http://www.pipa.org/
Steven Kull, director of PIPA, comments, One of the reasons that Bush
supporters have these beliefs is that they perceive the Bush
administration confirming them. Interestingly, this is one point on which
Bush and Kerry supporters agree. Eighty-two percent of Bush
This New Yorker article by David Denby has bearing on some of the earlier
discussions on philosophy and the enlightenment.
(David)Hume, perhaps the most thoroughgoing skeptic in the history of
philosophy, believed that religion is a portrait not of how the cosmos
works but of how the human
Gautam wrote:
It probably closely
approximates the view of the median BBC employee, for
example) of those in the left, particularly the
European left, who genuinely do wish the US ill, and
the fact that they oppose the President _does_ make me
more likely to vote for him.
No matter what the
JDG wrote:
Doug, I am interested to know that you now consider Pat Robertson to be a
reliable source.
Maybe you are going to start listening to what Pat Robertson has to say
about salvation as well?
If Alex Rodriguez tells a reporter that he thinks that Pedro is a dick, we
all take it with a
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:26:08 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it's top of the fourth. This could go down as
one of the all-time great choke jobs. If the
Yankees lose tonight, I may have to drive in to work
instead of taking the
Think the shortage of flu vaccine is just bad luck?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18795-2004Oct8.html
Britain: U.S. Told Of Vaccine Shortage
LONDON, Oct. 8 -- British health officials said Friday that their American
counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a
Gautam wrote:
Geez, Doug, don't elevate the stakes here. First (you
mentioned the draft, which I snipped, sorry) we
certainly don't need a draft to put another, say,
100,000 troops in Iraq (which would put us at about
250,000, which is where we need to be). It is within
the capacity of the US
Damon wrote:
How do we win that war, John? It's a war of
attrition that we're loosing
badly right now.
Somewhat inexact. Allied forces in all likelihood
outnumber the insurgents several times over, while
maintaining high kill ratios to casualties.
But the war in Iraq is not won with military
David wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but this answer strikes me as somehow
missing the point, or trying to be a smart-alek.
That's Alberto. 8^)
Allow me to restate John's question as a request: Please post more
information or a link to more information.
I'd be interested too, I am having trouble
JDG wrote:
You should ask the people of Samarra how badly we're losing it right now.
First a diversion, unrelated to the question.
I can tell you how we don't win the war on Islamic terror - that is by
leaving in place economic sanctions that inflamed Arab resentment against
the United States
JDG wrote:
The only acolyte is the one who can't see the flip-flop here:
KERRY: Well, let me tell you straight up: I've never changed my mind
about Iraq. I do believe Saddam Hussein was a threat. I always believed
he was a threat. Believed it in 1998 when Clinton was president. I
wanted to
Gautam wrote:
What the hell is wrong with these people?
I agree that the statement was crass; typical campaign hyperbole that
neither side is innocent of, but his remarks are minor in signifigance
when compared to the subtrafuge the Bush administration used to goad the
Nation and its allies to
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237349/
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said on
Wednesday the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq had failed tragically in its aim
of making the world a safer place and succeeded only in stimulating
terrorism.
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John wrote:
So, do you think Kerry wants to threaten the use of force against Iran?
You are a true Bush acolyte, John. Take the words of your opponent out of
context to make him sound like a flip flopper, and then change the subject
when your artifice is exposed.
As far as threats go, no
Gautam wrote:
This is absurd. I can just imagine the Russians - who
think the largest long-term threat to their security
is the Chinese - the Chinese, who are dependent on a
$150BB trade surplus with the US - and the EU, which
is over any significant period of time going to be
absorbed by its
John wrote:
The difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is
this - the Republicans overwhelming believe in the merits of the Iraq
War, and the Iraq War would never have happened under the Democrats.
If you
believe, as I do, that Iraq is the central front in the War on
Gautam wrote:
Facts, again. I believe that the ratio of senior
officers who have publicly pledged their support to
the Bush Administration to that supporting Kerry is
well over 2:1. Kerry is very, very, very unpopular in
the military, to put it mildly.
I'll bet Bush is very unpopular with the
Gautam wrote:
unlike you or anyone
else on this list, I did that knowing there's a good
chance there could be adverse professional
consequences for me for saying something like that in
public.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, my friend.
