Copping A Teal, was Re: Permission Slips was Re: Rhetorical Questions was RE: Removing Dictators was Re: Peaceful change L3 (the latter refers to the subject line)

2005-05-12 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:55 PM Thursday 5/12/2005, Doug Pensinger wrote: Debbi wrote: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And what sort of a teal, anyway? Oh...oh, *dearie* me. turning a delicate shade of tomato...or perhaps persimmon -- mayhap pomagranate? Debbi Cinnamon Teal Flight Path Maru`:} Well,

Re: Copping A Teal, was Re: Permission Slips was Re: Rhetorical Questions was RE: Removing Dictators was Re: Peaceful change L3 (the latter refers to the subject line)

2005-05-12 Thread Doug Pensinger
Ronn! wrote: I wrote: Well, anyway, mine are _pink_ when they are visible, which they _are not_!!! -- Doug So there maru Can't argue with logic like that . . . What's logic got to do with it? 8^) You'll See Green Alligators And Long-Necked Geese Maru Humpty back camels and a brace o' fleas? --

Re: Copping A Teal, was Re: Permission Slips was Re: Rhetorical Questions was RE: Removing Dictators was Re: Peaceful change L3 (the latter refers to the subject line)

2005-05-12 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: You'll See Green Alligators And Long-Necked Geese Maru Humpy back camels and some chimpanzees Julia Ask Me About Thanksgiving '75 Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Copping A Teal, was Re: Permission Slips was Re: Rhetorical Questions was RE: Removing Dictators was Re: Peaceful change L3 (the latter refers to the subject line)

2005-05-12 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Thu, 12 May 2005 21:06:39 -0500, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: You'll See Green Alligators And Long-Necked Geese Maru Humpy back camels and some chimpanzees Julia Ask Me About Thanksgiving '75 Maru What about Thanksgiving '75? -- Doug hmmm, where

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2005-05-12 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005 21:06:39 -0500, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: You'll See Green Alligators And Long-Necked Geese Maru Humpy back camels and some chimpanzees Julia Ask Me About Thanksgiving '75 Maru What about Thanksgiving '75? A

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-04 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 5/4/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:25 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
Look, this flame bait is really kind of over the top now, isn't it? Obviously there's a history here, but frankly what that history is applies only because those involved are choosing to make it do so. I don't think goading or coy allusions to prior misdeeds by (apparently) now-banned posters

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to seriously rethink their attitudes and opinions; hold them accountable for what they say and do on this

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Land
On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to seriously rethink their attitudes and opinions; hold

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:25 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Land
On May 3, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:25 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-26 Thread Frank Schmidt
snip Dan: Frank: The US does not rule the world, the US is not a pappa, and the US is not a police force. The US is just the strongest nation today. An alliance of other nations can be stronger than the US, but at present these nations have different goals. If the US pushes harder,

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:57 AM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 Dan, et al, OK, I wrote the whole message below, then realized that I'm

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Frank Schmidt
I wonder if people forget that China is just next door to North Korea, and that they even have an alliance. Not that the Chinese like Kim Jong Il so much, but they'd never tolerate an invasion like the US did in Afghanistan or Iraq. However the Chinese might topple Kim Jong Il themselves if the

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:32:37 -0500, Dan Minette wrote We are lucky in that we can collectively, within the nation, intervene with professionals by calling 911 in those cases or reporting suspected abuse to authorities. I think Dave's point was that you can't solve somebody else's problem

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Frank Schmidt
Dan: dland: snip Dan Wrote: On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:03 PM, JDG wrote: Now that we've let the DPRK gain nuclear weapons, Assuming, that is, that the US rules the world, and therefore is in a position to let or not let nations like the DPRK gain nuclear weapons. Perhaps

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Land
On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:32:37 -0500, Dan Minette wrote Preventing someone from causing grave harm to us and our allies is not codependant behavior. Of course. But how do we decide that someone is about to cause grave harm? That's the hard question,

