You too recall... a Time Before Microwave Ovens? Wow. That was something of a watershed event, wasn't it?
They arrived en masse in our area, it was kinda freaky, really--in 1975, nobody had one, and they were just something you saw mentioned every so often in a filler story on the evening news ("In the 80s, you'll be cooking on a stove without burners. After the break, we'll show you what it might look like... "). In 1977, everyone in the fucking neighbourhood had one.
By 1978, somebody's kid brother had taken his family's M-wave (and about half a dozen extension cords joined end to end) out to his tree-house so he could sit up there and melt cheese on Ritz crackers while enjoying the view. It was the talk of the neighbourhood for weeks after.*:-)
*I grew up in Ohio. There's not often so much to talk about there.
That's been the GOP plan all along. They'll use that to "prove" that private enterprise is always better, smarter and cost-effective, they'll find a way to screw the workers out of their pensions and amend the constitution to either get rid of $govt_svc or to allow its functions to fulfilled by corporations entirely.
Combine that with Drumpf's hate-boner for anything associated with Jeff Bezos plus his belief that he should be able to run the government to the benefit of his business interests, and...
And there you have it in a nutshell. We're done here.
You make it sound like he's walked a red carpet from the cradle straight into power, and his biography doesn't read quite like that:
In 1963, when Xi was age 10, his father was purged from the Party and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. In May 1966, Xi's secondary education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, when all secondary classes were halted for students to criticise and fight their teachers. The Xi family home was ransacked by student militants and one of Xi's sisters, Xi Heping, was killed. Later, his own mother was forced to publicly denounce him as Xi was paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the revolution. Xi was aged 15 when his father was imprisoned in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution; Xi would not see his father again until 1972. Without the protection of his father, Xi was sent to work in Liangjiahe Village, Wen'anyi Town, Yanchuan County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, in 1969 in Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement. After a few months, unable to stand rural life, he ran away to Beijing. He was arrested during a crackdown on deserters from the countryside and sent to a work camp to dig ditches.
So... he might have been born a "princeling", but that did not guarantee him an easy ride into the Politburo. (Did you know that his first nine applications to join the CPC were rejected?)
Third, he's a dictator. Dictators are fairly one-dimensional, unimaginative types who have very little to add to the sum of humanity's achievements. They don't do their countries any good and very rarely leave any good legacy behind.
I think you're mischaracterising his desire for stability--which appears to be both genuine and well-founded--as "lack of imagination" and ignoring both his background and its historical context. The Chinese experience of the past 120 years or so has been nothing like the American one.
XI is a very smart guy, and he's got balls. Do not underestimate him.
And then Xi called him to Beijing and gave him a very clear message to the effect that, if NK started lobbing nukes of its own accord at the US or its allies, NK was going to be on its own.
People don't want to get murdered or maimed or have their families killed by nutjobs with guns.
If you'd only said that, then we could start to have a discussion about why so many nutjobs in America find it so easy to get guns, which is what we ought to be discussing. But that's the last thing you want to talk about, because THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY MAH GUNS.
Enjoy your "Oh, you want to look at YouTube instead of our preferred video partner site? Sure, that's just an extra $10.95 a month."
In all seriousness, you don't think that will end up right back in the Supreme Court due to class action lawsuit?
Oh, I'd love to see that--especially if the suit were successful. But I don't see it being successful, alas, since this SCOTUS is essentially the same one that gave us that horrid Citizens United decision.
The problem is that most people referencing the 10th Amendment already have a Confederate flag flying over their house (plantation and white suit optional).
Well... Y'know, just maybe... When the door to the echo chamber closes on the leadership of Russia, China, and our European allies, then it's time you asked yourself whether it's not you who's on the inside of it?
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Why do you assume that there should be anybody committing genocide at all?
He's a complete moron. Don't waste your time.
You too recall... a Time Before Microwave Ovens? Wow. That was something of a watershed event, wasn't it?
They arrived en masse in our area, it was kinda freaky, really--in 1975, nobody had one, and they were just something you saw mentioned every so often in a filler story on the evening news ("In the 80s, you'll be cooking on a stove without burners. After the break, we'll show you what it might look like... "). In 1977, everyone in the fucking neighbourhood had one.
By 1978, somebody's kid brother had taken his family's M-wave (and about half a dozen extension cords joined end to end) out to his tree-house so he could sit up there and melt cheese on Ritz crackers while enjoying the view. It was the talk of the neighbourhood for weeks after.* :-)
*I grew up in Ohio. There's not often so much to talk about there.
