Alberto wrote:
But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove
the old one?
Do your kids have any pets? You could always rig up the fan to provide
ventilation in a small animal enclosure. Or you could build a micro wind
tunnel to test airborne nano-tech.
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a bit more about aluminum tubes during Rice's
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wage a successful war against terrorism?
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. A hint...?
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. I've forgotten the thread
now, or what lead me to this conclusion!
OK, I remember the 3 stooges part but what's the reference to purple-gray?
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JDG wrote:
This would be democracy at work, would it not?
Is it democracy when some miniscule portion of the electorate wields
disproportionate power?
And aren't you the one that keeps insisting that the U.S. _isn't_ a
democracy? Or are we only a democracy when you like the results?
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, placement of lit
cigarettes into a detainee's ear openings and unauthorized interrogations.
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-mail offsets another from the Parents Television
Council. I hope you get a lot more just like this. Because I want the PTC
out of my living room. I've got a sneaking suspicion they're going to end
up in my bedroom.
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Gautam wrote:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody. I will
be on vacation and away from e-mail for a while.
Baltimore area, I presume...
My best to you and your families.
Same to you Gautam, be safe. We'll keep the list warm for you. 8^)
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getting France/Germany/whomever on board as much as
it is doing the _right_thing_ and inviting the rest of the world to help
if they wanted to do the right thing as well. And IMO, Iraq was never the
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I thought I already sent this - over three hours ago, but I don't see it
on the list so I'll try again.
Gautam wrote:
See, Doug, this is where we disagree. You have
somehow managed to convince yourself that the rest of
the world is interested in the right thing.
No, _I'm_ interested in doing
Gautam wrote:
Yes, that is usually part of the definition of foreign
policy. Anyone who _knows_ what to do about Iran or
North Korea is either lying or a fool.
True, but you still need to have some basic idea of how you would approach
the problem.
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that sees a couple of smaller kids
fighting and decides to solve the problem. He approaches them, bashes one
over the head and kicks the other in the nards and then brushes his hands
together chuckling mission accomplished
With that kind of vision, short sightedness is a boon.
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written. The idea behind the test,
however, was not to determine how you would solve the problem but to
determine from which angle you would approach it. As with any truncated
set of answers, some are not compatible with the angle of those taking the
quiz.
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Warren wrote:
The one following that is When will Congress impeach Bush?
Never until the people in this country wake up to the fact that they're
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the peace. Especially if the poor planning is the main reason the
peace has turned back into war.
Well said. In addition the war crimes occurring under his leadership lend
credence to the idea that he is grossly incompetent. He's definitely the
worst of a bad lot.
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Realist. But there were no good answers to some of the questions.
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Dan wrote:
Indeed, he appears to be the inverse of his father...all the vision
thing and virtually no practical implementation.
'cept I wouldn't give him much credit for vision either.
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Dave Land wrote:
Which Ten Commandments? From Positive Atheism:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
Dave
How interesting that Catholisism has deleted the graven image commandment
altogether. I wonder what the history behind that is?
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kerri wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone else hear use Itunes extensively?
I do I do!
First, are you using this on mac or winders?
Winders.
1. Shuffle. While I think that over a long time span the shuffle is
essentially random, I've noticed that over a shorter period
the case, how does criminalizing the effect (prostitution)
help eliminate the cause (sexual abuse)?
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, but you have to pick the numbers off one
at a time. Click history in the tool bar.
http://tinyurl.com/5gyt3
Do a google search for barometric pressures Rio de Janeiro and you
might find something better.
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in restaurants for many years now
and it was banned in bars about 5 years ago.
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and it must be
given the societal support it needs. Laws can be changed overnight, but
attitudes can persist for generations.
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never have the problem when I record albums (using mp3)
That's all I can think of right now.
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. But some things that we embrace wholeheartedly
have very serious problems - automobile transportation for instance.
The question (in my mind anyway) isn't weather or not there are problems
but how best we deal with those problems.
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) improvements in health
care, education and drug rehabilitation for the prostitutes would quickly
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into euphemisms
for sex... ;-)
Oh, well, thanks for _that_ imagery Steve! 8^)
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of the massive amount of money involved.
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. I'm not arguing that it isn't possible to be upset with
the skit, racist or not. I just think that considering other aspects of a
football game it's disingenuous to be upset with this spot and ambivalent
about others.
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? I wouldn't want to send congress off half-cocked in an attempt to
solidify the industry, but to keep limping along the way we are now seems
a recipe for meltdown.
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Warren wrote:
My my, you're bored stiff, aren't you?
Well it started out as a serious post...
