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发帖数: 5601 | 1 Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer, On Thursday March 18, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a
landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously
deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while
slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party's fiscal
conservatives.
Leaving nothing to chance, the White House announced that Obama has put off
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发帖数: 10233 | 2 Zach Hoffman was confident his small business would qualify for a new tax
cut in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
But when he ran the numbers, Hoffman discovered that his office furniture
company wouldn't get any assistance with the $79,200 it pays annually in
premiums for its 24 employees. "It leaves you with this feeling of a bait-
and-switch," he said.
To get the most out of the new federal credit, Hoffman said he'd have to cut
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 Incoming House Speaker John Boehner, in his first press release of the new
year, praises – what else? – an effort to cut spending.
In the release issued Tuesday, Mr. Boehner points out that the House will be
considering a resolution Thursday to cut $35 million from the cost of
running the chamber. Both the news release and the resolution are largely
symbolic. The $35 million — $10 million more than originally Republican
leaders originally considered – accounts for a tiny fraction of a federal
bu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com
on January 26, 2011
Henry Kissinger, in his memoir of the Ford administration, Years of Upheaval
, articulated the central rule of governing: "It is a statesman's duty to
bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. If his vision
gets too far out ahead of his nation's experience, he will lose his mandate
. But if he hews too close to the conventional, he will lose control over
events."
Obama has gone from the first of these dangers to the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 MADRID (AFP) – Spain announced Friday its jobless rate surged to a 13-year
record above 20 percent at the end of 2010, the highest level in the
industrialized world, as the economy struggled for air.
It was more bad news for an economy fighting to regain the trust of
financial markets and avoid being trapped in a debt quagmire that has
engulfed Greece and Ireland and now menaces Portugal.
Another 121,900 people joined Spain's unemployment queues in the final
quarter of the year, pushing the tota... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 共和党控制的美国众议院准备削减对外援助，特别是美国国务院提供的援助
House Republicans Seek to Slash Foreign Aid
Tuesday, 01 Feb 2011 01:45 PM
By Dan Weil
America’s aid to foreign nations represents a key issue, given the turmoil
in Egypt and elsewhere during recent weeks.
The new House Republican majority proposes putting President Barack Obama’s
State Department funding and foreign aid requests together with “non-
security” domestic spending and cutting allocations to 2008 levels,
Politico reports.
The result could be a $16 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By Megan Scully
Updated: June 21, 2011 | 5:15 p.m.
June 21, 2011 | 1:54 p.m.
In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, the Senate on Tuesday voted
unanimously to confirm CIA chief Leon Panetta as the next Defense secretary.
Panetta, who sailed through his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed
Services Committee earlier this month, will succeed Robert Gates at the
Pentagon on July 1 during a particularly crucial time for the Defense
Department, both at home and overseas.
From his first day... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 既然知道外国纳税人会为希腊人的福利买单，他们怎么会愿意勒紧裤带？
If I were a Greek, I would be out on the streets too
Why should Greeks accept austerity when they know foreign taxpayers will
finance their extravagance?
What would you do this morning if you were a Greek? Would you agree to your
government cutting public sector jobs, pay and pensions, and increasing
taxes? Or would you do what thousands of Greeks are doing and take to the
streets, calling the bluff of Germans and French and making them dig deeper
into their pock... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 雷曼兄弟破产时，风险与资产比是31：1，而今天德国主要银行的风险与资产比是32：1
，这些银行目前持有大量希腊债务
Sovereign Debt Crisis Won't End Until Global Financial Collapse
In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into
trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly
global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded
history when virtually all of the governments of the world were drowning in
debt all at the same time. This sovereign debt crisis is never going to end
until there ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Dr. Victor Davis Hanson拆穿奥巴马的各种此一时彼一时：2006年投票反对提高借贷
上限的奥巴马，现在说反对提高借贷上限是胡闹
Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible
for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own
contribution of $5 trillion? Why is there a debt limit standoff now, rather
than, say, in 2009 or 2010? Why did this latest $1.6 trillion Obama budget
prompt the current crisis? Why did not Obama earlier start debt limit talks
the moment that his own... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Families of suicide bombers given £5m in British aid cash
By Matthew Kalman
British aid cash is being given to the families of suicide bombers, it was
claimed last night.
