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Yes, the current administration is completely delusional. But so is the opposition, which previously was happy to give power to the Leviathan without considering what would happen if that power were to fall into the hands of less congenial folk.
It is telling that you only heard about the Deep State once Trump came along.
We don't know how many have been fucked over, because the Deep State is not telling and refuses oversight, using FISA gag orders, etc.
Anyone who tries to sue is out of luck because the courts conveniently say they lack legal standing. Even if you have knowledge of malfeasance, it does not count, because you are not allowed to have that knowledge. Good luck if you are in Gitmo, some black site, or been targeted for some light-hearted rendition.
Combined with enthusiastic "Three Felonies a Day" and parallel construction, we have absolutely no idea how many have been fucked over.
The fact that we are not allowed to know, means that it is >>0. My guess would start with Congress, the Judiciary and the military brass. But there are also plenty of luckless dope dealers and Arabs whose fate has been outsourced to an "ally".
I know very well. But you generalize. There are Indians who are self-reliant, free-market supporters, who chafe under the socialist consensus. They are the ones who want to escape to an America that is better, not asking for handouts, and willing to pay their taxes due.
But America wants to shut the door on them, tragically citing the same reasons which they deplore elsewhere.
I apologize for mixing up two separate, but related, issues. The first is the Indians, which I have discussed above. The second is the Mexicans and other Latin Americans. The latter are perceived to be mooching off the American taxpayer (they are not, but if they are, why does the taxpayer permit it?) Both are "stealing" jobs, just in different industries and different levels of society.
If you are born and raised American, with all the benefits and advantages that entails (freedom, education, security of life and property, natural resources, environmental quality) and you cannot compete with a third-world jumped-up peasant, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Quote: "The US does not owe them a job or any social services."
This is the fundamental problem. I agree with you. However, it seems that the US government has gotten into the jobs and social services business. If the government stopped handing out freebies like candy, we would not have this problem, and there would be no need for Trump's wall.
Of course, not supplying social services would probably cause a huge outcry amongst entitled Americans like yourself.
As for jobs, they do not "belong" to America, but to whichever private individual or company is doing the hiring, they are not owed to anyone at all. So the employer can hire whomever they damn well please. And if the employee cannot come to the job, then the job (and the taxes) will move to the employee. It is an iron law - you can complain all you want.
Of all stupid ill-feelings, the sentiment of my fellow Caucasians towards our companions in the Chinese car was the most stupid and the worst. They seemed never to have looked at them, listened to them, or thought of them, but hated them A PRIORI. The Mongols were their enemies in that cruel and treacherous battle-field of money. They could work better and cheaper in half a hundred industries, and hence there was no calumny too idle for the Caucasians to repeat, and even to believe. They declared them hideous vermin, and affected a kind of choking in the throat when they beheld them. Now, as a matter of fact, the young Chinese man is so like a large class of European women, that on raising my head and suddenly catching sight of one at a considerable distance, I have for an instant been deceived by the resemblance. I do not say it is the most attractive class of our women, but for all that many a man's wife is less pleasantly favoured. Again, my emigrants declared that the Chinese were dirty. I cannot say they were clean, for that was impossible upon the journey; but in their efforts after cleanliness they put the rest of us to shame. We all pigged and stewed in one infamy, wet our hands and faces for half a minute daily on the platform, and were unashamed. But the Chinese never lost an opportunity, and you would see them washing their feet - an act not dreamed of among ourselves - and going as far as decency permitted to wash their whole bodies. I may remark by the way that the dirtier people are in their persons the more delicate is their sense of modesty. A clean man strips in a crowded boathouse; but he who is unwashed slinks in and out of bed without uncovering an inch of skin. Lastly, these very foul and malodorous Caucasians entertained the surprising illusion that it was the Chinese waggon, and that alone, which stank. I have said already that it was the exceptions and notably the freshest of the three.
These judgments are typical of the feeling in all Western America. The Chinese are considered stupid, because they are imperfectly acquainted with English. They are held to be base, because their dexterity and frugality enable them to underbid the lazy, luxurious Caucasian. They are said to be thieves; I am sure they have no monopoly of that. They are called cruel; the Anglo-Saxon and the cheerful Irishman may each reflect before he bears the accusation. I am told, again, that they are of the race of river pirates, and belong to the most despised and dangerous class in the Celestial Empire. But if this be so, what remarkable pirates have we here! and what must be the virtues, the industry, the education, and the intelligence of their superiors at home!
