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To: LindyBill who wrote (96412)	1/23/2005 4:14:09 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Roger L Simon - Trust But Verify Something is happening in the Palestinian terrritories. What it is ain't 'xac'ly clear, as the song goes but.... Skeptical as we have a right to be, for now we should be doing our best to encourage Mahmoud Abbas. He's a lot better than Arafat so far -- even Benjamin Netanyahu admitted as much on Neil Cavuto's show last night. This latest New York Times report spreads the optimism: Israel and the United States praised the effort by the new Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to halt rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli civilians as more Palestinian policemen were sent on Saturday to patrol Gaza's borders. Well, good. I know its way too early to say, but just maybe the atmosphere is changing. Maybe the Palestinian people are looking over at Iraq and are reacting quite differently from the negativists in our MSM. Where our media pessimists see "Insurgents," the Paleos see fascistic, thuggish Arabs murdering other innocent Arabs. Many of them don't want that - for good reason. What our MSM has defined as our "immoral" war in Iraq may already have caused a positive climate change in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (coupled with the death of the Caudillo, of course).

To: LindyBill who wrote (96412)	1/23/2005 10:15:33 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793955

The prejudice of low expectations -- this is not good, and is exactly why Summers' remarks were objectionable. Not just that his science was bad, but that his policy argument was bad. Let's assume for the sake of the argument that more men are good at math than women, statistically speaking, on average. Does this mean that we should lower expectations for the women who ARE good at math? Maybe, instead of teaching all girls math, we should teach all of them them home economics instead? Why waste time and money teaching math to the girls who are not good at math? Why not just lump all girls together? And, while we're at it, let's teach all black kids how to be good house servants and cooks. And we'll teach all Hispanics to do yard work.