发帖数: 1 | 1 http://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75
Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus | Free to read
This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for
years to come
Yuval Noah Harari MARCH 20 2020
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Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our
generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks
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发帖数: 229 | 2 丹姐，其实你们要是和美帝admin有关系的话，应该说服美帝和
土工共管地球，符合远交近攻的人性偏好，还可以脚踏欧洲，和平
管理世界，duopoly 比 monopoly稳定啊，是吧，丹姐.... |
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发帖数: 2496 | 3 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
kayaker (霜晨の月) 于 (Sun Dec 5 00:30:20 2010, 美东) 提到:
发信人: kayaker (霜晨の月), 信区: Military
标 题: 宇垣缠中将的最后一次出击
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Dec 4 20:19:41 2010, 美东)
1945年8月15日，身为第五航空舰队长官的宇垣缠中将九州岛大分基地的收听到东京的“玉音放送”。由于战时的电波干扰，收音机里的“玉音放送”一度中断，但他清楚地知道日本已经接受《波茨坦公告》宣布无条件投降。当日九州天气晴朗、燥热。航空舰队参谋长横井俊幸在听
放送”之后正要找宇垣缠商谈善后事宜，忽然有报告说司令官命令部下为他准备3架彗星特别攻击机。横井感到惊讶，急忙来到宇垣的办公室，问宇垣打算做什么，出乎预料的是，宇垣缠微笑平静地说∶“我要去冲绳岛对米军发动特别攻击。”参谋长劝他记住自己作为司令官的使命
拒绝了参谋长的劝阻，说∶“人一旦丧失死的时机，就只能羞耻地苟活在世界上。现在是我最后的机会。每次为出征... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8422 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: vuse (vuse), 信区: Military
标 题: 西方是如何偷取中国茶叶的
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 7 20:20:15 2011, 美东)
Following the man who stole tea from China
TOKYO | Tue Jun 7, 2011 5:49am EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Robert Fortune was a scientist, a botanist and, in some
ways, an industrial spy. But he is best known as the man who stole tea from
deep within China and took it to India in the mid-1800s, changing history.
His venture required years of toil up China's rivers by boat to places where... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19737 | 5 这个是有证据的，唉，老将真是极品，证据确凿，你洋爹早就写到书里面去了，你还是
不敢相信汉朝技术先进，这是怎样的一种精神啊??!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ferrous_metallurgy
Historians debate whether bloomery-based ironworking ever spread to China
from the Middle East. One theory suggests that metallurgy was introduced
through Central Asia.[31] The earliest cast iron artifacts dating to 5th
century BC were discovered by archaeologists in what is now modern Luhe
County, Jiangsu in China. Cast iron was used in ancient China for warfare,
agricultu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14958 | 6 市场价格越高说明人家越先进。
啥叫monopoly啊？ |
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发帖数: 1 | 7 [在 monopoly (mono) 的大作中提到：]
:同意，最后这个自由操太牛了。
又稳又有力量，尤其还能带动观众。 |
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b*****n
发帖数: 17570 | 8 这次奥运所有打分项目都被黑了
[在 monopoly (mono) 的大作中提到：]
:还有冲进的项目么? |
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发帖数: 4174 | 9 Haugen announces stance on marriage equality
Monday, January 23 2012 - Mary Margaret Haugen | Permalink
OLYMPIA – Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen issued the following statement today
following the Senate hearing on Senate Bill 6239 to allow same-sex marriage:
“For several weeks now, I have heard from the people of my district. They’
ve shared what’s in their hearts and minds.
“I have received many letters, emails, phone calls, very heartfelt, from
both sides of the issue. I’ve also received a number o... 阅读全帖 |
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t******t
发帖数: 1123 | 10 2) is a joke.