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Land
On Apr 25, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Dan Minette wrote: OK, I never meant to advance the criminal justice model for international relationships. I was merely pointing out a counter example to the notion that interfering with the actions of another country presupposes that the leaders of the other country

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 Your question reminds me that the metaphors we choose have power

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Land
On Apr 25, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Dan Minette wrote: So, if your argument is that Bush tends to be pigheaded and plow ahead without regard to other views when he is certain, then I will agree. But, if it that, for the US to properly consider the views of other nations, that it must give veto rights

The US and the DPRK Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread JDG
At 09:01 PM 4/24/2005 -0700, Dave Land wrote: Now that we've let the DPRK gain nuclear weapons, Assuming, that is, that the US rules the world, and therefore is in a position to let or not let nations like the DPRK gain nuclear weapons. The US is the most powerful country in the world. Given

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 8:53 PM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 In the final analysis, we're not that far apart. At the risk

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Frank Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:36 PM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 Dan: dland: snip Dan Wrote: On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:03

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 25, 2005, at 10:15 PM, Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Frank Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The US does not rule the world, the US is not a pappa, and the US is not a police force. The US is just the strongest nation today. An alliance of other nations can be stronger than

Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-24 Thread JDG
At 10:13 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: JDG wrote At 01:34 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: Dan, it was a rhetorical question. I know why he isn't, and frankly very glad he isn't. But thank you for the refresher. I must learn to put more umm, nuance in my typing tone. It

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:03 PM Subject: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 Pray. Now that we've let the DPRK gain nuclear weapons, there are simply

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-24 Thread dland
On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:03 PM, JDG wrote: Now that we've let the DPRK gain nuclear weapons, Assuming, that is, that the US rules the world, and therefore is in a position to let or not let nations like the DPRK gain nuclear weapons. Perhaps we might consider other nations as adults, instead of

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:03 PM, JDG wrote: Now that we've let the DPRK gain nuclear weapons

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-24 Thread dland
Dan, et al, OK, I wrote the whole message below, then realized that I'm getting way too much into argumentation and not nearly enough into being simple and clear. So go ahead and read and tear apart the message that begins with Dan Wrote:, but consider this my reply: The main thing that promted

RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Andrew Paul
Dan Minette wrote From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poor George, no wonder he looks tired, tossing all night, crying over the starving Koreans kiddies etc... What I don't understand is, given that I'm pretty sure I already mentioned this to you in an earlier discussion, why you

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:55:50 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote I don't think Nick intended to call you a McCarthyite It was a particular argument that I said I see as McCarthyism. It was Gautam's argument, which I'm sure doesn't represent the

RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-22 Thread JDG
At 01:34 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: Dan, it was a rhetorical question. I know why he isn't, and frankly very glad he isn't. But thank you for the refresher. I must learn to put more umm, nuance in my typing tone. It clearly wasn't a very good rhetorical question - and it wasn't the

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-22 Thread JDG
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I stand by my view still, as he'd have us believe that anyone who participates in any peace and justice demonstration in the United States is a Stalinist because a guy (Clark) behind an organization (AIC) that is related to an anti-Trotsky

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Andrew Paul
OK, I'm done arguing with you Nick I for one am in favour of changing the subject. As you said Gautam, we are just going over lots of old ground here. We agree to differ. And I retract any remarks which you found offensive. I did not intend them to be so, and I don't think Nick et al did

RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Andrew Paul
JDG wrote At 01:34 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: Dan, it was a rhetorical question. I know why he isn't, and frankly very glad he isn't. But thank you for the refresher. I must learn to put more umm, nuance in my typing tone. It clearly wasn't a very good rhetorical question -

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-22 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... assuming that the Universe was closed and would collapse to a point in a Big Crunch ... a suitably set up superintelligence would be able to ... recreate the past ... thusly reincarnating us. Yes. That is how I understood Tipler, too.

