suec03's Comments (1475)

“Actually, I don't think it can be appealed to the Supremes, since it was the defendant who won.”

“Welll .. other courts outside Ohio are not OBLIGED to follow it, but it *is* a sort of precedence that other courts can lean on and use, and generally provide deference to the Ohio ruling as well, especially since it's a state-supreme court ruling.

Other courts in the country use California rulings all the time (maybe because we're so litigious? I don't know for sure) for bearings and discussion. And, of course, if there is division among the courts, it gives the Supremes the ultimate reason to step in and settle it once and for all.”

“"The Ala Wai is a man-made canal with low water flow"

Is I recall, it was dug originally as a drainage ditch for the Waikiki area, not a commercial waterway, which would explain why it got choked up and backflowed into Waikiki. Mahalo, yr honor.

BTW, what happened to Ala Moana Park and Mall?”

“Mayor is a birther”

“Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver, Booker T & The MG's Al Green, Justin Timberlake, Maurice White of Earth, Wind, & Fire, Cybill Shepard, the list goes on and on. I know it almost writes itself, but not everyone from TN is like Mr Wiseman .”

“Picky....”

“suec03, I'm perfectly calm.
RTFA isn't "flying off the handle" - it's internet shorthand. Relax.

But, you're right, I missed the past tense.”

“Really? As long as they are foreigners, I guess you are right.”

“I hate breaking this to you, but the State Department and NY Times disagree with you. There are reasons why the State Department protocols prohibiting things like bowing have been in place for over 200 years. You might want to read the June 19, 1994 Times article ("The President's Inclination: No, It Wasn't a Bow-Bow") that states:

"It wasn't a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan.

But the 'thou need not bow' commandment from the State Department's protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years. Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President had not really done the unthinkable.

'It was not a bow-bow, if you know what I mean,' said Ambassador Molly Raiser, the chief of protocol."”

“And when he bowed to the Saudi king, what was that - respect or subservience? And how can you tell what he meant, unless of course you can read his mind? The important thing is not what you have decided you'd like to believe, but how this behavior is read by governments (and certain non-state players) across the world.

Did it ever occur to you that outside of America, the bleat of the lamb might still excite the tiger? Warning: Considering such a notion has not been approved by the O-government. Before thinking, consult your nearest state-run media outlet.”

“I feel we are arguing with Idiots!”

“But thinking takes all the fun out of boinking!”

“You've misunderstood my comment, which justifies your use of the word "cryptic". The issue is this: in the last decades of the 20th century there has been an ideological push around the world, as part of what falls under the rhubric of "neoliberalism", toward the liberation of flows of capital - financial capital - across borders. Do you agree with this statement? If so, here is the rub: building a manufacturing sector takes years of work... you need to invest in the education of engineers and technology workers, you need to acquire the equipment that is used in the factories, and the transportation infrastructure to move goods to market, etc. Building up an industrial base is not something that happens overnight. But an existing industrial base can be destroyed overnight by shifts in the global movement of capital. This is essentially what has been happening for 40 years in the USA. As we have moved from a manufacturing economy to a "service economy", we have been dismantling our factories, laying off our workers, etc. At a certain point in this process, you reach the point of no return: if manufacture were to become competitive from a cost basis in the USA again, it wouldn't matter because we no longer have the base of plant and labor in place to take advantage of those opportunities. The factories are gone. The workers are gone. Once you abandon base of plant, equipment and labor,... it wastes away and cannot be brought back on”

“You are so fanned.”

“I believe they were very poor villagers that mostly grew just enough to feed their family and sell a bit....they were living in the 19th Century at best...Many have been relocated to cities with electricity and work.
There is a wonderful Chinese movie/documentary you can get from Netflix or Blockbuster....."Up the Yangtze" or something like that.....beautifully photographed and very touching story of the young people who worked on the cruise boats that toured the River while the dam was being built.”

“Hmmm... seems I misread your original post, and then you misread my reply. I think we're actually on the same page, here for the most part. In my analogy the stray cats are American consumers; the fishermen are the Chinese. I'm simply noting that the benefits of their labour have been going elsewhere all along. It's hard to imagine a scenario under which Americans no longer consuming Chinese wealth would leave the Chinese with less.”