Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
killed more people, if nothing else, something that the left hsa carefully tried to erase from our historical memory. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ http

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
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Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, either. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ http

Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!

2005-04-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=817e=8u=/ap/swat_monkey I note also that, according to this article, human being are, at best, the _third_ smartest primate. I agree. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:18:35 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote Note that Dan and I, for example, despite different positions on the war, have consistently acknowledged that going to war has costs. What's striking is the asymmetry

Fwd: Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
when you send him hour grammar textbooks saying otherwise? It's just a ridiculous argument, and I'm tired of it, and I tend to get frustrated when I hear it, over and over and over again. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
is too important to do it because it makes people feel good. If you can do good in the world, you should. But it's not the first or most important thing that a state does in foreign policy. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's a ridiculous position, but it is, in fact, a position. But if you're saying oil or economic interests as if it was an accusation. It's not. Ah, I was not being clear: if one states

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-18 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:32:35 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote You are twisting his statement into an excuse for inaction - we do not know God's will, so we must do nothing. Are you willing to stop saying that, since it's not true? Well, Nick

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-18 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: Lincoln's last great speech, and the one that seems to have best expressed his intentions, says it best - With malice towards none, with charity for all, _with firmess in the right as God gives

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that sometimes the best he could meant warfare of unimaginable horror. Lincoln contained multitudes, but none of those multitudes can plausibly be enlisted in an argument that we should sit on our hands in the face of great evil. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: Christian Justification for War L3! Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
was on the targeting team for Kosovo and says that we were attacking everything we could think of within about 48 hours after the first raids, because we had pretty much destroyed all of Serbia's purely military assets by that point, and we had to do something. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
a functioning nuclear device. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources

Re: Change without war (was something else)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:40:04 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote ... virtually no one thought that inspections were working _before_ the war. No one? No one? What is your definition of working here? Certainly no one saw Saddam stepping

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: Substantial long-term support for the internal opposition to Hussein would have been a third say: neither going to war nor leaving him in power. At the very least, we would have avoided being seen

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:28:38 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote What you are talking about is a slow and uncertain process. Compared to what? The speedy and certain process underway in Iraq??? Nick Relative to the two hundred year fall

Re: Change without war (was something else)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote I was talking about him immediately stepping down or cooperating with the inspections. I find it hard to have a conversation when the subject changes so abruptly. Then _stop changing

Re: Change without war (was something else)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
took power by assasinating his predecessor. That's a big difference. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http

Re: Change without war (was something else)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:19:48 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote And how did that come to pass? Because the white minority *led* the nation to end apartheid? Or was it the leadership of Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and the countless crowds who

Re: Change without war (was something else)

2005-04-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, in American Political Science Review, 92, March 1998 Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
things for many reasons, and WMD were only one of the many reasons we invaded Iraq. What will you do if this works? Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
was on the issue, thinking that it was a very, very near run thing indeed. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
affairs better and understand that wars are not _just_ decided by who has the bigger economy. Those who don't look at military stuff tend, in my opinion (Damon, for example, may disagree) to vastly underrate the role of contingency in military outcomes. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote --- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that Warren been trying to prevent democracy in Iraq? Functionally, yes. What does that mean? It means

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, leaving Iraq as a totalitarian dictatorship for an indefinite, but probably multi-generational, time in the future, or invading. Hope is not a method, as Dan occasionally tells JDG, and (in international affairs) wishing is not a policy, either. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
conclusion, aren't you? South Africa. India. Neither of which are even vaguely similar situations. He's not arguing from his conclusion, he's arguing from reality. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
what I was saying and intrude for no good reason, either. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
to be a poor attempt to make me look as if I'm attacking everyone's favorite list member. Otherwise, feel free to jump in. We all know how opinions that differ from today's orthodoxy are treated here, so why should today be any different? Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
view. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
our actions it's _their_ fault? Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
on DDT usage because...I'm sure you'll explain it to me, Martin. What's (hypothetical, and vastly overstated) thinning of birds' egg shells compared to a few hundred thousand Africans and Asians every year? Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
could to stop it from happening_? Who, in that equation, will have been looking out for poor, brown people who are far away? Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
don't quite see how that makes sense. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Saddam (and since I'm quite confident that more intelligent discussion would end up on my side of the fence on most issues, I'm all in favor of it) but I don't think it would have helped the people being dropped feet-first into shredding machines. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Brady should, say, give me at least a 1% cut of his groupies out of gratitude - I'd be happy to take one for the team on his behalf :-) Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-05 Thread Gautam Mukunda
unimpresive figure...The Weekly Standard just ran an article on him: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/441oqlsg.asp Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo

