politics: What If They Eat Us?
- 03/04/15 11:02 AM
I once saw a photo of a cat looking at a mouse being totally terrified. There was a door between them. The mouse was doing something on one side and was oblivious of the cat on the other side. An adult cat was looking under the door at the mouse with eyes so wide open and it was obvious that the cat was terrified.
The cat was so much bigger than the mouse and could kill it instantly, or play with it until its dead and then proudly bring it so that people look and approve.
But the cat does … (14 comments)
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politics: Balanced Budget or Housewives vs. President
- 10/13/13 06:53 AM
There is a magazine in Florida, which is called Florida Trend. I am getting electronic edition. What I like about it, is that every morning I get Florida news right to my screen, and then I get an afternoon update. Terrific for guys like me, who would take a few minutes to scroll through the headlines, but would not have the discipline to search on my own.
The news come from all Florida newspapers, and if interested, you can click on a source and the link will take you to the full original article.
I am looking at Florida Trend … (10 comments)
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politics: Political Vegans
- 08/04/13 01:11 PM
For years and years I am watching the political universe, and there are moments, where I am puzzled. Moment where I think differently…
But who the heck am I? An immigrant from the USSR with a dose of curiousity, not a political pundit, not a scholar…
Time and again when I thought something was wrong, even praised by the administration at the time, it later turned that it was wrong… After watching it again and again, I got enough chutzpah to think that sometimes I can see what our administration can’t.
When I am reading about it on the Internet, I … (12 comments)
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politics: Snowden Stays In Russia? Great News…
- 08/01/13 03:45 PM
In a surprise move, President Putin granted a temporary asylum to Snowden. Well, there was no surprise for me. Funny, first it was a temporary stay at the airport, now it is a temporary asylum… the only permanent part here is a deserved spit in the face of our President, and, subsequently, our country…
I believe asylum is good for Snowden and I believe it is great for the rest of us. I read that he is already offered a job, but make no mistakes, Russia is not a happy place, and Snowden is very unlikely to really enjoy living … (18 comments)
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politics: When There Is Nothing To Say...
- 11/05/12 10:32 PM
Watched TV last night and saw those last minute commercials by our current (still) President. Couldn’t believe what I heard.
I could understand if it were about hope, he is a master of it. But he was talking about the economy, what he achieved. He was talking about how the economy got better, and how we got better.
This was hilarious. It reminded me the Communist Party Congresses every 5 years back in the USSR. Things were rather miserable, but from the rostrum they were talking about great achievements and accomplishments.
Obama’s great achievements and accomplishments?
Really?
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politics: Yep, $100-Notes Would Be Fine…
- 10/27/12 11:14 AM
Just heard it on TV. Because of the national debt, average household owes over $140K in debt… Ouch…
Hmm… but if you think about it… maybe it is not bad at all and half of the country is right?
I once heard about the developer who was $38 Million in debt, that he was a rich guy.
Looks I am very quickly becoming a wealthy guy, too. Looks like trillions keep coming...
If my very average family owes so much, doesn’t it mean that we are well off family?
That’s a warming feeling… very much so.
But even though I … (18 comments)
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politics: How To Be Kind and Cruel
- 10/24/12 11:49 PM
A friend of ours recently underwent knee surgery. She said it was so painful, that if she knew it would be so bad, she would rather wait a few more years, until she could not function without it anymore.
After surgery came physical therapy. It felt like torture, every day, and with no mercy. Pushing to the limit, when you cry, and when sweat is all over you…
You can’t take it anymore but they push you, there is no way out, you got to do it…
This is the only way to make her knee working. So doctors … (19 comments)
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politics: A Heretic Thought...
- 10/23/12 12:57 AM
We are in awe that we have the first black president. We are weighing in and are ready to the awes of having a woman-president.We already had a close call...
Then we might want a poor president, or young president, or Jewish president, or “green” president…
There is always an underlying thought that they may also turn to be good presidents.
What about the heretic idea of choosing a stellar president, of any race and of any gender? As long as s/he is stellar?
I am sure that if we start looking for one, we may find a … (30 comments)
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politics: Scent Of Socialism
- 10/20/12 06:23 AM
Tired of April 15 Tax Day, I am drawing a small salary. So every quarter I am meeting with my accountant and sign some papers. She’s now an accountant in a manufacturing company here in Daytona, so I usually catch with her during her lunch break.
Last time we met at Olive Garden on International Speedway Blvd in Daytona Beach. They have benches next to the entrance, and that’s where we sat. Julia, my accountant, suddenly asked if I could feel that smell. I sure could, but I had no clue what it was. Julia told me that she would rather … (19 comments)
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politics: The Case Of Mental Waterboarding...
- 10/14/12 01:29 AM
VP “debates” in my opinion was a shameful event. While I did not expect much from our Vice President, I could not believe that Mr. Ryan was his match.
Comments that Biden was laughing hysterically, and it was so bad, so bad, that Ryan won are laughable.
If for a candidate to win the debate means that the other party has to be obnoxious and weird, then it is a sad state of affairs.
Can’t stop thinking that in a country with so much talent the top politicians are quite mediocre.I got used to thinking that competition helps get the creme … (21 comments)
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politics: When Enough Is Enough?
