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nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Tourism is our number one export, per POTUS today at Disneyworld....Last edited Thu Jan 19, 2012, 06:43 PM USA/ET - Edit history (2)
Decline watch... we just crossed another point. >snort< (Yes that is part of the LONG TERM TRENDS we are observing, for the benefit of those who have missed the at times long trend articles)
It used to be industrial goods...(that we were always pushing)
Check.
Anybody is really curious there are places on the web seriously discussing this subject by the way... and I do not mean fringe places either. I mean very much ELITE places.
Per Joephilly suggestion, here is a link to Decline Watch
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/category/topic/decline_watch
Foreign Policy is one of those elite of elite pubs, and have been running this trends spotting as it were, for a while. It makes for, at times, depressing reading. And no, they are not reds or blues, it is targeted at foreign service pros and other specialists.
FarLeftFist (4,811 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. We crossed that point long ago from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Sadly.
Definitely NEED to bring manufacturing back, but as long as the corporate entities thrive off cheap foreign labor it's not looking so good. Thankfully Obama saved the auto industry. Imagine America without an auto industry.
nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. Yeah we did
but as far as I can remember this is the first time I hear the POTUS sounding like insert President of Mexico here...
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:47 PM
ROFF (130 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. Your title is missing one word
President Obama actually said "Tourism is our number one SERVICE export"
Response to ROFF (Reply #4)Crack of the whip.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:49 PM
JoePhilly (10,369 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. I just posted the video to make the same point. OP is wrong ...
Or "selectively deaf"... or ... "did not listen closely".
But regardless, you are right ... he did not say what the OP claims. Reply to this post
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Response to JoePhilly (Reply #7)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:55 PM
nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
12. You mean POTUS did not highlight that one of our exports now is a SERVICE?
LIke oh insert developing economy here? I heard it very well thank you.
As I said, there are SERIOUS places that are discussing this very seriously. Those very SERIOUS places are not into team sports, between the red team and the blue team.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #12)Getting better.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:58 PM
JoePhilly (10,369 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
15. Your response trys to walk back your OP, thus making my point.
Response to JoePhilly (Reply #15)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 06:00 PM
nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
17. Not at all but I gave up team sports as well
It is a marker... like it nor.
And yes the US is a declining power. I guess team members will be the last to know.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #23):rotf: :lmao: KEERACK!!!
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:21 PM
Obamanaut (9,792 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
30. And arcs, and scripts, and dots, and yes portends, and foreshadowing.
Even an omen or two.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:48 PM
JoePhilly (10,369 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Bull. That is not what he said ... you might want to rewatch the speech ... he said ...
"Tourism is the #1 SERVICE that we export" ... did you miss the word SERVICE????
Here is the video ... go to the 1:50 point in the video and listen again ... up to the 2:20 or so mark. He is very clear.
http://www.news-press.com/videonetwork/1402359906001/Speech-President-Obama-speaks-at-Disney-World
Response to JoePhilly (Reply #5)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:18 PM
Obamanaut (9,792 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
29. Don't waste your typing skills pointing out that kind of error. It will generate some sort of
condescending remark, you will be threatened with an 'iggy', and any error you may have pointed out will remain, because you. just. simply. can. not. do. that.
Response to Obamanaut (Reply #29)
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:12 PM
zappaman (3,856 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
39. Kick and recommend
Not for the OP which clearly misquotes what Obama said, but for post #29.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:50 PM
nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. Glad to see usual people missing the damn point
at this point I just do this.
and f course this
(Incidentally the smilies work very well, that IS slick)
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #8)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:57 PM
pintobean (4,804 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
14. No one corrects faulty information
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at the ELITE places?
SERIOUSly
nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore:whatever:
35. Hey when we finally replace the 20 year old tv set
there is made in America sets right now, but that is another story.
This was more the... my ear is attuned to these messages from years of following the trends as an academic pursuit... and I mean second tier power trends.
This started, to be brutally honest, with Reagan... and the slow attacks on the Steel industry.
It accelerated to dizzying speeds after we invaded Iraq.
This is party independent, and in pretty serious places people are keeping an eye on it. I have posted articles on this here. Silly season is upon us, so I will continue to follow this interest of mine at other places. I can tell that this place is not the place to discuss this anymore.
I think man bytes dog is the preferred diet at this point. And since I gave up sports, and the red team and the blue team matter little when it comes to things like this... we are talking one to two generation trends... not a year electoral cycle, we are talking of two very different time lines.
