Exclusive: UN Climate Draft Text Demands 'New International Climate Court' to compel reparations for 'climate debt' -- Also seeks 'rights of Mother Earth' & 2C° drop in global temps | Climate Depot
I am SOOOO glad that the UN is going to cool the planet.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Althouse: "Class warfare" and "the war on women" — 2 wars or...
Althouse: "Class warfare" and "the war on women" — 2 wars or...: A question that came to mind as I was reading this comment, from Yashu , on last night's "Rosengate" post: What happened was, in their effo...
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Is "Philosophy" Obsolete?
My letter to the NYT, today:
Mr. McGinn,
First, what a pleasure it was for me to read such an eloquent and appealing description of the philosopher's mission. Thank you!
Twenty eight years ago, I graduated with a degree in Computer Science and six semesters of philosophy. When I "went out into the world" to "do" software, I found staggering numbers of people (including colleagues), who could not think effectively beyond their specialty. I found people who were quite happy starting a heated discussion using words they could not begin to define. They had a very difficult time arguing without contradicting themselves, and -- worse -- they became very angry when I pointed this out.
I like "philosophy" (love of wisdom) as a term; to me it is the essence of wisdom to love the truth more than anything else, to submit to the discipline of defining terms and using them consistently, to concede the argument when it does not hold up, and to discuss (respectfully) the meaning and limits of each field of human knowledge.
If more people accepted this idea of "wisdom", the world would be a better, happier place.
And you would not have to campaign for "Ontics".
Mr. McGinn,
First, what a pleasure it was for me to read such an eloquent and appealing description of the philosopher's mission. Thank you!
Twenty eight years ago, I graduated with a degree in Computer Science and six semesters of philosophy. When I "went out into the world" to "do" software, I found staggering numbers of people (including colleagues), who could not think effectively beyond their specialty. I found people who were quite happy starting a heated discussion using words they could not begin to define. They had a very difficult time arguing without contradicting themselves, and -- worse -- they became very angry when I pointed this out.
I like "philosophy" (love of wisdom) as a term; to me it is the essence of wisdom to love the truth more than anything else, to submit to the discipline of defining terms and using them consistently, to concede the argument when it does not hold up, and to discuss (respectfully) the meaning and limits of each field of human knowledge.
If more people accepted this idea of "wisdom", the world would be a better, happier place.
And you would not have to campaign for "Ontics".
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
How is Obama Doing?
Greg Sargent's Washington Post "Plum Line" column asks, detailing some CNN polling numbers for Obama and the GOP.
But I think all of this stuff will be long-forgotten after the conventions next summer. After that, the two sides will engage in massive media barrages of negative advertising.
Meanwhile, none of our real problems will be meaningfully addressed, because too many of our politicians have lost interest in doing their actual jobs, instead preferring to feather their nests and run for re-election in their gerrymandered districts, using their clout to buy campaign contributions.
But I think all of this stuff will be long-forgotten after the conventions next summer. After that, the two sides will engage in massive media barrages of negative advertising.
Meanwhile, none of our real problems will be meaningfully addressed, because too many of our politicians have lost interest in doing their actual jobs, instead preferring to feather their nests and run for re-election in their gerrymandered districts, using their clout to buy campaign contributions.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
What is America About?
Well according to Barack Obama, it is this:
“What’s happened to the bargain? What’s happened to the American deal that says, you know, we are focused on building a strong middle class?”
This is the reason people accuse Obama of not "getting" America.
There never was such a deal. America is (or at least used to be) about providing equal opportunity and treating all citizens equally under the law, i.e., the exact opposite of trying to "build" a "class". The American social strength is that we do not really care about class; we want everybody to be treated equally with respect to their legal rights. Those legal rights do not include, for example, the right to own a house, to achieve academic and economic parity with all other ethnic groups, or to have ones income rise every year while doing the same job.
“What’s happened to the bargain? What’s happened to the American deal that says, you know, we are focused on building a strong middle class?”
This is the reason people accuse Obama of not "getting" America.
There never was such a deal. America is (or at least used to be) about providing equal opportunity and treating all citizens equally under the law, i.e., the exact opposite of trying to "build" a "class". The American social strength is that we do not really care about class; we want everybody to be treated equally with respect to their legal rights. Those legal rights do not include, for example, the right to own a house, to achieve academic and economic parity with all other ethnic groups, or to have ones income rise every year while doing the same job.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
"the President’s astonishingly shallow reflections on why he ran into trouble "
The smartest president we ever had?
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/confidence-men-ron-suskind
Fascinating.
