Re: A Time Waster

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: On Behalf Of Robert G. Seeberger http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/escape.htm Dang. I'm getting a page-not-found error on this. Any idea where it might have moved to? You can try: http://henk-reints.nl/escapa.htm or http://www.academiafitexpress.com.br/blocos.htm or

Re: An armed society ...

2005-11-30 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dave Land wrote: On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Robert J. Chassell wrote: An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. -- Robert A. Heinlein, _Beyond the Horizon_, 1942 I am not much of a sci-fi fan, and I suspect

Re: Bitter Fruit

2005-11-28 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:27 PM Subject: Re: Bitter Fruit The people pushing this war don't care much about the American economy as a whole - their

Re: White House Ghosts

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: Lincoln replies, Go see a play. God damn, that's one of the best jokes I've read in a long time. That's Carlin level material, man. Was it original to you? Believe it or not the National Lampoon is still

Re: Return of The Prisoner

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Robert G. Seeberger quoth: Damien Timmer, who has been lined up to executive produce the show, told the television and radio industry magazine that the new series takes liberties with the original. IOW, it's gonna suck donkey balls.

Re: Battlestar Galactica renewed

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Damon Agretto wrote: I love the new BSG. I really do. It has complex character development and a storyline that is mercifully bereft of the reset button at episode's end. But damn, would it be so hard to not have dumpsters in the background when shooting dialogue in some alien world's back

Re: Battlestar Galactica renewed

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: After a lengthy period of isolation, though, why should all of their artifacts look exactly like those found in contemporary North America? Even on Earth, you can tell a difference between the scenery, the clothing, etc., when you travel to Europe, Asia, Africa, . .

Re: Battlestar Galactica renewed

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:43 PM Sunday 11/27/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: After a lengthy period of isolation, though, why should all of their artifacts look exactly like those found in contemporary North America? Even on Earth, you can tell a difference

Re: Battlestar Galactica renewed

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Richard Baker wrote: Rob said: If someone finds a dumpster jarring in a scene on pretend-Caprica, yet is not jarred by vehicles, asphalt, and average everyday warehouses also seen in the background, then ones suspension-of-disbelief is awfully selective. While we're at it, can't we have

Re: Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: Purportedly, the terrorists hate us for our freedoms. But we have no problem doing to ourselves what terrorist would not be able to do, and doing unto innocent Moslems what we fear they might do to us. It seems that I am reading The Sound

Re: RIP Ed

2005-11-23 Thread Robert Seeberger
William T Goodall wrote: Ed, our twelve year old greyhound, was euthanised today just before noon. He hurt his leg on Friday which turned out to be a fracture which turned out to be due to bone cancer. He'd been at the veterinary hospital since Friday on painkillers while we waited to find

Re: They've cloned the president

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: Re: They've cloned the president For what it is worth, I disagree with Murtha, I think it would

Re: They've cloned the president

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
Nick Arnett wrote: In other words, their defense is a weak straw man. We didn't manipulate intelligence, is weak because there's a fair bit of evidence that they did. But it's a straw man because the core of their irresponsibility was to screw up the process that formerly produced reliable

Re: They've cloned the president

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: It seems to me that the Media handled Nixon quite differently during Watergate and I might be unfair in expecting the media to photograph for posterity the emperers full frontal nudity rather than dance around the subject trying to pinch his

Re: They've cloned the president

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Nick Arnett wrote: 'Rumsfeld went on to say that very little support went to Jack Murtha after the congressman spoke out last week. The Democrats didn't step up and support it, and Republicans didn't step up and support it. I think it's important for our troops to know that.' *That* is a

Re: They've cloned the president

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
The Fool wrote: From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick Arnett wrote: 'Rumsfeld went on to say that very little support went to Jack Murtha after the congressman spoke out last week. The Democrats didn't step up and support it, and Republicans didn't step up and support it. I think

Re: They've cloned the president

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:28 PM Subject: Re: They've cloned the president The Fool wrote: From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick Arnett

Re: New religion

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
William T Goodall wrote: They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son. Superman Returns. http://supermanreturns.warnerbros.com/trailer.html There's an iPod trailer! Crap They are turning Superman into

Re: Time Waster 2

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Time Waster 2 Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/matter/ Sort of an intelligence

Re: I wanna be on Bill O'reilly's Enemies List!

