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Maybe a lot of PA blue collars aren't smart enough to reject the lying promises of job creation, neen. It seems like these companies bring their people into our state instead of hiring us, as a matter of course. I've seen a lot of out of state plates on company work vehicles in Pgh. The execs aren't driving those vehicles, out of state blue collar workers are. Still, I'm sorry for their troubles.
It's great that repug gov Corbett has given us the best of both worlds here. We get the poisoned water and environment, and we get no tax dollars OR jobs from the fracking endeavor.
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11/29/16 - 12/14
"I wonder where the gang got to, Unk", said Boaz. Most of the gang was hanging, at that moment, from lamp posts in the business district of Boca Raton.
12/14 - 12/28
America has proven what I learned in Russia: the people most skeptical and conspiracy minded are the most easily duped. - J. Ioffe, 12/13
12/28 - 1/25/17
His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it...Zaphod...has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.
1/25 - 3/14
A Paphlagonian tanner, an arrogant rogue, the incarnation of calumny, a domineering and dishonest slave who has rendered life intolerable for others and had to be gotten rid of, a brutal master, a perfect glutton..., bad-tempered, a fawning cur, a robber..., detested, a yawning gulf of plunder, a villain a thousand times a day, an imposter, a dull varlet, a thief, a cheat who flutters from one extortion to another, and helps himself with both hands from the public funds, an Inspector of Arses, with a pigs education, and a man whose death would be a happy day for the rest of the Athenians and their children -- Aristophanes (about Cleon), via Heller
3/14 - 4/14
Sharkey says 'Hey, kemosabe! Long time no see.' He says 'Hey sport. YOU connect the dots, YOU pick up the pieces.' He says 'You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself and there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' theirs. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.' And Sharkey says 'Deep in the heart of darkest America, Home of the Brave.' He says 'Listen to my heart beat.' - Anderson, Burroughs
4/14 - 1/20/21
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced... - Sartre, (Mike Brooks)
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If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. -- K. Popper
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