5/4     Why does The Netherlands have such a sustained lower unemployment
                 \_ Why is it The Netherlands? Is it like an LA Freeway?
        rate and higher growth than the US? Maybe we can replicate their
        success here.
        \_ Start by not spending all your money on military and prisons.
        \_ They don't have as large a population of illegal immigrants  -jblack
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12/20   "Canada offers $3.29 billion in loans Detroit Three - Yahoo! Finance"
        http://www.csua.org/u/n5h
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9/7      I can't stand the smirky tone of Palin's voice.  Her mocking of
         Obama, especially when her facts are wrong or deliberately disengenous
         as they are shoved at her by Republican operatives, pisses me off.
         I wasn't going to vote for her anyway, oh well
        \_ I hated her too.  She has that primly self-righteous tone of
           holier-than-thou which I learned to despise from a co-worker
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9/4     http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Conventions/story?id=5715542&page=3
        Now even McCain is spouting the party line about how Palin knows
        foreign relations because Alaska is close to Russia.  Wow, that's
        some serious straight talk going on.
        \_ And Alaska is closer to Canada than to the 48 state!
        \_ Kind of stupid but not totally without merit. I think governors
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6/3     One Nepalese soldirer in the UK Army fought off more than 30 Talibans!
        http://www.csua.org/u/thj (news.yahoo.com)
        Kudos.
        \_ I knew before even clicking on the link that he was a Gurkha. It is
           rumored that during WWII the Italians would desert if they
           discovered that they were facing Gurkhas.
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8/14    How California's Lock-Em-Up Mentality actually makes crime worse:
        http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111843426
        \_ Sounds nice, but the stats say the crime rate is better since
           we started locking them up.
           \_ You should look up "correlation and causation."
              \_ Just because they are not necessarily correlated doesn't
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1/25    UK Treasury official says UK financial system was on brink of collapse,
        preparing to terminate all wire transfers, halt withdrawals
        \_ URL?
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10/8    Nikkei 225 getting fucked up the ass
        UK getting super fucked - oh wait, UK equity indices haven't yet caught
        up with this fact.  Don't worry.  They will.
        \_ Japanese schoolgirl anal.... sorry, what did you say again?
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11/26   Media lavishes attention on bogus Zogby poll showing Hillary trailing
        while ignoring reputable Gallup poll
        http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/11/media_lavishes.php
        \_ More proof of liberal media bias.
           \_ I think you're being sarcastic, but one could make that argument
              since Hillary is probably the farthest right of the Dem
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10/17   What are some examples of successful & sustainable colonies?
        \_ Israel
           \_ A colony of what country, USA? You're funny.
           \_ We do give them a few billion a year.  Same with Egypt.
              I doubt Egypt or Israel would exist in its present state
              without our aid.  You could argue that they'd be better off
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