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/confidence-men-ron-suskind
Fascinating.
Friday, September 30, 2011
The President's new tone
By now, we have all become accustomed to condescending lectures from Professor Obama.
But it will take the nation some time to get used to the fact that his insults are delivered in a hoarse yell, with a phony, uneducated veneer to make it sound populist.
But it will take the nation some time to get used to the fact that his insults are delivered in a hoarse yell, with a phony, uneducated veneer to make it sound populist.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
What's *Really* Wrong With the Economy?
John Judis, in the New Republic:
"Obama needs to tell people what’s really wrong with the economy, and what needs to be done. Otherwise, he is not doing his job.”
The problem is that he can't say what he really thinks, which is that the government needs to spend a Ton More Money, and that the fair thing to do is just confiscate it from People Who Don't Really Need It. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, he probably thinks.
He's Baaaaaack!
(from Politico)
Oh, no:
· Blago: I was 'bamboozled'
He is seeking a new trial, alleging judicial bias and no "presumption of innocence."
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Michelle Bachmann, the Pope, and the Antichrist
Good piece on the guffaw-worthiness of journalism at the Atlantic magazine.
http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/surprise-the-reformation-happened.html
http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/surprise-the-reformation-happened.html
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Walking the Beach
I spent 90 minutes or so this morning exploring the beach at La Jolla Shores with my daughter and two young boys visiting from Beijing. Normally, we go there to walk a couple brisk miles as we watch the waves roll in. Today, we were beachcombers, stopping to check out any shell, pattern of sand, flora or fauna that looked interesting. I saw several things I have never seen before.
Then it hit me: there are so many things that we "blow right by" as we live our lives. How many wonderful things are we missing because we are trying to get where we are going just a few minutes earlier?
Then it hit me: there are so many things that we "blow right by" as we live our lives. How many wonderful things are we missing because we are trying to get where we are going just a few minutes earlier?
Friday, July 15, 2011
How digital detectives deciphered Stuxnet, the most menacing malware in history
If somebody really, really wants to get you...
...they can:
wow.
Somebody, please tell the president what bluffing is.
“Don’t call my bluff.”
-President Barack Obama, July 13, 2011
Would someone please tell Obama that if he going to bluff, he is not supposed to announce it?
What’s next?
Please don’t challenge my lie.
Why aren’t you taking my bait?
Why are you looking at me like I’m nuts?
Monday, June 27, 2011
A Great Day in the Annals of Cleaning Up the USA
Guilty on 17 counts.
Acquitted on 1.
Deadlocked on 2.
Thank you, Patrick Fitzgerald, for getting it right, this time.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Samuel Johnson
For at least a decade I have been thinking, I have simply GOT to read me some Samuel Johnson, seeing as how everybody thinks he's so durned smart.
Now that I've finished John Wain's bio of him and read Rambler no. 2 and no. 8, I realize what I have been missing.
If I were English, I would make it a point of pride to share Johnson with the world, and claim him as one of the greatest men who ever lived. As I am mostly Irish, German, and -- um -- mixed, I will content myself with saying that he is a damned fine read.
Now that I've finished John Wain's bio of him and read Rambler no. 2 and no. 8, I realize what I have been missing.
If I were English, I would make it a point of pride to share Johnson with the world, and claim him as one of the greatest men who ever lived. As I am mostly Irish, German, and -- um -- mixed, I will content myself with saying that he is a damned fine read.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
The New White House Standard: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser, was asked Sunday by Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" on CBS if he had any evidence that the chamber was using secret foreign funds to influence the election.
"Well, do you have any evidence that it's not, Bob?" Mr. Axelrod replied.
Does anybody else think this is twisted?
"You say you're not a communist. Can you prove it?"
Good Lord.
President Pinocchio strikes again
Anybody who can read this without disgust for President Obama has truly lost his way.
-Wrecktafire
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Disgusting
First the Climategate emails.
Then the peer-reviewed expert report supporting the six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
Now this:
Looks like a pattern, to me.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
How Washington is this?
http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Seung_Min_Kim_C6204608-DD57-423F-BE18-85E94DAB2681.html
Things that make ya' say "ugh!"
Things that make ya' say "ugh!"
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
FW: [Launch Alert] Minuteman III Launched
Just in case you were worried that the gov't can't shoot straight, this news is reassuring:
The missile's single re-entry test vehicle traveled approximately 4,190
miles before hitting its pre-determined target near the Kwajalein Atoll in
the Marshall Islands.
