> the habitat of the spineless French crab was
Oooh...bad, BAD Ronn!!
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ill, if the Fool is defining ALL of religion based
on JW, its still incorrect. I guess that would be like
defining Germans based on the Nazis, or somesuch.
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ne by the
user himself. Cars moved beyond that point within
around 20 years or so, and it may be computers are
reaching that point now...
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Just a quick update on this issue. There was a story
about it on the news tonite. The girl WAS offered to
take Communion with wine, but her mother rejected the
idea (she rejected the idea). So John was correct.
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umed for Communion (its
miniscule; its not like the priest is standing next to
her telling her to chug)? Perhaps you have a
particular hangup against alcohol?
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> Wtf is to _cut_ the wine?
Never heard the term? Its how much you water it down,
i.e to "cut" it with water.
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light, its only natural to assume that some drank wine
or alcohol as children, in some form or another
(primarily thinking about Rome and Europe here, don't
really know about other cultures).
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> Dark Ages is not a term that has valuable meaning,
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Ah, thanks for remembering! :)
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Wow! This is craptastic! I can't wait!
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> It's too bad that none of us personally know an
> established SF writer
> who could offer an opinion on this obviously burning
> issue.
Yeah where could we find one of those...?
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> I think people are perhaps feeling a bit gun shy
> right now to uncork
> that bottle...
As the old saying goes fortune favors the bold (or was
that foolish???)...
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-1500 tanks; they lost nearly
every one of them. I would posit then that the true
benefit of the air campaigns was not in production
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think it shows,
and he was more responsible for the number of German
disasters (which were happening almost daily in late
1944 on, but especially in 1945) than anything.
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armor production of the
ENTIRE war! Further, by the latter part of the war the
Soviets were producing better quality tanks (at least
more capable...the IS-2 was a very capable tank for
the time).
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handmaidens of his
> wives.
But the question is, is that actually rape? Or was
that a cultural more?
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until sometime in 1944. Before that time the German
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ust. The point is, that these
Germans KNEW what they were doing was immoral, but
chose to do it anyway (power and free will sometimes
are not the best combinations). If they had thought
kiling Jews was ethical there would have been real
consequences to a refusal to participate.
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525 and doesn't
pick up again until around 1898-1914. Of course one of
my friends thinks its a travesty of all that is noble
and good that I know more about, say, the Battle of
Patay than I do about Lexington...
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Did I miss something important?
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a captive of an exceedingly powerful Type
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> Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben "helping George Bush get
> into the National
> Guard was the worst thing I ever did" Barnes was to
> be interviewed.
Oh yes. That.
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That's easy. Ford is superior. And y'all are jerkfaces
if you don't agree...!
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> There are a couple plausible interpretations of his
> comment:
D) Bush was speaking realistically, but talks about
"winning the war" as election day double speak.
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go, or was there a more spiritual
punishment? What about the incidence of repeat
offences AFTER discovery? Where these priests
rehabilitated after they were exposed? For an
organization that believes in repentance and
forgiveness it begins to make more sense...
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saying that there was a very good likelihood for a
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figure painting and
model building. Some nights you're just in *the
groove* and you NEED a 3/0 round sable brush to keep
your groove-on going. Done it.
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d like to see better, supporting
evidence that there was a disaster at the Airport. For
all we know this guy could just be a crank with an axe
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f course, I have already
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en $6 and $6.50 for a retail job; my fiancee
earns $6.25 doing retail). If for some reason the
local economy goes down, then I would expect wages to
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gone for him instead of Gore.
There are plenty of people that would make excellent
presidents. However we have to rely on the Democrats &
Republicans to actually NOMINATE them before we can
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o lazy to cite,
but a quick Google search should get the results...
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> Cheers
> Russell C.
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military, and you have a situation ripe for civil war.
Finally, the Carolingian Empire was divided amongst
Charlamange's 3 sons, following Germanic custom, so
that hardly count either...
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rsonally, I would liken the Punic Wars period more
like the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union,
complete with proxy states and a desire to spread
influence and alliances at the detriment of the other.
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> Octavian).
Memory is getting fuzzy here, but wasn't there the
"Social War" in the early (late?) 500's, or 400's? Or
was that the thing with the Gracci later on?
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Roman-on-Roman armed conflicts before the Late
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> Wasn't that the time that led into the Gracci and
> then
> Spartacus?