Don't count on it can be solved by Government. The government should create an
environment, and
encourage the enterprise to pursue the goal. And also suppresses the
monopoly, which is almost
impossible because it will harm the benefit of some people. |
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q******j
发帖数: 577 | 11 How to keep the food price down while keeping the farmers alive is the
priority of all big agricutural countries (including those developed
countries with big farm industrty). Not one single country allows any
farmer or farmer group to become monopoly. No farmer or farmer group in any
country has the ability to set the price (compared with iron ore and other
mineral comodities where a few international giant have great leverage in
negotiating the price). Agricultural machinery and fertilizers |
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发帖数: 28502 | 12 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
GilaMonster (春夏秋冬) 于 (Tue Sep 28 01:11:28 2010, 美东) 提到:
这个版人少，随便发一点关于农业的随想吧，想到那里写到那里，欢迎大家讨论。不严
谨的地方，请多指出。
美国有得天独厚的农业条件，这个国家能够以2-3%的农业人口生产出足够本国消费而又
能大量出口的粮食。这点估计世界上能有与其相比的大国不多。不过，除了这个条件之
外，美国还是对其农业有相当大的投入，这点值得其它国家，尤其是中国好好学习的。
1) 联邦政府的直接给钱
常常听到美国指责其它国家补贴农业，搞不正当的竞争，其实他自身对农业的补贴只多
不少。这个国家虽然农业人口很少，但其影响力还是不小(这点以后谈到农民的组织上
还有讨论)。政府对农业重要性的认识也很关键，所以才能通过farm bill。在民间显然
没有中国那么多叫嚣什么不需要耕地和农业或者盖楼种地的NC。
美国一些农业的补贴是直接给钱。这个相对于不同的作物而言，一般而言主要是大田作
物小麦棉花玉米之类的。每过几年的farm bill很... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25142 | 13 卢瑟经济学——主角的故事（续3）
如果把社会总产品看成一块大饼，每个人分配的份额并不与他的贡献有关，而与他掌握
的要素的紧缺程度有密切的关系。在绝大多数情况下，稀缺的是产。所以，产越多，分
到的份额就越多。分到的份额越多，积累约快，产便有更大的机会在下一张大饼中获得
更大的份额。
想发财就要掌握围城中的面包。一块普通的面包，如果放到围城中，就可以获得任何想
要的物品。想活下去，就要想办法成交，就要满足面包房主要价。这就是自由市场内发
财的核心思路。
看起来很公平，只要想法设法让自己提供其他人提供不了的东西就可以了。实际上却并
不那么简单。市场中，短缺的要素永远是产。绝大多数人无法从提供劳动力，转移到提
供产。产的来源，第一个是原始积累，第二个是积聚，第三个是集中。后两个都需要有
第一桶金的前提下才能实现。第一个，则需要暴力或者提供围城中的面包。比如《教父
》中的考里昂老头子，卖橄榄油。当然，也可以来自政府的暴力，比如日本明治维新以
后建立的大型垄断企业，靠财政直接支持。或者，政府暴力和私人暴力，两者兼而有之
，比如上海滩的杜老板作毒品生意，本人手下有一群兄弟，还是官方禁毒委员会... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 367 | 14 For every normal traditional Christian, judgement is a very sacred thing and
the MONOPOLY of Jesus--who does Obama think he is and he has the power to
call the judgement?
Is he self-claiming to be the true Messiah? Don't use the word judgement too
often, there are some very sentimental regligious issues that are at stakes here.
GOP does not need to have big religious leaders like Bill Graham coming out to denouce him--just a couple of respectable theologists are gonna be enough le. |
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发帖数: 3365 | 15 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020373530457716665
BEIJING—China has announced that people living in its towns and cities now
outnumber those in the countryside, making it a predominantly urban nation
for the first time in Chinese civilization.
Migrant workers and others line up for trains ahead of the Lunar New Year
holiday in Chengdu on Tuesday.
The milestone spotlights a trend that China's government says will be a key
driver of economic growth over the next two decades as hundre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 918 | 16 Begin to lie , ending with a lie , is heresy characteristics. So why would I
lie about it ? Both because there is sufficient.The distortion of the facts
, for the intent of deception ; also because the pursuit of the interests
of a certain degree of monopoly is too strong , so be lying. Quite a lot of
crooks , and its structural capacity of the brain's language ability than
other more prominent exception , so they often do not speak my mind made
directly by the judge in the process to reveal the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 162 | 17 In my opinion, the decision on the Hawaii case was wrong and the subsequent
decision on the Kelo case was even wrongER.