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:58:58 -0400, JDG wrote Dan M., Gautam, and probably others have pointed out to you on multiple occasions that it is *not* _anyone_ who participates in _any_ peace and justice demonstration. It has been _specific_ people participating in _specific_ demonstrations,

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-22 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 4/22/05, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (Why would a non-antiquarian superintelligence bother to reincarnate us? In this reading, any superintelligence doing research that involves reincarnating anyone from the past is an

Re: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:45 AM Subject: RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 Dan Minette wrote From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poor George, no wonder he

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-22 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Robert Seeberger wrote: Think you could tone down the insult rhetoric a bit? Remember that you guys have an audience. Hear hear! Your (plural) need to put people down only serves to make you look arrogant and elitist. -- Matt ___

RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread JDG
At 03:29 PM 4/21/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: Thus, Nick, we have the situation where choosing to continue condemnation and sanctions, etc. would result in the deaths of innocent Iraqis and war would result in the death of innocent Iraqis. I think that a great many people were able to

RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Paul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of JDG snips fair response And why isn't the US invading North Korea? Why is it, as you put it doing nothing? The calculation has to include the probability of success. While doing nothing' in the DPRK is clearly resulting in the deaths of North Koreans, the

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and maybe we should elect our representatives to that body rather than allowing someone to nominate borderline psycopaths to be our representative. -- Doug Ah, the height of rational argumentation - calling someone who disagrees with you

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda So Gautam, are you saying that the US invaded Iraq out of a deeply felt need to save the Iraqi people? Not cos of WMD risks, not cos of issues over oil? Again with this? Why are people who think _George Bush_ is dumb unable to

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:08:23 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote If they do, why shouldn't that at least be part of the calculation when we decide what to do? If I understand this correctly, you're saying that you believe that I have said we should not care about the people affected by the

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If so, then perhaps you'd like to try again, because you really don't get what I am saying. At all. Want to try again? I'd hazard a guess, probably not. Since what you are saying is both nonsense and changes to some other nonsense (or just pathetic

Re: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:23:43 -0400, JDG wrote I would respond by noting that you seem to agree that Christians are called to do justice. I think that Christians should stop dictators if to do so would be justice. For example, if a dictator is killing his own citizens, and we have the

Re: Christian Majority Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:31:30 -0400, JDG wrote I think the word nothing is being used as to describe polices that would have the practical effect of contiuing the status quo policies in Iraq of the previous 12 years. Given what those policies had managed to accomplish in 12 years, I think

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:39:11 -0400, JDG wrote Gautam's point was that he doesn't feel that you are acknowledging that *not* going to war has costs as well.You responded with a discussion of the costs of going to war. And how are they different? Is there an important distinction between

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you _did_, we can talk about why you attach such moral importance to the decisions of two dictatorships. I appear to have edited out a sentence in this post...odd. Not sure how that happened. The two dictatorships are Russia and China, of

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand this correctly, you're saying that you believe that I have said we should not care about the people affected by the status quo when we make a decision about going to war? You're saying that I'm arguing that it doesn't matter if

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under Saddam Hussein, many families were losing loved ones directly to torture, disappearances, and summary executions. Tens of thousands of others were losing their beloved children because Saddam Hussein was spending the country's oil

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:38:42 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote No, we can't, actually. None of them are all right, no. International ANSWER, the group primarily responsible for organizing the anti-war protests in the United States, Although I find the anti-war leadership to be a

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good heavens. Guilt by association, anyone? ANSWER is associated with IAC, IAC is associated with WWP and WWP (which is disintegrating) didn't go along with Trotsky so it was labeled Stalinist. Meanwhile, the vast majority of war protestors are

Re: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:29 AM Subject: RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 And why isn't the US invading North Korea? Why is it, as you put it doing nothing

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:47:14 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote No. That _is_ what you are saying. It may not be what you are _trying_ to say, but it is what you are saying. While there are undoubtedly things about me that I cannot see, but you can, it appears that perhaps you're getting

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-21 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Wait, wasn't Tipler's argument basically given certain physical constraints, we would surely be re-incarnated at the end of the Universe? ... How would we be re-incarnated? And if you think we will be, how do you know we are not already in a re-incarnation, presuming there could be

