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All in a Good Cause [Orson Scott Card]
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| 03/04/2007
| Orson Scott Card
Posted on 03/15/2007 1:34:48 PM PDT by Parody
All in a Good Cause
Here's a story you haven't heard, and you should have.
An intelligence source, working for a government agency. He's not a spy, he's an analyst. He uses computers to crunch numbers and at the end of his work, out pops the truth that was hiding in the original data. Let's call him "Mann."
The trouble with Mann is, he has an ideology. He knows what he wants his results to be. And the original numbers aren't giving him that data. So the agency he works for won't be able to persuade people to fight the war he wants to fight.
Well, that's not acceptable.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; orson; orsonscottcard; osc; pseudoscience; truthiness
Orson Scott Card had better look out for himself: if he keeps bringing up all these noisome facts, he'll be getting a horse's head in his bed from Al Gore & Co. almost any day now.
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posted on
03/15/2007 1:34:55 PM PDT
by
Parody
To: Parody
Orson Scott Card has the stones to match his words. I find this fascinating reading. Al Gore & Co. will never amount to a pimple on Card's backside.
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posted on
03/15/2007 2:10:52 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Parody
I read OSC site on a regular basis, well worth the time for FR types.
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posted on
03/15/2007 2:13:23 PM PDT
by
ASOC
("Once humans are exposed to excellence, mere average desirability is disappointing")
To: 21stCenturion
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posted on
03/15/2007 2:45:35 PM PDT
by
21stCenturion
("It's the Judges, Stupid !")
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posted on
03/15/2007 3:01:13 PM PDT
by
eureka!
(The 'rats have made their choice in the WOT and honest history will not be kind...)
To: Parody
Wonderful - if only the universities and colleges would find this and come to their senses.
Bump.
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posted on
03/15/2007 4:41:00 PM PDT
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: Parody
A lot of science fiction writers are lefties but most of them are smart enough to be objective in their work. That differentiates them from typical liberals who have all the education money can buy but who still can't or won't think for themselves.
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posted on
03/15/2007 7:29:20 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals."-www.iowahwk.typepad.com)
To: Parody
Bookmarked for dissemination to loons and their friends.
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:31:40 PM PDT
by
Harrius Magnus
(Pucker up Mo, and your dhimmi Leftist freaks, here comes your Jizya!)
To: Harrius Magnus
Bookmarked for dissemination to loons and their friends.Same Here.
Card rocks. Get his latest book. "Empire". Worth the hardback price.
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posted on
03/15/2007 10:39:23 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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