Displaying posts tagged: politics
2010-01-21 8:26 pm
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The Washington Post posted:
The Supreme Court threw out a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence of big business and unions on elections Thursday, ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress. The decision could drastically alter who gives and gets hundreds of millions ...
2009-11-01 12:54 pm
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Amanullah Khan, the first chap to assume the title "King of Afghanistan" and the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan. He fought a war against the British, and kinda won.
He actually started this one, and was then thrown the fuck out of the British Raj, thanks to the British military's superior technology and air ...
2009-11-01 12:07 am
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Or: How I learned to love Afghanistan and hate Ahmad Shah Durrani ,Padshah of the Durrani Empire.
Afghanistan, originating in the old Durrani Empire founded by the person just mentioned in 1747, in comparison, the United States went independent in 1776. So Afghanistan is actually older, as a nation, then the United States of America, even ...
2009-10-29 3:22 pm
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So yeah. Apparently George W. Bush, hasn't got a clue how economy works, slash taxes, and you have to slash expenses, actively.
It's totally impossible to passively slash expenses on public programs, because in most cases it's politically suicide.
Why they didn't do it like the Danish Liberal-Conservative Government and freeze taxes and then quietly and ...
2009-10-18 3:20 pm
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The Danish People's Party finally reveals themselves. Their top candidate,Birthe Skaarup, to the upcoming municipal elections in the capital, Copenhagen, has suggested that the streets and alleys of the capital, are to be patrolled by an anti-gang patrol, made out of ex-soldiers.
Ugly old fucking hag isn't she?
She even suggests that this patrol, let's call ...
