--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi John!
Is this really a flying visit or do you have time to tell us about
whatever exciting things you've been doing? Having just read Nick's
comment: do you have a weblog or something?
Rich
GCU Out Of The Loop
Hi Rich,
The Mystery Pollster, an excellent resource for those interested in
the ins-and-outs of polling, has two excellent pieces up in the past
two days.
The first one is an extensive analysis of the Freeman Paper that
has become mildly famous on the Internet. He does a good job of
highlighting
The Pew Center has done some interesting follow-up research on the
surprising escalation of moral values in the 2004 exit polls.
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/pew_on_moral_va.html
I should point out that this study was conducted after the
election. Thus, there is no doubt some
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It reflects the fact that never in my lifetime have the losers in
an election been so angry. In many places, it is a steaming wrath.
I'm glad that the post-1996 Republicans are now off the hook in this
regard!
JDG
I grew a little weary of dealing with the Area 51 stuff about the
election being stolen, but if you still aren't convinced, a couple
of blogs I occasionally read have recently had some good posts in
this regard:
First, the most excellent Mystery Pollster blog - a great read for
anyone
A very provocative editorial in today's Wall St. Journal. It
basically extends the theme I have previously dubbed the Fred
Kaplan school of foreign policy - namely that the utter failure of
Clinton's foreign policy in the DPRK, where the DPRK took our bribes
and built nuclear weapons
Just days after Bush's now-controversial State of the Union Address
in 2003, Clinton declared: After what happened on 9/11, the will of
the international community has stiffened, as represented by this
last U.N. resolution, which said clearly that the penalty for
noncompliance is no longer
Bush gets a defector of his own, the first Libertarian
Presidential Candidate:
http://bidinotto.journalspace.com/?entryid=181
JDG
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http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
My Internet access has been fritzy the past few days, so let me
quickly register my picks before the game starts. So far, I am 9-7
for the year, and the Upset Special is 1-0 as Detroit won on the road
for the first time in two years.
Speaking of Detroit, I expect them to lost at home to Houston,
The Bush administration's global AIDS plan has helped put at least
25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing
money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted
countries.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18902-2004Sep13.html
JDG - A Grade
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The latter - perpetrated by the exact same moronic
fools WHO LEFT SADDAM IN POWER IN 91 (Does anyone need
a scintilla more proof of their low IQ?)
Dr. Brin, surely you can't be serious.
Are you on record in favor of conquering
Given the ridiculous allegations that somehow Republicans have an
advantage in electoral fraud in recent US history, I offer the
following article as a counterpoint:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/fund200409130633.asp
As Gautam noted, electoral fraud most often involves poor people and
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And nowhere does the article say anywhere that the child was forced
to
drink wine, or drank wine, or that her parents were willing to have
their
daughter drink wine. Forcing a child to drink wine is immoral.
From the article:
The
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Amanda Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's something I would really like to understand, but I truly
don't:
How come people who would like to prevent abortion will not
support methods
that would prevent unwanted pregnancies (and therefore, non-
health/crisis
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you don't like it, don't do it, but don't try and impose your
weird
ideas on me.
You mean like requiring Catholic pharmacists to participate in
actions they believe to be the moral equivalent of murder?
JDG - The 1st
Niall Ferguson engages in some fascination exploration of what the
history of the next 50 years might look like in an apolar world.
Definitely well worth reading:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005244
What if the world is heading for a period when there is no
This is an old article, but it was still absolutely fascinating.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2060825
This article was reprinted because the (cough, cough) 9/11 Commission
has also concluded that NORAD dropped the ball on 9/11.
JDG
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Slate's most excellent Dahlia Lithwick had a great article yesterday
explaining why in fact that US Supreme Court decision was not ducking
the issue, but in fact made the correct decision:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102381/
Even if you believe the words
A bit of perspective on our recent discussions on this topic:
*
The Afghan administration had made an error its first year by paying
farmers not to grow poppies. We wanted to be kind to the farmers,
he [Karzai] said. But this encouraged every other farmer to grow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26255-2004Jun8.html
The ACLU is at it again, ruling that crosses may not be used as
Memorials to our war dead on Federal Land. According to the logic
of this ruling, at minimum the US cemetary in Normandy is
unconstitutional, and very arguably
This article is long, but is extremely well worth it - especially
along the lines of the long-running NPR discussions here.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/184u
adtr.asp
The overall theme of the article is the basic truism that economics
are inescapable -
In the sort of move that only The Fool could love, the ACLU has
recently succeeded in purging references to the role of the Spanish
Missions ins settling California in the Seal of the City of Los
Angeles.
