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Prometheus wrote:Ravel and David,

Which David are you speaking of? Felicien?

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 experience). Well, after a while you get curious about how others perform favored works. And you can't have too mu...

I've had great luck using a consierge - from another hotel no less! My pension didn't have one, so I mosied over to the Four Seasons. The consierge there got me one.

You know weather isn't climate, Jacques. :D I envy you. We had a freak snow storm blow thru Fri. Our temps are slightly but not terribly below normal here, but on an upward sloping curve. The birds have returned in force. I've got the Lawn Dr. coming with pre-emergent two weeks from now, and hope th...

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Discussion of it likely was only a trial balloon. Public outrage was so great, they decided not to do it.

For 5 generations the Palestinians in the refugee camps in Egypt and other locations have been bred for one purpose and only one purpose: to be used as weapons of war against Israel. You're question was probably aimed at Israel, but it's the Arabs who have spent 60 years torturing the Palestinians a...

Unfortunately, Saudis don't make the kinds of weapons the Obama administration just interdicted. You can bet that a clause is now being inserted in all Saudi weapons contracts to make sure if they are buying any of the interdicted weapons they don't resell them to Israel.

I can see where this is coming from. *** if Texas does not act in compliance with the Obama administration's attempt *** it's going to lose its publishing business! (Well, at least, beyond the Republic of Texas). Do you know why Texas has such a position of influence? Do you know that the other inf...

^^^ Probably a false-flag op by SEIU. Better than having their purple-shirted thugs makin' 'em look bad beating up peaceful demonstrators. My, they've been busy then--first Walmart, then the Congress. . . Do you know without looking it up who the most frequent visitor to the WH is? How many visits ...

To each according to their taste. I will say that the British, Irish and Australian public, generally, seems far more robust and adept at finding the ridiculously funny in a situation than its mainstream US counterpart. The Anglo-Irish sense of humour can be compared to laughter at a funeral. It's ...

What I really got a kick out of was the fact that when they got in trouble for their dodgy accounting, they fessed up that they had another 100% of their known public debt "off the books!" What'll they think of next and can we do what they do? :D Guy Sorman The Euro in Crisis In Greece and elsewher...

From WSJ Political Journal. CBO's Highly Precise Nonsense Speaker Nancy Pelosi was all smiles when the new CBO analysis of the health care bill was released this week. She positively glowed as she praised the "precision" of the CBO numbers. No one knows whether the Speaker was being ironic, but even...

What makes you think my assumptions are false ? Don't be so tetchy. You're assuming facts not in evidence. All I said was "there was no point in replying to your post because you don't ever return to engage." There's no position whatever hinted at or alluded to or embedded in my remark. Is this wha...

Earthquake in Earthquake Country? Is the rancorous health-care fight turning California red? If so, the most prominent victim of ObamaCare may turn out to be Barbara Boxer. Though the GOP nomination to challenge Ms. Boxer is still up for grabs, a new Field poll shows her essentially beatable by "all...

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Probably a false-flag op by SEIU. Better than having their purple-shirted thugs makin' 'em look bad beating up peaceful demonstrators.

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If true, no surprise, really.

Another take on the situation . . . What Obama is Actually Trying to Do in Israel By Jeffrey Goldberg There is much speculation that this kerfluffle over 1,600 theoretical apartments on the wrong side of the green line in Jerusalem will lead to a rupture in American-Israeli relations, but analysts ...

I am wondering if people have lost their sense of houmour or is everybody just so sensitive to other people's "feelings" that one dare not do anything at all that may cause offence? I'm interested to know what you think. You broke the code. Behind ever whiney humorless victim is a cadre of lawyers ...

^^^ Nice find, Rob. Unfortunately it can't do more than analyze the claims against the CBO scoring. It really ought to mention, rather than merely allude to, the facts that 1) nobody can say even now what's in the bill, and 2) that the CBO is bound to analyze what is given to it without blinking. Ye...

The pool is now open on how long the new screening measures and no-fly list upgrades will last. Let's pray he isn't given access to intelligence reports. Nawar Shora takes battle for Arab and Muslim rights inside the TSA By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 19, 2010; A22 Sin...

I am wondering if people have lost their sense of houmour or is everybody just so sensitive to other people's "feelings" that one dare not do anything at all that may cause offence? I'm interested to know what you think. You broke the code. Behind ever whiney humorless victim is a cadre of lawyers ...

is there a widespread and under-reported problem related to businesses (and maybe others) discovering that the plan is not free and that a wide-cast net in search of funding has caught a lot of fish? I'm not sure if I get your metaphor about the fish, but the potential problems for businesses gener...

In my tireless quest to inject some facts into discussions with such sweeping denunciations as Mod's, here's some levening based on surveys by people who study religion as a social phenomenon for a living:

http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits

aka Matthew McAllister, on his trip to Passau, with concert footage and master class footage.

Interesting. I never heard of it. What exactly did they do? Sponsorship?

I don't know what David is talking about, but I thought sounded more like it belonged in the music room than the Pub. If he's talking about brake drums, I apologize.

