Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Davids Daily Dose - Wednesday July 2nd




Back from a great break in the cool hills of North Carolina to the scorching weather here.....so we're a little light on "meat" this DDD but still have lots of good video......







1/  Liberals consistently underestimate the Tea Party for their commitment and their power. Even though the core movement is small, they have leveraged their numbers to take over the Republican Party by making every former moderate Republican adopt their extreme policies.

This is a very insightful story, and if you are at all interested in politics, or are sick at the dysfunction in Washington read this article and you'll see why it's so awful.

Excellent......


Tea Party's hot mess: Inside a noisy, disenchanted movementChris McDaniel (Credit: AP/Rogelio V. Solis)
In Mississippi on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran defeated state Sen. Chris McDaniel in a runoff election to determine who would be the state Republican Party’s nominee for Senate in the extremely conservative state. Despite the fact that the two men were more or less indistinguishable on issue positions, the race was remarkably contentious and largely defined by dueling allegations of impropriety and fraud. Indeed, while non-conservatives may consider the differences between the so-called establishment and Tea Party wings of the GOP to be slight, the primary battle that reached its culmination last night is clear evidence that Republicans themselves strongly disagree.
On that front, if nowhere else, Mississippi GOPers have themselves an unlikely companion: University of Washington associate professor Christopher Parker, who is the author of 2013′s “Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America” and is a firm believer that the divisions within the GOP are significant and likely to endure. Hoping to gain a keener insight into the Tea Party mind, Salon recently called Parker to discuss his research, his recent Brookings Institution paper on the Tea Party and why he doesn’t think the kind of bickering and dysfunction we saw in Mississippi as of late is likely to go away any time soon. Our conversation is below and has been edited for clarity and length.
You make a distinction between Tea Party conservatives and establishment conservatives, even though they often support essentially the same policies. How come?
There are a couple of really key differences, one of which has to do with change. An establishment conservative doesn’t necessarily embrace change of any kind; in fact, there’s a reason they cling to conservatism, because they prefer stability. So they don’t necessarily embrace change, but what they do do is they know that [change is] necessary in order to maintain a stable society over the long haul … What they want is, if a change is going take place, they prefer to have organic, controlled change versus revolutionary change. In other words, evolutionary versus revolutionary change. You can see that in the works of Edmund Burke, who railed against the French Revolution because it was such a drastic change and [because] he would have preferred more evolutionary change, not something so drastic that it completely overturned the foundations of society. The difference between these establishment conservatives is that they see change as a necessary “evil,” if you will, in order to maintain a stable society over the long run.
Now, a reactionary conservative, they don’t want change at all. In fact, they want to look backwards in time to a time during which their social group — their power and cultural hegemony was unquestioned. Beyond that, they will do anything they can to protest social change of any kind, up to and including breaking the law … That’s what the Klan did; that’s what the Tea Party has done on a couple of occasions with their violence. It’s not as much violence as you saw with the Klan in the 1920s, but you do see some of the ways in which they break law and order. If you’re a real conservative, you’re supposed to be all about law and order. But these reactionary conservatives — they’re not completely about law and order if it means capitulation and the loss of their social prestige.














2/  One of the apparent victories for the middle class in recent years was to beat off attempts to privatize Social Security, i.e. to have the program invest your retirement money in the stock market etc, which would leave your final years income in the hands of Wall Street. We won, right?

Wrong. The relentless forces of corruption have tried another tack, which is to keep SS as is in theory, but to privatize all of it's functions and offices to private corporations. They never stop folks.......

For months there have been rumors that the Social Security Administration has a “secret plan” to close all of its field offices. Is it true? A little-known report commissioned by the SSA the request of Congress seems to hold the answer. The summary document outlining the plan, which is labeled “for internal use only,” is unavailable from the SSA but can be found here.
Does the document, entitled “Long Term Strategic Vision and Vision Elements,” really propose shuttering all field offices? The answer, buried beneath a barrage of obfuscatory consultantese, clearly seems to be “yes.” Worse, the report also suggests that many of the SSA’s critical functions could soon be outsourced to private-sector partners and contractors.
Here are five insights from this austerity-minded outline.