I don't know exactly the fall of the dates, but yes,
they would have all been contemporaries of one
another...
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them to begin with.
Where we are loosing the battle is on the TV screens,
the cafes and the livingrooms of Iraq -- and the
larger Muslim world.
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> My God. Have you no memory or sense of irony about
> how your words sound like Vietnam 1966, 1967, 1968,
> 1969
Yes, David. But you snipped the rest of what I said.
And the rest, was my point.
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don't want to go.
Morale is one of those things as a soldier is easy to
identify, but hard to categorize or explain. There are
a few different "types," and the morale to fight, the
self-confidence to take and sieze objectives, isn't
impacted as much.
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somewhere there was a failure of communication, and
the exact cause was not translated.
But they interviewed Gen. Hagenback and at least he
seemed sincere about resolving this.
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00 years.I also disagree with
the conclusion about how this influenced warfare or
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x27;t my ideal
candidate, but then I disagreed with almost everything
Bush had to say.
> Thank goodness, I think we've still got a fighting
> chance.
Have to say I'm not quite as confident... :(
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John, if you recall, I have been predicting a Kerry
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But I think that's a GOOD thing!
> get me a ticket maru
You have $200K. Can I have some? :P
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Absolutely. One of my favorite book series ever...
While watching the Farscape miniseries, I've caught several advertisements for an
Earthsea miniseries. Surprisingly, given that it *is* SciFi network, and they hate
their fans, it looks like it might be pretty good. Anyone else looking forward
Nice article.
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And while it will probably get me an earful of conservative backlash,
there are may be some who consider John Kerry something of a war hero for
beaching his swift boat, jumping off, capturing a VC grenade launcher or
machine gun or something, and getting back on board alive. At least one of
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nk I can really see where this is
going. So Gautam, when you posted your message were you also thinking about
*me* when you talked about the true motivations of the "left?"
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sounds like to me there is a breakdown someplace in the chain. But then, I
also don't have all the facts either, so I would have to reserve judgement
for another time...
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> Would you guys agree? Is this an indicator that
> "young people no longer
> find the real future exciting"? Or is it more just
> an indicator of book
> publishers overzealously adhering to the latest
> trends, while potentially
> great SF authors languish unpublished?
I personally think its
> I read the first one, and didn't see what my
> fantasy-reading peers saw
> in it. (This was in high school.)
Agree. I couldn't even FINISH the first book!
> I also never really got into Eddings. I got his
> first book out of the
> library, and it was OK. They didn't have the second
> boo
> I had thought that this particular abuse was already
> made illegal in
> Teddy Roosevelt's time, when the Anti Trust Act
> banned "interlocking
> directorates". I keep expecting that clause to be
> brought out,
> dusted off and used to send these bastards to jail.
> But so far,
> nothing.
with the 1st
Lady of Maryland's unfortunate quote.
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According to http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1057367 the
first 1000 bomber raid occurred in may 1942.
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> The beer I drink has started putting rebuses on it's
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IIRC she was on VH1's "Where are they Now" show
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> anything from the Bay Area, but one map showed
> medium visibility from
> about 100 miles north of here, so maybe...
Is such map O-L? I live in Pennsylvania but haven't
seen anything yet. Of course with most days being
overcast...
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the author who wrote the response
had an anti-Reagan bias, and therefore his material
was untrustworthy. The same danger can occur again in
this case. Don't let your bias get in the way of an
analysis, because they might just be right.
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Now Julia is endorsing violence! Good heavens!
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I think they have some MP3s...
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> Intro follows:
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> The Usefulness of Civil Disobedience-Part II-The
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Did he kinda resemble Winston Churchill when he was
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So its details youse wants? ;)
12K (tank Loader/Driver/Gunner), USANG, 28th ID(Mech).
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there any opinions on
this sort of program? How is an MBA from them viewed
by potential employers? How legitimate is it?
TIA,
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too. I read Battletech novels like I eat candy...but
tend to switch them up with weighty history tomes in
between.
Though ultimately I agree with the article's author:
Steven King sucks..
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might like them better. But
as someone approaching the books from the "outside"
they really fall flat for me...
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questions that
> were never answered,
> but otherwise it wasn't bad.
Heh just wait until I see it and pick apart the
historical innacuracies/anachronisms...
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