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DavidRoss

According to CNN: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that the bill will reduce the deficit by $138 billion in the first decade and will reduce the deficit by as much as $1.3 trillion in the second decade. In addition, the CBO confirms the bill both reins in wasteful spending ...

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03/21/2010? Millions of people who don't have health care will now have it? (or actually in a few years when it become effective.) Evaluating this bill based upon the desirability of one questionable claim made for it is like evaluating Mussolini's fascism on the desirability of punctual trains. Fr...

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12/07/1941;
09/11/2001;
03/21/2010?

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Like many older collectors here, I remember the days when the major companies barely released a dozen new titles in a three month period, all of very high quality. How times have changed! So much quantity, so little quality. I barely notice 4-6 new releases/mo. out of a total of 150 or so that are ...

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In keeping with the thread title, it seems appropriate to note the following observation by the eminent philosopher of science, Karl Popper: "Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it." Everyone interested in the scientifi...

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I'm confused. Have you heard him and don't like him? Or are you saying you won't listen to him because too many people describe him as the standard? I did listen to him and I did enjoy him. Those are wonderful performances I would admit. However, for so many people here it is like there is him and ...

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NancyElla wrote:Here's a tasty little sample that probably doesn't get a lot of play on your radio station:

Thanks for sharing, NancyElla--very nice. Are the other 7 as good?

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Well, Matt, FWIW I love Debussy's solo piano works, especially the Préludes , second only to Beethoven's sonatas and Bach's solo keyboard works. Another nice choice and popular recommendation is Paul Jacobs's recording, available these days for $10 or less new from several Amazon sellers. Although f...

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I'm one of those who have a small collection and who is quite happy with one performance of most pieces. In fact, sometimes I don't understand those who collect several copies of the same pieces considering that the differences between some performances are quite minimal (in my own little experienc...

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Some really good thoughts there, Jack. I am wary of that "flavour of the month" effect. I've heard "best ever" accolades applied lately to the new Minnesota Beethoven set, to the Mackerras late Mozart symphonies, to Nelson Freire's Brahms piano concertoes, and so on. I remember that Goode's set of ...

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Okay, I was in high school in '67, too. Sgt. Pepper's changed my life--not all for the better. It changed the world, too--not all for the better. White Rabbit can still give me chills. I remember most of the songs on slofstra's list but couldn't sing even half of them. The ones that really hold up, ...

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Well I suppose there is an issue as to whether the Dem leadership told the troops to keep this issue quiet. That's important, but it's not really determinative of fraud. There is no dispute that the $300 billion "doctor fix" is not part of the healthcare bill. So the CBO "score", based as it is on ...

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http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0310/EXCLUSIVE__Democrats_plan_doc_fix_after_reform.html?showall Just in cause you had any doubts that the Dems' claim that the healthcare bill reduces the deficit is fraudulent, pure and simple. Interesting, Jack--POLITICO says the article has been removed until t...

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Hi, Abby! I see you joined last June. We haven't "met" yet, probably because I wasn't participating during most of the time since you joined, so please let me extend a welcoming hand and belated greetings to you. Hope you enjoy the flick when Netflix delivers it--just don't set your expectations too...

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FYI, y'all: I've received Jacob's Creation and like it very much. I do not feel that it loses anything by virtue of its comparatively small forces, but gains considerably through heightened transparency and texture, as well as the lovely timbres of period instruments, and the soloists are all superb...

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JackC wrote:These works, as a group, stand at the pinnacle of human achievement. They probe the depths and scale the heights of the human heart and spirit.

Are you (or were you) an advertising copywriter?

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I guess the Pub was intended by the All Mighty as a place to vent, mostly from an irrational, I hate these god damn ........ (fill in) but can't talk about them, a**holes. That's the impression I get. It's like a free for all, get it out, type of venue. All the frustrations one has accumulated abou...

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Agree. I love the Waldstein. # 26-32 are all pretty darned good.

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The FactCheck article was interesting. It sure is helpful to have someone else track down the actual truth (or "truthiness") of these statements. I should probably "FactCheck"-in more often! NancyElla, OP is not from FactCheck, but rather is an article written by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar for the Ass...

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Aw, what would a guy like Singer know? :wink: Cool people get their information from Hollywood celebrities like Leonardo De Crapio, Miley Cyrus, John Travolta, and Al Gore. (And they never, ever, develop the critical thinking skills to investigate the evidence for themselves!) edit: "wink" emoticon ...

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piston wrote:There's no need to be rational here.

That seems to be a surprisingly popular point of view on this forum. Still, it's refreshing to see someone admit to that attitude. Thanks!

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These water games have gone on for years, worsening due to droughts and pressure from increasing human populations whose demand for fresh water to wash their cars and water their lawns trumps agriculture's need for water to grow food. If you haven't read Cadillac Desert , do so now. The pumps were t...

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If your objective is to enact policies to bankrupt the country, say that you're enacting policies to reduce the deficit and prevent bankruptcy. GET THE IDEA? No one suggested that Obama doesn't know exactly what he's doing. So, just to be sure I understand what you're saying-- Rwetmore, your conten...

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No one suggested that Obama doesn't know exactly what he's doing.

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On the basis of mental sanity? Explain. Why? There's no need to be rational here. It has been demonstrated on countless occasions. Nor is there a need for Rush to be rational. He only must resonate somewhere in the population, with such tactics as calling fellow Americans "commies." Precisely how R...

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moreno wrote:
Corlyss_D wrote:
moreno wrote:A thing that I find kind of disturbing is the way to use classical music as a mean of depicting a bourgeois family.
Two examples are nothing more than two examples, not a trend.
When the tantrum is over, maybe you can read my post again.

