News May 25, 2014 at 9:50 am

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I love Sunday Morning news. Lately, commenter Seatackled has been giving us the Goldie's Bible Study weblink. Hooray
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They are saying "misogynist" and he gives every reason to suspect that.

At the same time, his first three victims by way of stabbing, were men. And one of the gun victims was a man. The other two were females, making it 2:1 men:women killed in his rampage.
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Just Remember Ansel, when you quote Glenn Greenwald, you are quoting someone who doesn't believe in gun control. Read his article about no need for gun control in Brazil, a country with a higher crime rate than the US.

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Shut down the prison/industrial complex and treat people like they deserve, not how you want revenge.
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@2 The Nazis killed Germans too. AlQaeda kills mostly Muslims.
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#6

Point #5 has been my argument all along...the people who should get the access to capital, and have their salary doubled, and have their taxes slashed, are not the poor or the ultra-rich, but the middle class who create jobs not just via business formation, but through the purchase of higher value goods and direct use of services.

Especially in "our" business -- content creation and distribution -- you want a broad-based, populous, wealthy, and literate public. The kind of educated middle class that existed prior to the beginning of its destruction in 1979.

People forget that the original entrepreneurs, from the 1980s...Jobs, etc...were regular middle class kids...not scions of scions of scions...

5. Entrepreneurs are in the (Sinking) Middle Class

The meritorious behavior of job creation comes from the middle class, which is quickly sliding toward lower-income status. The very rich generally don't risk their money in job-creating startup businesses. Over 90% of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), the stock market, and real estate.

With the demise of the middle class, entrepreneurship is decreasing. According to a Brookings Institute report, the "firm entry rate," a measure of new firms and thus of entrepreneurial startup activity, fell by nearly half in the thirty-plus years between 1978 and 2011. America's average entrepreneur is 26 years old, but most of our 26-year-olds are burdened by student loan debt.
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@7: Not only did you actually read one of sgt_doom's links, but you found yourself in agreement with him. gg, JBITSMFOTP.
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Four out of the 18 posts up for today on Slog are not about music or Sasquatch! (Five, if you count the morning news roundup.) Can we please have a separate board for music again, like in the good old days? I do not enjoy scrolling through pages of poorly written coverage of a festival for douche bags out at the Gorge, and I know from other similar sentiments that I'm not alone.

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