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Dan wrote:
I must differ with you on this, Doug. Gautam is showing his intellectual
honesty and willingness to speak the truth as he sees it, no matter how
inconvenient that is. That certainly hurts his chances at a career in
politicseven though it is a virtue. :-)
I wasn't doubting his
http://www.raptureme.com/rap2.html
Yikes! Liberalism is at 3
Also see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1195568,00.html
We can laugh at these people, but we should not dismiss them. That their
beliefs are bonkers does not mean they are marginal. American pollsters
believe that
John wrote:
Of course you were.
The following quote:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is
Erik wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:37:38PM -0500, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3562
During the Presidential Debate Bush made what may be his most costly
error- he exposed that hes using an earpiece to help him answer
debate questions.
In the middle
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:31:08 -0400, John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 12:19 PM 10/2/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:
Republicans were different then.
Ahem. As were Democrats.
The difference being that the Dems are _better_ now.
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IMO, of course.
John wrote:
As for lecturing me about schaedenfreude. again, it is
your fearless leader who openly supports an idological
movement that officially looks forward to 150,000
people getting a special pass to heaven, then millions
suffering in a pre-ordained stage show battle, and the
BILLIONS being
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 22:05:09 -0400, John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 04:20 PM 10/2/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:31:08 -0400, John D. Giorgis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 12:19 PM 10/2/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:
Republicans were different then.
Ahem
Erik wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:01:59PM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
It would be simple to have a player database with each player's exact
dimensions.
It would be simple, IF everyone agreed on the player's dimensions. As
I said, the problem is NOT technology, it is agreement on the strike
Alberto wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
How many watched tonight?
I did! But it didn't change my vote, because the alternatives
to Cesar Maia are even worse than him.
Alberto Monteiro wtf is he talking about?
What, you don't like Crivella¹?
Sorry, Alberto, I shouldn't assume that our international
How many watched tonight? You all know I'm slightly biased, but I think W
got trounced and Kerry rescued his campaign.
Thank goodness, I think we've still got a fighting chance.
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:15:16 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How many watched tonight? You all know I'm slightly
biased, but I think W
got trounced and Kerry rescued his campaign.
Thank goodness, I think we've still got a fighting
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:06:52 -0400, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:38:42PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote:
My guess is the system uses the side cameras to analyze the batter's
stance and pick out notable points like overall height, the elbow and
shoulder heights and
[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/politics/28intel.html?hp]
http://tinyurl.com/5thk5
Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions
The estimate came in two classified reports prepared for President Bush
in January 2003 by the National Intelligence Council, an independent group
that
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:58:50 -0400, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:34:14PM -0400, John D. Giorgis wrote:
The second part, is, of course, correct. Whenever there are
diminishing marginal returns to labor, laying off a worker will
increase productivity.
But make
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:35:25 -0500, Dan Minette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its not horrible now, but the signs for the future are not good. The tax
cut, which is focused on the upper income tax payer, should exasperate
the problem.
exacerbate
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can't help myself...
Robert wrote:
Anyone have any idea why Cat Stevens is verboten?
Don't know, but I'm on the road to find out.
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And I'm being followed by a moonshadow.
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Has anyone else noticed the resemblance between the Bush administration's
rosy view of events in Iraq and the proclamations of Sadam's information
minister as American troops closed in on Baghdad?
[http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0920/dailyUpdate.html?s=ent2]
or
http://tinyurl.com/5b2tt
Monday's
Deborah wrote:
He was a good cat, charming anyone who stopped to
notice him, providing warmth and purrs on cold winter
days, and turning into an impressive mouser.
I hope aganst all odds he comes home Debbie, I feel your loss.
We're back up to two dogs having adopted a year old boxer, and we're
Gautam wrote:
Hehe. I expressed a desire (to my _Mom_) to at least
once in my life be described as an evil genius a
couple of weeks ago.
Evil, maybe.
Genius, no way.
G
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My son had not used his computer for several months, and when he went to
use it, what he thought was the password didn't work. He's tried just
about everything and can't log back on. Does anyone know if there's a way
to reset the password or what he needs to do to get back on?
Thanks,
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Julia wrote:
Gautam wrote:
So I look at Bush and think - this guy
is a D- President. And I look at Kerry and think,
this guy _wants to be_ an F President. So who do I
vote for? I honestly have no idea.
Well, there's always Nader, if he made it onto your ballot, and the
Libertarian candidate
Dan wrote:
No. I'm saying its wrong to single out discount stores.
But Walmart has some 60% of the discount store market, Dan. For most
intents an purposes, Walmart _is_ the discount store industry. Smaller
stores that don't follow their lead are doomed.
