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GJDailleult
Republicans should have sent Limbaugh to Guantanamo when they had the chance, instead of letting him stay around and blow up their party.
Posted in: Democrats blast Limbaugh for comment on Kennedy
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GJDailleult
Let's see here, government in America is not competent enough to run any government programs. Your privately run "financial services" sector on the other hand is so competent that it has bankrupted itself, and your country in the process (shh, don't say AIG). Those so efficient private sector folks in charge of your health care system have brought you the most expensive health care system in the world and, according to the CIA, a ranking in life expectancy of 45th.
What exactly is it that you guys are actually good at again?
Posted in: Obama: Every voice must be heard on health reform
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GJDailleult
No doubt to try and avoid embarrassment.
Posted in: Honda sells its F-1 team to Brawn
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GJDailleult
sydenham- what's with the logic? This thread is about people from a bankrupt country complaining about having to pay taxes because they are worried about their country going bankrupt. Logic has no place here obviously.
Posted in: Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy meets fierce opposition
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GJDailleult
Wow, some interesting new historical information on Herbert Hoover and JFK on this thread. I'll have to fire up the computer mouse thingy and head on over to that internet encyclopedia place to check it out for myself.
Otherwise, it is nice to see here that in the middle of a global recession with the potential to become a global economic collapse, Americans are so busy arguing about the popular new guy at school that they havn't noticed the crazed axe-murderer peering in the window.
Posted in: Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy meets fierce opposition
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GJDailleult
News flash for our American friends blaming Obama and his six week old administration. There are things out there in the big, bad, world called "other countries". They each have leaders, some are called presidents too, others are called prime ministers, chairmen, even kings. They have crashing stock markets and economies too, and Obama ain't in charge of any of them.
Posted in: Obama's economic efforts hit wall of bad news
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GJDailleult
Despite the America-centric slant to this article and references to American cultural politics (yawn), this is actually a very important issue to all countries. The problem is that in the pre-internet days nobody was really paying for the content in papers and magazines, they were paying for the delivery of the content. The delivery paid for the cost of gathering and putting together the content. Now that business model is dead. It doesn't matter what your politics are, just a question of who is going to do the job for you and how. And if people think a weak and passive media is a good idea, I can think of one good example for you to show it isn't. Hmmm, what country could that be?
Posted in: Can newspapers survive in Internet era?
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GJDailleult
I didn't need the media world to ridicule the speech for me. Had the TV on, CNN guy said "here is Jindal's speech", and I said "idiot". Actually, to give him a break, I think he was just pretending to be an idiot. But no media filter for me, you dittoheads should try it sometime.
Posted in: Jindal defends message of his GOP speech
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GJDailleult
Like turning down 3.8 billion in stimulus money and accepting only 3.7 billion. That's substance you can believe in.
Posted in: Jindal defends message of his GOP speech
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GJDailleult
The dot.com bubble "rivals" the housing bubble does it. Like a barking puppy rivals Godzilla it does.
Posted in: Limbaugh, Pelosi take flak in White House-Republican battle
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GJDailleult
Now why exactly would he do that? "Welfare mammas" vote Republican? And I don't know why some Americans are worried about socialism and having the state decide everything for them. Don't need it, already got lots of idiots on the radio and TV doing that for them.
Posted in: Obama draws battle lines to reshape U.S. society
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GJDailleult
Actually, those are red herrings, as with all the talk about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Clinton, Greenspan, etc. As yabits already pointed out, this is all about securitization, which allowed the USA to export its debt and basically launder money to get around the reserve requirements of the banking system. Without securitization there is no bubble.
you are mixing two different things here, the banks and the stimulus. Keynesian policies have nothing to do with fixing the banking problem. And the point of the stimulus is not to fix the problem, it's to avoid collapse and depression (though the government is not going to say that). Which is pretty much what Japan did.
Posted in: Obama challenges lobbyists to legislative duel
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GJDailleult
You do know the difference between co-relation and causality don't you? I guess not. And people are "shifting" money are they? What a nice euphemism for people losing their shirts and trying to find some idiot "looking for a bottom" to take their place for the ride down.
Posted in: Obama forecasts record $1.75 tril deficit in his 1st budget
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GJDailleult
No mention of the legal grounds the ruling was based on. Wonder if there were any.
Posted in: Court rules soldiers' names to stay on war shrine
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GJDailleult
Actually he wouldn't have been able to get close enough to him to put the knife to his throat, so there would have been no situation. And I wouldn't have had to try to figure out how to get out of there before getting hit by a stray bullet.
Anyways, I get the logic of "everybody has a gun so I need one too", and I am not criticizing that. Just saying that there is a big difference between a person who says "I have been in a situation where somebody had a gun to defend himself and so was able to prevent something bad from happening" and someone who says "I can imagine that situation".
Posted in: For some in U.S., guns are a way of life
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GJDailleult
This is not really meant as an anti-gun post, just a question. How many pro-gun people have any first hand experience of gun violence? Have ever seen what a man's face looks like when some nutjob pulls out a gun to "defend" himself, and points it at that guy's head? Have ever seen another guy five feet away rolling around in tears in the fetal position because he thinks he is about to die? I've seen it, though by unbelievable luck, in this case nobody got killed, not least of all me. And that is why I am very skeptical that anybody who is pro-gun has any idea what they are talking about. If somebody has had that kind of experience and is still pro-gun, well fair enough. But I am betting that those people are a very, very small percentage of the pro-gun group.
Posted in: For some in U.S., guns are a way of life
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GJDailleult
sailwind is right, those well known Obama worshipers at Fox News really need to stop picking on Republicans. David Brooks too.
Actually, this all might be a lucky break for the Republicans. A wake up call that spouting irrelevant ideological cliches is not going to work, and give responsible and competent Republican politicians (yes there are a few) some leverage against the Limbaugh puppets. Way to take one for the team Jindal. Sorry about your dreams going down the toilet though.
Posted in: Republicans, Democrats criticize Jindal's speech
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GJDailleult
I am shocked to see that some Japan Today readers don't know the definition of socialism or understand cause and effect. Truly shocked. The people in the article who are work-sharing are working for private companies, owned by private investors, not the government. They are doing it because of a breakdown in the international capitalist system, "socialism" has nothing to do with the problem. And the concept of work-sharing has nothing to do with "socialism" either.
Posted in: Japan turns to 'work-sharing' to avoid layoffs
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GJDailleult
smithinjapan- good post but you are making a common mistake. It is not an issue of some people being stupid and wasteful and others responsible. It is an issue of an entire country being irresponsible. They were exporting DEBT, that is what their economy was based on, and all Americans profited from that. And now they can't export their debt anymore and their economy is going down the tubes. Nobody is more responsible than anybody else, the guy who can't pay has mortgage is just the mule who got caught holding the bag at the airport.
Posted in: Obama promises to lead U.S. from dire 'day of reckoning'
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GJDailleult
Just saw Jindal's response and there is only one word for it. Idiocy. Standing in front of a camera and telling people basically that you don't have a clue what is going on. Oh I get it now, THAT is why he is popular with Republicans.
Posted in: Obama promises to lead U.S. from dire 'day of reckoning'