From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:39 AM 2/28/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
- The political differences between Catholic Church leadership and most
Protestant leadership these days are rather small, leaving them mostly
on the same side of the political aisle.
Well, the leadership of the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew said:
You are calling Jan Jane, like its somehow sub-optimal to be a
women.
Actually, he isn't. He's calling Jan Jane because Jan keeps
calling
Erik by variants of his name with additional or alternative
letters.
BULLY!
Besides you want to talk about S/N ratio,
You know, you keep talking about S/N and so I got to
thinking, you know, I don't think it's others S/N, I think that your
nyquist is just not high enough.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at
Trent said:
If there is a wormhole and one extrinsic observer experiences 10 years
of subjective time and another extrinsic observer experiences 1000
years of subjective time then the wormhole must experience no less
than 1000 years of subjective time.
What you've written is somewhat
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:35:59PM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
I can just imagine the outrage if I ever said that one of the most
irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the
effect that the opinions of homosexuals should be respected
A statement in that respect
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:38:47AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
What I am seeing or think I'm seeing is that whatever side of an issue
the Whitehouse falls on, you are right in there Rah Rah Rah.
That's unfair and untrue, Rob. Don't misunderestimate JDG. He would
certainly not support the
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:40:57AM -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
It seems that you are almost arguing that the demonization of liberals
by some conservatives somehow justifies treating conservatives on this
list poorly or making them feel unwelcome. I disagree with this and
would prefer the
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:17:44PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Jeez Erik, you don't even know the guy. Andrew's a damn good fellow
and not prone to noise. I can understand you not agreeing with him,
but these knee-jerk retorts are just plain silliness on your part.
And you don't read so
Judging by comments from John and Gautam recently, they do feel
excluded sometimes, and surrounded at others. Being the social animals
we are it is difficult to carry on when pressured like this.
I'm not making comparisons to other situations where even more
intestinal fortitude would be required.
At 02:40 AM 2/29/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
* Disclaimer: Within reason. I admit that there are probably certain
extreme views
on certain topics that would cause me to want to make their supporters feel
*very*
unwelcome here.
Can I take a guess as to what these might be?
Perhaps supporters
At 11:34 PM 2/28/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
You still haven't specified which incentives we are discussing here. What
specifics, in your opinion, should differentiate marriage and civil
union?
I haven't had the time to go through all 1,049 marital benefits provided by
The Fool, but I did
At 11:37 PM 2/28/2004 -0700 Michael Harney wrote:
Can you even listen to yourself here?
we can reasonable deduce what a child capable of rational thought would
reasonably expect
This very clearly shows that this is not the child's expectations, but your
expectations for that child. That's the
- Original Message -
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: A few new words of which this list is in need
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:17:44PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Jeez Erik, you
Jan Coffey wrote:
I'm sorry if you take this personaly.
I didn't take it personally. I just thought that engaging in fat
jokes was even more childish than Erik's comment, and that it,
in my mind at least, weakened your position and made you look bad.
Jim
Julia Thompson wrote:
We had to put a shield over the TV controls to keep Sam from
playing with the power switch on the big TV.
I hate to be that guy, but we just told the kids No on touching
the TV controls until it sunk in. Granted, the shield would have
been less time consuming... :)
Jim
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Rush is not an easy band to get into. But when you do, the
music speaks for itself.
Really? I loved Rush from the first time I listened. To me, they
*defined* nerd rock in the early 80's. :)
-Judas Priest
Good metal, Their hits were head and shoulders above the
Erik Reuter wrote:
Jane's posts
Mmm, the sweet smell of eighth grade taunting. Let's see, we've had
fat jokes and calling the other guy a girl. Can making fun of one
another's mom be far behind? :)
Jim
Your momma's so fat she stepped on a dollar and made change Maru
Matthew Bos wrote:
Travis Edmunds wrote:
You like Slayer!? Neat.
I have never had the response of neat whenever I say I listen to
Slayer.
New cool guitar orientated rock groups? The Darkness, and Los
Lonely Boys.
The Darkenss cracks me up. They're like the evil bastard child
of Cinderella
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As an aside, I think that the demonization of the opposing party isn't
something
restricted to just conservatives. I've known many liberals for whom
conservative and
republican re the c-word and r-word; people who, if you told them
you
were
- Original Message -
From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: This Is Spinal Ta-, er, Metallica
Jim
For those about to rock, we Maru you
That's got to be in the running for the best Maru ever!
xponent
The
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A few new words of which this list is in need
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 06:39:55 -0500
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:17:44PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Jeez
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A few new words of which this list is in need
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:14:34 -0600
Travis Edmunds wrote:
Ah, but if you have ever seen how flies
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
The question is whether a year or more ago, he and/or the Iraqi
National Council provided the US with `intelligence' that was designed
to influence the US to act against Saddam Hussein's government and do
so in a way that benefited
Robert Seeberger wrote:
From: Jim Sharkey
For those about to rock, we Maru you
That's got to be in the running for the best Maru ever!