-Nom De Plume
-----Original Message-----
From: launch-alert-bounces@mailman.qth.net [mailto:launch-alert-bounces@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian Webb
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:04 AM
To: Launch Alert
Subject: [Launch Alert] Minuteman III Launched
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 16, 2010
Release No. 06-0510
VANDENBERG CONDUCTS MINUTEMAN III FLIGHT TEST
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A scheduled Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile test was launched here at 3:01 a.m. June
16 from Launch Facility-10.
The flight test was the first for the 576th Flight Test Squadron since its
realignment under Air Force Global Strike Command.
The missile's single re-entry test vehicle traveled approximately 4,190
miles before hitting its pre-determined target near the Kwajalein Atoll in
the Marshall Islands.
"Team Vandenberg's coordination was phenomenal resulting in a seamless
launch operation," said Col. Steven Winters, the 30th Space Wing vice
commander and Launch Decision Authority.
MMIII missiles launched from Vandenberg carry sophisticated data collection
equipment, according to Col. Carl DeKemper, the 576th FLTS commander. ICBM
analysts, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy,
will use the data collected from this mission for continuing force
development evaluation.
"For more than 50 years, Vandenberg has been at the forefront of testing and
improving ICBMs to ensure the readiness and reliability of our fleet," said
Col. DeKemper. "Our team is dedicated to ensuring a safe, secure and
effective combat-ready ICBM force."
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Just another lonely voice in the wilderness...
Mr. Black Swan Taleb says we're doomed.
I know I'm not a chicken, but we DO need the eggs!
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/06/10/nissim-taleb-author-of-black-swan-predicts-trouble-ahead-for-w/
Engineering: Hazardous to Literary Sense?
After a couple of decades of doing software engineering, I realize that all that cool stuff I learned in AP English in the 70's is pretty much gone. You know, understatement, metaphor, synecdoche, and all that good stuff where you say less than you mean, or more than you mean, the opposite of what you mean, etc.
I no longer have any patience with anybody who is not saying exactly what they mean!
I no longer have any patience with anybody who is not saying exactly what they mean!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Heard in church this morning...
This morning, Mr. Gucci shoes was a government economist, but hey...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered "sure".
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered "sure".
The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM ThinkPad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130-page report on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586 sheep. "That is correct; take one of the sheep." said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car.
Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my animal?", "OK, why not." answered the young man. "Clearly, you are a consultant." said the shepherd. "That's correct." says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required." answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business...... Now give me back my dog."
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Another One Bites the Dust
Eason Jordan of CNN resigns over reports that he accused US forces in Iraq of "deliberately targeting" journalists.
First, Dan Rather--now, Eason Jordan. Criticism from the blogosphere, the vox populi, is gaining in influence.
The best part of this is that instant fact-checking and bias-detection are a restraining influence upon the mainstream media, who no longer can ignore that they are being mercilessly graded by an omnipresent global intelligence, and found persistently lacking.
First, Dan Rather--now, Eason Jordan. Criticism from the blogosphere, the vox populi, is gaining in influence.
The best part of this is that instant fact-checking and bias-detection are a restraining influence upon the mainstream media, who no longer can ignore that they are being mercilessly graded by an omnipresent global intelligence, and found persistently lacking.
Monday, December 06, 2004
RE: Daily Howler comment -- code words
Hmmm.
Would you criticize Anna Quindlen for writing "biological
self-determination" or George Will for "the nanny state"? Code-phrases
(spinsanity calls them "jargon") are the stock-in-trade of most
columnists. They are vague but suggestive cliches that most people do
understand, if imprecisely.
Besides, are you sure that you are not using code yourself when you
write "Nor do we understand the murky but pleasing phrase, 'relativizing
good and evil'"? "Nor do we understand" is frequent Op-Ed shorthand
for, "what a whacked-out idea".
Lastly, I can't resist pointing out that when you call journalists
fawning, blow-dried bubbleheads (because that's what many of them are),
you are applying an objective standard, which puts you (at least
temporarily) in the class of people do not "relativize good and evil".
Congratulations!
Sincerely,
-ME
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Somerby [XXXX]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 8:36 AM
To: ME
Subject: RE: Daily Howler comment
Actually, that was the problem with Brooks' column. Columns shouldn't be
written in code words.
>From: ""
>To:
>Subject: Daily Howler comment
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:21:56 -0800
>
>
>Tuesday, November 30
>
>re: the Monday Night Football incident.
>Yes! You totally rock! Thank you!