And as I said, when it comes to this, being members of a team does not work.
Suffice it to say we are NOT number one on more than just a few major indices.
I hate DU3. It's so hard to keep the date and time in a copied post.
Someone with a really beloved suckup mole should ask Skimmer to go back to DU2 and stop this nonsense.
You need date and time to keep up with them second tier power trends.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #23)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:21 PM
Obamanaut (9,792 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
30. And arcs, and scripts, and dots, and yes portends, and foreshadowing.
Even an omen or two.
Can we please add a "magnificent bastard" category to the 2012 awards? Obamanaut wins it hands down for the slow surgical precision he is executing Nads of Arc with.
I love you Obamanaut, oh yes it doo-ooo.
You better get your fill of Obamanaut.
Skimmer never canned him, probably because Skimmer is smart enough to enjoy how he needled the most obnoxious DUmpmonkey in history.
You know every time he piped up, nutcase nadin and her sycophants had the alert buttons smoking, but he survived.
Now, with the MIR team liquidation squads composed entirely of raving moonbats, he's not long for this forum.
I doubt Obamanaut lasts long enough to see the crocuses sprout.
If he does, he'll be like Nicholson in the last scenes of Cuckoo's Nest.
I sent this a while back; I have no doubt the elusive enigmatic Elad is working on it.(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/newdu.jpg)
nadinbrzezinski (101,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
35. Hey when we finally replace the 20 year old tv set
there is made in America sets right now, but that is another story.
This was more the... my ear is attuned to these messages from years of following the trends as an academic pursuit... and I mean second tier power trends.
This started, to be brutally honest, with Reagan... and the slow attacks on the Steel industry.
It accelerated to dizzying speeds after we invaded Iraq.
This is party independent, and in pretty serious places people are keeping an eye on it. I have posted articles on this here. Silly season is upon us, so I will continue to follow this interest of mine at other places. I can tell that this place is not the place to discuss this anymore.
I think man bytes dog is the preferred diet at this point. And since I gave up sports, and the red team and the blue team matter little when it comes to things like this... we are talking one to two generation trends... not a year electoral cycle, we are talking of two very different time lines.
And as I said, when it comes to this, being members of a team does not work.
Suffice it to say we are NOT number one on more than just a few major indices.
I hate DU3. It's so hard to keep the date and time in a copied post.
Someone with a really beloved suckup mole should ask Skimmer to go back to DU2 and stop this nonsense.
You need date and time to keep up with them second tier power trends.
Greetings,
I had mentioned in my last email to you that I would periodically stay in touch to contribute to CC since I'm not interested in registering (I read it all the time but think I'd spend too much time were I to register) and a topic has arisen that I think I should have something to contribute of value to the discussion.
I was reading the board tonight and saw a post by GOBUCKS which was complaining about the date and time of posts not being selectable. You and others have affirmed this point.
Luckily, however, there is an easy solution to your problem.
It's true if you follow the normal procedure for copy and paste that the datestamp will not be selectable with your mouse. This problem is easy to get around, however, once you realize that if you start your selection at the datestamp instead of the name of the primitif, everything will be copied over, including the date. Don't start clicking and dragging on the name of the primitif. Use the "Response to XXX" text instead.
For those interested, here is the geekspeak explanation of what's going on:
The reason for this is that the datestamp in the web page source code, as created by Elad, is actually above the rest of the post. Thus, when you click and drag on the other text, the datestamp does not become selected since text selection the way you're doing it only selects stuff below your starting point.
It appears that Elad did this unusual coding arrangement because he did not wish to use HTML tables in DU3. Instead, he's doing everything with <p> and <div>, presumably to speed up loading times. The end result is that if one wishes to copy and paste the full context of postings, one must follow the backwards procedure I described above.
Kind regards,
AllahJesus
Easiest to just start to the mouse arrow just above and left of the upper left corner of the comment.
Highlight as normal.
No fuss, no muss.
Easiest to just start to the mouse arrow just above and left of the upper left corner of the comment.That works, I think, for the OP, but for subsequent posts it misses the date and time.
Highlight as normal.
No fuss, no muss.
That works, I think, for the OP, but for subsequent posts it misses the date and time.I double checked.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 03:19 PM jwirr (18,329 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
42. Tourism has its place but I feel sorry for any area that must rely on that alone. When I was an
archivist at a museum we promoted tourism as part of our diversified economy. The small communtiy had logging, manufacturing, and tourism/hospitality. That seems a better way to go for communities wherever they are.