Hey, thanks! I didn't even know there was a contest going on! ;-)
Now if I only knoew the origins of the Maru, I'd feel worthy of this
great honor...
Julia Thompson wrote:
But children that are not produced by a mother and a father [like,
for example, clones or twins] don't have a soul, so they should
not have human rights :-)))
What about twins that *are* produced by a mother and a father? :)
Don't you watch Hollywood movies?
Michael Harney wrote:
Actually, I think religion is necessary to keep less enlighted individuals
honest and lawful.
Like those in the Islamic countries? :-P
Alberto Monteiro
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At 12:38 AM 2/29/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
My preference is that people recognize the irony of my predicament
when I
am being criticized on Brin-L *simultaneously* for being
insufficiently
original in thought and also for being too original in thought.
This paragraph is the key to a
At 11:49 PM 2/28/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
At 12:39 AM 2/28/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
- The political differences between Catholic Church leadership and
most
Protestant leadership these days are rather small, leaving them
mostly
on the same side of the political aisle.
Well, the
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:26:43PM -0330, Travis Edmunds wrote:
First of all, let me say that after getting to know Robert a bit
in the last few months, I think he's a pretty cool guy. In direct
contrast to you of course; and I'm not too sure that he posts much
insincere psychobabble
At 06:00 PM 2/29/2004 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
This does tell us that Chalabi is happy and suggests that he did not
mind whether the intelligence was accurate.
While that is n degrees to cavalier.
The world is better off today than it was one year ago today.
We should make no apologies
John D. Giorgis wrote:
...
I suspect that when technicalities help your side, you do in fact
cheer.
He's saying he _suspects_ you _may_ have a double standard. He is not
attacking you, however. I've seen enough examples on the list this month of
people attacking each other to be able to
- Original Message -
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: Bitter Melons, Gin and Tonic, and a an Un- reasonable view.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In a message dated 2/28/2004 6:23:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Their argument being that biology dictates that you are born with either
tab A or slot B.* Biology designed tab A to fit into slot B, and
biology didn't design two tab As or two slot Bs to fit
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But, your arguments really didn't support that.
Take states rights, for
example. Historically, it originated with the
Southern apologist school of
history arguing that the Civil war was fought over
states rights. There
are a myriad of reasons why
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 02:40 AM 2/29/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
* Disclaimer: Within reason. I admit that there are probably certain
extreme views
on certain topics that would cause me to want to make their supporters
feel
*very*
unwelcome here.
Can I take a guess as to
http://zeitblog.zeitgeist.com/archives/000155.html
Lay off the Kool-aid Tom...
Tom Friedman, the Pulitzer prize winning Op-Ed page columnist for the New
York Times used to be such a smart guy. I think all the thin air he's
been breathing with all that travel he does has given him brain-damage.
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 12:39 AM 2/28/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
- The political differences between Catholic Church leadership and most
Protestant leadership these days are rather small, leaving them mostly
on the same side of the political aisle.
Well, the leadership of the Catholic
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
We had to put a shield over the TV controls to keep Sam from
playing with the power switch on the big TV.
I hate to be that guy, but we just told the kids No on touching
the TV controls until it sunk in. Granted, the shield would have
been less
Travis Edmunds wrote:
I urge caution Erik. For Robert drinks from this spring regularly. And
second time around he may not be so nice to the little piggy wiggy.
Little piggy wiggy?
Please.
If Erik is a pig, he's Some Pig!
Julia
wondering how many people will miss the reference
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8833298%255E1702,00.html
US troops 'made Aristide leave'
From correspondents in Paris
March 1, 2004
HAITIAN leader Jean Bertrand Aristide was taken away from his home by US
soldiers, it was claimed today.
A man who said he was a caretaker for the
Dan Minette wrote:
Its true that you can find some historian on any side of an issue. That
doesn't mean that there is not a good way to determine what is likely,
unlikely, and very very unlikely. For example, its quite unlikely that the
Civil War was fought over states rights.
The Civil
Julia Thompson wrote:
If Erik is a pig, he's Some Pig!
I'd even argue he's Terrific!
Jim
That was an easy one Maru
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John wrote:
I haven't had the time to go through all 1,049 marital benefits provided
by
The Fool, but I did mention that two key ones would be:
1) Reservation of the name marriage for heterosexual unions
2) Marriages having a preference, ceteris paribis, for unconnected
adoptions of children.
