Re: Century City

2004-04-13 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:17 AM 4/13/04, David Hobby wrote: William T Goodall wrote: > > Cancelled. Could be. But they are showing an episode tonight... Did they? Or was it pre-empted for the President's press conference? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mai

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

2004-04-13 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:42 AM 4/13/04, Ray Ludenia wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > Obviously the writer of this blurb has never lived with cats, since s/he > suggests that the human may have been the "owner" of the cat . . . > > > Midnight Is Currently Sitting On His Servant's Lap Maru Humphrey is currently not si

Democracy frees the World, was Re: Occupation of Iraq IMHO

2004-04-13 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > David Hobby wrote: ... > > There should be some nice system of plebescites to let people > > organize into the countries they feel like organizing into, > > rather than being stuck with historical borders. > > > Yeah. What about the mexicans in occupied Mexico deciding

Re: [ADMIN} And we continue to futz with the server

2004-04-13 Thread David Hobby
Nick Arnett wrote: > > We're scrambling quite a bit to get things working properly... Nick-- I'm sure you're just doing all this for the practice. : ) Thanks for all the work you're putting in! ---David ___

Calafia contest.

2004-04-13 Thread Medievalbk
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Re: Alternate History

2004-04-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:41:23PM -0500, Dan > Minette wrote: > Well said. I clearly remember what you wrote before > and in the early > stages of the Iraq war. I think that events have > shown me to be wrong > about the Iraq invasion -- as you say, alt

Re: Alternate History

2004-04-13 Thread JDG
At 04:41 PM 4/13/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: >I hope that my fears turn groundless, and that an Iraq that resembles >Jordan does emerge. This is the second time I have seen the "Jordan" analogy.Personally, I would be at least somewhat disappointed to see Iraq turn into a self-interested, pr

High-Level Meetings Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread JDG
At 11:01 PM 4/12/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: > What if he had held high level >meetings and prioritized anti-terror? I'm going to address this point since it has now been raised by both you and Dan, among others I'm not sure that "high-level" meetings are a particular important compone

[ADMIN] Did your mail to the list vanish?

2004-04-13 Thread Nick Arnett
I have fixed a restriction on our mail server (the new config, from the Friday morning crash) that sent mail into a black hole if you sent it from a host whose FQDN could not be looked up. That's an anti-spam restriction that I copied from our secondary mail server, which has very tight restric

Re: Alternate History

2004-04-13 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:41:23PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > This post has wandered to a couple of other topics, but my point > is that the criticism of Bush is not that he should have invaded > Afghanistan in March, 2001. Rather, its that his plan for countering > terrorism by focusing on coun

U.S. to pull out most forces from Korean DMZ this year

2004-04-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_3.html The U.S. military will withdraw most if its forces from the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea this year, an official announced today. The withdrawal means the United States will no longer have combat troops anywhere on the

Re: ATTN: All military/former military on the list, was Re: Smirking right-wing git

2004-04-13 Thread John Garcia
On Apr 13, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Damon Agretto wrote: A question for all the members or former members of the military on the list: do you consider yourself more "right" or "left" wing? My own experience in the military suggests that for the most part professional military members tend to be more "

RE: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread Horn, John
> From: Doug Pensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But that's not the important thing. The attacks are history > and there is > nothing we can do to take them back. The most important > mistake that was > made and is still being made is that the administration > refuses to admit > any cu

RE: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread Horn, John
> From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You feel this way about _eight years_ of continuous > inaction by the Clinton Administration too, or is it > only Republicans who get blamed for inaction? Doing > nothing after the first WTC bombing...after an attempt > to assassinate George Bu

Re: Alternate History

2004-04-13 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:42 AM Subject: Alternate History >Announcing his candidacy for the 2004 Republican presidential nomination, >Senator John McCain said today that "George W. Bush was very foolis

Re: [admin] multipart/mixed

2004-04-13 Thread Nick Arnett
The Fool wrote: Nick, the mail server is changing content type from text/plain to multipart/mixed. A lot of Email clients do not work well with or at all with multipart/mixed. Also all it seems to be doing is adding .5k to every single message. Furthermore it interferes with my ability to quote

[admin] multipart/mixed

2004-04-13 Thread The Fool
Nick, the mail server is changing content type from text/plain to multipart/mixed. A lot of Email clients do not work well with or at all with multipart/mixed. Also all it seems to be doing is adding .5k to every single message. Furthermore it interferes with my ability to quote other people pro