- 09/26/12 02:04 PM
In the discussion following my blog “Redistribution...How Sweet It Is I asked Mitchell Hall “what does Obama have to do so that you say "Basta"? He answered “How about NYC being attacked during his Presidency.” And while he was referring to September 11” happening on Bush’s watch, we know that preparations for it started at time when Clinton was in office. By the way, Clinton knew about the training camps in Afghanistan, but paid little attention to a small bump on the road (in today’s terms) in foreign policy. It was shadowed by close to his heart and penis Monica… … (15 comments)
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politics: We Do Not Have Socialism in America...
- 09/23/12 04:58 PM
It came in the comment from a wonderful woman on AR – Karen Anne Stone. My blogs and comments surprised her. She does not see it the way I see it. It does not surprise me a bit. We have very different backgrounds, Karen Anne was born here, while I lived in the Soviet Union until the ripe age of 40. For Karen Anne socialism was in the books, maybe movies... I envy her a lot in that sense. For me it was life. It was in my blood, like many I developed the ability to feel the danger with my … (27 comments)
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politics: To Keep Your Mouth Shut?
- 09/20/12 11:01 PM
I recently ran into an article about falsely accused famous Russian scientist academician Igor Reshetin, who spent nearly 7 year in prison.
He wrote that at one of the safe houses in Moscow, where they help preliminary interrogations he had to use the bathroom, and there was a handwritten note stuck to the door, that read:
If you think, keep your mouth shut...
If you do not keep your mouth shut, then do not write...
If you write, do not sign anything...
If you think, speak, write and sign... do not get surprised
In English it loses that sub-context that … (26 comments)
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politics: Redistribution...How Sweet It Is
- 09/19/12 10:54 PM
Ran into this interesting speech by our still current President. It is about redistribution in which he intimately and ultimately believes, and which we now so well know.
The problem with redistribution is that though intentions might be considered by some as noble, whenever it goes beyond what is already a distribution in the tax system, it results are disastrous.
When in the Soviet Union after winning power in 1917, they made redistribution their priority, the country had the rich, and the country had the middle class. In just few years (1921) they had a terrible famine.
Was it because … (53 comments)
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politics: Sweetie, You Are Such A Moron
- 09/19/12 04:22 AM
Natasha is a Russian Jew, who, like me, came to the United States in 1991. She recently retired. She is very concerned with what is happening in this country, and she measures everything against the Soviet Union. She feels that we are going in that direction, and it is bothering her immensely, that Americans around her do not feel the same way. (count me in the same category, as I have the same background)
She understands that Americans are fed the same media stuff for decades, and do not even know how different the world became in the last decade. That … (27 comments)
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politics: Entrepreneurial Spirit License
- 03/20/12 01:02 AM
There is so much sung about American Entrepreneurial spirit. So much, that you start suspecting that something is not right here…
We tend to speak with great aspiration and admiration about things that we often do not have. The childhood in the 50s, when kids were roaming outside most of the day, and parents did not have to watch us like hawks…
The time when we could make a few bucks selling lemonade at the road stand…
The time when entrepreneurial spirit meant doing something…
Seems that we are now so regulated, that freedom comes with a big dent. It is … (30 comments)
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politics: Too Clever To Be President?
- 03/07/12 02:24 PM
I ran into the blog post by Satar Naghshineh There goes CRAZY Ron Paul again saying CRAZY things in 2002! Watched this fascinated video, and decided to reblog, and turned out it was “Members only” and I could not reblog. Hence this post… There is nothing easier in the world than making predictions. And for longer period they are, the easier. People hardly remember what you were saying yesterday, left alone what you were saying years ago. Life is changing so fast, and political life is not an exception. If somebody have told me that the country would be making such … (16 comments)
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politics: The Master Of Waste?
- 02/23/12 02:22 PM
I am watching local channel on TV, and it is all about Obama coming to Orlando. And why is he coming to Orlando?
Oh yes, he is hungry… Not for food that is, but for money. He is coming to pick about $1.2 Mil for Democratic Party and his own election campaign…
Why now? Good question. There are no coincidences in high politics. The dinner with the president goes for $30K a plate, and there are not many people in Central Florida with wallets that deep.
But it is an All-Star game time in Orlando, and there are some celebrities in … (20 comments)
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politics: After Spring Comes Winter...
- 02/10/12 12:23 PM
Something is freaking wrong with the climate. And as if global warming was not enough, now we are witnessing a very weird natural unnatural phenomenon. After Spring comes Winter...
I am watching TV and for a few days they are talking about Americans, that Egypt is not letting go, and taking them to court...
What is the crime? They were doing what they were doing for years, promoting democracy. One of them is the son of Transportation Secretary Sam LaHood, who was the head of International Republican Institute (IRI, for short, is a democracy promotion organization that operates in some … (12 comments)
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politics: Who Needs A Shrink?
- 02/06/12 04:11 PM
Nobody loves the government. Even Real Estate agents… Real estate agents do not like what government is doing… Real Estate agents are smarter than the government…
Maybe, maybe, maybe…
May be not…
I think that we on AR mirror the “big” government.We just do not notice it.
Take so popular challenges on AR, especially those serial challenges, running for weeks and months. When the government comes with a stimulus (challenge) with a lot of dough (points), it works poorly.
I wrote that, then stumbled on “it works poorly” and then figured that this is a senseless phrase. The exact statement … (12 comments)
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