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-21 Thread Robert J. Chassell
On 20 Apr 2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote ... the simulator is bored, bored, bored, and so is now playing with the runtime parameters while the program is in operation. Or maybe our universe is now on display in some hyperdimensional children's museum, in the hands-on (or

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:51:59 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote ... I'd want someone to do something about it more likely to be effective than asking it to stop. Ah, reduction to the absurd continues... the gap remains wide. he'll claim that tax cuts are murder, no matter how ridiculous it

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Peaceful Change L3 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:47:14 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote No. That _is_ what you are saying. It may

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:08:29 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote I'm sure that's true. So the next time Republicans march in something organized by the KKK you'll say, ohh, that's guilt by association, really you shouldn't critcize. The WWP isn't organzing any anti-war rallies. It is

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:08:29 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote The WWP isn't organzing any anti-war rallies. It is hardly even organized itself. Like most every other extreme leftist organization on the planet, it ain't working. I don't favor

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: RE: Peaceful Change L3 ... you don't associate yourself with anything that someone like ANSWER organizes ever, for any reason

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:22 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote Yes. Is that so hard to understand? If the American Nazi Party had organized an antiwar event (which they did, I think) Reduction to the extreme again! The parallel would actually be if the American Nazi Party was associated

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:36 AM Subject: RE: Peaceful Change L3 When I asked if he realized that so-and-so were investors in the same project, he sounded like he was going

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:22 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote Yes. Is that so hard to understand? If the American Nazi Party had organized an antiwar event (which they did, I think) Reduction to the extreme again! The parallel would

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:43:21 -0500, Dan Minette wrote Would working very hard to keep distance include trying to not have mob members at his parties and not going to mob sponsered events? If you're trying to draw a parallel to AIC and WWP, it is not apropos. WWP is not the organization that

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Peaceful Change L3 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:43:21 -0500, Dan Minette wrote Would working very hard to keep distance include trying

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:50:03 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote Under the leadership of Ramsey Clark, the IAC was the only major anti-war group that refused to condemn Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. So, we've jumped from organizations that put together anti-war events, such as

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Robert J. Chassell wrote: I keep being reminded of the anthropologist Roy Rappaport writing, The unfalsifiable supported by the undeniable yields the unquestionable. This transforms the dubious, the arbitrary, and the conventional into the correct, the

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and maybe we should elect our representatives to that body rather than allowing someone to nominate borderline psycopaths to be our representative. -- Doug Ah, the height of rational argumentation -

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:53:22 -0500, Dan Minette wrote ... To me, the only difference between this and 6 million lies is the magnitude of the denial. And because of Ramsey Clark's actions, it is wrong to have anything to do with any anti-war group in the United States Nick

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Erik Reuter wrote: By the way, nice fire analogy, Gautam. If that wasn't clear enough, then it is hard to imagine what could be. Patience may be a virtue, but recognizing a lost cause is surely one, too! I thought the fire analogy was flawed in an important respect:

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan M.
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Re: Peaceful Change L3 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:53:22 -0500, Dan Minette wrote ... To me, the only difference between this and 6

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: So the next time Republicans march in something organized by the KKK you'll say, ohh, that's guilt by association, really you shouldn't critcize. Wait. No Republican in this day and age would _ever_ do something like that. You seem to be

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: So the next time Republicans march in something organized by the KKK you'll say, ohh, that's guilt by association, really you shouldn't critcize. Wait. No Republican in this day and age

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to be suggesting here that no Klan members are Republicans. Are you certain? Or do you mean instead that no elected Republican official would show public support for the Klan? The latter -

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:09 PM Thursday 4/21/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and maybe we should elect our representatives to that body rather than allowing someone to nominate borderline psycopaths to be our

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-21 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 4/21/05, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maru wrote: Wait, wasn't Tipler's argument basically given certain physical constraints, we would surely be re-incarnated at the end of the Universe? ... How would we be re-incarnated? And if you think we will be, how do

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ramsey Clark is representing Saddam Hussein. You say that makes him a bad person. Sigh Continuing my descent down the rabbit hole... Ramsey Clark _is_ a bad person. Defending Saddam Hussein was really just a confirmation of that fact, as anyone

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:26:53 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote The fact that you feel somehow compelled to defend such a thoroughly disgusting figure When did I defend Ramsey Clark? I was trying to follow an argument you offered. I'm not taking issue with your assessment of Ramsey Clark.

