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Matt Groening - amerikai rajzfilmkészítő, forgatókönyvíró, és producer, a Simpson család atyja - bevallotta, hol játszódik valójában Homérék animációs sorozata: a város az Oregonban található Springfield után lett elnevezve. "Az egyetlen oka ennek, hogy amikor gyerek…..
sesq
2012.04.11 18:23:13
nem, sajnos nem spriengfild. springfield.
Ma hajnalban, kéthónapos betegség után 63 éves korában elhunyt Bernáthy Sándor, a magyar kortárs művészet egyik neves alakja. Előbb képzőművészként tevékenykedett, majd zenei pályafutását az A.E. Bizottság alapító tagjaként kezdte, később meghatározó szerepet töltött…..
sesq
2012.01.13 13:21:02
Munkahelyi (T)error
Remélem sokat lesz beteg a gyerekük, mert akkor ki is rúghatom
2011.10.20 06:00:00
Amennyiben van olyan története, amit szívesen megosztana másokkal is, esetleg furcsa, megdöbbentő interjúban vagy munkahelyi szituációban volt része, akkor írja meg nekünk a munkahelyiterror@gmail.com címre! Ha munkajogi segítségre szorul, írjon a…..
sesq
2011.10.20 13:06:30
Akiraly hangulatkeltő cikkeit már megszokhattuk, most egy újabb:http://index.hu/kulfold/2009/07/27/megroppantanak_obamat_a_republikanusokAz azonban már túlzás, hogy a címlapon lévő beharangozóban és a cikk végén a konklúzióban is egy az egyben (jobb esetben) tévedést ír…..
sesq
2009.10.09 19:09:02
“Very few leaders if at all were able to change the mood of the entire world in such a short while with such a profound impact. You provided the entire humanity with fresh hope, with intellectual determination, and a feeling that there is a lord in heaven and believers on earth.” Mr. Peres, who won the peace prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat in 1994 following the Oslo Accords, added: “Under your leadership, peace became a real and original agenda. And from Jerusalem, I am sure all the bells of engagement and understanding will ring again. You gave us a license to dream and act in a noble direction.”
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/world-reaction-to-a-nobel-surprise/
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/world-reaction-to-a-nobel-surprise/
sesq
2009.10.16 02:24:33
egy jo sztori:
Barack Obama's Work in Progress
[L]ast March 13, when the incendiary sermons of Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, blew up all over the cable networks, Obama had spent the entire day and evening in the Senate. That Friday, after enduring a series of tough interviews, Obama informed Axelrod and campaign manager David Plouffe, “I want to do a speech on race.” And he added, “I want to make this speech no later than next Tuesday. I don’t think it can wait.” Axelrod and Plouffe tried to talk him into delaying it: He had a full day of campaigning on Saturday, a film shoot on Sunday, and then another hectic day campaigning in Pennsylvania on Monday. Obama was insistent. On the Saturday-morning campaign conference call, Favreau was told to get to work on a draft immediately. Favreau replied, “I’m not writing this until I talk to him.”
That evening, Saint Patrick’s Day, less than seventy-two hours before the speech would be delivered to a live audience, Favreau was sitting alone in an unfurnished group house in Chicago when the boss called. “I’m going to give you some stream of consciousness,” Obama told him. Then he spoke for about forty-five minutes, laying out his speech’s argumentative construction. Favreau thanked him, hung up, considered the enormity of the task and the looming deadline, and then decided he was “too freaked out by the whole thing” to write and went out with friends instead.
On Sunday morning at seven, the speechwriter took his laptop to a coffee shop and worked there for thirteen hours. Obama received Favreau’s draft at eight that evening and wrote until three in the morning. He hadn’t finished by Monday at 8 a.m., when he set the draft aside to spend the day barnstorming across Pennsylvania. At nine thirty that night, a little more than twelve hours before the speech was to be delivered, Obama returned to his hotel room to do more writing. At two in the morning, the various BlackBerrys of Axelrod, Favreau, Plouffe, and Jarrett sounded with a message from the candidate: Here it is. Favs, feel free to tweak the words. Everyone else, the content here is what I want to say. Axelrod stood in the dark reading the text: “The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made.… But what we know—what we have seen—is that America can change. That is the true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope—the audacity to hope—for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”
He e-mailed Obama: This is why you should be president.
