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Why aren't I doing this?
Posted Feb 3, 2004
‘Parently, the job market’s so bad people have reverted back to third-world scams to make a quick buck. Here’s one the MTA just found out: With all those unsupervised entrances with banks of metrocard vending machines, all a scammer gotta do is buy several unlimiteds, break all the machines (by putting a blank metrocard in the money slot, for instance) and then charge people $2 to swipe them on through. MTA says a third of the breakages of the vending machines are from tampering such as this, and that’s a third out of 800 breakages a day.
Scary thing is, they're making more than me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/nyregion/03subway.htm
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Welfare Republicans
Posted Feb 2, 2004
Apparently the states that vote Republican and those that vote Democrat are divided on whether or not they get an ecumenical return on their federal taxes, but the opposite way you would think. Democrat-leaning states are "Givers," in that they give more in federal taxes than they are getting back in federal programs, and Republican-leaning states are "Takers," where it is sadly the other way around. Guess those Repubs don’t REALLY want to scale back "willy-nilly" Democratic spending after all. Is it time for the north to secede, yet?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/opinion/30PINK.html
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Human Shields
Posted Mar 2, 2003
9 of the 11 original 'human shields' who went off to Baghdad are coming back now that Saddam told them to station themselves at sites likely to be bombed or go back home, and Bush said they were likely to be bombed anyway.
So, the question is, who's more moral? The activists who pulled out from their symbolic effort in harm's way, Saddam for manipulating them, or Bush for continuing on with his violent agenda regardless?
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Enough bashing France!
Posted Feb 20, 2003
As my thoughts turn to Lafayette St in lower Manhattan, or better yet the Algerian hijacking of an Air France jetliner in 1994, or even the fact that it was French troops who made up the West's ground war in Afghanistan - NOT US troops, all we did was bomb Canadians and obliterate the occasional wedding - or it was French intelligence that resulted in post September 11th arrests of suspected terrorist leaders - since the CIA can't find a single man who can speak Arabic - I can't help but wonder where our senators get off cracking Frenchman jokes because of their opposition to our war in Iraq.
Are we as Americans simply unknowledgable of our own involvement in history or just willfully ignorant of international affairs? Didn't France and the rest of the NATO countries comply graciously in Clinton's war in Kosovo? Wasn't it France who supplied humanitarian aid and claimed they were all Americans right after the destruction of the WTC? Aren't they the poster-child for democratic revolution in the first place? Or even second place, if you still call the US a democracy? Didn't they have their own share of ethnocentricity and empire-building like the rest of us? What's so bleeding different? Why is it now that they're considered ungrateful bastards when they should be our biggest ally?
Then again, maybe they just make Bush look bad, because blatantly pro-America Chirac listens to his people when they say "no war!" After all, only a *true* leader can ignore the will of his people and do what *he* considers is best. The rest are just simply servants to public opinion... which apparently *someone* has forgotten is the role of the government to begin with...
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Latest reply: Feb 20, 2003
Moderation, in moderation, is STILL too much...
Posted Mar 14, 2001
wow, was every journal entry and post to this space other than the very recent few so offensive as to be taken off? I must be more popular than I thought... 
and just WHERE is my NYC Battle forum?! just when I had those conniving superheroes in the clutches of defeat... grrr... oh well, time to start anew...
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