<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">When Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, my esteem for that organization was greatly reduced. dylan</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">the Peace Prize has always been a political tool, unlike,I hope, the other awards. Obama got it because he was black, excuse me, Black. Does anyone think any differently? bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:37 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I realize we're headed into dangerous waters here, John, and I don't feel like either of us wants to be hit with the iron fist wrapped in velvet of the anonymous mod here, so I will close with two thoughts.<div><br></div><div>Krugman's Nobel in the dismal science was awarded before he lost himself in his politics. When Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, my esteem for that organization was greatly reduced.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:10 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:48 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>As usual, Krugman has his head planted squarely up his backside in regard to both issues discussed. </i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paul </span>Krugman<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> was</span> the sole recipient of the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>Nobel <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">P</span>rize in economics<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> in 2008</span>, and Nobel <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">P</span>rizes are not usually giv<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">en</span> out to people who have their head<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s</span> up their ass. </font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>As far as life expectancy goes, you can thank Perdue pharmaceuticals for a significant drop in it in the US, along with rising suicides</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">And nobody can win a Nobel prize if the numbers don't add up in their theory, and in your theory <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a</span>s stated<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>in the above the numbers just don't add up. </font></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>due in part to a decades long hollowing out of the American middle class </i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">If that is true there must be a reason for the hollowing out of the middle class, and I'm sure the fact that the real earning power of the middle class has not increased in decades must've had something to do with it.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Trump bears little responsibility for either set of statistics, but Krugman is a long time member of the Orange Man Bad / TDS posse</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">There's a lot I'd like to say about that and about He Who Must Not Be Named,<br>but unfortunately I'm not allowed to.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div>
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