When you read those two cases carefully, you would find that the situations
in both cases are actually different.
In the Hawaii case, those land owners owned 47% of the whole island. The
government can argue that the government was unable to compensate "enough"
the land owners as there was a situation of monopoly and the owners was
seeking unreasonable compensation, which I |
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发帖数: 2494 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 WorldNews 讨论区 】
发信人: ayanami (螃蟹@FROSTSHOCK PWNS YOU!!11!), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: Socialism & Me
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 17 23:23:31 2009, 美东)
Copied from digg.com
I am a conservative.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated
by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water
utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see
wha |
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发帖数: 10233 | 19 lol...
The problem is that if there is only one gov run company in monopoly
position, how do you compare to make a judgement it is good or bad? all
these things are for relatively speaking, right?
I can say chicomm is the best party to run in china, and this is absolutely
true, because no other party has ever got a chance to run the country or
even compete to run...
hiahia...
generated |
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s****n
发帖数: 620 | 20 奥大炮的话你也信？他在国会上说某个州只有一两个health insurance company以此说
明monopoly。其实是某些州的regulation特别严格以至于insurance赚不了钱而已。
大药厂就那几间，是典型的Oligopoly。
医院因为地理位置至少也是natural monoply
为啥对医院下手医院就一定会垮掉？
为啥不能降低医生护士的薪水？
是否搞垮医院没有经验可以借鉴
但是效率低下的公共医疗保险
有太多其他国家的经验可以借鉴了... |
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发帖数: 10233 | 21 在面对一个没有public option, 没有medicare expansion的零健改,左派发彪了.
“It basically allow the tax payer to take the hit to pay for those
uninsured, but does not deal with underline symptom as why there are so many
uninsured which is we have a monopoly private insurance companies in this
country."
好笑的是,再仔细想想,如果真加了public option,结果会两样吗？中产一样遭受重创，
不同的只是原本落到private ins手里的钱,落到独裁/无能/底效的政府的腰包里罢了. |
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发帖数: 2416 | 22
It's actually fairly hard to establish a case of price-gouging. You'd have
to prove that the major market participants actually conspired an effective
monopoly.
,
no
Did you have an actual case? I would be interested to read about it, |
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发帖数: 230 | 23 I think those privately-run health insurance companies play even a bigger
role. Note that in a free market (yes, a free market), health insurance
companies have exemption of anti-trust regulation. That is, the government
allows monopoly to great extent, in a free market. United States along with
the South Africa, the two countries that had racial discrimination legalized
are the only two countries in the industrialized world, never implemented a
universal health care plan.
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no |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 24 I take it that you aren't happy with "a public option"
and would like to replace it with... a public monopoly?
still
salary(hospital
sure.
take
be down |
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发帖数: 8363 | 26
The big business bribed your beloved government to put in the policies
that keep competition out for them to monopoly the field and impose a
high charge on the public. The solutions is anything but turning to the
same corrupted government for more policies, dumbass! |
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发帖数: 3299 | 27 SO I understand now. For GOP support, it is ok to have a expensive health
insurance policy. high cost of health care is good as long as it is driven
by the private monopoly insurance companies. Because you still have "freedom
" not to buy your insurance. But lots of people do not think so. So comes
reform. |
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发帖数: 3299 | 28 So let the private industries monopoly the agriculture products. They can
charge you $100 per lb of chicken, $200 for pork and $1000 for beaf. it is
absolutely fine because it is from the private companies. You have the "
freedom" not to buy those products. Yep, Free market at work.
driven
freedom |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 Here are a few important developments that remain strangely ignored. I say
strangely, but most readers understand why some news becomes news and some
does not.