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:48 PM Subject: RE: Peaceful Change L3 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:26:53 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote The fact that you feel somehow compelled

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:56:59 -0500, Dan Minette wrote Nick, are you reading different posts than I am? I don't see how you are reading that as defense of Ramsey Clark. I asked if the fact that he's defending Saddam Hussein proves that he is a bad person. If it is true, then he is a bad

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: RE: Peaceful Change L3 ... you don't associate yourself with anything that someone like ANSWER organizes ever

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, making ANSWER and the KKK in any way equivilent is an exercise in idiocy. xponent A Compendium Of Whackos Maru rob I don't think so, Rob. I'm assuming that you just haven't looked at them in detail - they're purely a front group

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Ah, the other defense of the pathetic left. Cry fascism. This isn't even worth discussing. If you're using it honestly (and I don't think you are, because you're too smart to actually think this) then, as they said in The Princess Bride, That word. I do not think

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think you could tone down the insult rhetoric a bit? Remember that you guys have an audience. TIA xponent Concrete Maru rob I'm sorry, Nick just called me a McCarthyite and a Fascist and you object to me telling Nick the word doesn't

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You went to Harvard, so should we assume that you therefore endorse and stand for Jim Wallis' ideas, since he teaches there? Heck, you participate in Brin- L and so do I, so does that mean you endorse all of *my* ideas? All of David Brin's? Are

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: So the next time Republicans march in something organized by the KKK you'll say, ohh, that's guilt by association, really you shouldn't critcize. Wait. No Republican in this day and age would _ever_ do something

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, making ANSWER and the KKK in any way equivilent is an exercise in idiocy. xponent A Compendium Of Whackos Maru rob I don't think so, Rob. I'm assuming that you just haven't looked at them in detail - they're

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr Brin, I mean Gautam.G..you seem to be saying that ANSWER has killed people. More peole than the KKK if I am reading you correctly. I think that deserves some explaination. xponent Just Teasing You Dude! Maru rob :-) The

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think you could tone down the insult rhetoric a bit? Remember that you guys have an audience. TIA xponent Concrete Maru rob I'm sorry, Nick just called me a McCarthyite and a Fascist and you object to me telling

RE: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Paul
Gautam Mukunda --- Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda So Gautam, are you saying that the US invaded Iraq out of a deeply felt need to save the Iraqi people? Not cos of WMD risks, not cos of issues over oil? Again with this? Why are people who think _George

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: So the next time Republicans march in something organized by the KKK you'll say, ohh, that's guilt by association, really you shouldn't critcize. Wait. No Republican in

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr Brin, I mean Gautam.G..you seem to be saying that ANSWER has killed people. More peole than the KKK if I am reading you correctly. I think that deserves some explaination. xponent Just Teasing You Dude!

RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Paul
Dan Minette From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 And why isn't the US invading North Korea? Why is it, as you put it doing nothing? As JDG said, the answer to that is fairly straightforward. South Korea begged Clinton

Re: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:34 PM Subject: RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3 Dan Minette From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Removing Dictators Re

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Doug Pensinger
Gautam wrote: Ah, the height of rational argumentation - calling someone who disagrees with you a psychopath. I don't know if I disagree with him. I do think the U.N. could use reform, but a conservative Republican colleague of his called him a serial abuser and three Republicans on the

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:02:20 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote I'm sorry, Nick just called me a McCarthyite and a Fascist I'd appreciate it if you'd differentiate comments about behavior from comments about people... and questions from statements. and you object to me telling Nick the word

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