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GJDailleult
Once they learned the last eruption lasted over a year, the math for the airlines was pretty simple. Start flying again and take their chances, or go bankrupt. No surprise which choice they made.
Posted in: Recriminations erupt in ash-fueled aviation crisis
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GJDailleult
"Democrats create bogus Goldman lawsuit to spur left-wing neo-communist agenda" ?
You really haven't got the slightest clue what you are talking about do you. The Republican position is a farce and a disgrace. They think the idiots can't understand anything that is going on, so they can say anything to try and get some votes in November. It's called "fiddling while Rome burns".
But if you want to support accounting fraud, money laundering, organized crime, and the destruction of the USA, go ahead.
Posted in: Democrats look at Goldman lawsuit to spur new regulations
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GJDailleult
Actually if I was smart enough I would commit the perfect crime. Which appears to be what Paulson did, it looks like he didn't break any actual laws, and will get away with it. Goldman and Tourre maybe will too.
It does explain maybe how Blankfein could sit before Congress and say with a straight face that Goldman was just hedging with their AIG trades. They were hedging the contracts they had with Paulson, and as said above about the sales of investments, were just the middle man on this part of the deal too. Meaning the American public paid off on the contracts, if that was the case.
Have to say though that I am a bit amazed to check these comments and see that many of the usual JT American posters have not posted anything on this topic. I guess they don't understand the concept of "Know your Enemy", or in fact don't even know who their enemy is.
Posted in: SEC accuses Goldman Sachs of civil fraud
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GJDailleult
Note that it is a civil case and not a criminal one. We'll see if they actually go after GS, or if this guy Tourre is treated as some kind of rouge employee (ie. Nick Leeson), or a one-off baddie like Madoff. They may sacrifice Tourre so that it looks like something is being done, but leave the system itself untouched.
Posted in: SEC accuses Goldman Sachs of civil fraud
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GJDailleult
What are you on about? The article is about banks. Their product is debt.
Posted in: Obama, GOP wrangle over Wall Street regulations
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GJDailleult
Fair point there about her comment on guns and religion being ironic and sarcastic, but the point could have been made without resorting to lame Propaganda 101 buzzwords (Liberals, elite, snide, contempt), and the usual right-wing victimization that posters on this site spend every day wallowing in.
And "most American's now realize that Obama is a statist spend-a-holic." Well they loved Reagan and G.W.Bush, so what's the problem? Also, stop saying "He is ruining the fiscal health of the country". It was ruined a long time ago, if you don't know that it just means you haven't been paying attention.
Posted in: Palin rallies tea partiers with anti-tax message
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GJDailleult
Idiotic comment, pure and simple. Gay marriage is an act between two people who want to get married. You can argue about whether gays should be able to do that or not, but that is not what Huckabee said. He said it was the same as incest and polygamy. Incest is an act that usually involves coercion, and even if it doesn't, will likely lead to genetic and health problems. Gay marriage is not about either of those things.
And polygamy is a sign that a man is insane. One wife is more than enough, I know that from experience. Anybody who wants more than one obviously needs protection from himself. Call that the nanny state if you want but it is true.
Posted in: Huckabee likens gay marriage to incest, polygamy
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GJDailleult
One day you guys will wake up and realize that arguing over which group of bought and owned politicians should hold "power" isn't going to get you anywhere. The red team and the blue team both march to the same drummer, and it is the people playing the drums who are the problem.
Solution is simple. Smash the banks and the financial sector. Smash the anti-capitalist, neo-liberal, extraction economy and return to the capitalist system that built the country. Until you do that you will continue going down, and it won't make any difference how many people join the Tea Party, how many crash the Tea Party, or how many "oh so important" elections you have.
Posted in: Tea Party crashers plan to exaggerate 'racists' and 'morons'
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GJDailleult
Dream on. That's not being fiscally conservative, that is being fiscally naive. It's never going to happen because things are far too far gone for that. The government is the only thing keeping the whole thing from crashing down on their heads.
There is nothing wrong with being a "conservative", the problem is when the word becomes a euphemism for "I have no idea what is going on so I am going to stand here shouting". They should get their heads out of the sand, stop listening to the junk pushers (by the way Glenn "I could give a flying crap about the political process, we're an entertainment company" Beck only made $32 million last year), and find out what is really going on in their country and the world. Then they wouldn't be spouting perfect world fantasies of low taxes and low spending, or whatever else red team, divide and conquer, drivel that they have been fed, because then they would be REALLY scared.
