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They're both tiring ... I'll wait up for Craig Ferguson, thank you very much.

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Jean wrote:well, this explains alot about my ex

and your antecedent is which? ...

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The organization has correctly identified and is addressing one thing ... the excruciating loneliness that highly gifted children can experience in growing up if their lives don't have a good social and educational balance. Sending prodigies off to college at age 14 wasn't the answer ... isolating ...

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Frederich Hayek was once asked why so many intelligent people were socialists. He replied, "intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence". The left has always offered a rational constructivist model of society that treats social problems like scientific problems that can be solved through...

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I don't know if it's all that expensive. There are lots of curlers in these parts, although I'm not one. In fact, my 3 brothers all curl from time to time. I've only curled a couple of times and that was long ago. I should have qualified that ... start-up costs are high, especially the venue. From ...

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WORST CROSSOVER I EVER SAW .... The album cover of James Galway/Cleo Laine's Sometimes When We Touch . Never mind the title song, one of the schlockiest ballads I know of; remember that cover?!? The two, in tight closeup, seductively staring at each other (c'mon, Jimmy, you gotta wife and kids!). T...

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Apart from having a marvellous wife & son, and good physical health, I'm fortunate to live in a special place, and now have a job as tour guide in a whisky distillery. Here's what I mean: http://www.arranwhisky.com/Home.aspx I truly hope that you have at least some of the good luck that's come my w...

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This should be fun :) http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/img/021.jpg ONE day Henny-penny was picking up corn in the cornyard when--whack!--something hit her upon the head. 'Goodness gracious me!' said Henny-penny; 'the sky's a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king.' So she went along and s...

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Throwing our economy and national security under the bus today is no way to secure the future of our grandchildren. They're going to be more concerned about food on the table and a roof over their head and a safe place to live for their survival.

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http://winecountrycurling.org/ :!: :shock: :mrgreen: 8) -G Yes, there are several curling clubs up and down the coast. As the article pointed out, it is an expensive sport, and that is why so many use existing ice sports centers. It would be neat if membership in other areas grew enough to get thei...

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I think there's a difference, dear, but I could be as thick as a brick. It is an old Catholic tradition to give self, for one's own salvation. For generations, nuns served as nurses, as welfare workers, and as asylum workers, not primarily to help the patients, that is true, but to give their own l...

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Tell that to the Baptist ladies who genuinely believed they had the right to take a bus-load of Haitian kids out of their devastated country because they could "help them." One should never assume that community spokepersons are, indeed, representative, or that well-intentioned people are, indeed, ...

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After watching the Canadian men take the gold in today's match against Norway (loved those harlequin pants!), I am still so pumped about the sport that I visited the website of the organization in Seattle (Granite Curling Club) and also talked with one of their lifetime members, a man in his mid to ...

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Accusations of snobbery can also be a form of bullying into conformity or peer-group pressure. The "dumbing down" and conformity of society by accusations of snobbery against folk who wish to improve themselves and their culture is the truly damaging attitude. Treating people badly or having airs o...

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piston wrote:Any philosophical lesson about the Rochette performance? I know I cried and ain't ashamed of saying so...

I did, too. She was exquisite, and her music was perfect. Such courage, such determination, such focus, her best performance ever. It was an honor to watch her.

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I can hardly breathe. So disappointed that Canadian women's curling team didn't beat Sweden for the gold ... but oh, what a game! They can hold their heads high. Incredible performance. I thought they had it sewed up for a while, but how quickly it can all change. Bernard ... Norberg ... amazing.

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jbuck919 wrote:I had no idea that Pachelbel looked just like Mozart! Or maybe Mozart wrote that stunning two-measure introduction that harmonizes a descending Phrygian scale. You know, the way he arranged Messiah.

Well, you know about the sincerest form of flattery ... variations

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To a certain extent, we are all snobs. How many people who abhore snobbery would invite the local bag-lady to dinner with the boss? :wink: Agnes, that doesn't make you a snob. We hang with people we know and enjoy, but I can't imagine your thinking you're better as a person than anyone. ---------- ...

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In this morning's email ... I never knew the story behind that funny piece of graffiti. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9VGZjBQHr0s/R63rrrtWulI/AAAAAAAAApM/tbYXIV1LynQ/s400/KilroyWasHere.jpg In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, 'Speak to America,' sponsored a nationwide con...

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by Seth Godin Extremists move the middle. Compromise is everywhere. Most of us can't possibly be pure extremists or true fundamentalists, so we draw the line somewhere in the middle. Consider the choice of what you eat (or don't eat). It ranges from the omnivore at one end to the fruitarian at the ...

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I'm going to get me a gun, I think. Never owned one but it's time that I do. I have been "moved" in that direction by my need for some measure of security in the woods. A zealot voice in my head spoke to me last summer when, around 11pm, I heard heavy movement in the bush. This zealot even used olf...

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Beats me--I've paid him no mind. I didn't care much for his brother, either, but somehow his pre-primary fundraising success sewed up the nomination, and in the general election (and afterwards?) just about the best thing that could be said about him was that at least he was a damned sight better t...

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I read "Atlas Shrugged" when I was 20 or so...and absolutely hated it. :shock: -G I think you would enjoy "The Fountainhead". It is all about a man's integrity. I probably should re-read it; after 'Atlas Shrugged', I thought it was boring. But maybe I was too young to get it. Did you see the movie?...

