Re: Draft [was: Bush II]

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
of the US by a currently inconceivable threat (alien invasion!) in which case most people would, I think, be in favor of one anyways. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check

Brin: Purple America

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
and shades each county according to the vote shares. Note just how purple the country looks. http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/misc/purple_america_2004_small.gif = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Purple America

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 17:49:10 -0800 (PST), Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. So do you think we have the numbers we need to win the peace? The war is becoming very unpopular in the UK, what if they pull out? I guess what

Re: Brin: Purple America

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
is atrocious) because while the Army and Marines are certainly stretched to their limit, the Navy is not, and any engagement with China over Taiwan would be a primarily naval affair. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Draft [was: Bush II]

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
be persuated that it's actually a good newspaper. At least, that's what happened to me. Julia Would you care to be more specific? I understand if you don't, of course, but I'm not sure if you're writing ambiguously here on purpose or not... = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: Brin: Purple America

2004-11-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
don't see why it's that important. = 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: Where do we go from here?

2004-11-05 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that claim. = 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

Re: Bush II

2004-11-05 Thread Gautam Mukunda
the one who understands that we have real enemies and need to protect ourselves from them, instead of adopting the posture of the ostrich and pretending that the problem is people who are willing to stand up to evil instead of those who wish to do it. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: Bush II

2004-11-05 Thread Gautam Mukunda
not saying anything at all. = 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: It seems over...

2004-11-05 Thread Gautam Mukunda
have consequences, it's worth challenging bad ones. I would ask you what's your particular resistance to supporting ideas with evidence from the real world, not just speculation? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-05 Thread Gautam Mukunda
in the Spring of 1998 - details are in their textbook called, I believe, _The New American Democracy_). = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front

Re: Drudge: HimmlerCroft to Resign!!

2004-11-04 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that The Fool is taking out of context. = 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.

2004-11-04 Thread Gautam Mukunda
over the last few years. It's sad, actually. = 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

Where do we go from here?

2004-11-04 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. But I wanted to put things this clearly on the list to see the reaction before I chimed in with my own ideas. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-04 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that has considerable empirical support. = 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: Predictions, and this explains everything

2004-11-03 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. Very odd... = 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: It seems over...

2004-11-03 Thread Gautam Mukunda
since there has been a high turnout election with the population growth since that time, and hey, there you go. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo

It seems over...

2004-11-02 Thread Gautam Mukunda
It seems basically over at this point - but apparently the Kerry campaign is going to hang on. Of all the possible outcomes, this was not one that crossed my mind. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Predictions, and this explains everything

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
morning. This with more confidence than my actual pick for the victory. = 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: Predictions, and this explains everything

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
it in the past. But large enough to matter in this one? Quite possibly. = 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: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
is to repudiate the very cause that they fought for. Surely you don't mean what you just wrote. = 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: Predictions, and this explains everything

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: Indeed. Do you know how prosecutors respond to this sort of observation? It seems so over the top outrageous that it couldn't stand... or am I being too naive? Too naive, I think :-) I don't believe that anyone in living

Re: I've been Bushwacked

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. Also there was a newspaper headline that read, Democrats Rally for Kerry, Weed. = 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: Predictions, and this explains everything

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
on the voter rolls. Absentee ballots also have a pretty high rate of fraud, I believe. In either case I don't think the first time voter rule would help, although I may be misunderstanding what you and Nick are describing. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: Boston wins!

2004-10-27 Thread Gautam Mukunda
___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-25 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, then there's no tactic that's not allowed. So why not make claims that are absurd on their face. You might just get away with them, and besides, you're the good guys, right? I'm done here. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

RE: Baseball

2004-10-25 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, if they keep putting up 7-8 runs a game, that buys you a _lot_ of bad defense. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

RE: Baseball

2004-10-25 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: if *the Sox* win I get to be a participant in the largest single party in human history No question. But I wonder, what will it do to the Boston psyche to no longer have that put-upon, woe is me I'm a Sawks fan thing

Re: Br!n: On the Saudis

2004-10-25 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that was a friendly act at all. Your explanation in the post I'm replying to helped a bit, I guess, but it seems to me that the very bare minimum that I'm suggesting isn't much to ask for. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Brin: On the monsters

2004-10-25 Thread Gautam Mukunda
pretty obvious that you can't. Do you think I wouldn't even notice? I await your standard response with bated breath. Will I be deranged or stupid this time? Maybe you'll be more creative in your insults? That would be refreshing, at least. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
and humble attitudes are admirable. As the foundation of a policy to confront terrorists who wish to blow up our cities, they are alarming. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo

Re: John Edwards: John Kerry is Jesus

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
irritated by the way you talk about it. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com

Re: mission to the sun

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
it would be a lot easier... g Wondering if I managed to beat Ronn to this one... = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http

Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
with you must be an enemy of the US? Another way to ask the question might be this, Dr. Brin. The person I know who has come closest to convincing me to vote for President Bush is you. Does that mean that you're on their payroll as well? That's a heck of a conspiracy :-) = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

Re: mission to the sun

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's too bad that they couldn't have done that during the Dark Ages, when it was knight time, even during the day. Dan M. What worries me is that, given Dan's spelling history, I'm not clear if this pun was intentional or not :-) = Gautam

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. So I'm pretty comfortable with that side. If you want to join us, it's always open. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
are bribed and/or blackmailed. So if the shoe fits, you know. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
as long as your guys end up in power? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
on strong opinion on drilling there one way or the other. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: Baseball

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
What the ((* is going on with the Red Sox defense There are _high schoolers_ who could make plays that these guys are botching. I mean, really, what the hell? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Baseball

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: What the ((* is going on with the Red Sox defense More importantly, how do you give a team *five* outs in an inning and still manage to get out of that inning without giving up some runs? Schilling is amazing

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
this paragraph alone, simply are not trying. I will not Make sense? Be civil? Try to prove your points? Because you certainly couldn't do what you're challenging other people to do. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Baseball

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
postseason efforts have occasionally all but ended the careers of pitchers (Orel Herschiser comes to mind). Jim In general I am religious about protecting the health of pitchers. In this case, I would say, though: Flags fly forever. Glory never dies. Go Sox!!! = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

RE: Baseball

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. Of course, we'll still have to win at least ONE in Boston... - jmh Sorry, John, but as I just told JDG offlist, apart from my normal affection for them, if they win I get to be a participant in the largest single party in human history, and I'm _really_ looking forward to that... = Gautam

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: conflict can be overcome by more tolerance and examining of our own faults I'm not even sure they are liberal principles... ;-) I'm not aware of a political theory or religion that subscribes to them. Nick I snipped

Re: Brin: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
looking hopelessly hypocritical. = 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: Br!n: On the Saudis

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
judgment, it's oooh mommy mommy, help me, they're questioning my patriotism. But if you say, well, people who disagree with me are un-American. that's fine. Well sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Baseball

2004-10-24 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: What the ((* is going on with the Red Sox defense There are _high schoolers_ who could make plays that these guys are botching. I mean, really, what the hell? Yeah. Sheesh! The totally insane thing

From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
will publish columns actually praising. There truly is no better reason for voting for George Bush than that it would apall people like this. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
this end does not include outrage about, say, praising the potential assassination of the President. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, who genuinely do wish the US ill, and the fact that they oppose the President _does_ make me more likely to vote for him. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
them my tactical allies, even if they nonetheless remain bad people who are not my friends. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
to. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ http

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. But if it happened (and judging by the type of rhetoric now given free reign in the US, it wouldn't stun me if some Moveon.org type did try something if the President were reelected) do you think this guy would do anything but celebrate? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
of his party's extreme, and that is a problem. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

How great is it

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
that the Boston fans are chanting Who's your Papi? when David Ortiz is batting? :-) = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http

Re: From the Guardian

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, The continent that produced both Hitler _and_ Stalin should be a little more humble. I didn't say I'm voting for Bush because of it, but the fact that these people oppose Bush is a point in his favor. It may not be an _important_ point, but it's a point nonetheless. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

The best argument

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. See: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041101/opinion/1john.htm = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: What's a legal order?

2004-10-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
the way that the Reserves are treated, etc. but all felt that no matter the nature of those complaints, those Reservists engaged in mutiny, plain and simple. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

re: Brin: reaching to conservatives

2004-10-22 Thread Gautam Mukunda
(and, for that matter, the American Nazi Party) are, I'm sure, all opposing George Bush as well. Are you going to tell us how important that is as well? That's a fairly equivalent group to Buchanan's ethnic nationalism. Not good company for you. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: U.S. Presidents by military service

2004-10-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
), and Andrew Jackson in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and George Washington, the first of them all, First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. That was before the Republican Party was even founded. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: Baseball

2004-10-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
or any other such stuff. Otherwise you have to explain why Derek Jeter, who previously was the master of clutch hitting and rising to the occasion in the postseason, managed to stink up the joint this year... = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Baseball

2004-10-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
was clearly done. I can't even imagine the pain tolerance it took to get through the 7th the way he did. Win or lose tonight, this Red Sox team deserves to go down in legends. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Baseball

2004-10-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, something like 1/16. I can't believe it. GO SOX = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote

Re: Brin: Enlightened Thinking L2

2004-10-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
speak on with any authority. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

RE: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
very public support of Pakistan, which is necessary to our interests but likely to be irritating (to put it mildly) to an Indian public that doesn't see all the things going on behind the scenes to try to mitigate the effects of that... = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

Re: brin: My big salvo

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
has any principles whatsoever, appears to be a representative of that part of the party. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today

RE: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Bush Admin guys renew their passports. Well, Dr. Brin, if you had power in the Kerry Administration that might well be true, but somehow I don't think the odds of that are too high in the real world. Would you care to make a wager on it? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

John Edwards: John Kerry is Jesus

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
the outrage in the press and on the list if Cheney had said something like that. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: John Edwards: John Kerry is Jesus

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
version of it to further his own ambitions at the cost of creating false hope for the disabled. It's nothing short of vile. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself

RE: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
of prosecution? What, by the way, do you define as significant? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: Brin: All bets are on?