Re: Friedman was RE: Big News for a list member

2005-03-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
it sounds really different from the normal run of foreign affairs books. I'll tell him you said hi :-) Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new

Big News for a list member

2005-03-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Big news for another list member. Our very own John Giorgis has just been chosed as a Presidential Management Fellow - one of the most prestigious appointments in the civil service. Congratulations John! Gautam Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

RE: Big News for a list member

2005-03-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: Big news for another list member. Our very own John Giorgis has just been chosed as a Presidential Management Fellow. Which means what? Takwe pity on those of us who *don't* have Tom Friedman's home phone number

Thanks Everyone (Was Re: Soros and OSI)

2005-03-03 Thread Gautam Mukunda
wishes as well. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective

Re: Acts of War

2004-12-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
) has stated 9(IIRC) that the transcripts of her meeting with Saddam were doctored by the Iraqi government. Saddam is not exactly a reliable source. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you

Happy Holidays

2004-12-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody. I will be on vacation and away from e-mail for a while. My best to you and your families. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-18 Thread Gautam Mukunda
communicated with for any period of time. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-18 Thread Gautam Mukunda
the greatest hero in the Arab world since Nasser. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-18 Thread Gautam Mukunda
incompetent (probably the gentlest word I've used) is definitely defending and rationalizing. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
of the United States. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com

Brin Re: our steep slide

2004-12-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, so I'm not surprised. It's just amusing - to be called blinkered by the blindfolded is always fun. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of stuff about Nariyah She didn't see it. It doesn't mean it didn't happen. Dave is a good orthodox leftist and an apologist for totalitarian dictators, Rob, but I thought better of you. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
them at the time, but they did happen. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Fortunes Of Maru rob I'm sorry, are you seriously trying to make this moral equivalence here? I'm going to assume it was some sort of a misstatement. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it's another damned straw man, given that Saddam Hussein is in no position to acquire weapons. Nick Not _anymore_ anyways, thanks to the war you opposed. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
if they were attacked, not if they initiated an attack. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President (NY: Random House, 1991), pp. 612-614. The best diplomatic history of the war is _America's Longest War_ by Herring, which has a solid, middle-of-the-road perspective. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, on the level of 2+2 things about history right, you might try not being snotty about pretty sophisticated questions. You might even try learning about them, instead of lecturing on them. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

RE: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
% in the popular vote - then there's a high presumption that they're doing it for what they consider very strong reasons, because it's very rare for a politician to do something like that. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. Unless you want to elevate balancing against the United States to the same moral level as defeating Communism, how is opposing democracy in the Ukraine in any way comparable? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
for Arabs, or Asians, or even Eastern Europe - that they're either ambivalent towards, or opposed to. There's a consistency to this position, but not a morality. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12, 2004, at 8:44 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: Yes, interpretation of historical events is at least partly objective. Given that I can see how some things that might be clear to me may not be to others. Or, alternately, why things you think

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
famously said about preventive war, to commit suicide for fear of death. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-11 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. If popularity is a key criterion for you, why not advocate that? That's an easy win for us. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-11 Thread Gautam Mukunda
and criminality of President Bush. Should be an irrestible temptation, really. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-11 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Realist. But there were no good answers to some of the questions. -- Doug Yes, that is usually part of the definition of foreign policy. Anyone who _knows_ what to do about Iran or North Korea is either lying or a fool. = Gautam Mukunda

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
the problem. Doug I have many basic ideas about how I would approach the problem. Doesn't mean that any of them will work. The best case scenario might well be just limiting the damage - there may be no solution to the problem. That's why foreign policy is hard. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
50.1% of the vote since 1964 (and even that only once). Republicans have done it _six times_ in that same period (1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 2004). To me this is the worst statistic of all for the party. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Rating the Presidents Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
was doing it. The historical perspective on Eisenhower has changed _radically_ over the last 10-20 years because of these sorts of revelatons. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you

Re: Won what? (was Re: So it begins....)

2004-12-02 Thread Gautam Mukunda
are the ones who supported the party that lost the election. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http

Re: So it begins.... Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time

2004-11-28 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, is a particularly striking source of such a comment. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

Re: Cabinet Resignations

2004-11-18 Thread Gautam Mukunda
for an interesting article talking about that number for the last few Cabinets. Sorry about that. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free

Re: cabinet resignations - rats leaving the sinking ship?

2004-11-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. These are shattering, backbreaking, health-destroying jobs. Doing them for four years is an herculean effort. Doing them for longer than that is virtually impossible. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: cabinet resignations - rats leaving the sinking ship?