I appreciate the data you gave me,
OI wrote:
And isn't Texas one of the worst states in terms of workers that don't
have health care?
Check out page 69 of the first PDF referenced on this page ( Income,
Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p60-226.pdf
Texas has
David Brin wrote:
THESE are the monsters of the moment, John. When
commies come back, I will fight them too.
Perhaps part of John's difficulty with understanding your concept of
balance is one of perspective. The U.S. has been on a conservative swing
for over two decades now, and is probably
JDG wrote:
Lastly, in regards to Saudi Arabia - I agree with you that Saudi Arabia
is a real problam. I think, however, that it would have been suicidal
to
American interests to apply pressure to the Saudi regime so long as
Saddam Hussein remained in power. Quite simply, one Party is for
JDG wrote:
It was a clear misspeak and retracted immediately. I am sure that you
have never misspoken... just like you would never question the patriotism
of *your* political opponents.
It was not a misstatement, he was speaking his mind and in fact agree with
his logic (and not with Kerry's.)
Travis wrote:
laughing Reminds me of Jeffrey Miller - former list member - and his
little quote of - I love being inconsequential, it takes all the
responsibility off me.
Ahem. He's actually still here and carrying his share.
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Bryon wrote:
I was just thinking about Chad also... Are you still around, Chad?
How are you doing?
Ronn is the one I was wondering about - did he go on a long vacation?
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:09:32 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:45 AM 9/11/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
Maybe if they nuked NYC _and_ DC?
That's a low blow. :-(
Sorry. I see what you mean, but that's not how I meant it. Those are
just the two most likely targets, IMO.
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JDG wrote:
Still, she was at least nominall a Democrat - which hardly supports the
theory of a Republican conspiracy to, quote, cheat.
Sounds like the ultimate cheat to me; switch parties in order to influence
the election from the inside.
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JDG wrote:
At 01:19 PM 9/11/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
Still, she was at least nominall a Democrat - which hardly supports the
theory of a Republican conspiracy to, quote, cheat.
Sounds like the ultimate cheat to me; switch parties in order to
influence
the election from the inside.
Its
JDG wrote:
Doug, you've now changed the subject. None of your links has anything
to do with a conspiracy involving the Palm Beach County Board of
elections.
Heck, Dionne's column didn't even alledge fraud of any sort!
The common theme you apparently missed was that the Republican party has a
Robert wrote:
If W were not president, Jeb would likely be in jail now.
And if Jeb had not been Governor, Shrub would likely be back to putting
companies out of business by now.
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JDG wrote:
As opposed to the Sainted Democrats, of course, who have no history of
illegal election activity.
The Democrats may have competed, but the GOP's won all the medals.
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:07:04 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Democrats may have competed, but the GOP's won
all the medals.
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Doug, that's absurd. Speaking purely as an historical
point, that's a ludicrous statement
JDG wrote:
At 06:55 PM 9/6/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
That presumes a cover-up.
It doesn't presume a cover up. It presumes what Grahm says is true. If
it's true then there _is_ a cover up. So prove him wrong.
Uh yeah that's what I said. If, however, what Graham is saying
Robert wrote:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9584265.htm
Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the
United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the
Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into
that relationship, Sen. Bob
Robert wrote:
Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the
United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the
Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into
that relationship, Sen. Bob Graham wrote in a book to be released
Tuesday.
IMO
William wrote:
Which enemy?
(There must be a pun about enemas in there somewhere...)
Well, the only way we're likely to get aid and comfort in the coming years
is to give the executive branch a double dose of barium up the old wazoo,
but the Saudi thing goes beyond mere politics. If the
Dan wrote:
But, that is totally dependant on mindset; not data. For example, the
complexity of nature was long thought to be a compelling argument for a
designer. We now realize that there is another explanation that works
as well. The complex actions of human beings was long thought to be
JDG wrote:
This is aid and comfort to the enemy, IMO.
Not that you would *ever* question the patriotism of _your_ political
opponents.
JDG - Uh huh, Maru
OK, John, justify the cover up. Please.
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JDG wrote:
That presumes a cover-up.
It doesn't presume a cover up. It presumes what Grahm says is true. If
it's true then there _is_ a cover up. So prove him wrong.
All I am pointing out, Doug, is that you have been the *most sensitive*
and the *loudest* person on this List to any perceived
JDG wrote:
Winning this war motivates every decision with regards to terrorism
alerts and counter-intelligence that is made.And anyone who thinks
otherwise
has a particularly craven view of politics.
