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» in reply to
No, it wouldn't be productive.
"Providing so many rich examples of polarization isn't addressing the question, it's only reinforcing the need to answer it. "
Lindy
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1/17/2007 12:07:51 AM
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LOL Right on, Robert.
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Polarization
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TB
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1/13/2007 9:59:43 PM
Follow-up -- does NPR lurk at HZ?
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Fox
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1/20/2007 1:57:25 AM
LOL
(n/t)
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Yeti
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1/21/2007 7:30:38 AM
A thought on all of this from an observer
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Martha
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1/15/2007 12:50:49 PM
re: A thought on all of this from an observer
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 12:38:02 AM
Thank-you Art....and you can call me anything....except late for dinner
(n/t)
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Martha
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1/16/2007 4:42:32 AM
You're a good sport, Martha
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Robert
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1/16/2007 5:19:18 AM
I second that
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 3:31:25 PM
Separating the men from... oh, wait...
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Fox
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1/16/2007 6:50:13 PM
In the Republican party you need a crowbar.....
(n/t)
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 9:23:58 PM
Damn, I thought it was just vaseline......
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 10:23:16 PM
ewwww.....gross
(n/t)
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 11:05:09 PM
A good sport indeed.
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et
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1/16/2007 6:39:18 AM
re: A good sport indeed.
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Martha
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1/16/2007 3:15:45 PM
See what I have to put up with?
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Robert
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1/16/2007 7:53:26 AM
TB vs 7 leftists...and the winner is...
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/15/2007 12:28:54 PM
You, of course SDT. The impartial adjudicator...
(n/t)
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et
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1/15/2007 8:03:10 PM
Indeed
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Yeti
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1/15/2007 8:10:16 PM
re: Indeed
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TB
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1/15/2007 8:42:35 PM
Perhaps you're asking the wrong question
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Robert
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1/15/2007 9:08:47 PM
Idealogies
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 5:41:03 PM
re: Why ? Because...
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Raoul
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1/14/2007 9:06:21 AM
Because black-and-white thinking IS polarization.
(n/t)
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Bowser
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1/15/2007 7:15:05 AM
"why there is such polarization?"
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Robert
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1/14/2007 2:27:15 AM
re: "why there is such polarization?"
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Martha
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1/17/2007 7:01:39 PM
"The answer is there is no answer.'
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 9:35:10 PM
Not at all simplistic
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Robert
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1/17/2007 8:22:42 PM
re: Not at all simplistic
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Martha
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1/18/2007 11:30:19 AM
re: "why there is such polarization?"
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Martha
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1/16/2007 6:41:46 PM
On apathy and passion
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TB
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1/17/2007 5:41:54 AM
vapid
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Robert
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1/17/2007 4:33:08 PM
re: vapid
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TB
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1/17/2007 7:54:12 PM
And Vain!
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Yeti
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1/19/2007 4:00:02 PM
"Either we have to try to change things where this philosophy is being bred....."
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 8:59:16 PM
re: On apathy and passion
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 10:50:28 AM
re: "why there is such polarization?"
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Robert
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1/16/2007 9:01:39 PM
Speak for yourself
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 11:10:05 PM
re: Speak for yourself
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Martha
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1/16/2007 11:50:21 PM
;-)
(n/t)
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Robert
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1/16/2007 11:12:30 PM
I think I've got the answer.
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TB
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1/14/2007 3:02:37 AM
Yes?
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Robert
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1/14/2007 3:10:37 AM
re: Yes?
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Martha
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1/16/2007 5:32:21 PM
Yes
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Robert
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1/16/2007 6:55:52 PM
understood
(n/t)
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Martha
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1/16/2007 7:31:15 PM
Okay, I get it.
(n/t)
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TB
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1/14/2007 3:12:46 AM
This is clearly a longterm project
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Robert
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1/14/2007 3:35:59 PM
re: Clearly, a long term project
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Fox
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1/14/2007 6:47:12 PM
re: Clearly, a long term project
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Robert
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1/15/2007 3:58:29 AM
The soft, chewy Center
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Fox
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1/15/2007 8:12:14 PM
Nougat Nation
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Robert
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1/15/2007 9:03:57 PM
Utopian dreams
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Fox
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1/16/2007 2:31:22 AM
Centrist heroes
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 9:04:54 PM
re: Utopian dreams
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Robert
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1/16/2007 6:07:29 AM
" We bend so that we never break."
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 8:30:57 PM
"At least the last elections didn't appear fixed."
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TB
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1/17/2007 5:09:44 AM
re: "At least the last elections didn't appear fixed."
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azstrummer
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1/18/2007 4:32:40 PM
Shorter answer.
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TB
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1/18/2007 9:40:10 PM
We heard you the first 27 times you said this.
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alcaray
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1/18/2007 10:02:27 PM
Back then we didn't have a perfect lab experiment on the subject.
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TB
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1/18/2007 10:46:38 PM
Was it good for you too?
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Lindy
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1/19/2007 1:22:55 AM
So tell me
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azstrummer
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1/18/2007 11:27:20 PM
re: So tell me
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TB
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1/19/2007 12:24:30 AM
They found nothing
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azstrummer
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1/19/2007 5:26:04 AM
Maybe you don't get how this works.
