s**r
发帖数: 685 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: soar (None), 信区: Military
标 题: Oh man! This is hilarious!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 26 16:25:44 2012, 美东)
Military training is an intense business, involving discipline, precision,
and reserves of courage that can be called upon in the midst of battle.
But for soldiers undergoing training in the People's Liberation Army of
China that's taken to a whole different level ... ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=57FG5vBL |
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t*n
发帖数: 14458 | 2 个头太大了，不象真正的手榴弹
外头貌似一层泥巴
【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: soar (None), 信区: Military
标 题: Oh man! This is hilarious!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 26 16:25:44 2012, 美东)
Military training is an intense business, involving discipline, precision,
and reserves of courage that can be called upon in the midst of battle.
But for soldiers undergoing training in the People's Liberation Army of
China that's taken to a whole different level ... ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=57FG5vBL |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 3 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/opinion/13kristof.html?_r=1&r
Op-Ed Columnist
Why Not Regulate Guns as Seriously as Toys?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: January 12, 2011
Jared Loughner was considered too mentally unstable to attend community
college. He was rejected by the Army. Yet buy a Glock handgun and a 33-round
magazine? No problem.
To protect the public, we regulate cars and toys, medicines and mutual funds
. So, simply as a public health matter, shouldn’t we take steps to reduce
the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer – 19
mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama took a significant step toward
retooling his presidency with a challenge to lawmakers to rise above
partisan differences to tackle economic and budget problems "decades in the
making."
And while there remained stark differences in approach between the president
and the Republicans with whom he now shares power, Obama made some striking
concessions in the name of national unity... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 5 Rick Perry's "Texas Miracle" Con Job
Posted: 8/12/11 03:51 PM ET React Important
Texas governor and reported GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is the
nation's greatest political con artist. His so called "Texas Miracle" has
been totally debunked as a fraud. Yet Perry, with generous help from
conservative business leaders, tea party acolytes, and suddenly revved up
evangelicals will keep the con very much alive. The so-called miracle that
Perry and his backers peddle is of course that Texas i... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 6 还是谈正事吧，看来会３赢１输，如果是真的，就太TMD的牛了。
http://blog.outtakeonline.com/2012/09/gay-marriage-november-bal
This is a crucial election year for gay marriage with it appearing on the
November ballot in 4 states. Support for gay marriage continues to soar in
Washington State with Referendum 74 advancing 56-38 percent in the latest
SurveyUSA poll of Washington voters. Washington United for Marriage (WUM),
the coalition working to defend the state's marriage law announced that more
than 5,000 new donors helped r... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 7 支持Gingrich
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/perry-to-end-bid-
11:45 a.m. | Updated NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas
dropped out of the Republican presidential race here on Thursday and
announced his endorsement for the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, a man he
called a “conservative visionary.”
In South Carolina
Reporting on the candidates and voters in the Palmetto State.
“I’ve never believed that the cause of conservatism is embodied by one
individual,” Mr. Perry said ... 阅读全帖 |
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j***j
发帖数: 9831 | 8 more than anyone else in the world
http://qz.com/134064/the-industrial-revolution-destroyed-the-li
Do Americans—and many Europeans working in American-dominated fields such
as investment bank, consulting and ventures—work too hard?
+
Economic data show that in 1950, Americans worked around 1,900 hours per
year. That’s now down to 1,700. But the French, who used to work 2,150
hours annually, now clock up fewer than 1,500 hours—they used to work much
more than Americans, now they work less. And Ge... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 9 Andrew Jacobs, Evicted by Goliath, Restaurant finds a David. New York Times,
Dec. 31, 2009 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/asia/31nailhouse.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=nail%20house&st=cse
("an unceasing real-estate boom has swept the nation, much of it
orchestrated by the local governments that benefit from soaring land values")
My comment:
(a) Fish Castle Restaurant 鱼堡餐厅
(b) Qin Rong 秦荣
(c) Lu Daren 陆大任
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发帖数: 3096 | 10 http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-facts-about-the-
22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami That Could Destroy Our Economy
All By Itself
US economy is steadily declining.
1. Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens in the
United States. By 2050 that number is projected to skyrocket to 89 million.
2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all
American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent
of all A... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 11 PSU现在挣得另一个别名为Pedophile State University
http://l.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/120712/freeh_report_final_07121
Penn State could pay $100 million in civil damages to Sandusky's victims and
lose public funding
23 hours ago
Penn State supporters likely felt the university hit rock bottom Thursday
with the release of the Freeh Report, with its damning litany of evidence
that school leaders ignored and concealed horrific crimes against children.
But the cost to Penn State could be more severe than anyone im... 阅读全帖 |
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b****p
发帖数: 3293 | 12 http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20080425/cm_uc_crpbux/op_335933
As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of
2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand."
Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder. Sixty-nine percent
disapproves of President Bush. Eighty-one percent thinks America is on the
wrong course.
Inflation is at 4 percent and rising. Unemployment is 5 percent and rising.
Gasoline, heating oil and food prices are soaring. The dollar has l |
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w*****d
发帖数: 2415 | 13 Some people point to Michigan's 2006 vote on affirmative action as an
indicator of how people might behave in the privacy of the voting booth.
That year, voters strongly chose to eliminate preferences for minorities in
hiring and college admissions by a 58%-42% margin. In blue-collar Macomb
Country (where Democratic candidates won easily in 2006) the vote against
affirmative action soared to nearly 70%.
Sen. Obama himself favors modifying affirmative action to emphasize class
more than race. Sti |
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s*******u
发帖数: 2249 | 14 LONDON — A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a
homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, parachuting into a field near the white
cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.
Yves Rossy leapt from a plane at more than 8,800 feet, fired up his jets and
made the 22-mile trip from Calais in France in about 10 minutes.
Rossy passed over a thin strip of land in front of South Foreland lighthouse
, looped over onlookers and opened his parachute, his wings still strapped
to his back. |
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y***e
发帖数: 676 | 15 Unemployment Hits 10.2%
Joshua Zumbrun, 11.06.09, 09:55 AM EST Forbes.com
Rate crosses 10% for second time since Great Depression; manufacturing,
construction and retail suffer.
The unemployment rate hit its grimmest milestone yet, soaring above 10% for
only the second time since the Great Depression.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the unemployment rate
had reached 10.2% in October, up from 9.8% in September. The number was
worse than expected--economists had expected the |
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s*******e
发帖数: 432 | 16 People have ignored a fact that the resources we current have on the earth
is very constrained right now. this fact can been seen as all commodity are
soaring at the end of the recent economic boom and even at the depth of
recession, energy price and material price are not going as low as 90s and
80s.
Thus, if we admit Chinese will improve their life quality in the future 10
years,it is almost surely that Americans will have to decrease their life
quality unless new resources are discovered in a |
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s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 17 But why cause 高医疗费用??
You need to think about it as well!
The reasons for the high medical cost, I think, are
1. Insurance company charge a lot for the hospitals because of the medical
lawsuits has not compensation limit
2. A large amount of money was used for legal fee for the hospital and the
insurance company
3. Insurance company are for-profit organizations. Their profits are soaring
over the sky even in this tough economic situation. |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 18 can you read?
I have already told you.
So where is the tort reform?
where is the regulation for those sucking trial lawyers in the liberal back yard?
soaring |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 又来了. 又看到第3点那个很shit的解释.
我以前就贴过, medical insurance 公司的利润率才3%左右. 排名第一的是饮料公司20
%.
soaring |
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m***s
发帖数: 1094 | 20
soaring
根本就不知道保险公司怎么运作就在这里想当然。保险公司靠保费赚来的钱远远没有宣
传的那么多，实际上保险公司很大程度上要靠投资来赚钱才能有足够的钱赔claim，保
险公司收到的保费有很大一块是要付给agent的，比如life insurance的情况是头一年
的保费，100%以上（常见的是在130%左右）要付给卖保险的agent的，之后的X年里10%
左右，medical insurance的情况我没有准确数据，谁有兴趣可以去查查。保险公司的
投资部门干的活风险跟街上做基金的有一比，但是挣的比街上少得多。 |
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j*****s
发帖数: 529 | 21 药厂，医院，都挣了好多钱。那个所谓的ppo network access就是医院黑钱的很好证据
。但是为什么the evil insurance company变成众矢之的呢？很简单，保险公司是
messenger.
保险公司是for-profit没错，但是起码还有incentive去让运作更效率，如果都变成国营的了，那效率可想而知。看个脚气能等两年，心脏搭桥能等两年吗？
soaring |
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m***s
发帖数: 1094 | 22 BAIDU's stock is soaring... |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 纽约的数据，charter学校8年级学生社会知识成绩比公立学校高19分，科学成绩高18分
By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter
Last Updated: 9:42 AM, May 27, 2010
Posted: 3:44 AM, May 27, 2010
It's not just in math and reading that charter schools are dealing out aces.
New data obtained by The Post shows that charter-school kids outperformed
traditional public-school kids in three of the four grades tested in science
and social studies last year -- often by leaps and bounds.
