by Chris Ford
Things are heating up this summer in both the political and theatrical
realms. Movie theaters are hit with my favorite kind of movies, superheroes
like Spiderman, Batman and the whole Avengers team. You also have Obama and
Romney in full campaign mode heading out to all their stops to conjure up
votes and rally their bases. Yet, what do superheroes and these politicians
have in common? You might be surprised by the connections.
Joss Whedon, the Director behind this summer’s hit the... 阅读全帖
Funny story.
The German Left party representative, politician Frank-Michael John was
caught red-handed, stealing toilet paper from Stralsund City Hall.
The municipal authority’s staff arrested the 24-year-old politician at the
point when he exited the men’s restroom with a toilet paper roll in hands,
reports Bild.
The City Hall’s janitors noticed that in the past weeks toilet paper rolls
started to disappear from men’s WC. About 200 rolls went missing during
this time. The cleaners themselves la... 阅读全帖
Waterloo, Iowa (CNN) - Republican hopeful Michele Bachmann seems to have
found a new favorite tag line in the midst of her bus tour: “I'm one of you
.”
It's a phrase she's been using more and more, and Monday she seemed to be
saying it everywhere she went.
"I am not a politician. I am a real person. I don't even know how to be a
politician," Bachmann said in a news conference outside a high school in
Grundy Center, Iowa.
"That is why I am in trouble all the time in Washington DC because I am
con... 阅读全帖
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100730/canada/politics_anders_china_offers
"I know politicians who have done things that I think are antithetical to
their character and I know those politicians to have been offered things
whether they were lucrative business deals or sexual favours while they were
over on foreign trips," Rob Anders told CBC's Power & Politics.
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标 题: politicians will always be protected by firearms
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 20 21:46:50 2020, 美东)
"politicians will always be protected by firearms against the people they
want to disarm."
saw this comment on an news report that when bloomberg left office of NY
mayor, he hired away 15 NYPD officers as armed security details.
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标 题: He May Be a God, but He’s No Politician(zz)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Apr 13 08:09:57 2008)
總算看到一篇比較不一樣的西方觀點了
He May Be a God, but He’s No Politician http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22french.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By PATRICK FRENCH
London
NEARLY a decade ago, while staying with a nomad family in the remote
grasslands of northeastern Tibet, I asked Namdrub, a man who fought in the
anti-Communist resistance in the 1950s, what he though
Any American Politicians Talked about Work Injury and Workers' Comp System?
by Limin Wang
Aug. 17, 2018
It's a big issue for workers, especially for laborers. I realize this only
after I suffered work injury and had to fight by the WC system. This USA is
called by the politicians a "rule of law", but the reality is so much the
opposite. The "law" is not the language of the commoner, by the commoner, or
for the commoner. A work injury can be premediated by some parties for a
murder, and these mu... 阅读全帖
很多xdjm 好像对联议员等politicians 有疑虑：有多少议员，州长亲自接电话或看信
？他们能做什么？
首先，州长议员们自己当然是不可能亲自接电话和察看信件。他们的秘书或助手专人负
责这些事。但助手和秘书会把重要的情况总结汇报，甚至呈递原信件（如果是平信）。
什么会被认为事重要的呢？如果在一段时间内，相当数量的人反映同一个问题，就会引
起重视。 还有，如果写信的人有一定的respectable socal status, 助手和秘书就
likely pay attention. This is why in my template letter, the first line
states your job title or credentials.
州长议员们拿着我们的信能做什么呢？他们能inquire the matter，investigate,and
put heat on the CIS. The politicians are more likely to take action when
each of the senators and congressmen/w
David Richardson has become the first openly gay legislator of Florida. The
55-year-old forensic accountant said he was comfortable having made Florida
history on election night.
“I am the first openly gay legislator of Florida – and forever will be,”
he said, having defeated on Tuesday three other candidates to represent
state House District 113 in Miami Beach.
