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It's that time of year again. Those of us helping on the Office of Inspector General blog have come up with a list of the top 10 postal stories for 2010. Tell us about any stories we missed and add whatever comments you think appropriate. In particular, we would like to get your input on the top story, so take a minute and vote in the poll below. 10. OSHA Fines the Postal Service – At plants across the country, the Postal Service receives sizeable fines for electrical hazards. 9. e-Tipping Point – A flurry of activity in 2010 bolsters the notion that the Digital Revolution has trumped paper-based communications: Apple introduces its iPad tablet computer; all e-reader sales are up nearly 80 percent over last year; the Kindle becomes Amazon's biggest seller and the company predicts e-books will surpass paper books within a year; Netflix announces that more customers watch streaming videos than DVDs. 8. Congress Takes Notice – Members from both houses of Congress – and both sides of the aisle – introduce legislation to fix the Postal Service's overpayments to the federal government, which contributed significantly to the Postal Service's massive net losses over the past few years. 7. America Wakes Up – Widespread mainstream media coverage on a number of postal issues, including 5-day delivery and the financial challenges plaguing the organization, spark a national interest in our postal system. 6. Reports Address Flawed Business Model – The Government Accountability Office confirms that the Postal Service's business model is "not viable." The Postal Service issues its action plan to address declining mail volumes, changing communications habits and other systemic problems. 5. Stakeholders Debate 5-Day Delivery – The Postal Service's plan to eliminate Saturday delivery generates heated debate, massive press coverage and congressional input. The Postal Regulatory Commission holds a series of public hearings on the topic. 4. PMG Potter Retires – After nearly 10 years as the postmaster general and 32 years with the Postal Service, Jack Potter called it a career and retired on Dec. 3. 3. Postal Service Suffers Largest Net Loss in History – The Postal Service ends FY 2010 with a net loss of $8.5 billion, the largest net loss in its history. Still, it manages to pay all of its bills and remain solvent at the start of FY 2011. 2. OIG Finds $75 Billion Overpayment – A report by the Office of Inspector General finds that the Postal Service has overpaid its Civil Service Retirement System obligations by a staggering $75 billion. Mailing industry unites in its support of a congressional fix. 1. PRC Denies Exigent Rate Request – The Postal Service invokes the exigency clause in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and asks for a price increase above the inflation-based price cap. Mailers unite in their opposition to the request, which the Postal Regulatory Commission officially denies in September. The Postal Service appeals the decision to federal appeals court.
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Pushing the Envelope was launched in the late Fall of 2008. Since then, we have posted 118 topics (including this one) and received more than 3,800 comments from our readers. Topics covering issues of interest to Postal Service employees generated the greatest response. Our top five, by views, include the following: 1)Silly Rules 2)OIG wants to know how you feel about sick leave 3)Nationwide Wage Uniformity 4)Brainstorm Ideas part 2 (allowed people to choose the best idea) 5)Brainstorm Ideas to Help the Postal Service However, all topics, even less popular ones, have helped to generate a great deal of discussion with the following topics generating the most debate and the most comments: 1)Brainstorm Ideas to Help the Postal Service 2)The Great Debate 3)Silly Rules 4)Does the Postal Service Need to Re-examine Its Delivery Service Standards? This feedback has generated strong debate on the blog and sometimes in the greater postal community. In fact, two recent audits from the OIG's office, "Postal Service Area and District Office Field Structure" and "Stations and Branches Optimization and Consolidation Initiative," incorporate reader comments from their related blogs. The Postal Service continues to evolve to meet its current challenges, and fiscal year 2011 could be a very significant year for postal issues. Pushing the Envelope will be there to ask questions, generate ideas, and keep on pushing that envelope. As we emerge from our terrible twos into our third year, the contributors and editors hope you will continue to respond. We'd like to hear your views on what you want from this blog. What do you like? What would you like us to change? What topics should we cover next? Let us know what you think and keep commenting! This topic is hosted by the OIG's Risk Analysis Research Center (RARC).
