RE: Winning the War on Terror

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Paul

 From: Damon Agretto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2004 2:28 AM
 To: Killer Bs Discussion
 Subject: RE: Winning the War on Terror
 
 
 Andrew,
 
 Your allusion to Barbarossa is flawed. When the
 Germans rolled into the Soviet Union, there were
 plenty of people that welcomed them as liberators, not
 the least of which were the Ukranians. Had the Germans
 been less racist and didn't look at the Ukranians and
 other ethnicities in the Soviet Union (which is FAR
 MORE than just Russians) as being untermensch they
 would have been able to push to the Urals and defeated
 Stalin. With Ukranian manpower, food, and industry to
 support them, it might very well have happened. Even
 in 1944, when the Germans raised a Waffen-grenadier
 division for Urkanians, they needed only 15,000
 volunteers; they got some 200,000. Even if after 3
 years of occupation and brutality Ukranians were
 willing to do this, I think says a lot about Stalin's
 regime. 
 
 Your allusion, therefore, would work only if the US
 managed to alienate the only really friendly faction
 (the Kurds) that are currently in Iraq. So far that
 hasn't happened AFAIK.
 
 Damon.
 

I didn't know that about the Ukrainian division, interesting.
My point was not so specific though. I meant more in terms of
an invasion of another country turning out, in the long run, to not
have been such a good idea.

Andrew
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Re: The ReptiliKlan Party - World Class Hypocrisy and Fraud For Over 30Years!

2004-04-08 Thread The Fool
 From: Tom Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[ADMIN] Message size

2004-04-08 Thread Julia Thompson
Please try to keep posts below 40K of text.

Posts larger than 40K require moderator approval.

I don't know about Nick, but I'm not going to approve anything I haven't
read in its entirety.  And this week and probably next week, it'll
probably take something on the order of 2 or 3 days for me to read a
post that long in its entirety before I approve it.

So if you want your post to be seen in a timely manner, break it into
smaller parts.

Julia
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Good Mark Steyn Column

2004-04-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Mark Steyn, the irreplaceable columnist for the
Spectator, has an excellent column making (far better
than I can) my point about what's happening to the
Democratic party.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?table=oldsection=currentissue=2004-04-10id=4486

The link requires registration (I think) but it's
free.



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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freedom is not free
http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

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[ADMIN] The flakiness did not end

2004-04-08 Thread Nick Arnett
Our dear telephone company has now completely rolled back the upgrade 
to our Internet connection, due to the instability it caused.  That's 
the upgrade that we didn't ask for...

We were on and off the air intermittently until mid-morning today, 
Pacific time, thanks to the upgrade.

Nick
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Director, Business Intelligence Services
LiveWorld Inc.
Phone/fax: (408) 551-0427
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LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Seeberger
The division of the human family into its two distinct branches
occurred
some 10,000 years ago, a few hundred years after the flood. Humans
coexisted
as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers.

In the pivotal event of societal evolution, beer was invented. This
epochal
innovation was both the foundation of modern civilization and the
occasion
of the great bifurcation of humanity into its two distinct subgroups:
Liberals and Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain, and that was the
beginning of
agriculture. Neither the glass bottle or aluminum can had yet been
invented,
so it was necessary to stick pretty close to the brewery.
That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days killing animals to barbeque at night while
they
were drinking beer. This was the beginning of the conservative
movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting, learned how to
live
off conservatives by showing up for the BBQs every night and doing
women's
work like sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning
of the
liberal movement. Later, some of the liberals actually became women.

Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, invention of
group
therapy and democratic voting to see how to divide the beer and meat
that
the conservatives provided. Women were not interested in democracy at
that
time because most of them were still women back then, and the
conservatives
fed them.

