The events in Syria this week, and the emerging world reaction, mattered.
Not sure what I have for "didn't matter," although someone did report a poll in some state matching Hillary Clinton against one of the Republicans for 2016. Obviously, Ignore those polls!
What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Saturday, August 24, 2013
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What shouldn't matter but does is the ridiculous notion of the Pres. to tie graduating college students salaries to government funding. Check out my post here:
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Here's a thought. How about that the colleges are all required to publish a number: how many years it will take the median student to pay off their student loans, at the Republican mandated 6% interest rate.
DeleteSo, $45K per year costs = $180,000 dollar debt
+ ~$12,000 per year interest
and a job that pays $40,000 a year, from which you take home ~65% ($26,000)
Looks like 12 years in your parents' basement for you!
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ReplyDeleteIt looks like Syria may matter even more next week.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Yosemite fire--it suddenly matters to San Francisco, and its electricity and water.
What doesn't matter: Twitter upset over Ben Afleck playing Batman.
On Syria, the videos themselves may not have mattered that much. Apparently, the symptoms shown are not those of nerve gas. That might be explained, however, by the Syrian armed forces mixing sarin bombs with something else, even canisters of tear gas, just to produce symptoms that confuse the evidence. Much more reliable was Saturday's report from Doctors without Borders that three Damascus-area hospitals connected to that group received 3,600 patients with neurotoxin symptoms within a three-hour period.
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ReplyDeleteI'd say Justice Ginsburg's absolute absence of political tact matters. She's at grave risk of Thurgood Marshall-ing herself and being replaced by a reactionary.
Seconded. She's digging in her heels publicly. She either means exactly what she's saying and doing as a media strategy, or she's angling all this at her co-justices to ensure that she's taken fully seriously as a fixture right up until the day she resigns and no sooner. I'd like some Supreme Court reporters to explore that possibility a little more closely.
DeleteHow about, "These young whippersnappers are making me crazy with their falsely rosy views of history?"
DeleteIf Ginsburg hangs on for the rest of Obama's term and Republicans gain unified control in 2016, she'll very likely be replaced by a reactionary no matter what she says or doesn't say.
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