3/  Great article from Salon on how John Oliver's new show on HBO is edgier and more in-depth than any of the cable news shows, and better than the Daily Show and Colbert for the content, AND the jokes. 

Good story, and in the text is a 12 minute clip on capital punishment that manages to be incredibly funny and poignant at the same time. For contrast look at the Stephen Colbert clip on the same subject.......it's a little funnier, but it's just jokes. Oliver has social commentary as well.....


The media's moral center: How John Oliver became the sheriff of cable news' wild west John Oliver (Credit: HBO)
Just ahead of the sixth episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” comedian John Oliver admitted on “CBS This Morning” that he and his crew are “still trying to work out what this is.” But Oliver seems to know what “Last Week” isn’t: “The Daily Show.”
Oliver, of course, is a seven-year “Daily Show” former correspondent. His executive producer is  former “Daily Show” head writer Tim Carvell. But his new show is drastically different from Stewart’s for one main functional reason: it’s on HBO. In the run-up to the premiere, Carvell told U.S. News that HBO’s commercial-free format and increased editorial freedom, along with a weekly orientation, would give his show the ability to “hopefully … step back and take more time to do one or two stories in great depth.”
“For one of our test shows we did a really harsh thing on General Motors and I know that ‘The Daily Show’ also did cover General Motors,” Carvell added. “But it’s nice to, at HBO, feel like there won’t be any phone call you need to deal with; nobody’s having a shitty day because you did a General Motors piece.”
And so this has contributed to a somewhat surprising development: Oliver’s program is at times even angrier than either of its Comedy Central cousins, “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” And it’s certainly more instructive. Stewart and Colbert “are adept at identifying problems but rarely cross over into agitation,” the Guardian wrote recently, paraphrasing Dannagal Young, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Delaware who teaches satire and the psychology of political humor. Oliver is fully engaged with the topics he satirizes; he’s not just raising an eyebrow and dismissing them.
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/23/the_medias_moral_center_how_john_oliver_became_the_sheriff_of_cable_news_wild_west/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow













4/  And another excellent John Oliver - Dr. Oz was in the news last week, testifying on Capitol Hill....Oliver dismembers him, amusingly but relentlessly. A very, very good 12 minutes.....

Last week, Dr. Mehmet Oz took some serious flogging on Capitol Hill for effectively being the 21st century’s telegenic version of a snake oil salesman in his pushing of “magic” weight loss beans. But on Sunday night, HBO’s John Olivertook that pile-on to the next level with a help of some famous friends.
Noting that Dr. Oz has a mystical effect of his own on the sales of miracle pills and cure-all solutions, Oliver took the doctor to task for denying the “magic” powers of products like garcinia cambogia before Congress after being recorded, on TV, repeatedly calling it “magic.”
Basically, in Oz’s words, his job is to engage audiences while selling products he believes in (and claims to have studied) regardless of whether there is any scientific merit to his claims. In response, Oliver did some pandering of his own, all without the use of scientifically bogus claims. For his audience’s enjoyment, out came an adorable puppy, a Skype interview with Game of Thrones creatorGeorge R.R. Martin, a tap-dancing Steve Buscemi, and a massive marching band.












5/  Sometimes your scribe watches things that bring suspicious moisture to his eyes.....this three minute commercial from Thailand is one of them........if this doesn't get to you you must be a Tea Partier.

nice video......














6/  Good column from Paul Krugman on how yet another Republican red state is in the shit because of their failed economic philosophy - tax cuts! Shrink the gub'ment!

Idiots......but corrupt ones....

Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the lost revenue. Sam Brownback, the governor, proposed the legislation — in percentage terms, the largest tax cut in one year any state has ever enacted — in close consultation with the economist Arthur Laffer. And Mr. Brownback predicted that the cuts would jump-start an economic boom — “Look out, Texas,” he proclaimed.
But Kansas isn’t booming — in fact, its economy is lagging both neighboring states and America as a whole. Meanwhile, the state’s budget has plunged deep into deficit, provoking a Moody’s downgrade of its debt.
There’s an important lesson here — but it’s not what you think. Yes, the Kansas debacle shows that tax cuts don’t have magical powers, but we already knew that. The real lesson from Kansas is the enduring power of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people.
Why, after all, should anyone believe at this late date in supply-side economics, which claims that tax cuts boost the economy so much that they largely if not entirely pay for themselves? The doctrine crashed and burned two decades ago, when just about everyone on the right — after claiming, speciously, that the economy’s performance under Ronald Reagan validated their doctrine — went on to predict that Bill Clinton’s tax hike on the wealthy would cause a recession if not an outright depression. What actually happened was a spectacular economic expansion.











7/  Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on a two week break, but before he left Jon took apart the evil, repellent Dick Cheney with gusto......if you hate this old bastard you'll like the next five minutes.....

Jon Stewart took on the latest news from Iraq and had some tough words in particular for “America’s tragedy herpe.” Yes, Stewart called out Dick Cheneyfor having the temerity to criticize President Obamaon just how bad Iraq’s gotten.
Stewart mocked the former vice president and his “Sith apprentice” daughter for acting like the U.S. was just mere seconds away from total victory in Iraq when Obama just ruined the whole thing. And Stewart pointed out it was actually the Bush administration that negotiated the withdrawal of forces, which Cheney bragged about on TV.
And so Stewart was absolutely floored by how Fox News’ Megyn Kelly actually called Cheney out to his face. Stewart said maybe now Cheney will get how it feels when “someone you thought was a friend shoots you in the face.
















8/  The tobacco companies have quietly made cigarettes even more deadly and addictive, and have concentrated their marketing on how to hook teenagers......they are below the radar, because the majority of smokers are the working poor....ironically the people who can afford this habit the least.....

smoking
CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK
Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general tied tobacco to lung cancer for the first time. Since then, additional scientific research has linked smoking with a host of other health issues, and efforts to publicize those harmful side effects helped spur a historic decline in the number of Americans who regularly smoke. Nonetheless, more than 42 million adults remain addicted to cigarettes, and the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that tobacco is still the greatest public health challenge of our time.
Why is tobacco still at the top of the CDC’s list? Why haven’t we moved past this yet? Largely because cigarette manufacturers have worked hard to keep their products relevant even in the midst of aggressive public health campaigns to crack down on smoking, according to a new report released on Monday by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
The cigarettes sold today are quite different from the cigarettes that were on the market five decades ago, according to the new report, and that’s because tobacco companies have done extensive research to figure out how to make smoking appealing for new customers. They’ve essentially made it easier to get hooked on their products by increasing the levels of nicotine — the addictive chemical in cigarettes — and using new additives to help enhance nicotine’s impact. They’ve also added flavoring, sugars, and menthol to mask the effect of inhaling smoke, ultimately hoping that will make it more pleasurable to use cigarettes:
Cigarettes have evolved over the past 50 years to make smoking more desirable
“Most people would think that 50 years after we learned that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, cigarettes would be safer. What’s shocking about the report we issued today is that we’ve found that a smoker today has more than twice the risk of lung cancer than a smoker fifty years ago, as a direct result of design changes made by the industry,”













9/  And on the smoking front, the British are seriously considering a ban on the sale of tobacco in the UK......will it ever happen? Probably not, but at least they are having the discussion......and note the tax on cigarettes in Britain is huge. A pack of 20 is about &8 pounds [$12.50], and 78% of that is tax!

