Perhaps it would be better, when speaking of an early rural [U.S.] society, to talk of an absence of peasantry: We had no concept of a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs; instead, yeomen agrarians were the Jeffersonian ideal, a nation of independent farmers rather than peasants
Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeated his claim that he -- and the entire country -- was lied to about the TARP program in 2007.
Asked about the claim by host David Gregory, McCain was adamant. "We
were all misled" by Bush administration Treasury Secretary Hank
Paulson, McCain said.
The snows that obliterated Washington in the past week interfered with
many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one
important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.
TF gets really fucking high with some Yemeni cats and muses about education...it's all about the kids,man...
I took part in a “qat chew” the other day at the home of a Yemeni official. Never done that before.
Qat is the mildly hallucinogenic leaf drug that Yemeni men stuff in their cheek after work — and sometimes during. My hosts insisted that qat actually makes your senses sharper and that you could chew and chisel the top of a mosque minaret at the same time.