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(...) This sounds remarkably like the natalist scares/forecasts of interwar Europe (and, in fact, even before WWI) that raised a cry over German fecundity that would destroy France and England; it also isn't unlike dire predictions concerning the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: A retrospective on moral clarity
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(...) I suppose the final slide will be SH's trial... and I doubt that will happen before Bush's "re-election"... Washington’s historic support for SH is really small beer when compared to its involvement in places like Indonesia [CIA helped kill up (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Howard Dean: Just the 'Job'?
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(URL) Poor Howard>: "Mr Dean said he prayed daily and had read the Bible from cover to cover. Asked about his favourite book in the New Testament, he named Job (the story of a religious man whose faith is tested by God through suffering). An hour (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I think that was his point? (...) If you read the cited text you'll see data with suicides excluded: "Homicides dropped to 47 in 2001 from 84 in 1991, accidental deaths dropped to 18 from 29, while other forms of firearm deaths slipped to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: More ammunition?
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(...) Snipped the second URL, it seems munged, but you can go upthread to find it. (...) That's a small number from a large population. Is the increase statistically significant? Also on the Australian stats cited upthread, what is/was the overall (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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