>
>re: Brooks on John Stott
>You profess not to understand a few things:
>
> Stott "doesn't believe that truth is plural?" We don't
>really know what that means. Nor do we understand the murky but
pleasing
>phrase, "relativizing good and evil." And Stott doesn't believe "that
>truth is something humans are working toward?" We especially don't
>understand that claim.
>Stott is using codewords standard among people of faith, particularly
>Catholics. If you so request, I will try to explain them.
>
>Great site--gotta go, now,
>
>-ME
Would you criticize Anna Quindlen for writing "biological
self-determination" or George Will for "the nanny state"? Code-phrases
(spinsanity calls them "jargon") are the stock-in-trade of most
columnists. They are vague but suggestive cliches that most people do
understand, if imprecisely.
Besides, are you sure that you are not using code yourself when you
write "Nor do we understand the murky but pleasing phrase, 'relativizing
good and evil'"? "Nor do we understand" is frequent Op-Ed shorthand
for, "what a whacked-out idea".
Lastly, I can't resist pointing out that when you call journalists
fawning, blow-dried bubbleheads (because that's what many of them are),
you are applying an objective standard, which puts you (at least
temporarily) in the class of people do not "relativize good and evil".
Congratulations!
Sincerely,
-ME
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Somerby [XXXX]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 8:36 AM
To: ME
Subject: RE: Daily Howler comment
Actually, that was the problem with Brooks' column. Columns shouldn't be
written in code words.
>From: "
>To:
>Subject: Daily Howler comment
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:21:56 -0800
>
>
>Tuesday, November 30
>
>re: the Monday Night Football incident.
>Yes! You totally rock! Thank you!
>
>re: Brooks on John Stott
>You profess not to understand a few things:
>
> Stott "doesn't believe that truth is plural?" We don't
>really know what that means. Nor do we understand the murky but
pleasing
>phrase, "relativizing good and evil." And Stott doesn't believe "that
>truth is something humans are working toward?" We especially don't
>understand that claim.
>Stott is using codewords standard among people of faith, particularly
>Catholics. If you so request, I will try to explain them.
>
>Great site--gotta go, now,
>
>-ME
Friday, December 03, 2004
Daily Howler comment
Tuesday, November 30
re: the Monday Night Football incident.
Yes! You totally rock! Thank you!
re: Brooks on John Stott
You profess not to understand a few things:
- Stott “doesn’t believe that truth is plural?” We don’t really know what that means. Nor do we understand the murky but pleasing phrase, “relativizing good and evil.” And Stott doesn’t believe “that truth is something humans are working toward?” We especially don’t understand that claim.
Great site--gotta go, now.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
FW: Remember the good ones, too...
(From Belmont Club):
Although battlefield ethics are not always simple, people intuitively understand that not all behavior is lawful. The Boston Globe describes this incident in Fallujah and most readers will agree that a war crime had been prevented, yet what distinguishes it from the shooting of a wounded enemy combatant in a mosque is hard to encompass in so many words.
Salehma Mahmoud, 43, and her four daughters fled Fallujah on Tuesday after her husband was killed fighting against the Americans. They walked 4 miles only to be confronted by Iraqi soldiers who insulted and harassed them, grabbing at Mahmoud's oldest daughter. "He grabbed Fatima's hand and tried to kiss her. I was trying to stop him with all I had," she said. "He beat me and pushed me to the ground, and his friends were laughing at us loud. He tore the right sleeve of my daughter's dress and lay her on the ground."
To Mahmoud's surprise -- because she had been told that US troops would beat and rape her -- a US patrol rescued them. An American soldier pulled the Iraqi soldier away and yelled at him. Mahmoud's daughter, who speaks some English, told her that the American called the Iraqi names and said, "If you had really come to save the people of this city, you would not have done such a thing."
Saturday, November 13, 2004
On church/state separation, here (http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/11/communism-of-21st-century-cardinal.html) , I have not seen any commentary on the wisdom of the Establishment Clause (EC): that Congress shall not establish a religion nor prevent the free exercise thereof.From my point of view as a Catholic, the EC is a great compromise, if one takes the word "establish" at face value. Viz:
1) Manger scenes on the city hall lawn are not establishment, because nobody makes you come out and worship them, nor even pay for them. If they are popular and not "too sectarian", they should stay. (E.g., although I am a Catholic, I don't think a statue of the pope should be on the city hall lawn in a town with a lot of Protestants.)
2) "Christianity" is too diverse a religion to really be "established" by law. One Christian denomination could be established, but only at the expense of others and only at risk of endangering "free exercise". My interpretation is that this is what the EC prohibits.