2005-11-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: KZK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:44 AM Subject: I wanna be on Bill O'reilly's Enemies List! Bill O'reilly is a href = http://www.billoreilly.com/;Terrorist sympathizer/a and a a href =

Re: Work photos

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:01 AM Subject: Work photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ These are pictures of a project I have been working on, off and on, over the last

Re: Hippies, South Park and 'movie' The Core

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:32 AM Subject: Brin: Hippies, South Park and 'movie' The Core Has anyone seen that? There's a South Park episode where hippies invade South

Re: Finally some sanity in Pennsylvania

2005-11-10 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Finally some sanity in Pennsylvania Dave Land wrote: Thanks for posting this... I was just about to post a link to Reuters' coverage of the same

Re: Work photos

2005-11-10 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Work photos On Nov 10, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ These are

Re: Work photos

2005-11-10 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Work photos At 09:01 AM Thursday 11/10/2005, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/

Re: What Does 'Almost Nothing' Weigh?

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: Re: What Does 'Almost Nothing' Weigh? Robert G. Seeberger quoted: With neutrino mass, the game is to keep lowering the

Re: What Does 'Almost Nothing' Weigh?

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:16 PM Subject: Re: What Does 'Almost Nothing' Weigh? Voltage is electrical pressure. No it's not. Voltage is a measurement of electric field

Re: meta research

2005-11-07 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 4:03 PM Subject: Re: meta research So, which came first, the chicken or the egg? I actually think there is an answer to this. :-) Yes. The answer must be

Re: Scouted: Turner Classic Movies to air 9 Anime Films

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Scouted: Turner Classic Movies to air 9 Anime Films From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Jim Sharkey

Re: Revelation: 'Star Trek' Actor George Takei Comes Out

2005-10-29 Thread Robert Seeberger
Gary Nunn wrote: My brain is mush today, so can someone come up with a witty Star Trek quote that fits this? Sulu: Stardate 9521.6. Captain's Log, U.S.S. Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging

Re: Email return address spoofing

2005-10-29 Thread Robert Seeberger
Max Battcher wrote: Horn, John wrote: My wife and I have registered the domain name cleaver-horn.com. Some enterprising spammer out there has discovered that domain and started using it as the return address on their spam. So our inbox is filling up with return mail, mail failture and

Re: Scouted: Davis-Bacon to be Restored

2005-10-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dave Land wrote: Friends, Pro-labor Republicans, led by Ohio Rep. Steven LaTourette, and in concert with Democrats, seem to have convinced the President that his suspension of prevailing wage laws in the Gulf coast was not such a good idea, leading to a promise to reinstate the law as

Re: The World's Fastest Electric Sedan

2005-10-23 Thread Robert Seeberger
Nick Arnett wrote: I'm guessing it has eight wheels because it is ridiculously heavy... why else? Perhaps because the 100HP motors are in the wheels and to get 800HP you need 8 wheels. The car is only 5200 lbs., lots of American cars *used* to be that heavy and they only had 4 wheels.

Re: The World's Fastest Electric Sedan

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dave Land wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/car-tech-05u.html Japanese researchers on Thursday unveiled the world's fastest electric sedan - an eight-wheeled prototype with a top speed of 370 kilometres (almost 230 miles) per hour.

Re: The World's Fastest Electric Sedan

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Robert Seeberger wrote: Dave Land wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/car-tech-05u.html Japanese researchers on Thursday unveiled the world's fastest electric sedan - an eight-wheeled prototype with a top speed of 370 kilometres

Re: WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Jim Sharkey wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: sportspersons That could very well be the single most PC expression ever. It's a new record! :) Perhaps so Jim, but I notice that many many women are avid Baseball fans and I took care not to slight all those ladies who love the Cards. And

Re: WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert G. Seeberger WOOO HOOO!!! Forgive me if I don't share your enthusiasm... I really thought the Cards weren't going to rollover quite the way they did. Last year our roles were reversed and most of

Re: 4thReichKKKlan:

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Allow me to step out on a limb here. The people on the bottom can do without the people on the top much better than the people on the top could do without the people on the bottom. Being somewhere in the middle myself, I could do without the people on the top better than I could do without