Conservatives are symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal
on
earth. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern Liberals like imported beer (they add lime), but most prefer
white
wine or foreign water in a bottle. They eat raw fish but like their
beef
well done. Sushi, tofu, and french food are on liberal menus. Their
women
have more testosterone than the men. Liberals like deviant sex and
want
others to like it too. Their first successful city governments were
Sodom
and Gomorrah.

Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, and group
therapists are Liberals.
Liberals invented the designated hitter rule in baseball because it
wasn't
fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat, and still
provide for
their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumber
jacks, construction workers, medical doctors, police officers,
corporate
executives, soldiers, athletes, and generally anyone who works
productively
outside government. Conservatives who own companies hire other
conservatives
who want to work for a living.

Liberals do not produce anything. They like to govern the producers
and
decide what is to be done with the production. Liberals believe
Europeans
are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals
just
stayed in Europe when conservatives were coming to America.

Conservatives have principles, believe in a Creator, and the rule of
law.
They practice charity and give to the poor, normally through their
churches.
When in doubt on an issue, they check both the Bible and the
Constitution,
which they use as a constant reference in a changing world. They
believe in
the concept of truth.

Liberals do not have principles, except for their dedication to
stealing
production of conservatives and undermining principled references such
as
the Bible and Constitution. They are never in doubt on an issue
because they
always do whatever is best for them without regard to others. They
have no
standard of reference. Liberals do not give to charity. They cultivate
the
poor like a cat cultivates a field of mice. They use the poor as
voters and
give them a portion of stolen tax money which they vote away from
conservatives.

Conservatives believe in self defense, both at home and abroad. They
own
guns and use them to discourage liberals and other common criminals.
They
provide guns to the armed forces to discourage foreign liberals and
other
foreign criminals.

Liberals do not believe in conservative self defense.
They disarm conservatives, and then attack them with impunity by
liberal
armies with guns. King George, Hitler and Stalin were all liberals who
abandoned the rule of Law, had no principles except their own self
indulgence, and attempted to tax and govern conservatives. Liberals
believe
in BIG government. They think the United Nations is the ultimate
answer.

Conservatives believe in the rule of law and when sitting on juries,
convict
common criminals and acquit fellow conservatives who have been charged
by
liberals. When serving in the armed forces, they shoot liberals from
other
countries who want to govern our country. Conservatives know the
difference
between a common-sense law and a bone-headed statute passed by some
liberal
from Massachusetts. When sitting on juries, they do not enforce
bone-headed
statutes, and don't explain their reasons.

Liberals only believe in whatever laws are appealing to them, such as
the
privilege of making a living by taxing conservatives. When 

There's no meme like chrome

2004-04-08 Thread Medievalbk
Anybody have a pair of ruby slippers?

I do hope this list delay was not somehow induced.

William Taylor
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Private Spaceship Completes Second Rocket-Powered Test Flight

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spaceshipone_test_040408.html


The privately-backed SpaceShipOne suborbital rocket plane made its
second powered flight today.

Built by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, the piloted vehicle
was powered by a hybrid rocket motor to over 105,000 feet. The engine
burned for 40 seconds, zipping to Mach 2, or two times the speed of
sound, according to a source that witnessed the test flight high above
Mojave, California skies.

SpaceShipOne's second successful powered flight was piloted by Peter
Siebold.

No details about the flight have been publicly issued by Scaled
Composites, although the firm did respond to SPACE.com inquiries that,
indeed, the flight had occurred and a de-briefing about the vehicle’s
handling during the test is underway.

SpaceShipOne’s first powered flight took place on December 17, 2003.
In that test, the motor roared to life for 15 seconds. According to
another Scaled Composites source, today's flight was the 13th airborne
demonstration of the vehicle.

Extensive testing

The Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne project is being led by aircraft
designer Burt Rutan, who heads the company. A major contractor for the
hybrid motor used in the craft is SpaceDev of Poway, California.

The rocket plane and its carrier mothership, the White Knight, were
rolled out in a public ceremony on April 18, 2003. Nearly a year
later, the SpaceShipOne has undergone extensive piloted glide tests,
and now two powered flights.