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ldtef002 on 11/28/2013 10:27:00 PM more reviews by ldtef002
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Red Eyes: Blue
This foundation was a disappointment. All I can do is give this a huge NO. It made my skin oily, made my face feel heavy, and broke my face out. My mother uses this foundation and she seems to like it. If you are prone to acne, I would "nyx" this product. The concealer, however, is completely different!
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*TOP REVIEWER* underage on 10/1/2013 10:15:00 PM more reviews by underage
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
I really didn't like this foundation. I bought it during Ulta's sale because I had seen photos of some people wearing it and it looked very nice. I have combination skin which will get a litle oily in the t-zone. It has a strange smell that I don't like and I could smell it on my face after. The coverage is just medium but still concealed nicely. I really liked how it made my skin look luminous but it didn't have good staying power at all! I felt like it had all wiped off around by t-zone by lunch time. I returned this foundation and I barely ever do that.
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Rabootie on 9/18/2013 10:43:00 AM more reviews by Rabootie
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
It makes me breakout!!!! First time i purchased it, it looks good on me. A good coverage for a drugstore product. BUT when i used as a daily foundation routine, slowly, acnes poppin out. I'm not recommend this to you who have a sensitive skin
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MoodySunshine on 8/24/2013 8:49:00 PM more reviews by MoodySunshine
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool Hair: Black, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Green
What a disappointment! I always buy the NYX primers and I love them, but the foundation is horrible. It felt way too oily, I was looking for something nice and matte but this make my skin so shiny and gross looking. The coverage wasn't anything special either.
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VivaLaSunshine on 8/1/2013 4:11:00 AM more reviews by VivaLaSunshine
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm Hair: Brunette, Curly Eyes: Brown
I loved how this foundation made my face look, it's not full coverage by any means and it smells really weird (plastic-y?!) but I see why it's an HD foundation. It's also the best match foundation I've ever found (I got number 07, am around an NC45)............. But it broke me out :( even using a primer, etc. no-go, will return to Ulta!
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*TOP REVIEWER* VegetaFanGirl on 7/30/2013 9:51:00 PM more reviews by VegetaFanGirl
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
Looking at the name, a buyer can make the connection between this and Make Up For Ever's HD foundation. I assume that this foundation was created to be a $15 dupe of the $44 Make Up For Ever one. Having been an owner of the latter high end foundation (and curious to try out a NYX face product, since I have not owned many of their products), I decided to give this one a go! I've also been in need of a replacement for a specific color, and this foundation seemed to fit the bill.
Firstly, I noticed, when I was sampling the colors, that there weren't many shade choices. 5, if I recall correctly. So, unless you have skin that can uncannily match one of these five diverse shades, then it will be difficult to find a perfect match. The color that I was looking for turned out to be 02 Soft Beige, and it seemed very pale when I first tested it. However, once I bought it and tested it on my face, it turned out to be a darker color. These shades are in the darker range; I am naturally very fair-skinned, and I will not be able to wear this foundation unless I am tanned.So, I guess this foundation will only be useful for a month or two of the year! Also, they are somewhat orange-toned. Not Jersey Shore orange, but definitely not neutral, either. Just a heads-up.
The actual consistency of the foundation was interesting. It's very flowy and liquidy when you first dispense it, but once you start to blend it, it turns out to be a thick, medium coverage foundation. You definitely need a brush for this, if you want coverage that isn't streaky. However, it does cover most imperfections, and does a great job of evening out skin tone. I usually don't use concealer with this! The finish itself is very dewy, and gives a nice glow- personally, I wouldn't risk getting photos done with this foundation, because it is quite reflective.
Staying power is all right- not perfect, but can last the whole day with primer, but still can smudge easily if you're oily. What I found interesting, and liked a lot, was the smell of this foundation. It is pretty strong, and very chemical, but it smells like pleasant chemicals, for lack of a better description. :) Overall, I do not think of this as anything to rave over- it is a decent foundation, just living up to my personal expectations. I recommend this foundation, but not with overflowing enthusiasm.
