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Originally posted by oniongrass
Politicians in shirt-sleeves, a WV prediction from the thread on GLP.
Obama's speech today was in a shirt with no tie or suit jacket:
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Originally posted by oniongrass
Are there actually men who enjoy wearing that stuff? I hate it when I have to wear that stuff.
Get one drop of food on your tie, and the tie is ruined.
I was thinking about it differently. Suit and tie is a power look. People are coming to hate authority, their hatred is greater than their fear since even if they follow the rules bad things will happen to them anyway. So the authoritarian look is out.
It's a modified approach to controlling an increasing fractious populace.
Does that make sense?
Originally posted by oniongrass
Well I noticed that in his 2009 (last year's) Labor Day speech, Obama wore similar shirt-sleeves. Last year Cincinnati, this year Milwaukee. Last year he was pushing the benefits of health care with the public option. This year he talked about how he had delivered health care and "forgot" to mention anything about a public option.
So no change there, he dresses like a working man one day a year for his Labor Day speech.
Originally posted by oniongrass
He "forgot" to mention it, because the bill that was passed and he signed, between the two speeches, did not have the public option he was pushing in 2009 as a reason to support the bill. It was a decisive issue for many people, including me. Without that I have no confidence that costs will be contained. The puny public option that they were going to do wasn't enough, but it was something, and then they just #ed us harder (excuse my language, I have no other way to express it) and took it out altogether.
Originally posted by oniongrass
Fidel Castro comes out on the Israeli side!
www.theatlantic.com...
... He continued: "The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust." I asked him if he would tell Ahmadinejad what he was telling me. "I am saying this so you can communicate it," he answered. ...
Originally posted by nlouise
reply to post by Wide Vision 2010
Thanks for the info. I understand PPM very well, used to work for Culligan years ago in soft water and ro sales, and I had a PPM meter until just a few years ago. I never thought about using one to identify the amount of colidal silver. Great idea.