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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. [...]

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From youtube comments: Translation part 1: Referring to remark 6a to chapter 2 of the KN, the coustoms administration has additionally (first laugh)published the? so called swiss explanation (second laugh) to the tariff (repeat). Accordingly certain products get assigned to chapter 2, which has added spice during the production, aslong as the nature of the [...]

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Paraprosdokian

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Q. Are you against any government regulation of banks? A. I am against Federal Government regulations.  States could do whatever they want. Q. Why are you against the federal regulations? A. Because if they are wrong (and they often if not always are) they can bring the entire country down. Q. What is wrong with [...]

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How strongly will you work to: 1. end affirmative actions? 2. end federal income tax? 3. close our borders? What do you want to do with illegal immigrants? 4. close our military bases in other countries? 5. bring our troops home? 6. phase out federal government entitlement program? 7. end minimum wage laws? 8. abolish [...]

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Genius is being able to divide a big project into small parts.

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How can we test whether the bailouts are needed? What is a scientific way of testing the validity of any decision? Say you have two conflicting hypotheses, H1 or H2. Statistics says you have to design a critical region, such that the probability of getting there under only one of the hypothesis, say H1, is [...]

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I won the last 16th annual New York State Open chess championship. The tournament was held on June 21-22 in Lake George, NY at Howard Johnson Tiki Resort. I’ve shared first and second prize with Daniel Lawinger which makes two of us 2008 cochampions. The tournament consisted of five games. Because I chose to play [...]

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ZAK MAYMIN, Author of Publicani, will be featured on WGCH News (1490am) on Friday 4/25 8:20-8:30am EST. YOU CAN LISTEN ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE AROUND 8:15am.

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