SCOUTED: The Worst President in History?

2006-04-26 Thread David Land
Folks, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/ This piece appeared in the Rolling Stone last Friday. It considers, without immediately jumping to its conclusion, whether GWB may be what the title suggests. (For our international readers, that's Worst US President, of course

Fight the Future: Texas Hospitals and HMO's Conspire to Murder People

2006-04-26 Thread The Fool
Welcome to King George IV's Texas, where Hospitals, Insurance companies, and HMO's are legally allowed to murder people: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/25/181614/934 The hospital ethics committee met the day before yesterday and concluded that Andrea's treatment (respirator and

Re: Fight the Future: Texas Hospitals and HMO's Conspire to Murder People

2006-04-26 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool Welcome to King George IV's Texas, where Hospitals, Insurance companies, and HMO's are legally allowed to murder people: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/25/181614/934 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/images/ANSWERMAN/215/GUN.gif

Re: Fight the Future: Texas Hospitals and HMO's Conspire to Murder People

2006-04-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:50 AM Wednesday 4/26/2006, The Fool wrote: From: The Fool Welcome to King George IV's Texas, where Hospitals, Insurance companies, and HMO's are legally allowed to murder people: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/25/181614/934

The Day the Music Died

2006-04-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/25/health.beans.reut/index.html --Ronn! :) Bathroom humor is an American-Standard. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Optimism for the USA

2006-04-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Nick Arnett wrote: Maybe the idea that everything was created in six days (...) Would you invest your money in oil companies whose science and geology team was made of Creationists? :-P Alberto Monteiro ___

RE: three paradigm shifts?

2006-04-26 Thread Dan Minette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert J. Chassell Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:59 AM To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: three paradigm shifts? Were there three major paradigm shifts? I go further back than Dan. Over the course

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-04-26 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of

Re: Optimism for the USA

2006-04-26 Thread maru dubshinki
On 4/25/06, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I don't say it in the draft, but I have heard that for the past 600 or so years, various Muslim theologians have said that their God is omnipotent and unrestrained. Does anyone know whether this is true?] Robert J. Chassell

Re: Optimism for the USA

2006-04-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 4/26/06, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you invest your money in oil companies whose science and geology team was made of Creationists? :-P I don't think I'd knowingly invest in anything run by Creationists if those ideas had anything to do with what they were doing. I

Re: Optimism for the USA

2006-04-26 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 4/25/2006 8:11:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm content to let it remain a mystery. Like many other things, I don't think that whether or not it is literal truth would make any difference in the way I live my life. I often wonder what it is that

FDA: Plan B would lead to 'Teen Sex Cults'

2006-04-26 Thread The Fool
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_digbysblog_archive.html#1146 8253976488 In the memo released by the FDA, Dr. Curtis Rosebraugh, an agency medical officer, wrote: As an example, she [Woodcock] stated that we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the

Re: Hello (hello, hello)

2006-04-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:26 PM Tuesday 3/21/2006, Steve Sloan wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh A dance floor game I saw a couple of years ago at Con-Stellation, courtesy of Pat McAdams: Take two index cards. Write That's the way on the front of one card. Write I like it