The results are sure to lend ammunition to those who support the sta |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100531/hl_nm/us_health_3
Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
Reuters
Girl reacts while getting her H1N1 influenza vaccination in Vancouver
Reuters – A girl reacts while getting her H1N1 influenza vaccination in
Vancouver, British Columbia October 26, …
By Claire Sibonney - Analysis Claire Sibonney - Analysis – Mon May 31, 2:38
pm ET
TORONTO (Reuters) – Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein
in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 29 OCTOBER 2010
Are you sick of the stupid political ads yet? I am. Unfortunately, I’m
fairly disengaged in the political scene right now because while I think the
Democrats need to be voted out, I’m not really excited about many of the
Republicans that are likely to fill the seats. I like a few, but by and
large, it’ll be more of the same.
Here is a good excerpt from a Buchanan column describing the scene:
Consider the critical issue facing America today – the budget and trade
deficits, the... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 Robert Weissberg炮轰文凭大跃进：传授知识是可取的，但乱发文凭是害人的骗局；奥
巴马说到2020
年要多提供5百万大学毕业生
The College Diploma Fraud
By Robert Weissberg
For more than a half-century, government has tried to close racial gaps in
educational attainment. Sad to say, those gaps have proven intractable.
Nevertheless, the impulse remains as heartfelt as ever (perhaps due to its
financially lucrative character), but the emphasis is now shifting from
actual learning to equality of graduation rates. President Obama has spoken
of adding 5... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 28 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on January 24, 2011
All the public opinion polls now confirm that President Obama has moved up
sharply and significantly in popularity and job approval since he began to
tack toward the center after the November election. Rasmussen and Zogby
both have him over 50% job approval for the first time in almost a year.
The key event was his high-minded speech in the aftermath of the Tucson
shootings and his clear separation from the blame-or... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 Ben Bernanke's Inflation Deception --
and What to Do About It
Ann Coulter
Dear Fellow Conservative,
Prices are soaring. From milk to gasoline, the things you buy every day are
skyrocketing.
Yet when '60 Minutes' asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke what "
degree of confidence" he had in his ability to prevent inflation from
getting out of control, he responded with a jaw-dropping "100 percent"!
Even Diane Sawyer's expression changed, and that hasn't happened since the
late 70's.
Even Andy... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 30 (1) Nick Bunkley, Hyundai Lifts Alabama; Jobs bring prosperity despite
recession's effects. New York Times, Feb 19, 2011 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/business
/19hyundai.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hyundai&st=cse
Quote:
"In 2010, Hyundai and Kia each posted their highest sales in the United
States and, taken together, surged ahead of Ford Motor to become fourth-
largest automaker worldwide.
"“If folks looked deeply at how far we’ve gone so quickly, from having no
U.S. productio... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-03-01-1Apublicworkers0
Reprints & Permissions
Wisconsin is one of 41 states where public employees earn higher average pay
and benefits than private workers in the same state, a USA TODAY analysis
finds. Still, the compensation of Wisconsin's government workers ranks below
the national average for non-federal public employees and has increased
only slightly since 2000.
* Police watch over the group of protesters that remained in the
Wisconsin Capitol ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 Friday, May 06, 2011
What did Pakistan know and when did it know it? Americans overwhelmingly
believe top Pakistani officials knew Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts and
strongly oppose further U.S. aid to the country where the top terrorist was
found.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 84% of American
Adults think it’s at least somewhat likely that high-level officials in
the Pakistani government knew where bin Laden was hiding. That includes 57%
who say it is Very Likely t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 ATHENS—Greece's economy is expected to contract more than previously
expected
this year, the European Commission said Friday, while it warned that the
country's budget deficit would be sharply higher than government targets.
According to the European Union's 2011 spring forecast, the Greek economy
will
shrink 3.5% this year, against a forecast of minus 3.0% from just two months
earlier as unemployment soars and austerity measures weigh on consumer
demand.
The report also said that Greece's budge... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 西班牙地方选举，执政的社会党大败，超过90%地区计票结果，反对党人民党领先10%
Zapatero’s Socialists Routed as People’s Party Takes 38% of Vote in Spain
By Emma Ross-Thomas - May 22, 2011 5:04 PM ET
Spain’s Socialists suffered their worst electoral defeat in more than 30
years as voters punished Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s
party for soaring unemployment and spending cuts that aimed to shield the
country from Europe’s debt crisis.
With 91 percent of votes counted, the opposition People’s Party won 38
percent of the ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 35 Obama Isn't Working: Mitt Romney adapts Maggie Thatcher slogan that
destroyed her opponents at election
If it gets results, do it again. And if it means a change of government,
definitely do it again.
Mitt Romney has adapted a poster and slogan used by former British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher to boost his Republican presidential bid.
Mr Romney is likening President Obama's America to the economic blight that
dogged late 1970s Britain.
The frontrunner: Mitt Romney after meeting a group of ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 By Leslie Horn
In China, you can buy a knock-off Gucci wallet, you can cop a pair of
counterfeit Air Jordans, and now you can even visit a fake Apple Store.