In case you've not been there lately--or just haven't bothered reading the news since 1985 or so--capitalism has been restored in China.
You were saying...?
You did not answer Rei's question: Who is making such claims?
Can you two please go get a room or something? Geez...
That's been the GOP plan all along. They'll use that to "prove" that private enterprise is always better, smarter and cost-effective, they'll find a way to screw the workers out of their pensions and amend the constitution to either get rid of $govt_svc or to allow its functions to fulfilled by corporations entirely.
Combine that with Drumpf's hate-boner for anything associated with Jeff Bezos plus his belief that he should be able to run the government to the benefit of his business interests, and...
And there you have it in a nutshell. We're done here.
Funding the [educations of students] who have not been born yet is really, really stupid.
This is what you'll be telling your kids when they're ready for college?
Careful what you wish for--you do know that Hillary was a Goldwater Girl, right?
In a just universe, it'd be one that administers an electric shock in response to using an apostrophe for the plural.
'Nuff said.
Wouldn't be the first time they tried it.
You make it sound like he's walked a red carpet from the cradle straight into power, and his biography doesn't read quite like that:
In 1963, when Xi was age 10, his father was purged from the Party and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan. In May 1966, Xi's secondary education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, when all secondary classes were halted for students to criticise and fight their teachers. The Xi family home was ransacked by student militants and one of Xi's sisters, Xi Heping, was killed. Later, his own mother was forced to publicly denounce him as Xi was paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the revolution. Xi was aged 15 when his father was imprisoned in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution; Xi would not see his father again until 1972. Without the protection of his father, Xi was sent to work in Liangjiahe Village, Wen'anyi Town, Yanchuan County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, in 1969 in Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement. After a few months, unable to stand rural life, he ran away to Beijing. He was arrested during a crackdown on deserters from the countryside and sent to a work camp to dig ditches.
So... he might have been born a "princeling", but that did not guarantee him an easy ride into the Politburo. (Did you know that his first nine applications to join the CPC were rejected?)
Third, he's a dictator. Dictators are fairly one-dimensional, unimaginative types who have very little to add to the sum of humanity's achievements. They don't do their countries any good and very rarely leave any good legacy behind.
I think you're mischaracterising his desire for stability--which appears to be both genuine and well-founded--as "lack of imagination" and ignoring both his background and its historical context. The Chinese experience of the past 120 years or so has been nothing like the American one.
XI is a very smart guy, and he's got balls. Do not underestimate him.
And then Xi called him to Beijing and gave him a very clear message to the effect that, if NK started lobbing nukes of its own accord at the US or its allies, NK was going to be on its own.
People don't want to get murdered or maimed or have their families killed by nutjobs with guns.
If you'd only said that, then we could start to have a discussion about why so many nutjobs in America find it so easy to get guns, which is what we ought to be discussing. But that's the last thing you want to talk about, because THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY MAH GUNS.
You must be new around here.
LOL. Do you really think I'm behind every (or for that matter any) AC post here that's, ahem, less than complimentary to your fine self?
And, no, I'm not *from* Sweden--I do *live* there (when I'm not elsewhere), which is not quite the same thing. And I have never said otherwise.
Hope you continue to enjoy yourself replying to people who've not said anything to you,
--Z.
Enjoy your "Oh, you want to look at YouTube instead of our preferred video partner site? Sure, that's just an extra $10.95 a month."
In all seriousness, you don't think that will end up right back in the Supreme Court due to class action lawsuit?
Oh, I'd love to see that--especially if the suit were successful. But I don't see it being successful, alas, since this SCOTUS is essentially the same one that gave us that horrid Citizens United decision.
The problem is that most people referencing the 10th Amendment already have a Confederate flag flying over their house (plantation and white suit optional).
Enjoy your "Oh, you want to look at YouTube instead of our preferred video partner site? Sure, that's just an extra $10.95 a month."
Incidentally, all these talks of gassing prisoners reeks of
something else we've seen in the past.
TFTFY.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
--Book of Romans, Chapter 12.
You shouldn't have posted that in reply to a post from someone who actually lives in Sweden, and thus knows better.
Obama was no less elected than the legislators. (And unlike his successor, Obama at least managed to obtain a clear mandate from the voters. Twice.)
And--as others have pointed out--not every agreement made by the US Government is or even needs to be ratified by treaty.
Well... Y'know, just maybe... When the door to the echo chamber closes on the leadership of Russia, China, and our European allies, then it's time you asked yourself whether it's not you who's on the inside of it?