Awhile ago it was the Irish, now it is the Chinese that must go. Such is the cry. It seems, after all, that no country is bound to submit to immigration any more than to invasion; each is war to the knife, and resistance to either but legitimate defence. Yet we may regret the free tradition of the republic, which loved to depict herself with open arms, welcoming all unfortunates. And certainly, as a man who believes that he loves freedom, I may be excused some bitterness when I find her sacred name misused in the contention. It was but the other day that I heard a vulgar fellow in the Sand-lot, the popular tribune of San Francisco, roaring for arms and butchery. "At the call of Abraham Lincoln," said the orator, "ye rose in the name of freedom to set free the negroes; can ye not rise and liberate yourselves from a few dirty Mongolians?"
For my own part, I could not look but with wonder and respect on the Chinese. Their forefathers watched the stars before mine had begun to keep pigs. Gun-powder and printing, which the other day we imitated, and a school of manners which we never had the delicacy so much as to desire to imitate, were theirs in a long-past antiquity. They walk the earth with us, but it seems they must be of different clay. They hear the clock strike the same hour, yet surely of a different epoch. They travel by
If net neutrality is violated, then the service provided is not "internet" (*cough* AOL). In which case, tax breaks, subsidies, safe harbor, etc. do not apply.
1. Women have to register for Selective Service. 2. There is a 50/50 male/female teacher ratio in elementary schools. 3. Future potential is not considered in conjunction with current ability in hiring and pay.
If they are blocking, throttling or prioritizing apps, protocols, ports or destinations, inspecting packets or otherwise fooling with the bits on the network... THEN IT IS NOT INTERNET!
Slashdot Mirror
I sincerely hope you recognize that you also live in an echo chamber.
I guess you did not read the message at the top of the Wikipedia page "This article or section might be slanted towards recent events. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective. (February 2017)"
Try this from three years ago: http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/...
Yes, the current administration is completely delusional. But so is the opposition, which previously was happy to give power to the Leviathan without considering what would happen if that power were to fall into the hands of less congenial folk.
It is telling that you only heard about the Deep State once Trump came along.
Don't hijack this. It's not about Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Republicans, Democrats.... It's about the whole damned captured establishment.
We don't know how many have been fucked over, because the Deep State is not telling and refuses oversight, using FISA gag orders, etc.
Anyone who tries to sue is out of luck because the courts conveniently say they lack legal standing. Even if you have knowledge of malfeasance, it does not count, because you are not allowed to have that knowledge. Good luck if you are in Gitmo, some black site, or been targeted for some light-hearted rendition.
Combined with enthusiastic "Three Felonies a Day" and parallel construction, we have absolutely no idea how many have been fucked over.
The fact that we are not allowed to know, means that it is >>0. My guess would start with Congress, the Judiciary and the military brass. But there are also plenty of luckless dope dealers and Arabs whose fate has been outsourced to an "ally".
Er, drone strikes, renditions, black sites, Guantanamo, waterboarding, parallel construction....
As any conniving politician would, she has her bases covered. I raise you http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.
...and at what cost?
Follow the money.
Democrat Nancy Pelosi has been pushing for these powers all along (except when she is the spyee).
Ha, indeed. Democrats are waking up to the realization that giving the government power will backfire.
Republicans, being slower on the uptake, have yet to learn this lesson.
Navy ships should have proper, bold, majestic, fighting names. Stop naming them after defunct politicians and overambitious military blowhards.
The Royal Navy knows how to do it.
You mean like the Earned Income Tax Credit, coupled with broadband subsidies?
You mean like government subsidies for the poors and the hicks?
I know very well. But you generalize. There are Indians who are self-reliant, free-market supporters, who chafe under the socialist consensus. They are the ones who want to escape to an America that is better, not asking for handouts, and willing to pay their taxes due.
But America wants to shut the door on them, tragically citing the same reasons which they deplore elsewhere.
I apologize for mixing up two separate, but related, issues. The first is the Indians, which I have discussed above. The second is the Mexicans and other Latin Americans. The latter are perceived to be mooching off the American taxpayer (they are not, but if they are, why does the taxpayer permit it?) Both are "stealing" jobs, just in different industries and different levels of society.
If you are born and raised American, with all the benefits and advantages that entails (freedom, education, security of life and property, natural resources, environmental quality) and you cannot compete with a third-world jumped-up peasant, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Quote: "The US does not owe them a job or any social services."
This is the fundamental problem. I agree with you. However, it seems that the US government has gotten into the jobs and social services business. If the government stopped handing out freebies like candy, we would not have this problem, and there would be no need for Trump's wall.
Of course, not supplying social services would probably cause a huge outcry amongst entitled Americans like yourself.