Located in the south-central Chinese city of Kunming, the faux shop might as
well be a movie set; it looks convincing, going by the photos originally
posted on the blog of an ex-pat living in the city, uncovered by
ifoAppleStore. However, the employees, outfitted with Apple name tags and
blue t-shirts with Apple logos, aren't in on the ruse.... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 37 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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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 National debt has increased $4 trillion under Obama
By
Mark Knoller
(Credit: CBS/iStockphoto)
The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has
now increased $4 trillion on President Obama's watch.
The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest
calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.
It's the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.
The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-ye... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 Theories abound as to why the number of undocumented Cuban migrants to the
United States rose in the past year.
The number of undocumented Cuban migrants stopped at sea or who landed on U.
S. shores
has risen sharply after dropping in recent years.
2010: 831
2011: 1,696
Reversing a three-year trend downward, the number of undocumented Cubans
intercepted at sea or who reached U.S. shores in the past 12 months soared
by more than 100 percent — sparking questions about the reasons behind the
new tr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 40 (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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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 Top 10 Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming
by Human Events
12/10/2011
Global warming alarmists are getting a chilly reception these days as the
public is starting to catch on to something that we have been yelling about
for years: The whole thing is a scam. And here are the reasons why: The
Top 10 Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming.
1. Climategate, Part 2: A second, massive batch of damaging e-mails has
been released that casts into question the scientific integrity of climate
re... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 43 Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself.
By IAN AYRES and AARON S. EDLIN
THE progressive reformer and eminent jurist Louis D. Brandeis once said, “
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a
few, but we cannot have both.” Brandeis lived at a time when enormous
disparities between the rich and the poor led to violent labor unrest and
ultimately to a reform movement.
Over the last three decades, income inequality has again soared to the sort
of levels that alarme... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 January 25, 2012 Posted by TWB
There are a bevy of reasons that you could use to make the argument that
President Obama is the most un-Presidential President of all time. You can
go all the way back to when Maureen Dowd made fun of his ears and he just
had to confront her about it, all the way up to the way he uses soaring,
confrontational rhetoric and refuses to rise above the political fray. He
likes to get down in the mud and play with the pigs. Certainly unbecoming of
someone holding the of... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 By Kim Zigfeld
The Obama administration has responded to Vladimir Putin's landslide re-
election as president of Russia by doubling down on appeasement. America
may never live down the shame, and it will keep on paying through the nose
at the gas pump for this folly. What the Obama administration has done over
the course of just a few days is truly disturbing.
First, after watching one of the most corrupt elections in Russian history,
during which every major pro-freedom candidate was systemat... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 46 We already know the rosy budget estimates used to sell the law were wrong.
By RON JOHNSON
One year after the passage of ObamaCare, this paper published an op-ed I
wrote ("ObamaCare and Carey's Heart") about how America's health-care system
saved my daughter's life, and describing how implementing this law will
limit innovation, lead to rationing, and lower the quality of care. Now, two
years out, I would like to focus on the budgetary disaster.
As a candidate, Barack Obama repeatedly claimed tha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 March 28, 2012 by John Myers
The yoke that is the welfare state has thoroughly infected America. If
voters re-elect President Barack Obama, he will brainwash all Americans into
thinking they are entitled to government handouts. Most Americans don’t
understand that independent people are losing their way as the President
crusades to build his Nanny Nation — a country so transformed that even the
oral traditions that were taught for generations have been eradicated.
To be fair, it is not all Obama... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Jamie M. Fly — April 2012
Following the killing of American soldiers and the recent protests sparked
by the accidental burning of Korans by coalition forces, Republican
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich went so far as to suggest that the
United States should abandon Afghanistan unless the Afghans apologize,
adding that we should tell them, “figure out how to live your own miserable
life.” This is the increasingly frequent refrain of war-weary
conservatives who question President Barack Obama’... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 "This 2012 Obama is strident and mean, even deceitful, divisive"
Andrew Malcolm is wondering what happened to the 2008 Obama:
Has anyone seen Barack Obama recently?
You know, the optimistic hopeful fellow with the charming smile who
promised so many positive things four and five years ago, how he was going
to change the harsh, partisan tone of our nation's capital and bring the
country together as its first African American president.
Even allowing for political hyperbole, his empty resu... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 50 Number of Americans Paid Not to Work Growing Faster than Number of Taxpayers
by Chuck DeVore
The federal government announced the new, official unemployment rate this
week: 8.1 percent, down from 8.2 percent. Far fewer jobs were added in April
than expected--115,000--so the official rate declined slightly because more
people stopped looking for work.
The workforce participation rate is now at its lowest rate in 30 years, with
63.6 percent of adults who could work actually working.
When people c... 阅读全帖 |
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