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@ Holy Radioactive Cow: http://www.provide.net/~joe/hotcow.jpg
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@ Visitors Now and Forever. UFO's are history. We are NOT alone at last,
in present time OR in the past! What follows is the record (written!) -
words THEY used as they were smitten with a terror they beheld - without
its like or parallel. http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/arecibo/46/
: What's your favortite historical UFO? Was Ezekial abducted by ETs? Were
you? Is {JHWH} a Reptilioid? Are you? Who took the UFO out of SPUFON? Why?
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# Taliban issues threat to US. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Afghanistan's ruling
Taliban army threatened unspecified action against the U.S. if economic
sanctions are imposed for its refusal to deliver suspected terrorist Osama
bin Laden. Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, warned of
"surprises:" http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561990747-df8
# Also: Full text of letter from Taliban leader, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561992460-d6d
: Do Taliban surprises concern you? Will they use Nuke/Chem/Bio warfare, or
just plain old carbombs? Can US antimissile lasers defend against a Taliban
suitcase nuke, an anthrax-laden weather balloon, a hacked power grid? How?
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# Grungy coffeecup sparks major anthrax alert. A uranium plant worker called
authorities after finding an abandoned coffee cup with a note reading: "Do
not touch. Anthrax sample." 9 agencies, including FBI, rushed to inspect
fungus in the dirty cup & found that it was gross, but not life-threat-
ening. http://enquirer.com/editions/1999/11/09/loc_anthrax_prank_at.html
: Have you staged any real/virtual biowar incidents lately? Are threats as
good as actual attacks? Is every dirty coffeecup a possible terror attack?
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# Pentagon gets ready to wage a cyber-war. PENTAGON planners are secretly
preparing for cyberwar - a new type of information battle fought at
computer terminals by military hackers attempting to demolish the
enemy's infrastructure with keyboards rather than bombs or bullets.
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timfgnusa01008.html?1124027
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timfgnusa01007.html?1124027
: What's your favorite cyberwar technique? Have you waged cyberwar lately?
What's your favorite target? Do voices in your head direct your attacks??
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# Pope courts Georgia Orthodox church. TBILISI (AP) Pope John Paul II began
a visit to the Georgian republic to "build new bridges" with the Orthodox
church, a main Vatican goal for the new millennium. Some in the Georgian
church oppose the papal visit amid suspicions of Vatican missionary
activity in formerly communist lands that were traditionally Orthodox.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561985129-76b
: What dissident sects would your sect like to absorb? Have you absorbed any
schismatic sects lately? Were they tasty? Is your sect a devouring amoeba?
# Court backs school ban on Ten Commandments in ballpark, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561990055-87e
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# India's Christians embrace local customs. NEW DELHI (AP) When Pope JP2 did
Mass in New Delhi, young girls in local garb danced to tunes set to Indian
classical music and greeted him in Sanskrit, the tongue of ancient India.
The Indian touch at Mass reflected a gradual shift among churches keen to
increase acceptance of Christianity in this overwhelmingly Hindu nation.
Since the early 1970s, Indian priests have encouraged their congregations
to light oil lamps instead of wax candles in churches, or play instruments
such as the flute and the harmonium instead of the guitar or the piano.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561978725-e47
: Does your belief system camouflage itself in order to gain members, power,
influence? What local customs have you adopted? Which customs do you reject?
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# Jailed U.S. missionaries released. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) 3 U.S. missionaries
convicted of weapons charges in Zimbabwe returned home to cheers and hugs
after serving 8 months in prison. They were arrested when Zimbabwe airport
authorities found weapons packed in their suitcases. A search of their
pickup truck turned up assault and sniper rifles, a light machine gun,
hand guns, telescopic sights and camouflage cream. Onward Christian
soldiers: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561988913-bd4
: Are you well-armed when prosletysing? Is cammo cream useful in missionary
work? D'ya bless your weapons before firing them? Do you pray when sniping?
# Decaying Auschwitz synagogue being renovated, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561985720-e03
# Jews helped in Dominican Republic, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561978507-500
# Also: Dominican Republic hard on Haitians, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561978485-3a9
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# Baptists vote on wives' role. EL PASO (AP) - A delegate to a convention of
moderate Texas Baptists introduced a motion to reject the national leader-
ship's pronouncement that women should submit to their husbands. A simple
majority would affirm the Baptist Faith & Message Statement of 1963. Doing
so would reject an amendment to the denomination's declaration of beliefs
that was approved last year during the Southern Baptist Convention in Salt
Lake City. That amendment said wives should submit to their husbands and
defined marriage in solely heterosexual terms. Don't keep the babes down -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561989557-a23
: Does your belief system promote/reject gender domination? Do you demand
submission? Do you submit? Do aliens force you to submit? Are you happy??
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@ XENA DOES CROP CIRCLES. Xena's many sins: 1. Sweeping across continents
putting entire nations to the sword. 2. Breaking God's Law of Gravitation.
3. Dragging Gabrielle for a mile and throwing her over a seaside cliff.
4. Nonpayment of River Styx ferry toll. 5. Smashing Gabby's musical pipes
& announcing this to her in a "deadpan" tone of voice. 6. There is no #6.
7. Gabby whacking. 8. Starting the earliest known crop circle hoax by let-
ting the chakram fly in a wheat field. 9. Nekkid fishing. 10. Putting the
"Xena touch" thingy on people for kicks. 11. Sucking Gabrielle's tongue
out of her mouth. 12. Baby juggling. 13. Killing Joxer with her chakram.
14. Organizing all the demons in hell for a heavenly coup attempt.
http://x36.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=537661058&CONTEXT=942170466.712572973
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"If human males are shown to carry some innate tendency toward aggression,
fetal androgenization - the 8th-week hot shot of hormones that little boys
are made of - is one very likely candidate for the way the male brain is
imprinted with hostile circuitry. [Biochemists say] we might someday want
to 'promote a more peaceful humanity by altering prenatal androgenization
or readjusting hormone levels at puberty.' Forcible chemical emasculation?
Don't forget that a recent social revolution was triggered by wide-scale
chemical alteration of female hormonal cycles via birth-control pills."
--H.Rheingold, BRAVE NEW MALE, in EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND
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