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Liverpool is home of the Beatles and it has not been lost on the city to use the #1 world band as a way to make money.

The Beatles are back and so its Beatle mania. Newly remastered CD’s packages along with the Video game has put the

band on the front page.

In Liverpool, there are numerous establishments have the Beatle name on it or one of their songs. Even the

Busses have picture of the group. Lennon and McCartney’s hones have become national historic treasures.

The tourist trade has enlivened the city. Back in the 60’s the city was struggling from post World War II losses and when the band became famous, so did Liverpool. They were also wise enough to improve the ambience and make over the

city into the tourist’s image of the band. It has shops, malls, museums and related. There is also a Beatle series of

holidays to celebrate the band.

IS IT 1966 ALL OVER AGAIN? OR 2003?

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These 3 editions discuss the struggle of the choice(s) in going to Afghanistan. Briefly, the Left is saying that the war would be a

hard war because of the terrain and the people. Afghanistan is really not a country. It is terribly divided and it is

a place that many other countries have entered and lost. The people do not want to be told to be a democracy and the war lords generally provide the protection. We should play a secondary role if any role is necessary is debatable. Not only will

it could be costly, but it will take a lot of lives in a 10 or 15 year war.

The Right maintains that if we let this region go America’s image to the rest of the world is that of a paper tiger. We appear to be formidable, but we are not. Further, we can make a nation state of the country and if we go in there, we would be seen as

helpers rather than the enemy . We must go.

The public opinion at this time is weary of war and the country is struggling out of a depression. The headline is one

that comes from George Will the Dean of Conservatives. In 1966, there was a rapid build up to Vietnam. 2003 was the

beginning of the Iraq war.

We have been engaged in a military struggle in Afghanistan for 8 years. Further, did we win the war in Iraq?

PORN HAS HIT ON HARD TIMES.

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Pornography will be defined here as actors who engage in real not simulated sexual intercourse Thus, it is hard core.

What is happening to porn is that the internet now provides so much free porn, why should one buy it? In some ways,

it has gone mainstream and the forbidden aspects are gone. Revenues have fallen 30% to 50%. The number of producers who have to compete with amateurs and knock offs that come from viewers stealing porn as it is being shown on DVD’s. Actors

are being paid less and they work less often. Unlike the past, porn was resistant to economic downturns however availability is a concern and there is just too much of it and too little in the ways of security of porn property. It is now cheap and can be tossed. The market is shrinking and will hit a new point set and probably no longer increase.

PAYCHECKS COULD SHRINK

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There is low inflation and a falling economy. Why should employers keep adding a little more to the people they hire?

Further, rather than freezing wages, why not drop them? There are plenty of people to replace those who complain or resist.

If the scaling down of wages begins, that hurts the economy but helps the individual company. What makes more sense to

you ? Would you accept a pay cut over a job loss with higher costs for basics?

IGNORING THE EVIDENCE

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A month or so ago, Begley challenged the medical field for dismissing new well constructed studies indicating that one

procedure or surgery was superior to others. However, medical doctors continue in the ways they learned in graduate school.

This is also true in psychology. It appears that there may be close to 1000 therapies, and yet most of the research indicates that cognitive and cognitive-behavioral appears to be the most cost effective. This form of therapy teaches patients to think about their thoughts in new healthier ways and to act on those new ways of thinking. However, most psychologists will not have

any of that and are happy doing what they did from grad school. Further, they have bonded with that theory. What is over

looked is that one-third of patients get well without therapy. So those who use some peculiar strategy may find success in spite of their approach rather than because of it.