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On Wall Street Bailout
If the Federal Government cannot properly manage a railroad retirement system, how can we trust them to manage financial markets?
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О Павлике Морозове
Для меня Павлик Морозов является символом СССР. Государствa которое cделало героем и примером для других детей ребенка погубившего своего отца.
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Обамское
Внизу - несколько строк из книги, которую Барак Обама написал о себе - его собственные слова:From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and ( Read more... ) -
A Nice Surprise
I had a nice surprise yesterday - one of my LJ friends turned out to be someone I casually knew for years in RL . I've always liked and respected him, a few months ago we've had a lunch together, we've talked about business, our careers and so on, but we've never touched upon things we both deeply care for (as I've found out from his journal). Well ( Read more... ) -
Peace Plan for Middle East - Беспроигрышный.
Надо выбрать Обаму президентом США, а Эхуда Барака - премьером Израиля. И создать комиссию из трех человек - Барак, Барак и Мубарак. Они договорятся!
To have Barack Obama elected as the US president and Ehud Barak as Israeli Prime Minister. And then to create a Peace Commission of three people: Barack, Barak and Mubarak. Together they can do it!
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Civil War - Eye of The Storm
Всем интересующимся историей США и Гражданской Войной хочу порекомендавать замечательный первоисточник ( Read more... ) -
On Failed Relationships
Неудачные отношения - это своего рода испытание которое разделяет людей на тех которые могут меняться и расти, и тех которые не могут ( Read more... ) -
Intimacy
"As you develop intimacy with another human being - and here I'm not even saying this in a necessarily sexual way - you get a sense of the contours of their mindscape; their unconscious expectations, their unexpressed desires, the taste of the space that is their unused capacity for strong emotion. The raindrops of their accumulated experience, one ( Read more... ) -
Looking Back ..
...I realize I did it all wrong, So here is a recipe to having a successful life for a modern Western male: while you are young, travel around the world, learn about people (and women in particular). Then fight your battles, have a career. And only then, after you had established yourself, and you are are a senior vice president or a managing ( Read more... ) -
Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (Ret.)
..a former commander of US troops in Iraq, came out publicly (and truthfully) calling the present situation in Iraq a "nightmare", and the war conduct by our civilian national leadership "incompetent ( Read more... )