Hello Hawk, Hope you are feeling better.
One of the many things I have learned on this board is how both sides successfully support their views with bonafide statistics and references. Thanks to google.
Posters of both "ilks", including me, display such passion, belief and diligence. A while back I suggested that "one of us was being lied to".
It occured to me that Cobalt, Westeria and Lindy thought I was as looney as I thought they were, so somebody was getting bad intell! (Cudos to those who let their critical thinking defrost their brain freeze.) As it turns out there were lies. Many lies.
Dickering over technicalities of law, military history, human behavior, and language fails us in our quest for the best. Old measures don't work. Just look at one: GDP and GNP. How instructive are statistics which are not adjusted for MultiNationals Corporate Addresses, Tax breaks for Foreign production, Bombay Telemarketing and Enron Accounting? It's over, you just witnessed the end of the 20th Century. Clear the ledgers. Mine the Database.
A current situational analysis reveals that Allen Greenspan sets the parameters for Chinese Economic Planning*. How much more power do you need? We are the world, already. Today.
The silver lining is that the incompetence of everything done by this cast of characters (Since BakerBaked the Election) has forced the world to face some big questions. We are living through the clean-up-the-mess-period which always presages great opportunity.
I think we should make a offer to the young arab males drawn to AQ they can't refuse. Let's give them each a laptop with a free, lifetime, wireless, ISP Account. Keeps everybody busy and they can become Financial Planners. The Net brought down the Neocons, let it get BinLaden too.
Rascal @BordersAreBlurredButMarketsAreClear.com
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