Thank you...thank you....thank you....intelligent insight is always to be wished for. All too frequently, stupid newsies and others confuse the Chinese with the Japanese -- major difference in both intellect, culture and depth there -- right up until the first astronaut walked on the moon decades ago, Chinese the world over held onto the belief that their Moon Goddess lived there. Yes, China has stolen - or been given - much technology over the years, but how much, if any, has actually been created there???? It is most definitely not an environment conducive to innovation, Businessweek and The Economist stupid newsy drivel to the contrary......Chinese expatriates will continue to add to the world - but mostly outside of China....
TheWoozle had it perfectly correct and so do you, kind citizen FriendlyLurker. You offer the global view while The Wooz offers the detailed, at-present view, but basically one and the same.....
A felon, a fundamentalist and a fascist walk into a bar. The bartender says: "Good evening, President Bush!"
A thousand thanks, good citizen, TheWoozle (are you related to the Woz, by any chance??) has gotten it exactly right (as usual). The Net Neutrality is a response to FCC moves, initiated by corporate interests, of course. Just one more step to curtail freedom-of-access in this Brave New World (a Brunner-Gibson construct, natch).
[The most popular man in American today, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who wisely is hanging with Fidel Castro - a most despicable dictator - but the only known survivor of multiple CIA assassination attempts.....]
I didn't read anything in that article to suggest he qualifies as a genius - a super student, yes, but a genius??? It's not as if he attended college at the age of 12 or 13....he hasn't perfected any special electronics device, or software or won any special science prizes. Nothing would appear to indicate he's an actual genius...heck, he isn't even attending Cal Tech, for goodness sake!
Describing him as a genius is not too far off from those Bushies describing their overlord as brilliant. Sheesh, his UN speech should have been titled: "If you have peace, I bring you war!"
I was almost impressed until they got to the bridge part, man oh man, with that little time on campus, he should have spent time on women's volleyball......
Wow!!! Well said, good citizen, well said. And for those interested in evolutionary biology, may I suggest: The Red Queen, by Matt Ridley, The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins, and Adaptation and Natural Selection, by George Williams.
No but given the average IQ of the St. Louis area -- just slightly higher than North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas -- I'm sure it will be quite effective. We live in a nation of complete dunces - with the chief dunce in the White House (but he sure is supposed to be making a lot of big bucks on those torture videos they are now selling to "specialty markets" - those would be filmed on site at the 150 torture centers around the planet).
Right you are, good citizen, with ITAA being the number one promoter of the offshoring of ALL American IT jobs!!! Anyone doubting this, just Google "Information Technology Association of America" + "offshoring". Man oh man....these clowns just when to put that blade in deeper and deeper.
Naah..I was there, but I ran into a deer on the outskirts and still have amnesia about the place -- so Austin is really a secret bastion of progressive thought, huh? I recall San Angelo from my time in the military (scary bunch of folks, there).
Thank you, good citizen, for a most intelligent and informative post. Once more Business Week comes out with an article on a subject which has already been talked to death - acting as if they've just discovered something unique!
That "much vaunted American job machine" mentioned in the article is to be believed only by people who accept the myth that George W. Bush is brilliant and actually knows what's going on. Since healthcare and construction are the only mainstays, at present, of the US economy, and construction is an extremely cyclical enterprise, we are truly in a precarious position. And as you so sharply pointed out, this does nothing for the economic future of the country, no actual investment in the physical nor social infrastructure, and now with the Bush Administration's assault on the nursing union (along with others, i.e., changing the definition of a union supervisor, thereby rendering far too many nurses into management - on paper - and lowering their union numbers) we will see another lowering of wages and personal futures.
Also, the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development is a suborganization of the WTO - so please always be suspicious of any numbers you read which originate from them.....
Well the deep thinking of this "average Joe" has yielded the likely supposition that gas prices will stay level or continue to drop the closer we get (in America) to the November elections.
The only required response anymore to those, like yourself, who sound like neocon zealots who claim not to have voted for Bush (which is getting to be a REALLY popular claim recently), and refuse to argue both the facts and logic, is where is Osama and why hasn't this Bush gang gotten him yet?????
Exactly. The article was written by ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. It's like trusting a reporting a global warming written by Dick Cheney.If there had been a massive voter fraud conspiracy in 2004, we'd have known about it by now.
Could you possible address the facts (although I realize that's asking the impossible of any neocon), instead of making attacks on someone's character? Rolling Stone is not a "gossip rag" but one of the very few remaining mags in this country which actually runs real, important news. The Zogby Exit Poll, the most accurate around, was proven far too wrong against any statistical norm (try reading this study as opposed to repeating those silly neocon talking points.....and could you neocon/draft dodger supporters puhlease stop using that same old tired A bunch of stuff happened from both sides.. routine, it is soooo tediously boring, tiring and redundant....
