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The unformed mind can't be trusted to discount for televisual hyperbole, from McDonald's claim that its petroleum-based "milk" shakes can make you deliriously happy to the cartoon causality that holds that shooting a criminal has roughly the same consequences as bopping a bunny to the seeming ubiquity of rape, murder, and mayhem.
Its rival, the liberal Guardian, claimed in a front-page headline that "Murdoch marriage break-up shakes media industry," because of its possible future effects on the leadership of News Corp.
Have you ever met someone who was “great shakes,” who could “cut the mustard” and “do squat,” who “was your cup of tea,” and whom you “would touch with a ten-foot pole”?
When you hear the term "Socialist Realism," you probably see in your mind's eye a large, detailed canvas: A sweating laborer, goggles pushed back on his forehead, stands by his red tractor and shakes hands with Stalin, in a white uniform, who smirks under his mustache.
However it all shakes out, those who benefit most from the tax breaks almost surely will lose least from the spending cuts.