As for its performance compared with MUFE's foundation, I prefer the MUFE. I absolutely loved that foundation, and this one didn't live up quite as well. If you're wondering which one is better, I'd spend the $44 on the MUFE one.
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ymfoto on 5/15/2013 2:04:00 PM more reviews by ymfoto
Age: 25-29 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Warm Hair: Brunette Eyes: Hazel
I quite like this foundation. Although it isn't perfect, it has a good consistency and leaves your skin able to breathe.
I have no. 1, 2, and 4. The lightest shade is an amazing match for my fair skin. I use 2 and 4 in the summer time, they are pretty close in tone.
Many complain about poor coverage or that its short lasting which leads me to explain it is a fairly thin foundation. I would not recommend it to those with problem skin or someone expecting full coverage. As someone who does struggle with problem skin, I can only wear this when my face is clear and I don't have to worry about my blemishes, mostly in the summer. This will even out your skin tone nicely but you will have to use a concealer on those problem areas because when this product is applied in layers, it won't mimic a concealer. It will only look cakey and shift around your face.
Over all, it brightens and freshens up my skin, definitely not my HG, but I would recommend it to even out your skin tone but still look natural. I'd recommend priming & setting it with a moisturizing spray like rosewater.
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*TOP REVIEWER* Saspants on 5/12/2013 12:40:00 AM more reviews by Saspants
Age: 44-55 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Green
Pleasantly surprised by this product. It provided great coverage and stayed all day. Applied over primer and set with mineral powder. Will definitely purchase again.
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Gardengrenade on 5/11/2013 8:28:00 PM more reviews by Gardengrenade
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Other Eyes: Hazel
I'm a little surprised at all the low ratings for this product. I'm in love with this stuff and use it just about everyday. I'm in the lightest shade, 001 nude, and it matches my skin beautifully. The coverage, I'd say is probably light to medium, more medium in my opinion but deffinately buildable. I have combination skin and I don't feel as though it grabs on to any of my dry patches and it doesn't leave me super oily as I tend to get in my t-zone. The finish is semi matte, which is awesome because I feel as though after I apply this my skin still looks like skin an not cakey or greasy. I use a primer underneath and use a flat top brush to stipple it on and then blend it out with little circles. I set my t-zone with a power as I always do with anything I use and I feel as though it covers most of my acne scarring and discoloration. I'm quite happy with this. I do highly recommend this for people looking for a light to medium coverage foundation.
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amysweeps82 on 3/6/2013 4:16:00 PM more reviews by amysweeps82
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Blue
Terrible, terrible, terrible. This left my face looking chalky right off the bat, & after a few hours it had completely faded off and/or cracked in patches. For the record, I put this on my freshly washed & exfoliated face after following up with moisturizer AND Smashbox foundation primer. I had high hopes for this as a MUFE dupe, but it doesn't even come close. NYX is amazing at making high quality dupes, but this foundation is not one of their better ones. Don't waste your money.

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At the end of Senior Games, results are posted at Port Angeles Senior Center, the games headquarters, 328 E. Seventh St., and on the Olympic Peninsula Senior Games website, olympicpeninsulaseniorgames.com.
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Film composer Hans Zimmer looks up from his computer monitor and keyboard to deal with an interruption. Although he's busy at work on a score, there is always time for this kind of intrusion: His small children have arrived for a visit and have brought dad some choice artwork to add to his collection.
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Zimmer is master of his domain in the cavernous space known as "Hans' room" at Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, Calif. With its exquisite wood paneling and flooring and plush furniture and accoutrements, the room "reminds me of a Viennese brothel," the composer jokes. While the fine-art books in the bookcases may say one thing about the space, the racks of vintage Moog synthesizer modules and patchbays and rows of other gear send a clearer message: If you come to this brothel, you'd better come equipped with a tune.