As for jobs, they do not "belong" to America, but to whichever private individual or company is doing the hiring, they are not owed to anyone at all. So the employer can hire whomever they damn well please. And if the employee cannot come to the job, then the job (and the taxes) will move to the employee. It is an iron law - you can complain all you want.
Despised Races
Of all stupid ill-feelings, the sentiment of my fellow Caucasians towards our companions in the Chinese car was the most stupid and the worst. They seemed never to have looked at them, listened to them, or thought of them, but hated them A PRIORI. The Mongols were their enemies in that cruel and treacherous battle-field of money. They could work better and cheaper in half a hundred industries, and hence there was no calumny too idle for the Caucasians to repeat, and even to believe. They declared them hideous vermin, and affected a kind of choking in the throat when they beheld them. Now, as a matter of fact, the young Chinese man is so like a large class of European women, that on raising my head and suddenly catching sight of one at a considerable distance, I have for an instant been deceived by the resemblance. I do not say it is the most attractive class of our women, but for all that many a man's wife is less pleasantly favoured. Again, my emigrants declared that the Chinese were dirty. I cannot say they were clean, for that was impossible upon the journey; but in their efforts after cleanliness they put the rest of us to shame. We all pigged and stewed in one infamy, wet our hands and faces for half a minute daily on the platform, and were unashamed. But the Chinese never lost an opportunity, and you would see them washing their feet - an act not dreamed of among ourselves - and going as far as decency permitted to wash their whole bodies. I may remark by the way that the dirtier people are in their persons the more delicate is their sense of modesty. A clean man strips in a crowded boathouse; but he who is unwashed slinks in and out of bed without uncovering an inch of skin. Lastly, these very foul and malodorous Caucasians entertained the surprising illusion that it was the Chinese waggon, and that alone, which stank. I have said already that it was the exceptions and notably the freshest of the three.
These judgments are typical of the feeling in all Western America. The Chinese are considered stupid, because they are imperfectly acquainted with English. They are held to be base, because their dexterity and frugality enable them to underbid the lazy, luxurious Caucasian. They are said to be thieves; I am sure they have no monopoly of that. They are called cruel; the Anglo-Saxon and the cheerful Irishman may each reflect before he bears the accusation. I am told, again, that they are of the race of river pirates, and belong to the most despised and dangerous class in the Celestial Empire. But if this be so, what remarkable pirates have we here! and what must be the virtues, the industry, the education, and the intelligence of their superiors at home!
Awhile ago it was the Irish, now it is the Chinese that must go. Such is the cry. It seems, after all, that no country is bound to submit to immigration any more than to invasion; each is war to the knife, and resistance to either but legitimate defence. Yet we may regret the free tradition of the republic, which loved to depict herself with open arms, welcoming all unfortunates. And certainly, as a man who believes that he loves freedom, I may be excused some bitterness when I find her sacred name misused in the contention. It was but the other day that I heard a vulgar fellow in the Sand-lot, the popular tribune of San Francisco, roaring for arms and butchery. "At the call of Abraham Lincoln," said the orator, "ye rose in the name of freedom to set free the negroes; can ye not rise and liberate yourselves from a few dirty Mongolians?"
For my own part, I could not look but with wonder and respect on the Chinese. Their forefathers watched the stars before mine had begun to keep pigs. Gun-powder and printing, which the other day we imitated, and a school of manners which we never had the delicacy so much as to desire to imitate, were theirs in a long-past antiquity. They walk the earth with us, but it seems they must be of different clay. They hear the clock strike the same hour, yet surely of a different epoch. They travel by
Benson is know for his Amazon reviews. Find a cheap on with his stamp of approval and you're ok.
If net neutrality is violated, then the service provided is not "internet" (*cough* AOL). In which case, tax breaks, subsidies, safe harbor, etc. do not apply.
Please let me know when I can use all these with the same number on a Google Apps account.
GV, Hangouts, Allo, Google+, Messenger, Android - it's all a hot mess.
1. Women have to register for Selective Service.
2. There is a 50/50 male/female teacher ratio in elementary schools.
3. Future potential is not considered in conjunction with current ability in hiring and pay.
Ah yes, but at least the Chinese do not have to register their drones.
There is an attendant and a dog. The dog is there to bite the attendant if he tries to touch the controls.
The attendant is there to feed the dog.
If they are blocking, throttling or prioritizing apps, protocols, ports or destinations, inspecting packets or otherwise fooling with the bits on the network... THEN IT IS NOT INTERNET!
MS has crammed telemetry down the throats of earlier Windows version users. Will they also have the option of using this nifty web-based system?
And Google Voice. Google is a hot mess of disjointed, half-assed messaging/voice/video apps.