Re: Sore losers

On 8/27/2008 12:10:37 AM, Warren Ockrassa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Rceeberger wrote: > > > You have a weird perspective. It > isn't that America is moving down, > > it is > > that so many are moving up into our realm. > > Beg to differ. In the last three or so deca

Re: Sore losers

Jon wrote: They whine because they can't prove the Chinese gymnists lied about their > age. Who cares what age they are; that is an arbitrary rule that should be > eliminated. I could be wrong, but doesn't the rule have something to do with the adverse effect of the extreme amount of stress on

Re: Sore losers

On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Rceeberger wrote: > You have a weird perspective. It isn't that America is moving down, > it is > that so many are moving up into our realm. Beg to differ. In the last three or so decades we've seen a rise in disparagement of education,* particularly in the scienc

Re: Sore losers

On 8/26/2008 11:42:10 PM, Olin Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Because if you assign 3 points for gold, 2 for silver and 1 point for > bronze, then the crybaby yanks lost to china, and that is unacceptable to > the American chauvinist, >patriotic, jingoist, dogmatic, nationalistic > media.

Re: Sore losers

On 8/26/2008 9:27:15 PM, Jon Louis Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Because if you assign 3 points for gold, 2 for silver and 1 point for > bronze, then the crybaby yanks lost to china, and that is unacceptable to > the American chauvinist, patriotic, jingoist, dogmatic, nationalistic > media.

Re: Sore losers

>Because if you assign 3 points for gold, 2 for silver and 1 point for bronze, >then the crybaby yanks lost to china, and that is unacceptable to the American >chauvinist, >patriotic, jingoist, dogmatic, nationalistic media. Americans >can not accept that they are on their way down, and no long

Re: Sore losers

On Aug 26, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > Americans can not accept that they are on their way down, and no > longer first in everything. Some might not be able to. Some of us have been saying so for years. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http:/

Sore losers

> So why are the Americans counting total medals instead of > golds for > the Olympics? And why the innuendo about Usain Bolt > "as long as he's > clean"? And the manufactured fuss about miming during > the opening > ceremony when everybody does it during these kind of events > (the > Austr

Sore losers

So why are the Americans counting total medals instead of golds for the olympics? And why the innuendo about Usain Bolt "as long as he's clean"? And the manufactured fuss about miming during the opening ceremony when everybody does it during these kind of events (the Australians admitted th

Conspiracy theories

The vital thing about that show was that it was the only piece of mass media I ever saw that had the guts to fight back against dismal conspiracy theories. ONLY in that episode do you learn that LH Oswald was an expert Marine marksman, that he had stalked an American general and very likely worked

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

On 8/26/08, Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then there was the episode of _Quantum Leap_ where originally both (JFK and > Jackie) were killed. > >From a distance of about 16 years, I remember that episode as much more intense than most episodes of that show. -- Mauro Diotallevi

Vernor Vinge in the New York Times

There's an interesting interview/review of "Rainbow's End" in the NY Times today. Olin http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26tier.html?scp=1&sq=technology%20that%20outthinks%20us&st=cse

Re: McCain Positions

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > At 05:16 PM Monday 8/25/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: > >> (I'm 45, born the same week Kennedy was shot) > > > > ObSF: > > > > And the week _Doctor Who_ premiered . . .

Re: McCain Positions

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 05:16 PM Monday 8/25/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: >> (I'm 45, born the same week Kennedy was shot) > > ObSF: > > And the week _Doctor Who_ premiered . . . And the week C. S. Lewis died. Heck, he died on the *day* Kennedy was shot. Julia

Re: McCain Positions

> From: Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Who do you think it is fair for someone to take your money and give it to? An efficient justice system, including courts and police. Road and bridge builders are okay. Military engaged in defending (in a narrow definition of defend) the country

Re: Br¡n: What's in the works?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Ronn! Blankenship < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:57 PM Monday 8/25/2008, John Garcia wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Chris Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Remember Remember 4 November! > > > > > >I do remember Jimmy Carter, > > > > In

Re: McCain Positions

>(I'm 45, born the same week Kennedy was shot) >ObSF: >And the week _Doctor Who_ premiered Thanks, Ronn. I never knew that. That's an anniversary worth celebrating. Olin - Original Message - From: Ronn! Blankenship To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Di

Re: McCain Positions

At 05:16 PM Monday 8/25/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: >(I'm 45, born the same week Kennedy was shot) ObSF: And the week _Doctor Who_ premiered . . . . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: McCain Positions

At 04:27 PM Monday 8/25/2008, John Williams wrote: >I was writing about economics, not morality. But since you asked. I >do not think it is fair for someone to take my money and give it to >agricultural corporations. Who do you think it is fair for someone to take your money and give it to?

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

At 10:51 AM Monday 8/25/2008, David Brin wrote: >See: > February '77 National Lampoon --"Grand Fifth Term >Inaugural Issue: JFK's First 6,000 Days" which >featured a silver-haired JFK on the cover. The whole >issue was a big "what if..." about how things might >have turned out had the assassin's b

Re: Br¡n: What's in the works?

At 01:03 PM Monday 8/25/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: > >I am not sure how Obama will > > support the scientific community other than getting out of the > > business of trying to make scientific reports match political agendas. > > I suspect his economic social and foreign policy initiatives to get us

Re: Br¡n: What's in the works?

At 12:57 PM Monday 8/25/2008, John Garcia wrote: >On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Chris Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Remember Remember 4 November! > > >I do remember Jimmy Carter, Including his response to what happened on his watch on that date? . . . ronn! :) _