1) Iraq. The United States military between 2007 and 2009 crushed al-Qaeda
in Iraq. It destroyed cadres of radical Islamists and Baathists. It
stabilized the country. It was one of the most stunning military
performances in modern history, and helped to destroy the image of a
competent and scary al-Qaeda. Yet everything from the recapture... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3539 | 31 i haven't found a doable solution to it yet, at least not from this board.
it's easy to think of an "ideal solution"
but nobody here actually has any idea about the details or does a robustness
analysis, say against monopoly or
fraud. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on January 31, 2011
When Obama started to speak about the need to improve education, upgrade our
schools and attract quality teachers, an elephant appeared in the living
rooms of most Americans who were watching. Obama never mentioned the beast,
but most of the country saw clearly the three letters on his back -- AFT.
American Federation of Teachers -- the union that, along with its
counterpart, the NEA, National Education Association, h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 255 | 33 You are really a NC.
Government is a monopoly, it mandates people to use its services, and union
works against people for higher pay/benefits for government employees.
What people are saying: people are the employer, if we can't afford the
service, we want to reduce government employee pay/benefits, and fire
government employees.
If you think you deserve better pay from the work you do, and don't agree
with the people, you can quit your government job and find one in private
sector.
Oh wait, you... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 34 calm down, maam,
i did not sign the stimulus bill to print the monopoly money, i did not
create this inflation.
you need to find the right guy.
for |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 35 On Tuesday, the battle for employee freedom won an important victory against
Big Labor's campaign to take over the Wisconsin State Senate.
And your National Right to Work Committee stood strong in the fight, making
sure the pro-forced unionism politicians couldn't hide their record of waste
and corruption.
As you know, Governor Scott Walker led a brave legislative effort to roll
back union-boss power over Wisconsin state workers, including repealing most
withholding of forced dues from paychecks... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 By Jeremy Egerer
It is oftentimes complained, partially unfairly, that the American lower
classes are getting poorer and poorer. But enough has been written, by
practically every conservative think-tank, about how the welfare state and
anti-discrimination legislation destroy neighborhoods and promote the
business interests of those with poor moral constitutions (leftists,
primarily) by providing layabouts with an arsenal of unreasonable lawsuits.
This article, recognizing the above socioeconomi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 37 By James Lewis
Hi Tech Lynching is here again! Shades of Justice Clarence Thomas and Anita
Hill. They're going to play the same sadistic power game they lost with
Justice Thomas. Well, let 'em try, but now they are facing a revived
conservative media. This is a trial of strength. When Clarence Thomas was
nominated to the Supreme Court he had few defenders. Today we have talk
radio and the blogs.
As a morality play this looks like Snidely Whiplash against Little Nell. The
Corporate Media are wide... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 By Monty Pelerin
Our economic problems rightfully dominate the news. However, they are
merely symptoms of a bigger, underlying problem: government.
For many, the previous paragraph is heresy. They "know" that government is
necessary and good. They "know" that government solves problems and brings
order to the chaos that would prevail in its absence. "They" are wrong!
Government has become little more than a carefully crafted myth based on
propaganda disseminated by government itself. It has... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 Posted 04/18/2012 06:34 PM ET
Special Relationship: As Argentina marshals diplomatic support for its claim
on Britain's Falklands Islands, the best President Obama can declare in
response is U.S. "neutrality." It's an insult to our top ally — and trouble
for us.
One can only wonder what an irresponsible Evita Peron wannabe like
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner must think when she
sees the shabby way President Obama treats America's leading ally, the
United Kingdom.
At the wee... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 40 By Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan, Published: May 18 | Updated: Saturday,
May 19, 11:10 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When scholars gathered at Harvard last month to discuss
the political tumult convulsing China’s ruling Communist Party, a demure
female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome was listening
intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi
Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent for the party’s top job.
Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, enrolled at Harv... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
It's a criticism levelled by many. It's one I've levelled in the past
unthinkingly. And yet I distinctly remember as a child being struck by the
beauty and the holiness of the Churches my mother used to take me to as a
child living in Spain. It stayed with me. And in some way, it drew me back.
There is something about the huge-ness, the awe-someness, the intrigue and
the magnetism of a Cathedral. And thankfully, there are those who defend
the building of same... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 这个已经讲过无数次了.
