Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Douglas Roberts
Well there you go then; that's the last time I let someone else to my Snopes checking for me. Besides, all the the recommendations listed are so intelligent, so rational, so right there is not a snowflakes chance in hell that they would ever be implemented. --Doug -- Doug Roberts

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Nicholas Thompson
But that's the point, Doug! Many of them have! Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:23 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Douglas Roberts
And don't think I'm not grateful, Nick. I owe each and every one of you surrogate Snopes-checkers a special favor. Or, of course, you could just bill me for your time. --Doug On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: But that’s the point, Doug!

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 1/8/12 11:23 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. I want professionals working on my behalf. I want skeptical decision makers that can engage lobbyists (small

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Doug Roberts
And how, in country where 47% of the population liked Sarah Palin for president do you envision this version of Utopia evolving, Marcus? Sent from my Kindle Fire _ From: Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com Sent: Sun Jan 08 13:00:52 MST 2012 To:

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Steve Smith
Doug, et al- Despite my participation in debunking the specifics of the chain-mail attributed to Warren Buffet, I am sympathetic with some if not most of it's tone and message. I believe that our political strata, both at state and federal levels are generally corrupt, sold out, or at least

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Doug Roberts
Steve, Joel Grey and Liza Minille said it all: Money money money makes the world go 'round. As long as our laws allow elected Congressmen to accept corporate lobbyist special interest bribes, nothing will change. Sent from my Kindle Fire _ From:

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Paryski
And as long as corporations are considered to be legal persons who can make unlimited political contributions and create super pacs, nothing will change. I believe that, unfortunately, real change will only come with tragic, painful crisis and perhaps collapse (ref. Jarred Diamond). This was

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Paryski
And as long as corporations are considered to be legal persons who can make unlimited political contributions and create super pacs, nothing will change. I believe that, unfortunately, real change will only come with tragic, painful crisis and perhaps collapse (ref. Jarred Diamond). This was

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Owen Densmore
I simply like the initial email for its really sound ideas. Now what percentage of them are being followed according to FactCheck? While I'm on it: I feel disenfranchised this year because the Dems don't have a primary too. Why not, for heven's sake? Shouldn't we presume that a better Dem

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Gary Schiltz
Care to elaborate on 'we created small crises to create change.'? Don't remember where I saw it (bumper sticker, email...), but I'll consider thinking of a corporation as a person when Texas puts one to death. Gary On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Paul Paryski wrote: And as long as corporations

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Russ Abbott
According to thishttp://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/congressional-reform-act/most of the problems in the chain letter aren't true and don't need fixing. *-- Russ * On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.comwrote: Care to elaborate on 'we created small crises to

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Owen, Whom the gods would drive mad.. Etc. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 7:22 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change I

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Winds of Change

2012-01-08 Thread Douglas Roberts
There's little enough to worry about, Owen, The bluntly specific, common-sense nature of the suggestions outlined in the letter will, by their very nature, ensure that they will not be acted upon. --Doug On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: I simply like

[FRIAM] Fwd: Paleolagoas...Palaeolagoons...Paleolagunas -- rapidly expanding data for Holocene shallow air burst craters in Brazil: Pierson Barretto 2012.01.08

2012-01-08 Thread Rich Murray
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