Does anyone important in Washington pay taxes? Or is that civic duty - like jury duty or serving in the military - now something that only the "little people" in America, those without deep pockets and connections, do?
is it that Washington is corrupt, or is it that the tax code is too difficult? Or both?
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Uh oh: Dilbert got fired....
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Statistic for the day:
China has laid off 20 million "migrant" workers...
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Four more humans test positive for past of infection with Ebola Reston...
The good news: None got sick
The bad news: this means pig to human transmission...
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Is Teleportation possible?
Actually it sounds more like the ansible, the instantaneous communication devices in Ursula LeGuin's novels...
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Ralph Peters says, tongue in cheek, we don't need psychologists to understand the Taliban: We need to read Starship Troopers...
Ah yes, but what about reading Ender's Game too?
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The good news: Iran puts first telecommunications satellite into orbit.
The bad news? It means that their rockets can hit Europe...
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And the totalitarian Eugenicists are back...notice the photos are all of brown people? Coicidence?
One common subplot in SciFi is the hero is the illegal child...see Ender's game...
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