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2010-03-06T10:22:00.001-05:00

Arthur Clarke's Four Laws of PredictionArthur C. Clarke formulated the following four "laws" of prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the

2010-03-04T18:34:00.002-05:00

Science & Technology: Students - America vs The World(via James Fallows Article in The Atlantic) - Mar. 2010"..The other major issue is our failure to attract the best students into science and technology in North America. At my university, the best students in biology almost invariably want to go to medical school (or in our case vet school). Very few are attracted to the rigors of starting

2010-03-03T18:06:00.003-05:00

Public Capacity and Public Trust Can we reverse the vicious circle of frustrated citizens denying state government adequate resources -- and then resenting the lack of state services? From: The American Prospect - Dianne Stewart and Michael Lipsky | February 1, 2010 1. Question: Did more than a majority of all Republican members of the Senate vote against the Social Security Act of 1935, against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and against a Federal Holiday for M.L.King Jr. in 1983? 1a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( X ) No -(I'll help you out with this

2010-02-14T23:04:00.003-05:00

Tangled up in knots...

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Politician - Hypocrite(via Rachel Maddow on Meet The Press - Feb. 2010)"If you vote against the omnibus bill," she said at the end of the exchange, "if you complain about the omnibus bill, if you tout your vote against the omnibus bill, it is hypocrisy to then go to your district and go to a ribbon cutting ceremony for something that is funded by the omnibus bill that you voted against."(via

2010-02-13T12:42:00.002-05:00

Rogues List - 2010A: On the right:Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, Bachmann, Beck, Dobbs, Hannity, Malkin, Miller, Noonan, Ingraham, Novak, Savage, Buchanan, Cavuto, Schlafly, Crouse, Kudlow, Krauthammer, Lowry, Steele, DeLay, Morris, Gingrich, Hewitt, Kristol, Drudge, Elders, Bozell, Ailes, Boulet, Sadow, York, Medved, Horowitz, Reagan, etc, etc.B: On the left:Woopie Goldberg, Keith Olberman, Jon

2010-02-13T12:29:00.002-05:00

The future of clergy (cont.)via Ecunet/UCChristNetNote #43904 from Robert Campbell to UCCHRIST CHATTER:Here are some statistics. They are a bit old, and so I am not surprised that there has been some work to reverse these trends. According to a study by the Wisconsin Conference for their Forward in Faith Campaign: Fewer than 125 clergy in the entire UCC are currently under the

2010-02-12T22:19:00.003-05:00

$14 Million vs Over $1 BillionNote: According to the Forbes List, there are over one hundred Americans with a net worth over $1 billion dollars. <-------------------------------------> CEO CompensationVia Forbes Magazine - Edited by Scott DeCarlo and Brian Zajac, 04.22.09, 06:00 PM EDTThe chief executives of America's 500 biggest companies took a collective 11% pay cut last year, earning

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The future for clergy(via Ecunet - UCChristnet) - Feb 2010Note #43899 from Robert Campbell to UCCHRIST CHATTER:"I am sorry to inform you Marge, that there are not many 20 and 30 [year old] clergy out there. I am one of the youngest clergy, and I am 46. The vast majority of clergy will retire by 2021. There are {few} young clergy graduating in seminary, and the one's that are, are going into