After all, we all know that the City of Los Angeles was a virtual
theocracy under the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: JDG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We'll see what happens when the Massachusetts Voters approve their
constitutional amendment in two years in order to tell those
tyrants on the
MA Supreme Court exactly what the MA
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The Catholic Church should be able (and is) to speak out on any
subject it desires.
But threatening to refuse communion and/or excommunication goes far
beyond free speech. It is coercion.
O.k., let me make sure that I am not
There is an interesting editorial in today's Wall St. Journal.
Going beyond the short-term nailing of Kerry for flip-flopping on the
primacy of democracy or stability in Iraq, a much bigger case is
made. Namely that we may be experiencing a historic reversal of the
parties. Students of
In the following article, conservative opinion columnist makes the
somewhat surprising case for the similarities between Iraq and
Vietnam. The similarities he offers, however, while obviously having
a bit of gotcha quality to them, are nevertheless interesting - and
I'm interested as to what
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I haven't seen recent poll results in Iraq on line, which is
interesting.
I'm very surprised that you missed this poll:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/GoodMorningAmerica/Iraq_anniversa
ry_poll_040314.html
or
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
led a spectacularly successful War in Afghanistan
spectacularly successful? It's not over yet by a longshot, much
too
soon to call it a success. At best, it is a work in progress.
Again, it depends on your criteria. As noted
When I remarked that I was amused by the fact that some astronomers
don't consider Sedna a planet, our teenage daughter Kate joined in-
agreeing that Sedna shouldn't be classified a planet.
Surprised, I asked why. Dad, if Sedna is a planet, then Ceres is
too, and there are probably lots and lots
As I have noted previously, I spent much of last week and weekend
away from the Internet and my usual news sources. (Ironically, I
was helping run an educational event for high school students.)
Anyhow, as such I have missed much of the Richard Clarke brouhaha,
and despite having read much
This insightful essay throws water on the conventional wisdom that
the rise of the Republicans from Nixon-Gingrich was predicated on
attracting racist white southerners to the GOP coalition through code
words.
The crux of the argument:
-GOP polices consistently had intellectual merit, making
National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice set the record straight in
today's Washington Post...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13881-2004Mar21.html
Through the spring and summer of 2001, the national security team
developed a strategy to eliminate al Qaeda -- which was
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
elected on a margin of 537 votes.
He was elected on the margin of 1 SCOTUS vote.
I know that this is an article of Faith for you Fool, but even if
the Supreme Court ruled the other way, Bush still would have won the
recount as
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hell no. We were talking about that issue in my
seminar on American identity years ago. Easterbrook
is way behind the curve on this issue. I think I
first read the argument 5-6 years ago, and I know Paul
Samuelson had articles
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:04:49PM -, iaamoac wrote:
IAAMOAC to you too Mac.
I'm certainly not a member of YOUR civilization.
Which is, of course, exactly what David Brin meant by that.
JDG
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good article. This one is from the Weekly Standard:
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weeklystandard/1231944.html , The
Federal
Marriage Amendment is Hopeless
It argues that, by failing, the FMA will have the exact opposite
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never said that, did I?
(What gave me more reason to doubt your intellectual credentials
was how you argued with me about terrorism
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose that, in an effort to control world overpopulation
Everyone is free to marry anyone they want from the
same sex, but not of the opposite sex. Would you consider
that equal protection? How would you feel about such a
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This
was a relevant counter-example
Actually, it was irrelevant Erik. I asked whether a particular
judicial ruling is good for a free society, and he brought up a
judicial ruling that is over a decade old, without ever
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm going to be doing some analysis using numbers, but I want to be
sure
that there isn't an arguement on what a Christian fundamentalist
is. I'd
say that a Christian fundamentalist is one who, when asked:
Which of these
I am starting to think that it might be a full-time job to keep
debunking the daily lies spewed forth by The Fool on brin-l.
At any rate, The Washington Post reports today that President Bush
(whom The Fool disrespects as Shrub) had nothing to do with this
law passed by the IGC. Indeed,
Anne Applebaum reviews Ann Coulter's _Treason_ and muses:
Still, it isn't hard to imagine using the same methods to write the
same book from precisely the opposite point of view, and indeed
someone has already done it: Michael Moore, in Stupid White Men.
Moore's book calls for U.N. observers
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uh huh. If the Democrats had done this while they were in the
majority
would we be hearing from you about how they were abusing their
power in the
worst possible way? I suspect so.
By denying *elected political
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why bring up a topic such as religion when you
have already concluded that there is nothing you
could say and nothing they could say that would
put both sides on the same page?
I have concluded no such thing.
I can only
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:49:54AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
So agnostics are just as willing to find out if God exists as
they are
to find out that God does not exist?
That is pretty much the definition, I thought.
In
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want a serious discussion of religion, we should
probably all agree to adopt an agnostic viewpoint for the duration.
