Iraq Situation

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  1. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Government funded financial aid is the driving force for tuition tripling the rate of inflation. Certainly has something to do with outrageous administrative salaries.
     
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    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Dick Cheney and Sean Hannity have such a strong track record of being right about the Middle East.
     
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  3. Barry the Baptist

    Barry the Baptist Hello son, would you like a lolly?
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    That wouldn't shock me at all.
     
  5. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Haliburton already has the contracts for natural gas in Qatar. Invading Syria and deposing Assad would remove the Russian influence that is blocking the proposed NG pipeline they need to connect to the already existing infrastructure in Turkey. This would take away a lot of clout that Russia has as the primary supplier of NG to Europe.
     
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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    It's not about being right, it's about being rich.
     
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  7. Barry the Baptist

    Barry the Baptist Hello son, would you like a lolly?
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    Sad thing is it doesn't matter who or what is killed or destroyed in the process
     
  8. Br4d

    Br4d 2018 Weeb Ewbank Award

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    It's an art that 100,000 people (conservatively) in the US are capable of doing, many of whom would gladly work for a quarter of the compensation that the current people doing it are getting.

    You want to know why university Presidents make so much? The same reason that people at the top of corporations make so much: very few people are consulted about the decision and all of them benefit when the top guys make a lot because they make a lot too.

    When you have boards composed of top executives at other companies there's only one direction compensation is going to go because they want the guy they pay, who sits on boards at their companies to pay them also.

    It's a rigged game full of self-aggrandizement.
     
  9. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Its not the same. Interlocking directorates at major money center banks are far, far removed from the power structure at Bradway St. U. It just is what it is.
     
  10. Br4d

    Br4d 2018 Weeb Ewbank Award

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    Who decides who gets university Presidencies?

    Hint: the trustees are usually the same guys who sit on major boards elsewhere. Some times they're parents of those people, but mostly they're those people.

    Rigged.
     
  11. NotSatoshiNakamoto

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    white privilege
     
  12. Br4d

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    It doesn't involve race or ethnicity specifically. It involves a largely closed group of people with money who have created a culture that siphons money up from the bottom and redistributes it mainly at the top.

    If the widely dispersed shareholders of a company decided executive compensation instead of the board the money would be distributed in a different fashion, although not necessarily sending more of it down the food chain.

    It's the fact that the boards are composed mainly of chief executives that drives up executive pay.

    If the train conductors at a major mass transit agency sat on a board and decided how much train conductors were to be paid and the only check on their ability to pay was what was considered reasonable based on what other mass transit companies were paying you'd have train conductor salaries going through the roof. Same thing with executive pay.
     
  13. JetsVilma28

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    Syria bombing Iraq, Israel bombing Syria, Iraq bombing Iraq, Iran supplying Assad and Iraqi security forces, Iraqi Christians in the North flee to Iraqi Muslim Kurds in the North to avoid bombing, USA supplying Syrian rebels, USA supplying Iraqi security, Iran flying drones in Iraqi airspace, ISIS taking Iraqi cities in the North, Jordan tightening boarders to prepare for ISIS invasion, ISIS threatening Lebanon and Jordan, Russia supplying Assad, Russia supplying Ukrainian Rebels, USA instating sanctions on Russian diplomat visas/passports, North Korea testing ballistic missiles, Taiwan coup, Pakistan terrorist airport, China terrorist knife attacks, China wants some Pacific islands, Japan wants some Pacific islands, Vietnam wants some Pacific islands, Philippines want some Pacific islands, Suarez bites again, Canada polar bear, Europe balks again, Obama drama.
     
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    There's a USA led war going on in Afghanistan?
     
  15. Dirty6Sanchez

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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    We didn't start the fire,
    It was always burning
    Since the world's been turning.
    We didn't start the fire,
    No we didn't light it
    But we tried to fight it.

    Shit, I just dated myself.
     
  17. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Not to mention outed yourself. Billy Joel? Sheesh.
     
  18. Dirty6Sanchez

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    How dare you! Billy Joel is a legend. I know that and I'm 22.
     
  19. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Hehe, it's just a song that sticks with you, never been a fan. Could be worse, at least I'm not waking up with the Golden Girls theme song in my head anymore.
     

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