Pisses me off..

They have all sort of controlled forest (or chaparrel) lands

to do controlled studies....and have had - forever.

And they keep not doing them...

all of this chatter is bald-faced fair & balanced opinion.

Stuff it, boys and girls and go find out something...real.

Be! scientists....for a change.

Or even understand like

Gary Kamiya does.

Damn!

Will surely be bearthroken.

OK, you might say, but maybe there are two -- or more -- people pretending to be Boylan.

Complex...like really not simple

Not parsimonious

Infrequent...

Now...do let me think..

9/11"

Wish I'd said that.

[Good for Joe.]

The second problem is that the story is largely sourced on information provided from the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy, without even bothering to inform readers that the libertarian think tank has a very specific agenda when it comes to trade (i.e., pro-free trade), and so all its talking points should be carefully filtered.

I am very late to understand that one cannot trust establishment media OR those entities which feed them...for anything like unvarnished truth

These feeders are very often the 'think'-tanks...like Cato.

With any news item know first -if you possibly can - the source and what it is, how it believes.

I'm sure everybody here has known this for along time.

Watash, on the other hand, has been so beguiled/stupid that it wasn't

until last year that he finally came to understand CNN [just~e.g.] as altogether unreliable.

Andrew v.a' v. Lou Dobbs helped with that.

Slow...he's really slow, this one is.

...the war flogger, Michael Gordon?

Mentalities a bit the same?

...this actually humongous, scary totally life-changing direction/decision

is done on the spur -a fit of whimsy- of an impulsive moment.

B.S.

More frakking Patriarchal B.S.

..."more ways to avoid information we don't like.

Conservatives are increasingly seeking only conservative views,

liberals are seeking only liberal views,..."

We ALL get a steady stream of 'Conservative' Pravda-style

propaganda from establishment/corporate media.

And baby... it ain't hardly never liberal.

That's all.

The Internet is always going to be dominated by arguments.

This is going to come across as inexcrably nit-picky but to me - just me..

ArgumentS are almost invariably experienced -and multiply- as disagreeable, combative, heated thingS. It's a connotation thing, you see.

[I can, you must know, imagine a babel of debate going off all about.]

While Argument done as civil discourse must always be done without heat... if not coolly, done with a view to eventual agreement and never on the fight.

Yours, Mr Kamiya was a lovely argument. And you are spot on.

While this, rises to civil quibble, I'm sure, at best. But there you have it.

So he go WINEP, 'stead.

Y'see

.., the reporter had reached the edge of some precipice down which no one cares to look, lest we all go over.

And Tom will take us to the edge to look and learn the abyss.

Good for him then...and us, for sure.

[for those inclined -several justifications come to mind- to such support...]

being barely chest-deep in water is good.

And lots of free condoms for the men.

Get the whole gay movement thing into a better job of 'recruiting'

And like that.

Some small bits of those truths so long withheld.

[or obfuscated or spun or kneaded or...]

They'd still be were it not for the likes of y'all.

THNX

Past conservative Democrats, such as Scoop Jackson, have specialized in it as well.

Scoop Jackson.

Washington State

Boeing.

Military-industrial-complex.

Not so much Democrat as just ..boughten.

Like usual.

A fundamentalist University appended to a fundamentalist creed.

Not to stretch this overfar but...

The use of or addiction to porn has often been held to be

exponentially more substantial in these sorts of

believers.

Be they Mormon or...any.

...close-the-barn-door-after-the-subprime-horses-have-gone-extinct

Wish I'd thought to think of that.

You can kinda see their marbleized horse bones jutting a bit from the hardpan in some dry gully.

Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach wrote an incisive piece in the Financial Times this week pointing out once again that the underlying problem is that Americans don't save enough.

He was also interviewed on BBC..made great sense.

Enough so that I -unusually- actually retrieved the name.

Calls for a little pain to avoid a real chop.

Your terminology...

senior adviser to the former Arkansas governor. Pinkerton -- a Newsday columnist, commentator on Fox News and a fellow at the centrist* New American Foundation --

The creature who is truly centrist is never, can never be a regular Fox Commentator....ever-oxy-more.

[*bold mine]

...a single conviction: a guilty plea* by Australian David..."

.

Not at all a real pleading.

a fundamentalist aversion to to 'other'-speak so;

It is perfectly reasonable that Governor Romney would say...

....the trees are all the right height, people talk without an accent* and most of the cars -- yada, yada...

Innit?

*[formatting entirely mine]

...it shows that "Obama is a fighter for Obama" rather than for "the Democratic Party or Democratic values.

Q.v.

Looking over there to the terrific Democratic party in action in either Chamber?

And their record for the past -admittedly sorta hamstrung - many years.

Maybe a little stand-offish isn't actually all bad?

As usual.

A lot of this schadenfreude stuff circling lazily about

in the stagnance of the City of London and Wall Street bowls.

We recognize that you may have feelings

for the conceptus she bears within.

We also know - as should you - that anything proprietary

beyond that is feudal, patriarchal ownership thinking and,

in fact, actually inhumane.

So quit with the seed meme ...sooner rather than later.

You've been casting that 'upon the stones' ...for years.

...absolutely;

For where I'm putting my two cents in November.

Fixed -- sine qua non.

Firms that eschew that dirty business, likewise.

[In brief flashes of what has to be bipolar, kinda wish Paul wasn't outta Grimm's]