Scaled Composites has its eyes on snagging the X Prize, a high-stakes
international race to fly a reusable private vehicle to the edge of
space and return safely to Earth.

The X Prize Foundation of St. Louis, Missouri will award $10 million
to the first company or organization to launch a vehicle capable of
carrying three people to a height of 62.5 miles (100 kilometers),
return safely to Earth, and repeat the flight with the same vehicle
within two weeks.


The clock is running

For the cash prize, however, the clock is running as the $10 million
purse expires as of the end of this year.

Twenty-seven contestants representing seven countries have already
registered for the X Prize contest, modeled on the $25,000 Orteig
Prize for which Charles Lindbergh flew solo from New York to Paris in
1927.

Just yesterday, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced
it had issued the world's first license for a sub-orbital manned
rocket flight.

The license was issued April 1 by the DOT’s Federal Aviation
Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation to Scaled
Composites. This federal paperwork green-lighted a sequence of
sub-orbital flights by Scaled Composites for a one-year period.

Safety first

The FAA sub-orbital space flight license is required for U.S.
contenders in the X Prize competition. In its 20 years of existence,
the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation has licensed more
than 150 commercial launches of unmanned expendable launch vehicles.

The license to Scaled Composites is the first to authorize piloted
flight on a sub-orbital trajectory, the DOT statement noted.

While the highest criteria to issue a license are public safety,
applicants must undergo an extensive pre-application process,
demonstrate adequate financial responsibility to cover any potential
losses, and meet strict environmental requirements.




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It's Coming Maru

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Re: Cats May Have Been Pets 9,500 Years Ago

2004-04-08 Thread Dave Land
And in other news...

 The discovery of a cat burial by French scientists pushes
 the known date of cats as pets back more than 5,000 years.
The further discovery that the cat in question was not
actually dead at the time of burial demonstrates that
the relationship between humans and their feline masters
was a testy one right from the start.
Dave

He Still Had 8 Left Maru

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Red Hat Society

2004-04-08 Thread Kanandarqu

Several months ago I was in Quincy IL at a diner and 
saw a group of women (ok, there was a man or two),
who all had large red hats and occasional feathery
boas, and various loud red and purple outfits.  They
appeared to be having a grand old time, enough 
that I asked them what kind of a group they
were- one woman told me we are the red hats.
I thought it was just a local woman's group
until the bookstore today.  I saw a book today
on the Society of the Red Hats... a group started
by a woman buying large red hats for her friends who
were turning 50 and should be enjoying life.  
This sounds like a great way to symbolically 
celebrate small wonderful parts of life.  

Anyone else run into one of these groups?   
Anyone got a story of similar groups that
get together for the fun of it?  (ok, 
maybe it is just the updated version of the 
bowling league theme, but I thought it 
was cool.)

Dee
Still gotta actually buy and read the book :-)
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Re: Red Hat Society

2004-04-08 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:51:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 who all had large red hats and occasional feathery boas,

Sounds very constricting...

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Re: Cats May Have Been Pets 9,500 Years Ago

2004-04-08 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:49 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote:

And in other news...

 The discovery of a cat burial by French scientists pushes
 the known date of cats as pets back more than 5,000 years.
The further discovery that the cat in question was not
actually dead at the time of burial demonstrates that
the relationship between humans and their feline masters
was a testy one right from the start.
Dave

He Still Had 8 Left Maru
Exactly what I was thinking! Was the cat buried with it's head above ground?

Kevin T. - VRWLC
Don't hate me
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Re: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

2004-04-08 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote:

 So, what'll it be? Wine or Beer? Domestic or Imported?

Shiner.

Unless someone's offering a margarita (on the rocks, with salt) made
with Jose Cuervo Gold.

