Re: Transcript of President Bush's Speech at NASA

way Than The Moon And I Talked For About Two Hours On The Subject Tonight Maru -- Ronn! :) Ronn Blankenship Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL Disclaimer: Unless specifically stated otherwise, any opinions contained herein are the personal opinions of

RE: Davidbrin.com blocked by WebSense

At 02:11 PM 1/11/04, Lalith Vipulananthan wrote: Bryon wrote: > That's happened to me a few times recently as well. Just > today I got one from "Tricia Blankenship". I got one from "Tricia Blankenship" as well. Lal GSV Spam Hell I just got one (the same ad for p enlargement which I get at

Re: Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan

At 04:08 PM 1/15/04, Bryon Daly wrote: When I first read Bush's proposal, one of the first things that struck me was that it seems to be far too little new money, and far too little time, It took only 8 years from JFK's speech until Apollo 11, and JFK's speech happened less than four years afte

Re: Double Standards on Regional Bigotry

At 05:22 PM 1/15/04, The Fool wrote: There is more wisdom and insight in 1 Brad Delong Post than any fifty of the best JDG posts. But Brin-Lers already knew that. Ad hominem. Ad nauseum. -- Ronn! :) The contents of this message © 2004 by the author. All rights reserved. Any reproductio

Re: Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan

At 07:04 PM 1/15/04, Bryon Daly wrote: From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 04:08 PM 1/15/04, Bryon Daly wrote: When I first read Bush's proposal, one of the first things that struck me was that it seems to be far too little new money, and far too little time, It took only 8

Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)

At 06:32 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote: On Thursday 2004-01-15 16:28, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >spaceship is the Crew Exploration Vehicle? How inspiring! > > Less inspiring than, frex, "Lunar Module"? > > > The name doesn't even make sense. > > Who c

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Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)

At 10:17 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote: On Thursday 2004-01-15 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > _That's_ what's inspiring about it. > > > > Who cares if its inspiring? > > > > Look I was raised to be a liberal. > > > > I feel that we should fund medicaide and take care of poor > > sick

Re: Hoon Leases and Colonies (Was Notes on Uplift)

From CNN Quick News this morning (Fri 16 Jan): > HOON UNDER FIRE FROM UK WAR WIDOW The UK's defense secretary has expressed regret for the death in Iraq of a British soldier ordered to hand back his body armor because of an equipment shortage. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/16/uk.ho

Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)

At 04:21 AM 1/16/04, Trent Shipley wrote: On Friday 2004-01-16 02:32, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > At 10:17 PM 1/15/04, Trent Shipley wrote: > >On Thursday 2004-01-15 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Um. I thought I was pretty clear. I HAVE given up on the social > > prog

Re: Exterminate!

At 05:49 AM 1/16/04, The Fool wrote: <> For some reason this page won't load. Can you give us a summary? -- Ronn! :) The contents of this message © 2004 by the author. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, redistribution

Re: Tg Territories

At 08:49 AM 1/16/04, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ok, the _technical_ names of the stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system are Alpha Centauri A [the Sun-like star], Alpha Centauri B [almost Sun-like, but smaller; it's still in the spectral class that usually is considered fit to have Earth-like pla

Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)

At 02:49 PM 1/16/04, Trent Shipley wrote: On Friday 2004-01-16 13:16, Damon Agretto wrote: > --- Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be > > treated. > > > > Open access to emergency medicine is the back door > > is basically a disguised > > form o

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Re: Newest spam tactics

At 10:29 AM 1/18/04, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Gary Nunn wrote: > > The second tactic was return email addresses and subject lines that > indicated that it was a piece of returned email that was undeliverable. > They totally got me on this one. All 10 messages made it through. > So now you have 3 new

My .sig

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Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)

At 02:15 PM 1/18/04, Reggie Bautista wrote: Julia wrote: > Anyone feel they were heavily influenced by Asimov's short story "The > Martian Way"? I say this as a long-time Asimov fan. "The Martian Way?" Never heard of it. Any idea if it's available in any of the copious numbers of Asimov antholog

Re: Newest spam tactics

At 03:10 PM 1/18/04, Reggie Bautista wrote: Amanda Marlowe wrote: > On my 12th day on the internet, the spammers gave to me... > > 12 Porno promos > 11 little blue pills > 10 large fund transfers > 9 password stealers > 8 cheap perscriptions > 7 Debt erasers > 6 inch enlargments > MAKE MONEY FAST!

Re: Rrruh-rho, 'Rorge... :-(

At 07:02 PM 1/22/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "brinl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:42 PM Subject: Rrruh-rho, 'Rorge... :-( > Spirit isn't answering sensibly, it seems... > There is your counterarg

Re: did I break it?

At 04:26 AM 1/23/04, Kevin Tarr wrote: I sent this e-mail last night, with the subject work e-mail Not about list e-mail, but general work e-mail. I got chastised by a boss because I was contacting a user using e-mail instead of calling directly. The text of the e-mail was about, drumroll, setti

Re: did I break it?

At 11:11 AM 1/23/04, Michael Harney wrote: From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I sent this e-mail last night, with the subject work e-mail > > Not about list e-mail, but general work e-mail. I got chastised by a boss > because I was contacting a user using e-mail instead of calling directly.