Comprising a dozen composing rooms, two state-of-the-art mixing studios and a recording space, Remote Control provides a home not only to Zimmer, but also to a great many other composers who have come up through the ranks to become some of the film and television businesses' top scorers. Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Steve Jablonsky and James Levine are but a few who take refuge at the facility.
"Harry said to me, 'Do you know, in the summer, if you look at the box office, four out of the top five films were done by people from here?'" remarks Zimmer, who himself has written scores for such blockbusters as the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, The Da Vinci Code, The Crimson Tide, The Lion King and so many others.
The facility began 10 years ago when fellow composer Mark Mancina suggested the two share some space. "I wanted to build one room for me, and Mark, who's a friend, said, 'Wouldn't it be nice if we could share space or something?' It made it cheaper, but, at the same time, it seemed like a nice idea to have a sort of collaborative facility." Thus was born Media Ventures, which recently changed to its current name, Remote Control Productions.
The collaborative atmosphere concept stuck. Composers routinely pop their heads in to check out colleagues' work, tossing in the occasional idea. "I probably get more ideas from Heitor [Pereira, composer and Zimmer team member] than I give him," Zimmer says. "I've done 100-odd movies, but every time I start a new one I just sit in front of a blank page.
"The other day, Harry was mixing something, and after hearing it I just went straight back to my room and threw my stuff away and started again. We are competitive and there is a challenge, on an aesthetic level, which is really great. I heard his piece, and thought, 'Hang on a second — I better live up to that.'"
One collaborator who can frequently be found alongside Zimmer is scoring mixer Al Clay (who alternates with engineer Alan Meyerson, depending on the project and schedules). The two met in London in 1983 at Trident Studios, where Zimmer was busy programming a Fairlight Series I sample sequencer for, as he describes it, "this horrible disco track."
"I was a tea boy," Clay recalls. "It was 10 minutes into my first day, while I was being shown my duties. I walked in, sheepishly looking around the room, and saw this guy in leather pants and a flight jacket beating away on something."
It didn't take long for Clay to make an impression. "I had just spent three days programming on this little computer," says Zimmer, "and he came in and tripped over the mains cable — ripped it out of the wall. I hadn't saved and three days' work went up in smoke, and I went hysterical."
"He was screaming, 'It's crashed! It's crashed!'" adds Clay. "I was thinking, 'Crashed — obviously a bad thing. I don't know what it means, but I'll help you fix it.'" Zimmer adds, "He didn't seem too phased by my screaming, so I thought, 'Whoa! Character strength. Guy can take a beating.'"
Not long after, Clay was hired by the composer, and the two began working long hours at Zimmer's tiny studio, Little Yard, in West London. "We used to do tons of commercials, which was a great way for Hans to pay for the new equipment he wanted to use," Clay says. "We'd literally do two or three jingles in the morning, and then we'd be back on the film score in the afternoon."
Clay certainly proved his worth on Zimmer's first big film project, Chris Menges' 1988 film, A World Apart. "There was one scene that I absolutely didn't know how to write," Zimmer recalls. The composer put picture up and simply played against the image. "I hated everything. And then about 9 o'clock, Al said, 'Well, come and have a listen to this.' He played me this really beautiful track, and I said, 'What's that? Where did you get that from?' He said, 'Oh, that's the first thing you played this morning.' He knew that I needed to go through the process, and he kept his mouth shut all day. He'd already done it."
Zimmer brought Clay with him from the UK for his first big American film scoring project that same year, Rain Man, recorded at the former Record Plant West on the Paramount Studios lot.