Julia
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Re: How the fish got its fingers

2004-04-08 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:16 PM 4/1/2004, you wrote:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=5074
91
Revealed: How the fish got its fingers By Steve Connor, Science Editor
02 April 2004
A two-lane highway in America has helped scientists to explain one of
life's most enduring mysteries: how fish grew the fingers that enabled
them to crawl out on to land.
The road in Pennsylvania happened to be cut out of 365 million-year-old
rock in which the researchers found the oldest known fossilised arm bone
of one of the world's first four-legged creatures, or tetrapods.
Dr Coates and his colleagues Neil Shubin and Edward Daeschler believe the
fossilised bone found in Pennsylvania helped the forelimb fulfil an
intermediate function between the braking and steering of a fish's fin
and the walking movements of an early amphibian.
Drs Daeschler and Shubin found the fossil in 1993 when they were
excavating near the highway but it took nearly eight years to discover it
was important.
The same palaeontology site in Pennsylvania has yielded two other types
of tetrapod living in the Devonian period, Dr Clack said. If this is
really a third form, it hints at a wide diversity of tetrapods existing
in close proximity, in what is emerging as one of the richest and most
varied of any late Devonian vertebrate site, she added.
The scientists who have excavated the Pennsylvania site said it contains
fossils of other plants and animals that suggest the area was teeming
with life more than 360 million years ago.


This highway goes right through my hometown; the cut is five miles to the 
east. My grandfather worked on the first cut; many other friends and family 
worked on the second cut to widen the road in the early 70s. This road has 
many cuts like this. Some made in the 30s, others redone a few years ago. 
If there's a nice snowfall the road can get shut for days from slides; not 
rock slides but the snow getting funneled through a cut.

The article doesn't say it, but the original person who started looking 
here is just an amateur; not that it detracts from the finds. Now some 
weekends there can be 20 or more people working.

I've posted about this before. They have their own website. Look at the 
picture and think that it's in PA, not Utah. It can get very hot during the 
summer.

http://www.mdgekko.com/devonian/who/pages/who.html

Kevin T. - VRWLC
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Re: Red Hat Society

2004-04-08 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote:
 
 On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:51:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  who all had large red hats and occasional feathery boas,
 
 Sounds very constricting...

Not that I've had immediate personal experience with it, but I'm told
that feather boas can be liberating.  :)

Julia

but feather boas shed feathers like nobody's business
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Re: Winning the War on Terror

2004-04-08 Thread Damon Agretto
I didn't know that about the Ukrainian division, interesting.

Now that I'm home (I posted the former message from work) I was able to look
at my references. Some of my figures were off: 100,000 volunteers turned out
for the division in April 1943; some 30,000 were found fit for service.
After training it was returned to its area of recruitment (now as the 14.
SS-Freiwilligen-Division Galizien) and was decimated in the Brody-Tarnow
pocket, desperately trying to stem the Soviet advance. Having lost some
11,000 troops, they ceased to be a functioning combat unit and never fought
again.

Source: Stein, George H. _Hitler's Elite Guard at War: The Waffen-SS,
1939-1945.

Damon.

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Re: This time I won't blame Bush

2004-04-08 Thread Julia Thompson
Tom Beck wrote:
 
 The New York Times deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize for public service
 journalism for its series Dangerous Business about companies
 deliberately endangering workers' lives.
 
 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/national/WORK_INDEX.html

Damn.  Reminded me a bit of Upton Sinclair's _The Jungle_ in some ways.

Julia

who just now finished reading the third installment in Dangerous
Business and who hasn't looked at When Workers Die yet
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Re: There's no meme like chrome

2004-04-08 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:03:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Anybody have a pair of ruby slippers?

