
利用公职影响选举 |
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m*h
发帖数: 2750 | 49 奥八心里狠狠地骂这个猪队友呢
这会儿提出Hatch Act？我老人家十月份专门助选，替各州主党候选人站台，教导全体
人民选拉拉，本来仗着老百姓没几个知道违法，你是提醒他们呢么？
lol |
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H****S
发帖数: 1359 | 50 什么叫违法？harry reid现在跳出来叫嚣FBI违反hatch act，FBI直接反一个干扰调查
过程，妨碍司法公正，就够这群狗日的吃不了兜着走。 |
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