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    Don't you just love the French?

    exactly. that, and an unwilligness bordering on the asinine to accept the simple fact that neither side will disappear from the face of this earth. maybe this, which is part and parcel of the problem on both sides, sheds some light from a practical perspective: “Neither Jewish morality...
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    Don't you just love the French?

    ahem, i'm not going to get sidetracked into a discussion on religion or culture, thank you very much, but isn't that part about education a bit like marie antoinette stating that they should eat cake if they don't have bread, and we all know what happened to her, hmm. anyway, jokes aside, you...
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    Don't you just love the French?

    alas, too often yesterdays terrorist is todays statesman. Sharon: A terrorist then, a terrorist now by Stephen Gowans In a December 5 paean to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Globe and Mail journalist Paul Koring writes, Sharon "has been a fighter since the age of 14, when he...
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    Don't you just love the French?

    in my book both israel and the palestinians are guilty of massive terrorism, trying to allocate greater or lesser guilt to either side after decades of bloody conflict is an exercise in futility, but also an unnecessary exercise if the forward looking objective is a mutual future based on...
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    Osama's 'Letter to America'

    ah, if only we had real statesmen at the helm who would actually be fighting terrorism and it's causes itself, as opposed to a bunch of warmongers going of on an extremely counterproductive and utterly nonsensical wild witchhunt totally lacking any factually based rationale whatsoever. VICE...
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    Osama's 'Letter to America'

    excellent posts, daniel and madison. re us tacit support or even active policies conducive to, putting it mildly, various groups and nationalities across the globe harboring a certain desire for revenge against the usa: Friendly Dictators Many of the world's most repressive dictators...
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    Axis of Evil?

    hi babak ! thx for sharing that with us, very interesting stuff, amazing that you don't hear anything in the media about these developments, i certainly wish the students and the other normal people in iran well. cheers
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    Gasp! It is possible....

    that's good:D question re this study: wouldn't just about any ole method, including dart throwing and it's cousins, have made money the last 10 years?:D
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    Are American kids getting dumber by the year?

    well, that's highly relative... the us has 33 million people living in poverty, 46 million people who are analphabets, both areas where we are far behind many of the other most highly developed nations on a per capita basis. not to forget our infrastructure that is worthy of quite some third...
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    Are American kids getting dumber by the year?

    that is so true and really applies to most situations in life, the lack of clearly defined objectives is a root cause for many a dead end one may find oneself in.
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    Are American kids getting dumber by the year?

    Why America Has The World's Dimmest Bright Kids By Chester E. Finn, Jr. The Wall Street Journal February 25, 1998 Banish forever the consoling thought that, however mediocre the educational attainments of the average U.S. child, "our best students are still the best in the...
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    Your War Policy Please...Draw You Plans

    hi tm/canyon, back at your lies again? i never said that i spoke to baron. as for my deducing that you and tm are one and the same, no, not just based on the same smiley that you put in the same place under both your handles most of the time, also the exact same non-arguments and writing...
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    Now THAT'S What I Call an Arbitrage!!!

    cheers:D
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    Iraq and weapons inspectors

    madison, you might want to read some of canyon/tm's posts in the thread "your war policy etc... and you'll see that he has the constant modus operandi of pretending to query why normal thinking people would be against dubyas stupid adventure, while he himself is a staunch defender without...
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    Iraq and weapons inspectors

    canyon, i call what you're doing fact twisting, but, dubya, if asked, would also claim that he's telling the truth about his jihad, even though that is everything but the truth:D ah, our liar-in-chief, may he soon return to his ranch in texas and do whatever you do on a ranch in texas, lest...
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    Iraq and weapons inspectors

    :D :D
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    Now THAT'S What I Call an Arbitrage!!!

    i'm afraid i'd have to ask, who is eminem?:D
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    Iraq and weapons inspectors

    jesus canyon, play your mind boggingly stupid games with somebody else. if you choose to check in your brains at the altar of governmental hype and lies so be it, but don't expect everybody else to be equally obsequious in the face of evident lunacy emanating from DC. Losing Focus The...
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    Iraq and weapons inspectors

    exactly. it took you awhile, but, better late than never:D US backed coups http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa01.html The Independent The Bali bomb proves the need for a war on terror, not a war on Iraq http://argument.independent.co.uk/l...sp?story=342672 Said one former...
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