[ForGod'sSake]

other than the largest raptor migration in the world, there's got to be a message in there somewhere!

I may be missing something here Fred, but, are you making a connection between the apparent effort to turn the US into a bastion of mediocrity, particularly in science and technology, to the apparent ascendancy of Israel's position in the world in those areas???

Without 'peer review' the world may have been deprived of algore and globullwarming...!

Just so.

[Fred Nerks]

I may be missing something here Fred, but, are you making a connection between the apparent effort to turn the US into a bastion of mediocrity, particularly in science and technology, to the apparent ascendancy of Israel's position in the world in those areas???

Yep!

The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel. Motorola built its largest development center worldwide in Israel. Windows NT software was developed by Microsoft-Israel. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. AOL's instant message program was designed by an Israeli software company. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the U.S. in Israel.

Why do you think that might be?