... for the widower Bhutto in his own country. The key in Pakistan, as always, is the army. If the already heightened U.S. raids inside the country continue to escalate, the much-vaunted unity of the military High Command might come under real strain. At a meeting of corps commanders in Rawalpindi on September 12th, Pakistani Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Kayani received unanimous support for...

... continuation of the current trends Is there any reason to believe anything will change under President McSame? Change in regard to what? You're entirely missing the point. Even under your vaunted Clinton when the stock market soared to new heights, it ended in a massive crash of more than 50%% (the NASDQ was far worse). The same thing happened to the Japanese economy/stock market ...

... changing the rules. Since neither you or me studied this in detail, I have only my taste to go by. And I am willing to leave 100%% of the results up to you and your vaunted taste. I'm just going to eliminate as many other factors as I can. When I was in graduate school, I took a class on research methods. One day, we ran an experiment somewhat similar to this...

... and quit changing the rules. Since neither you or me studied this in detail, I have only my taste to go by. And I am willing to leave 100%% of the results up to you and your vaunted taste. I'm just going to eliminate as many other factors as I can. When I was in graduate school, I took a class on research methods. One day, we ran an experiment somewhat similar to this, but ...

... you saying again about "free speech on economic issues"? Btw, here's a list of GDP growth rates by the authoritative CIA Factbook. Among other things note the relatively low growth rates of the vaunted W. European welfare states. According to you that must mean that France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, etc. don't have "free speech on economic issues" whereas they do in Afghanistan, Angola, ...

... free because -- here it comes, again-snore -- THEY _ARE_ SCARCE. Even your vaunted economists wouldn't say that. They are not free - as most goods aren'...far more power). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh wouldn't they? Why do most vaunted economists define economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources then? ...

... they will be stupid enough to stop doing that any time soon. Just ask Alan Greenspan who apparently once thought he was). We saw what happened to the "Asian Tigers" and their vaunted and oft touted managed economies in the 1990's when they, too, were regarded as unstoppable. Taiwan and Singapore and HongKong were essentially unstoppable. Its starting to look very like china ...

... up) as is the Chinese. (No one is smart enough to manage an entire economy. Just ask Alan Greenspan who apparently once thought he was). We saw what happened to the "Asian Tigers" and their vaunted and oft touted managed economies in the 1990's when they, too, were regarded as unstoppable. Japan has still not recovered, e.g. the Nikkei index even at its recent peak last year was still less...

... because -- here it comes, again-snore -- THEY _ARE_ SCARCE. Even your vaunted economists wouldn't say that. They are not free - as most goods aren't... - they have far more power). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh wouldn't they? Why do most vaunted economists define economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources then? Please, ...

...: I find it somewhat curious that with this level of detail, that neither of the words "inspected" or "tested", appear anywhere in the report. Surely an organization with QANTAS much vaunted "safety culture" would have a record of when and where these bottles, some of them near 18 years old - and some older - were tested in accordance with CAR - wouldn't they? ...