Building off a Financial Times article written by Tim Harford last week that criticizes our lack of understanding of how microfinance impacts clients’ livelihoods (which my colleague Sushmita highlighted here), Professor Milford Bateman goes a step further by arguing that heavy investments in microfinance actually hurts local economies.
Bateman starts by discussing the growing microfinance por
that´s your argument? a text book teaches evolution so it must be true. wow. well done. no way i can refute that. and, after your textbook wastes a full chapter indoctrinating you on the baseless suppositions of evolutionary belief, does it actually get to teaching observable science? for example, does it actually discuss the cell theory; specifically, the tenet of that theory that states, based
I've given my arguments, in text, before. Thought I would give one
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Dope new joint from Capone N Noreaga. This is some real hip hop back and forth shit right here. Check out the video below too. Damn Nore is fat, haha.The Argument - Capone N NoreagaMore: New Joints
Fabio Capello will take a youthful looking squad to Berlin for the England international against Germany on Wednesday night, due in part to the injuries to some of the regular first-team choices.
Wayne Rooney & Rio Ferdinand both missed Manchester United’s game against Stoke on Saturday through injury, and joined the list of others that were [...]
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One of the greatest things about my relationship with my wife is that we have a lot of “in” jokes, little one and two word sayings that trigger memorable or funny times in our life that we shared together. I don’t know if all couples share in this crazy game, or if it’s [...]
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AIG is a conduit to funnel taxpayers dollars to the banks. Once that is accomplished, they will let it crumble to oblivion.
I doubt whether this market has truly absorbed bankruptcy for GM, Ford, AIG and more bankfailures but I do agree that to a certain extent, this market has become resillaint to negative news. [...]
The science experiment:
Both boys were thrilled yesterday. Roo's science experiment included--get this...
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The experiment involved candy. Specifically eating candy. Oh joyful day!! And the text asked that you involve a classmate in the experiment.
Well, being homeschooled in a family of two
Noted historian Simon Schama let his Obama support get the better of him when he interrupted a reptort to ask the show’s host,“Aren’t you going to call the election, David?”Host David Dimbleby, who had earlier announced that Fox News wasn’t good enough for the BBC to report an Obama victory in Ohio, responded by questioning Schama’s credibility as an historian and chastising him for wa
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If there was ever an election where the stakes are the highest… this election would be it. Americans have two simple choices ahead of them tomorrow. Will they:
Vote for smaller government (McCain), or for a larger, more intrusive government (Obama)
Vote for sending less of their paycheck to the government (McCain), or for more [...]
In the third and final presidential debate, McCain derided Obama for proposing to “spread the wealth around” by making the income tax more like it was during the Clinton Administration. On the campaign stump, McCain has been mocking Obama as the “redistributionist in chief,” and Palin has been calling Obama’s tax plan “socialism.”
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Science in America has replaced religion. Not in all aspects – science will never be held in people’s hearts like religion, but the two tread on the same ground, by some arguments they stab at the same questions. Both are paradigms for explanation, and they’re competing for space - science’s gains in status speak more to scientific progress than to religious decline. In a funny way though,
After the recent reports from the Ferrari team stating their concerns for the introduction of a standard engine, the FIA have now issued a press release.
“It seems the Ferrari Board were misinformed. The FIA has offered the teams three options, one of which is the so-called standard engine, and another that the manufacturers should jointly [...]
Obama has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first black contender for the presidency who will win, Obama, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged racial hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and
Yes, you read that title correctly. Before all the hate-mail starts pouring in, let me first make the caveat that all other things being equal, I would vastly prefer a truly free market approach to health care over either outright single payer or our current employer-based approach to health care. But depending on the goal of the health care system, single-payer health care might be a vast improve
Opening arguments in the trial of Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez will begin tomorrow morning at Fort Bragg. Martinez’s jury consists of eight officers and six enlisted soldiers. He is accused of killing two officers near Tikrit, Iraq in 2005.
Learn more about the military death penalty here. Nine men are held on the military’s death row [...]
