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kgb999 commented on the blog post Obama Campaign Proud of Bashing Teachers’ Unions
It appears that at best a teacher makes a lower-middle class working wage. Are you seriously proposing that a $11-$15/hr starting pay for a Master’s degree is what we’re calling “great money” these days?
Crap, based on the numbers it looks like teachers are hard pressed to hit a prevailing wage even after a decade on the job … barely a professional compensation in the best-paid instances.
News flash for ya: we value education in AMERICA. That’s why we fund it. The vast majority of conservatives and liberals agree on this one. I’m thinking that it is distinctly possible that you’re neither – and maybe just an idiot.
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Iran: We Give Up All That For Nothing? Nothing??? by wendydavis.
Good post … American diplomacy continues living up to recent high standards it seems.
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Syria’s ‘Dead Man Walking’… by CTuttle.
It sure doesn’t seem like it was our grubby ministrations which enticed Assad to shell his own population centers for the past year. IMO, criticism for this disaster should be firmly pointed at Russia. I really don’t get the point of your amorphously critical crusade on the topic. Are you suggesting a better approach would [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Likud MK Danny Danon Wants to Put African Migrants in Israel into Concentration Camps by EdwardTeller.
I don’t think it’s that the world doesn’t care. I think it’s more that the world has found itself in the novel position that there is a (quite weak) government in place that appears to acknowledge such atrocities are wrong and express a willingness to try and address the issues … unlike the cases of [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Likud MK Danny Danon Wants to Put African Migrants in Israel into Concentration Camps by EdwardTeller.
Didn’t read the book … and don’t really know anything about her. Without a long-term solution to waste management I’m pretty sure they can’t license new projects for operation at this point (going from memory – that may be off base). If so and she’s on board with completing the shut-down of Yucca (which really [...]
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kgb999 commented on the blog post The Fiscal Cliff and the Fed
Something confuses me here. You say that the Fed has done nothing to maximize employment out of a fear of inflation. But across the same period of time, we’ve gone through two(+?) rounds of quantitative easing, which were designed to *cause* inflation (IANAE, but I think this is right). At the time, they said it was to combat *deflationary* pressures.
If they’re so scared of inflation that they won’t maximize employment … what’s with the QE program? Couldn’t they have accomplished with employment what they ostensibly did QE to accomplish?
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Three More Witnesses Change Stories In Zimmerman Case by Masoninblue.
Just an FYI, in the line:
Witness 2′s identification of Zimmerman being on top after the shot hurts Zimmerman because he told the police was on the bottom fighting for his life when he shot Trayvon.
The reference to “Witness 2″ should maybe be Witness 12?
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Power Play: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Jaczko Resigns after Push by Industry by Gregg Levine.
A lot of it has to do with what Reid’s primary objectives are. No idea of the math, but I get the sense that he’s feeling pretty good about holding the majority in the Senate. If so, it’s a question of caucus leadership. IMO, Schumer would not necessarily beat Reid in a leadership struggle if [...]
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kgb999 commented on the blog post 56% Want Marijuana Legalized and Regulated Like Alcohol
Here’s what I think. Of course, total speculation…
IMO, the writing is on the wall and the powers that be know it. The problem they have is that the state-level legal commercial infrastructure has been built by small businesses and is not controlled by corporate interests (and we’re talking significantly the largest cash crop in America here). If things legalized now, it seems that it would place the “wrong sort” of people at the helm of the most lucrative source of agriculture income that is likely to exist in the near term.
I think what we’re seeing is the Feds trying to clear out the established competition before legalizing and handing the business over to big Agro. It increasingly looks like they did a similar thing to destroy Kim Dotcom’s file locker service (and create massive FUD among users of other established services) just weeks before Google launched their competing “cloud” file locker (conveniently, with their biggest potential competitor totally knocked offline).
Free enterprise in America has increasingly become like Putin’s Russia – with the Feds using their power to ensure the “correct” people always capture the bulk of any significant potential revenue generation.
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Booker Exposed: The REAL Cory by DSWright.
Although Romney himself tops the list, Democrats have raked in twice as much cash from Bain as Republicans have since 2008. A sizable chunk went right to Obama.
President Obama has accepted $92,270 in his last two campaigns from employees of Bain Capital, the private equity firm formerly led by Mitt Romney, which he has villainized [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Booker Exposed: The REAL Cory by DSWright.
ROTFLMAO. Yes, indeed, why would the Democratic party want a dynamic and popular mayor who recently achieved national notoriety for braving a burning building and pulling a neighbor to safety with his bare hands representing them? I’ll bet America HATES that Booker guy. Fuck him. So. Now, when he gets back on message, I’m assuming [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Power Play: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Jaczko Resigns after Push by Industry by Gregg Levine.
but what part of the public felt particularly compelled to fight on Jaczko’s behalf?
I dunno. Was Obama hoping to win in Nevada this cycle? You may be right about Reid’s thinking here … but the question if Reid is on board w/ Jaczko or if this is being forced by a WH seeking industry cash [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Sharpton, Booker & Romney vs The Rest of Us by fairleft.
Oooops, I meant “Talkleft” … dammit … where did I get “FairLeft” from? I don’t think that’s even a site.
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Sharpton, Booker & Romney vs The Rest of Us by fairleft.
Good lord. You seriously said “the best place for those basics is as always…. FairLeft” …. seriously? That place bans anyone that dares to politely challenge their “basics” as a matter of policy. It’s a total echo chamber of idiots telling each other how totally right (and oh so smart compared to everyone else) they are. FWIW, [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Why won’t Paul Krugman and Robert Reich talk about $652.5 BILLION? by Alan Maki.
What’s with the long-timers around here being total ass-hat trolls to everyone else?
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Dept of say-it-aint-so: Paul Krugman, Obamabot by donkeytale.
Nobody makes a “Nader” argument when the purpose is motivating independents. We tend to view those that bash Nader voters as anti-democratic idiots in their obsession with chastising others for the independent exercise of their individual vote … and also as spineless douches for not being able to just own the fact that their party [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Dept of say-it-aint-so: Paul Krugman, Obamabot by donkeytale.
Is there one single legitimate reason we shouldn’t be thinking outside of the capitalist box about the socialist alternative which places human needs before Wall Street’s greedy and insatiable drive for profits?
Yes. Because Socialism-as-monolithic-ideology fails for the exact same reason Capitalism does: human nature. Notice, neither China nor the USSR turned out being particularly adept [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Dept of say-it-aint-so: Paul Krugman, Obamabot by donkeytale.
Yeah. That’s his role. He plays up dissent and gets credibility as a “critic,” building trust by making noise of disapproval during periods of electorate political impotency (i.e. when there aren’t any elections, so it doesn’t matter if folks vent a bit). Their purpose in the political phaeton is to trade upon the trust earned [...]
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kgb999 commented on the diary post Ring of Fire Annular Eclipse on Sunday, May 20; My Stars. ;o) by wendydavis.
Way cool.
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kgb999 commented on the blog post Why Does the Right Wing Hate Anti-Government Preaching?
I really don’t think that counts as using the Lord’s name in vain … or if it does, than technically wouldn’t “God Bless America” also be doing so?
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