Re: Iraq civilian casualties.

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Lewis
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:58:41 -0600, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, if anyone else wants to give a more positive review of the technique, I'd be happy to hear it. This positive review of the technique and round up of Lancet criticism was published to today:

Re: Brin: The Know Nothings

2004-11-12 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 07:02:17PM -0800, Dave Land wrote: Seeing a mention of it on Eric Zorn's weblog, I took the Catalogue for Philanthropy's Generosity Index (http://tinyurl.com/4xsrv) and colored it according to red and blue states. http://www.mccmedia.com/~dland/red-blue-giving/

Old Dogs and New Tricks

2004-11-12 Thread iaamoac
A very provocative editorial in today's Wall St. Journal. It basically extends the theme I have previously dubbed the Fred Kaplan school of foreign policy - namely that the utter failure of Clinton's foreign policy in the DPRK, where the DPRK took our bribes and built nuclear weapons

Re: Brin: the new know nothings

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Land
On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:17 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 10 Nov 2004, at 4:59 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote: I don't believe it's unfair to provisionally judge that an intensely religious person is more likely to undergo marital strife and suffer from less cognitive ability. The alleged table of

Re: Brin: the new know nothings

2004-11-12 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:09:22AM -0800, Dave Land wrote: On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:17 AM, William T Goodall wrote: So the intensely religious are a bunch of wife-beating morons? Now that *is* a surprise :) Causation. Correlation. Learn the difference. Serious. Joke :). Pay attention. --

School Talent Show Draws Secret Service

2004-11-12 Thread Gary Nunn
I suppose that the government could start banning the public performance of songs that they might consider subversive... We certainly don't want anyone practicing free speech and dissing the federal government http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=247437page=1 School Talent Show Draws Secret

More electoral outrage

2004-11-12 Thread d.brin
I was outraged to learn that Diebold won't allow any outsiders to look at the code programmed into their machines, claiming that it's proprietary. I think that at the very least this should be challenged: the Diebold code should have independent oversight, just as a hand count has independent

A delicious rant

2004-11-12 Thread d.brin
The following needs sharing around. It is stronger than I feel...though it certainly needed to be said by somebody. I am going to write up an essay suggesting much gentler ways to win a culture peace. But it's important to see below the alternative spirit. Having turned the other cheek for

Re: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service

2004-11-12 Thread Bryon Daly
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:29:57 -0500, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose that the government could start banning the public performance of songs that they might consider subversive... We certainly don't want anyone practicing free speech and dissing the federal government I saw a

Re: More electoral outrage

2004-11-12 Thread Bryon Daly
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:32:23 -0800, d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was outraged to learn that Diebold won't allow any outsiders to look at the code programmed into their machines, claiming that it's proprietary. I think that at the very least this should be challenged: the Diebold code

Re: Iraq civilian casualties.L3

2004-11-12 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:30 AM Subject: Re: Iraq civilian casualties. On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:58:41 -0600, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, if anyone else wants

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-12 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 11/10/2004 11:07:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am completely caught up in this show. Yes ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-12 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 11/10/2004 11:19:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Details please? I don't get TV guide, but do like Lost, although it's no Alias. By the way is Alias coming back? = ___

RE: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-12 Thread Gary Nunn
By the way is Alias coming back? Yes, In January 2005. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brin: The Know Nothings

2004-11-12 Thread JDG
At 07:02 PM 11/11/2004 -0800 Dave Land wrote: We've compared the red-blue divide against population denisty, college degrees, IQ, and hoary old slavery maps. Here's another take: Generosity. Seeing a mention of it on Eric Zorn's weblog, I took the Catalogue for Philanthropy's Generosity Index

Re: Brin: Civil War II

2004-11-12 Thread JDG
At 04:29 PM 11/9/2004 -0800 d.brin wrote: -- Some of you recall I used a metaphor - the Union has been conquered by the Confederacy. Some ridiculed this, pointing to the Plains and Mountain states, forgetting that those areas DID allow slavery before the Civil War.

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/10/2004 11:19:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Details please? I don't get TV guide, but do like Lost, although it's no Alias. By the way is Alias coming back? Yes, in January. Until this season it was

Re: More electoral outrage

2004-11-12 Thread JDG
At 01:32 PM 11/12/2004 -0800 d.brin wrote: contends that this shows ALL of urban America voting blue. Too passionately expressed, since the exceptions of Dalla, Salt Lake, Phoenix, and Indianapolis all stand out. And the shades of purple maps remind us that democrats remain a disenfranchised

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-12 Thread Julia Thompson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/10/2004 11:19:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Details please? I don't get TV guide, but do like Lost, although it's no Alias. By the way is Alias

var electoral...

2004-11-12 Thread d.brin
The incredible historical lunacy of anyone forgetting the savagery of pro-slavery forces in Kansas and Nebraska territories simply is beyond belief in any educated person. But deliberate delusions are par for the course. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and

Sad and really angry

2004-11-12 Thread Nick Arnett
I've mentioned here that my niece's husband was with the Marines in Iraq. After being with the first troops into Bagdad and Tikrit, he came last summer and they were married last fall. He rotated back to Iraq on 9/11. He was killed in Fallujah. Nick