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AS CONGRESS RETURNS TO FOGGY BOTTOM, A HOST OF NEW RELIGION FRIENDLY
BILLS ON THE AGENDA
Web Posted: September 4, 2003
Lawmakers returning from their late-summer recess will take up a slew of
new and old religion friendly legislative items.
In
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Midnight Ride of the Rabble
by Thom Hartmann
To every Middlesex village and farm,
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the
Highly discouraged top-post:
Wow, did this topic devolve rapidly!
I wondered about that myself (since I initiated it). Am I the only Brineller
who went to Worldcon this year?
Tom Beck
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I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I
Alberto wrote.
What I *really* would like now is so simple that I still
don't know why
it's not available: a system so that I can keep track of the
_approximate_ location of a cell phone. Cell Phones are all the time
connected to a nearby station, so this system would enable me, for
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The Bills are a bit of a homer pick, and a bit out of character for me since
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expect the Bills to overcome a slow start and really take advantage of the
sheer talent they
Well, I've already started the 2003 NFL Season off on the right foot by
picking the Jets to rally around Vinny Testaverde and defeat the Washington
Redskins. Oops! Getting essentially three shots to convert one yard with
three minutes left in a tie game and failing every time simply cannot
G. D. Akin wrote:
Highly discouraged top-post:
Wow, did this topic devolve rapidly!
Well, some of us have minds regularly in the gutter, and some of us
encourage such behavior in others. :) I got yelled at by the art
teacher in 8th grade because I laughed every time Boris did something
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
And while some people would indeed want to use it as Alberto suggested, to
make sure his wife safely gets to work, I suspect that a lot of people
would use it to track their spouse who they suspect of having an affair, or
for stalking ex-spouses who have not thought to
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William T Goodall wrote in response to the fool:
Christian fundamentalism, like all other forms of religious
fundamentalism, fosters ignorance and certitude through the use of
force.
It creates division, and prevents progress through unity. Keep that in
mind, the next
Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
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Or murdering doctors who happen to perform abortions amongst their many other
services to their patients.
It still strikes me as very contradictory that religious fundamentalists
in following God's law claim to do so by consciously
Ray Ludenia wrote:
Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
That, and in Belgium you usually get paid an all in
salery. So if you finish early the rest of the hours are considered a bonus. I for one always found that extremely motivating.
Wow, wouldn't that be fantastic! Most jobs here in Aus with a
I think that in the minds of those extreme enough to kill doctors who
perform abortions, what the doctors do is murder, and what they do in
killing the doctors is justifiable and *not* murder. (I disagree
strongly with that position! Guess I don't have what it takes to be a
bomber or a
I am no great fan of Emerson, whose romanticism often snubbed or
insulted the Enlightenment.
Still, as you might expect, I agree about feudalism. Look this way.
Everywhere (!) that humans discovered both metallurgy agriculture,
big men picked up metal implements and stole other men's women
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But there *are* circumstances under which I *would* kill. Just not
religiously motivated ones. My own survival, and that of my children,
would be the prime motivating factor in any killing I did.
Not that I agree with this
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Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
On the other hand, there are people who already complain about the fact
that the cell phone service can locate their phone and the possibility
that the company could be forced to give that information to law
enforcement agencies who might be interested in tracking them
And America was not conceived of as a feudal state, feudalism being
broadly defined as rule by the super-rich. Rather, our nation was
created in large part in reaction against centuries of European
feudalism. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his lecture titled The Fortune
of the Republic, delivered
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Damon wrote:
...
Of course I could go on to say that feudalism was an agreement between two
men in which one did service for the other in exchange for land, and has
nothing to do with rulership. But then, I don't think anyone really cares
about history anymore, or getting it right... :(
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And America was not conceived of as a feudal state, feudalism being
broadly defined as rule by the super-rich. Rather, our nation was
created in large part in reaction against centuries of European
feudalism. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his lecture titled
At 04:35 PM 9/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
On the other hand, there are people who already complain about the fact
that the cell phone service can locate their phone and the possibility
that the company could be forced to give that information to law
enforcement agencies
So feudalism was just a lot of private contracts? O.K..
But if one's choice is accept a serfdom contract or starve, isn't
this in fact coercion?
Technically serfdom is outside the bounds of feudalism because a serf does
not do homage or swear fealty for his lands. Reguardless, using
Damon wrote:
So feudalism was just a lot of private contracts? O.K..
But if one's choice is accept a serfdom contract or starve, isn't
this in fact coercion?
Technically serfdom is outside the bounds of feudalism because a serf does
not do homage or swear fealty for his lands.
At 10:22 AM 9/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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On 9/6/03 11:49 PM, Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bears will suck so bad they'll wish they were playing in Champaign
again.
You said that just to get at me. You are still angry that the Bears keep
beating the Falcons no matter how good or bad they are. But what really
angers me is
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