I do hope this list delay was not somehow induced.
Anyone have a pair of ruby slippers?
Somewhat worn and dull
Rubber soles and plastic zippers
Worn once, I've heard, by Jethro Tull
Anyone seen a mathematics diploma?
Harvard or Yale, I think,
Last seen north of Oklahoma,
Jeeze, I don't mean to make a stink.
Anyone seen a medal of honor?
Great big plastic thing.
If I've lost it I'm a gonner.
Can't dance and sure can't sing.
Anyone seen a giant ticker?
Wind it once a day.
Given me by a city slicker,
Who seems to have flown away.
Anyone seen a chrome banana?
Name of Steely Dan.
Belongs to a friend, I'll call her Hanna,
She says that it's her man.
Oh but I do hope this long delay,
Was not somehow induced.
We all want to go in to play,
See how our meme's abused?
Okay, that's enough time wasted,
Writing silly verse,
I'm sure that I'm to be lambasted,
Or pro'lly something worse.
--
Doug
It's William's fault.
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Re: This time I won't blame Bush

2004-04-08 Thread Tom Beck
Damn.  Reminded me a bit of Upton Sinclair's _The Jungle_ in some ways.


The story about the young man who drowned in mud had me almost shaking  
with rage. The fact that literally nothing was done to punish the woman  
who owns the company that employed him - how can _anyone_ not feel  
infuriated by the lack of justice in this case?

 
--

Tom Beck

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see the last. - Dr. Jerry Pournelle

 
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Re: There's no meme like chrome

2004-04-08 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 4/8/2004 9:23:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Okay, that's enough time wasted,
 Writing silly verse,
 I'm sure that I'm to be lambasted,
 Or pro'lly something worse.
 
 -- 
 Doug
 It's William's fault.
 

I think that lamb deserves a full hour in the Jacuzzi.

Good stuff, Maynard.

For your next number, how about:

Ode to a Landlocked Hoon.

William Taylor
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Re: The ReptiliKlan Party - World Class Hypocrisy and Fraud For Over 30Years!

2004-04-08 Thread The Fool
 From: Tom Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56171-2004Apr6.html? 
 referrer=email

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If evil could be branded, its emblem would be the Wal-Mart logo.
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The fine art of cooking Rice

2004-04-08 Thread Tom Beck
From Al Franken's blog:

http://www.ofrankenfactor.com/

CONDI RICE AND THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING TASK FORCE   by   Ben 
Wikler and Tim Bradley
4/8/2004   at   20:05

In her testimony before the 9/11 Commission today, National Security  
Advisor Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administrations pre-9/11  
record by referring, on two occasions, to a task force headed by Vice  
President Cheney that was to review all of the recommendations for  
domestic preparedness in the event of an attack on the US. She said:
The vice president was, a little later in, I think, in May, tasked by  
the president to put together a group to look at all of the  
recommendations that had been made about domestic preparedness and all  
of the questions associated with that; to take the Gilmore report and  
the Hart-Rudman report and so forth and to try to make recommendations  
about what might have been done.
And again, Cheneys comprehensive task force:
Now, the vice president was asked by the president, and that was tasked  
in May, to put all of this together and to see if he could put  
together, from all of the recommendations, a program for protection of  
the homeland against WMD, what else needed to be done.
Ms. Rice is correct about Cheneys mission. President Bush announced  
the Cheney-led homeland-security task force on May 8, 2001. Moreover,  
Bush announced that I will periodically chair a meeting of the  
National Security Council to review these efforts. Cheney would run  
the task force, and Bush would review its conclusions.

One thing that Rice left out, though: the task force never met.

As Barton Gellman of the Washington Post reported in 2002:
Neither Cheneys review nor Bushs took place.
Michael Elliott of Time Magazine reported the same thing:
MAY 8: Bush creates a new Office of National Preparedness for  
terrorism and promises a government review, led by Dick Cheney, into  
the consequences of a domestic attack. It never happens.
Rice was testifying under oath. She didnt claim that it met, so she  
did not technically perjure herselfbut she was being dishonest. And  
its clear that she knew what she was doing: saying that Cheney was  
tasked by the president without mentioning that Cheney didnt follow  
through is an artful way of giving the false impression of focus and  
activity.