I guess the ED drugs were needed to keep the intellectual masturbation
going.
But they've gone nuts with the advertising, don't you think?
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and tacit
racists.
Wether you want to believe it or not there are alot of racists, closet and
otherwise, Republican and otherwise, in the world and the thing that
pisses them off the most is the sight of a beautiful white woman in the
arms of a black man.
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members with longer tenures and accomplishing goals without legislation.
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I found this article on the Monday Night Football debacle this week to be
on target.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/rapoport/cst-spt-rap18.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/5d8ko
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.
Right.
I wonder if we would even be having this discussion if it had been Payton
Manning instead of T.O.?
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:12:19 -0800 (PST), David Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From personal experience I
can tell you that it is
very cool to get a package from back home when
you've been deployed for
many months.
Doug, if you still have contacts
positions held by 28
people over 96 months)
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Nick wrote:
He was killed in Fallujah.
My deepest sympathies, Nick. I can only imagine the range of emotions
days after welcoming a new grandchild into the world.
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unwilling to lose? Did I miss the revolution? Are you saying we
shouln't be unhappy that we lost?
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Half of America apologizes to the world:
http://www.sorryeverybody.com/
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frustrated, but I don't
imagine you would find your problems resulted from malice on Nick's part.
In any case, I hope you, Jeroen and the little one are happy and
prosperous and I know you will be missed by most of us.
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The little one is tentatively named Carly Annamarie Valenzuela, but
daddy wasn't party to that decision, so it's still up in the air.
Congrats Nick! I found out last month that my daughter and son in law are
expecting - my first grandchild!!
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That's a number more solidly rooted in reality than the Hopkins figure
and, given that fact, no less shocking.
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off in the same direction - in favor of Kerry?
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? Do they only take regular polls in
higher-population districts? That makes no sense at all to me.
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or as you stated
it they are not like us in some way.
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son was
drafted I would do everything in my power, legal or not, to insure that he
didn't go.
I'm not saying Gautam is wrong, I trust that he knows what he's talking
about in this instance, but I don't want to be caught off guard either.
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their lives for a very
questionable cause is not reasonable. What if we _do_ get involved in a
second, legitimate conflict and the draft becomes necessary because most
of our troops are committed in Iraq?
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JDG wrote:
First, am I the only one who found Doug's response here to be quite the
non sequitur?
How so?
Secondly, for whatever it is worth, I would point out that Kerry never
indicated for a moment that he had a better plan for winning this thing
than Bush did..
The election's over John.
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Thanks for the honest assessment, I agree with most of the rest of your
post. For the sake of our country, Iraq and indeed the whole world I hope
we can get the hell out of there in a year or two, but unless we just cut
and run, I don't see how.
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Julia Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Doug Pensinger wrote:
JDG wrote:
First, am I the only one who found Doug's response here to be quite
the
non sequitur?
How so?
I thought it looked like a response to something in a different thread.
The Purple America thread seemed to be about county
those arguments.
You mean like Gays?
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will be watching the election returns in a hotel
room in Salt Lake City tomorrow?
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Laden knew they could not stop it without knowing
the specifics, but later they would be hard-pressed to turn on him if he
could disclose their foreknowledge.
Passive support eh?
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heater, some of the money I fork over is going to forces
that are killing and maiming our kids. They might have gotten better
about laundering the money, but there are elements of the Saudi government
that are funneling money to terrorists.
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) and of
course all the shy ones. I hope you're not too put off by the
contentiousness of some of the exchanges.
And hey, stick around, we might even discuss SF now and then...
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. In aggressive
military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his fathers
shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the September 11
attacks. Suddenly, hes at 91 percent in the polls, and hed barely
crawled out of the bunker.
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Erik wrote:
And this is getting silly, so this is my last.
_Getting_ silly???
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beautiful place. The weather in January is
unpredictable, ranging from nice to miserable, but it can be cold and
foggy in July too.
I'd be happy to answer in more depth later,
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of the hijackers stayed in the months leading up to 9/11.
and much much more. Especially damning for the Bush family is the Charles
W. White interview here:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/conspiracytheories/white.pdf
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between
the Saudis and Bush.
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within 745 miles of
Titan's unseen surface at precisely 9:44 a.m. Pacific time today, and
scientists have readied the most sensitive instruments aboard Cassini for
a series of hit-or-miss attempts to gain their first clear understanding
of the tantalizing moon.
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is
protecting the Saudi government - members of the Saudi royal family that
were directly funding the 9/11 terrorists?
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Dan wrote:
1) Crooks
2) Throwbacks
3) Idiots
I think I mistated 3. It should be Crazy.