I guess you didn't hear that he said the war wasn't winnable the other day.
No time for a
Salon
http://tinyurl.com/4gjhc
Linda Allison's story, never before published, contradicts the Bush
campaign's assertion that George W. Bush transferred from the Texas Air
National Guard to the Alabama National Guard in 1972 because he received
an irresistible offer to gain high-level experience
Erik wrote:
Bullshit. Sure the secrecy Nazi's may want you to sew your lip shut and
never talk again, but in reality, they can't stop you as long as you
don't reveal secret information, and it is certainly possible to write a
short email without having any possibility of revealing secrets.
Jane's
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:09:33 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How will govenments that inhibit stem cell research
be viewed?
Poorly, I imagine. I don't support this particular
position of the President's. Although the apparent
Democratic
Dan wrote:
I realize that this involves a switch in worldview because most of us
were taught a convenient fiction in school. I certainly believed that
the
Nazi's had a police state, even for the Ayrians, from the start. I
thought the Holocaust was very secret. But now, I accept the evidence
Dan wrote:
BTW, I got why he couldn't talk even about common knowledge from the
beginning. At Teleco, we knew when our VPs knew something because they
would stop talking about subjects that they talked about before. We knew
what was going on, and respected them for it.
When you hold a government
Warren wrote:
That is, I don't think you can have an I in a vacuum.
In fact, I think your I's pop right out in a vacuum...
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headed for the hills
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David Hobby wrote:
The Fool wrote:
ghostpost snipped
Let's NOT have a flamewar with the TITLES of our posts?
Seconded.
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JDG wrote:
If the rest of the world can be alienated by liberating Iraq, I am not at
all convinced that they would not be alienated by efforts to tackle AIDS
in African countries.
Indeed, given that Iraq has now been liberated, and the rest of the world
is actively bot just sitting on their
JDG wrote:
1) You supplied several pages of hagiography on Clinton's AIDS policy -
i.e. almost all positive, hardly a negative word to be found.
2) You then submitted the same group's AIDS reportcord of the Bush
Presidency, which included 100% below-average to failing marks.
It seems nearly
Dan wrote:
Reading through this post, it seems as though it might be interpreted as
being written from antagonistic viewpoint. That is not my viewpoint. It
is more in the nature of exploring axioms sets to look for inconsistencies
and theorems that can be derived from them.
It doesn't sound
JDG wrote:
The astounding chutzpah to imply that Bush has somehow drastically
deteriotaed AIDS policy from the golden age they had under Clinton
utterly discredits this source.
Can you substantiate that statement?
Your quotes remind me of the National Parks Conservation Association, who
amazingly
William wrote:
Not a Catholic today then?
Even here in the U.S., four out of five Catholics belive that it's OK to
use birth control.
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Gautam wrote:
And that you absolutely despise the first American
President to even attempt to do something about the
problem.
It's a special kind of tunnel vision that Bush supporters have, isn't it?
http://www.thebody.com/whitehouse/wad2000.html
Today, President Clinton will join international
The Clinton Record:
http://www.thebody.com/hhs/clinton.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/3w6ed
The Clinton Administration has responded aggressively to the significant
threat posed by HIV/AIDS with increased attention to research, prevention,
and treatment. Overall funding for AIDS-related programs
Dan wrote:
Well, that's kind of what I was trying to say - that it doesn't really
matter weather or not we really have free will until someone is able to
prove otherwise
What type of proof are you talking about? Absolute, or proof, given a
few reasonable assumptions.
Proof would be the ability
Bryon wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong, but as I see it, the question is whether everything a
person does, are all choices made purely a function of his biology,
society, environment, etc, or is it real choice? Are we more than
the sum of our inputs?
I think that while it's possible (probable?) that we
William wrote:
Bryon wrote:
or is it real choice?
the same as that? Why do you think there are two different things?
Well, as you are aware, some people believe there is an omnipotent being
that could control all the factors composing that choice. If such a being
exists, there can be no real
Sorry, I have to copy messages from the archives because I'm not receiving
them all and I forgot to copy the subject line.
William wrote:
Bryon wrote:
or is it real choice?
the same as that? Why do you think there are two different things?
Well, as you are aware, some people believe there is an
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:13:36 -0400, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:47:32PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Free will, pretty well be definition, means that it is possible to
make
Except you don't have a useful definition of free will, as you well
know.
