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DITTO to that sentiment. I just hope these letter writers will bring a charge. He would be the first SC Justice to be successfully impeached.
I really don't think anything will happen to Clearance Thomas. I don't think Congress will call for his impeachment and as a result improprieties will become an everyday event. It is the gradual or maybe
immediate decline of justice in America. It will take an extra ordinary Nation to overcome and correct this corruption. I wish I had faith this would happen. I think the rot has consumed most of the fruit.
A bribe is payment for illegal activity. Thats why it's called a bribe. Business men use it quietly to insure a contract by excluding competitive bidders. Organized crime uses bribes to buy protection.
compliance, and omission. Lobbyist use it to boycott and subvert the law. If indeed it is the American way, then it is the criminal American way.
@ Our Founding Truth - And the Torah, which is the origin of both Christianity and Islam, promotes torture, rape and murder of infidels. Christianity has a long history of mass murder of members of competing denomination as well as non-conformists all in the name of conversion.
Modern Christianity is rife with congregations espousing hate speech masquerading behind the mask of "God's Wariors" and "Christian Soldiers." Couple that with characters like Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh fomenting about secret muslim agents conspiring to overthrow God's chosen country (America?) and you have the recipe for a misguided or deranged individual to take matters in his own hands.
Around Red Square
…, remember, you must turn right onto Ethics Blvd, because its' a one way.
Drive carefully, because traffic enforcement cameras are everywhere.
I've heard, their motion sensors were spectrally tuned during the Clinton era, to see only shades of blue and therefore, only infractions by blue cars are captured and cited.
When turning right, use extreme caution, because red vehicles fly around Red Square as if it were the Autobahn.
Eventually, you must again turn right onto a one way, and like the previous stretch, it has those "cameras".
If you continue around Red Square, you will encountered two more, must turn right onto one ways and find yourself back on Ethics Blvd.
If you haven't seen the flash of an enforcement camera during the drive around, consider yourself lucky.
Again, give wide berth to the maniacs in the red cars using Red Square like the own personal Autobahn.
Hope to see your blue car pulling up in the driveway soon, or maybe not.
He's got to go.
Not a chance. Justice Thomas seems more arrogant even than Justice Scalea. But it is an arrogance fed by a horrible sense that he is a fraud. So he plays the fraud's game of compensating for ineptness with arbitrary applications of power. What really gives him a kick is that, like the type of the religious prohibitionist that H L Mencken describes, he knows he is wrong but he knows he can do it anyway because there is no one to control him. Except his ventriloquists.
Congress show some nerve by impeaching a Supreme? Congress doesn't have the nerve to impeach its own shadow.
Justice Black, a FDR justice, did not recuse himself when his law partner had a case before the court. At that time, it was concluded, that only a Justice can recuse himself.
Where is the Executive and his Department of Justice? They have been conspicuously absent for two years. Rather than looking ahead they should look left, right and immediately behind.
Well, "yes" and "no". It is time to slow down carbon emission – reverse global warming – and start producing enough food to feed people again. But the teabrained republicons will never let anything happen that is bad for their corporate masters.
Thom Hartmann, you obviously do not know Christianity or Islam. Calling murderers like McVeigh Christians, is an invalid argument. You won't find any of those commands in the bible, yet the Koran and hadith commands muslims to kill, maim, and torture on almost every page.
You should be ashamed of yourself!
@cmoore, ok 16% of the work force ended up in the military instead of 8% of the population.
And if 20% of the work force is 31 million people. You still need about 25 million people to be taken out of the work force to match what happened in WWII. Which leaves about 5% of the employable population unemployed, and yes a major war would easily soak up that amount.
Still 25 million off to war, or euthanize them... still a pyrrhic victory.
Either way you look at it though, the Great Depression was mainly a result of Conservative policies. I don't know how many starved or died of illnesses related to poverty, all so the wealthy elite in America could have bigger numbers on the bank records. Pretty sickening to think that today's Conservatives think we need to go back to that type of perverse economic model, as though the results will not be the same. We didn't need WWII to get out of the Great Depression, we just needed then as we do now proper financial regulations.