A husband desperate to end an argument offers to buy is wife a new car. She curtly declines his offer by saying, "That's not quite what I had in mind." Frantically he offers her a new house. Again she rejects his offer, "That's not quite what I had in mind." Curious, he asks: "What did you have in mind?" She retorts, "I'd like a divorce." He answers, "I hadn't planned on spending quite that much."
Tampa, Florida (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Valentines day is still several months away, but we're going to get an early start here on the Weekly Vice by featuring our first official "He Loves Me NOT" award winner.Dennis McCloskey, a 51-year-old Tampa, Florida man has been arrested on accusations that he battered and choked his disabled girlfriend, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office
The Supreme Court started its term this week, and wasted no time hearing its first employment case. Yesterday it heard oral argument in Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, which is out of the 6th Circuit. Crawford asks if Title VII's anti-retaliation provision protects an employee from being fired because she cooperated with her employer's internal sexual harassment investigation. Vi
The most important part of generating a good paper in academic discussion, or in any argumentative style of essay, is the construction of an airtight argument. Or, so many people think. I tend to...
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Farr West, Utah (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Tyler John Hamlen, a 20-year-old Utah man has been arrested after repeatedly stabbing his mother over a pay-per-view conflict.According to authorities, Tyler Hamlen called 911 Wednesday afternoon claiming that two men dressed in black broke into his family's Farr West home and stabbed his mother.When Sheriff's deputies arrived, they found 57-year-old Gaylyn
PPP Workers In A Heated Argument With Haqqani
NEW YORK:Local PPP workers took Pakistan’s ambassador to US, Hussain Haqqani to task for not allowing display of banner of their slain leader Benazir Bhutto at an Iftar-dinner at a local hotel here on Friday. President Asif Ali Zardari attended the Iftar-dinner but did not address the participants mainly due to the uproar in the hall before he
Like Kournikova, the 24-year-old Kosteniuk, a Russian grandmaster, has traded on her looks, modeling for magazines like the European editions of Vogue and Marie Claire, and selling bikini-clad images of herself through her Web site. Kosteniuk, however, bristles at comparisons with Kournikova. "I...
Yep. That’s right. I walked to the closest hair salon to campus (which happens to be Fantastic Sams) and got my hair cut. When I explained that I wanted it short one one side, long on the other there was great confusion on the face of the stylist (only partially due to the language barrier). [...]
by Dave MindemanWell, here we are in the Mile High City. After a long day in airports yesterday I guess we are ready to tackle downtown Denver. The airport was swarming with greeters and helpers -- one lady said they had over 30,000 people volunteer to help with the convention. Many were turned away.One older lady held court on a bus transporting us to our rental car check in. She said she had
Use ‘ToString’ to convert the StringBuilder to String // Appending String - using String Builder System.Text.StringBuilder CompleteAddress1 = new System.Text.StringBuilder(); CompleteAddress1.Append( "105, Annanagar "); CompleteAddress1.Append( "Chennai "); CompleteAddress1.Append( "Tamil Nadu "); // Error Code
If yes, you’re not alone. But you have been the victim of some very sloppy homework, the kind you see in high school. Sadly, it’s proliferated all over people’s uninformed pet food blogs and SOME pet food manufacturer websites. It steers you away from some of the finest pet foods ever made.
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The other day I was talking with a bunch of other tech heads about the ongoing Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share war and why, from a stats point of view, that Mac and Linux were still trailing far behind Windows.
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When a company is caught making a bad employment decision, they come to us, their lawyers, to bail them out. Bryant v. Dollar General Stores (6th Cir. 8/15/08), presents one such example. Dollar Stores fired Martha Bryant, who testified that her supervisor told her she was being fired "[b]ecause of your health, I don’t think you can do the job." Faced with what one can safely cal
Xymphora thinks the Dual loyalty argument spilling into the Jewish community is just Damage Control:
Damage control
False-flag self-hating? There is a rather obvious attempt at damage control orchestrated by World Jewry and fronted by Zionist - [...] The fear is that the Iraq/Iran war debacle, which is now directly impinging on the privileged lifestyle of the [...]
