confederate flag

2003-10-05 Thread The Fool
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/6751170.htm Republican poll seeks to identify Rebel flag supporters GOP candidates will be marketed to those voters, Democrats believe By TOM WILEMON THE SUN HERALD GULFPORT - The Mississippi GOP is making telephone calls to identify voters who

Re: Racism

2003-10-05 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 5 Oct 2003 at 1:14, Robert J. Chassell wrote: Isn't it easier to just set all webpages to use specific colors? Right, impose your worldview on what's going on rather that looking at the reallity of the situation. Nice metaphor... Actually, HTML is designed so that the

Re: RFID chips, was Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-10-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:04 AM 10/5/03 -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] So they do exist? O.K.. (But aren't there kits to refill the cartridges, then?) I don't know if this is currently in use or was simply being mentioned as a possibility, but I read something awhile back

Re: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-05 Thread Doug Pensinger
Bryon Daly wrote: Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War and surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not debunked) by the media, in the same way that Fox News is blamed for the pro-war misconceptions. Or do you think that the anti-war side has a

Religious Freedom

2003-10-05 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/100303phelpsMemorial.htm (Casper, Wyoming) Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps has announced intentions to erect a monument to Matthew Shepard the gay college student brutally murdered five years ago near Laramie. But, the monument will be no memorial. Phelps says

RE: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-05 Thread ritu
Bryon Daly wrote: Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War and surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not debunked) by the media, in the same way that Fox News is blamed for the pro-war misconceptions. Or do you think that the anti-war side

Slime and Defend

2003-10-05 Thread The Fool
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/002400.html Slime and Defend Just great. Just absolutely great. The White House decision to slime [Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson] and defend [the leakers] has unanticipated consequences: Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of

Re: Religious Freedom

2003-10-05 Thread TomFODW
the monument will be no memorial. Phelps says the monument would be 5 to 6 feet tall and made of marble or granite.  It would bear a bronze plaque bearing the image of Shepard and have  an inscription reading MATTHEW SHEPARD, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, in Defiance of God's Warning: 'Thou

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-05 Thread Ray Ludenia
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:41 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:03 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: PS: Does my comment remind anyone that we seem to be missing some of the picky arguments and linguistic contortions of the past on the list? Um .

Re: Week 5 NFL Picks

2003-10-05 Thread TomFODW
Arizona at Dallas - Can the Cowboys win outside of the Meadowlands?   If they can, it surely will be against the dreadful Cardinals at home.  Pick: COWBOYS I hate the Cowboys, but I had to find someone to choose this week for the survivor pool my synagogue men's club runs, so I picked them.

Re: Week 5 NFL Picks

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Week 5 NFL Picks Arizona at Dallas - Can the Cowboys win outside of the Meadowlands? If they can, it surely will be against the dreadful Cardinals at home. Pick:

Re: Week 5 NFL Picks

2003-10-05 Thread TomFODW
So.are the Cards a worse team than the Texans? Yeah, I think they're worse. And in any case, the Texans are a second-year expansion team - they're supposed to be bad, they haven't had time to get good. The Cardinals have no excuses. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org

Re: Slime and Defend

2003-10-05 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
The Fool posted: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/002400.h tml Slime and Defend Just great. Just absolutely great. The White House decision to slime [Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson] and defend [the leakers] has unanticipated consequences: *snippage*

Re: Religious Freedom

2003-10-05 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
Tom wrote: Phelps is just a horrible, worthless, vile, despicable, disgusting bigot. He has not read the Bible and decided homosexuality is wrong. He hates homosexuals and has gone spot-reading in the Bible to find sanction for his bigotry and hatred. I had a run in with someone of Phelps'

Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics

2003-10-05 Thread TomFODW
What is interesting to me about the whole Limbaugh/McNabb thing is: Limbaugh is correct - to a point. Donovan McNabb IS overrated and he DOES get too much credit for the Eagles' susccess - but not because he's black. He is overrated and gets too much credit because he is a quarterback. ALL

Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics What is interesting to me about the whole Limbaugh/McNabb thing is: Limbaugh is correct - to a point. Donovan McNabb IS overrated

Re: Week 5 NFL Picks

2003-10-05 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arizona at Dallas - Can the Cowboys win outside of the Meadowlands? If they can, it surely will be against the dreadful Cardinals at home. Pick: COWBOYS I hate the Cowboys, but I had to find someone to choose this week for the survivor pool my synagogue