The reality is much worse than the fantasy.
Posted in: Tea party leaders announce new federation
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GJDailleult
I notice that RR didn't bother to answer my question about what exactly is the meaning of "a by-product of affirmative action."
I can guess, actually I think I know what it means, but as a native English speaker I am just asking for a translation from American-Go into English.
Posted in: Iran derides Obama's 'cowboy' nuclear stance
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GJDailleult
What exactly is a "by-product" of affirmative action? He is either a "product" of affirmative action or he isn't.
Posted in: Iran derides Obama's 'cowboy' nuclear stance
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GJDailleult
Looks like the PR/propaganda higher ups have decided this IS the way to handle the crisis. It's a conscious decision, not just incompetent bungling, to say this stuff. Seems pretty risky to me to equate being anti-pedophilia with being anti-Catholic, and maybe they are doing everything wrong, but they don't think so. We'll see if they can pull it off or if it blows up on them.
Posted in: Vatican blasts anti-Catholic hate campaign
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GJDailleult
There was an article by the gullible idiots and simple nutcases at The Economist, stating what is obvious only to the gullible and not geniuses like Molenir and M.F.A. Lack of proof of man-made global warming is not proof that it is not happening. That the climate may in fact be too complex to model anyways, and that the idea that man-mad global warming is NOT happening is itself an unprovable theory. And that climate change should be treated as a risk management issue.
"Action on climate is justified, not because the science is certain, but precisely because it is not". Gullible fools those guys!
Posted in: UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists
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GJDailleult
My understanding is that at least some of this stuff was open knowledge and reported in Japanese newspapers at the time. Things like beheading contests, and who can kill the most Chinese.
But the thing is, by focusing on what did or did happen in China, people are diverted from the really big questions about WW2. The role of the Emperor, the lack of a rational objective for the war, the incoherent strategy and tactics, and the general complete incompetence of the Japanese military leadership. Avoiding those questions has been the right-wing objective all along, and arguing about China helps them do that.
Posted in: New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape, massacre
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GJDailleult
An article about the survey where that was stated was up on this site last year sometime, but doesn't show up on a search of the site. I remember because I thought something like "bloody hell" when I read it. How accurate the translation was and how valid the survey results were is another question, but I assume that is the survey the writer read about.
Posted in: Bare statistics mask human cost of Japan’s high suicide rate
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GJDailleult
@LFRAgain - I didn't read it as the writer exorcising personal demons. More like he has been there himself (so have I), and so understands just how paralyzing and damaging shyness is. And he isn't a shy person who eschewed suicide in favor of living, he is somebody who made the choice not to be shy anymore. Big difference. Most people have never been forced to make that choice, and have no clue how debilitating and destructive real, pathological shyness is. They think shyness is like when they were nervous at the high school dance or something like that.
Reality is that shyness is a huge social problem, and at its core, the result of a fundamental lack of understanding of what life and relationships are about. As the writer says it is based on a fear of negative reactions, but that fear then becomes self-fulfilling. Their behavior itself leads to the negative reaction they fear. It is not much of a logical step to say that any country where shyness is common and even thought of as a positive (I cringed when I saw that item about parents last year too) might see the effects of that in their suicide statistics.
Posted in: Bare statistics mask human cost of Japan’s high suicide rate
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GJDailleult
This is big and getting bigger. Also it is self-inflicted, the Catholic church has refused to modernize and get rid of the celibacy requirement, and now they are paying the price. I'm not saying celibacy leads directly to pedophilia, but it seems obvious that it is part of the problem. Somebody who chooses and wants to be celibate when they enter the priesthood is maybe not very mature or healthy, sexually speaking, in the first place.
Posted in: Vatican offers 3 reasons why it is not liable for abuse
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GJDailleult
That is one nutty plan they had, and the idea that their action would be some sort of catalyst for something bigger is what Aum thought too.
Posted in: Christian militia accused of plotting to kill police in U.S.
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GJDailleult
Who's terrified? I'm with sf2k, send her to Afghanistan, the Taliban would be desperate to get rid off her. I'm just pointing out that when you go around insulting people (and it is not just her), don't be surprised when they don't feel like supporting you anymore. Have your cake or eat it. Don't try to have both.
Posted in: U.S. wants Canada to stay in Afghanistan
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GJDailleult
Maybe Clinton should get Ann Coulter to go back up north and insult people some more. That would learn 'em real good and put them uppity Canadians in their place.
Posted in: U.S. wants Canada to stay in Afghanistan