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Old Wed Apr 21, 2010, 01:01am
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I have lost two people close to me, and in both cases, it is because of a failure of our justice system that the admittedly biased Scarecrow loves. Another dear person to me had his life ruined by a drunk driver. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. The justice system the admittedly biased Scarecrow loves had the perpretrator out of jail before my friend was out of the hospital. That's a sampling of my experience with it.
The plural of anecdotes is not data.

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To have a curious rating system that automatically puts our system at No. 1 with no cogent argument for it is a little silly.
Dishonest much?
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