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    • 21 Aug 08
    • 5:18 pm

    States in Profile: The State Policy Reference Book (State Policy Research, Inc. 1991) lists Louisiana’s illiteracy rate at 16%, the nation’s worst. I think maybe this is why they like Bush so much there.

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    • 21 Aug 08
    • 10:33 pm

    Also I think Scorp is making a rather poor logical leap by saying a loyalty oath is somehow analogous to the purchase of a ticket. The loyalty oath is speech. Its composed of words and sentiments and positions and all that stuff. Cash is not speech. No relevance to the 1st Amendment there. Also defending Constitutional violations of one person by pointing out the violations of others or that Bush didn't act alone is poor logical reasoning. That doesn't advance your actual assertion. Also, as a Marxist, I'm offended by your portrayal of those people as Marxist candidates. The last significant …

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    • 22 Aug 08
    • 11:38 pm

    1. Nobody said not to also blame congress. 2. Science does operate on a majority rules basis. Its called peer review. (What's GW?) 3. See 1. 4. I don't care about anyone's weekend.

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    • 23 Aug 08
    • 4:03 pm

    Phil: 1. Nobody said not to also blame congress. By not blaming Congress you are exempting them Yes, I agree, and no one here argued to exempt them. And if they did they shouldn't have. 2. You should read Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3. Yeah back up to 1. 4. I thought you sounded facetious earlier. I was joking. Scorp: By saying I'm a Marxist I merely mean that I believe in the fundamental truth of the labor theory of value and that history can be understood in terms of class struggle. (I'm also a Hegelian.) Otherwise I'm …

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    • 23 Aug 08
    • 9:24 pm

    Phillip, Oooo, that Takaki book is a great book. I likes that book. I haven't read it all, just sections, but yeah, good stuff.

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