Posted by sigismund on August 2, 2010, at 2:14:04
In reply to Re: being blocked again, posted by Sigismund on August 1, 2010, at 21:55:49
I have to hand it to Ron. He tried to keep a civil conversation alive.
Sarcasm is not permitted here. Some of what I posted was ironical....
>> Bob appears to rachet up the blocks
>There have been scores for whom this has happened.
>But the formula is scientific and value free.
>Thank God for technology and social science, and the US penal system.
>It's been a great success.
(But it has, the stock on hand, the profit, more than anything the political influence, even here.....John Howard himself used 'stock' in conversation.)
Whereas this was not.....>It's like feeding ground-up cows to cows. Sensible, rational, scientific, progressive .
(apologies to John Ralston Saul and John Gray)
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