I wrote
the US looks at the moment to be gaining less than Iran has
gained. This is the issue.
and John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded
I totally disagree:
1) The US has gained the peaceful strategic removal of its forces from
Saudi Arabia
That is true. However,
Julia wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
Its true that you can find some historian on any side of an issue. That
doesn't mean that there is not a good way to determine what is likely,
unlikely, and very very unlikely. For example, its quite unlikely that
the
Civil War was fought over states rights.
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:04:30 -0500 (EST), Jim Sharkey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
If Erik is a pig, he's Some Pig!
I'd even argue he's Terrific!
Jim
That was an easy one Maru
Aye, not much of a tangled web...
--
Doug
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I wrote
The analyses I have seen suggest that the US invaded Iraq in
order to intimidate other Muslim countries
and John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded
1) The DPRK is not a Muslim country.
That is true, North Korea is not Muslem. Good point. If, as I think,
the main
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
But children that are not produced by a mother and a father [like,
for example, clones or twins] don't have a soul, so they should
not have human rights :-)))
What about twins that *are* produced by a mother and a father? :)
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Julia wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
Its true that you can find some historian on any side of an issue. That
doesn't mean that there is not a good way to determine what is likely,
unlikely, and very very unlikely. For example, its quite unlikely that
the
Civil
Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Don't you watch Hollywood movies? For every group of _n_ identical
twins, _n-1_ are Evil.
wondering if the Olsen twins are the exception to that rule.
Only in that they are *both* evil. :-D
Jim
Hated Full House Maru
Yes, probably, depending upon what exactly was being said by them.
It'd be nice
to be able to advocate totally free speech of any kind on the list,
but I fear that
would ultimately reduce the list to chaos. The ACLU might give me an
F, I suppose,
but I think any discussion *on this list*
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Don't you watch Hollywood movies? For every group of _n_ identical
twins, _n-1_ are Evil.
wondering if the Olsen twins are the exception to that rule.
Only in that they are *both* evil. :-D
Jim
Hated Full House Maru
- Original Message -
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 11:40 AM
Subject: Stranger in a Strange Land :-) Re: Tyranny
At 12:38 AM 2/29/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
My preference is that people
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/opportunity_evidence_040229.html
Evidence that suggests Mars was once a water-rich world is mounting as
scientists scrutinize data from the Mars Exploration rover,
Opportunity, busily at work in a small crater at Meridiani Planum.
That information may well be
Out of curiosity, and without wanting to get into the whole is it good/is it bad/is it
fair thing:
What is it that the people who complain about off-shoring (which is quite different to
out-sourcing BTW) want done about it.
Isn't America built on Free Enterprise? Are you going to tell these
Tying Titanic and Ben Hur.
xponent
One Small Step For A Film Maru
rob
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In a message dated 2/29/2004 10:10:22 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tying Titanic and Ben Hur.
xponent
One Small Step For A Film Maru
rob
Now win 12 by showing everyone how dolphins can pilot a spaceship.
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:40:57AM -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
It seems that you are almost arguing that the demonization of liberals
by some conservatives somehow justifies treating conservatives on this
list poorly or making them feel unwelcome. I disagree
The Fool wrote:
Let's see India, China, or Russia belly up to the bar and pay
their fair
share of the hundreds-of-billions of dollars per year being
stolen from
the US Taxpayer to make outsourcing possible.
What does 'belly up to the bar' mean?
And I am not sure what you mean by the
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html
By Orson Scott Card February 15, 2004
Homosexual Marriage and Civilization
A little dialogue from Lewis Carroll:
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more
Yesterday evening, one of my neighbors (about 5 houses down) made quite an
interesting
discovery...
She was cleaning out her garage, and found a hockey-puck sized container
wedged in a crevice
behind a workbench. She carried it about halfway across her yard before
looking at it more closely
BULLY!
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:17:44PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Jeez Erik, you don't even know the guy. Andrew's a damn good
fellow
and not prone to noise. I can understand you not agreeing
with him,
but these
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A few new words of which this list is in need
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:14:34
BULLY!
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:26:43PM -0330, Travis Edmunds wrote:
First of all, let me say that after getting to know Robert a bit
in the last few months, I think he's a pretty cool guy. In direct
contrast to you of
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Travis Edmunds wrote:
I urge caution Erik. For Robert drinks from this spring
regularly. And
second time around he may not be so nice to the little piggy
wiggy.
Little piggy wiggy?
Please.
If Erik is a pig, he's
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Out of curiosity, and without wanting to get into the whole is it good/is
it bad/is it fair thing:
What is it that the people who complain about off-shoring (which is quite
different to out-sourcing BTW) want done about it.
For one, I want heavy penalties levied
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BULLY!
Now was this Bully! meant in the sense that you think Eric is someone who
picks on people he thinks are weaker than him, or in the sense of strong
agreement as was the expression used by President Theodore Roosevelt? :-)
Michael Harney
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