You are stating a complete crock, and said like a clone of that ignoramus Richey (Richard) Perle (whom I have met and talked with in person and is a complete and utter, unlearned fool - on par with that Billy Kristol fool who didn't recognize the differences between the Sunnis and the Shi'a - and knew nothing of the regional politics and history of that area.
I didn't vote for Bush, but this vilification has got to stop.
This is such an obvious ruse --- vilification my ass! (And quoting Kerry is a red herring - Kerry's major problem when he announced for the presidency for 2004 was how to differentiate himself - and his extremely similar voting record - from George Bush. Kerry is a fraud!) This psycho moron in on 1600 Pennsylvania has set new and behemoth records for obscene WAR PROFITEERING (along with humanitarian disaster profiteering, and security industry profiteering, etc., ad nauseum). His "War on Terra" is to destroy the economy, destroy the military, destroy the middle class, and finally, destroy any remnant of democracy left in America. You are completely devoid of any analytical intelligence, or you are a complete fraud.....
Outstanding point of logic - to date, I've yet to hear a speech by Rice, Bush and Cheney that could be cited for containing any truth whatsoever. In virtually every speech they have contradicted previous assertions, again and again...and again...and again....
are actually more of a threat to our system of government than anything else.
Sonny, you just haven't been paying attention to anything....
Simply not enough time this month to review everything with the unknowing, unthinking and unreading ones...Let's just take a recent example. When Saddam was in power, an Iraqi woman had be 18 prior to marriage - and forced marriages weren't allowed. Today, with the Bushies in charge, pedophilia has been legalized in Iraq (no doubt the Bushies going after those pedophile voters) with nine-year-old girls now entering into forced marriages. Everything the Bushies are doing over there, they are attempting to do over here....with their ultimate objective the destruction of the middle class, the destruction of public education and the overall destruction of the public good, with the majority reduced to serfdom.
All one need do is read the legislation passed by the House and Senate, supported by this White House gang, the Supreme Court cases supported by the Justice Department at Bush's urging, the massive changes in government and the US military with extraordinary privatizing...the list goes on and on.....And we have never experienced voter fraud in this country on the gargantuan scale that we have experienced it in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections.
American Revolution, v.2: The destruction of the murderous elites.
Well said....on 9/15/06, Dick Cheney proclaimed: "Americans don't have the stomach for this fight." Funny, I've never heard of that Wyoming Wussy ever being in any fight --- certainly never wearing the uniform of the United States military. These are the biggest cowards America has ever been exposed to -- soft fleshy credits....
Abuse!!!! You sound as if this is a simple political discussion having no life-threathening or life-enhancing value to American society and the rest of the planet. I would like to remind you that over the past 6 years thousands upon thousands of hapless Iraqis have been murdered, while American military personnel have died needlessly (needlessly, that is, unless one is psychopathic or sociopathic in nature and earning tremendous sums of money at Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater USA, Fluor, the Carlyle Group, the Blackstone Group, Lockheed Martin, etc., etc.
We are at the precipice of economic and national/societal destruction - the damage done by this criminal gang far exceeds any ordinary levels of political corruption. Society has been radically restructured, as has the US government, or what passes anymore for the government, and the US military. We are constantly treated to cries of "more torture, more torture" when the American society should not even be discussing such a thing!!! The institutions of education, medicine and community are being attacked at every turn by the destroyers of our society. The middle class is on a downward spiral of disappearance while foreign slavery is encouraged and promoted by the corporate and political elites in America!
Have you no awareness of what is transpiring??? Have you no shame????? Have you no self-respect??? Your access to the Internet is now even in jeopardy, with the first step being slower connect times, to the final step of access only allowed to the elites.
This has got to be the most hand over the eyes administration in history. History books will not be kind.
You are joking, right??? There ain't going to be any history books to record this stuff, dude! We are long past the point of no return, both economically-speaking and climatologically-speaking. (Please Rush Limbaugh fans and Viagra-industry employees - refrain from responding...) No raising of the taxes will ever compensate for the fascist/neocons emptying out the US Treasury. THEY know exactly what they are doing, but since they actually stand for anything -- nor do they believe in anything -- only those fundamentalist raptureheads believe the Busheviks believe in any mumbo-jumbo. THEY will get everything they can in this life as they believe in NO other....
Damn, only 7 weeks....not enough time for that new port security bill (that Congress just passed) to take effect [Transnational Agreement + NAFTA Superhighway + DHS-Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Program + Carlyle Group purchase of Trenstar + Blackwater USA practising for port terrorist strikes = Holy Crap!!!]