www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/200911/barack-obama-writing-books-writer-robert-draper
Barack Obama's Work in Progress
[L]ast March 13, when the incendiary sermons of Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, blew up all over the cable networks, Obama had spent the entire day and evening in the Senate. That Friday, after enduring a series of tough interviews, Obama informed Axelrod and campaign manager David Plouffe, “I want to do a speech on race.” And he added, “I want to make this speech no later than next Tuesday. I don’t think it can wait.” Axelrod and Plouffe tried to talk him into delaying it: He had a full day of campaigning on Saturday, a film shoot on Sunday, and then another hectic day campaigning in Pennsylvania on Monday. Obama was insistent. On the Saturday-morning campaign conference call, Favreau was told to get to work on a draft immediately. Favreau replied, “I’m not writing this until I talk to him.”
That evening, Saint Patrick’s Day, less than seventy-two hours before the speech would be delivered to a live audience, Favreau was sitting alone in an unfurnished group house in Chicago when the boss called. “I’m going to give you some stream of consciousness,” Obama told him. Then he spoke for about forty-five minutes, laying out his speech’s argumentative construction. Favreau thanked him, hung up, considered the enormity of the task and the looming deadline, and then decided he was “too freaked out by the whole thing” to write and went out with friends instead.
On Sunday morning at seven, the speechwriter took his laptop to a coffee shop and worked there for thirteen hours. Obama received Favreau’s draft at eight that evening and wrote until three in the morning. He hadn’t finished by Monday at 8 a.m., when he set the draft aside to spend the day barnstorming across Pennsylvania. At nine thirty that night, a little more than twelve hours before the speech was to be delivered, Obama returned to his hotel room to do more writing. At two in the morning, the various BlackBerrys of Axelrod, Favreau, Plouffe, and Jarrett sounded with a message from the candidate: Here it is. Favs, feel free to tweak the words. Everyone else, the content here is what I want to say. Axelrod stood in the dark reading the text: “The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made.… But what we know—what we have seen—is that America can change. That is the true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope—the audacity to hope—for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”
He e-mailed Obama: This is why you should be president.
www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/200911/barack-obama-writing-books-writer-robert-draper
Obama naming Huntsman ambassador to China President Barack Obama named Republican Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. as his pick for ambassador to China, likely removing one of his strongest potential challengers in the 2012 presidential campaign from the running....Huntsman is often mentioned as a…..
sesq
2009.05.18 22:01:31
The GOP's future on the long boat to China
By
The weekend brought news that Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a serious GOP contender for 2012, is off to Beijing as President Obama's ambassador to China. This says a lot of things, I think, but none more significant than this: Smart Republican money, not to mention one of the party's brightest hopefuls, is increasingly starting to believe that Obama will be a two-term president, in large part because the GOP may not be redeemable until 2016.
...
He probably assumes that the GOP will spend the next few years banging rocks together in the wilderness, throwing moderates like Colin Powell out of the party, and trying to wind the clock back to the early 1980s while the rest of the country moves on. He probably assumes that he's already established himself as "a different kind of conservative," that the domestic policy fights he'll face as governor will be frustrating and possibly fruitless, and that the GOP will need a few more electoral thrashings before it is ready to buy what he's selling.
shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/18/the_gops_future_on_the_long_boat_to_china
By
The weekend brought news that Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a serious GOP contender for 2012, is off to Beijing as President Obama's ambassador to China. This says a lot of things, I think, but none more significant than this: Smart Republican money, not to mention one of the party's brightest hopefuls, is increasingly starting to believe that Obama will be a two-term president, in large part because the GOP may not be redeemable until 2016.
...
