Turns out the experiment is working out just as expected. What a shocker
ThatOwlWoman (08-17-2018)
A great deal. As you presumably know, his time was an era when pretty much every good socioeconomic indicator went up and every bad one went down. His legendary workaholism and detail orientation really paid dividends for the nation.
Do you have any supporting evidence for that?Eileen Wellstone was her name
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bi...d-from-oxford/
Clinton has at least two degrees, including a Juris Doctorate. How about you?BJ Clinton never completed his B Phil course in politics, and took no degree, BTW
What makes you think he's a hero of mine?Strange heroes you seem to have....
ThatOwlWoman (08-17-2018)
It's as if you imagine that others don't know what an anecdote is, and thus that you provide a service popping up to identify them when you see them. Weird. Just to change things up, from time to time, I suppose you could pop into threads to identify parts of speech. Like: "Just so you know, 'BTW" is an abbreviation for "by the way."' Or 'For your information, "claim" is a verb.' That would add an equal amount of value to the forum.... which is to say, none.
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Gotcha68 (08-17-2018), ThatOwlWoman (08-17-2018)
Oneuli (08-17-2018), ThatOwlWoman (08-17-2018)
As I recall, the story of Gomorrah involve the Hebrew God deciding to destroy two cities based on them being especially sinful. Unless you think New York City is especially sinful, it wouldn't make a very good Gomorrah. As a reality check, consider, for example, murder rates.... murder being a sin so grave that it is expressly called out in the Hebrew God's Decalogue. The murder rate in my city is just 3.4%. Not only is that not especially high, it's actually much lower than the national average of 5.3. If you're looking for a Gomorrah, you'd be better off looking well south. For example, St. Louis has a murder rate of 59.8. They're over ten times as likely to commit murder there as in NYC.
Of course there are other sins than just murder. Gluttony, for example, is one of the seven deadly sins. Yet if you check obesity rates, you'll see that NYC suffers from relatively little of that sin, too. Is there a particular sin you have in mind when you give New York that sobriquet?
Frank Apisa (08-17-2018), ThatOwlWoman (08-17-2018)
Don't you mean that you say the murder rate in the city you claim to infest is just 3.4%, sock?
BTW, who told you that NYC has a murder rate of "3.4%," sock?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-murders-on-the-rise-in-2018-nypd-data-shows-1531262595
https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/nycs-murder-rate-rises-due-to-gang-violence/
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/03/new-yorks-annual-murder-statistics-are-still-worse-than-londons
ThatOwlWoman (08-17-2018)
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