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Most Cons will claim WW2 pulled us out the depression. I would argue it prevented us from sliding back into another depression when those millions of soldiers returned to civilian life. The US became the world's manufacturer because we were not saddle with the burden of reconstruction.
Maxrot, you have identified the dilemma we face. We have become so "efficient" at killing that the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iran could not keep us from slipping into a recession.
Thom, read this brief IKEA piece and see if a line jumps out at you:
Highly successful IKEA has a point-of-view not shared by many struggling American Companies.
Best, Patrick Roden
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Pirates are the purest form of modern capitalism. They don't hide behind glossy ad campaigns while stealing your money.
The best way to prepare for the Project Management Professional exam is to obtain PMP certification training before wondering about the PMP certification salary or PMP certification requirements since you need to be prepared beforehand, as the PMP certification cost can be quite steep.
Maxrot, you can drop those number considerably. The unemployment rate is based on the civilian labor force 16 and over which is about 50% of the national population. On the flip-side, that means the pecentage of population in the military after WW2 would double. So, I digress.
Interesting article on Roll Call regarding donations to congressional charities.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_81/-203269-1.html?ET=rollcall:e9794:80108599a:&st=email&pos=eam
Article implies corporate and lobbying charitable donations are down for elected members due to disclosure rules implemented in 2008. I believe this has more to do with Citizen's United. Why make a declared donation to a charity or "honor" a member of Congress when you can dump undisclosed amounts of cash into a electioneering front group?
The good ole days of funnelling money to elected officials through charities is no longer fashionable.
@cmoore, I just did a little research and number running on your earlier comment about 5 million going off to war. In 1940, there was about 132 million americans, and about 1 million in uniform at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
If 5 million went to uniform, then that is just a little less the 4% of the population.
At the end of the war, there was just over 12 million in the american military. So by the end of the war about 8% of the population was taken out of the work place, temporarily (remember there was already about a million in the military so I just divided 11 by 132). There was a loss of about a 1/2 million to death outright.
Today there is about 310 million people in the US. So that would equate to about 25 million people that would need to be taken out of the workforce for a similar effect.
Though many people feel that we're at 20% unemployment, which is about 62 million people. So even if we removed 25 million from the workforce that would still leave about 12% unemployed... I guess a major war could employ that many, and if we did get into such a major war, it would be hard to believe that Atomic weapons would not be used, so yea a war could easily get us out of this "Recession", but if that's not a pyrrhic victory, then I don't know what is.
Anyway, I'm sure you didn't mean that the War was a good answer to depression, and I agree, but you sure got me thinking about just what the raw statistics are.
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I find it interesting that Sabrina's opening statement was to admit that Republicans were dumbing down the conversation. I think that dumbing down has lead to the Tea Party and a faction within the party that threatens their existence.
@DRichards, upon further reflection on you statement, I think it also points to the knee jerk reaction of birthers and those that believe Obama is a Muslim. I believe that in their collective subconscious they can't wrap their mind around a black man being an American, because only white Christians are Americans. I say its subconscious because so many honestly believe they aren't racist (even while holding a photoshop picture of the PResident with a bone through his nose). Sure there are the open racists in the group, but I think that honestly there are quite a few, that are subconsciously re-acting, because their immediate cultural environment is so saturated with such concepts that they can't even recognize it. I bet you could go to a Southern State, go up to the nearest citizen and tell him/her that Mexicans are indeed American... 5 will get you 10, that you will have a fervent argument on your hands.
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Re: the John Birch Society
The Constitution & the Ten Commandments, that's an "interesting" mix.
Does the President of the John Birch Society want to live in a Democracy, or a Theocracy? I don't think he can have his cake & eat it too. It's one ot the other.
Would it be correct to refer to us as USers?
Maxrot, I clearly did not mean that to be a positive. But you cannot ignore the fact that when that large a segment of society is removed it will have a positive affect on unemployment numbers, kind of like the 99's today.