He probably assumes that the GOP will spend the next few years banging rocks together in the wilderness, throwing moderates like Colin Powell out of the party, and trying to wind the clock back to the early 1980s while the rest of the country moves on. He probably assumes that he's already established himself as "a different kind of conservative," that the domestic policy fights he'll face as governor will be frustrating and possibly fruitless, and that the GOP will need a few more electoral thrashings before it is ready to buy what he's selling.
shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/18/the_gops_future_on_the_long_boat_to_china
President Barack Obama’s plan to use high-level White House aides — instead of Cabinet secretaries — to coordinate high-priority policy initiatives puts a unique stamp on the structure of his administration.http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21720.html szerintem a valo…..
sesq
2009.05.04 19:51:38
@clownfish: hogy sikerult? es mi sikerult hogy?
sesq
2009.05.05 20:18:51
"Kiváncsi lennék, hogy ezeket az átlátszó akciókat ki találja ki"
atlatszo vagy nem, megis mukodik:
Maybe Barack Obama really is The One.
Yesterday's news was good -- almost supernaturally so.
The economy? Recovering.
The markets? Rallying.
Swine flu? Abating.
Drought? Ending.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared his confidence that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are well secured. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee declared his confidence that a massive health-care overhaul will be accomplished this year. Warren Buffett declared his confidence that the economy is "out of the quicksand."
..
The rapid improvement in the public's mood is without precedent in modern history. Last week's Washington Post poll found that 50 percent of Americans think things are generally going in the right direction, up from only 8 percent in early October. That's the quickest change in optimism since the question was first asked by The Post in 1980. Views of President Obama, in turn, were impossibly high: Ninety percent called him willing to listen to different views, and better than 70 percent called him a strong leader, honest and trustworthy, and understanding of people's problems.
And that was before happiness started busting out all over yesterday.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403233.html?wprss=rss_politics
atlatszo vagy nem, megis mukodik:
Maybe Barack Obama really is The One.
Yesterday's news was good -- almost supernaturally so.
The economy? Recovering.
The markets? Rallying.
Swine flu? Abating.
Drought? Ending.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared his confidence that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are well secured. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee declared his confidence that a massive health-care overhaul will be accomplished this year. Warren Buffett declared his confidence that the economy is "out of the quicksand."
..
The rapid improvement in the public's mood is without precedent in modern history. Last week's Washington Post poll found that 50 percent of Americans think things are generally going in the right direction, up from only 8 percent in early October. That's the quickest change in optimism since the question was first asked by The Post in 1980. Views of President Obama, in turn, were impossibly high: Ninety percent called him willing to listen to different views, and better than 70 percent called him a strong leader, honest and trustworthy, and understanding of people's problems.
And that was before happiness started busting out all over yesterday.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403233.html?wprss=rss_politics
Ha Larry Summers, az Elnök vezető gazdasági tanácsadója képes ilyen nyugodtan szúnyokálni egy nyilvános ülésen, ráadásul amin éppen a hitelkártya adósságokról van szól, akkor nem lehet nagy a baj :) (cikk, és képek)..
sesq
2009.04.24 19:49:25
THE latest USA Today/Gallup poll shows Barack Obama continuing to get high marks for his performance thus far. As his 100th day in office approaches (next Wednesday), an overwhelming majority of Americans think Mr Obama is doing an okay (23%), good (33%) or excellent (23%) job.
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Two percent say getting the dog was the best thing Obama has done as president; 1% call it the worst. "Those people are cats," Axelrod counters.
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-23-obama-poll_N.htm
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Two percent say getting the dog was the best thing Obama has done as president; 1% call it the worst. "Those people are cats," Axelrod counters.
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-23-obama-poll_N.htm
Fehér Ház Kommentelők
5* videó a gazdasági válságról: South Park S13/3-Margaritaville
2009.04.11 09:48:00
Nem is mondok semmit, inkább csak nézzétek meg! :)
..
sesq
2009.04.23 15:23:32
AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US
For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.
www.wtop.com/?sid=1658115&nid=116
For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.
www.wtop.com/?sid=1658115&nid=116
Fehér Ház Kommentelők
Aki nem érti, hogy ki az ellenfél, az veszteni és nyerni sem tud
2009.03.29 22:59:00
A 2008-es elnökválasztáson a neokonzervatív ideológia végleg leszerepelt. Nem azért, mert hibás döntéseket hozott, és nem azért mert bűncselekményeket követett el, nem is azért mert sokba került és csak károkat okozott. A fő ok az, hogy a neokonzervatívok nem értik miről szól…..
