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To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill and a time to heal...
A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance...
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to lose and a time to seek;
A time to rend and a time to sew;
A time to keep silent and a time to speak;
A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.
——Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

(20:41:10) Neutrality: I think things would move quicker if we assinged panels to cases
(20:41:14) Neutrality: of three arbitrators
(20:41:19) Neutrality: *assigned
(20:41:21) JamesF: Hmm.
(20:41:28) JamesF: I don't think that that would be a good idea.
(20:41:33) Neutrality: But the check on that would be
(20:41:40) JamesF: The Committee works right now because of the balance by sitting en banc.
(20:41:48) Neutrality: that other Arbitrators could overrule the panel's decesion
(20:41:52) Neutrality: *decision
(20:41:57) Neutrality: if they disagree
(20:42:14) Neutrality: and of course, we should always listen to each other anyway
(20:42:27) JamesF: Hmm.
(20:42:48) Neutrality: I've also looked at some kind of summary judgment system to propose
(20:43:05) Neutrality: or even a "jury pool" to prevent burnout of experienced editors
(20:43:11) Neutrality: preferably administators

Bless those who serve beneath the deep,
Through lonely hours their vigil keep.
May peace their mission ever be,
Protect each one we ask of thee.
Bless those at home who wait and pray,
For their return—by night or day.

(21:09:52) Neutrality: WTF is a "Minister of Canadian Heritage"?
(21:09:59) Grunt: Beats me. Never heard the term before.
(...)
(21:12:27) cimon: Maybe it is an euphemism for the Canadian Minister of Ice Hockey.

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
(...)
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that shall outlive this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Cristpian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say, 'Tomorrow is Saint Crispian:'
then will he strip his sleeve ands show his scars,
And say, 'these wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
(Henry V)

Random people I admire, by no means comprehensive:

• Robert Byrd
• Adlai Stevenson
• Sir Thomas More
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• Michael Lerner
• J.B. Jeyaretnam
• Morgan Tsvangirai
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Paine
• Douglas MacArthur
• Smedley Butler
• Bob Graham
• Lawton Chiles
• John Locke
• Cincinnatus
• Clarence Darrow
• Bill Haywood
• Michael McCurry

Fawn Brodie

• Howard Zinn
• Mother Jones
• Carl Rogers
• Cato the Younger
• Ortolan Finisterre

• "We do these things...not because they are easy, but because they are hard!" (John F. Kennedy)
• "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot." (Alan J. Lerner)
• "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. But suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." (Mark Twain)

• "And the stranger you shall not oppress; for you know the heart of the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 23:9)
• "Take pleasure in doing what is right: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow." (Isaiah 1:17)
• "And he will judge many peoples, and reprove strong nations; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4/Micah 4:3)