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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
In the weeks preceding the election, the White House hastily wrote guidelines on drone strikes
in case Romney won. Once Obama took re-election, they've backed off on utilizing such guidelines.
Why did you even need to write guidelines for drone strikes to begin with? The answer is simple: because you know you have atrocious methods on drone strikes and you were worried that Romney would abuse it even more than you already have.
edited 28th Nov '12 6:52:55 AM by Sledgesaul
@Braeburn: every wave is "different"
But you know what? My dad is from mexico. His cousins who also live in my hometoen are from mexico. Their cousins who also live in town are mexican. The cousin we know best? His daughter enlisted in the Military for a scholarship to go to school. speaks both languages fluently, and acts like any normal 18 year old american girl, just one who also has a different home life.
Not to mention I'm a gamer and highly liberal "normal american" person who people usually cant even tell is mexican until I say something.
aslo, as Grizzly pointed out, a lot of the immigrants who do want social mobility make an effort to learn english, or at least have their children learn it because they want something better for their kids.
edited 28th Nov '12 6:52:28 AM by Midgetsnowman
I wonder if some won't assimilate because they find American Culture insulting?
This thread needs some Moe Anthropomorphism...
edited 28th Nov '12 9:05:15 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On
Lets see. The "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and luck has nothing to do with it" Mindset. The idea that latino immigrants are lazy. the idea that capitalism is some magical force for good, aaaand, oh yes. The fact that in the midwest rural areas like where I live, being white and christian is treated as the 'default"
So, The Daily Show finally covered the whole hostess thingy. Presenting a credible argument that "Hey, maybe it wasn't the unions."
The union workers already took about a ten thousand dollar annual pay cut previously - and that's long term workers who've been with the company for decades. One must start to ask how many times, and by how much, a worker's pay can be cut before a strike is justified.
Did it hurt the company that the union workers weren't willing to take an indefinitely repeating series of pay and benefits cuts? Sure, but that's not a sustainable business model regardless. The union thing was just the last nail in the coffin - and the systemic burial was initiated by the rotating series of increasingly higher-paid executives throughout the last decade.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.^^^
Those executives didn't initiate the problems. To me, that sounds like there were already major problems and the board was panicking and desperately trying to find a solution.
^
Desperation, on the part of the Board*.
edited 28th Nov '12 11:08:54 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnIf they were panicking and trying anything they could think of to keep the company afloat, they A) wouldn't have approved those executive pay increases, and B) would have tried some kind of highly visible marketing or new product gimmick. There was no frantic last minute innovation, there was no 'let's see what we can pull out of our ass to make people start buying our products again.' It was just stagnation as they squeezed blood from a stone until there was nothing more to squeeze.
In fact, Hostess is an example of the TRIUMPH of supply and demand style capitalism. Plain and simple, Hostess was using noncompetitive equipment, offering noncompetitive pay to its workers and selling noncompetitive products. Increasingly fewer people were benefiting from its existence as time went on, and nothing about its management even attempted to change that.
edited 28th Nov '12 11:18:04 AM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.@Midgetsnowman: Certainly, if you watch Fox News, it does. But that doesn't mean those ideas reflect reality in any way.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Politico interviews Ralph Nader
I only linked this article for this gem:
Answer: When was the last time Congress betrayed the American people?
edited 27th Nov '12 10:01:19 PM by DeviantBraeburn
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