britain's, doctors, are, moving, to, ban, something, that, kills, 439, americans, every, day, Britain's Doctors Are Moving to Ban Something That Kills 439 Americans Every DayImage Credit: AP
The news: Britain has a plan to totally eliminate one of the biggest public health problems of our time: cigarettes.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has voted "overwhelmingly" to ban the sale of cigarettes to those born after the year 2000, in much the same way that the BMA helped push through a ban on smoking in public in 2002 and smoking in cars carrying children in 2011. Tim Crocker-Buque, a specialist registrar in public health medicine who proposed the motion, told the Guardian that any such law could make the U.K. the first nation to totally eradicate smoking.
"Smoking is not a rational, informed choice of adulthood," Crocker-Buque said. "80% of smokers start as teenagers as a result of intense peer pressure. Smokers who start smoking at age 15 are three times as likely to die of smoking-related cancer as someone who starts in their mid-20s."
Dr. David Nutt, a British expert on drugs and alcohol, ranks tobacco as the sixth most harmful substance to society, more dangerous than amphetamines.
Could it work? Broadly speaking, drug prohibitions are usually passed during surges in popularity of specific substances. But cigarette smoking has been declining in popularity for decades after it became clear that the habit is incredibly dangerous. Some 100,000 people die annually in the U.K. from smoking, making it the single greatest cause of illness and premature death throughout the nation. And since health failure from smoking is gradual, many of those patients die from painful, expensive and chronic conditions like cancer, chronic pulmonary disease and heart disease.
















10/  This is a pretty good example of how things are going in some of the red states - this is a story with video about a female Arizona State University professor arrested and assaulted for the crime of WWB [walking while black]......

How you react to this story will depend on your gender and politics - if you are a lower class, older white male or just a racist, you will see nothing wrong here. 

If you are a woman, a minority, or believe the police shouldn't assault citizens for trivial issues you will be horrified and may prefer never, ever going to Arizona.

A disturbing video obtained by a local news station in Arizona shows an ASU professor being confronted by a police officer, and when the professor resisted the officer’s attempts to handcuff her, he wrestled her to the ground and, according to reports, her dress hiked up when she fell.
Dr. Ersula Ore was walking in the middle of the street because walkways have been obstructed due to construction. An officer interrogated her and asked to see her ID on threat of arresting her if she didn’t. Ore scolded the officer for his “disrespectful manner” in talking to her, and that’s when things got heated.
He told Ore to put her hands behind her back and said, “I’m going to slam you on this car.” She replied, “You really want to do that? Do you see what I’m wearing? Do you see?” When the officer wrestled her to the ground, her dress hiked up, and when she was lifted up she kicked the officer in anger.
Ore was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.













11/  Interesting clip from Jon Stewart - he sounds like he is genuinely pissed off at the hypocrisy of some Republicans, who are willing to spend whatever it takes to go to war, but cry "we're broke" when it comes to any social program....five pretty good minutes....

Jon Stewart pointed out an odd disparity Thursday night: why are Republicans who always offer blank checks for wars and providing aid to foreign countries are suddenly very concerned about the U.S. having no money when it comes to entitlements and programs to help the poor.
Stewart rounded up all sorts of Republicans who’ve pushed for U.S. involvement in plenty of other nations, but when it comes to domestic programs they’ve been much more reluctant to cut the purse strings. Stewart explained, “When we give other countries government assistance, they handle it great. But when we get it ourselves, we fuck it all up.”
Stewart singled out one Republican senator in particular, Jeff Sessions, for not worrying much about the consequences of spending money abroad while being wary of creating more entitlements through a GI reform bill. Stewart responded, “Go fuck yourself.”













12/  Unusual music video this week - this is a tongue in cheek ditty called "I'm In Love With Ann Coulter", who in her desperate attempt to stay relevant deemed the US getting in to the final 16 of the World Cup as "a sign of the moral decay in America".....

Actually a good showing this year, but beaten by the country with the best beer in the world - Belgium.

