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Anyone follow Arrow?

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More pundit discussion: Apparently, Defense Secretary Gates is staying in his position, at least for a while. That could be interesting.

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One of the cable news shows was speculating Colin Powell as Secretary of Education. I have no idea how reliable that is, so take it with a grain of salt.

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Cain, I'm sorry, but I'm really not interesting in talking with you, in case I haven't made that clear. Your continuing posting certainly isn't changing my perspective on the sort of discussion that would result. I'm not out to change your perspective. If anything, I know my presence will only hard...

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You can, of course, decline to participate in intellectual debate. Oh, Cain, I would never decline to participate in intellectual debate. You're right, you'd need a track record of participating in them in the first place. :lol Oh, that's nice: the fishing metaphor. What's it called, when you strin...

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Teen Charged for Sending Nude Photos of Herself . We had a similar thread a few years ago here, so I thought I'd throw this out for discussion. Not only is she charged with juvenile pornography for owning and sharing nude photos of herself, other students may be charged as well. Personally, I think...

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They seem that way to you, but I believe you are incorrect. I don't know how you're getting what you're getting out of it, but I've learned that most people will simply turn any evidence into support of whatever preconceived idea they possess, rationalizing any differences. I could certainly spend ...

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Cain, the fact you don't read the report the same as 32 is what doesn't bother him. I'd be surprised if it did. But he cited it as support for his views. Namely, that it'd be better to suffer through this major recession than to take one of many steps to prevent too much damage from being done. The...

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Teen Charged for Sending Nude Photos of Herself . We had a similar thread a few years ago here, so I thought I'd throw this out for discussion. Not only is she charged with juvenile pornography for owning and sharing nude photos of herself, other students may be charged as well. Personally, I think...

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I do not see anything suggesting what you've indicated... Yes, I've noticed that, but it doesn't bother me very much. I simply encourage others to read the report, and draw their own conclusions. Wait a sec. The source you cite for your own statements doesn't support what you claim, and it "do...

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I would recommend you read the whole paragraph, instead of one sentence that is basically a "safety clause", allowing for the unknown. Using objective assessment, and the basic rules of scholarly writing, it should be known that the last sentence is usually the closing of the paragraph, an...

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http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2008/wp08224.pdf Thank you. Here's one selection that I read: Using the dataset presented in this paper, Laeven and Valencia (2008) examine the effectiveness of blanket guarantees in restoring depositors confidence and find that they are often successful in th...

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Do you happen to have link to the IMF report in question? I can't seem to pin it down. All I can find are reports of the IMF effectively using Keneysian-style spending to fix banking crises.

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Have another depression, which we indeed can afford. The short-term effects will be bracing - which is a polite word for how fucked we'd be - but the long-term effects would be to lower inflation, normalize the economy, and encourage a revisitation of the things that put us here. It won't happen. I...

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Find someone who's tried to buy a car in the past two months. *shrugs* Five people at work have purchased cars in the last three months (two used, two new, one paid in cash). It's not meant to be argumentative. I just honestly don't know anybody who has claimed any kind of major impact from it. It'...

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A credit freeze led to the last great depression, yes. However, it also led to the New Deal. Your country's more socially progressive policies have been riding on that for a long time, which is a very good thing. It also means an end to business as usual, as everything is forced to reform. For exam...

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Felony convictions are amongst the strongest measure we have of antisocial behavior. Restricting the ability of these strongly antisocial persons to influence the society is reasonable in a prophylactic sense. However, the inability to distinguish between the strongly antisocial and the formerly st...

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I remember as a child, looking at a box of IMB typewriter ribbons printed in four languages, thinking, "You can't write 'negro' on a box like that!" It's astonishing: the use of the words negro and nigger basically died in a generation, when the generation before was printing shit like th...

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I'd go with Marius on this one. Lamictal is a good med, but it's also very new, and new meds can have surprisng side effects. I've never heard of a two-hour aphasia before, but like Marius said, it may h ave something to do with when you're taking the meds. Which, incidentally leads me to ask: if yo...

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He might be putting it rather abrasively, but in essence it's not so far from the truth. It's pretty common knowledge that military censorship has been used in order to keep morale up. That is a completely different statement than the one Cain made, which is that "militaries always lie to the ...

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You mean the RN I passed about a year and a half ago?

And while I don't know the "dazed and COnfused" reference, at least that means I'm getting some. How's your love life?

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Nope, none at all. Unless you have evidence that every army in hisotry has been absolutely forthright and completely honest with their troops?

No? Didn't think so. So sit down and shut up.

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C'mon, Paul. You're probably as biased at the other end of the spectrum as Caine is. :) Maybe, but I'm not on a soap box preaching. Neither am I. I'm asking what the discrepancy is. And I think I see one. A lot of the violence I hear about on the news focuses on suicide bombings against other Iraqi...

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Yeah, but militaries always lie to the troops in action, in order to keep their morale up. Telling the troops: "We're getting our butts kicked" isn't a recipe for victory. I'm not discounting what Paladin says. But I am saying that he's pretty much the *only* positive report I've recieved ...

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Elf's point is that your views sound suspiciously like Bush's position, which is contradicted by the NIE, other reports from the front, and basically every other source I have access to. Which makes me wonder exactly what they're telling you, or if you're just stuck in a microcosm. Don't get me wron...

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True story: back in college, I had a friend named Lincoln Hills. Yes, he had a name that sounds like a golf course. It could be worse, though, as he frequently pointed out. His mother's name was Beverly.

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Depends on your area. The "school voucher" program deliberately opens up private schools, but doesn't force them to relax their enterance standards. So, for example, a Baptist school can bar non-Baptist children from attending, yet still accept vouchers from Baptist children.

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The problem with "school of choice" is that the better schools already have the better students, for whatever reason. Generally, it's economic. Because they have better students, they have better test scores, and thus are considered "better schools". Once school-of-choice reaches...

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And let us not forget that the Shi'ites are the majority in the country.

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Re: Here we go again: Charged for taking pictures of yoursel

Here we go again: Charged for taking pictures of yourself.