Despite what I perceive as greater program reliability and speed, I find many of the programmers I work with deriding the garbage collector in .Net and wishing for the good old days of explicit memory management. I personally have never looked back. I've never done a very good job of defending this position, in part because it's hard to quantify. Recently, I was checking out the "D" programming l
I have to confess, the news that euthanized dogs and cats might wind up in Fido and Fluffy’s dinner sure gets your attention. It got mine, years ago, when I first read Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food by Ann Martin.
That book was well-researched and Ann Martin’s facts were accurate. You can validate [...]
Arguing between couples is normal and will happen to the best of couples. Avoiding arguments is probably not healthy and sooner or later one of you will explode. Arguments are a necessary part of any relationship because they allow you an avenue to express thoughts and opinions that you might not otherwise express. This is a way for the relationship between a man and a woman to grow and develop. Y
Nine ways to win an argument.People argue all the time and most of the time it is the people who are most aggressive or loudest win specially if they are wrong.Winning, is not the matter of being the loudest or the most aggressive but being clever and diplomatic and giving it back to your opponents without he/she realizing it.Here are NINE tips :1) Re-wordRe- word the opponents logic in such a man
Speaking of the far-right's attempts to amend the California state constitution in a way that is both anti-gay and un-American, Brad Dacus of the "pro-family" Pacific Justice Institute has issued the following rally cry: "The bottom line is that, if...
Simon Jenkins gets it right The Simon Jenkins column in the Guardian today nails the argument against 42 days.
These, for me, are the killer sentences: "The police have enough emergency power already. As for panic, that has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with the position of the prime minister." [...]
New reader name Heru left a comment at my latest post and asks me about the meaning of my tagline; when a main life requires a good argument
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I’m using this tagline after I migrate to a dot com in February, right here and the tagline was actually coming from Ben Jonson quotes; “A good [...]
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Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter takes a detailed look at Senator Hillary Clinton’s argument that she is head in the popular vote in detail and the counter arguments and and concludes:
With a big win in Puerto Rico, Clinton could possibly erase that margin (plus several thousand more that Obama is expected to net in Montana and South [...]
Blizzard uses ‘innovative’ argument in World of Warcraft bot lawsuitTG Daily - 13 minutes agoBy Humphrey Cheung Irvine (CA) – Blizzard Entertainment, the creators of the most popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, is using a new and seemingly innovative …
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wftv A pregnant woman survived a jump off a bridge over the weekend and landed 85 feet below in the St. Andrew Bay.The woman's fiance says the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her and her unborn baby is fine.An incident report says the couple was having an argument while driving across the bridge. She demanded she be let out of the car. He stopped the car, and she ran to the railing.Authorities say the fiance says he left the car and told her to come back. Instead, she climbed the rail and jumped.The woman told authorities she jumped to get away from her fiance.
A pregnant woman survived a jump off a bridge over the weekend and landed 85 feet below in the St. Andrew Bay.The woman's fiance says the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her and her unborn baby is fine.An incident report says the couple was having an argument while driving across the bridge. She demanded she be let out of the car. He stopped the car, and she ran to the railing.Authorities say the fiance
Howard Dean articulated a point that directly refutes one the Obama campaign's core nomination arguments- namely that superdelegates are a bunch of elites plotting to overturn the will of the people, which currently is awarding the junior Senator from Illinois with a slim lead (currently 137, with 716 left to go per CNN) in pledged delegates. Via Meet the Press yesterday;MR. RUSSERT: The candidate with the most elected delegates is not guaranteed the nomination?DR. DEAN: The rules say that the candidate with the most delegates gets the nomination, and I support the rules.MR. RUSSERT: So that the superdelegates could, in effect, overrule the elected delegates?DR. DEAN: That, you know, you shouldn't think of it that way. So-called "superdelegates" are, in fact, elected by exactly the s
