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All of which, of course, was completely predictable . . . hey, it was predicted. LMFAO and crying at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMHWgizSTOU

Interesting. I saw that what won PA for Obama was the fact that he won Philadelphia and the four counties around it by more than he lost the rest of PA by. Maybe everything west of Philly and those counties should secede.

Please click on the Youtube upload for the piece.

Thank you, this was a very interesting exchange. So much for my applying logic to military matters!

Couldn’t be. There were simply not enough Crusaders even to set up a seige. There is no possible way for them to have sealed off the city and conducted a general massacre. Maybe all that remained to fight would have been put to the sword, but even that seems unlikely. The general rule was to keep captives for slaves and ransom/

The First Crusade. The Crusaders split among themselves with one body north of the city and one south. The attacks launched, if I am reading this correctly and remembering my own trip to Jerusalem some years ago, had to have come in a pretty uncoordinated fashion. Jerusalem is not easy to attack as the Romans could have attested. The terrain is dreadful and few medieval battles were fought in cities. Being armored and working your way through blind twisty streets is not a good way to stay alive. The whole story has the smell of exaggeration.

No, the students are just having this dumped on them. From the discussion it appears that we are in a grey area and it is likely that the college will get away with this. Sigh--I really dislike seeing my students in this fix--many of them may have to postpone graduation--but it looks as though the legal issues will outweigh the ethical issues. So we will provide free labor for people.

It is not a class—it is a graduation requirement. It is not even slightly related to a class. I am told it used to be, but no more. It now looks like straight work for no pay.

Actually, I am a lowly adjunct who needs the money to help with my retirement. I do not have a leg to stand on . . . .

Private—though heavily financed with public funds.

I just checked—advisors will have nothing to say about which organizations the students choose. In fact, it appears to me that a member of the president’s family may be the one who does the choosing.

Yes, I would guess that almost all organizations will be religious or left. Our partners so far have been the usual suspects—many of them undertake quasi-political actions.

They have a list from which they must choose and it must be an organization. Helping, say, someone who is impaired would not count.

Yes, I would guess over 90 % of our funding is through one government entity or another.

No, there are no credits given for this. I am told that once upon a time we did offer credits for service but that was done away with.

No, I agree, Newt is not the answer. Not only does he have a personal life which paints a target on his back, but he has a tendency to say things in ways that leave him open to flashback. It is a shame—I heard him debate James Carville live and his mind is one of the best in the country, but there is a problem there, too.