sesq
2009.04.16 22:45:46
sesq
2009.04.17 18:21:29
re: "A fő ok az, hogy a neokonzervatívok nem értik miről szól ez az egész"
Tedisco asks to be declared winner
20th Congressional District candidate Republican Jim Tedisco submitted a petition to the Dutchess County Supreme Court Thursday asking the judge to declare him the winner of the extremely close special election race, despite the numbers currently being in favor of his opponent, Democrat Scott Murphy. According to The Associated Press, Murphy leads Tedisco by 178 votes district wide.
www.registerstar.com/articles/2009/04/17/news/news03.txt
Tedisco asks to be declared winner
20th Congressional District candidate Republican Jim Tedisco submitted a petition to the Dutchess County Supreme Court Thursday asking the judge to declare him the winner of the extremely close special election race, despite the numbers currently being in favor of his opponent, Democrat Scott Murphy. According to The Associated Press, Murphy leads Tedisco by 178 votes district wide.
www.registerstar.com/articles/2009/04/17/news/news03.txt
sesq
2009.03.26 23:07:55
sesq
2009.03.26 23:50:42
The world's most entertaining mayor's race
Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the Alexander Litvinenko murder, is running for mayor of Sochi, the Black Sea resort town that will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. But Lugovoi's only one of the 25 fascinating characters running in what's shaping up to be one of the world's more interesting political contests.
Liberal opposition leader and political sex symbol Boris Nemtsov is running, and got ammonia thrown at him by pro-Kremlin hooligans a few days ago. Ex-KGB oligarch Alexander Lebedev is in the running, as is freemason lodge leader Andrei Bogdanov, who we last met when he was waging a high-profile beef with far-right leader (and Lugovoi's boss) Vladimir Zhirinovsky during his highly suspicious presidential run.
But there's more! Former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova is running, as is porn star Yelena Berkova, and local wrestling promoter Stanislav Koretsky. Then, of course, there's the guy who will most likely win, Anatoly Pakhomov from Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party.
blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/26/the_worlds_most_entertaining_election
Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the Alexander Litvinenko murder, is running for mayor of Sochi, the Black Sea resort town that will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. But Lugovoi's only one of the 25 fascinating characters running in what's shaping up to be one of the world's more interesting political contests.
Liberal opposition leader and political sex symbol Boris Nemtsov is running, and got ammonia thrown at him by pro-Kremlin hooligans a few days ago. Ex-KGB oligarch Alexander Lebedev is in the running, as is freemason lodge leader Andrei Bogdanov, who we last met when he was waging a high-profile beef with far-right leader (and Lugovoi's boss) Vladimir Zhirinovsky during his highly suspicious presidential run.
But there's more! Former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova is running, as is porn star Yelena Berkova, and local wrestling promoter Stanislav Koretsky. Then, of course, there's the guy who will most likely win, Anatoly Pakhomov from Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party.
blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/26/the_worlds_most_entertaining_election
President Obama held a prime-time news conference Tuesday addressing the economic recession, his administration's recovery strategy, and other current events during the first 60 days of his presidency.
President Obama sought to reassure Americans last night that his administration has made…..
sesq
2009.03.27 15:28:29
Obama Goes to War
Good morning. Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that I ordered as soon as I took office. My Administration has heard from our military commanders and diplomats. We have consulted with the Afghan and Pakistani governments; with our partners and NATO allies; and with other donors and international organizations. And we have also worked closely with members of Congress here at home. Now, I'd like to speak clearly and candidly to the American people.
swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/03/27/obama-goes-to-war/
Good morning. Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that I ordered as soon as I took office. My Administration has heard from our military commanders and diplomats. We have consulted with the Afghan and Pakistani governments; with our partners and NATO allies; and with other donors and international organizations. And we have also worked closely with members of Congress here at home. Now, I'd like to speak clearly and candidly to the American people.
swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/03/27/obama-goes-to-war/
sesq
2009.03.27 15:38:02
sesq
2009.03.27 19:24:44
Stock markets shot up as much as 4 percent this morning after the Treasury Department unveiled a new plan to help banks cleanse their balance sheets of toxic assets.
Shortly before noon, the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.7 percent, or 268 points, to 7,546.1, while…..
sesq
2009.03.23 21:16:24
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that Americans hold AIG management itself most responsible.