The Ninth Circuit heard oral argument on April 14, 2008 in Theme Promotions v. News America Marketing, 06-16230– a case I discussed in a recent post. An audio file of the oral argument is available here.News America Marketing appealed the lower court's finding of antitrust violations, arguing that the right of first refusal ("ROFR") provisions in its contracts with consumer goods companies were pro-competitive. News America suggested that the ROFR's allowed News to offer volume discounts to consumer goods companies, and pointed out that pricing declined during the relevant time period. The court expressed skepticism, and quoted an internal News America memorandum that suggested that News' enforcement of its ROFR agreements to prevent Theme Promotions from placing its ads with Valassis h
The Ninth Circuit heard oral argument on April 14, 2008 in Theme Promotions v. News America Marketing, 06-16230– a case I discussed in a recent post. An audio file of the oral argument is available here.News America Marketing appealed the lower court's finding of antitrust violations, arguing that the right of first refusal ("ROFR") provisions in its contracts with consumer goods companies were
A video presentation by Aspirin99As part of my graduate program, I'm taking a Rhetorical Theory class. For the last assignment, I was asked to take something I had previously written and improve it using principles we had studied.I chose Rogerian Argument. This principle is suggested for debating topics of hot emotional content, such as religion and politics. It seeks to place the opponent at ease by telling him or her what you like about their views and then finding common ground from which to start the discussion.I chose to take correspondence regarding Creationism and turn it into a Rogerian documentary video. I enlisted the help of Antlerman, a mod in the forums, to do some of the voice-overs.It's an hour-long documentary that I made in two weeks; so, it's not perfect, but I think you'
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Hillary Clinton can’t overtake Barack Obama in the delegate count to win the nomination. Barack Obama can’t win enough delegates to earn the nomination either. This leaves the nomination of the Democrat candidate in the hands of the super delegates. This can all be blamed on the fact that the liberal’s [...]
In debate regarding partial birth abortion (Denial Is a Senator from California):To Barbara Boxer "What if, asked Santorum almost facetiously, in the course of the partial-birth abortion, the baby’s foot was inside the mother but the rest of the baby was outside. “Could that baby be killed?”'Barbara Boxer's answer: '“I am not answering these questions.” Boxer informed Santorum that he (not she) was “losing his temper.”'Santorum: '“Do you agree, once the child is born, separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed?”'Boxer: '“I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born . . . the baby belongs to your family and has rights.”'In another debate from October 2003 Sen. Sam Brownback offered the picture of
From the Vancouver Sun today:. While one coast of Canada will be digging out from a blizzard this weekend, the other coast will be basking in a heat wave…. Except… The worst city to be in this weekend is Saskatoon, which is forecast to ...
Argument may have led to triple stabbing in KCKKansas City Star, MO - Apr 17, 2008A domestic dispute may have led to a triple stabbing in Kansas City, Kan., late Wednesday night. KMBC-Channel 9 News is reporting that two men and one woman ...
Before writing an essay argument you should pay attention to its structure and organize your work correctly. You should choose a captivating title for your essay. It will help you to catch the readers’ attention and make them interested in your work. In introduction you need to present the main goal of your essay. It [...]
If you don't want to believe everything Labor Union shills scream and want evidence that Monetarism & Free Trade are working, just look at the unempl1 Vote(s)
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Noam Scheiber has presented some additional evidence to debunk Clinton’s big state argument, which I discussed yesterday. Clinton argues that her victories over Obama in certain big swing states means she would have a better chance in the general election. While she does cherry pick her examples to make this case, for the sake of [...]
It is hard to decide whether I do not want Hillary Clinton to be president more because she is wrong on so many issues (her support of the Iraq and drug wars plus her conservative positions on civil liberty and social issues) or because the amount of dishonest and irrational arguments from her camp is [...]
When I grew up and I fought with my brothers, my mum and dad would say “Don’t fight”. They would intervene to stop the arguments but they didn’t teach me ways to stop an argument. So when my children started fighting and yelling and screaming at each other, I decided to teach them [...]
After being serious for quite some time now, this is just to help us look at the brighter (or wackier) side of life. I don’t know if you have the same strange sense of humor I have… but I love these guys (and there’ll be more to come, I promise)
Should one want to be serious, [...]