I truly and seriously think it goes beyond just what THEY are doing to the military (breaking the backbone by "privatizing" the D.I. system, etc.) to pretty much every government department and agency. (Please see today's - 9/15/06 - story on the FCC's latest debacle.)
Shortly after the 9/11/01 attacks, General Hayden, NSA director, went before Congress and pleaded for more money. What did he do with his new funds? Why, he laid off the most experienced analysts at NSA, and greatly expanded two new groups with new hires. The two groups: security guards and polygraph examiners. Now, does that sound like anyone was really interested in engaging the "War on Terror" or going after Osama???
And this bunch has done the same thing with Justice, where they've laid off a bunch of attorneys and hired their own kind, the same with the IRS, where they both laid off and "privatized" (meaning, given the work to their crony companies and government contractors). This is so widespread it boggles the imagination, with virtually no department or agency left untouched. We now have a true "sixth column" which appears to have completely taken over the government (and previous administrtion did not, I repeat, did not do anthing even remotely similar - as it is against the law).
Take care, and try to stay well armed - because when, not if, things start to dissolve in this country, a weapon will be really important.....
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Thank you...thank you....thank you....intelligent insight is always to be wished for. All too frequently, stupid newsies and others confuse the Chinese with the Japanese -- major difference in both intellect, culture and depth there -- right up until the first astronaut walked on the moon decades ago, Chinese the world over held onto the belief that their Moon Goddess lived there. Yes, China has stolen - or been given - much technology over the years, but how much, if any, has actually been created there???? It is most definitely not an environment conducive to innovation, Businessweek and The Economist stupid newsy drivel to the contrary......Chinese expatriates will continue to add to the world - but mostly outside of China....
A felon, a fundamentalist and a fascist walk into a bar. The bartender says: "Good evening, President Bush!"
[The most popular man in American today, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who wisely is hanging with Fidel Castro - a most despicable dictator - but the only known survivor of multiple CIA assassination attempts.....]
Describing him as a genius is not too far off from those Bushies describing their overlord as brilliant. Sheesh, his UN speech should have been titled: "If you have peace, I bring you war!"
I was almost impressed until they got to the bridge part, man oh man, with that little time on campus, he should have spent time on women's volleyball......
Wow!!! Well said, good citizen, well said. And for those interested in evolutionary biology, may I suggest: The Red Queen, by Matt Ridley, The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins, and Adaptation and Natural Selection, by George Williams.
No but given the average IQ of the St. Louis area -- just slightly higher than North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas -- I'm sure it will be quite effective. We live in a nation of complete dunces - with the chief dunce in the White House (but he sure is supposed to be making a lot of big bucks on those torture videos they are now selling to "specialty markets" - those would be filmed on site at the 150 torture centers around the planet).
I don't disagree - but WTF is this free market you speak of????? Is it in this solar system, or at least in this galaxy?????
It's all about offshoring - with the ITAA being the chief promoter of offshoring American IT jobs over the past 6 years.....
Right you are, good citizen, with ITAA being the number one promoter of the offshoring of ALL American IT jobs!!! Anyone doubting this, just Google "Information Technology Association of America" + "offshoring". Man oh man....these clowns just when to put that blade in deeper and deeper.
Naah..I was there, but I ran into a deer on the outskirts and still have amnesia about the place -- so Austin is really a secret bastion of progressive thought, huh? I recall San Angelo from my time in the military (scary bunch of folks, there).
That "much vaunted American job machine" mentioned in the article is to be believed only by people who accept the myth that George W. Bush is brilliant and actually knows what's going on. Since healthcare and construction are the only mainstays, at present, of the US economy, and construction is an extremely cyclical enterprise, we are truly in a precarious position. And as you so sharply pointed out, this does nothing for the economic future of the country, no actual investment in the physical nor social infrastructure, and now with the Bush Administration's assault on the nursing union (along with others, i.e., changing the definition of a union supervisor, thereby rendering far too many nurses into management - on paper - and lowering their union numbers) we will see another lowering of wages and personal futures.
Also, the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development is a suborganization of the WTO - so please always be suspicious of any numbers you read which originate from them.....
Well the deep thinking of this "average Joe" has yielded the likely supposition that gas prices will stay level or continue to drop the closer we get (in America) to the November elections.
You think it's a coincidence that he is in central Texas - the most Republican part of the state??????
No other response is required.....
Could you possible address the facts (although I realize that's asking the impossible of any neocon), instead of making attacks on someone's character? Rolling Stone is not a "gossip rag" but one of the very few remaining mags in this country which actually runs real, important news. The Zogby Exit Poll, the most accurate around, was proven far too wrong against any statistical norm (try reading this study as opposed to repeating those silly neocon talking points.....and could you neocon/draft dodger supporters puhlease stop using that same old tired A bunch of stuff happened from both sides.. routine, it is soooo tediously boring, tiring and redundant....