What a beast Coulter is......

USA fans during their World Cup match against Germany in Recife
USA fans during their World Cup match against Germany in Recife. Photograph: Magics/Rex
With Team USA suddenly in the round of 16, and World Cup fever allegedly sweeping the nation that football forgot, the American right has sprung into action. Determined to preserve American exceptionalism against a rising tide of baguette-munching ball-juggling pinko Europhile hippy surrender-communism, Ann Coulter has come to the rescue: "Any growing interest in soccer," she wrote to widespread amusement, "can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
Her reasons for hating football are manifold, and typically hilarious – chiefly, the suspiciously popular game with the round ball seems to show all the key indicators of socialism. The New York Times likes it. It's foreign. Foreigners like it. Obama likes it. It is even, somehow, "like the metric system". For arch conservatives like Coulter, the culture wars never stop, and the sudden spike in interest in the World Cup is just the latest assault on The American Way, accompanying the barrages of promiscuity, multiculturalism, Islam, R'n'B, and trains: "The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's Girls, light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton."














13/  Thankfully the Trans Pacific Partnership [TPP] seems to be dead in the water, but "the boys" have cooked up a new deal that will screw us, and enrich the large financial corporations and big banks - TISA. It stands for Trade In Services Agreement, and it has come to light from Wikileaks and Julian Assange, still in the Ecuadorian embassy in London......

Draft terms of Trade in Services Agreement would overturn millennia of good business practice
June 23, 2014 1:00PM ET
WikiLeaks last week again pierced the veil of official secrecy that surrounds global trade negotiations. The peek it gave us should alarm everyone.
Big Business and national governments wanted to conceal the terms of the proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) while keeping consumers, unions, environmentalists and the vast majority of businesses in the dark. Thanks to WikiLeaks, they failed.
The draft agreement WikiLeaks released on June 19 is fresh, written in May. It is a model of secret law, blatant in its disregard for transparency, democratic process and history. Its opening page says the terms are to remain secret for five years after negotiations formally end or the proposed new rules take effect. Talks to refine that agreement were to resume Monday in Geneva.
Even the secrecy-shrouded Trans Pacific Partnership that President Barack Obama and his Big Business allies want to ram through Congress without changes and only perfunctory debate does not include a five-year veil of secrecy after adoption. WikiLeaks has released a portion of TPP draft documents to the public.
It is impossible to obey a law or know how it affects you when the law is secret. And that is what this agreement would be, a new rulebook for trade in services — principally banking, insurance and trusts.
The 18-page draft agreement involves 50 nations, which produce more than two-thirds of officially measured global economic activity. That means the consequences of the new rules would be enormous, especially for those living in the more than 140 countries not taking part in the talks. Whether people can get loans or buy insurance and at what prices as well as what jobs may be available will be affected by any new trade rules. 

Keeping us in the dark

The TISA leak marked the second anniversary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s taking refuge in Ecuador’s London Embassy, demonstrating that he may be cornered but he has not given up the fight for open government.












14/  Something different - a three minute combination of poetry, a play and education - a waitress at a breakfast place explains her worklife in a wonderful rant, with amusing vignettes.......you think you know what it's like to be a server, but you don't.

Watch this, you'll learn something, and tip well!
















15/  Here's a movie you've never heard of, but this story says it's the best movie of the year so far - "Snowpiercer", with Tilda Swinton and John Hurt......

I checked - it's on in Orlando in three places, and in limited release around the country. Reading the review, it looks like "Hunger Games" on steroids.....