I’m all for having opinions, but if a simple disagreement turns to violence, someone must be watching too much tv. The apparent argument was over a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama argument! “…Jose Antonio Ortiz, a Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed his brother-in-law Sean Shurelds in the stomach after they argued over the race for nomination. Shurelds, 41, [...]
Last time we talked about the importance of the “lead” or opening few paragraphs of your copy and its primary job: To open the mind of your prospect to giving your sales argument a fair hearing.
This time, I want to talk about the argument itself: The reasons you put forward that prove: a) that buying your product will change your prospects life for the better… and b) that NOT buying it right
In Memphis, Tennessee, a high-school student was shot multiple times after a supposedly gang-related argument with another student. The gunman of the shooting, an 11th grader at Mitchell High School, shot the student three times, in the neck, chest, and the groin. The shooting happened around 9 am in PE class when the two students began to argue. One boy pulled out a gun and shot the other three times. The shooter then walked up to the PE instructor, handed him the gun, and said, “It’s over now.” He was quickly taken into school custody soon after and the victim was rushed to the nearest hospital in stable condition. The 11th grade teen was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm. Throughout all of this drama, there is one main reason the shooting happened, the sc
The New Year will see educators and politicians continue the debate on whether academic standardized testing, end of course exams, or school based performance standards – or a combination of all will promote the most effective means of student achievement. But in the meantime, schools must remember that they shoulder the following responsibilities: (from “Strategies for Parents and Educators” - NASSP)Provide a caring supportive environment. Feeling cared for and safe builds students’ resiliency. Promote positive social connections between staff members and students, students and their peers, and home and school.Foster positive attitudes. Help students believe that they can succeed if they try. Provide situations in which students are able to succeed. Frame failure as a learning opp
Try adding this into the system.web section of your web.config file:pages enableEventValidation="false"@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Admin/MasterPage_Admin.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="CategoryManagement.aspx.cs" Inherits="Admin_CategoryManagement" Title="Untitled Page" EnableEventValidation="false" You can also benefit from those features by leaving it enabled then register your control for event validation. Simply add the following call in the PreRender or Render page life cycle then your control should work without having to turn off eventValidation:Page.ClientScript.RegisterForEventValidation(this.UniqueID);
One day the different parts of the body were having an argument to see which should be in charge:The brain said, "I do all the thinking so I'm the most important and I should be in charge.â€The eyes said, "I see everything and let the rest of you know where we are, so I'm the most important and I should be in charge.â€The hands said, "Without me we wouldn't be able to pick anything up or move anything. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge.â€The stomach said, "I turn the food we eat into energy for the rest of you. Without me, we'd starve. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge.â€The legs said, "Without me we wouldn't be able to move anywhere. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge.â€Then the rectum said, "I think I should be in charge.â€All the rest of the parts said, "YOU?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don't do anything! You're not as important as we surely are! You can't be in charge.â€So the rectum clos
No matter how you feel about Prior emotionally (and personally I've felt the gamut of emotions from elation to despair, from pity to rage towards the guy) there are really only four potential outcomes for this thing. (Albeit, each of those outcomes comes with numerous degrees of shading.)
I'll rank them from worst to best for the Cubs, but again, that's subjective, and some probably overlap. 1) Prior goes somewhere else and fulfills that tarnished "potential" we remember so bitterly.
The worst option, as I see it, is that he becomes a true, dominant number 1 starter.
For another team.
Fallout from that would be an indictment of the Cubs' manager, the pitching coach, the trainers, the Minor League rehab facility . . .
AND THEN all of the Cubs' baseball people for letting him get away just when they should have kept him.
The Cubs would look like the team who broke him, couldn't fix him, and then gave up on him too early. Three strikes. We lose.
2) Prior goes somewhere
DBB.org regular contributor Benjy sent me a link to this very fun video featuring Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray pantomiming an argument with the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th symphony as a soundtrack. Sid Ceaser was a live sketch comedy pioneer in the 1950s with his sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Ceaser’s Hour.
Check out more contributions from Benjy on the DBB.org articles page–we wrote a great article about auditioning for the Strasbourg Philharmonic at age 54 after being a member of this orchestra for the past 22 years.