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on the outside of this, so let me throw my opinion in. How about 10% of the Cabinet members or 10% of their direct reports? Would you agree this is significant, Gautam, David? Dan M. Absolutely. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom

Re: John Edwards: John Kerry is Jesus

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
of benefits in eight years? It may not get them in 80. The URL is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34167-2004Oct14.html = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare

Re: John Edwards: John Kerry is Jesus

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
figures have ever been - I think the last one that bothered me this much was Dean suggesting that President Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you

Re: Scandals RE: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
I have to pay you? How few before you have to pay me? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: brin: My big salvo

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, it doesn't mean I'm in the pay of the Saudis... = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: John Edwards: John Kerry is Jesus

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
there will be? Of course not. There may be. I hope that there will. But that fact surely aggravates the sin of a Vice Presidential candidate promising that people will get out of their wheelchairs and walk, if only you vote for him. What the hell is wrong with these people? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-15 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: Ah, but I was talking about the public perception. The IFS view is certainly more pro-Bush. The politicos and the media are more or less evenly divided between these two views. The army subscribes to neither, refusing to believe

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
carefully calibrated to alientate the military. Except maybe Wes Clark, actually, but other than him. = 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

Re: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ http

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
in the world was the product of Bill Clinton in the absence of evidence and common sense is not an argument. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
in Kerry's case, it's a combination of politics and personality. In Clark's case, I don't think they _cared_ about his politics, they just knew the guy. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
are facts. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ http

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
are Republicans (that is a fact). For someone who has abruptly adopted a veneration for everyone in the military, I would think that this is a fact that you need to deal with. As I am occassionally moved to point out, you don't get to choose your own. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I _love_ the sort of thinking that leads you to a security guard is likely a Republican, by the way. OopsssI screwed up the editing here. Dr. Brin did _not_ say the above that's in quotes. Damnit. I should have reread more carefully before I

Re: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
about Bush I become _much_ more likely to vote for Bush. If you have that effect on someone so in the middle of the political spectrum that 2 weeks before the election they haven't picked a side yet, then maybe the people who disagree with you aren't the problem. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity) and nothing less. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: brin: My big salvo

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, then the next time somebody kills a few thousand Americans (and it will happen) what is he going to do when France, Russia, and China doesn't give a response their seal of approval (and they won't)? = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: brin: My big salvo

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, not Bush, is in hock to interests that are fundamentally antagonistic to the welfare of the US. So if the most important thing is who has influence over your actions, them I'm not sure whose side that should bring me or any other undecided voter down on. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
, but that seems to be the case, anyways. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must differ with you on this, Doug. Gautam is showing his intellectual honesty and willingness to speak the truth as he sees it, no matter how inconvenient that is. That certainly hurts his chances at a career in politicseven though it is a

Re: India Re: Brin: W and the apocalypts

2004-10-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
a different story... = 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://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis

2004-10-12 Thread Gautam Mukunda
was way off in 2002...his methodology is, I believe, not highly thought of in the field. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http

Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis

2004-10-11 Thread Gautam Mukunda
state's votes but forgot to say who that he cast them _for_. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Re: Libya Re: Cheney and S corps

2004-10-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
this sort of counts as evidence as well. Any sort of a credible assessment of the war has to include both negatives (which I've talked about on this list) and positives (Libya giving up WMD, increased efforts at reform in Saudi Arabia, significant encouragement to reformers in Iran). = Gautam

Re: Debate

2004-10-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
sworn in. It's not happening, because it's not possible. There's no one out there who has the ability to do what he promises, whether or not he speaks French. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Debate

2004-10-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
distracted, so I'm certainly not as informed as I'd like to be. We won't really know until about 72 hours after the debate, when the first round of spinning is over. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

Re: Debate

2004-09-30 Thread Gautam Mukunda
. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: Help! Offshoring/Outsourcing

2004-09-29 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Democrats? This is why. Among many reasons, this is a pretty good one. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http

Re: Help! Offshoring/Outsourcing

2004-09-29 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's too late for Gautam's request, but Brad DeLong wrote an insightful article about offshoring yesterday: It's not, actually. My panel's on Saturday. Thanks for the article. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freedom is not free http

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