On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Mar-star wrote: > >> Denny wrote: >> I highly doubt you're a bigot. I know smart people can be bigots, but >> I don't think you're one. I think you're attacking a symptom, not a >> cause, and that approach, as such, can be dangerous, cause more >> problems, etc.. >> > > Well, I'm not so sure it's not a cause. There's something clearly > there and one doesn't need do much more than read a newspaper to see > that.
Which newspaper(s)? ;-) Seriously tho? You're not so sure? You think terrorism is something new? > But to refine further, here's my point: > > In 2003 Buffet called unregulated derivatives "weapons of mass > financial destruction". > > If we followed Grant's logic we should all immediately attack Buffet > as a derivatives bigot and then sit back and do nothing about the > problem; which, as it turns out, is exactly what happend and guess > what? Massive global crisis. I don't think that's the correct analogy. To me, what you're saying would be something more like "I'm not so sure it is not the mortgages alone causing the troubles". Or whatever it was you were saying didn't play the main role in the crisis (not trying to be rude, just a little fuzzy). And Charlie Rose has Buffet beat-- he had fools on at least as early as 2002, who said the math was bunk. > There's a bad problem out there with community X and if they and us > fail to admit it you don't need to be rocket scientist to extrapolate > out the explosion. If you want to deal effectively with a problem, you won't limit yourself to correlation. Or some such idea. Jeeze dude. :-) It's not about "admitting" -- peaceful people from all walks of life decry and deplore acts of terror. But "terror" ain't a skin color. :-)p We can stop it from blowing up in our faces by staying one jump ahead. I think my methods are more likely to be that jump than yours. Life is a gamble. Freak'n a. Toss them dice. -- The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. George Berk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291890 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