Try adding this into the section of your web.config file: You can also benefit from those features by leaving it enabled then register your control for event validation. Simply add the following call in the PreRender or Render page life cycle then your control should work without having to turn off eventValidation: Page.ClientScript.RegisterForEventValidation(this.UniqueID);
A recent widow was crying to a grief counselor. "We were married twenty-five years before he died," she said, dabbing away a tear. "Never had an argument in all those years.""Amazing," said the councelor. "How did you do it?""I outweighed him by forty pounds and he was a coward."
This is a great reference site for students of English who are learning to write argument or opinion essays and is ideal for IELTS and TOEFL candidates who need extra essay writing practice. Features: • Explanations of how to write an argument essay in five steps • Explanations of the different parts of an essay • Step-by-step sample essays in Flash and PowerPoint to illustrate the essay writing process • Model essays on a wide variety of topics • A selection of TOEFL, IELTS and other writing topics for immediate practice • A downloadable version of the site that fits on a floppy disk Site URL: http://www.writefix.com/argument/
The storm in my life has finally ended… For all the things that happened this past few months, I thought that my relationship with my girlfriend was already through. I thought that the problem between us can never be fixed. It was purely misunderstanding about a lot of things. I’m sorry if I can’t elaborate [...]
The only way democracy or civil society can take root in Iraq, devastated by military, sectarian and
political strife, is for the United States to withdraw its military presence.
But more than that, we need to rethink the effectiveness of our actions in this
region, and against the militant Salafi movement in particular. This does not mean the most responsible decision is to
remove American forces immediately, but we must ultimately face the reality
that our presence only puts a target on our backs—in...(read more)
The New Zealand Institute published an interesting document supportive of FTTH. The economic benefits are calculated bottom-up and are (conservatively) estimated at 2.7-4.4bn NZD/year. Their next report will focus on the cost of covering 75% of the population by 2018.
(All fine and dandy, but I was reminded of a recent Greenspan quote: "It is not yet settled, although I guess it should be by now
Today’s issue is about opening your prospect’s minds to receiving your sales argument …
The Secret Structure That Forms The Bedrock of Every Successful Persuasion Attempt …
Your selling efforts online in many ways resemble those of a trial lawyer in a court of law. The jurors are your prospects, and the verdict is the decision to buy, or not.
This may come as a surprise to you, but one of the
"Argument is the worst sort of conversation." -Jonathan Swift, Irish Cleric and Writer, Jonathan Swift books//
A mentor once explained to me that dialogue was the best kind of conversation because it involved collaboration and a sharing of ideas, regardless of agreement. He also said that discussion was a conversation consisting of points and counterpoints, which inherently made it somewhat adversarial. Arguments, he said, were nothing more than a waste of time. I wonder if my mentor read much of Swift's work? I tend to agree with them both.
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First, because this whole thing about WordPress and Blogger might annoy the crap out of you, or bore you, I'm going to give away some interesting links and information.First is the TW Blog. I've become a weekly contributor there, partly because I've become a mod at the TeenageWriters site and partly because I'm editing their first anthology. I do the writing tips/discussion type stuff. Two posts of interest to anyone that reads this blog would be The Golden Rule and Enemy #1: Info-dump. The former is about none other than that infamous "show, don't tell" rule and the latter is quite obvious I think. Check them out because I think they are rather helpful, and perhaps if you have any comments I'd love to hear them.Another thing of interest is that I have volunteered and been accepted to help do book reviews with SQT at her F & SF Review Blog. She's becoming very active in the SF/F community and trying to get her foot in the review door by asking for ARC's and the like.
There is a famous conjecture called the Doomsday Argument, which will be discussed below. It can be used to predict the future remaining existence of the Major Leagues. Here's how.