Truth to tell, when I've been caught at the end of very long "20 or less*" lines in Wal-mart, I've been tempted to shout Immigracion! just to clear out the line. I know it would work, but I don't have the cajones for it. :D *Apparently that refers to the number of items you have, not the number of p...

Marty Peretz of TNR on the dust up with Israel. Where's Pizza when you really need him? Published on The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com) Housing Bust Why is Obama so upset with Israel? Marty Peretz March 19, 2010 | 12:00 am .You do not need insider information to know that Hillary Clinton threw a...

Oh, okay. Thanks. The links all looked like blog posts. My mistake. Thanks for the articles. I'll troll back thru them. Well, some of them just on the first page are not about the "acquittal" so to speak but about the dispute and the investigation. What I was looking for some hint of why it suddenly...

Corlyss, do you really mean to say that the world does not have serious environmental problems and that pollution is not dangerous? And do you really think that the world has unlimited recources of food,water, fuel and energy? I hope not. No, I mean "it's pointless to reply to you because you never...

Unfortunately, it is a lot more than fringe loonies. It was the platform for the Texas Republican Party (yes, Shrub's home state) that declared that separation of church and state was a myth. In one small west Texas town, according to the Texas Observer , fundamentalists went about pushing high sch...

We may be a Christian nation demographically, but, according to the law and the Constitution, we are absolutely not a Christian nation. This is not PC dust--it is the law of the land. No one, including the ACLU or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, is proposing to restrict the...

jbuck919 wrote:http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesea ... submit=sub

What am I supposed to do with this list? If you got an NYT article on the dropping of the witch hunt, put it up.

Nice words, but this is the same Republican Party many of whose members want to declare the United States an officially Christian nation, dump (or at least ignore) the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment (this from a party who keeps screaming about the Constitution and th...

I'm no expert on this topic,nor am I a climatologist. I'm not certain about global warming. But one thing is certain; the world DOES face serious problems with the environment and the climate, and pollution is most definitely a very serious matter. Global warming scoffers should not get compacent a...

your contention is that President Obama's objective is to bankrupt the country; and DavidRoss, you concur? Well, when you put it that way, it sounds silly. I think their objectives are simpler but have the same effect as intending to bankrupt the nation (which, incidently, we already are): 1. To im...

Twas probably some SEIU thug softening up the co. for the full-bore union assault that's coming from card check.

Lance wrote:http://www.classicalpianistsofthefuture.org

Dude! You got credit as recording technician and piano tuner! Awesome! Are the performance available on the site? And if not, why not?

living_stradivarius wrote:Pre-ordered mine too. Will need it to test my new apps in development

You and Chalkie should collaborate on a joint review that takes both user and app designer into consideration. Whadda ya say?

Brendan wrote:Pity there isn't much you can do with it - and the potential options are narrowing. Kindle powers on:

To assume that what is will always be has cost many a fortune. Apple goes from strength to strength. The iPad will be no different.

Dear Matt, I have respect for Corlyss because she is true to her convictions. Thanks, Piston. I'll take that at face value. You know I think a lot of you and value your contributions here. If Dennis had said what you said, I wouldn't waste time on such a detailed reply. Why, it almost makes me shee...

More evidence that the AGW data was cooked. We now know that the 3 alleged independent and corroborating data sets are really just one, the CRU's, which is now conveniently destroyed. We now know that the reputed NASA data set was so bad the managers punted to the CRU data. The raw CRU data was nev...

More evidence that the AGW data was cooked. We now know that the 3 alleged independent and corroborating data sets are really just one, the CRU's, which is now conveniently destroyed. We now know that the reputed NASA data set was so bad the managers punted to the CRU data. The raw CRU data was nev...

The investigation into professional misconduct by the attys who wrote the infamous torture memos created no MSM buzz whatever when it was released. The silence is a great puzzlement to me. Theoretically, there should have been enormous PR value to the civil rights industry and Obama's barking mad b...

Piston quickly diverted his own family photos thread into an analayis of the Pub. I like the idea of both topics, but not in the same thread. So, to preserve the integrity of his initial inspiration in hopes that others would post their family snaps there, I split the thread. We can swap photos in t...

A story that I have absolutely no idea why you share that with us ? We're a talkative lot. 8) I hope you aren't thinking about padding around behind Saul criticizing everything he posts about. That won't end well. It has no effect on Saul except to rachet up the hostility and usually ends up frustr...

^^^ She may be a terrible analyst/messenger, but as you say she's occasionally good for a laugh. I think many of the most visible and outspoken of the bomb-thowers want to be stand-up comics like Al Franken was and still is. However, :twisted: she's deadly with citations. I have most of her books an...

Jean wrote:When I was about 10 years old I remember a census taker coming to the house and asking me for the info. I think my mom was in the bath or something. Anyway, I was convinced that the fellow was from the CIA for the longest time.

At 10?

It's refreshing to see so much energy expended by so many on a matter they know nothing about. It's so different from our usual discussions!

There are more cogent thinkers available to read. The philosophers of the conservatism, as it were. Speaking only for myself, I wouldn't give many of the most visible conservatives house room on CMG. Even though I know nobody reads what I put up, I wouldn't insult your collective intelligence with ...

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