Re: WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: WOOO HOOO!!! I'd like to say that the Cards fans were really great and were good sportspersons after the game. Pretty cool when rivals can hold on to such respect! xponent Hats Off To You! Maru rob

Re: WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:55 PM Subject: WOOO HO WOOO HOOO!!! I'm pretty

Re: Cow Beats The Crap Out Of Dogs

2005-10-10 Thread Robert Seeberger
Matt Grimaldi wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: (Cow Beats The Crap Out Of Dogs) http://www.livejournal.com/users/drugoi/1468288.html?thread=29096832 ( http://tinyurl.com/cqsrh ) No captions required. Hmm...after running this through babelfish, the captions say that the pitbulls,

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs spiders

2005-10-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of Robert Seeberger I definately agree, but suggest that spiders should be treated with caution in every case. Rattlesnakes tend to run from you also, but I wouldn't suggest to anyone that they are mostly harmless.G But that is the gist of Snopes BR article

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: RE: Help!: fleas, dogs spiders Behalf Of Russell Chapman I take an each way bet with spiders (ours aren't as wussy as yours,

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: On 10/1/05 7:54 PM, Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good enough, you are not completely clueless as I imagined. Normally I am just called just another asshole engineer. I'll take completely clueless anytime! :) But you do need to understand

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: On 10/1/05 8:18 PM, Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If $9/hr isn¹t going to attract skilled labor, isn't the absence of a low limit going to keep them away in droves? You may have to pay people more than the prevailing wage to get down there. DBA sets

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of Robert Seeberger Ha! Ever seen a wound caused by a Brown Recluse? I have, and they are very nasty. Don't pay any credence to Snopes if you live in a Brown Recluse area, they are pretty much full of it on the subject of the Recluse spider. (And I have argued

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-02 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:20 PM Subject: Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims! Robert Seeberger wrote: Having a hammer doesn't make one a carpenter

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Matthew and Julie Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:14 AM Subject: Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims! On 10/1/05 6:40 AM, Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims! At 06:54 PM Saturday 10/1/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: You can see

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-09-30 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims! I am deeply troubled by the president's decision to suspend the Davis-Bacon Act in the aftermath of

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Evacuation On 2005 Sep 25, Dan Feldstein and Matt Stiles in The Houston Chronicle wrote

Re: Rita Aggie joke

2005-09-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:35 PM Subject: Rita Aggie joke Here's how an Aggie prepares for a hurricane: http://people.tamu.edu/~andymac67/loupots3.JPG Actually, I saw

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 12:02 AM Subject: Re: Evacuation Had Federal authorities ordered an evacuation of N.O. and Katrina weakened or the levees held, the same

Re: Rita

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Rob Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:14 AM Subject: Re: Rita It appears that the Hospital needs room for staff that are being evaced for other Christus System hospitals. We have a

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Ritu wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I'm surprised to learn that you think you could handle sleeping 10 people on top of your head. She has a *huge* head. ;) Her head is normal sized, it is her hair that is humongous. This is Bible Belt Texas after all... xponent Shes Got The Whole

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Robert Seeberger wrote: PAT MATHEWS wrote: From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The town of Nassau Bay, where I live, has declared a voluntary evacuation. And warn that tomorrow at 6PM they may call for a mandatory evacuation. Good luck. May you and yours get out safely and find

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Robert Seeberger wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: PAT MATHEWS wrote: From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The town of Nassau Bay, where I live, has declared a voluntary evacuation. And warn that tomorrow at 6PM they may call for a mandatory evacuation. Good luck. May you and yours

Re: Katrina: The Gathering

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: The Fool wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brokentoys.org/?p=6849 A couple of bloggers have fun spoofing Magic: The Gathering with Katrina-related cards. They created a card from one of my suggestions:

Re: Guns kill people

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 9/3/05, Nick Lidster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok I have to say it Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Nick high noon Lidster Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people. Allow people all the guns they want, but make bullets

Re: Katrina: The Gathering

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: As far as the Superdome goes, I learned from the Katrina: The Gathering site that Interdictor reported that there were a few people refusing to leave the Superdome. (Was that the only card with Insane Citizens? I think it was) Die hard Saints Fans! xponent