I didn't vote for Bush, but this vilification has got to stop.
This is such an obvious ruse --- vilification my ass! (And quoting Kerry is a red herring - Kerry's major problem when he announced for the presidency for 2004 was how to differentiate himself - and his extremely similar voting record - from George Bush. Kerry is a fraud!) This psycho moron in on 1600 Pennsylvania has set new and behemoth records for obscene WAR PROFITEERING (along with humanitarian disaster profiteering, and security industry profiteering, etc., ad nauseum). His "War on Terra" is to destroy the economy, destroy the military, destroy the middle class, and finally, destroy any remnant of democracy left in America. You are completely devoid of any analytical intelligence, or you are a complete fraud.....
And perhaps an equally valid point is contained in this study. (Although I would describe the Clintons - both of 'em - as Globalists.)
Outstanding point of logic - to date, I've yet to hear a speech by Rice, Bush and Cheney that could be cited for containing any truth whatsoever. In virtually every speech they have contradicted previous assertions, again and again...and again...and again....
Sonny, you just haven't been paying attention to anything....
Simply not enough time this month to review everything with the unknowing, unthinking and unreading ones...Let's just take a recent example. When Saddam was in power, an Iraqi woman had be 18 prior to marriage - and forced marriages weren't allowed. Today, with the Bushies in charge, pedophilia has been legalized in Iraq (no doubt the Bushies going after those pedophile voters) with nine-year-old girls now entering into forced marriages. Everything the Bushies are doing over there, they are attempting to do over here....with their ultimate objective the destruction of the middle class, the destruction of public education and the overall destruction of the public good, with the majority reduced to serfdom.
All one need do is read the legislation passed by the House and Senate, supported by this White House gang, the Supreme Court cases supported by the Justice Department at Bush's urging, the massive changes in government and the US military with extraordinary privatizing...the list goes on and on.....And we have never experienced voter fraud in this country on the gargantuan scale that we have experienced it in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections.
American Revolution, v.2: The destruction of the murderous elites.
Well said....on 9/15/06, Dick Cheney proclaimed: "Americans don't have the stomach for this fight." Funny, I've never heard of that Wyoming Wussy ever being in any fight --- certainly never wearing the uniform of the United States military. These are the biggest cowards America has ever been exposed to -- soft fleshy credits....
We are at the precipice of economic and national/societal destruction - the damage done by this criminal gang far exceeds any ordinary levels of political corruption. Society has been radically restructured, as has the US government, or what passes anymore for the government, and the US military. We are constantly treated to cries of "more torture, more torture" when the American society should not even be discussing such a thing!!! The institutions of education, medicine and community are being attacked at every turn by the destroyers of our society. The middle class is on a downward spiral of disappearance while foreign slavery is encouraged and promoted by the corporate and political elites in America!
Have you no awareness of what is transpiring??? Have you no shame????? Have you no self-respect??? Your access to the Internet is now even in jeopardy, with the first step being slower connect times, to the final step of access only allowed to the elites.
For heaven's sake, catch a clue, dude.....
You are joking, right??? There ain't going to be any history books to record this stuff, dude! We are long past the point of no return, both economically-speaking and climatologically-speaking. (Please Rush Limbaugh fans and Viagra-industry employees - refrain from responding...) No raising of the taxes will ever compensate for the fascist/neocons emptying out the US Treasury. THEY know exactly what they are doing, but since they actually stand for anything -- nor do they believe in anything -- only those fundamentalist raptureheads believe the Busheviks believe in any mumbo-jumbo. THEY will get everything they can in this life as they believe in NO other....
Damn, only 7 weeks....not enough time for that new port security bill (that Congress just passed) to take effect [Transnational Agreement + NAFTA Superhighway + DHS-Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Program + Carlyle Group purchase of Trenstar + Blackwater USA practising for port terrorist strikes = Holy Crap!!!]
Shortly after the 9/11/01 attacks, General Hayden, NSA director, went before Congress and pleaded for more money. What did he do with his new funds? Why, he laid off the most experienced analysts at NSA, and greatly expanded two new groups with new hires. The two groups: security guards and polygraph examiners. Now, does that sound like anyone was really interested in engaging the "War on Terror" or going after Osama???
And this bunch has done the same thing with Justice, where they've laid off a bunch of attorneys and hired their own kind, the same with the IRS, where they both laid off and "privatized" (meaning, given the work to their crony companies and government contractors). This is so widespread it boggles the imagination, with virtually no department or agency left untouched. We now have a true "sixth column" which appears to have completely taken over the government (and previous administrtion did not, I repeat, did not do anthing even remotely similar - as it is against the law).
Take care, and try to stay well armed - because when, not if, things start to dissolve in this country, a weapon will be really important.....