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by jdawg77 4189 days ago
What's funny to me is even with, "Freedom of information act," in the USA some Americans act like everything is public record.

It's not. Sometimes, for international relations, things are classified, never released until much later. Having been party to a minor agreement, at least knowing about it, before the general media, gives you a ton of insight into how the USA operates.

To me at least, I came to the, "Business," operating model. In other words, the economic engine takes priority and the agreements I know of that were signed pushed that particular agenda.

Dollars, literally, make the world go round. The US dollar is the world, "Reserve," currency. There's a very good reason for that, and a very good reason the Secret Service is in charge of the US money supply.

Then again, perhaps I'm as much as insider as the author of the blog post. Eg, out of the loop.

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Dollars do not literally make the world go round. The world literally goes around because it was formed from a disc of swirling matter, and the lack of inertia and forces that would stop it.
There's no reason to be a pedant here.
Well, to be pedantic, there are many reasons. They range all the way from comedy, right through to just being a stickler for accuracy.

edit - looking at it again, jcd748 failed on accuracy as the earth does not lack inertia but rather possesses it in great quantities. 8.04×10^37 kg·m2, to give a rough figure.

Literally? Wow.
You're supposed to infer the figurative usage from the dramatic commas.
You mean the literal usage? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally (#2)

* long sigh *

Happy festivus!