Mr Richardson, a native of Orlando and the son of a cab driver and factory
worker, gained biology and accounting undergraduate degrees ... 阅读全帖
CHICAGO - In a city where the mayor holds the same job his father once did,
politics can seem little different from the years of the legendary
Democratic Machine. But the faces of political privilege — long dominated
by white ethnic groups — have changed as powerful black politicians use
their clout to build new dynasties.
The next in a long line of successions has been set in motion by Illinois
Senate President Emil Jones, one of Barack Obama's first political mentors,
who in announcing his ret
By Victor Davis Hanson
Sometimes societies find themselves in pernicious cycles in which the
perceived medicine seems worse than the known disease. The Roman satirist
Juvenal lamented the ill effects of free food and free entertainment for the
masses (“bread and circuses”) in part because he knew there was no remedy
for the pathology in sight — and thus only a slow decline toward fiscal
insolvency or riots were on the horizon. Any Roman emperor bold enough to
rein in the Praetorian Guard, charge... 阅读全帖
In Albany, politicians can make money in their sleep.
Claiming she spent a marathon 12 consecutive days in Albany on “legislative
business,” Queens Assemblywoman Vivian Cook pocketed $171 for each
reported overnight stay — a total $2,197 in taxpayer money from March 21 to
April 1, 2010.
The Legislature was in session just three of those days — and Cook was
absent for all three, records show.
“Me? You’re kidding! No! I didn’t do that,” she told The Post.
“I don’t lie, I don’t cheat, and I don’t s... 阅读全帖
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标 题: The politicians are…
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the very people who create problems for the society and campaign against
them.
Done drinking koolaid, Obama is fired.
Isn’t Gun Control Supposed to Reduce Violent Crime?
By Jim Geraghty
March 8, 2013 9:53 A.M.
Finally, an honest politician!
A Colorado state lawmaker, discussing her bill to eliminate the right to
carry concealed weapons on college campuses, argues against an amendment
that would seek to measure whether violent crime increases or decreases
after its implementation.
“I don’t know how on earth they can draw a casual relationship… I make no
assertion that this bill will either increase or reduce vio... 阅读全帖
I just imagine with a normal politician, whoever is prepping would say, "
Here are the points you need to hit, but it can't look scripted so you have
to adlib this apology in order for it to look sincere." But they can't do
that with Trump because he is beyond unpredictable and would probably say
something to make it even worse. What a shitshow.
“Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always
fair and that things happen to you that you do not deserve, and that are not
always warranted, but you have to put your head down and fight, fight,
fight,” Trump said, saying that “no politician in history has been treated
worse or more unfairly” by the media.
“Adversity makes you stronger─don’t give in and don’t back down and
never stop doing what you know is right,” Trump said. “Nothing worth doing
ever, ever, ever comes e... 阅读全帖
總算看到一篇比較不一樣的西方觀點了
He May Be a God, but He’s No Politician http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22french.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By PATRICK FRENCH
London
NEARLY a decade ago, while staying with a nomad family in the remote
grasslands of northeastern Tibet, I asked Namdrub, a man who fought in the
anti-Communist resistance in the 1950s, what he thought about the exiled
Tibetans who campaigned for his freedom. “It may make them feel good, but
for us, it makes life worse,” he replied. “It makes t
FYI (I respect Dr. Woo, without necessarily agree with him every time though)
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
(a) SCA 5 has NOT been stopped yet. Let's all focus on Assemblyman Paul Fong
.
Phone 916 319-2028 or email A*****************[email protected],
& ask him to vote NO on SCA 5. If he agrees, SCA 5 will be dead.
(b) Good News: Ted Lieu, 1 of the 3 senators who voted for SCA 5, PROMISED
in
writing to 80-20 President S.B. Woo that "I will vote against SCA 5 if and
when it comes back to... 阅读全帖
just come across this cd, very interesting
note one of the pianists is Helmut Schmidt, former West
Germany Chancellor, apparently join peers of Eschenbach
in the Bach concerto for 4 pianos.