The 9/11 commissioners should have called her on it. But they shouldnt  
have had to. Rices testimony was another deliberate attempt to mislead  
the public and cover up the Bush administrations miserable record in  
fighting terror before the 9/11 attacks.

 
--

Tom Beck

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Re: Frequent ejaculation may protect against cancer

2004-04-08 Thread Tom Beck
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4861

Frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against a  
common form of cancer, suggests the largest study of the issue to date  
yet.

The US study, which followed nearly 30,000 men over eight years,  
showed that those that ejaculated most frequently were significantly  
less likely to get prostate cancer. The results back the findings of a  
smaller Australian study revealed by New Scientist in July 2003 that  
asserted that masturbation was good for men.

In the US study, the group with the highest lifetime average of  
ejaculation - 21 times per month - were a third less likely to develop  
the cancer than the reference group, who ejaculated four to seven  
times a month.

Michael Leitzmann, at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda,  
Maryland, and colleagues set out to test a long-held theory that  
suggested the opposite - that a higher ejaculation rate raises the  
risk of prostate cancer. The good news is it is not related to an  
increased risk, he told New Scientist. In fact, it may be associated  
with a lower risk.

It goes a long way to confirm the findings from our recent  
case-control study, says Graham Giles, who led the Australian study.  
He praises the study's large size - including about 1500 cases of  
prostate cancer.

 Furthermore, it was the first to begin by following thousands of  
healthy men. This rules out some of the biases which might be  
introduced by asking men diagnosed with prostate cancer to recall  
their sexual behaviour retrospectively.


Buy stock in companies that make lubricants!

 
--

Tom Beck

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I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd  
see the last. - Dr. Jerry Pournelle

 
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Re: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

2004-04-08 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 4/8/04 9:47 PM, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Unless someone's offering a margarita (on the rocks, with salt) made
 with Jose Cuervo Gold.

I will repeat the warning that I was given on a business trip to
Mexicali...Don't drink that Jose Cuervo crap!  This free piece of advice
was given to me by the Governor of Baja California.

He proved that point by summoning two waiters to provide me two shots of his
favorite tequila, with limes and a Dos Equis to wash it down.  I am usually
not a straight tequila person...but when in Rome...  After the shots he
asked me what I thought of it.  I guess my answer was good enough that he
summoned the waiter to bring me a bottle on the house. :)

Conservative beer drinker...
Matthew Bos
(if you are wondering, the tequila was Herencia del Plata)

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Re: Frequent ejaculation may protect against cancer

2004-04-08 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 4/8/2004 10:09:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Buy stock in companies that make lubricants!
 

So you _do_ support Bush?

Vilyehm
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Re: This time I won't blame Bush

2004-04-08 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 4/9/04 12:29 AM, Tom Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The story about the young man who drowned in mud had me almost shaking
 with rage. The fact that literally nothing was done to punish the woman
 who owns the company that employed him - how can _anyone_ not feel
 infuriated by the lack of justice in this case?

As someone who lives and breathes OSHA and MiOSHA all day long, that case
made me very angry.  I am in charge of buying large stamping presses and
safety is something that I plan from the beginning of any project.  The sad
thing about OSHA is that they only go where the money is.  Since I work for
a large corporation, we are under a lot more scrutiny than a small business
with 5-10 employees.  But more often than not...its employees not thinking
about what they're doing.

Eyeglasses with sideshields required,
Matthew Bos

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Re: Frequent ejaculation may protect against cancer

2004-04-08 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 4/9/04 1:08 AM, Tom Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Buy stock in companies that make lubricants!

You may go blind...but you will have a healthy prostate!

Matthew Bos

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Have you heard of the No-Carb Diet for 2004?

2004-04-08 Thread The Fool
Have you heard of the No-Carb Diet for 2004?


NO C-heney


NO A-shcroft


NO R-umsfeld


NO B-ush


and absolutely NO RICE!


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