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July 19, 2007
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If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
- In Congress Assembled, UC Davis edition
- Perspective on police brutality
- If you're not doing anything bad you have no reason to fear...
- Percentage of Millionaires: Why is tax policy so hard to change?
- We Are The One Percent!
- Batman: "I am the 1%"
- “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”
- James Madison spoke against concentrated wealth
- If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality
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Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
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optimists and pessimists attribute the reasons for success and failure differently: it's personal for pessimists. - ITMFA
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Science says yes, but that it isn't worth it. - Creative Commons
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