The Palestinian Authority, which gets £86million of British aid a year,
has authorised payments of almost £5million to the families of ‘
martyrs’.
Another £3million has been given to 5,500 Palestinian prisoners held in
Israeli jails. The payments, using taxpayers’ cash donated from Britain
and the European U... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 WASHINGTON – Sales of new U.S. homes fell to a six-month low in August. The
fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season suggests the
housing market is years away from a recovery.
By Chris Carlson, AP
The Commerce Department said Monday that new-home sales fell 2.3% to a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 295,000. That's less than half the
roughly 700,000 that economists say must be sold to sustain a healthy
housing market.
New-homes sales are on pace for the worst year since th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 (Reuters) - More than a third of U.S. shoppers are already done with most of
their holiday shopping, a survey showed on Monday, signaling that retailers
need to offer bigger incentives to win sales in the few weeks before
Christmas.
The findings underscore the fragility of the U.S. recovery, since consumer
spending accounts for about 70 percent of the nation's economy.
About 32 percent of people surveyed by America's Research Group said they
finished a majority of their Christmas shopping in Nov... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 16 Economic Legacy
Reagan Policies Gave Green Light to Red Ink
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 9, 2004; Page A11
The line is not likely to make this week's eulogies to Ronald Reagan, but
when Vice President Cheney allegedly declared, "Reagan proved deficits don't
matter," he summed up an enduring argument from the former president's
economic legacy.
In late 2002, Cheney had summoned the Bush administration's economic team to
his office to discuss another round of ta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 By JAMES R. HAGERTY and CAROLINE VAN HASSELT
LONDON, Ontario—Outside a rail locomotive factory owned by Caterpillar Inc.
here, locked-out workers have set up a trailer and a wooden shack to keep
warm between bouts of waving union flags and shouting slogans. In a high-
profile test of union clout in Canada, they are digging in for what looks
like a long struggle.
The workers, who are resisting a new labor contract that would slash their
wages by about 50%, hope Caterpillar will soften its demands... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Obama should do some fact-checking of a president with a superior record
by Jarrett Stepman
In an energy speech in Maryland on Thursday, President Barack Obama decided
to take a whack at a former Republican president who drew Democratic ire for
“stealing” an election.
While blaming former President George W. Bush has been a pastime for Obama,
he had to reach farther back and make even wilder claims to explain the
country’s reluctance to embrace his energy policies.
“One of my predecessors, Presi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Michael Filozof
What would happen if a black man armed with a handgun confronted "suspicious
persons" in his neighborhood? What would happen if the "suspicious persons"
were unarmed white teens, one of them was shot dead, and the shooter
claimed self-defense?
This is not an exercise in mere speculation. We know what would happen in
such a case. There would be no white mobs in the street chanting "No justice
, no peace!" There would be no whites holding a "million hoodie march" in
New York Cit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 BY CASSANDRA SWEET AND RUSSELL GOLD
First Solar Inc., once the dominant U.S. solar-equipment maker, is slashing
its work force by nearly a third and shutting a factory as it contends with
a solar-panel glut that the company called "the new market reality."
Much of the solar-power industry around the globe is struggling as the
market for clean energy has been upended by uncertain government support and
fierce competition from low-priced, well-financed Chinese manufacturers
that have grown quickly... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 From the NY Times: Spanish Lender Seeks 19 Billion Euros; Ratings Cut on 5
Banks
Standard & Poor’s slashed its ratings on the creditworthiness of five
Spanish banks on Friday, just as one of them — Bankia, the nation’s
largest real estate lender — requested an additional 19 billion euros in
rescue funds from the country, far beyond initial government estimates.
