caroljane

There is a worrisome aspect to all this however. When the best minds of the generation spend so much time in bars, our future could be in trouble!

Which were your favourites\? Mine was #21 because the first line was so deadpan funny.then#11 and #24.

Maybe the Libertarians should rename themselves the kNOw- Hypocrites to echo the Know-Nothing movement.

The "maybe more" could save him. If he was paranoid and/or drug-addled, he may genuinely not have known what he was doing. Also, premeditated murder seems a great overreach. If "each man kills the thing he loves" he does not plot and plan about it. Inconvenient wives with large life insurance policies are another story. Less benevolent about him than you, I'm not too sure. Have you considered he may be a psychopath? There's been mention of insanely jealous outbursts, and no one is more able to self- justify a premeditated act than one. (As I unfortunately experienced once. ) Remembering some readings on the incidence of psychopathy among super-high achievers in business, that could be a possibility. You experienced such malevolence????? A great guy like you?

Notice they include a one-way ticket? --Brant (I don't look like my avatar, so come on!) Ah but I do look like my avatar, except older and meaner-- do I hear a distant gulp?

Oonline, that hotbed of cutting-edge intellectual innovation, has debuted another Most People expert who specialises in Most Muslims in the World. They are, he has discovered, Not Good People, no good at all. This soon-to-be renowned authority is called Garshasp (maybe D Bandler nom-de-keyboard?)and I am guessing he is over 30.

Now I know who has been sending me those "Sign here for a free trip to Romantic Tucson" packages!

The "maybe more" could save him. If he was paranoid and/or drug-addled, he may genuinely not have known what he was doing. Also, premeditated murder seems a great overreach. If "each man kills the thing he loves" he does not plot and plan about it. Inconvenient wives with large life insurance policies are another story.

Once again, you make my point for me.

Wipe your chin in a rational manner, Sir. \You're salivating.

Nice quotes Peter, but you have evoked one of my pet peeves about the modern American system, which is originalism. Your nation was founded by the most brilliant and most moral men of their time, giving you timeless ideals and principles. But they were not clairvoyants. If they could see lesser men trying to figure out what they really intended for the Thirteen Colonies three hundred years ago, and apply that to present-day America, they would be aghast.

The "maybe more" could save him. If he was paranoid and/or drug-addled, he may genuinely not have known what he was doing.

That was funny. In fact fire will burn water soaked paper. --Brant anon. Under certain conditions, right? Carol trying to learn epistemology the easy way

Aye laddie, but it's a wee while since the Scots people couldnae beat the blancmange at the tennis to save their lives.

The Mooslems-- they're Heeere! The alarm must be raised again here in peaceful Canada. The sinister and disturbing influence of Nail Yakupov, Islamic Tatar, and former Student Muslim activist Nazem Kadri has been noted by many analysts. The primary influence appears to be on the female demographic in the cities of Edmonton and Toronto, ages ranging from too old to be their mothers to too young to be their girlfriends.Experts fear that if allowed to continue their activities the two may gain adherents among other sectors of the population. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Och media! Now Andy Murray wins Wimbledon and all of a sudden he's British? When he was losing he was always Scottish. On yer bikes, bletherskites.

Great new addition to Real Housewives of the NHL! Now there are two famous PEI Cuthberts. Will the reported cat-feud between TV Star and Goalie's Wife heat up this season? Stay tuned!

Hence OL is "a forum of thinkers" Or....

Damn! I knew that! But I was thinking along the lines of "all crows are blacke"etc. Carol Slinking back to my squalor of dishes.

Tony, not to hijack the thread but do you have any thoughts on the Pistorius case? Could he really have believed that in such a heavily guarded compound that his girlfriend was an invader locked in the bathroom?

Some were, mostly brought in by the French in the 1600s or by British colonial administrators (but not settlers) in the 1700s.The the fleeing Loyalists brought their slaves after the Rev War. \however there is not much documentation and distinctions between slaves (who were usually referred to as servants, anyway) and indentured servants were not clearly marked.

Hi Ellen, I suggest you have either misunderstood or misremembered the conversation, which I seem to recall is this one. Or perhaps I did not make my own position clear enough, though reading it back it seems clear enough to me. Interestingly, I suspect you have misunderstood it, and it's possible it's a root misunderstanding as your comment #48 makes what I think is a similar mistake. I am travelling today, so can only reply briefly now. But it's always interesting to try to reconstruct your opponent's argument rather than simply disagree with it. So if you were me reading your comment #48, what do you think I would take to be the root error in it? At any rate, I can happily testify that contrary to Ellen's impressions, Popper's cosmology - which holds the physical world as primary - is my preferred one. Hi Daniel, happy trails. I have not followed your exchanges with the Greatest Living Philosopher as it is all above my head, but is it Mr or \ms Temple's contention that as well as not understanding Rand, you do not understand Popper either? And that goes for Greg N, your mother, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all? Carol

Funny! I didn't understand #12 though. Or #22.

By the way, there was slavery in Canada until 1833, and the differences from the US are interesting to this "What-if" line of discussion. First, the numbers of slaves were very low and had dwindled further by the time of Emancipation. Second we seemed to be "kinder gentler" slaveowners, needing no gang system of labour control as on the \Southern plantations, Slaves were mostly domestic servants, labourers on farm smallholdings, or skilled artisans. They were allowed to become literate and marriages were legally recognised. Third, successive legislation had improved their lot and reduced the opportunities for slaveholding.So by 1833 slavery's guns had been pretty much spiked. (Paraphrase from Wiki. I am leaving out the practices of the aboriginal nations among whom slavery was endemic).

I agree. It looks to me like the usual suspects spinning their eternal "coming race war" agitprop.