While the workflow might vary from project to project, depending on the film and its director, Zimmer follows a fairly unique process for his scoring work. Avoiding traditional spotting sessions, Zimmer begins simply by meeting with the director to go over the film. At the same time, he sometimes can base his themes on something as simple as a photograph. While director Gore Verbinski was shooting his 2005 film The Weather Man in Chicago, Zimmer was trying to get a grasp of the film's emotional experience without seeing any footage. "I said to him, 'I can't make heads or tails out of this. What is this going to be? Send me something.' And he sent me a photograph from the set, with those green hospital walls and with a clock in the corner. And I wrote pretty much the whole thing just from that photo."
The first thing Zimmer does is create a 20-minute suite containing all of the dramatic and character themes. Once the demo suite is completed, Zimmer will play it for the director and producer. "Hans will explain the parts for each character and the overall feeling," explains Clay. "It gives the director a chance to say, 'Yes, I like that,' or, 'No, that could be even more…' But what they hear, actually, isn't going to change drastically when they walk into the studio and hear the orchestra, so there are no surprises. Hans' 'demos' will be very, very close to the final product."
Once everyone is in agreement, Zimmer begins composing the film to picture, scene by scene, with director meetings continuing two to three times per week. "Some people work just writing it all out on manuscript and scoring three or four or five days," says Clay. "The director will come down and hear it for the first time in its finished state with a full orchestra, and they may not like what they hear. Doing it this way just saves you that big surprise at the end."
Even though he is not composing any of the music himself, Clay is involved in each of those meetings. Says Zimmer. "I don't see the recording engineer as being separate from the musicians. They can't do what they do in isolation; we're all part of the team."
The team also includes a handful of additional composers who help flesh out Zimmer's ideas after he's created his initial composition for each cue. Explains Clay, "Hans will have this great idea, and he'll pass it on. He'll rely on these people all around him to see it through."
"Hans gives you a road map of the cue," explains composer Henry Jackman. "He's written a 2:30 piano piece, with loads of key changes, the mood of the movement. So you've pretty much got all the ammunition, emotionally." Jackman will lock the cue exactly to picture and begin applying Zimmer's music to the scene. "If you don't do that by the frame and you start doing a massive orchestration, you might find yourself going, 'Hang on a minute. I'm missing all the cuts.' It's much better to apply the map first." Once completed, he can begin orchestrating the cue, with Zimmer dropping in every so often throughout the day to make sure Jackman's work maintains his original ideas.
Zimmer's own composing environment is made up of a mixture of state-of-the-art recording technology and vintage instruments and sources. Choosing which instruments will be used for which film depends on the project, he says. "And people constantly seem to mis-hear what I'm doing. They're criticizing synth sounds on Pirates when there are no synth sounds. All it is is an orchestra shoved through a big Marshall stack.
The composer has a great affection for analog synth equipment, including Moog modules recently used on The Da Vinci Code. "There just came one bit where I had to drag out the big old Moog because nothing else had that sort of resonance." He typically records to Pro Tools using a Cubase sequencer and GigaSamplers.
New equipment and software arrive fairly regularly at Remote Control, but it rarely is put to use straight out of the box. Upstairs in a loft space filled with cool old gear (like a Commodore 64 with its original ROM card and built-in MIDI interface), engineer Mark Wherry can be found taking things apart and making them fit. "[Wherry is] really a thinker and philosopher of musical technology," Zimmer says.
"Mark doesn't just screw around with stuff," Clay comments. "He actually has the ability to take the software and rewrite it."
According to Wherry, "There's a lot of things that Hans uses, like the touchscreen in front of him that has custom software that drives it. And we've customized things to allow the Gigas to work slightly better." He and his team also designed and built a custom network MIDI solution that can handle the facility's 14 GigaStudio computers with a large number of MIDI interfaces.
The mixing system includes three Pro Tools rigs — one for synth outputs of Zimmer's drums and percussion, etc.; one for orchestra; and a third to handle the mix. Clay says Zimmer remains quite involved down to the mixing stage.
"He'll have a definite plan of what he wants, and he thinks spatially," notes Clay. "For Da Vinci Code, he had a vision of the viols up in the gallery at AIR Studio, and as he was writing he knew that would be the case. So when it came time for mixing, he knew he wanted them in the surrounds, and we put them up there.