From the Financial Times: Spain to inject up to €19bn into Bankia
Madrid’s biggest bank nationalisation will take the tota... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Executive Summary
Ohio has a rapidly growing illegal alien population of about 110,000 persons
, nearly tripling since 2000. That population represents a major burden on
the state's taxpayers and on the state budget. The costs imposed on law-
abiding Ohioans are unfair and unwelcome even in the best of times, but are
especially burdensome at a time when the state is facing an $8 billion
revenue deficit which has led to a proposed slashing of funding for local
governments by 25 percent in fiscal ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 August 14, 2012
For The New York Times, reporter Jackie Calmes must have found Chris
Matthews’ leg tingle as she penned a story dreamily reminiscing about Obama
’s “jaw-dropping crowds” he used to garner at campaign stops back in 2007
-08.
Calmes also wondered why Obama isn’t getting those great crowds anymore?
Oh, she was filled with all sorts of reasons to explain away Obama’s
smaller crowd sizes, mind you. The most amusing one is her regurgitation of
the campaign’s claims that Obama wants sma... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 24 巴马就够蠢的了，民主驴还找这个么白老狗四处咬人。
What a sharp contrast between the barking Biden and Akin.
Akin is about to be kicked out race.
biden still lives a fight dog all over America.
No media slash this old bitch to his words of choice.
chain Biden, and tell Dumba he can play golf all day long if he's not in
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 What will happen to tax rates in 2013? This is a question many American tax
payers will be asking through 2012 as the Presidential election heats up.
With the Obama-Bush tax cut extensions on income, capital-gains and estate
taxes set to expire on Dec. 31 2012, there will be a sharp rise in tax rates
for investors and those in higher income brackets during 2013. As the table
shows, the top tax rate will return to 39.6% (or 42% if you include
deduction phaseouts). Long term capital gains would be... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Hostess's Second-Largest Union Rejects Labor Deal
By RACHEL FEINTZEIG
Hostess Brands Inc.'s second-largest union voted to reject a revamped labor
deal, sending the company back to the drawing board as it scrambles to find
a way out of bankruptcy.
The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread on Friday saw its largest union, the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, narrowly vote to accept the new
collective bargaining agreements but failed to get the Bakery, Confectionery
, Tobacco Workers & Grain Mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 加税到底好还是坏现在可以拿法国做例子了.
PARIS—-The French Socialist government on Friday unveiled the country's
toughest budget in decades, hiking taxes for the rich and big business in a
bid to slash its deficit while facing a stalled economy.
President François Hollande, in his first budget since being elected
five months ago, has pledged to balance public accounts by the end of his
mandate in 2017 and given himself two years to turn around the French
economy.
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According to documents presented at the weekl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 October 4, 2012 Posted by Paul
Before the high fiving from last night ends, enjoy a minute of pure
Schadenfreude. Imagine the poor slob who wrote this; trying -desperately- to
avoid the fact Obama proved himself to be clueless and incompetent last
night. You can see them at the keyboard, the partisan rage oozing from every
pore…
Normally the Times tries to pretend they walk the highroad… on this one
they gave up, going into full hate mode, even admitting in the headline that
the debate wasn’t ‘h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Obamacare Fines Start For Hospitals That Readmit Sick Patients
Hospitals who re-admit patients within 30 days after they were discharged
will now have to, under an Obamacare provision, pay fines as of October 1,
2012, which could force hospitals to slash programs that help the elderly,
the poor, and the chronically ill.
According to a study, "about two-thirds of the hospitals serving Medicare
patients, or some 2,200 facilities, will be hit with penalties averaging
around $125,000 per facility th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 30 泥马自己看吧。岂止2013年
[GOP vice presidential nominee Paul] Ryan, [Rep. Darrell] Issa and other
House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from
State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions
. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes
State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which
would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy
security.
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 by n*****[email protected] (Mike Mish Shedlock)
The BLS Glossary defines full-time workers as "Persons who work 35 hours or
more per week".
For monthly reporting, the BLS defines part-time as "those who worked 1 to
34 hours during the survey reference week". With that wording, I am not
precisely sure where 34.1 or 34.5 hours fit.