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TB
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1/20/2007 5:06:12 AM
As I said once before...
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alcaray
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1/18/2007 11:09:49 PM
re: As I said once before...
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TB
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1/19/2007 12:11:52 AM
The steamroller
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Robert
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1/16/2007 8:51:11 PM
Presidential "debates" LOL
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 10:45:21 PM
Hogwash
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azstrummer
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1/13/2007 11:57:16 PM
FANTASTIC post Art....
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 10:59:01 PM
Thanks Lindy
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 11:24:46 PM
When one has been SO wrong for SO long, the blaming of others has to get intense.
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Bowser
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1/14/2007 1:06:46 AM
I must admit.....
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Lindy (on second glass of wine)
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1/16/2007 11:08:02 PM
Now that gives me an idea
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Robert
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1/16/2007 11:25:21 PM
I'm in
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 11:35:04 PM
No, what you really must admit..
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 11:13:12 PM
re: No, what you really must admit..
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 11:39:45 PM
"Democrats again call for immediate and unconditional surrender."
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TB
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1/14/2007 12:11:54 AM
re: "Democrats again call for immediate and unconditional surrender."
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azstrummer
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1/14/2007 12:32:42 AM
re: "Democrats again call for immediate and unconditional surrender."
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Lindy
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1/16/2007 11:32:49 PM
More lipstick, same pig
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TB
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1/14/2007 1:04:09 AM
re: More lipstick, same pig
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 12:44:58 AM
Nice goalpost moving.
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TB
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1/16/2007 4:14:17 AM
Don't need to. You couldn't kick a ball into the Grand Canyon.
(n/t)
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azstrummer
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1/16/2007 9:22:43 PM
That post was from me. In response to "Polarization" from TB.
(n/t)
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Bowser
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1/14/2007 12:50:17 AM
Olbermann be praised brother. Amen.
(n/t)
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et
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1/14/2007 12:04:43 AM
And yet...
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Robert
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1/13/2007 11:33:15 PM
re: And yet...
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TB
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1/14/2007 1:14:50 AM
re: Isn't that the problem?
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Raoul
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1/14/2007 10:49:00 AM
No, it wouldn't be productive.
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Robert
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1/14/2007 2:29:04 AM
"Providing so many rich examples of polarization isn't addressing the question, it's only reinforcing the need to answer it. "
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 12:07:51 AM
I'll throw you one clue...
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TB
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1/14/2007 3:05:00 AM
In other words...
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alcaray
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1/15/2007 7:54:43 AM
No.
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TB
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1/15/2007 8:51:08 PM
"I watch good! Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast."
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alcaray
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1/15/2007 10:19:49 PM
re: "I watch good! Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast."
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 1:54:45 AM
Aww shucks.
(n/t)
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alcaray
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1/17/2007 7:16:56 PM
re: No.
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Robert
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1/15/2007 9:11:47 PM
Interesting.
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TB
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1/16/2007 4:16:14 AM
Yes and no
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Robert
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1/16/2007 5:12:09 AM
On arriving at answers
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TB
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1/16/2007 5:50:45 AM
And just who is Jane Galt?
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Robert
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1/16/2007 6:28:41 AM
re: And just who is Jane Galt?
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TB
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1/17/2007 3:44:14 AM
In fact
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Yeti
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1/17/2007 7:23:47 AM
Actually...
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TB
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1/17/2007 8:08:14 AM
You and I had an interchange...
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alcaray
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1/18/2007 6:17:09 PM
Try this one on for size.
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Yeti
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1/17/2007 4:53:25 PM
I would count that as a definite point for you.
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TB
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1/17/2007 8:06:55 PM
re: I would count that as a definite point for you.
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Pissed-as-hell Yeti!
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1/17/2007 9:36:48 PM
Should we make a list over the past thirty years?
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TB
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1/17/2007 10:30:34 PM
We have opposible thumbs and frontal lobes.
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Yeti
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1/17/2007 10:46:08 PM
"Broad brush?"
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TB
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1/17/2007 11:33:36 PM
Spurious specificity
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Robert
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1/17/2007 3:57:39 PM
are you insane? Or did you just lose all of your memory?
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Yeti
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1/17/2007 7:21:47 AM
Hindsight bias
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Robert
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1/17/2007 5:48:39 AM
"Nobody I remember said, "Hey, what if the Sunnis and Shiites start a civil war?"
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 4:17:27 AM
Exact quotes, please. Mentioning sectarian war.
(n/t)
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TB
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1/17/2007 5:47:41 AM
re: Exact quotes, please. Mentioning sectarian war.
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 11:02:53 AM
re: And yet...
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azstrummer
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1/13/2007 11:57:59 PM
No, I swear, I don't have that kind of power!
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Robert
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1/14/2007 12:16:50 AM
Buchanan sidebar
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TB
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1/13/2007 10:11:03 PM
And here I thought it was a reply to my PB comment.
(n/t)
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et
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1/14/2007 12:09:17 AM
And yet...
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Robert
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1/14/2007 12:08:13 AM
A question worth its own thread...
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TB
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1/14/2007 1:41:58 AM
I said I thought he was honest...
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et
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1/14/2007 12:13:12 AM
The tugboat and the supertanker
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Robert
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1/14/2007 12:21:19 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.