"A lot of people are either techno-heads or they're strictly composers and fumble with the technology," Clay says. "One of the great things about Hans is that he's got that technical head, but also the free composer head, and he somehow manages to marry the two."
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Active Standard ASTM C231 / C231M | Developed by Subcommittee: C09.60
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This test method covers the determination of the air content of freshly mixed concrete. The test determines the air content of freshly mixed concrete exclusive of any air that may exist inside voids within aggregate particles. For this reason, it is applicable to concrete made with relatively dense aggregate particles and requires determination of the aggregate correction factor (see 6.1 and 10.1).
This test method and Test Method C138/C138M and C173/C173M provide pressure, gravimetric, and volumetric procedures, respectively, for determining the air content of freshly mixed concrete. The pressure procedure of this test method gives substantially the same air contents as the other two test methods for concretes made with dense aggregates.
The air content of hardened concrete may be either higher or lower than that determined by this test method. This depends upon the methods and amount of consolidation effort applied to the concrete from which the hardened concrete specimen is taken; uniformity and stability of the air bubbles in the fresh and hardened concrete; accuracy of the microscopic examination, if used; time of comparison; environmental exposure; stage in the delivery, placement and consolidation processes at which the air content of the unhardened concrete is determined, that is, before or after the concrete goes through a pump; and other factors.
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Be it ideology or strategem, the GOP has blocked pro-growth policy and backed job-killing austerity - all while blaming Obama The Republican party congressional leadership : Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell, House majority leader Eric Cantor, and House speaker John Boehner, after the 2010 midterms.
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Judged: 12 9 8 It began when they picked Sarah Palin. That was the first sign that the RNC was throwing the election. They knew the economy was going down hill and they wanted President Obama to own it. Any measure the President took to stimulate the economy, the GOP opposed it. They even stated that their only goal was to make PResident Obama a one term president. At this point, by picking Romney as their candidate, it seems to me they don't want to win this election, either. Republicans have chosen politics over patriotism. They don't care about the future of America. They just want the black man out of THEIR White House and to hell with the economy, our standing in the world and the future of our children. They are pathetic. May they all rot in hell. |
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Judged: 5 5 4 We are coming close to a 40% obesity rate. Kids are having heart attacks and juvenile diabetes is rising at alarming levels. If you think health insurance and hospital visits are expensive now, just wait until you have to fork out the taxes to pay for the hospital bills of the 48 million impoverished Americans who have no health insurance and no money. You think Obamacare is a bad idea, just wait until 1/2 the country looks like whales. It won't be long now, especially since republicans refuse to overhaul school lunches that are comprised of chocolate milk and pizza...for breakfast and lunch. Their budget cuts for education will make our kids fat and stupid.....just like the republicans like them. Fat, stupid, future voters. |
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Judged: 5 2 2 Are you stupid, dyslexic, or both? Our founding fathers structured the Constitution so this Nation would work together. It said "WE THE PEOPLE"...not ME THE PEOPLE. The Statue of Liberty...bring us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses. How about Christ? You guys like to throw that one around. If Christ is making a 2nd appearance, he ain't taking any republicans with him. That's for damn sure. I don't like supporting people who can work and support themselves but there are people who are handicapped, especially military veterans and they NEED my tax support. What I really don't want is for the middle class to disappear and for us to turn into a third world country where 1 or 2% is rich and the rest are poor. Why would you want that for a country you supposedly love? Think people think. There is a world out there just beyond your two car garage and the scales are so imbalanced that unless WE do something now, the US will never EVER be the great country it once was. Please, CAT74, continue with your hateful diatribes that do nothing for anyone. |
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Judged: 6 4 3 sabotaging the economy for 3 1/2 years. The congressional Republicans don't want even one single job added to this economy. They figure worse the better for them. Anti-economy and pro-terrorist. Why are Republicans such anti-American filth? |
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