More despicable right wing behavior

2003-10-05 Thread TomFODW
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/03/missouri.website.ap/index.html Senate aide fired for offensive Web site Bond spokesman ran site named after Carnahan crash Friday, October 3, 2003 Posted: 12:40 PM EDT (1640 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond on Thursday

Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics

2003-10-05 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is interesting to me about the whole Limbaugh/McNabb thing is: Limbaugh is correct - to a point. Donovan McNabb IS overrated and he DOES get too much credit for the Eagles' susccess - but not because he's black. He is overrated and gets too much credit because

Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is interesting to me about the whole Limbaugh/McNabb thing is:

Re: Raceism

2003-10-05 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:39 AM 10/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: At 08:49 AM 10/4/2003 -0400, you wrote: Now that the Redskins have been attacked in court, will the Cincinnati Reds be sued next? -- Erik Reuter No joke emote? June 1, 1869 In the first game ever played by a professional

Re: Racism

2003-10-05 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:15 PM 10/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: Alberto wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: What about the Cleveland Browns? I'm sure Hispanics and the other Indians are offended. (Yes I know, and I also know the difference.) And what about the Netherlands Soccer Team, called the Clockword Orange? It's

Re: Raceism

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Raceism My fault. (Yes I know, and I also know the difference.) Meant I know CB were named after Paul Brown, and that even if they

Re: Raceism

2003-10-05 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 04:41 PM 10/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Raceism My fault. (Yes I know, and I also know the difference.) Meant I know CB were named after

Help!

2003-10-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
Abbott Costello's Take on the 21st Century and Computers...10/05/03 Sent in by Michelle Roberts ABBOTT: Computer Support Group. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up a home office in the den, and I'm thinking of buying a computer. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the

More Bush Admin misrepresentation

2003-10-05 Thread Doug Pensinger
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05OIL.html?th excerpt: WASHINGTON, Oct. 4  The Bush administration's optimistic statements earlier this year that Iraq's oil wealth, not American taxpayers, would cover most of the cost of rebuilding Iraq were at odds with a bleaker

Re: Week 5 NFL Picks

2003-10-05 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:41 AM 10/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Week 5 NFL Picks Arizona at Dallas - Can the Cowboys win outside of the Meadowlands? If they can, it surely will be against the

Re: Religious Freedom

2003-10-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:38 PM 10/5/03 -0500, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: Tom wrote: Phelps is just a horrible, worthless, vile, despicable, disgusting bigot. He has not read the Bible and decided homosexuality is wrong. He hates homosexuals and has gone spot-reading in the Bible to find sanction for his bigotry and

archeology or archaeology ??

2003-10-05 Thread Gary Nunn
Frivolous question of the day. Archeology or archaeology? Which is the correct spelling? Yourdictionary.com lists both. Google brings back results for both. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: archeology or archaeology ??

2003-10-05 Thread TomFODW
Frivolous question of the day. Archeology or archaeology? Which is the correct spelling? Yourdictionary.com lists both.  Google brings back results for both. Another frivolous answer: Neither. It's Throat-Wobbler-Mangrove. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org I

Re: archeology or archaeology ??

2003-10-05 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/5/2003 7:47:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frivolous question of the day. Archeology or archaeology? Which is the correct spelling? Yourdictionary.com lists both. Google brings back results for both. Frivolous answer of the

Re: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-05 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: Re: The Hazards of Watching Fox News Bryon Daly wrote: Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War

Re: Religious Freedom

2003-10-05 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
Ronn wrote: At 01:38 PM 10/5/03 -0500, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: I had a run in with someone of Phelps' ilk in Birmingham, And you didn't at least phone and say Hi!? -- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :) Well! For your information, Miss Snooty Pants, it was about 11 years ago, when I was still

Re: memorization vs. idea space position

2003-10-05 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:54 PM Subject: Re: memorization vs. idea space position I wrote: I pretty much agree with the rest of your post, but I disagree about this point. Yes,

Re: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-05 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryon Daly wrote: Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War and surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not debunked) by the media, in the same way that Fox

Re: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-05 Thread Doug Pensinger
Dan Minette wrote: What anti war misconceptions are we talking about? I'm sure that there must be some, but I can't say that I've heard of any in the news or otherwise. 1) There war would result in an increase in the misery in Iraq. I've seen on anti-war.com quotes of 100,000

Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics

2003-10-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh's identity politics But this whole media crap was ridiculous. Heck, I thought that