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Li-Fi? by TB January 30, 2012 5:31 pm

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by ER January 28, 2012 9:34 am

"8 industries China leads where the US used to." Steel, cotton, IPOs, tobacco, autos, beer, high tech exports, coal. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46181723/ns/business-world_business/#.TyYCpsWLssI by bowser 2012-01-29 19:43:22
Hand wringers by RobVG 2012-01-29 12:40:50
- Parse McCoy's paper yourself, Rob. by TB 2012-01-29 14:41:05
  - TB's on the case. I feel safer already. by ER 2012-01-29 16:13:22
    - I'd feel a bit better if he'd ever been right. I mean correct. by bowser 2012-01-29 16:44:23
      - It's always good to hear from our peanut gallery. by RobVG 2012-01-29 19:02:30
        
        We're just getting started. by ER 2012-01-30 13:49:58
        
        Thanks by RobVG 2012-01-29 23:03:02
  - More of McCoy's projects here. by TB 2012-01-29 15:33:31
- I think it's neither an "I told you so" OR a "Take that, you SOB", moment. And it is just ... by ER 2012-01-29 13:50:05
- Motivation. Interesting observations. I don't believe the "I told you so" motive is accurate. The people to ... by bowser 2012-01-29 12:54:40
Mme Reclus and I were watching that sci-fi war movie about a squad of Marines fighting off an alien invasion ... by ER 2012-01-28 17:41:16
- :) by Jody 2012-01-29 08:16:54
Nobody can predict the future, but 2020 is a reasonable guess. That's pretty much what I estimate. Still, ... by ER 2012-01-28 14:15:12
Interesting. His near-term scenario is set in 2020, just 8 years away. 8 years ago we were invading ... by bowser 2012-01-28 13:10:53
Tom posted this on Flame about a week ago...very thought provoking. Are we declining? Or is the world catching ... by Jody 2012-01-28 12:26:33
- I'm sure the Romans and Greeks, and Arabs and Chinese and Persians, too, had long, gut-wrenching discussions about how and ... by ER 2012-01-28 12:42:48
  - Cognitive biases skew their heuristics. by Jody 2012-01-28 13:24:17
    - Absolutely. by ER 2012-01-28 13:53:04

Tell me if you've heard this one... by TB January 29, 2012 9:28 pm

Timing is everything... by FrankC 2012-01-29 22:31:39
They were a randy bunch! by bowser 2012-01-29 22:13:26

Question of the Day... by TB January 29, 2012 5:30 pm

I don't think Abbott and Costello have anything to do with the Grateful Dead, but they obviously had a great ... by ER 2012-01-29 19:43:08

Question: Would you be happier if you were richer? by Jody January 28, 2012 1:16 pm

Nothing would change for me if I had money...everything is relative. by Jody 2012-01-28 21:12:55
- Bet a dollar you'd hire some help. by TB 2012-01-28 22:14:19
- Care to elaborate? n/t by RobVG 2012-01-28 21:41:17
  - I would love to, and thank you for probing my statement further. I just took an ambien, and I have ... by Jody 2012-01-28 22:16:06
    - TB is right...in a way..I would hire help. However, I could do that now. I would just have to cut ... by Jody 2012-01-29 10:21:26
    - √ by RobVG 2012-01-28 22:33:44
Oh Hell Yes by RobVG 2012-01-28 20:38:00
Of course. A no-brainer. by TB 2012-01-28 16:59:25
Here's the deal... by FrankC 2012-01-28 14:26:30
Most healthy, sane people don't want unlimited riches or power any more than they want fame. It does not automatically ... by ER 2012-01-28 13:43:34
A completely true story. This happened last year. A wealthy friend of mine had included me in his new will ... by bowser 2012-01-28 13:29:31
- I would welcome the opportunity to deal with those problems. I would surely experience the same from any relatives that learned ... by FrankC 2012-01-28 14:43:26

Norman Edmund, RIP by TB January 28, 2012 10:11 pm

He lived a long and useful life, and touched many people in a positive way, including me. What better epitaph ... by ER 2012-01-29 06:35:47

