I looked it right up:
A strong, long 7.9 earthquake with an epicenter in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into the streets.Let's see, Malia's in Oaxaca. Google maps... Oaxaca, Guerrero... 375 miles (by somewhat indirect roads).
I hope everyone is safe, and I wonder what it says about us — or, specifically, Meade — that we think first of the one American we know is in Mexico right now.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 219 of 219"Like they're doing it for someone else, like a service to other people or something.”
Yeah that would be horrible.
Bleh, I have homework to do, (and a dirty limerick to compose in honor of Tetrahymena thermophilia.)
The thing is... if you're doing it for someone *else* then you're not, after all, being encouraged to grab hold of the American dream, and get rich.
And Obama scolding people on how they're supposed to produce *for others* to make this country great, is selling slavery.
Period.
(Which is one thing Ayn Rand was right about.)
And you can't base a dynamic, growing economy, on coerced (or shamed) public service.
Michael
I think I know what you mean. Whether a new tax racket would be created, [a surtax] or just raised. 36% times 1.1 = 39.6%
Or maybe that's not what you were talking about.
A new tax "racket."
God I love a well crafted typo!
Actually, my first thought was wondering if there would be another tsunami hitting Japan from Mexico after crossing the Pacific Ocean.
"The thing is... if you're doing it for someone *else* then you're not, after all, being encouraged to grab hold of the American dream, and get rich.
And Obama scolding people on how they're supposed to produce *for others* to make this country great, is selling slavery.”
The “*for others*” part is your phrasing, not his.
Saying that an education is a means to prosperity and provide for others (perhaps even...say...your family) is certainly advocating slavery. Not to mention snobbery.
The Obama campaign should pay you to comment on more blogs.
What is weird about blogger right now is that the only way that I can see comments beyond 200 is to click on the link to the post (and not the comment button), and then go down to the bottom, and click "Newer". But, the minute I try to post, I am back to the original 200 messages. Weird.
I think that it is easy to reconcile the statement that Obama demonizes the rich, and that he doesn't hate them. My theory is that he uses class envy to get votes, and part of class envy is hating the rich. But, he likes hanging out with them. A lot, and his wife maybe even more so.
And, no, he is not the only hypocrite in the Democratic party, just the most visible. The Clintons were not much better. And, that is from the wannabes, like the Obamas and Clintons. Just as bad, in their own way, are the real rich, who play the same class envy/hate the rich type of pandering. Which is why it is not surprising that there are more Democratic millionaires in the Senate than Republicans (supposedly the party of the rich), and the Democrats there are a lot richer. Even if you exclude John Kerry, whose wife's fortune used to belong to a Republican Senator.
And, one of the funniest parts of this hypocrisy is that these Democratic politicians demonize Wall Street on the one hand, and then typically pull in a lot more Wall Street money than the Republicans do (maybe not this time around - we shall see). And that doesn't even include Chuck Shumer, who is a wholly owned subsidiary of the big NYC investment banks. (So bought and paid for that he got special legislation inserted into patent reform last year to invalidate patents being asserted against the big banks - we are currently working on responding to a request by the USPTO to define "technology", as required by the legislation for just this purpose).
Someone above suggested that a lot of the Obama daughters' classmates at this school had parents working for the federal government. I think that unlikely. I think it more likely that their parents are politicians and lobbyists. They are the ones who can afford the tuition, and who have the political pull to get their kids admitted. Sure, some civil servants, but they aren't the ones who are sending their middle school/early high school kids to Mexico this week. Maybe junior/senior year, but not this young.
Garage. Yes. The proposal is to raise the tax rate by over 10%, not 3%. It is dishonest to say the rate is going up 3% unless it is qualified be 3 percentage points.
Have you been to Mexico yourself?
Yes.
I also read news stories and follow the information on Mexico's current population.
Do you not read the news or follow info on Mexico?
The Obama hatred here is telling. I’d want any and all members of Romney’s/Santorum's family kept safe anywhere in the world and I would never bitch about the costs of Secret Service protection.
You'd have no beefs if Romney's kids took trips internationally without him being there that required 25 agents AND theat country's military to protect them? You'd never ask why we're spending so much on such a frivolous thing and why they can't simply vacation in the US --- or, heaven forbid, forego vacations as many Americans have had to do?
You seem awfully generous towards people way richer than you who still need to sponge off you.
"The “*for others*” part is your phrasing, not his."
It's my phrasing to describe my reaction to his scolding.
Maybe you don't feel scolded, but I doubt that I'm the only one who does. If you think that Obama is helped by my explaining how his approach to things makes me feel, then it really must be that you don't care how other people think. Or, like other liberals, you've decided that they *don't* think, and therefore can be ignored.
Obama *scolds*.
Now, how he manages to scold even when he's talking about good things, is a mystery. Or perhaps it's a talent.
I don't know why this doesn't bother more people than it does. Maybe they (and you) simply interpret his scolding as directed toward all of those other people who need to be scolded?
And really, I can hardly be the first person to explain the problem with sort of fetishizing altruism. As a definintion of "all that is good" it is a horrible, damaging lie. If this *is* the first time you've heard such a thing, you need to get out more.
We need a vibrant economy, not a dutiful one.
I had to Google Malia to find out that she's the daughter of the President of the District of Columbia. But I'm Canadian. We don't really care.
damikesc: I travel frequently to Mexico, most recently to Leon, Oaxaca and Chetumal. I keep up with the news there pretty closely since I have business there. Apparently you do not have much curiosity about the country beyond the sensational news about violence between drug gangs principally at our frontier. It is a mighty big country and a lot of business gets done down there. It is not a "hell hole" and your ignorance of the country and its current situation is betrayed by that characterization.
I immediately looked up the placement along the fault line to CA (narcissism! self-involvement!) where we are. I spent a good 10 minutes thinking it was too bad my (coastal) side of the fault couldn't break off without violence and misery because it contains all the places I like and would make a great island. I then thought about our house insurance, etc.
I worried if Mexico would be in the same situation as Chile and was relieved that it did not seem to be.
Malia, who? :-)
Didn't associate the two though I had seen a headline somewhere that she had gone.
It is not a "hell hole" and your ignorance of the country and its current situation is betrayed by that characterization.
True. I should apologize.
Hellholes deserve better than to be compared to Mexico.
Um ... no.
Damikesc. Scared of those brown people are you? Pretty funny. Stick with the Wisconsin hellhole, dude, the world is a scary place.
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