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: The town of Nassau Bay, where I live, has declared a voluntary evacuation. And warn that tomorrow at 6PM they may call for a mandatory evacuation. xponent Way Over 800 Miles Away Maru rob Dang. Do you have an evacuation destination? I'd

Re: Evacuation

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
PAT MATHEWS wrote: From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The town of Nassau Bay, where I live, has declared a voluntary evacuation. And warn that tomorrow at 6PM they may call for a mandatory evacuation. Good luck. May you and yours get out safely and find shelter in a comfortable

Re: $500 Million

2005-09-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://tinyurl.com/bd2sx xponent Gratitude Maru rob Mixed feelings/blessings Maru, I think you mean. Speak for yourself mon frere. What is it that you find objectionable? xponent Straight Dope Maru rob

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome TonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome TonightEdition) On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Dave Land wrote: That

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition) Robert Seeberger wrote: In the 1840s, 40,000 Irish

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition) Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: In the 1840s, 40,000 Irish laborers died of yellow fever draining the swamps that are now a part of New Orleans because slaves were too valuable to waste. Irishmen were cheap and expendable. Is there any real danger that Yellow Fever

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 9/18/05, Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Ritu wrote: I can't reveal too many details [signed a non-disclosure agreement] but it was pretty and nice and sensible The first half of that sentence suggests

Re: Bush on TV tonight

2005-09-16 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:18 PM Subject: Bush on TV tonight My God! Bush is starting to sound like Bill Clinton! Ha! I'm not the only one who thinks so!

Re: Free Markets good but left un checekd they are evil

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: Wind power works in limited areas, but the best areas for establishing wind farms have been/will be used up without supplying any significant fraction of the energy needs of the world. Would you say that this page is a bunch of crap? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

Re: Fwd: Prophecy Fulfilled

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: Leonard Matusik wrote: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:06:33 -0700 Nick Arnett wrote:-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Christenson .If you don't know about Chicago. Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, Now, cryin' won't help you,

Re: California Driving Test

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alex Gogan wrote: Maybe I'm missing the pun in there but the joke doesn't work for me. Sidhe is pronounced Shee or sometimes I think Sheed as in Banshee. The Ban-Sidhe were one of the tribes of the Sidhe, warrior-magicians who were driven from the Isle by the Sons of Mil. Alex might know

Re: California Driving Test

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:08 PM Monday 9/12/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: Alex Gogan wrote: Hi rob, but what is the scarier thing, the fact that it would not surprise me if it is true? (Oh and I knew it was a joke but was trying to be sarcastic) ¬} I am Irish (and no it doesn't

Re: California Driving Test

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 05:24 PM Tuesday 9/13/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:08 PM Monday 9/12/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: Alex Gogan wrote: Hi rob, but what is the scarier thing, the fact that it would not surprise me if it is true? (Oh and I knew

Re: California Driving Test

2005-09-12 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alex Gogan wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:59:41 -0500 Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP For those of you who are not fortunate enough to live in California, here is a copy of the California Driver's Exam, and for those of you who do, study real hard. This is a new Exam.

Re: California Driving Test

2005-09-12 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alex Gogan wrote: Hi rob, but what is the scarier thing, the fact that it would not surprise me if it is true? (Oh and I knew it was a joke but was trying to be sarcastic) ¬} I am Irish (and no it doesn't explain anything :¬} ) I hope to visit Ireland someday. I want to walk the paths

Re: Our commander in chief

2005-09-09 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alex Gogan wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:01:14 -0700 Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you folks mostly know, I'm acquainted with quite a few people who, like me, have lost family members in the war in Iraq. As I've read about President Bush's reactions to the disaster in and around

Re: Disturbing report

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:50 AM Tuesday 9/6/2005, Dan Minette wrote: A friend of ours who works at a local clinic (just north of Houston) said they are getting a number of people from New Orleans there. The most disturbing story were two women who came to their

Re: Olbermann

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Dave Land wrote: These are leaders who defined national security in terms of 9/11. The question is whether we will insist that the blighters we put in their places can think in terms of 8/29, too. I feel sorry for the victims, but wasn´t here an alarm, calling

Re: Olbermann

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dave Land wrote: On Sep 6, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Dave Land wrote: These are leaders who defined national security in terms of 9/11. The question is whether we will insist that the blighters we put in their places can think in terms of 8/29, too. I feel sorry for the

Re: Olbermann

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:26 PM Subject: Re: Olbermann Dave Land wrote: These are leaders who defined national security in terms of 9/11. The

Re: Olbermann

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 6, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Dan Minette wrote: Going to the National Hurricane Center Archives, we see that that, 3 days before it hit, it was a minimal hurricane (75 mph winds) that was suppose to curve soon and hit the Florida Panhandle. Which, IIRC, it did.