Tantrum? WTF?

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No, I'm not "tarring all conservatives" etc, but I'm merely describing the attitudes of some conservative celebrities. This isn't bigotry, just statement of facts. Just read the posts by Chuck Norris at World Net Daily. Other famous conservatives who write for it are Pat Boone, Phyllis Schlafly, Pa...

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People likeChuck Norris et l may nothave traveled toforeigncountries toembrace right-wing rulers,but they support allkinds of right-wing wacko extremist groups in America and are convinced that we need to "take America back" (towhat,the middle ages?) want to make government "smaller" (really meanin...

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Someone, preferably a third party, or even a few third parties, please settle this! OK. :D You have your opinion. Garrett has his opinion. If they've acquired the rights, movie makers are free to remake films if they wish...and moviegoers are free to watch them or not, according to their preference...

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From my perspective, (1) classical music does not pander to popular culture and (2) there is nothing to suggest that it "must." Radio announcers are not classical musicians; if they happen to be baseball fans who make an allusion to the game I would hardly consider that "pandering" to anything. If a...

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Seems to me that classical music in movies is usually associated with the upper classes, not the bourgeoisie.

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FACT CHECK: Premiums Would Rise Under Obama Plan: Obama's claim that premiums would fall under his health plan misses the fine print By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON March 17, 2010 (AP) Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premi...

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Article above from WSJ here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704131404575117611125872740.html But why would American lawyers, after 9/11 and the brutal slaughter of 3,000 fellow citizens, hand members of al Qaeda information about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? In a sane society, tho...

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karlhenning wrote:
DavidRoss wrote:hell-bent-for-leather lemmings
Among mixed metaphors, this one's a keeper.

Thank you, sir! (I found it rather amusing, too.

Even briefly flashed on Teddy Roosevelt leading a charge of lemmings up San Juan Hill only to discover a surprise at its crest!)

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It is so ironic that the person who was supposed to be the great "post-partisan" unifier is literally ripping this country apart for a bill that no one wants and for which the principal argument now seems to be that we have to WIN this so that Obama's presidency is not crippled. He using very proce...

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No one, certainly not I, would blame Obama for effective, short term spending in the time of recession (not the politically motivated pork Obama and the Dems passed as "stimulus"). Obama's deficits, however, are close to 13% of GNP, which was equalled only in the last years of World War II, and are...

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The Dems will forever be the "big government" party in favor of spending us into oblivion. They may alsom be blamed for all that is wrong with the health care system after this, - after all, they were the ones to spent several trillion dollars to "fix" it right?? :roll: To do this over the clear ob...

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"House unhinged and out of control"--yep. Unfortunately this assessment applies to the White House as well. Obama and Pelosi have lost it, their megalomania having stripped them of whatever semblance of common sense and good judgment they may have once had. Not only is this monstrous mess of a bill ...

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Hmmm. I'm sure no ABBA expert, but everything I ever heard by them was pure pop. Guess I'd best youtube some of the songs you mention to determine whether they were ever rockers (as I see it). edit: I listened to all of those tracks (or at least as much as I could take of them)--not rock 'n' roll bu...

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ABBA? Rock 'n' roll? What next...Wayne Newton in the Jazz Hall of Fame?

Go figure.

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From the article: "Esa-Pekka Salonen...came out of nowhere to sub for Michael Tilson Thomas in Mahler's Third with London's Philharmonia Orchestra." Excuse me? "Out of nowhere?" By the time he subbed for MTT in '83, Salonen was already a graduate of Jorma Panula's famed conducting program at the Sib...

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More legalistic verbiage. I'm through with this......................... There's nothing legalistic at all about the post you seem to be objecting to. It carefully puts the data you presented about temperature readings at Antarctic weather stations into context. It's too bad that you don't seem to ...

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It's a pity that the ideologues can't seem to understand how their ideology poisons their thinking. We see it time and again, regarding damned near every subject under the sun. They come to an issue with prejudices, seek only whatever information they think tends to "confirm" their prejudices, and ...

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Just the facts? Well, except for the editorializing qualifier "so-called" in the OP, it's more or less just facts. The problem, of course, as you suggested, is that these few bits of data in isolation from a mountain of other relevant information mean virtually nothing . Even conceding that these d...

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Just the facts? Well, except for the editorializing qualifier "so-called" in the OP, it's more or less just facts. The problem, of course, as you suggested, is that these few bits of data in isolation from a mountain of other relevant information mean virtually nothing . Even conceding that these d...

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You were born 30 years after the war, so that you come from Europe is irrelevant. You regularly, on this board, attack a lady who is a Jew who suffered through the war in Europe because she does not share your religious beliefs. Do you not even understand how inappropriate this is? No, Donald, he d...

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Doesn't matter what they like or want to be called: in Oz a Garbo is a Garbo - and I've known a few who refuse any other title. With the modern trucks, it's no longer a good way for football players to keep fit anyway. Translation: In Australia a garbage man is a garbage man, and if they're driving...

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Mmmm. Is this a statement or a threat? Ummmm, any insight into how such an image is going to help their cause? :shock: I didn't know about this thing with the naked bike riders--if they do it again I wonder if I should go check it out! Here you go: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3410/3628437905_e8e...

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Madame wrote:Strange Quark comic strip

Very nice, Madame. Very nice.

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On another thread ("Something for AGW fans to ponder"), Teresa piqued my curiosity regarding what ice core data actually reveals about global warming. Google quickly returned a site with some interesting graphs depicting correlated rises in temperatures and CO 2 levels over the past 420,000 years. (...

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