They're exposing the Top 1%ers and their apparatchiks/nomenclatures.
Can't have that....8D
Soviet intellectuals and political power: the post-Stalin era - Google Books Result books.google.com/books?isbn=1850432848...Vladimir Shlapentokh - 1990 - History - 330 pages Party apparatchiks defended the nomenclature's benefits via reference to the high material status of intellectuals, writers, and scholars (see Pravda, ...
"So what did the idiots learn this week? After-tax income for the top 1% grew 275% in the last 30 years (first graph above). Everyone else got hosed. The idiots learned that there really is a gross disparity between the top 1% and the bottom 99%. Two things will happen now. The elites or, more likely, their lapdogs in the media—see Amity Shlaes—will argue that this CBO data is unimportant. Or these people will simply forget about this data, just like they forget about everything else as the 24-hour news cycle cycles on.
Yesterday, I wrote that corruption in the United States could not get any worse in the current system. But reader Joonsae said "Of course [it can]! The moron index has never been higher!" Sadly, that is correct. That was merely some rare wishful thinking on my part.
Everyone here understands that we're only talking about the tip of the iceberg, that has just gashed our titanic....
dontchya?.....;}
20 inches of snow on Halloween in Connecticut?
non news....really?
"“Well you can’t attribute a single event to climate change.” But there is a systematic influence on all of these weather events now-a-days because of the fact that there is this extra water vapor lurking around in the atmosphere than there used to be say 30 years ago. It’s about a 4% extra amount, it invigorates the storms, it provides plenty of moisture for these storms and it’s unfortunate that the public is not associating these with the fact that this is one manifestation of climate change."
