Re: how to compare living standards


"Jim Blair" <jeb@xxxxxxxx> wrote

And none of the "functioning clocks" (non-FOX?)
ever have the right time? I mean did anyone else
show any of those cartoons?


Add the Bush administration to the non-FOX covey. They're not in the
publishing business (well, except for leaks) but the Bushies' line seemed to
be that we must respect Muslim sensitivities.


Here in Madison, only the "conservative" Badger Hearld
printed one of them. The "Progressive" Capital Times,
Radical Leftist Daily Cardinal, and moderate- Conservative
Wisconsin State Journal all refused.


The Boston Globe not only did not print the cartoons, it followed the Bush
line: "Tsk, tsk to Jyllans-Posten, boo to those European papers who
reprinted them, and let's all respect religion." We had a lovely thread in
ne.politics on the subject "Worst Editorial Ever".


Actually I watch only a few minutes of his show
during the 5 minute gap between the end of the
Daily Show on the comedy channel and the start
of Jay Leno.


You mean you're depriving yourself of the Colbert Report? Oh, Jim, how much
you're missing!


I think that national intelligence agancies copy from each other
less than the networks do. At least I hope so ;-)


You know, I wonder about that. With my own eyes, and thanks to C-span, I
actually saw people like Tenet make claims about Saddam's WMD. And I saw
people like Tenet _say_ that foreign intelligence services agreed. But I
never saw the head of a foreign intelligence service testify to Congress.
Your sources of information are doubtless better than mine, Jim, but I doubt
even you have _first-hand_ evidence about what foreign intelligence services
believed.


I don't know what "privatizing the national debt" would do,
or even what the term means.


Was it some _other_ Jim Blair that I discussed it with, on sci.econ about a
year ago?

-- TP




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