Posted on 04/13/2007 7:18:36 AM PDT by Tolik
Amen and Amen.
Thanks for posting this. It added a few pounds of steel to a backbone of mine that had been wavering a bit.
My name is sionnsar and I am a dunderhead.
My name is Slings and Arrows, and I am a dunderhead.
My name is StarCMC and I am a dunderhead, too.
No your not! I never see you at the meetings, and checking the records I see you’re 6 months behind in your dues.
Those indices are deliberately biased towards socialized economies. One of them is from the UN, for crying out loud!
Not e of correction:
It was the Tutsi who were being, massacred by the Hutus.
Aside form that, it was a remarkable , hoest essay.
Please note my tagline.
I have a feeling that OSC's quote will be increasingly quoted as prescient in the years to come.
I couldn't agree more about the "Left Behind" series and most of contemporary Christian fiction.
It is bad prose.
Not comparable to C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, or even Bunyan.
How about the one I shall sport for a while? (Look below)
The Awakened Sleeping Giant would have put both those countries on notice that we could be fiercesome and not to be trifled with.
Our weak waging of this war has only encouraged both of them into adventurism and aiding the enemy.
Instead, President Bush's strategy offers us the Long War, where the advantage in information warfare, psycholgical warfare and assymetrical warfare are the opponents'.
I was expecting Shock and Awe when Iraq was invaded.
Instead we got a War managed by Lawyers.
We cannot win this way.
"Hoest" = honest.
Not calling this essay a ho.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Oh my, what a tribute !
Only the best for the best!
Where’s your source that refutes what was posted?
Wow!
Now THAT’S what I call a good article!
Fantastic! bump.
Ex: If one is making a comparison of market and closed societies, than a method to determine employment is meaningless. If all persons are given or employed by the government, where’s the unemployment?
What does Norway do that the US doesn’t that gives them an HD Index advantage?
I support endthematrix’s analysis at #115 without reservation.
How do you feel about US Government sources? The CIA World Factbook - GDP - per capita has the US in 10th place.
http://tinyurl.com/25u8lz
46th in life expectancy
http://tinyurl.com/2aeqdj
1st in purchasing power
http://tinyurl.com/2egrl4
and 2nd in external debt
http://tinyurl.com/237qug
External debt - w.r.t. quality of life, who cares?
46th in life expectancy? Factor out the underclass (who can afford to be so due to generous welfare benefits) and “uninvited guest workers,” and that goes up a lot. Furthermore, some of that is a result of prosperity - you don’t see too many famine victims dying of heart attacks. Furthermore, there are numerous ways to cook life expectancy statistics - and the worse the country, the more likely they are to do so.
Ping to #118.
How do you? They rank rank 10th in reliability...
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