Sometimes top politicians can also be very musical,
like the legendary Paderewsky, of course, we won't
forget Bill's sax talent! (i am spelling right here ^_^)
Chinese American Politicians. Elaine Chao, Ed Jew, Steven Chu, Harry Lee,
Leland Yee, David Wu, Gary Locke, Daniel Akaka, Judy Chu
(ISBN: 9781155697628)
ISBN 10: 1155697626
ISBN 13: 9781155697628
竟然搜到了一本书，买来看看 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8956146471&sea
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/11/chinese-american-politics-in
New America Media, News Report, Peter Schurmann, Posted: Nov 08, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO – Barack Obama’s victory, the numbers show, is in large
measure thanks to the support he received from, among others, Hispanics,
Blacks, and women voters.
Less credited, however, are Asian Americans, who voted 72 percent in favor
of the president. While their numbers remain small, at just 5.8 percent of
the population, they are one of the fastest gro... 阅读全帖
Edmund "Ed" Jew (simplified Chinese: 赵悦明; traditional Chinese: 趙悦明;
Mandarin Pinyin: Zhào Yuèmíng; Jyutping: ziu6 jyut6 ming4, born 1960 in
San Francisco, California) is an incarcerated former Chinese American
politician based in San Francisco. He graduated from San Francisco State
University with a degree in economics and later earned a masters degree in
business administration at Golden Gate University. After spending several
years as a businessman managing his family enterprises, he entered p... 阅读全帖
David Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳振偉; simplified Chinese: 吴振伟; pinyin: W
ú Zhènwěi; born April 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as
the U.S. representative for Oregon's 1st congressional district from 1999 to
2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
As a child of immigrants from Taiwan, Wu was the first Chinese American[1]
and Taiwanese-American to serve in the House of Representatives. In the wake
of accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances on the teenage
daughter of a c... 阅读全帖
Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician who has
been the United States Ambassador to China since 2011. He was the 21st
Governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005 and served in the Obama
administration as United States Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011. He
was appointed as Ambassador to China on August 1, 2011.
He was the first Governor of a state in the Continental United States of
Asian descent, and is the only Chinese American ever to serve as a Governor,
and the ... 阅读全帖
Daniel Kahikina Akaka (/əˈkɑːkə/;[3] born September 11,
1924) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Hawaii
from 1990 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Akaka is the first U.S
. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry.[4]
Born in Honolulu, he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World
War II. He attended the University of Hawaii, where he received his
bachelor's and master's degrees. Originally a high school teacher, he went
on to serv... 阅读全帖
Margaret Chin (Chinese: 陳倩雯) is a New York City-based American politician
. A Democrat, she was elected to the New York City Council on November 3,
2009, to represent District 1 in Lower Manhattan,[1] which includes, amongst
other neighborhoods and sites, Chinatown, the Financial District, City Hall
, and the site of the World Trade Center. Chin immigrated to the United
States when she was nine years old and was raised in Chinatown.[3] She is
the first Asian American and the first Chinese Americ... 阅读全帖
Shien Biau "S.B." Woo (born 1937) is an American professor and politician
from Newark, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the
Democratic Party and served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delaware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shien_Biau_Woo
Eric Lee Mar (Chinese: 馬兆光; pinyin: Mǎ Zhàoguāng, born August 15, 1962
) is a California politician. He served on the San Francisco Board of
Education and San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee. In 2008, he
was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represents
District 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Mar
Fiona Ma (simplified Chinese: 马世云; traditional Chinese: 馬世雲; pinyin: M
ǎ Shìyún; born March 4, 1966) is an American politician and a former
member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, California State Assembly
and is currently the spokesperson for the San Francisco Hep B Free campaign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Ma
Hiram Leong Fong (Chinese: 鄺友良; pinyin: Kuàng Yǒuliáng; Cantonese Yale
, 2004), was an American businessman and politician from Hawaii. He is most
notable for his service as Republican United States Senator from 1959 to
1977, and for being the first Asian American and Chinese American to be
