Republican fat cats beg for money to conquer "fat cat labor bosses"

[Mac1337]

Grace62 wrote:


I heard you also have to give those unions a spare key to your house.

Still haven't said if you approve of the state to withhold money from your paycheck to make your Visa payments.

[Grace62]

Well let's see. I don't receive any paycheck from any state, and my state has no income tax, so I'm not sure how they are going to withhold anything relating to a VISA bill.
What are you talking about?

[cbelt3]

Dakota wrote:
If that gobbledygook is indeed Einstein's then I am glad he stuck to working on his relativity theory.

sigh.

I'm tempted to quote Forrest Gump on your behalf.

[Mac1337]

Grace62 wrote:
Well let's see. I don't receive any paycheck from any state, and my state has no income tax, so I'm not sure how they are going to withhold anything relating to a VISA bill.
What are you talking about?

You are playing with me, aren't you? You really don't see the parallels between the state withholding money from employees salaries on behalf of a private entity called a union? That you do or do not work for the state is immaterial.

[RgrF]

We all put up with Glen Beck wannabes in our virtual lives, fortunately most of us have real lives and real families to return to.

Not sure that's so for the wannabes.

[RgrF]

rankandfile wrote:
[quote=seeing.the.unseeable]
[quote=rankandfile] "This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Sorry to continue the OT element of this thread, but I can't help but think how ironic it si that Einstein's other achievements are so often overshadowed by his significant and direct contribution to "so base an action."

I understand why he did what he did, and why the U.S. did what it did - my grandfather worked with him on the Manhattan Project - but I also understand his qualified regrets ex post facto.
It's my understanding that Einstein was never cleared to work on the Manhattan Project.

He was responsible for alerting FDR to the German splitting of the uranium atom.
He never spoke directly or privately with FDR so to assert he alerted him is a stretch.

FDR and Einstein

[rankandfile]

RgrF wrote:
[quote=rankandfile]
[quote=seeing.the.unseeable]
[quote=rankandfile] "This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Sorry to continue the OT element of this thread, but I can't help but think how ironic it si that Einstein's other achievements are so often overshadowed by his significant and direct contribution to "so base an action."

I understand why he did what he did, and why the U.S. did what it did - my grandfather worked with him on the Manhattan Project - but I also understand his qualified regrets ex post facto.
It's my understanding that Einstein was never cleared to work on the Manhattan Project.

He was responsible for alerting FDR to the German splitting of the uranium atom.
He never spoke directly or privately with FDR so to assert he alerted him is a stretch.

FDR and Einstein
Not a stretch at all.

He wrote him a letter, Aug. 2, 1939.

I have several sources. Here's one:

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Begin/Einstein.shtml

[RgrF]

Not disputing that he tried to reach FDR, only that there isn't any evidence that he was ever heard or got the attention of the President. Not unlike the DNS alerts about 9/11 GWB claims he never read.

[rankandfile]

RgrF wrote:
Not disputing that he tried to reach FDR, only that there isn't any evidence that he was ever heard or got the attention of the President. Not unlike the DNS alerts about 9/11 GWB claims he never read.

http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html

Next to last paragraph:

"...Sachs finally met with the President on October 11 and presented Einstein's letter. The President appointed a "Uranium Committee," but it approved only $6,000 to buy graphite and uranium for experiments Szilard proposed."

Sachs, was economist Alexander Sachs, an advisor to FDR.

[rankandfile]

RgrF wrote:
Not disputing that he tried to reach FDR, only that there isn't any evidence that he was ever heard or got the attention of the President. Not unlike the DNS alerts about 9/11 GWB claims he never read.

FDR's thank you letter to Einstein:

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Begin/Roosevelt.shtml