Nearly half of those surveyed (46%) say AIG management is "most to blame for the fact that these bonuses were paid." Almost one in five (19%) finger Congress, while 8% blame Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and 7% say President Obama bears responsibility.
content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/03/64506229/1
Nearly half of those surveyed (46%) say AIG management is "most to blame for the fact that these bonuses were paid." Almost one in five (19%) finger Congress, while 8% blame Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and 7% say President Obama bears responsibility.
content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/03/64506229/1
sesq
2009.03.23 23:39:01
The market’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more Tim Geithner
...This was the biggest point gain since November 13, 2008, and the 5th biggest point gain in its history. It was the biggest percentage gain since October 28, 2008 and the 20th biggest percentage gain in its history.
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/bank-plan-out-d.html
The Treasury plan “may be a game-changer, because it’s been sprinkled with some better-than-expected economic data,” says Tom Sowanick, chief investment officer at Clearbrook Financial in Princeton, N.J. “If the tea leaves all start to line together I think this will be the beginning of a major bull market.”…
“You cannot fight this intervention,” Steve Grasso, of Stuart Frankel, told CNBC. “When you start to see the market just climb after weeks and months of being sold out, you have to participate.”
www.cnbc.com/id/29836718
...This was the biggest point gain since November 13, 2008, and the 5th biggest point gain in its history. It was the biggest percentage gain since October 28, 2008 and the 20th biggest percentage gain in its history.
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/bank-plan-out-d.html
The Treasury plan “may be a game-changer, because it’s been sprinkled with some better-than-expected economic data,” says Tom Sowanick, chief investment officer at Clearbrook Financial in Princeton, N.J. “If the tea leaves all start to line together I think this will be the beginning of a major bull market.”…
“You cannot fight this intervention,” Steve Grasso, of Stuart Frankel, told CNBC. “When you start to see the market just climb after weeks and months of being sold out, you have to participate.”
www.cnbc.com/id/29836718
Eddig is tudtuk, hogy a demokraták igen szeretik az USA fábrisanyiját, de hogy ennyire... :Phttp://www.democrats.org/page/s/submitsloganSubmit Your SloganWe'll go through all of the slogans you submit, and the winner will have his…..
sesq
2009.03.18 17:24:54
Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay
by Lawrence B. Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
...The fourth unknown is the ad hoc intelligence philosophy that was developed to justify keeping many of these people, called the mosaic philosophy. Simply stated, this philosophy held that it did not matter if a detainee were innocent. Indeed, because he lived in Afghanistan and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance (this general philosophy, in an even cruder form, prevailed in Iraq as well, helping to produce the nightmare at Abu Ghraib). All that was necessary was to extract everything possible from him and others like him, assemble it all in a computer program, and then look for cross-connections and serendipitous incidentals--in short, to have sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified.
Thus, as many people as possible had to be kept in detention for as long as possible to allow this philosophy of intelligence gathering to work. The detainees' innocence was inconsequential. After all, they were ignorant peasants for the most part and mostly Muslim to boot.
www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/?ref=fp2
by Lawrence B. Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
...The fourth unknown is the ad hoc intelligence philosophy that was developed to justify keeping many of these people, called the mosaic philosophy. Simply stated, this philosophy held that it did not matter if a detainee were innocent. Indeed, because he lived in Afghanistan and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance (this general philosophy, in an even cruder form, prevailed in Iraq as well, helping to produce the nightmare at Abu Ghraib). All that was necessary was to extract everything possible from him and others like him, assemble it all in a computer program, and then look for cross-connections and serendipitous incidentals--in short, to have sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified.
Thus, as many people as possible had to be kept in detention for as long as possible to allow this philosophy of intelligence gathering to work. The detainees' innocence was inconsequential. After all, they were ignorant peasants for the most part and mostly Muslim to boot.
www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/?ref=fp2
A tegnap közölt megdöbbentő jelentés második, befejező része:
A Tanár úr színre lép
Obama beiktatása, gyors reformintézkedései, a dollár erősödése, valamint a Financial Timesnak adott februári Orbán-interjú tették világossá a wall street-i kör számára, hogy…..