elected as such. In 1964, Fong became the first Asian American to run for
his party's nomination for President of the United States. As of 2012, he is
the only Republican to ever hold a Senate seat from Hawai... 阅读全帖
John Chiang (Chinese: 江俊輝; pinyin: Jiāng Jùnhuī; born July 31, 1962 in
New York City) is a Democratic politician and has been California State
Controller since January 8, 2007. He previously served as Chair of the
California Board of Equalization and represented the Fourth District,
primarily serving southern Los Angeles County. Chiang is unable to run for a
third term in 2014 due to term limits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chiang_%28California_politici
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/what-is-the-best-pl
If you could live in any state in America, where would you go? During
troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to
live? A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days. Our
economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are becoming more
frequent and more intense, the U.S. population is becoming angrier and more
frustrated by the day, our government has become incredibly oppressiv... 阅读全帖
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/what-is-the-best-pl
If you could live in any state in America, where would you go? During
troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to
live? A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days. Our
economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are becoming more
frequent and more intense, the U.S. population is becoming angrier and more
frustrated by the day, our government has become incredibly oppres... 阅读全帖
这个建议和上次7月底的差不多，这些key message反复说，visionary 的说
在大方向上的vision，少在personal level上的attack
---------
Suggestion to trump 9/6/2016
Good job done – staying in the key messages "how to make american great
again", convey the same messages with dynamic approaches
1） law and order - justice, fairness and order. Enforce border is to
save a country. Enforce law and order is to save citizens in that country.
Preserve American values is to set citizens free
American value – value hard working, provide equal op... 阅读全帖
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-seriously-concerned-at-
modernising-armed-forces-antony/750859/0
India seriously concerned at China modernising armed forces
看看下面的comment,绝大部分都是印度老将
India seriously concerned at China modernising armed forces: Antony
By: Jarial | Thursday , 17 Feb '11 16:38:09 PMReply | Forward
Not only China but Pakistan is also ahead of India in defence
preparedness. It is reported that Pakistan has more nuke arms than
India. Even the terriorists are better equipped with... 阅读全帖
http://www.christiangunowner.com/christian-blog.html#Liberals-J
I just read a web page on a site of an organization that represents public
workers. On that page this statement is made: "It's time for politicians to
create jobs instead of playing politics."
If I were in that organization, I would seriously consider getting out. That
statement is a common one that is parroted, primarily by liberals, across
America.
Here's the reality. If you've been around any time at all and paid any
attention to... 阅读全帖
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell
before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?
Why should being in a professional sport exempt anyone from prosecution for
advocating deliberate violence? Recent revelations of such advocacy of
violence by an NFL coach should lead to his banishment for life by the NFL,
and criminal prosecution by the authorities. If you are serious about
reducing v... 阅读全帖
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_ab964a220102xcty.html
How could Trump say differently in the first presidential debate 2016?
(Scene: after Hillary answered the first question about economy, putting
more money into the pockets of American workers)
Trump: Look at her, this is a typical politician. She is a lady. (Audience
laughing) I know why you are smiling. Now you see how unpredictable I am.
Never know what I am going to say next. She is a lady and I am supposed to
be nice to her. Here are my co... 阅读全帖
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标 题: 雅虎上米国、三哥和小日本的评论
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jun 17 13:31:15 2012, 美东)
米国网民的评论。这是美国雅虎上面的：
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Arctic fox ? 16 mins ago
Now are they, like Americans and Russians, going to wonder around the
Earth at 300-400 km above the surface and call it "space" too? Or are they
going to higher than 600 km where the electrons and positrons ... 阅读全帖
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标 题: 雅虎上米国、三哥和小日本的评论
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jun 17 13:31:15 2012, 美东)
米国网民的评论。这是美国雅虎上面的：
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