Precondition的人的premium肯定比普通人高.这个和开车保险一样的道理. 如果强制有
precondition和没有pre的人的premium是一样的话,那么整个premium肯定是上涨. 这个
和车辆保险是一样,如果保险公司觉得你风险高,要么是deny,要么是增加保费.
毕竟大部分人不是precondition的, 所以对那些precondition可以有政府做补贴,而不
是强制要求保险公司保证低价. 另外很多人的情况是因为他们自己不爱护自己的身体,
抽烟喝酒,这个和precondition完全不是一回事.
现在是各州的保险公司基本是monopoly,控制着一个州或者一个州的几个地方, 不允许
其他保险公司进来.这个才是费用高的一个主要原因. |
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发帖数: 4150 | 43 世界女首富道出了成功的真谛，一帮无耻懒人不懂得感激或是反思，反而恶言相向。眼
前的美国又何尝不是如此？哎，文明的堕落。。。
============================================================================
World's richest woman says those who are jealous of her wealth should 'stop
drinking, stop smoking and work harder'
By Frank Thorne
PUBLISHED:08:40 EST, 30 August 2012| UPDATED: 17:50 EST, 30 August 2012
The richest woman in Australia has caused a storm by calling her struggling
fellow countrymen 'whingers' and telling them to get out of the pub and work
hard... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 On Labor Day, 1980, Jimmy Carter’s presidential re-election campaign was
ahead by 4 points. On November 4, 1980, the incumbent lost by 10 points. As
I learned firsthand back then, a lot can happen in two months.
Today, as the RealClearPolitics average shows Mitt Romney down by less than
a point in his White House bid, the challenger needs “the fierce urgency of
now,” to borrow a phrase often used by Barack Obama in 2008--although he
hasn’t used it much since. Ronald Reagan had that sense of ur... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****r
发帖数: 321 | 45
I don't pretend I know all the details, but from what is in the movie and
the book "big short", some agencies were clueless about what's going on,
that's for sure and also the de-regulations since 1980s are huge factor too.
With pure market force, we would have "winner takes all" situation. Because
that's the most efficient way to run business and can earn most profit. But
monopoly is not good for the long run. it is sort like put all the eggs in
one basket: if it is good, it is really good, bu... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 46 you guys are totally ignorant on how market works.
when GSE loan the dollar on the penny, how could other people survive?
they have to bite the bullet in order to survive, and they died, as we all
see.
now,
when tax payers are on the hook to bail out GSE, who takes the bill, it is
our tax payers.
not only tax payers money help to destroy the private sector through GSE
market manipulation, but as well bail out the biggest piece of monopoly gse.
and you guys are blowing for this?
do you know you a... 阅读全帖 |
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f*********g
发帖数: 1637 | 47 同性恋课堂 State issue.
医疗保险增值 Who did? Did Obama order it? Obamacare even hasnt started yet,
It is his opponents, Insurance monopolies that raise the insurance premium.
It is not fair to blame Obama for this issue.
Obama has a lot of problem like war issue, like bend to Israel etc.
Obamacare isnt one of those issues,Obamacare isnt different from Romneycare
in the essence. |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 48 Richard Cohen Explains Conservatives
By Dennis Prager
January 8, 2013 12:00 A.M.
On the last day of 2012, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen
inadvertently clarified two huge matters regarding the Left.
The first was the ignorance about conservatives and conservatism that
permeates the Left. The second was the primary reason decent people identify
with the Left: the effective caricaturing and demonizing of the Right. Were
it not for caricature and demonization, most otherwise intelligent and... 阅读全帖 |
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t********e
发帖数: 931 | 49 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: Rand Paul Response to the President's State of the Union Address
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 13 00:21:03 2013, 美东)
Rand Paul Response to the President's State of the Union Address
I speak to you tonight from Washington, D.C. The state of our economy is
tenuous but our people remain the greatest example of freedom and prosperity
the world has ever known.
People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it’s not th... 阅读全帖 |
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x******k
发帖数: 847 | 50 Unfortunately, many folks don't see the monopoly of power, like the one GCD
has, if guns are taken away from citizens. |
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