On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:17:20 -0500, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Fool wrote:
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would a left-wing libertarian be like? What sort of positions
would one take on various issues? I'm curious.
Julia
I have a friend who is an
Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only 184
seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216
seats and needs 54 more seats to be in the majority. BSP, allied with
Congress, has 52 seats...
Ritu
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Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:58 PM 5/11/04, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Perhaps I should have written what it made me
think of: a short story or article about how
vampires
are the result of a viral infection... :)
It's been done . . .
Yes, I found that idea fascinating --
I wrote:
I found some more interesting sites, and will try to
find my books at home (many still packed away).
Fun! :D
Well, I found my picture references at home, but _no_
primary sources for the text was given (usually this
author is meticulous about appending her sources).
And the
At 08:45 PM 5/12/04, Andrew Paul wrote:
From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
No conspiracy. Just a lot people who think alike.
Those biases affect their coverage. How many
evangelical Christians do you think report for the New
York Times? For CNN? Does that bias their
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
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From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can tell you what John Stossel once told me - that a
sign of how far to the left TV news is is that people
think he's a conservative - when he is, of course, a
John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those of you on the West Coast, ABC is showing a
movie rendition of the
Madeline L'Engle classic a Wrinkle in Time
tonight
I enjoyed it. I didn't remember Meg as so defiant
toward the teacher or principal; am I misrembering?
(It's been a
--- Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Umm, I did not mean to be irritating,
It was the start of a larger thought about how
the right really doesn't like the media cos they
don't see the need for it. You mentioned the lack
of evangelical Christians in the media. They would
report the
FW: [Larryniven-l] Kurt Vonnegut on the state of the worldFrom the Larry Niven list:
George A
A bit too long to post.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0512-13.htm
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From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:52 PM
Subject: Huntsville Forbes #8 Best Place 2004
I'm proud to see that Huntsville, Alabama is ranked number 8 in
Forbes' Best Places for Business.
On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:27:21 -0400, Matthew and Julie Bos
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On 5/12/04 11:08 PM, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fine was the largest civil penalty ever against a company for storm
water runoff violations. Officials said they hoped the settlement with
the
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:47:08AM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I found it interesting that the most leftist city that I'm familiar
with, Madison WI, is listed number 1. Its interesting to compare this
to the discussion of the need to set a healthy, conservative climate
to attract business.
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
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From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can tell you what John Stossel once told me - that a
sign of how far to the left TV news is is that people
think he's a conservative - when he is, of course, a
libertarian.
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More so then that a movie was made out of it, Underworld.
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Dan wrote:
So, let my put forth a hypothetical. Lets assume this was done by an
administration that had shown a real sucess rebuilding Afganistan, and
had a very good team ready to work in reconstructing Iraq, and had laid
out the real costs to the American people and gotten buy in. Lets
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Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Beheading Avenges Prison Abuse
The Fool wrote:
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From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can tell you what
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Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:47 PM
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:47:08AM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I found it interesting that the
The Fool's link to Fox News, following Gary Dunn's link to the Center
for Bio-Ethical Reform Through Psychological Abuse caused my eyes to
notice that the icons for the two web sites are nearly identical.
No conspiracy :-), just more the same-think.
Dave
Top post: further illustrating the evils of of
replying before reading all posts (I'm referring to
myself here!)
Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I wrote]
..la gineta style of riding, which influenced the
horse cultures of the Gauchos, Charros and
Llaneros.
They spell it gineta.
G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FW: [Larryniven-l] Kurt Vonnegut on the state of the
worldFrom the Larry Niven list:
A bit too long to post.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0512-13.htm
[small excerpt]
Doesnt anything socialistic make you want to throw
up? Like great public
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From: Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:11 AM
Subject: Yay!
Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only
184
seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue368/screen3.html
Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation
Documentary filmmakers mine science-fiction conventions to find what
tomorrow may bring
Shot against the backdrop of science-fiction conventions from 2000 to
the present, Finding the Future: A
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3710977.stm
The Russian capital Moscow now boasts more billionaires than any other
city in the world, according to a survey by Forbes magazine.
The study also estimates that a quarter of Russia's wealth is now
concentrated in the hands of just 100 people.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marcial Angell's perspectives on me too drugs.
The former editor in chief of The New England
Journal of Medicine, Marcia
Angell is currently a senior lecturer in social
medicine at Harvard Medical
School. She disputes the pharmaceutical companies'
argument
Doug Pensinger wrote:
I agree that the US should have intervened. Do you agree, if
it would have done so, it would have been dissed by a great
deal of the world for imperealism? Should we have been
willing to violate international law to save half a million
human lives?
What did the
They're Here -- Cicada Cycle Fascinates U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=1896u=/nm/20040512/us_nm/science_cicadas_dc_7printer=1
http://tinyurl.com/3fx74
The first cicada of the season sat on the doorstep like a mutant
bumblebee, with red eyes and yellow legs
But, apparently
Nick Lidster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More so then that a movie was made out of it,
Underworld.
