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Hello Freepers, I have been a lurker since the late 1990s. I think 1999 was the first year I started lurking here. I have enjoyed getting news on Free Republic for years and I have always thought the discussions about news articles were quite interesting. I have worked in various industries during my career. I worked as a computer programmer between 2002 and 2005. My second job out of college was called client services financial analyst. In 2007, I went back for my second master degree because I decided that it would be in my best interest to pursue accounting...

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common . . . [but] "All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it." - John Locke (1632-1664); p. 315, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations "What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" - Abraham Lincoln (Cooper Institute address); p. 314, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations PUT ME DOWN AS AGREEING WITH BOTH OF THEM. However, life is a paradox, and we must...