But what kind of discussion is it where one adopts a viewpoint that
one does not seriously believe?
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least we discuss religion here, which beats the heck out of
communities that pretend it doesn't exist or those that can't
touch on the subject without an immediate flame war.
Wait, how is this different from Brin-L again?
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect JDG is taunting you, Fool. Remember, he liked to
provoke Jeroen and then complain to the listowners when Jeroen
reacted. Recently, JDG posted his silly whining about how he thinks
there are a bunch of atheists here who
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This model of Education being the principal factor would also
hold through to undeveloped countries, contrary to JDG's
proposal that religion is a catalyst for having children in
developed countries.
I don't see why you think
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm referring to the problem of only 1.5 workers per
retired person (if retirement stays at 65) in 2050.
Which it won't. As advances in medicine make people more able-bodied
older, *and* as evidence accumulates that on-going
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The GS study says
there will only be 2.3 workers for every person 65 and over in
2050. If people retire at 65, there will be a lot more people
selling than buying in 2050 as compared to now.
I presume that you are referring to
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
One of the truisms that has been accepted by me, and others, is
that the US ecconomy has been growing faster than Europe's, and
that this reflects the advantages of less governmental control of
the ecconomy.
Dan:
In the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah, but out real motto should be:
We have healthy demographics, while Europe (with the
exception of Britain) is about to go down the toilet
because of the age of its population.
Having just spent the last week or so furiously
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
America's demographics aren't so hot either, just not as bad as
Europe's. But that isn't anything to be happy about.
Which, by the way, is a very good thing.
As our population ages and our health and abilities in old age
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Secondly, it's being
revised at the moment.
According to _The Economist_, France and others succeeding in putting
the kabosh on that, getting a moratorium on reforms until 2005 or
2006 passed.
We'll see how serious they are
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kind of the opposite of a Catholic Mass.
Actually, there are charismatic Catholic Masses.
I think that they are a lot of fun, actually.
JDG
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--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, maybe. Given that the two countries in worst
shape are Spain and Italy, probably the two most
Catholic countries in Europe, it's hard to argue that
Catholicism is helping here. They may not practice
all that much in either
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, it fell below replacement level only recently,
but it started falling a long time ago.
Well, for sure. Development is obviously going to cause the birth
rate to fall - but to what level?
To put it another way, imagine three
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gilbert Gosseyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A quick reading of the convention shows that we've breached 15
articles of the convention.
From Aricle 2 of the 4th Convention:
Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the
present Convention... they shall
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One ICC trial, coming up...
That was humor, right? Not a serious comment, right?
If not, you just confirmed the wisdom behind not joining the ICC...
- jmh
John,
You Got It!
Everybody, Jeroen is NOT BEING SERIOUS ABOUT
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're right - we pulled out of the treaty before violating it, so
technically..
BTW - the ABM Treaty specifically provided for a method of withdrawal
by either party through ample notification, which the US followed to
the letter.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
I am absolutely baffled that people can consider the reasons below
to be
valid reasons for starting the war.
Sorry, but I must correct the above woeful mischaracterization of my
post.
I did not list in the previous posts reasons for, quote,
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- Original Message -
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: Brin: Re: Peter Arnett has negative effect on ratings
At
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JDG - what's wrong with the football columns? I
_love_ the football columns? Gregg Easterbrook is my
_hero_ for the football columns...
If you send me any one of his football columns, I'll be able to point
out at least one error
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Where is the 101st, though? That's a question that
has been bugging me. Somewhere in the west? It's a
light infantry division - strategically, not
tactically, mobile. Its Apaches do give it
significant striking power
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
Go Spartans!
Them's fighting words!
Now, which tournament are you talking about -- the men's or the
women's?
Julia
wondering what happens if both winning teams are from the same
First, let me say that you just have to be really skeptical about a
press-release like this with few details and no links to see what the
details of the actual policy are. I know that my internal spin-
sensors went off with blinking lights when reading this, so I would
definitely like to know
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Of course, the John wouldn't find out how easy it is to assemble a
PC. G
Yeah so easy that just in the process of unhooking cables and
reconnecting them again I have so far destroyed one hard drive, one A
drive (no loss
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did it appear in SI? Your link pointed to Scaife's paper, and
since I knew
that John Steigerwald is a Pittsburgher, I assumed that the story
originated
there (like so much other Clinton-bashing).
Yes, the article noted (if you
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, it's just ironic that one group is angered by
another who does what the first said it would.
Come on Deboarah, I know that you are better than this, sure you see
a different between Nazi Germany crossing international borders
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We pretty much decided that the public does have a right to know,
but not as it is happening. Those were live Marines, very much
in harm's way.
