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- Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: 6 Best Shenanigans Passed Off As "Art"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7543
What I find funniest is 500 'art scholars' soberly pronouncing DuChamp's 'Fountain' to be the mosts significant work of the 20th-century- blissfully clueless, apparently, that DuChamp was snarkily sending up 'sober art scholars!' I've long thought that if anyone were to write a new book on this stu...
- Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:16 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Veiled Saudi poet rises to stardom after bashing clerics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2947
Been lurking for a couple of months. I had hoped there would be more posts. I love this article. I would love to hear your thoughts on Arab poetry. Thanks, wilma. Right now, my thoughts on Arab poetry are tentative. My exposure is limited, though I have discussed some with my brother and his wife, ...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:03 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 787917
I think the phrasing was very clear. Obama said no form of tax increase. And two weeks into office he said into law a form of tax increase, that effects many people who make much less than 250k. This is why politicians shouldn't make such statements. Seriously, in the condition we are in, we need t...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:03 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Veiled Saudi poet rises to stardom after bashing clerics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2947
Veiled Saudi poet rises to stardom after bashing clerics
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jSpy9pLhosLTKfJOCFM3EK2RBEqg Another link with some more detail: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7073238.ece I thought this was interesting, since I just started studying some Arab poetry. It is good to see a woman wil...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 787917
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:37 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Ban on Gay Men's Blood
- Replies: 68
- Views: 27117
Interesting, Anthy. Why don't they? It's not contagious, as far as I know. Thanks for claryfying, I just went by what he told me. I've never given blood - I tend to be borderline anemic. Should get on iron pills again. I had thought it might not be allowed because the high level of iron in their bl...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Good music and other good stuff on youtube and Facebook
- Replies: 970
- Views: 409490
Oh, I haven't spammed this board yet? So here goes. =:) I found the full With Fire and Sword on YouTube, with English subtitles. It's an epic based on the classic Polish novel, a romance set on the background of a war that Ukrainian Cossacks (not these Cossacks, these Cossacks ) waged against Polan...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:06 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Humanity Of Sam
- Replies: 198
- Views: 152777
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:22 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Humanity Of Sam
- Replies: 198
- Views: 152777
The temptation that would have confronted Aragorn, I concluded some years ago, is what the story of Arwen is about, and why that story is in the appendix at all along with the account of both their deaths. Aragorn, in my opinion, was Sauron’s primary target from the moment the Shadow rose again in ...
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:54 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 787917
Well, if having the government regulate and subsidize health insurance is a “takeover,” that takeover happened long ago. Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs already pay for almost half of American health care, while private insurance pays for barely more than a third (the rest is most...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:43 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Humanity Of Sam
- Replies: 198
- Views: 152777
Sassafras (and all the others). I had not read the whole thread before, and even now there are parts that I only skimmed. When this was started I had limited access as I was away from home, helping my parents who both were ill, and I did not get to read the beginning of the thread and went to the en...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:53 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Ban on Gay Men's Blood
- Replies: 68
- Views: 27117
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:26 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: American al Qaeda Captured in Pakisatan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2023
American al Qaeda Captured in Pakisatan
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/pakistan.alqaeda.american/?hpt=T1 I'm very concerned about the recent turbulence in Pakistan. My brother's wife is going next month to Karachi and Islamabad for a few weeks. She is going with her father, and my two little nieces and nephew will be coming a...
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:47 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Big Brother IS watching in the Lower Merion School District
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2956
Big Brother IS watching in the Lower Merion School District
http://www.kyw1060.com/Lower-Merion-School-District-Admits-Webcam-Spying/6395646 I find this disturbing. Thoughts? The original rationale (to check when laptops were stolen) seems to have been forgotten, and simple spying by the School District occurred--because they could. Personally, I am aware th...
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Toyota recalls
- Replies: 49
- Views: 19978
From NPR: The accelerator does not a physical connection to the engine but an electronic one. Toyota took that tech from German Luxury cars and started applying it in around 2000-2001 in its cars. However, the German cars also have another bit of technology - a brake over-ride. Effectively, if you ...
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:46 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Praise for the Hobbit from an odd direction
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10523
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:04 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Climate Science Blunders
- Replies: 214
- Views: 63319
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:35 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Is Fox the most trusted U.S. TV news source?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 27324
The other issue that is often avoided in the discussion of positives and negatives is the issue of fact-checking and whether or not the evaluations correlate to accurate representations of facts and accurate representations of politicians stances. Then there is the question of whether you agree with...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:54 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Is Fox the most trusted U.S. TV news source?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 27324
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:08 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Is Fox the most trusted U.S. TV news source?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 27324
Infidel wrote:Fox News: Fair And Balanced?
So the broadcast networks gave good marks to one candidate and bad marks to another, while Fox was tough on both--and most balanced overall.
There's an obvious logical fallacy here which you failed to acknowledge in quoting this.
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