"Snowpiercer": Movie of the year, at least so farChris Evans, Tilda Swinton and Octavia Spencer in "Snowpiercer" (Credit: Radius-TWC)
“Snowpiercer,” the first English-language film from Bong Joon-ho, Korean director of the international monster-movie hit “The Host,” gets off to a creaky start. It has a paper-thin comic-book premise whose logical consistency is best not examined too closely, and opens with one of those science-fiction information downloads, a pileup of simulated news footage and voice-over to explain how we arrived at the apocalypse. In this case, an effort to combat global warming has gone badly wrong, and the planet is trapped in a deadly deep freeze. Life on earth has apparently been extinguished, except for a handful of passengers packed onto a sort of rolling ark, a high-speed train that generates power as it circumnavigates the frozen globe.
So this is an elaborate dystopian parable and socioeconomic allegory, a horizontal caste system something like the Titanic on steel wheels, with an oppressed proletariat confined to the rear cars while the oligarchic rulers live in comfort, closer to the engine. Too elaborate by half, probably – but it’s what Bong does with that parable that makes the relentless, politically provocative and visually spectacular “Snowpiercer” the best action film of 2014, and probably the best film, period. This is a gripping and beautifully integrated adventure, not a star film, but Bong gets sensational work from a cast that features “Captain America” star Chris Evans as the train’s rebel leader, John Hurt as his aging mentor and Tilda Swinton as a hilariously dreadful factotum tasked by the train’s distant rulers with enforcing discipline and quelling dissent. (The terrific ensemble also includes Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris and Ewen Bremner.)



"Snowpiercer" trailer.....powerful!














16/  We are in the summer TV doldrums, but there are some decent shows still on the air - here is a list of 11 you may have missed.......

There was a time when summer was dead for television — a creativity wasteland filled with reruns and daytime schlock. Indeed, quality TV during the summer months is a recent phenomenon and now that it's officially summer, it's a phenomenon we are ready to enjoy. 
Given this golden age, networks are upping the ante year-round. These are the programs your friends will be (or at least should be) talking about this summer. Queue up the DVR, get your streaming schedule ready or just settle in at the actual times when these shows are actually on TV. However you choose to watch, happy viewing. 

1. 'Almost Royal' (BBC America)

Saturdays at 10 p.m. (ET) 
Fan of British humor? Then you should be watching BBC America's first original comedy-reality show, it's brilliance is in keeping with the mockumentary tradition of The Office. This time 'round, the subjects are two spoiled, aristocratic siblings who are touring the United States and attempting to understand American culture. The show's stars are Ed Gamble and Amy Hoggart, both young comedians to keep an eye on.













Todays video - the top 10 Monty Python movie moments....commentary is a little annoying, but hey - it's Python time! 

Saw the play "Spamalot" in Asheville, and any Python fan will LOVE the play.....great fun....













Todays collection of zingers

I¹m not saying let's go kill all the stupid people. I'm
just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let
the problem work itself out.
I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People move out ofthe way much faster now.--------

You can tell a lot about a woman's mood just looking at her
hands. If they are holding a gun, she's probably angry.------

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now
they drink like their fathers.----

You know that tingly little feeling you get when you really like
someone? That's common sense leaving your body.-----

I don't like making plans for the day because then the
word "premeditated" get's thrown around in the courtroom.-----

I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row-----

I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim.I
feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning----

Dear paranoid people who check behind shower
curtains for murderers; if you find one, what's your plan?









Todays sexist joke


A man walks into a cocktail lounge and approaches
an attractive woman sitting by herself and asks,
"May I buy you a cocktail?"
"No thank you," she replies, "alcohol is bad for my legs."

"Sorry to hear that. Do they swell?"

                                                                                             "No, they spread."



Todays British jokes

THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS: 


1. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts." 
2. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time -- this should be banned." 
3. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food." 
4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."

5. "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room." 
6. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow." 
7. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax." 
8. "No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared." 
9. "Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers." 
10. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish." 
11. "The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun." 
12. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair." 
13. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller." 
14. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the resort,' We're trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service." 
15. "When we were in Spain there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners." 
16. "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning." 
17. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel." 
18. "I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes." 
19. "My fiance and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked." 



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