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Post by redwolf on Feb 2, 2009 19:27:30 GMT -6
Protester throws shoe at Chinese PM in U.K.by Robin Millard, AFP CAMBRIDGE, England - A protester hurled a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he gave a speech at Britain's Cambridge University on Monday, in a dramatic end to a five-nation tour of Europe.
In a clear echo of the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W. Bush in Baghdad in December, the 27-year-old Caucasian man shouted "This is a scandal" as he interrupted Wen from the back of the auditorium.
"This dictator here, how can you listen to the lies he's telling? You are not challenging him," he said before blowing a whistle and hurling the sports trainer at Wen, who had been discussing China's role in the globalized world.www.globaltv.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=1245159
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Post by kramer on Feb 8, 2009 17:44:11 GMT -6
I'd like to throw shoes at Barney Frank, Dodd, and some of the other politicians who helped us get into this economic mess.
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Post by waltc on Feb 8, 2009 20:10:30 GMT -6
The scandal is our morally and intellectually bankrupt press that does nothing except be handmaidens to the rich and powerful.
Which also allows the crooks and traitors we call Congress to treat the American people like dirt and do as they please. Because they keep citizens from knowing the full extent of corporate ownership of their representatives and the pay to play political environment which has silenced the say of ordinary Americans when it comes to legislation.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 12, 2009 1:37:31 GMT -6
I'd like to throw a couple of shoes at both Paulson and Bernanke.
Frank has a split personality. There are times when he's outstanding. And there are times when he's awful. He's been more of the latter lately.
Recently I've begun to appreciate Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama, and to a lesser extent Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky.
Though I'm registered as a Democrat, the Democrats are not speaking for me (except maybe for Gene Taylor of Mississippi and Jim Cooper of Tennessee) when it comes to bank bailouts, or the phony Economic Recovery Act -- which is mostly just a Corporate welfare bill, with a smidgen of help for the American people in the form of Unemployment benefits extension and food stamp extension.
I wonder if it ever occurred to anyone in Congress to just write smaller bills, with fewer provisions, but with just the ones that are generally agreed to have a high multiplier effect -- like extension of UE and food stamps, and maybe a limited amount genuinely productive infrastructure spending?
Nah. That would make too much sense and it wouldn't generate any campaign contributions.
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Post by graybeard on Feb 12, 2009 12:07:46 GMT -6
I've thought the same thing, UC; limiting money bills to a mere $Billion or so.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 12, 2009 19:00:41 GMT -6
I've thought the same thing, UC; limiting money bills to a mere $Billion or so. That'd be a great idea. That would also result in shorter, more comprehensible and readable bills. Then it would actually be possible for our legislators to read the bills before voting on them.
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Post by graybeard on Feb 13, 2009 0:06:29 GMT -6
If I were a CONgress critter faced with a huge bil like that, I would divide it among my staff, then caucus on what they found in it. That carries some risk of missing something, but would be better than not reading it. I have not heard mention in the press of staffers reading or doing hardly anything, however.
GB
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 13, 2009 2:12:52 GMT -6
If I were a CONgress critter faced with a huge bil like that, I would divide it among my staff, then caucus on what they found in it. That carries some risk of missing something, but would be better than not reading it. I have not heard mention in the press of staffers reading or doing hardly anything, however. GB If I were a Congress critter faced with a vote on a bill I didn't have a chance to read AND analyze, I'd just vote no. If you don't understand something, you shouldn't be voting in favor of it. That's the least we should expect from Congress.
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