A feltörekvő gazdaságok, köztük Magyarország és Ukrajna problémáit említette Barack Obama amerikai elnök kedden, amikor a globális pénzügyi válság nemzetközi következményeiről beszélt a Fehér Házban.
Az amerikai elnök aznap fogadta hivatalában Gordon Brown brit…..
sesq
2009.03.06 16:19:11
hogyan latjak a gazdasagot a feher hazban:
In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders. They see themselves as pragmatists who inherited a government and an economy that have been thrown out of whack. They’re not engaged in an ideological project to overturn the Reagan Revolution, a fight that was over long ago.
Second, they argue, the Obama administration will not usher in an era of big government. Federal spending over the last generation has been about 20 percent of G.D.P. This year, it has surged to about 27 percent. But they aim to bring spending down to 22 percent of G.D.P. in a few years. And most of the increase, they insist, is caused by the aging of the population and the rise of mandatory entitlement spending.
The White House has produced a chart showing nondefense discretionary spending as a share of G.D.P. The White House claims that it is going to reduce this spending to 3.1 percent by 2019, lower than at any time in any recent Republican administration.... I was invited to hang this chart on my wall and judge them by how well they meet these targets. (I have.)
...The White House made a case that was sophisticated and fact-based. These people know how to lead a discussion and set a tone of friendly cooperation.
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/opinion/06brooks.html?_r=2
az egeszet erdemes elolvasni.
In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders. They see themselves as pragmatists who inherited a government and an economy that have been thrown out of whack. They’re not engaged in an ideological project to overturn the Reagan Revolution, a fight that was over long ago.
Second, they argue, the Obama administration will not usher in an era of big government. Federal spending over the last generation has been about 20 percent of G.D.P. This year, it has surged to about 27 percent. But they aim to bring spending down to 22 percent of G.D.P. in a few years. And most of the increase, they insist, is caused by the aging of the population and the rise of mandatory entitlement spending.
The White House has produced a chart showing nondefense discretionary spending as a share of G.D.P. The White House claims that it is going to reduce this spending to 3.1 percent by 2019, lower than at any time in any recent Republican administration.... I was invited to hang this chart on my wall and judge them by how well they meet these targets. (I have.)
...The White House made a case that was sophisticated and fact-based. These people know how to lead a discussion and set a tone of friendly cooperation.
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/opinion/06brooks.html?_r=2
az egeszet erdemes elolvasni.
Három filmet is láttam mostanában, ami az Amerikai Elnökökkel, vagy az elnökválasztással foglalkozik, hol komoly, hol kevésbé szigorú megközelítésben. Csalódást keltett: W. Oliver Stone az egyik kedvenc rendezőm, de 9 éve nem tett le semmi igazán eredetit az asztalra. Most, a…..
sesq
2009.02.27 18:11:50
Frost/Nixon: A Dishonorable Distortion of History
It doesn't matter that Frost/Nixon moves some scenes around (though it's not always clear why), and engages in some invention. But such a gross misrepresentation of such important events -- roughly seventy percent of the population is too young to have been aware of Watergate -- about a figure over whom there is still serious debate, in the name of entertainment and profits, to my mind, crosses the line of dramatic integrity and is dishonorable.
www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-drew/ifrostnixoni-a-dishonorab_b_150948.html
It doesn't matter that Frost/Nixon moves some scenes around (though it's not always clear why), and engages in some invention. But such a gross misrepresentation of such important events -- roughly seventy percent of the population is too young to have been aware of Watergate -- about a figure over whom there is still serious debate, in the name of entertainment and profits, to my mind, crosses the line of dramatic integrity and is dishonorable.
www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-drew/ifrostnixoni-a-dishonorab_b_150948.html
On Obama's SOTU address By CAROL E. LEE NYT: “the president reported to the nation that things have skidded wildly off course.”; WaPo: “Balances Optimism & Urgency" FT:“‘Reaganesque’ Obama seeks to shift paradigm” Forbes: “One-Two Punch…..
sesq
2009.03.03 23:54:07
blogpost of the day :))
Does Anybody Here Understand What A Tax Bracket Is?