I presume you mean about a virus causing
vampirism...hmm, have to see if I can rent that!
Debbi
who admits to having a bit of a thing for
vampires-struggling-to-overcome-their-bloodlust... ;}
Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I had posted this before: DDT was not banned.
http://www.malaria.org/inthenews.html
There was a proposal to ban it entirely in December,
it failed becuase
of the poor countries who still use it for malaria
control.
Why use DDT? It can be
The Fool wrote:
The Idiocy of right-wing torture apologists is truly sickening:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119529,00.html
Many TV networks, including Fox News, deemed the pictures
[of the earlier murder and desecration of four Americans
in Fallujah] too shocking to air.
Deborah Harrell wrote:
I don't recall reading any Vonnegut novels (though I'm
sure I must have read some short stories in
anthologies) - have to remedy that.
Not sure whether my word has any weight for you, but I read most of what
he wrote, and have enjoyed it tremendously. His writing was one
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fox news: Iraq Torture Scandal: 'morally superior racism'
If American soldiers are /not/ expected to be morally superior to
the
people
At first I thought this was refering to the 1997 documentary - The
Sci-Fi Files 'Living in the Future' . I picked up 'Living in the
Future' for either $3 or $5 dollars. Seemed worthwhile at that price.
I later found it was supposed to be part of a 4 video series. Lots of
movie clips, interviews
On Thu, 13 May 2004 12:18:39 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:58 PM 5/11/04, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Debbi
whose younger brother parodied Yesterday with
Leprosy ('I'm not half the man I used to be' etc. --
sick, but
I was surprised to read on one of the sites (from my
L3 post) that Romans and some Oriental tribes used
chainmail on their horses -- do you think this is
correct?
I don't know about mail, but certainly Roman cavalry used other types of
horse armor -- scale and/or lamellar, either metallic,
were questioned. It is described at:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20040513/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_dc_51
quote
During a Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) hearing,
Democrats confronted Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the No. 2
official at the Pentagon, and Gen. Peter
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
As for brainwashed on cheap DVD's [sic], well, what
gives you the right to decide what holistic[ally] ...
benefits the consumer? Are _you_ brainwashed on
cheap DVDs? Why then do you think they are? Maybe
they want cheap DVDs. I know I do. I wish I lived
near a
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this is true, then it is an extremely serious
manner. It would be
admitting deliberate, systematic, authorized
violations of the Geneva
Convention. That is not just the actions of a few
bad apples. It seems to
me to be high level illegal orders.
The Fool wrote:
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would a left-wing libertarian be like? What sort of positions
would one take on various issues? I'm curious.
ACLU. EFF.
The ACLU even defends scum-sucking proto-fascists like rush limbaugh.
OK. I can
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From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: Beheading Avenges Prison Abuse
Indeed, let's praise Wal Mart. In my lifetime (again)
no one has done more than Sam Walton to make
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Debbi
whose younger brother parodied Yesterday with
Leprosy ('I'm not half the man I used to be' etc. --
sick, but funny; Hansen's disease is now thankfully
controllable and quite rare)
That's also been done. :) I think I saw it performed in 1985? By
girls dressed
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do consider Wal-mart and Sam's vastly superior to
the NE department
chains that went bankrupt trying to compete. I
consider their investment
in inventory control very much on target: a real
investment in
productivity. But, I think that you
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:47:08AM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I found it interesting that the most leftist city that I'm familiar
with, Madison WI, is listed number 1. Its interesting to compare this
to the discussion of the need to set a healthy, conservative climate
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From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Pentagon admits Geneva convention violations approved?
I don't know the details (am still at work at 11:00pm,
so I'm not exactly
Dan Minette wrote:
Indeed, IMHO, Target has often provided better value than Wal-Mart. I've
been shopping there for almost 40 years. The prices are slightly higher,
but I feel that the better quality of the material is worth it. (e.g.
the clothes last enough longer so that the price per
Steve Sloan wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
What did the U.S. have to gain by intervening in Rwanda?
Diddly squat, but that doesn't mean dedicated critics of the
US couldn't come up with something. Presumably, Rwanda had
something useful enough for past European imperialists to
colonize the
Debbi wrote:
who admits to having a bit of a thing for
vampires-struggling-to-overcome-their-bloodlust... ;}
Too much Barnibus (sp?) as a youth?
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Deborah Harrell wrote:
Debbi
who admits to having a bit of a thing for
vampires-struggling-to-overcome-their-bloodlust... ;}
I like P.N. Elrod for that sort of thing. :)
Julia
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Robert Seeberger wrote:
Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only
184
seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216
seats and needs 54 more seats to be in the majority. BSP, allied
with
Congress, has 52 seats...
Ritu
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