1960: America's "golden age." by TB January 25, 2012 6:35 pm

It was, indeed, America's "golden age". As a country there was no realistic threat to us, the "American ... by bowser 2012-01-28 12:55:22
- Yeah, nothing much happened between the Soviet Union and the Free World between WWII and the Vietnam War. by TB 2012-01-28 13:10:04
  - A real problem with conservatives is that they already know history without ever learning history. TB, the headlines of ... by bowser 2012-01-28 13:18:35
Federal transportation spending: by TB 2012-01-28 12:43:30
Yeah TB, if it was a golden age it was because all our people were finally getting their freedom, and ... by ER 2012-01-28 12:29:11
- Do me a favor. Read the associated posts first. by TB 2012-01-28 12:41:58
  - I'm not disputing your facts, Tom. It's your priorities I have a problem with. by ER 2012-01-28 12:46:20
    - Okay. by TB 2012-01-28 12:58:33
      - They're irrelevant to you, and that's precisely the point. To people who are denied their rights, who are economically ... by ER 2012-01-28 13:13:57
You can keep your "golden age" by ER 2012-01-28 10:05:50
- It wasn't my premise, was it? by TB 2012-01-28 12:16:51

Rethinking "Out of Africa" by TB January 19, 2012 4:38 pm

All we have is what we know of the end result, and what we've dug up of the fossil record. ... by alcaray 2012-01-22 14:44:55
How did the Orangutans get out of Africa? by Lee 2012-01-22 14:25:10
- Joan of Ark. by bowser 2012-01-28 02:12:48
- Orangutan walking by Robert 2012-01-27 09:46:20
- Maybe God put them there by magic so we wouldn't have to believe in Evolution. by ER 2012-01-27 07:13:02
- Before the end of the last Ice Age, all those islands were a peninsula, and I suspect this was true ... by TB 2012-01-22 14:53:17
- Yeah, and how did they get to America? I've seen orangs myself! by alcaray 2012-01-22 14:40:29
It is interesting. I think the role of experts is to make things more complex, more complicated. I ... by bowser 2012-01-19 19:28:19

Robert, your pending reply post by FrankC January 27, 2012 9:04 pm

Man, that was a moldy oldy. Trashed it. Thanks Frank. by Robert 2012-01-27 22:08:00

For an intellectual exercise... by Jody January 27, 2012 9:57 am

I hate exercise :) by FrankC 2012-01-27 21:09:51

For Robert by bowser January 25, 2012 12:06 pm

I read that post by RobVG 2012-01-25 17:11:25
- In general, thanks. And as I said, "I trashed it as a non-productive post, provocative without being thought provoking, ... by bowser 2012-01-25 17:35:51
- Didn't really say much. by Robert 2012-01-25 17:25:50
Thanks bowser. by Robert 2012-01-25 12:51:34
- Any discussion here of "Nazi" political tactics is wrapped in such complete obliviousness about what those tactics actually were, that ... by TB 2012-01-25 17:28:45
  - Wow, a self-referential rant. Brilliantly ironic to parody rightwing extremism and knee-jerk smears as a vehicle to claim that the left is smearing the right. by Robert 2012-01-25 20:08:36
    - A perfect example. I referred to the Senators who pledged to block any Obama initiative as "Brownshirts", in reference ... by bowser 2012-01-25 23:50:50
      - How about a nice link to that "pledge" you seem so obsessed with? by TB 2012-01-26 09:47:12
        
        Here's enough to generate an apology from a reasonable person. Google "pledge 42 senators" and read for hours. ... by bowser 2012-01-26 14:04:11
        
        Now, you want to address anything at all in the rest of my comment? by TB 2012-01-26 16:14:20
        
        I did. You asked for a link to my post, and I provided one with a trail to many ... by bowser 2012-01-26 20:14:50
        
        Your link (thanks!) was dated December 1. by TB 2012-01-26 15:36:26
        
        Here's another one. Hitler was well known for breaking the treaties other countries had with Germany. Well, I'll ... by bowser 2012-01-26 20:38:58
        
        Mitch McConnell's pledge by Robert 2012-01-26 12:03:44
        
        Sorry, that's not what Bowser's been plugging. by TB 2012-01-26 12:52:02
        
        Didn't look very hard, did you? by Robert 2012-01-26 20:54:57
        
        I was looking for something significant, something that justified Bowser including it in almost every other post for months. ... by TB 2012-01-26 21:04:20
        
        You were attacking the very existence of the pledge to rebut bowser. The pledge turns out to be a fact. ... by Robert 2012-01-26 23:15:46
        
        I asked for a link. I got one. And it's obvious now why there wasn't one before. by TB 2012-01-27 15:06:20
        
        You lost me. Why wasn't there one before? by alcaray 2012-01-27 19:20:45
        
        TB: 'Nothing was “blocked.”' Good grief! by alcaray 2012-01-26 21:20:07
        
        Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spending in the ... by alcaray 2012-01-26 20:10:04
    - That response wasn't even coherent. by TB 2012-01-25 20:35:30
      - Yes, that's what I was saying. It was a rant, not a coherent argument. by Robert 2012-01-25 21:50:47
  - Hmmm. Similar to references to "planned economies" I think. by alcaray 2012-01-25 18:41:56

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