My post about ignorant rich people who think they can have a higher after-tax income by holding their earnings under $250,000 a year brought on a follow-up from National Review's Stephen Spruiell:
"But these taxpayers have other reasons to be worried. Obama has proposed increasing the tax rate on capital gains and dividends from 15 to 20 percent for those taxpayers earning over $250,000 (married) and $200,000 (single). If that's implemented without any kind of phase-in, then going from $249,999 to $250,000 incurs a pretty big tax penalty, right? Maybe I'm wrong about this (if I am, I'm sure Chait will let me know)."
Jesus Christ, yes, you're wrong. Taxes on capital gains income and dividends work the same as taxes on ordinary income. When you move int a higher bracket, only the income above that level is taxes at the higher rate. So, the lowest ordinary income tax rate is 10%. Everybody, including Bill Gates, pays some of their income tax at the 10% rate. Nobody pays their highest tax rate on all their income.
Commenter "ratnerstar" has the right idea here: It's time to stop educating these ignorant rich people and start taking advantage of them. We have some number of high-income people out there who earnestly think they can increase their take-home pay by decreasing their salaries.This is one of the great scamming opportunities of all time, with the side bonus that the targets richly deserve their fate.
blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/03/03/does-anybody-here-understand-what-a-tax-bracket-is.aspx
Does Anybody Here Understand What A Tax Bracket Is?
My post about ignorant rich people who think they can have a higher after-tax income by holding their earnings under $250,000 a year brought on a follow-up from National Review's Stephen Spruiell:
"But these taxpayers have other reasons to be worried. Obama has proposed increasing the tax rate on capital gains and dividends from 15 to 20 percent for those taxpayers earning over $250,000 (married) and $200,000 (single). If that's implemented without any kind of phase-in, then going from $249,999 to $250,000 incurs a pretty big tax penalty, right? Maybe I'm wrong about this (if I am, I'm sure Chait will let me know)."
Jesus Christ, yes, you're wrong. Taxes on capital gains income and dividends work the same as taxes on ordinary income. When you move int a higher bracket, only the income above that level is taxes at the higher rate. So, the lowest ordinary income tax rate is 10%. Everybody, including Bill Gates, pays some of their income tax at the 10% rate. Nobody pays their highest tax rate on all their income.
Commenter "ratnerstar" has the right idea here: It's time to stop educating these ignorant rich people and start taking advantage of them. We have some number of high-income people out there who earnestly think they can increase their take-home pay by decreasing their salaries.This is one of the great scamming opportunities of all time, with the side bonus that the targets richly deserve their fate.
blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/03/03/does-anybody-here-understand-what-a-tax-bracket-is.aspx
sesq
2009.03.04 14:00:35
Inside the Dems' anti-Rush plan
www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19596.html
Steele Cage Death Match
This morning I heard Don Imus moaning through a hole in his cowboy hat for the umpteenth time that it didn't make sense for Obama to be going after Rush Limbaugh, Imus being too set in his grizzled ways to comprehend the Machiavellian-Sun Tzu-Jedi mind game that's just been played.
www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/03/the-weather-outside-is-frightful.html
www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19596.html
Steele Cage Death Match
This morning I heard Don Imus moaning through a hole in his cowboy hat for the umpteenth time that it didn't make sense for Obama to be going after Rush Limbaugh, Imus being too set in his grizzled ways to comprehend the Machiavellian-Sun Tzu-Jedi mind game that's just been played.
www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/03/the-weather-outside-is-frightful.html
Obama fokozza a pakisztáni célpontok elleni támadásokat
Barack Obama elnökválasztási kampányában többször is hangoztatta, hogy Pakisztán beleegyezése nélkül is rakétatámadásokat intéz az al-Kaida pakisztáni táborai ellen. A Washington Post értesülései szerint egy…..
sesq
2009.02.23 22:11:58
Clinton Scores Big in China
Hillary Clinton's returns from Asia having made a first-class debut. First and foremost, she effectively communicated President Obama's message of change while underscoring the importance the United States places on relations throughout Asia. She used local media and public fora with exceptional skill. She made clear that the Obama Administration has different priorities and carried important new messages on the centrality trans-Pacific collaboration to addressing the global economic crisis, to fighting climate change, and to containing security threats.
rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/23/clinton_scores_big_in_china
Hillary Clinton's returns from Asia having made a first-class debut. First and foremost, she effectively communicated President Obama's message of change while underscoring the importance the United States places on relations throughout Asia. She used local media and public fora with exceptional skill. She made clear that the Obama Administration has different priorities and carried important new messages on the centrality trans-Pacific collaboration to addressing the global economic crisis, to fighting climate change, and to containing security threats.
rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/23/clinton_scores_big_in_china
sesq
2009.02.23 23:51:33
An excerpt from The Gamble by Tom Ricks
The following excerpt was reprinted with the permission of the author, taken from "The Hardest Step" (pages 165-171) of The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008.
books.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/22/an_excerpt_of_the_gamble_by_tom_ricks
The following excerpt was reprinted with the permission of the author, taken from "The Hardest Step" (pages 165-171) of The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008.
books.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/22/an_excerpt_of_the_gamble_by_tom_ricks
sesq
2009.02.24 14:14:16
Survey Reveals Broad Support for President
President Obama is benefiting from remarkably high levels of optimism and confidence among Americans about his leadership, providing him with substantial political clout as he confronts the nation’s economic challenges and opposition from nearly all Republicans in Congress, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Most said Mr. Obama should pursue the priorities he campaigned on, the poll found, rather than seek middle ground with Republicans.
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24poll.html
President Obama is benefiting from remarkably high levels of optimism and confidence among Americans about his leadership, providing him with substantial political clout as he confronts the nation’s economic challenges and opposition from nearly all Republicans in Congress, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Most said Mr. Obama should pursue the priorities he campaigned on, the poll found, rather than seek middle ground with Republicans.
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24poll.html
Ezt a www.dnc.org weboldalról sikerült kiollóznom, nem tudom, hogy ez csak nekem vicces-e, de erről a képről sokminden leolvasható. :-)..
sesq
2009.02.22 13:17:19
Obama Expands Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan
The strikes are another sign that President Obama is continuing, and in some cases extending, Bush administration policy in using American spy agencies against terrorism suspects in Pakistan, as he had promised to do during his presidential campaign. At the same time, Mr. Obama has begun to scale back some of the Bush policies on the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, which he has criticized as counterproductive.
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/washington/21policy.html
The strikes are another sign that President Obama is continuing, and in some cases extending, Bush administration policy in using American spy agencies against terrorism suspects in Pakistan, as he had promised to do during his presidential campaign. At the same time, Mr. Obama has begun to scale back some of the Bush policies on the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, which he has criticized as counterproductive.
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/washington/21policy.html
sesq
2009.02.22 13:20:03
THE GATEKEEPER
Rahm Emanuel on the job.
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/02/090302fa_fact_lizza
For Obama's Political Knots, He's the 'Fixer'
Low-Profile Aide Jim Messina Has Tackled Tough Problems
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/20/AR2009022003853.html
Rahm Emanuel on the job.
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/02/090302fa_fact_lizza
For Obama's Political Knots, He's the 'Fixer'
Low-Profile Aide Jim Messina Has Tackled Tough Problems
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/20/AR2009022003853.html
Biden trip yields few tangible returns "America will do more, but American will ask more from its partners," he said in a speech that was warmly received but might have had some European officials privately longing for the Bush administration's tendency not to expect much, if anything, of…..
sesq
2009.02.10 01:15:34
What 3.6 Million Jobs Lost Over 13 Months Looks Like This chart compares the job loss so far in this recession to job losses in the 1990-1991 recession and the 2001 recession – showing how dramatic and unprecedented the job loss over the last 13 months has been. Over the last 13 months, our…..
Az alábbi ábrán az összes második világháború óta hivatalban lévő elnök támogatottságának grafikonját láthatjuk: Néhány feltűnő tény:A 11 elnök mindegyike 50% feletti mutatóval lépett hivatalba, de csak 5 volt képes…..
sesq
2009.01.22 14:28:05
Nos, én speciel alig vártam, hogy hazaérjek, és bekapcsolhassam a tévét. Már órák óta tart a belgrádi "Koszovó = Szerbia" tüntetés. A szerb állami televízió élőben tudósít az eseményről, így aztán én is. 18:48 -ig beszélt már mindenféle ember. Egyet…..
sesq
2008.02.21 21:54:58
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