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I am supremely excited by curling, exclusively women's curling. The visual concentration, did you see it? The strategy! The fact that anyone, including old foggies, can do it, if they practice. But, ultimately, it boils down to national honor --the ultimate adrenaline rush! And that is why them Jap...

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Agnes Selby wrote:To a certain extent, we are all snobs. How many people
who abhore snobbery would invite the local bag-lady
to dinner with the boss?

Agnes, that doesn't make you a snob. We hang with people we know and enjoy, but I can't imagine your thinking you're better as a person than anyone.

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After playing Saul's 'At the Ocean' , YouTube continues on to other videos.

These two were too beautiful not to share.

Now I must pack and go to the Long Beach peninsula for a while.

Saul, you hang out in some impressive places.

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At the Ocean for Flute Harp and Violin [youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Ga98fFu_qM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.y...

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It's my understanding that the Earth is in fact the "center" of the universe--and so is everywhere else. Because of the four-dimensional nature of the universe, from any point in it the universe seems equally extensive in every direction, i.e., no location is closer than any other to its "edge." No...

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Have you noticed that some people will call anyone who is more successful or gifted than themselves, a snob? Otherwise intelligent or talented children will "dumb down" their capabilities in order to fit in. I see the processes by which the elite, however defined, validate themselves as far less in...

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A beautiful young girl has found a way to express her faith ... lovely.

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jbuck919 wrote:I think snobbery is a reprehensible trait, but I wish anti-elitists were held in the same low esteem as snobs.

touché

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Ralph wrote:No and I never would be. I treat the great host of figuratively unwashed humanity who can not rise to my level of knowledge, culture or sophistication with tolerant understanding.

And for that, we are most grateful.

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Saul, I want to apologize for my crude comments to you about your sex life during the evolution thread. It was uncalled for, and you had a right to be disappointed and disgusted. I am sure others found it offensive, even cruel, and I owe them an apology, too. I took the low road, and I'm very sorry.

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I was thinking about this today. Usually people don't like to be called snobs...because there are certain negative connotations. But does it always have to be a bad thing? I've been called a music snob for a long time. HOWEVER...I think that I've kind of "earned that right" because of all of my tra...

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DavidRoss wrote:
Madame wrote:And the pageants go on.
One of the problems with living in a free country.

Yep.

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He doesn't have any political capital left. He's a lame duck until the Nov. midterms, and maybe even after that. The only thing that can save him now are The Stupid Party's excesses if they win back control of Congress. Seems to me the Stupid Party award is passed back and forth. They each manage t...

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I did see that movie and found it very upsetting. I could't see a lick of humor in making a film like that. A film like what? About a typically dysfunctional contemporary American family overcoming some (dramatically absurd) obstacles to discover and reaffirm their unconditional love and support fo...

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Thank you Madame, glad you enjoyed the music. Regards, Saul I more than enjoy it ... I love it ... and your art work. You inspired me to try something I'd never done, and I'll always be grateful. I wish I had even a tenth of your gift. And you don't keep it to yourself, you generously share all thi...

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Where is the line where a judge/prosecutor relationship crosses into conflict of interest? In a golf foursome? As neighbors? Hunting buddies? There is the appearance of independence, and then there is the reality. And then there is the case itself ... if the preponderance of evidence supports the de...

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Ocean Reflections II for Piano. [youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7sONSf7LgJM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube....

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Performing my arrangment of Grieg's Morning Mood. Cheers Saul [youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MuKzy7R_yLg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><...

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Given that America was kind enough to give me a Green Card and allow me to live and work here, I have never complained about the Taxes I pay, nor will I ever complain, without the generosity of the US I would never have been able to build a Business the size of my Studio and I always tell people th...

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slofstra wrote:Anyone seen the movie Little Miss Sunshine? Spot on black humour.

I find this very distressing.

I did see that movie and found it very upsetting. I could't see a lick of humor in making a film like that.

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living_stradivarius wrote:First the San Fran office, now San Diego. Pretty soon it'll be literally impossible to (legally) incorporate a business in California.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/pdf/san- ... losure.pdf

Garsh ... they can't lay those people off, so where d'ya think they'll end up?

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http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=585857&showcomments=true&rss=yes Miley [Cyrus]'s 9-year-old sister launching a lingerie line for kids Seems like every time we hear about Noah Cyrus she's doing something totally innapropriate for her age. Whether it's dressing like a dominatr...

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Traditional values? Why is it anybody's -- much less the government's -- business what values citizens choose to hold? The government has no place imposing morals upon its citizens. That's the beauty of this country: we get to choose what we believe. I don't know where you're from, but I find in my...

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IcedNote wrote:I read "Atlas Shrugged" when I was 20 or so...and absolutely hated it.

-G

Well ... my 20's were a long, long time ago.

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I read "Atlas Shrugged" twice in my early adult years, and for me it was valuable reading. Yes, she had her dark side, but she nailed some important things at the same time. I thought she was extreme, but then again, isn't that how hyperbole works? I've seen more than a few James Taggarts in my life...

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If you have any problems with the comments that these leading evolutionists have made about the great lie of evolution, you can contact them directly and ask them your question. Kieth, Wald, and Huxley -- their phones were disconnected a long time ago. ;) Ros zak (note spelling) is not a scientist ...

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If you have any problems with the comments that these leading evolutionists have made about the great lie of evolution, you can contact them directly and ask them your question. Kieth, Wald, and Huxley -- their phones were disconnected a long time ago. ;) Ros zak (note spelling) is not a scientist ...

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