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What if the surge works? How will we know? One argument against deadlines and early with drawl is that the “terrorists” will just wait till we go and than come out of the wood work…why doesn’t that logic apply to the surge? Why wouldn’t terrorist sit back for a couple of months, let it appear...

By far my new favorite appeals court judges in effect apply a kind of reductio ad absurdum to cause the over-zealous prosecuting Attorney General to get hoisted by his own petard. http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/COL04/701150333 In a ruling sure to make philandering...

I have been trying this for a while--how do you get an X-bar symbol for a mean? I looked in symbols, but nothing. :( Is there a particular set I should check? Short of wasting a whole line doing this, anyway: _ X Thanks! Bug

No wonder the Administration can't figure out Iraq and why we're up to our eyeballs in it... Here is Snow talking about how Gates and Bush both mean the same thing when the President says we're winning in Iraq, and Gates says no, we're not winning...that is until Snow essentially gives up...

I was eating my yogurt this morning, when I noticed the "Grade A" babel on it. I have seen it before, and on other foods, but I started wondering, what does the "grade A" stand for? Is it some standard system, with some quality check? Does it mean anything at all? I have yet to see any...

So, one question I've had, that I haven't seen addressed, is: Why is that film called "Loose Change"? It just seems like such a stupid name for a "documentary" about a terrorist attack that I'm sure it must have some "deeper" meaning, if only in the minds of those responsible. Other elements of...

Is it a philosophical shrug regarding collatoral damage? Or is it a threat?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Exhibit A. (Yes I am lampooning some of those other threads) Seriously, though, do you think he has a chance?

Please enlighten me.

In the United States, the Democratic Party is generally considered "liberal" while the Republicans are generally "conservative". These two words are often used as if they were opposites, but are they? I like to think of myself as liberal, but I frequently find myself on the opposite side of...

This question came up as I was looking into topics for a research proposal for my Research Methods and Ethics class. My understanding of fundamentalist was different than what a lot of researchers consider it to be. And what I had learned in a previous psych class was different altogether. So...

what it says?

From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9967813/ Emphasis is mine. Note: I'm not defending the ID'ers here. I think they are a bunch of whack-jobs. I just want to take a look at whatever it is they are looking at that is causing them to come to this bizarre conclusion. Or...is the conclusion not...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051026/od_nm/aliens_dc;_ylt=AorUQ1eJT1IPFp_mD8iPg1sSH9EA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Basically says that people who claim to have been abducted are probably suffering from sleep paralysis and have active imaginations. Isn't this idea about twenty years...

J.B.S. Haldane said, in his essay "When I Am Dead": What was he saying here? First of all, my mental processes clearly are not determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain. That is, if we take wholly to mean "completely, to the exclusion of other things." More importantly, what good...

source I would like to hear this speech here in the US. I wonder if I could get in with 'No one's liberty is expendable' on my shirt.

... that there is no afterlife? Or is it just another reason? -INRM P.S. Please answer objectively, not what you want to be, but what is.

I just gotta share something funny that just happened. Maybe 90 minutes ago I was in an accident. No big deal, I got hit (t-boned at 5 mph) in a bad alley. After making sure she was ok, we did the exhange-info thing, and this conversation took place: her: You know, it must be karma... I had it...

Now that MrsH3LL has joined the forum (thanks to everyone that gave advice BTW) her browser will not connect to the forums. :( Both PCs use XP Pro. but we only use the built in ability to share the 1MB ADSL connection. This is OK most of the time, although some websites have always been...

I just heard on the radio this morning that an old song from the 60's called "Red River Valley" was actually about an unfortunate encounter with a prostitute. It seems the woman mistimed her cycle. Any other songs that you thought you knew but found out differently?

OK, we all know that the "number" of the so-called Anti-Christ is 666. But what exactly does that mean? I heard that the Greeks would use numbers the same way we use letters, and that John of Patmos (Who wrote Revelation as Christian propaganda against believers who would worship at the...

Thus if a hypothetical super being were acquainted with all possible information about the world - which I imagine would consist in a completed physics - would this entail that s/he would know all there is that could be known? Thus would such a super being know what love is, anger is, the feel...

"Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again." (Luke 6:30, repeated in Matthew 5:42) Does this mean people can ask you for things - and you are forced to give it to them?

From the thread, The Brain is the Cause of What Effect? ... There are actually several definitions of spirit here. First of all you have the spiritual world itself, which exists in the spiritual dimension. Just as you and I now live in the material which, is part of the the material universe...

Bush: When I say "we cannot win the WOT," I mean "we will win the WOT." Herald tribune To be fair, GWB is saying we can win because after he expressed doubts, all the Democrats said, "we can win, we can win." Bush could have elaborated on his remark and explained the difficulties in...

From Life is Just an Illusion: Ratman writes Iacchus responds At what point is a "belief" rightfully called "knowledge"? It seems to me the most pop-culture definition of "knowledge" seems to be "anything which is held to be true", but that kind of definition easily lends to the problem of...

Does this mean "peace"?

I can't seem to find it in any slang dictionary.

Ever notice that the armed forces do a whole lot of advertising? Its like theyre beer companies. Signs at sports arenas and events. They are primary sponcers for Nascar teams and I see commericals all the time. (THey are well done too.) THere even seems to be a competition tween the braches...

I just visited a site called timecube that to tell you the truth is beyond my comprehension skills. I'm guessing this guy shouldn't be left alone with small children or house pets. But hey, general relativity was difficult for me so who knows. What is squaring the circle? Is this a...