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Editor's Note: Many of you, o Gentle Readers, who have emailed me in the
last couple weeks have received no reply. It's not that I hate you; but
since my recent Win98 crash, I'm still working on my backup machine, and
am trying to restore the systems to my main machine. The latter, a Compaq
laptop, is slow enough; the former, a Monorail of dimished capacity, is
slower than snot on a cold day. And I have other excuses. But suffice to
say, I'll respond to you as soon as I can. Thanx for your patience. --Ric
PS: Donations of new, blindingly fast hardware will not be refused.
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# UFOS COME IN All Sizes and Shapes... With some UFO's it's stretching a
point to call them saucer-shaped. But whether they're round and thin,
long & stubby, or even shaped like home plate, they remain as baffling -
and fascinating - as ever. http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/sizes.htm
# WE FLEW ABOVE the Flying Saucers. How does it feel to see flying saucers?
Like most people, we had never consciously expected to face that question,
but now we have an answer. When you see "saucers" from the angle and near-
ness that we did, and watch them go through the astonishing maneuver that
we witnessed, you feel humbled. http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/above.htm
: What's your favorite flying saucer? What angle did you see it from? Were
you near? Did aliens abduct you? Did you abduct aliens? Did everyone escape?
@ Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe DataPage - UFO Pioneer:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/keyhoedatapage.html
# Deer Hunters Claims To Have Seen ETs In Woods:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/filers11699.htm
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# ROOF COLLAPSES AT CHURCH. The concrete roof of a covered walkway collapsed
as churchgoers socialized between services, injuring 17 people. Dozens of
people on and near the 72-foot-long walkway had been sharing doughnuts and
coffee at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church when the structure fell. No
life-threatening injuries: http://cnn.com/US/9911/07/walkwaycollapse.ap/
: Was this God's Will? Should God be charged with aggravated assault? Do
your deities regularly injure, maim, kill their followers? Do you mind??
@ What is the present tense of "wrought," as in the line from Judges,
"What hath God wrought"? Steven Pinker has the surprising answer:
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/11/07/stibooboo01011.html?1334425
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# Muslims remove protest tent. JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli Muslims removed a tent
which they had pitched outside a basilica in Nazareth to thwart a Catholic
Church plan to build a plaza there. The Muslims agreed to remove the tent
after the Israeli government authorized building a mosque on part of the
square. The Church criticized the government's decision as capitulation to
Muslims and a failure to defend the rights of the Christian population.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561976311-4d8
: Do buildings threaten your religious rights? Do you think more religious
building should be built because the more there are, the more will collapse?
# 4 Killed In Indonesia Riot - Christian-Muslim Conflict Widening:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561966752-75c
# Racial and Religious Integration Ruffles Malaysia University:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561968874-68b
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# SPACEVIEWS: X-33 Hydrogen Tank Damage May Delay Program - Engine Replace-
ment May Delay Shuttle Launch - Challenger Tile Auction Halted - Service
Module Launch Delayed - Astronomers Discover Planet Around Binary Star -
Decision on Shuttle Replacement Years Away - US Abstains from UN Space
Vote - Candidate McCain Speaks Out on Space - SpaceViews Event Horizon -
Other News - The X-20 Dyna Soar: http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/1108/
: Are space projects always delayed? Do ETs interfere with our space work,
to keep us from finding or competing with them? Are you an alien saboteur?
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# Hindus protest Baptist booklet. HOUSTON (AP) Over 100 people protested at
one of the US's largest Baptist churches over a booklet that urges South-
ern Baptists to pray for Hindus' deliverance from the "power of Satan."
"We want all people to understand that religious intolerance is rearing
its head in this country. Some people aren't aware of the type of hate
that is being preached by mainstream churches." The booklet, distributed
during Divali, the major Hindu festival of lights, says Hindus have no
concept of sin or personal responsibility and "worship gods which are not
God." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561974115-545
: Are Baptists just pawns of one or more nonhuman entities claiming singular
divinity? Should Baptists be vigorously converted to Scientology? When? Now?
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# India firecrackers kill 55. NEW DELHI (AP) - Fires gutted shops selling
firecrackers in 4 cities in northern India during the major Hindu festival
of Diwali, killing 55 people. The festival of Diwali marks the victory of
the Hindu god Rama over the demon king Ravana in Hindu mythology. The
holiday is celebrated with fireworks, lighting of lamps and feasting.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561965440-867
: Do you celebate your deities with explosives? Do you accept the inevitable
deaths as sacrificial offering to your deities? Do your deities prefer their
offerings BBQ'd, b/roasted, pan-fried, char-broiled, smoked, nuked, or raw?
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# Ted Kaczynksi: both vain and cruel, he sees his role as king of the
anarchists as a reward for blowing people up. Getting his strokes:
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&pg=/et/99/11/6/tlbomb06.html
# It was a simple story on the Unabomber. But at Talk, life is complicated.
You see, Disney's making a Unabomber film and owns Miramax, which owns
Talk, so Tina ... http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9944/cotts.shtml
: Do you worship the UnaBomber? Would you like to be just like him? Will you
gain fame and fortune? Will you destroy civilization as we know it? Where??
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"Dr. John Money, one of the men responsible for the first sex-change
surgery performed in the United States, has declared that masculinity
as it is presently defined is more of a social fiction than a biological
reality: 'There are not two sexes... There is a continuum. You can't do
a head count. It doesn't work that way. You don't even come up with
fifteen or fifty different sexes. It looks like a spectrum.'"
--H.Rheingold, BRAVE NEW MALE, in EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND
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