2004-11-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
... Damon. Traditionally every Cabinet member has submitted their resignation at the end of the term, and then waited to be rehired if they wanted it. There was even an episode of the West Wing about it, amusingly enough. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
a moment like that one... = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ___ http

Re: var electoral...

2004-11-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
President Bush has also done - visited the hospitals of the wounded on many occasions. I'm not even going to bother with responding to a quote from the Daily Mirror. Pat Buchanan, the anti-American semi-socialists of the left - the company you're keeping is getting pretty rank, David. = Gautam

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
is the only reason I have forgiven ABC for canceling _Sports Night_, which remains one of the best television series ever. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new

Re: addenda

2004-11-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
in the Union only because Lincoln dissolved the state legislature at gunpoint, and it went overwhelmingly for Kerry. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo

Brin: Re: addenda

2004-11-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and any dope who thinks Kansas and Nebraska were nice sleepy little free states oughta learn to spell a few little words like Q-U-A-N-T-R-E-L-L and then JOHN BROWN. (Now start with a Q...good

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Wait, why don't _I_ meet women like that? :-) = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

Re: Lost - TV Guide article

2004-11-13 Thread Gautam Mukunda
://www.europastation.com/gary/lost/ Hey man, thanks. Much appreciated. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
it was the only decent show ABC had. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ___ http

Re: Brin: Fact Check

2004-11-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. The margin of error refers to the chance that the mean of a statistical sample of a population differs from the true mean of a population. But an election is not a sample. An election is an enumeration of the entire universe - all votes. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: Lost: the TV series

2004-11-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
season. Details please? I don't get TV guide, but do like Lost, although it's no Alias. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page

Re: Brin: Fact Check

2004-11-10 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- David Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The neocons openly said that H made a mistake ending his war too soon. Well, so did you. Hmmm...the great neocon conspiracy has longer tentacles than I thought. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: `Urban legend' or fraud?

2004-11-09 Thread Gautam Mukunda
in this election - it's not exactly surprising that the exit polls would miss it. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

Re: Iraq civilian casualties.

2004-11-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
being reported on. Dismissals of the report's methodology are all over the web. It's a joke. It's only plausible if you really, really want to believe that American soldiers are genocidal mass murderers. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Iraq civilian casualties.

2004-11-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's only plausible if you really, really want to believe that American soldiers are genocidal mass murderers. Note - this is not fair, and not at all what I should have said. I take it back. It seems clear to me that the _authors of the study_

Re: Abortion Re: The Magic Ingredient?

2004-11-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
was not gay. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- with apologies to Martin Niemöller Well, I was worried that the Democratic Party wouldn't be able to figure out a way to lose the _next_ election. I see that was ill-founded. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED

The Burden of Bad Ideas

2004-11-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
for the consequences of their statements. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

Re: The Burden of Bad Ideas

2004-11-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:50 PM 11/8/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: So, apropos of our recent discussion, John Perry Barlow, a very smart guy, just cited the 100,000 dead Iraqi casualty figure as if it were true. Apparently no one has shown him the falsification yet. It's

Re: `Urban legend' or fraud?

2004-11-08 Thread Gautam Mukunda
them, but not the later Republicans. Anecdotally, that's what happened in Cambridge, where I was working the polls on election day and turnout was extremely low because (according to my candidate, who had been there the whole day) there had been a huge rush of people in the morning. = Gautam

Re: Purple America

2004-11-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, so I can't get a quote for you, but I've seen exactly the same thing in histories and heard exactly the same thing from primary sources. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo

Re: Br!n: Purple America

2004-11-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if they were an invasion by Mexico from the South and Canada from the North? :-) Alberto Monteiro Then, to paraphrase Bismarck, the President would call out the police and have them arrested :-) = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Purple America

2004-11-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
be in the process of making a similar mistake in Fallujah. Only events can tell us one way or the other. The American military has a remarkable capacity for institutional learning, and it surely is going to try to prevent exactly that from happening. It may succeed, it may not. = Gautam

Re: Purple America

2004-11-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Brin: Purple America

2004-11-07 Thread Gautam Mukunda
is going to have advanced an enormous amount by 2015 - the gap, if I had to guess, will probably be _larger_, not smaller, than it is today. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. I don't ask Dan to cite the paper that describes the double-slit experiment every time he talks about it for the same reason. If (as both Dan and Erik have done on more than one occasion) you can come up with evidence that my memory is wrong, I'm happy to hear about it. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
the most hotly-disputed election is because they feel that neither is sufficiently radical or whatever, but you need more to do that than just saying you think that is the case. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. But the base rate of by generation voter turnout does vary, which is why I think the data actually supports the model I was trying (not very well, apparently) to express perfectly. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
:-( = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

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