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GJDailleult
No, they made it clear that they didn't understand who and what is the cause of their problems. If they understood they wouldn't have voted Republican. That might be changing now though.
Shouldn't have voted Democrat either. But at least "tax and spend" is better than "don't tax but spend, spend, spend, and give stuff away to your crony "capitalist" welfare queen pals".
Posted in: Wisconsin lawmakers take up bill to cripple unions
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GJDailleult
I'm with you Badsey 100%, but take a look at what your up against.
Posters who claim not to see the hypocrisy of "fighting against unions to protect taxpayers" while they they don't care a bit about fully taxpayer paid-for assets being sold off to neo-lib welfare bums at bargain prices. And another poster claiming that the taxpayer should take the opportunity to rip off those private sector rubes by unloading outdated assets on the fools. Like they can't google the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal and get that info themselves, and are going to walk into a bad deal.
Posted in: Wisconsin lawmakers take up bill to cripple unions
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GJDailleult
Sorry about the confusion there, but when I heard about the liquefaction problem I started thinking about the Tokyo situation, and also Vancouver and my home town of Victoria, where some parts are built on landfill. Also, I am not sure, but I think Seattle down by the two stadiums is on landfill as well. I think I read somewhere that Christchurch was on an alluvial plain or something, and made the jump to landfill, so again sorry about the error.
Anyways, was just talking to my sister down in Australia, she said my brother-in-law was on the phone just after the earthquake reports came out, calling the Dunedin branch office to check on staff safety in the Christchurch office of the company he works for. Couldn't get through to Christchurch. He was told that in Dunedin they thought they were at the epicenter of a big quake, when they heard they weren't they knew it was going to be a bad situation.
Posted in: NZ earthquake toll at 98 dead, 226 missing
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GJDailleult
As a Canadian from British Columbia who lives in Tokyo, I have been watching the news from Christchurch pretty closely. My main concern is of course with the loss of life and the hope that as many people can be rescued as possible, but there are also a couple of extremely troubling points coming out about this earthquake. One, is the amount of liquefaction taking place and the instability of the buildings on landfill or less than solid ground. The last big earthquake in Tokyo was the 1923 earthquake I think, the modern Tokyo of tall buildings and areas of landfill such as Odaiba has never experienced a major earthquake. Two, is the first thing I noticed from the pictures was how much it looked like home (a point made by a writer at the Vancouver Sun also), especially all the brick buildings. For those who don't know, the Cascadia fault that lies off BC, and Washington and Oregon states is thought to be the world's most dangerous, but with no major quakes since European settlement.
Not writing that to try to scare people, but it is definitely scary. Hopefully the authorities in Japan, Canada, and the USA, can study the New Zealand quake and find ways to be better prepared if possible.
Posted in: NZ earthquake toll at 98 dead, 226 missing
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GJDailleult
Repubs should be careful here, people can change political views very quick when they perceive that politics is affecting them directly, and is not some abstract thing on the TV that affects other people. Happened with the so-called Reagan Democrats who blamed Carter for all their problems, happens all the time.
Or maybe Walker thinks there are no Republican voters working for the Wisconsin government.
Posted in: Wisconsin lawmakers take up bill to cripple unions
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GJDailleult
It might partly be a result of the mosaic censorship itself. Obviously if you can't show the actual act (which rightly or wrongly is the whole point of porn), then you are going to have fewer customers than you would otherwise. So Japanese producers over the years have had to come up with other ways to attract viewers by appealing to certain, let's say, sexual deviencies, one of them being violent content.
Not saying there aren't social things going on also, but just that if they got rid of the mosaic I think the Japanese porn industry might over time clean itself naturally somewhat as it would be easier to make money just by selling straight porn and naked women. On the other hand though, may just end up with violent content with no mosaic. A tough one.
Posted in: What’s really at stake in Japan’s revised pornography laws?
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GJDailleult
Going to bed late because I was watching Gadhafi's "speech" tonight, it was amazing, was wondering what century I was living in, is it the 21st or 11th?
I'm sure there aren't any Libyans spending their time on his site, they have more important stuff to do. But just want to say I support them and hope they can string the SOB up on a rope, or put a bullet through his head.
Posted in: Gadhafi appears on TV to dispel rumors he has fled
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GJDailleult
globalwatcher, is it quite simple. The trend of ever-increasing US government debt started with the Reagan administration and has never stopped. The charts don't lie. When you increase debt you increase the real money supply hugely because this government spent money gets put into the banks and allows the banking system to make many more loans. Problem is this will lead to price inflation. Thing is there are two kinds of price inflation, one is for stuff you need to buy and consume (makes people angry), the other for stuff that you can buy and sell later (makes them happy). Trick is where the inflation goes. By breaking the unions after creating a recession through high interest rates (hey I need a job!) they made the inflation not go into wages but into assets like houses and stocks. A neat trick until it blows up, which is inevitable, but until then everybody says "hey things are great".