AFAIK, though, nobody is showing live battle scenes, are they? (Due
to various
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
credits given
to private corporations
Mark your history books, liberals have just gone on the record as
supporting tax cuts for big business!
JDG - Pork by any other name, Maru.
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--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, it just that it matters much more when it involves illegally
selling arms to a country which has very recently held American
diplomatic personnel hostage, then when it involves adultery.
I must have missed the part where you changed
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...in case you still didn't believe that Bill Clinton
is and was a compulsive liar, he now claims to have
dunked a basketball in a high school basketball game.
Oops, consider the source.
Sports Illustrated?
JDG
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Religion is evil. And people with known evil tendencies shouldn't
be allowed to hold sensitive jobs.
Is religion more or less evil than bigotry?
JDG
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--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By labling all religion as evil, you've labled yourself as
intolerant. I'm not going to budge from that view.
Actually, he's done worse than that... he's labelled all *religious*
as evil, and indeed, directly compared them to
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This is the wrong thread (I think it's something
like Replace the UN?), did someone already suggest revoking the
permanent UNSC members individual rights to veto, and
maybe replacing that with a 4 or 5 (permanent)
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Religion is not evil. Just a crutch for the mind.
Belief without knowledge and critical thinking is evil.
Don't you mean knowledge *or* critical thinking, or do you *know*
everything that you believe?
Discrimination
based on
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- J.D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unprecedented Logic
Why slippery-slope arguments against invading Iraq
don't hold water.
By Eugene Volokh
Perhaps second thoughts are warranted:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...in case you still didn't believe that Bill Clinton
is and was a compulsive liar
Give it a rest. He's not president anymore, remember? You won,
OK? Your
guy is in office.
Boy, Republicans *really* hate that man...
I
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Religion is evil. And people with known evil tendencies shouldn't
be allowed to hold sensitive jobs.
Is religion more or less evil than bigotry?
Religion *is* bigotry.
I'm guessing then, you figured that if you
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That murder stops someone from living (thinking, moving,
communicating,
etc.) is verifiable and obvious. True, it is a belief that one
shouldn't
stop someone else from living against their will, but it is a belief
that follows
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:33:09AM -, iaamoac wrote:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable
Rights, that among
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What risk would that be?
He lives in the DC area.
With all those security measures in place, and with all that
military
hardware in position around DC, it is probably one of the safest
urban
areas in the country
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody know which pronunciation is actually correct for Iraq?
eye-wrack or eee-rock?
It is ee-wrack. I have a friend who is an ee-ranian immigrant,
and he is very insistant upon this.
What about Qatar?
I've always heard it as
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is an analysis made by someone who is pretty good about being
a good
researcher, but nobody is perfect. It was posted by him on a
mailing list
on Wednesday, 12 March 2003.
I'm not sure what significance he attaches to
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
That's not entirely correct. In The Netherlands, our politicians
have been
elected by the populace, and decisions are made by those
politicians.
However, The Netherlands is NOT a republic -- it's a democracy
(with a
constitutional monarchy).
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 19:20 16-03-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
If the US was under such occupation, what would happen? Well, I
hope to
God that if I wasn't dead, I'd be helping to smuggle Jews out of
the
country, and I'm confident
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ha! I group you three as people who have advanced
persuasive pro-war
arguments that made me stop and think about my
prejudices and fears.
Which remain, but their accuracy remains to be
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
Absolutely. Come Sunday, I will have been living in The Netherlands
for the
last 36 years. I can assure you that our politicians have been
elected (two
elections so far this year), and I can assure you that if my
country would
be a republic, I
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:11 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Absolutely. Come Sunday, I will have been living in The
Netherlands
for the last 36 years. I can assure you that our politicians
have
been elected (two elections so far
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. van Baardwijk
Now, let's see. Someone who has been living in The Netherlands for
almost
36 years says that the country is not a republic. There are no
government
documents that say that the country is still a republic (it ceased
to be a
republic a long
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alberto replied:
Such as Iraq?
100% Vote Maru
Yes, Iraq qualifies as a republic.
Not under any definition that I've seen posted. The people of Iraq
are not the ultimate authority in the governance of Iraq.
JDG - Waiting
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I've grown older, I am more and more astonished that the
Holocaust happened in my own father's lifetime. I often find
myself thinking that humanity hasn't evolved much in the 50 years
that have passed, at least in the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What happens when Saddam launches missiles filled with
VX at Israel? Israel is unlikely to fail to defend
itself this time, as it did in 1991, under any
circumstancse. Israel is likely to have a
particularly strong reaction to
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---Original Message---
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, now we are being hosted by leagin the US troops
prepared
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:56 PM 1/14/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Card's not right about everything (he overstates the
importance of the China situation, imo, and
understates the extent to which the Administration
seems to have been purposely
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