Re: Drugs

2003-08-19 Thread Doug Pensinger
Dan Minette wrote: The disruption we've created in Columbia has torn that nation apart. Your suggesting that there would be no gurrillas if we just allowed the cocaine traffic to flourish? Wouldn't the drug czars just own the government and run it like the Mafia then? Yes. If cocaine were

Re: Drugs

2003-08-19 Thread Erik Reuter
Dan Minette wrote: What I find troublesome with your position is that you seem to suggest that there is an easy answer to the drug problem. Don't worry, Doug, Dan insulting you in this way puts you in good company. He has told me and several others that our ideas were simplistic compared to

Re: Drugs

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:12 AM Subject: Re: Drugs I agree completely. And we certainly shouldn't stop there. We all know that religion has many effects on the brain that are

Re: insomnia

2003-08-19 Thread Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doesn't GNC have some kind of card or something you pay to get, and on certain days you get a %age off? I used to get papaya tablets there, to take if I got bruised badly. It helped some. I'd be very cautious about taking it right now, though. Julia

Re: US notches world's highest incarceration rate

2003-08-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html The prison population has quadrupled since 1980. Much of that surge is the result of public policy, such as the war on drugs and mandatory minimum sentencing. Nearly 1 in 4 of the inmates

Re: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

2003-08-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Dan Minette wrote: My positiojn is not really supportive of the war on drugs; there are plenty of problems with it. As I stated before, drawing the line after instead of before grass seems very reasonable. But, I do think that the position that legalizing the sale of all addictive drugs

Re: Drugs

2003-08-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: I agree completely. And we certainly shouldn't stop there. We all know that religion has many effects on the brain that are equal to or worse than drugs like cocaine or heroin. Religion certainly causes many people to lose their rational thinking, religion is highly

Re: insomnia

2003-08-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doesn't GNC have some kind of card or something you pay to get, and on certain days you get a %age off? I used to get papaya tablets there, to take if I got bruised badly. It helped some. I'd be very cautious about

RE: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

2003-08-19 Thread Nick Arnett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Pensinger ... When are we going to wake up and realize that people want to get high? From the mild stimulus of caffeine, the outwardly innocuousness of nicotine and the destructiveness of alcohol.

Re: Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence

2003-08-19 Thread TomFODW
We've been led through the nosering, people.  Read about the white paper of October 2002 in this article. Literary license my gluteus maximae -- that belongs in fiction writing, not official policy explanations But, to the war-is-wonderful crowd, all that fades down the memory hole. Now,

Re: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

2003-08-19 Thread Erik Reuter
Julia wrote: Hm. I thought that Quakerism was a sect of Christianity. How do you criminalize a set and *not* criminalize a subset of that set? :) Good point. Better to be safe than sorry. Let's criminalize Quakerism as well. -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout

2003-08-19 Thread Chad Cooper
Well, glad that's settled. Better a terrorist attack than big business incompetence Terrorist 1 Americans shooting themselves in the foot 0 Nerd From Hell -Original Message- From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Drugs

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Drugs Dan Minette wrote: Yes. If cocaine were worth no more than coffee there wouldn't be any drug czars or any need for

Re: Drugs

2003-08-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:12 AM 8/19/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: I agree completely. And we certainly shouldn't stop there. We all know that religion has many effects on the brain that are equal to or worse than drugs like cocaine or heroin. Religion certainly causes many people to lose

RE: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

2003-08-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:28 AM 8/19/03 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Pensinger ... When are we going to wake up and realize that people want to get high? From the mild stimulus of caffeine, the outwardly innocuousness of

Re: insomnia

2003-08-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:24 PM 8/19/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doesn't GNC have some kind of card or something you pay to get, and on certain days you get a %age off? I used to get papaya tablets there, to take if I got bruised badly. It helped some. I'd be very

RE: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

2003-08-19 Thread Nick Arnett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship So let's talk openly about them here. What are those legitimate needs which you believe are denied, and how do you think those needs should be met? I think I already gave a number of

Re: insomnia

2003-08-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:24 PM 8/19/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doesn't GNC have some kind of card or something you pay to get, and on certain days you get a %age off? I used to get papaya tablets there, to take if I got bruised

disinfopedia

2003-08-19 Thread The Fool
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RE: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

2003-08-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:09 PM 8/19/03 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship So let's talk openly about them here. What are those legitimate needs which you believe are denied, and how do you think those needs should

Re: B5 question

2003-08-19 Thread Reggie Bautista
George wrote: To my surprise, To Dream in the City of Sorrows by Kathryn M. Drennan was on the shelf [snip] My question is this: should I read it now or wait until after I have watched season 3 or does it matter? Wait until after season 3, or at least until after the late third season two-part

RE: disinfopedia

2003-08-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
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Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else getting hits? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16499-2003Aug19?language=printer New Fast-Spreading Sobig Worm Adds to 'Worm Week' A new mass e-mail worm that attempts to download files from the Internet and potentially

Re: Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:15:53PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else getting hits? I've had about 10 today on my Linux box. Stupid worms, don't they know they can't run on Linux? :-) -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: Worm Week On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:15:53PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight.

Re: Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:15 PM 8/19/03 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else getting hits? Not yet. Just the usual offers to watch young virgins ing . . . -- Ronn! :) ___

Offensive Bush Pic

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
See it at: http://www.drudgereport.com/bushgq.htm GQ MAG DEPICTS PRESIDENT BUSH AS 'JESUS' IN CONTROVERSIAL PHOTO SPREAD A coming edition of GQ magazine turns President Bush in to Jesus Christ -- in a full-page photo illustration! The controversial photo is set to run with an accompanied

Re: Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:45 PM Subject: Re: Worm Week At 11:15 PM 8/19/03 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else

Re: Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/19/2003 9:19:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New Fast-Spreading Sobig Worm Adds to 'Worm Week' The Diet of Worms occurred in the month of April, 1521 How can the celebration have been moved to August? I think I smell politics. William Taylor