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| | Re: Supply-Side Economics? The Evidence Says No!
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| (...) "Half-wit" I'd say, but that would be too easy! >:-D (...) Well, my point is that it has been consistently used through the decades and therefore is a sort of standardized snapshot of our economy, if only one part. Though it doesn't reflect (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Excellent news!
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| (...) Not sure where you are going with that since no one is going to live a couple of hundred years. (...) So we don't murder innocent people. (...) My point exactly. (...) How so? (...) No. There's lots of people who confess to crimes that they (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| bruce (score: 0.548) |
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| | Re: Excellent news!
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| (...) First, a quote: "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." -Dick Nixon (to the press, after losing the governor's race in California, who, sure enough, didn't have the wisdom to stick with his promise and got the ultimate kicking (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| bruce (score: 0.548) |
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| | Re: Should Prince Charles abdicate?
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| (...) We can always use a good laugh. :-) (...) It's amusing that a religion founded on the principle that the King of England can divorce (or behead) his wife gets antsy about Prince Chucky's antics. (see "We can always use a good laugh" above) (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 0.548) |
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| | Re: Supply-Side Economics? The Evidence Says No!
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| (...) How's that math working for you lately, Dave!? Looks like half of perfect from here the obstructed-view seats.... (...) Well, that certainly was easy....:-) (...) But it is the metric by which we have consistently gauged the economy. I realize (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Supply-Side Economics? The Evidence Says No!
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| (...) Whoops! Not a failing of math, but of reading comprehension. I totally blew past your maximum of five and read a ten in its place. But half-perfect is nifty, too! (...) But it's accurate only inasmuch as an IQ test accurately measures IQ. (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Supply-Side Economics? The Evidence Says No!
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| (...) That would be nice if it were true, but despite two administrations espousing that view, it has yet to work as promised. It fails for a number of reasons. First, you can't build a business if there isn't a demand to support it, and if the (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| half (score: 0.547) |
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| irish (score: 0.547) |
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| bruce (score: 0.542) |
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| | Re: Tolerance...Dave Schuler are you out there?
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| (...) If you preach tolerance, it pretty much mean you are against intolerance. If you want to play a semantics games and call that intolerance of intolerance, I'm sure that one could make an interesting debate of it, but generally, the argument is (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| bruce (score: 0.542) |
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| bruce (score: 0.540) |
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| bruce (score: 0.540) |
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| | Re: Excellent news!
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| (...) Bruce has already mentioned the problem of certainty, which is a pretty strong objection IMO. The current system has numerous examples of convicted people who didnt commit the murders of which theyre accused, so were actually executing (or (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| bruce (score: 0.538) |
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| | Re: Excellent news!
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| (...) Why would you be so reticent to conclude that the taking of an innocent human life for no reason or purpose, but for, say amusement, isn't absolutely wrong and evil for everyone, not just you yourself? (...) Yes, but according to you, nothing (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| bruce (score: 0.537) |
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| bruce (score: 0.537) |
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| | Re: Excellent news!
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| (...) Hey, that's an important distinction to make, and I don't think that I was making it in our part of the thread. But let's make sure we're clear-- You're debating about the morality of execution itself (presumably in cases in which guilt is (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| bruce (score: 0.537) |
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| bruce (score: 0.536) |
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| bruce, half (score: 0.533) |
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| | Re: Massive Layoffs At Lego (in Enfield, CT)
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| (...) Blaming Canada makes sense. Lego in divesting itself of the manufacture of lego elements is following the moves of its two competitors in "system" level elements. Best Lock has ceased manufacturing its semi compatible bricks and now is the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Far too good to pass up...
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| (...) I'm sure my 13 year old son will appreciate that. :-) (...) How do I get a tan with the top down if I'm wearing a coat? (...) Idiomatically, "Check out the babes." If you want Babelfish, "Seek the girls." (...) I've got that here, south to (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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