Re: Olbermann

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of Robert Seeberger There is a bit of misinformation that is being spread around. The actual levees held and have not been a problem. What everyone is seeing on TV is a break in a canal wall and that is not a levee. There is a report I saw that relates an eyewitness

Re: Olbermann

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Robert Seeberger wrote: Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of Robert Seeberger There is a bit of misinformation that is being spread around. The actual levees held and have not been a problem. What everyone is seeing on TV is a break in a canal wall and that is not a levee. There is a report I saw

Re: Levees vs. Flood Walls vs. Understanding

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dave Land wrote: On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: There is a bit of misinformation that is being spread around. The actual levees held and have not been a problem. What everyone is seeing on TV is a break in a canal wall and that is not a levee. There is a report I saw

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:39 PM Subject: Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II On Sep 4, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 4, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: I do know that it really bothered me after the tsunami that it never was discussed, and I don't think varying grief modes can explain that. FWIW, one of the things I'm fairly conscious of is that noises

Re: Yum!

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
William T Goodall wrote: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1891072005 THE United States has asked the European Union and NATO for emergency assistance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina as salvage efforts in New Orleans and other cities begin to move from rescuing the living to

Re: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Mr. Sideshow came in earlier and quoted to me a permutation of Arthur C. Clarke's famous formulation that I'd never heard before: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. It´s _the_ quote of Heinlein, using the format of Clark.

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: I'm surprised we haven't heard the Aaron Neville singing Louisiana 1927 as background music on CNN during the coverage. It's going through my head. It doesn't fit exactly, but still: I heard it and the first thing that struck me was how much it sounded like a Randy

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 10:11 PM Subject: Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II On Sep 4, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: I hear you Dave and am sorry it came

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 6:43 PM Subject: Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II This an AOL chat room. It has never been the kind of place where people come to say OMG, I

Re: Rebuilding New Orleans flood damages structures.

2005-09-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Rebuilding New Orleans flood damages structures. Warren Ockrassa wrote: It makes no sense to rebuild *at all*. It's a

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 10:12 PM Subject: Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II On Sep 4, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Warren, I *am* disappointed

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Seeberger
Deborah Harrell wrote: I just finished riding out with a friend who grew up in Baton Rouge; we both noted that we have been in foul moods for a couple of days, and realized last night that it's because of the hurricane. Maybe that should have been a duh! moment, but neither of us has lost a

Re: Our commander in chief

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Seeberger
Deborah Harrell wrote: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As I've read about President Bush's reactions to the disaster in and around Louisiana, which seems fairly non-empathetic, I was reminded of a story told to me by one of the Gold Star moms who met with Bush afterwards. She's

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dave Land wrote: On Sep 2, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: We have this great human disaster that is occuring, and people here seem to be much happier to discuss how much gas will cost them because of this inconvenient storm or beat their political drums. Damn the yuppification

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 2, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: No one talks about the human misery that *should* be the focus of our attention. What do you want? Breast-beating? Sackcloth and ashes? Video links to tears of sorrow that don't do a damned thing to help anyone

The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Seeberger
The day before Katrina struck, at 5:30 AM or so, I was flipping through radio stations in my car looking for something interesting to listen to on my way to work. We are working 7 days a week at my job, so anything that keeps me awake while commuting really helps. I happened upon a New Orleans

Re: Abstinence Only Sex Ed: 65 out of 490 Girls Pregnant in OhioSchool

2005-08-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
The Fool wrote: From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: See what happens when Jeebo-Fascists like JDG get power: Can you lay off John and anyone else on this list you disagree with? There was absolutely no call to even mention John in your post. Regardless of what John

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