Interestingly, the Obamacare mandate says Anyone Who Works 30-Hour Week Is
Now 'Full-Time'
A little-known section in the Obamacare health reform law defines “full
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发帖数: 2429 | 34 奥巴马没戏了。
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/06/investing/stocks-election-obama
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama and Mitt Romney may be in a dead heat
as Americans head to the polls on Election Day, but the former
Massachusetts governor is an overwhelming favorite of Wall Street.
Twelve out of 18 investment strategists and money managers surveyed by
CNNMoney said the stock market would perform better with Romney in the White
House than during a second Obama term.
As the country struggles with tepi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 看左棍们就是这么花纳税人的钱的.
Taxpayers in San Francisco, California will now pay for "gender-switching,"
transgender surgeries to "help ease the mental anguish of people who feel
they are trapped in bodies of the wrong gender." These operations will be
covered under San Francisco's universal health care program for the
uninsured.
The San Francisco Health Commission on Tuesday approved of these
controversial operations; public health officials in the city and
transgender rights advocates discussed how they c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16778 | 36 I totally object to this.
看左棍们就是这么花纳税人的钱的.
Taxpayers in San Francisco, California will now pay for "gender-switching,"
transgender surgeries to "help ease the mental anguish of people who feel
they are trapped in bodies of the wrong gender." These operations will be
covered under San Francisco's universal health care program for the
uninsured.
The San Francisco Health Commission on Tuesday approved of these
controversial operations; public health officials in the city and
transgender rights adv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Another Obama Victory: Smithfield to Shut Virginia Plant
by Jammie
Anyone paying attention to all the jobs being cut in those swing states
Obama won? Not only is unemployment surging and the market plummeting, major
companies are announcing layoffs seemingly by the hour. But none of this
has anything to do, of course, with Obama’s re-election. And now the folks
in Virginia are also falling victim. I’d pity them but they cast their lot
with an economic catastrophe, and now they shall suffer.
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发帖数: 1509 | 38 Black Friday History
For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some serious Christmas
shopping --even before the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone!
Black Black is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it's one of the major
shopping days of the year in the United States -falling anywhere between
November 23 and 29. While it's not recognized as an official US holiday,
many employees have the day off -except those working in retail.
The term “Black Friday” was coined in the 1960s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 by wheatington
So shocking and barbaric is the truth of Islam that, despite the lies of
its devout followers, it eventually backs up like raw sewage and emanates
from the very guardians of the filth.
Muslims in Egypt are clamouring for female genital mutilation (FGM). Yes, I
know, we’ve been told that FGM has less than nothing to do with Islam but
Muslims can only hide from the light of civilization for so long, and now
they’ve slunk out of the shadows. They’ve been emboldened!
Muslims challeng... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 By KENNETH GARGER and CARL CAMPANILE
Posted: 5:16 PM, December 3, 2012
We’ll lift a pint to this.
Gov. Cuomo today shot down a state health panel’s sobering proposals to
increase taxes on booze, slash the number of new bars and liquor stores and
limit the hours of gin joints.
“The governor doesn’t support raising this tax, or the other measures,”
said state Health Department spokesman Bill Schwarz.
The rejection from Cuomo’s office came hours after The Post reported that
the New York Sta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Citi to Cut 11,000 Jobs as New CEO Moves to Slash Costs .
By MATTHIAS RIEKER And SUZANNE KAPNER
Citigroup, under increasing pressure, said it will eliminate 11,000 jobs,
about 4% of its work force, and take a related $1 billion fourth-quarter
charge. Colin Barr reports on Markets Hub.
Citigroup Inc. C +7.33% set plans to cut 11,000 jobs in the giant bank's
first major strategic shift since Michael Corbat succeeded Vikram Pandit as
chief executive in October.
The move, announced Wednesday, is th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6244 | 42 lay off public employees
slash their salaries |
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发帖数: 824 | 43 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0313/
Obama argues a balanced budget isn't necessary. Can he convince the public?
