Posts by Neil Morrison
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The Imperial percentage system.
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My problem with Hillary is mainly that she's just too divisive - too many people on both sides absolutely loathe her. I think if she were running as the Democratic nominee there'd be plenty of Repubs who would get out and vote just to vote against her, and I think she'd lose a bunch of independents as well. And the progressives on the left would mainly be holding their noses and voting for her.
The thing is that the only people one hears the "HRC is divisve" argument from are Obama supporters. There is no evidence to show that the HRC would have such a motivating effect on Reps any more than Obama or any other Dem nominee would. But it is clearly a theme of the Obama campaign. (And I don't object - it's a rough game - but it's not necessarily true).
But I do wonder why Obama supporters are so fond of this argument - it suggests a lack of faith in Obama's own message.
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...but I guess that would involve less smug moral superiority and a little action.
Joschka Fischer has a similar view.
Bush is reponsible for quite a lot of the bad feeling but that plays out against a backdrop of a bit of bad faith within the international commnuity over the US role in world affairs that predates Bush.
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...it's probably too close to call either way.
which is why I'm a bit skeptical of any claim by the Obama and Clinton camps of having any greater avantage over McCain (apart from being Dems of course) than the other.
There's now talk of this having to be decided at he convention where the right of such states as Florida to have their delegates counted will then have to be litigated. The lawyers will be pleased.
Obama on the other hand, given his oratory and the like, might well be able to change things significantly on the campaign trail.
he might or he might not but Obama supporters like to believe that this is certain. It's actually impossible to tell how the advantages and disadvanatges of both Obama and Clinton would play out during a campaign against McCain.
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If Hilary wins the nomination and takes on McCain (the Republican candidate who is -- by miles -- least offensive to me) there is decent polling evidence that she will be undone by her negatives; that she can't win
What is that polling? The match-ups I've seen generally show McCain beating both Obama and Clinton (they both beat Romney).
There's a slightly smaller margin with Obama but nothing conclusive.
If the argument is about which Dem candidate will take votes away from the Republicans then that will mean taking them away from McCain - arguments could be made for either Obama or Clinton but I can't see anything convincing either way.
Obama supporters like to play on the old Republican talking points of HRC being calculating and divisive but that's just campaign rhetoric - that's not necessarliy how voters will see things and it's certainly not what almost 50% of Democrat voters think.
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I wonder whether we don't end up with creeping qualificationism,
we have. in order to have the status of a BA one now has to have an MA. and to have the status of an MA, a PhD. And a PhD has no status anyway. bummer.
Education is about making distinctions. What we've seen in the last 10 years is the effects of the Left's applying their delusion that education is never about competition and the Right's belief that it is only about the market.
Some people are better at some things and deserve the rewards and educational institutions should have some economic freedom to do that.
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but you've got to give PJ props for being a very astute businessman, bloody-minded and self-confident to a fault,
yeah, that's why I thougth Fallowell had it completely the wrong way round with
"When Hollywood gets hold of these weak sort of men - artistically weak, that is...
it was more like when PJ had them by the proverbials. He got and did exactly what he wanted.
I aslo have little time for the style of film critic that looks at LOTR and says - well it's not a very good art movie is it? And champagne doesn't taste like red wine.
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Fallowell calls Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson "artistically weak", saying he's produced nothing adult since the magnetic Heavenly Creatures. "When Hollywood gets hold of these weak sort of men - artistically weak, that is - all turns to dross."
a complete pretentious tosser I would say.
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Any more information coming on entropy? The devil might be in the details.
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I commmit. And on the topic of lyrics - The Ballad of Bill And Hill:
Well now its time to say good by to Bill and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You're all invited back a gain to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitalityHillybilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?.