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread The Fool
From: Tom Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Apr 13, 2004, at 9:28 AM, The Fool wrote: Guatam > You might even have been right. The evidence that the > Taliban were dangerous on September 10th of 2001 was > far weaker than the evidence

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread Tom Beck
On Apr 13, 2004, at 9:28 AM, The Fool wrote: You might even have been right. The evidence that the Taliban were dangerous on September 10th of 2001 was far weaker than the evidence that Saddam Hussein was dangerous, come to think of it. Dangerous to who? At least as dangerous to the people of A

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread The Fool
From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You do recall where the Cole was bombed, right? In an area of the world that is very close to: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, all of which are state sponsors of terrorism, and are not necessarily friendly to the U.S.. Also an area of the world whe

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And who did you _know_ was responsible for the > Oklahoma city bombing when > it first occurred? I didn't. It happened in Oklahoma, which made it difficult to know until the FBI had done its job. I think it's unlikely that white supremacists would attack

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread The Fool
-- From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- The Fool wrote: > We did not _know_ who was responsible for the Cole > attack until Shrub had > been crowned king. Or perhaps you think we should > strike out blindly > whenever we are attacked? What are you talking about? _I_ knew who was

Re: ATTN: All military/former military on the list, was Re: Smirking right-wing git

2004-04-13 Thread Damon Agretto
> A question for all the members or former members of > the military on the > list: do you consider yourself more "right" or > "left" wing? My own > experience in the military suggests that for the > most part professional > military members tend to be more "conservative" than > "liberal," tho

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 4/12/2004 9:10:45 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > What about Readers Digest? They had an article on Bin Laden sometime > > before 9/11, I remember > > > > Julia > > > > who'd have to go to an effort to figure o

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread JDG
At 09:20 PM 4/12/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >But the buck stops in the oval office. As it becomes more and more >evident that Bush was asleep at the switch, and worse, that he refuses to >even begin to take responsibility for his lapses, it becomes more and more >imperitive that we spare

Alternate History

2004-04-13 Thread JDG
http://www.tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml 04.09.04 Gregg Easterbrook AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY: washington, april 9, 2004. A hush fell over the city as George W. Bush today became the first president of the United States ever to be removed from office by impeachment. Meeting late into the night, the

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread JDG
At 09:32 PM 4/12/2004 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >You might even have been right. The evidence that the >Taliban were dangerous on September 10th of 2001 was >far weaker than the evidence that Saddam Hussein was >dangerous, come to think of it. After all, at least the Iraqis were shooting at us.

Re: Irregulars request: French

2004-04-13 Thread Ray Ludenia
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is any site with exercises in French for > beginners? I'm sure there is. Let me google... You could check out: http://www.blisslogik.com/fr/products/fitnessbliss/pro/exercises/ Regards, Ray (The Unhelpful : ___

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We did not _know_ who was responsible for the Cole > attack until Shrub had > been crowned king. Or perhaps you think we should > strike out blindly > whenever we are attacked? What are you talking about? _I_ knew who was responsible, for goodness sakes,

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

2004-04-13 Thread Ray Ludenia
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > Obviously the writer of this blurb has never lived with cats, since s/he > suggests that the human may have been the "owner" of the cat . . . > > > Midnight Is Currently Sitting On His Servant's Lap Maru Humphrey is currently not sitting on his servant's lap. He has be

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread The Fool
-- From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And now Bush comes out and says there was no iminent > threat. This from > the guy that went hermantile over intellegence > provided by a few Iraqi > ex-pats with the same agenda as himsef. > >

Re: Bush wanted more specifics

2004-04-13 Thread The Fool
-- From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But the buck stops in the oval office. As it > becomes more and more > evident that Bush was asleep at the switch, and > worse, that he refuses to > even begin to take responsibility for his lap

Re: Century City

2004-04-13 Thread David Hobby
William T Goodall wrote: > > Cancelled. Could be. But they are showing an episode tonight... ---David Any Nielsen households on the list? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Irregulars request: French

2004-04-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Does anyone know if there is any site with exercises in French for beginners? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

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

2004-04-13 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:36 PM 4/8/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=E8445C12-4BDA-4FD9-907DE8377F2F300F From Science in the News Weekly: Stone Age Cats May Have Been Household Pets, Grave Site Find Indicates Dogs are still man's best friend, but new evidence unearthed on C