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Archive for October, 2011

-- Featured Comments -- Carl: I agree with your take on the general tone of the posts, but ask this question- If the police fail to protect the citizenry, what are the citizens supposed to do? Wait patiently for their mugging/beating/robbery/murder? I wouldn't count on the U.K. police to do anything other than issue a ticket for having your trash bin out on the wrong day. FAIL.I was ready to toss Paul into the trash bin, but Bret Stephens, Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- You seem like someone that is a clear advocate against animal testing. Fine and if you are willing to work against it by all legal means, including boycotts, also fine. But how will supporting terrorists help end cruelty to animals?Notice the tired argument against animal testing. Animal testing is the best viable model for efficacy and safety testing currently available. Unless you are willing to put yourself or Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Nobody considers the human capital side of unemployemnt in these posts. Texas has an 8.2 percent unemployement rate, below the national average, which is credited to its business friendly regulatory environemnt and tax environment in this article and others like it. But then why does liberal Massachusetts, with its high taxes and burdensome regulation, have a 7.6 unemployment rate? The answer is that it has most highly Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- John, this doesn't relate to history at all. You said, "Rich people and their children can afford to do better on the exams, because monetary variables have been shown to overshadow actual merit and intelligence in SAT exam scores." and "The poor remain poor because that's what andrew carnegie thought should happen. The rich remain rich, because they buy every politician." You insist that the wealthy (or Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Carl left out a couple of other things that come to mind, like energy of particular types of radiation, which are delineated by bands, not lines of frequency. so there are higher energy alphas and lower energy alphas, etc. which of course must have consequences for cellar damage upon impacting the human body. also clothing shielding is meaningful for some forms of radiation, but certainly not gammas, which pass through Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- All Germans were to blame for Nazi atrocities There were over 300 concentration camps in Germany alone. All Germans were well fed during the war because they expropriated food and clothing from the starving conquered nations. Just remember the entire German nation of 90 million loved Hitler--until he started losing the war. See the German video "The Unknown Soldier" (on Netflix or elsewhere) of a German exhibit Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- "So now you believe the ROC has a claim for Tibet." When did I ever dispute that it did? More importantly, when did we ever dispute that it did? "In 1942, we told the Nationalist Chinese government then headquartered in Chongqing (Chungking) that we had 'at no time raised (a) question' over Chinese claims to Tibet." http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bureaus/eap/950907WiedemannTibet.html "Oh, and produce a copy of the Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- I convinced my wife to buy an extended warranty on her 2001Infiniti I30t when its original warranty was going to expire. Infiniti replaced the transmission, the rear springs and the accelerator system during the extended warranty period. Those repairs would have cost $1,500 more than the price of our extended warranty. We now have a 2007 Toyota Highlander Limited Hybrid. You can bet your house that I bought an Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Indonesians in the laundry? The rest of the crew from where? With 10% unemployment it seems that labor arbitrage is working nicely for the owners. One would think Americans could do the work of sailing ships.....but they can't. I would be interested in knowing exactly what the pay rates are and why such a barrier to entry for American workers.....it might be the unions.....the work might pay like McDonalds but Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Diabetes,Hypertension,Artherosclerosis,Coronary Artery disease in 90% of the cases are from lifestyle choices either from ignorance or a feeling of invincibility at a younger age. The socialised medicine (Medicare, Third party insurance) are all milking cows for doctors,Pharmaceutical companies and for a host of other scam companies delivering supplies and double triple billing.This is the biggest food chain ever invented. These Read More...