I think you should add 4. Deluded. I know people that still think Nixon
was a good president.
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Dan wrote:
The world is full of possibilities Doug, but this is a long shot.
Political pressure comes from leverage. Who would we get involved in a
coalition to push on Saudi, and what would be the leverage.
A trillion dollars worth of investments in the U.S. alone, maybe?
It would certainly
Gautam wrote:
There's another common thread, Doug, let me help _you_
find it. Not government agents. It's kind of a
significant difference.
Except Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi agent, who provided extensive assistance
to two of the hijackers whom he met after meeting one Fahad al-Thumairy,
later
other than nuclear seems to be a general policy of the
Bush administration.
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that everyone who
disagrees with you must be an enemy of the US?
isn't insulting?
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administration rather than Republicans
in general. So no, that's not a fair reading at all.
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that the
President is being bribed or blackmailed.
The evidece that the President coddles big business is legion.
Tell me, Doug, is there anything that a Democrat could
do that would bother you?
Of course. I named one above. But this isn't about Democrats (I'm an
independant by the way and was a registered
administrations
to conspire to break the law.
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public. In the war with the Taliban he showed restraint as
well as effectiveness. Large numbers of Americans had a powerful bonding
experience with the president--a bond that they may be loath to
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a world that tended
towards the egalitarian and, within reason, the democratic. Their prestige
in English-speaking lands was carried on the wave of British and American
expansion into every corner of the world.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?041011crat_atlarge
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to hate us he has provided both the best
recruiting tool al qaeda could have hoped for and a miriad of targets for
them to attack.
You're really stretching for reasons to vote for Bush, Gautam.
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JDG wrote:
Doug, I am interested to know that you now consider Pat Robertson to be a
reliable source.
Maybe you are going to start listening to what Pat Robertson has to say
about salvation as well?
If Alex Rodriguez tells a reporter that he thinks that Pedro is a dick, we
all take
cool!
Now has anyone considered the ramifications of a Houston/Boston
confrontation?
What if the Red Sox were to esruc in game 7, on halloween, two days before
the other confrontation between Texas and Massachusetts?
Woohooohhohoohoo.
8^)
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Who's actually routing for Tony
report
(PDF)http://aging.senate.gov/events/hr67gao.pdf compiled in 2001 and
entitled FLU VACCINE: Supply Problems Heighten Need to Ensure Access for
High-Risk People.
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Gautam wrote:
Geez, Doug, don't elevate the stakes here. First (you
mentioned the draft, which I snipped, sorry) we
certainly don't need a draft to put another, say,
100,000 troops in Iraq (which would put us at about
250,000, which is where we need to be). It is within
the capacity of the US
are loosing the battle is on the TV screens,
the cafes and the livingrooms of Iraq -- and the
larger Muslim world.
This is kind of what I meant, you just said it much better than I did.
Damon, what's your feel for military morale and support for the war?
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://www.brazzil.com/pages/p24feb98.htm
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when they see the
difficulty we have encountered in subduing resistance in Iraq?
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henchpeople knew prior to the war even
as they evoked the specter of mushroom clouds) Hussein had no nuclear
capability and was not a _nuclear_ threat.
Is that clear now?
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that the nuclear
case was weak, but expressed sober certitude in public.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237349/
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said on
Wednesday the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq had failed tragically in its aim
of making the world a safer place and succeeded only in stimulating
terrorism.
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, no matter who makes them they would seem pretty
hollow now, seeing as we can't even subdue the hostile elements in Iraq.
It's going to take a lot more than threats to solve the problems of the
world exacerbated as they have been by this sorry excuse for a leader.
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the impetus for
our adversaries to unite against us where they _never_ could have come up
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on Islamic
Terror, this is a tremendous difference between the two parties.
How do we win that war, John? It's a war of attrition that we're loosing
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with the enlisted men and women.
Extending their enlistments is perhaps the single best way to alienate
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Gautam wrote:
unlike you or anyone
else on this list, I did that knowing there's a good
chance there could be adverse professional
consequences for me for saying something like that in
public.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, my friend.
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Dan wrote:
I must differ with you on this, Doug. Gautam is showing his intellectual
honesty and willingness to speak the truth as he sees it, no matter how
inconvenient that is. That certainly hurts his chances at a career in
politicseven though it is a virtue. :-)
I wasn't doubting his
support for Israel wavers: when Bush asked
Ariel Sharon to pull his tanks out of Jenin in 2002, he received 100,000
angry emails from Christian fundamentalists, and never mentioned the
matter again.
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