Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 10, 2024, 10:01 PMLeonard Peltier Denied Parole After Nearly 50 Years In Prison
Shit happens.  A country that claims not to have political prisoners is the worst place for a political prisoner to be.  And you can put that in your Funk & Wagnalls.

Just to be clear, as my history memory isn't near as good as my technical one, what political crime was Leonard convicted of? Or is this another case of...interesting....political claims that upon examination don't always look to be as political as claimed?

For example, no one has yet explained why American communists can get million dollars homes and luxury autos for everyone in the family while past examples of communist countries get gruel, block housing, and public transporation?

I find the ever changing definitions and outcomes of relative concepts like politics to be just so...tricky.

Quote from: RE on Dec 11, 2024, 07:46 PM

Quote from: TdosOf course you don't. You have your way of figuring out problems, it has worked for you since you were 4 and smarter than everyone around you. You've decided you are correct, therefore you are correct. All quite self referential.

Huffiness in extremis. lol
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Indeed. My observation of this personal characteristic of yours is now more than a decade old. And as it has been carved into your psyche from an early age, it is a powerful characteristic of how you work. Once that fact is established it can then be taken advantage of. If you can just be led to the point where YOU convince yourself you know the answer, it becomes immutable.

It isn't as though this hasn't been known forever.

1) "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

I feel like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate.


One word for you today.

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Quote from: TDoS on Dec 11, 2024, 05:19 PMGail was referenced as a specific example of the kind of "expert" that supplies articles to places that can't get their hands on the experts, or afford them, to get the quality of answers similar to the one I provided.

Well maybe, but she wasn't referenced here by name and I doubt she was one of the people polled by Reuters.  You already agreed Reuters has plenty of money and resources to afford quality experts also, so it's not a question of insufficient funds.  Therefore, there must be another explanation underlying the motive for publishing such a poll.

QuoteI don't get huffy. Ever.

You should read your own prose for tone.

Quote from: TdosOf course you don't. You have your way of figuring out problems, it has worked for you since you were 4 and smarter than everyone around you. You've decided you are correct, therefore you are correct. All quite self referential.

Huffiness in extremis. lol

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Quote from: RE on Dec 01, 2024, 01:53 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Dec 01, 2024, 08:31 AMOf course you don't. You have your way of figuring out problems, it has worked for you since you were 4 and smarter than everyone around you. You've decided you are correct, therefore you are correct. All quite self referential.

First you drag Gail Tverberg into this out of the blue and now you get all huffy because I find it unlikely there is no agenda underlying this poll?

Gail was referenced as a specific example of the kind of "expert" that supplies articles to places that can't get their hands on the experts, or afford them, to get the quality of answers similar to the one I provided.

I don't get huffy. Ever. Has no place in the legal system as a defendant, doesn't work in the harsh reality of the oilfield, certainly scientific research cares NOTHING about emotion of any kind, and the obvious origins on your thoughts on market manipulation I've already explained.

Quote from: RENone of this has anything to do with the article or the mismatch between the BoA numbers and the Reuters poll numbers.

You asked for something specific from me, and I provided it, and to an order of magnitude of more precision than the ones you pulled from the press. You're welcome.

With the fall of Syria neocons are emboldened.

Well, after 2 weeks of striking out, I finally got a hit tonight and got the printer communicating and trying to print.


Sadly however, even though it did all the appropriate dancing, nothing came out.

I do think though now I will eventually conquer this problem.  Persistence pays off.

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Looks like the Greeks might beat the Koreans and Japanese in the extinction race.

Lots of empty houses. Ironic given just about everywhere else has a housing shortage.  To bad you can't ship the houses to where the people are.

I wonder who will pick the grapes and the olives?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/11/ghost-towns-show-greeces-battle-with-falling-birth-rate-depopulation.html

Greece's ghost towns offer a glimpse of a country struggling with 'existential' population collapse

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Quote from: RE on Dec 10, 2024, 09:19 PMYou really think they'll give him Life?  I don't think so.  Even if an Insanity plea doesn't fly, there's too much mitigatibg circumstance for life.  Besides, life would REALLY make him a Martyr.  I'm betting he gets 20 years.  I also bet the trial will be a total Media Circus.

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I am not going to predict what they are going to give him.  I only know that there are some who would like to see him slowly flayed alive.  These same people will not care that he is a Martyr if making him one also makes enough fear.  This is the first time an American CEO has been taken out.  This is not a school shooting where the rabble targets itself to the amusement of our 1%.  The pearl clutching has been extreme.  A pot has been stirred, but we do not know what bubbes in the pot.

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole After Nearly 50 Years In Prison

Shit happens.  A country that claims not to have political prisoners is the worst place for a political prisoner to be.  And you can put that in your Funk & Wagnalls.

You really think they'll give him Life?  I don't think so.  Even if an Insanity plea doesn't fly, there's too much mitigatibg circumstance for life.  Besides, life would REALLY make him a Martyr.  I'm betting he gets 20 years.  I also bet the trial will be a total Media Circus.

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