And Americans also realized that Harry Potter is a very good wizard. Fantasy is not going to save anybody. Like I said the charts don't lie. If I was a Republican (or Democratic) strategist, I would be very worried right now. "Right wing" parties in all countries have been selling aspirational political messages for 30 years, and the "left-wing" ones have been saying..., well I don't know what they have been saying other than let's copy what they have been doing. When Joe Blow wakes up and says "hey I am not on the team I thought I was on!!!", then Beck gets turned off and the Che shirts come out. And nobody will think they have been hypocrites or flip-floppers, they will all think they have now figured things out. Game is changing very quickly.
Posted in: Neither side budging in Wisconsin union fight
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GJDailleult
cnc, you didn't get the meaning of my post. The article says that a third person died when they were hit by a car coming to help Davis. So what has happened to the driver of the car?
I am guessing here, but that might be what is behind the standoff. The Pakistanis want to know who he was and the Americans won't tell them.
Posted in: Arrested U.S. official in Pakistan is actually CIA contractor
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GJDailleult
Australian ABC news24 station on the ABC website has lifted the geoblock, and can be watched worldwide. They are carrying the live feed from New Zealand television.
Appears the Christchurch youth hostel was badly damaged, sounds like there will be foreign tourists among the victims. Many people still trapped, gas mains broken, liquefaction, and have run out of ambulances. Very bad situation. Have lived all but three years of my life in high-risk earthquake zones, but have never experienced anything serious. Thoughts will be with everybody down there today.
Posted in: Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65
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GJDailleult
All part of the big picture. Unions had to be busted to stop wage-price inflation, which had to be done because "Reaganomics" was about nothing more than increasing the debt and the money supply to counter the oil price shock. By making unions weaker then the inflation didn't go into wages, it went into assets. Same reason the USA shipped its manufacturing off to China, to keep prices down. Basic American neo-liberal idiocy, or you might know it by its code name "the free market", and where all of today's problems started.
Posted in: Neither side budging in Wisconsin union fight
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GJDailleult
Depth and distance sound bad. Epicenter much closer and shallower than the September earthquake.
Posted in: Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65
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GJDailleult
So what happened to the driver of the car? Not arrested it looks like. Does that mean Davis was arrested at the scene, but the driver escaped?
Posted in: Arrested U.S. official in Pakistan is actually CIA contractor
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GJDailleult
Myth. Obama and the Democrats get their money from the same places that Republicans do. Wall Street and other corporations pay their bribes, oops, I meant "campaign contributions", to both parties, and don't care which one wins, except maybe the ideological nut-jobs like the Koch brothers. Unions support the Democrats because unions always have, and they happily will accept the money, but they get nothing for it.
Posted in: Neither side budging in Wisconsin union fight
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GJDailleult
The Federal Reserve has magically created and handed out 12.3 trillion dollars (that is just what is known) to the American and international banking systems, but everybody panics about some pension money that has to be handed out somewhere down the road.
This arguing about unions ls like watching people argue about how they should divide up the seating arrangements on a plane between first class and economy while they don't pay any attention to engine maintenance. This is because they have an ideological belief that seats are very important, but have no interest in engines. Seats are important, but only if the plane stays up in the air, if it doesn't they are of no importance at all.
Whether unions are good or bad can be argued about all day, but they have nothing at all to do with the USA or world's problems now. Nada, zilch, nichts, nothing.
Posted in: Wisconsin GOP ups pressure on Democrats to return and vote
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GJDailleult
Wild stuff on the tube right now, Gadhafi's son been rambling on for over 30 minutes. Paranoid and apocalyptic.
Posted in: Gadhafi's son warns of civil war in Libya as death toll tops 200
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GJDailleult
Tea party siding with the big, bad Gubmint, whodathunkit????
Yabits and globalwatcher, nice to see you fighting the fight, bet hey what is the point? Time better spent at Zero Hedge, article by a Dead President has a big word beginning with "o" in the title. Ye shall find it if ye look for it!
Anyways, the time bomb was set long ago, not sure why anybody thinks banging out millions of words on the computer is going to keep them safe. Would be interested in learning their own employment situations though, bet they are union men.
Posted in: 70,000 protesters surround Wisconsin Capitol
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GJDailleult
Problem is this issue has nothing to do with the quality of education in the USA and the role of unions in creating whatever problems exist. This is just an ideology based, fact-free attack on unions, and another chance to push the economically illiterate myth of the "private sector taxpayer who earns the money, and now can't afford to pay anymore to support the public sector leaches".
My advice is to learn what the word infrastructure means, and learn what money is, where it comes from and how it is created before you completely kill your country.
Posted in: 14 Wisconsin lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill
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GJDailleult
I remember a time when the USA was not a train wreck, it isn't me who has issues. It is the people who refuse to acknowledge the self-inflicted damage Americans have done to their own country over the last 30 years who have issues. Keep doubling down guys.
Posted in: Palin rejects gun law changes; stays vague on 2012
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GJDailleult
You really have things backwards don't you. They all have the same values and goals and they all stick to them very consistently. No problem there. Problem is they are not "your" legislators, and haven't been for a long, long time.
Posted in: Tea party out to defeat 3 Republican senators