Is there a
Dan wrote:
If that makes it virtually indistinguishable, then, photons also have
free will in the same sense that we dobecause we cannot in principal,
predict where they hit. We only give probabilities, but we can measure
with enough precision to in the same manner that humans do?
Photons
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:34:18 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or how about being passive in the decades of sufferings of Iraqis under
Saddam Hussein?
It's of course worth mentioning that AIDS kills as many people in a couple
of years as Hussein did in his entire tenure (and no less
Dan wrote:
I cannot point to the gene for free will any more than I can point to the
gene for reflective self-awareness. :-)
But isn't the evidence for reflective self-awareness in humans much more
compelling than the evidence against free will in pumas?
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It seems eminently logical to me that ethics evolved in part as a survival
mechanism for those that had a physical disadvantage and an intellectual
advantage. For instance, a shaman that convinced his community that the
spirits punished those who killed their spiritual leaders would stand a
Warren wrote:
zim wrote:
Rape is favored in some sense in that males who have little or no
chance of non-coercive copulation can procreate through rape.
This is similar to what Dan mentioned about Ghengis Khan -- but it's
still disseminating genes, not actually changing a species. At best rape
JDG wrote:
Doug, I think there is a huge difference between the religious attitudes
of Brin-L members vs. Brin-L posts. Quite simply, this List is
consistently bombarded with a plethora of anti-religious,
anti-Christian, and yes,
anti-Catholic posts. For whatever reason, very few people,
Dan wrote:
As for bigotry in America, put yourself in the shoes of an non-believer
for a moment and you'll feel real bigotry.
Out of curiosity, are you actually told that you are deluded, have a
mental
block, evil on a daily basis because you don't believe?
Read the posts here straight. The
Gautam wrote:
Worth mentioning a few famous Michael Moore quotes as
well:
Moore interview the British newspaper The Mirror,
speaking about Americans:
Sh**, that's nothing compared to this beauty from our president:
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:56:11 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry... I momentarily had thought you were the *other* Julia in your
response.Anyhow, I reacted so forcefully in part because there is a
long history of anti-religious, anti-Christian, and anti-Catholic
sentiment on this List.
Julia wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:57:57 -0700, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It brought back a great memory of the first time I managed to
print a sine wave with asterisks on a (30 baud) Teletype.
Reminds me of the story of someone who attempted to log into a BBS at
300 baud by
JDG wrote:
It is worth noting that there are an awful lot of 1, 2, and 3-child
Catholic families thanks to NFP.
It's probably even more worthy to note that there are probably many times
more 1 2 and 3 child Catholic families thanks to the pill.
JDG wrote:
Thus, given that the incredibly insulting allegations of these
Democrats have now proven to be demonstrably false in short order, in
polite society an apology would be in order.
Do you want to apologize for the Republican reaction to Clinton's attempts
to go after bin laden
Dan wrote:
Have you looked in the papers to see where the movie is playing in Bush
states? I have, but then again I live in one. It didn't play in the
Woodlands, but it did play in multi-plexes well into Bush country around
Houston...not just the Third Ward. :-)
It was playing in every real
John wrote:
Kudos to Red State for finding that. And for noting: It should be noted
that the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the
plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry's own words, he and his
fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing 'nobody could
JDG wrote:
And isn't Kerry being a little hypocritical to say that he would have
done something different were he being paid the big bucks, given his own
stated reactions?
No. You react much differently to a situation when you have the
responsibility for controlling it. Frex, if you are the
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:50:22 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Bill Clinton is _still_ the best in the business.
My God, what a genius.
His was the only speech I caught, but it left me second guessing the term
limit. If he were running this year it would already be over.
Erik wrote:
Unless a very large super-majority agrees with you, you would be wrong
to do so. You would be taking something that you do not have the right
to take. Besides being unjust, it is also likely to be inefficient --
wasting your time on short-term, trivial matters instead of applying
Ronn! wrote:
Was your father a lot older at that age, or was it only mine?
Way, way, way older. Ancient.
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Ronn! wrote:
What is really bad is that _Star Trek_ is considered an *old* television
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So What Does That Make Its Viewers? Maru
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Doug
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:46:05 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A pretty selective sampling there, Doug.
It's enough to show that the constitution provided a wall of separation
in the minds at least some of the more prominent founders.
It also neglects the fact, that your reading of the
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