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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nov 12, 2014 - 10:38am PT
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Sad to say, unions - and heavily unionized industries - tend to become economically reactionary. They tend to view change as a threat rather than an opportunity. The reaction of both the UAW and the "Big Three" automakers in the 1970's forms a perfect example. Instead of innovating to make better cars to compete against the imports, they complained that foreign competition was "unfair." The American consumers rejected that argument with their wallets.
Degaine, am I missing something, or did you and I actually agree that both the automakers and the unions have responsibility for the loss of market share by the "Big Three?" You started with the above quote from one of my previous posts, but the tone of your post implied - at least to me - that you thought I put the sole blame on the UAW. I don't think the quote above reads that way.
John
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 12, 2014 - 10:54am PT
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JE...decline of unions, decline of wages and record profits for corporations.
Strange.
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Norton
Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
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Nov 12, 2014 - 11:02am PT
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And that there is why the LIBS got their azzes handed to em a week ago. And will only get more handed to em on Nov 4th, 2016.
are you a betting man, Rick?
I am, and as you are so certain of your 2015 political analysis...
how about you and me have a private little $5000 bet on which party wins the Presidency then?
edit: oh, and Sketch? when you have something meaningful to add a discussion then do so
case in point: when have I ever personally insulted the chief? name it, or STFU, "hypocrite"
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Nov 12, 2014 - 11:15am PT
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Who is your candidate? Who's the Great White Hope in '16?
Dr. Ben Carson
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crankster
Trad climber
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Nov 12, 2014 - 11:25am PT
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Hey, we have a winner - a righty with a backbone willing to back a candidate!
If Ben gets the call from God (he will) he's in it.
Then he has to explain why he's against government programs when he benefited from:
1. raised by a single mother
2. raised in public housing
3. fed with food stamps.
4. supported with welfare wasnt-dependent-on-government
5. kept healthy with medicaid…
6. educated in public schools
7. got eyeglasses from state agency
8. benefited from affirmative action to enter college
9. used federal loans and Pell grants in undergrad school
10. benefited from affirmative action to enter medical school
11. med school paid for with grant from USPHS*
12. said: “The disintegration of the family unit and the welfare state are enslaving African-Americans and ruining their futures.”
Can't wait for the light to shine on Crazy Ben. Hell, according to this loon we might not even have an election...
Colmes: What do you mean though when you say there won’t be an election in 2016?
Carson: There may be so much anarchy going on.
Colmes: Anarchy? You think really risk having an anarchic America to the point where elections may be put on hold or some kind of emergency is declared with such anarchy that there wouldn’t be a presidential election in a couple of years.
Carson: I don’t want to find out, I really don’t want to find out. I don’t want to continue down this pathway that we are going down.
Ol' Ben won't get the nomination, of course. The $$ boys are lining up behind Christie or Bush. But he'll make the Republican debate circus more interesting.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Nov 12, 2014 - 11:34am PT
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Mankind just landed a robot on a comet.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Nov 12, 2014 - 12:01pm PT
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Republicans want to cut funding for medical research, you idiot!! It's like debating a stump.
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dirtbag
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2014 - 12:25pm PT
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And why are you so butthurt, Butthurt?
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Nov 12, 2014 - 12:25pm PT
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1st surface pics ever taken from a comet due any minute now.
The Rosetta orbiter aimed and dropped its lander from 22.5 km. No thrusters, no course or attitude adjustment on the descent. Onto a comet 2.5 mi wide that is a labyrinth of cliffs, canyons, and boulders.
Neither the downward thruster nor ice harpoons designed to hold the lander down in micro gravity worked, but it's down nonetheless.
Wow.
So freakin cool.
Nicely done, ESA.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Nov 12, 2014 - 12:33pm PT
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For you fear junkies, we need to learn about comets and asteroids so we can keep one from wiping us out entirely. A smallish comet the size of 67P (which never crosses earth's orbit) would only unleash the equivalent of a 43 gigaton nuclear weapon, so no big.
For the more curious and less anxious among us - comets are leftover material from the birth of our solar system. They played a key role in delivering water and organic compounds early in earth's history. Understanding them is one key to understanding how life first emerged on our planet.
Comets don't follow politics.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Nov 12, 2014 - 12:56pm PT
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Sample return missions are no longer necessary, silly. The technology was obsolete by the time the Rosetta mission was approved. Philae has all the instruments it needs to analyse the comet in situ. NASA (JPL) provided some of those instruments, in addition to telemetry support for the mission as a whole. Mahy future missions will be joint efforts between NASA and the ESA. Bigger bang for the overall buck, amortize the political climate, share expertise, no duplication of science objectives. Makes sense.
Welcome to the modern world (of the mid to late 90s).
We've been using similar instruments on Mars for years now.
More curiosity and less political filtering with regards to science is recommended.
Science doesn't care which nation or nations explore the unknown, as long as the unknown gets explored.
I expected Flybox to attempt to make this incredible achievement a negative in his emotionally damaged mind - this is not the most unpredictable organism in the cosmos we're talking about, but for the rest of us - it's a pretty amazing day.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 12, 2014 - 01:01pm PT
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State Rep. John E. Barnes, a Cleveland Democrat, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Ohio Democratic Party and its chairman, Chris Redfern, alleging white lawmakers get better treatment and he was punished for raising the issue of racism in the party.
Barnes said he faced discrimination and retaliation from his own party when he refused to join the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus in the Ohio House. Barnes said he feared it would harm his reputation to “associate with an organization whose moral compass he found to be troubling.” The lawsuit mentions members of the caucus who have been convicted of felony and misdemeanor offenses in the last three years. According to the complaint, Barnes ”saw little value to himself or to his district” in joining OLBC and “wanted to be treated as an individual rather than as a member of a presumed monolithic block of votes based upon his skin color.”
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/11/12/explosive-charges-black-democrat-alleges-racism-in-lawsuit-against-ohio-democratic-party/?singlepage=true
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nov 12, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
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So JElezarian, let's KILL THE BULLET TRAIN!!!!111111 AND THE DELTA TUNNEL DREAM.
I'm in!
John
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Nov 12, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
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So JElezarian, let's KILL THE BULLET TRAIN!!!!111111 AND THE DELTA TUNNEL DREAM.
I'm in!
John
I am down with that, also.
Common sense.... something that is lacking from both parties, IMHO.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Nov 12, 2014 - 01:19pm PT
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Future joint interplanetary missions (most notably to the Jupiter system) will likely involve the Russkies, too.
"Save the Europan Whales"
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Nov 12, 2014 - 03:44pm PT
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This thread should be renamed,I mean what are the Republicans right about?
I mean that.
Was it that the ACA was going to kill the economy,Remember death panels, I mean ,where they right?
How's about ,the recession,we are soundly on our way out of it.
Deny here___.
Do you all really want fracking and pipelines dotting America?
Drill baby Drill,were they right?
Who is making that money and where do you think it goes.[hint:he has 3 chins]
Pennsylvania had 11 aeration ponds from well waste in 2004.
They now have 600.
Are they right?
I do not even want to mention Climate Change.
Record warmth for October and early November here,but that is weather.
Now Big oil will win.
You may call this a whine,rant,or whatever,because that is what you do.
But ,what have they done right?
Be Specific.
Edit ;They have done one thing well,Obstruct the growth of our republic.How about another gov. shut down,we have money to burn.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 12, 2014 - 04:36pm PT
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Somebody actually named a specific Republican candidate that they would support.
Sarah Palin she's awesome!!!
Vote for her !!!!
She has good eyes. She can see Russia from her house ......
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 12, 2014 - 04:59pm PT
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