Before reading, come up with an off the cuff estimate for how long you think Major League Baseball will last. Think of it in terms of if you were betting, and you wanted to know how many years it had left, so that
In Massachusetts, some homosexual activists have a truly distorted idea of what constitutes authentic dialogue: http://www.massresistance.org/docs/info/know_thy_neighbor.html"A discussion is an orderly confrontation based on a mutual willingness to learn from one another. It involves the presentation of evidence by each party and then a good-faith attempt of the participants in the discussion to come to agreement. Discussion presupposes some degree of rational disagreement between us or at least a lack of consensus. If I agreed with you already, we would have nothing to discuss. In a discussion, I do not primarily want to disagree: I want to know the truth. If I do not think that what you say is true, then I disagree, stating my reasons as clearly as possible and without animosity. The same is true for you: you present me with your reasons. By sharing our ideas freely, we hope to arrive at a deeper truth. In a discussion, disagreement is for the sake of agreement.....An argument (emoti
These days, everyone seems to agree the planet is warming up. What we don’t agree on are the reasons why: human caused or natural?
Personally, I figured the resounding consensus among the world’s scientists fingering humanity as the cause was reason enough, but what do I know?
Anyway, the short video above aims to silence this largely irrelevant debate in favour of the more pressing issue: what are the consequences if we choose a course of action…and we’re wrong?
whether Jesus be the Messiah, entirely depends, as proved before, upon his answering the characteristics given of that personage by the Jewish prophets; and all the miracles in the world could never, from the nature of the case, prove him to be so,…
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina recruit was stabbed early Sunday morning after he got into an argument at an apartment complex in suburban Columbia, Richland County deputies said.
Quentin Richardson, 18, was at a party when he got involved in an argument and was stabbed, sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Chris Cowan said.
Richardson underwent successful surgery Sunday afternoon and was expected to be released from the hospital in a few days, said his godfather, Will Sutton.
Richardson more…
The Malay Male (Amir Hafizi) wrote:Excerpt:"I hate the military.I mean, the idea of having the military. It's bloody stupid to torment people, surprise buttseckss them everyday and then, instead of getting them to use billions of dollars in high tech killing machines to actually kill people, we get them to march.Left. Right. Left. Right. What the fuck?All that training. All that marching. For what? So that they would be disciplined? Fuck you. We are spending billions every year so that a few thousand people can learn how to make their beds and polish their shoes.Fuck all of you motherfuckers.What this country needs is a war. Then we can deploy the soldiers and let them fire their M4 carbines and non-lethal F-18 Hornets and fucking kill somebody." Read further...
Here is a high school science teacher in the process of burning out giving a simplified but good and clear argument for why we have to act all out in fighting climate change.
Personally, I always thought the whole global warming thing was a little bit overblown. Got to admit this guy makes a very compelling argument without debating any details. He points out what a good amount of people have already known about global warming but he puts it all out on the table.read more | digg story
I am opposed to capital punishment. That is not to say I don’t think strong arguments can be made in its favour, on the contrary, I think it is a very difficult dilemma to decide, and by no means clear cut.
Personally, I find the idea of an innocent man being executed in error so repugnant, that for most cases, I just don’t think it is worth the risk. There may be some cases where we can be almost completely certain that we have the guilty person, but I still oppose the state’s right to take his life. We are not simply protecting the public by executing him, as we would by destroying a dangerous, rabid dog. By executing, we effectively ‘give up’ on that person. As a humanist, believing that nobody is absolutely evil, I find that hard to do. Even a convicted murderer can contribute something to society, if he can be rehabilitated.
I know what you’re thinking: that’s a big ‘if’. Indeed it is. It is not my intention to argue that all criminals can, at least in
The blog of Illegal Immigration News in Chapel Hill presents Sen. Tom Tancredo's newsletter in which he makes an important point regarding the case of the terrorists who were plotting to attack Fort Dix. As he says here:Incredibly, even as the illegal aliens who were plotting to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix are now sitting in jail, the President and key members of Congress are preparing to launch another “comprehensive immigration reform” bill….a bill that would give AMNESTY to illegal immigrants, like the ones arrested last week in New Jersey!This is an outrage! It is an insult to the memory of the Americans who died at the hands of illegal aliens in 2001, it is an insult to our servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is an insult to the millions of immigrants who come to our nation legally, and it proves the political establishment in Washington is NOT SERIOUS when it comes to fixing our broken immigration laws and securing our nation!Absolutely correct. It's n
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