Are Republicans wrong to make balancing the federal budget a priority? That'
s essentially what President Obama said Tuesday in an interview with ABC's
George Stephanopoulos.
"My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance," Mr
. Obama said. "My goal is, how do we grow the economy, put people back to
work."
He added: "We're not going ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Employers slammed on the brakes in March, adding just 88,000 jobs and
keeping the economic recovery from shifting to a higher gear despite a
mending housing market and steady consumer and business spending.
The grim report, out Friday from the Labor Department, was the first slip
back into five-digit job growth since June 2012 and a stark pullback from
February's upwardly revised 268,000 gain. The unemployment rate, which is
derived from a different survey than the payroll numbers, fell to 7.6%,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 Under the Gang of 8’s backroom immigration deal with Senators Schumer,
Corker and Hoeven, formerly illegal immigrants who are amnestied will be
eligible to work, but will not be eligible for ObamaCare. Employers who
would be required to pay as much as a $3,000 penalty for most employees who
receive an ObamaCare healthcare “exchange” subsidy, would not have to pay
the penalty if they hire amnestied immigrants.
Consequently, employers would have a significant incentive to hire or retain
amnestied ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 46 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: LegoMan (Goodguy), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 旧金山, 两名华人珠宝店主被黑鬼残酷杀害.头被割了! July 15
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 17 15:24:44 2013, 美东)
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-jewelry-slayings-tied-to
黑鬼几周前在店内买了珠宝, 上周5回到店, 找碴勒索店主不成.拿出枪打死男老板.
又拿出刀割掉女店主的耳朵.脸上多处刀伤, 头几乎被砍掉.
Min ran at her attacker and he fired his last shot, Clark said. When the
shot missed, White pulled a knife and "cut her ear-to-ear," Clark said.
White then moved to the back room, where Lim was later found alm... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 47 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: LegoMan (Goodguy), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 旧金山, 两名华人珠宝店主被黑鬼残酷杀害.头被割了! July 15
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 17 15:24:44 2013, 美东)
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-jewelry-slayings-tied-to
黑鬼几周前在店内买了珠宝, 上周5回到店, 找碴勒索店主不成.拿出枪打死男老板.
又拿出刀割掉女店主的耳朵.脸上多处刀伤, 头几乎被砍掉.
Min ran at her attacker and he fired his last shot, Clark said. When the
shot missed, White pulled a knife and "cut her ear-to-ear," Clark said.
White then moved to the back room, where Lim was later found alm... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 546 | 48 舔黑鬼屁眼的华人都是杂种畜牲
【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: LegoMan (Goodguy), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 旧金山, 两名华人珠宝店主被黑鬼残酷杀害.头被割了! July 15
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 17 15:24:44 2013, 美东)
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-jewelry-slayings-tied-to
黑鬼几周前在店内买了珠宝, 上周5回到店, 找碴勒索店主不成.拿出枪打死男老板.
又拿出刀割掉女店主的耳朵.脸上多处刀伤, 头几乎被砍掉.
Min ran at her attacker and he fired his last shot, Clark said. When the
shot missed, White pulled a knife and "cut her ear-to-ear," Clark said.
White then moved to the back room, where Lim was ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Fewer American doctors are treating patients enrolled in the Medicare health
program for seniors, reflecting frustration with its payment rates and
pushback against mounting rules, according to health experts.
The number of doctors who opted out of Medicare last year, while a small
proportion of the nation's health professionals, nearly tripled from three
years earlier, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
the government agency that administers the program. Other doctors ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 U.S. Rice Farmers Cash In On Venezuelan Socialism
U.S. Exporters Benefit as Production Falls in Latin American Country.
By SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ
U.S. rice farmers are making large profits from exports to Venezuela, thanks
to the impact of the late President Hugo Chavez's socialist policies. WSJ's
Sara Schaefer Munoz reports.
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STUTTGART, Ark.—Steve Orlicek, a rice farmer here, is living the American
dream. He owns a thriving business; he vacations in the Bahamas.
His good fortune springs from... 阅读全帖 |
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