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Now, now, there is no need to get personal.

Without trotting out the post graduate education crappola, let me say I love science and the wonders it has brought us. The marketing types would place me square in the “middle of the curve” i.e. don’t run right out and buy the newest stuff until the bugs are worked out and don’t hold out forever before buying into innovation just to resist change--- nope right in the middle. Real world proven science is great stuff, cures to diseases, medicines to ease symptoms, genetics, automotive/aviation technology are all really good stuff, especially in their “perfected” forms.

Of course, you don’t have to look that far back in our history to see premature claims made for all number of scientific “remedies” (which had what, at the time, was the latest scientific backing) that now, looking back at them, were totally ludicrous. Regrettably, science is a “two steps forward, one step back” proposition and then throw the federal government in to “tell you” whether the current situation is a step forward or a step back and you can find yourself being sold a quick “bill of goods” (e.g. ala Iraq, and I voted for Bush and cheered our boys on – feel a bit like a trusting idiot given what I know now).

In line with what you said, if I’m wrong (and God I hope I am), then I am more than willing to admit it and agree I was being overly skeptical. Point is that time is going to have to pass before any concrete measuring sticks will be available on a past tense “here is what happened” basis versus a “here’s the studies and here is what we predict” basis. Again, trust me, don’t be so naïve and blindingly trusting of the federal drivel we are fed on a daily business.
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Regarding your request,
IMHO, the only solution that is going to occur (viable or not) is the fed’s solution AND THAT is the part that concerns me. Those boys (and girls) like only to listen to themselves and follow only their own advice and they are expert at "papering over" their failures and recreating them as successes, often without the public ever catching on.

BTW, I kinda like you line about managing wolves, if you take it exactly as written, read close…(I assume you meant "that" not "than").....



At least at a subconsious level, I may be making some headway.

EKM