3) It is not "establishment" to say in the U.S. Constitution that the rights of a U.S. citizen begin with his (or her) conception. This is not a religious statement--in fact I first came to this position early in my atheist years!
4) City hall is not congress. While city hall does not get to "establish religion" either, it should have the right to reflect local religious sentiment to the extent that it can be done without inflaming the passions of other _local_ religions, and to the extent that it does not advocate anything illegal (e.g., a call to establish the Caliphate in Phoenix.)
All that stuff about separation being in the Gospels or part or not part of the Puritan worldview is irrelevant. We have the beautiful, all-purpose Establishment Clause. We just need to know how to read it!
1) Manger scenes on the city hall lawn are not establishment, because nobody makes you come out and worship them, nor even pay for them. If they are popular and not "too sectarian", they should stay. (E.g., although I am a Catholic, I don't think a statue of the pope should be on the city hall lawn in a town with a lot of Protestants.)
2) "Christianity" is too diverse a religion to really be "established" by law. One Christian denomination could be established, but only at the expense of others and only at risk of endangering "free exercise". My interpretation is that this is what the EC prohibits.
3) It is not "establishment" to say in the U.S. Constitution that the rights of a U.S. citizen begin with his (or her) conception. This is not a religious statement--in fact I first came to this position early in my atheist years!
4) City hall is not congress. While city hall does not get to "establish religion" either, it should have the right to reflect local religious sentiment to the extent that it can be done without inflaming the passions of other _local_ religions, and to the extent that it does not advocate anything illegal (e.g., a call to establish the Caliphate in Phoenix.)
All that stuff about separation being in the Gospels or part or not part of the Puritan worldview is irrelevant. We have the beautiful, all-purpose Establishment Clause. We just need to know how to read it!
Thursday, October 28, 2004
John, Edwards, Trial Lawyer and Buffoon
This, from msnbc (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6351667/)
About the missing conventional high explosives missing in Iraq, which Kerry/Edwards say were "lost" by coalition forces, but U.S. military says were not there when they first arrived:
About the missing conventional high explosives missing in Iraq, which Kerry/Edwards say were "lost" by coalition forces, but U.S. military says were not there when they first arrived:
Sen. John Edwards: We know that these explosives were
there. We know that the Bush administration was notified they were there … they needed to be secured. We know that they weren't secured and we know that they're now missing. So, those are the facts and the facts are pretty powerful in this case.
Campbell Brown: But they could have disappeared before coalition forces got to that location. [see recent links on www.belmontclub.blogspot.com -- wrecktafire]
Sen. Edwards: But the answer is … we knew about it. We
knew we were supposed to do something about it. We didn't do
it. But there's a chance they were gone before we got there? I mean, that's basically what they're saying. They had a responsibility to secure this material. It was important for securing Iraq. It was important for the safety of our troops. It was important to keep that material out of the hands of terrorists and what we know is they didn't do it. We know that.
Beautiful. In my auditing days, this is what we called a "non-responsive response." I suppose we should have asked Saddam to secure it. Oops, it looks like that's what he did.
Friday, October 15, 2004
Prez Debate #3, Canada drugs
Kerry said we should allow people to bring in American prescription drugs from Canada. What moron advised him to say that?
If he thought about this for two minutes (OK, maybe ten minutes), he would realize that the Canadiens' deal is contingent on the drugs not coming back into the U.S. The language is in the purchasing contracts signed by the Canadians. Major U.S. drug manufacturers have announced that they will withdraw their low price deals if their drugs find their way back here.
From Harvard Econ professor Robert J. Barro:
If he thought about this for two minutes (OK, maybe ten minutes), he would realize that the Canadiens' deal is contingent on the drugs not coming back into the U.S. The language is in the purchasing contracts signed by the Canadians. Major U.S. drug manufacturers have announced that they will withdraw their low price deals if their drugs find their way back here.
From Harvard Econ professor Robert J. Barro:
Another point is that drug companies sell at 50% off in Canada only
because they can reasonably well isolate the Canadian market
from the U.S. one. Policies that facilitate reimportation of drugs make it harder to separate those markets. If the leakage to the U.S. became large, as it would if
reimportation were fully legal and convenient, drug companies would be unwilling
to sell in Canada at 50% off. The companies would insist on 100% prices or
else would not sell there. Thus, Canada has the greatest self-interest
in preventing massive reimportation of drugs to the U.S.
Kerry (and others) are asleep at the switch on this one.http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/barro/bw/bw_04_0830.pdf
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