Friday 5 August 2011
- on Despite Debt-Crisis Resolution, Wall Street Plummets Amid Economic Fears 28 minutes agoThanks, Congress.
- on FAA Shutdown Idled Far Fewer Than the 70,000 Construction Workers Democrats Claimed, Study Finds 29 minutes agoOh darn, we destroyed fewer jobs than we thought we did. Let's try again.
- It would be nice to blame all this stuff on someone else, but the simple fact is that China holds so much of our debt because we, the American people, like to buy their cheap stuff.
So China ends up with lots of dollars that they have to do something with. They buy US debt to prop up our economy so we will be able to buy more of their stuff. Yes, they know that our governments of whatever stripe have been tanking the dollar for the past 20 years, thus eroding the value of the T-bills they hold - but they think of it as a type of foreign aid to the USA.
- This was not a great course(as the commander said: "we can do better than that"), but the greater problem is easy to fix. There is nothing wrong with bible passages in an ethics course as long as they are not the ONLY religious passages. Throw in a few pieces from judaism, humanism, confucianism, budhism, islam or the upanishads and you got yourself a perfectly innocuous course for the military to teach. Alternatively, offer other courses from other ethical positions: Judaism & War, Islam and War, Budhism & War (a short course), Hinduism and War (a long course)
State-funded institutions are not prohibited from examining superstitious thought, merely from favoring one set of superstitions over another.
- Nah, I don't think out-of-state retailers should have to pay sales tax when they compete with retailers in my state who do have to pay. So all my local stores go belly up - what is that compared to saving e-buyers 6 cents?
- Gosh, Obama is going to focus on jobs again? I'm not holding my breath
If only we could get the Republicans to think about jobs, even once.
We elected them to fix this and boy have they been a miserable failure.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 00:08
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