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Re: Toddler Television

At 12:05 PM 1/25/04, Gary Nunn wrote: Just some Sunday morning thoughts as I sit here and watch the snow storm develop that is about to dump 7 inches of snow on us as well as a coating of ice on top of that. Where are you? . . . and I hope you are not planning to send it this way . . . PS -

RE: Toddler Television

At 12:46 PM 1/25/04, Gary Nunn wrote: Do you mean my posts specifically or just in general ? I have made a concentrated effort to NOT post when I am tired or angry. I tend to embarrass myself. :-0 I mean there have been no dearth of posts concerning embarrassing topics such as the one in the

Re: how Some Candidates win elections

At 01:56 AM 1/26/04, The Fool wrote: So whoizit? Shrub the Lesser? Heinz? General? Nutbar? Religious Nut? Drawl? I would be unsurprised to learn that the calls had nothing to do with any candidate's campaign, but were a product of some probably young person who also thinks it would be f

Re: Brin-L archives searchable - a real life example.

At 11:40 AM 1/26/04, Dave Land wrote: Gary, et al, Not that there was anything damaging in your message, of course, but this reminds me of the old adage, "Never put anything in an email that you wouldn't want to hear read aloud in court." As I've explained earlier, the reason I recently starte

Re: Brin-L archives searchable - a real life example.

At 03:58 PM 1/26/04, Julia Thompson wrote: "Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > so it just goes to show you that posting to lists is like eating a > whole jar of jalapeno peppers: it can come back to burn your butt > tomorrow . . . Posting an analogy like that will do it, for one. Sh

Re: Moving: Irregulars & book questions

At 04:08 PM 1/26/04, Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. Manna from heaven. Truly. So I'm frantically sortin

Re: Parrot's oratory stuns scientists

At 10:01 PM 1/27/04, Julia Thompson wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: > > That's similar to the reasons why I keep posting these articles about > smart animals. There may be a gap in intelligence, but I find many > animals exhibit what seems to be emotion. > > xponent > My Wife's Cat Loves Me Maru > r

Re: ~4479 (~7.2%) GOP NH Primary Voters voted for Democratic Write-ins

At 08:13 AM 1/28/04, The Fool wrote: <> ~4479 (~7.2%) GOP NH Primary Voters voted for Democratic Write-ins ~112 (~.1%) Democratic NH Primary voters Voted for the rootless Shru

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Re: War in Iraq "unnecessary"?

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Re: Continuing Education

At 07:40 PM 1/29/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: The Best Stuff Is Not On The Greatest Hits Album Maru One could argue that most "Greatest Hits" collections are not composed of the "best stuff" but the "most familiar" stuff, which may have made the frequent playlist for reasons other than being th

Re: Brin: LotR and Conservatives

At 09:50 PM 1/29/04, David Hobby wrote: In my experience, real scholars avoid administrative work like the plague! True! (I should know, it's my turn to be Chair...) Is it only coincidence that the position is named after an object which most people sit on and some people put their feet on

Re: Brin: LotR and Conservatives

At 12:52 AM 1/30/04, Davd Brin wrote: In fact, I had 4 years of ROTC training and would have gone to Vietnam if I did not perceive that war as the worst inanity, falling for a KGB trap of sucking America into a land war in Asia. I'm curious: what did you do to fulfil your obligation? (I'm ass

Re: Left Vs Right Handedness

At 01:54 PM 1/30/04, The Fool wrote: Women Hold Babies On The Left To Connect To Emotional Half Of the Brain <> Results indicate that women cradle on the side of the body that is contralateral to the hemisphere dominant for face and emotion

Re: Brïn: LotR and Conservatives [Attn Debbi]

At 05:22 PM 1/30/04, Deborah Harrell wrote: Forbidding saving of the mother's life in favor of the unborn, if the mother's life is at stake (unless they've amended that since last I looked?) Is that exactly what it says, or is that a paraphrase or interpretation of what it says? If the la

Re: Science Fiction In General

At 05:56 PM 1/30/04, Travis Edmunds wrote: Therefore my statement about King does bear some relevance. Of course he isn't mediocre in the eyes of the masses. But in the eyes of lit junkies, he is. For that matter, purists (English teachers frex) have long considered the entire field of scien

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Re: Doing Business With The Enemy

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Re: SCOUTED: Houston

At 09:51 PM 1/31/04, Kevin Tarr wrote: At 09:19 PM 1/31/2004, you wrote: <> Can we start calling you The Ronn! like the other list member who posits links with no info about why we might want to read them? Course,

Re: SCOUTED: Houston

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Re: SCOUTED: Houston

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Re: SCOUTED: Houston

At 12:57 AM 2/1/04, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! wrote: Here's another opinion: <> Adds for prostitution? Pornogrification? Someone want to explain the last paragraph to me? "This weeke

D. D. Harriman, Call Your Office

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Re: Doing Business With The Enemy

At 08:23 PM 2/1/04, Reggie Bautista wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: > He's not alone. Ted Kennedy claimed that the Iraq war > was "cooked up in Texas" for corrupt oil reasons. > Sending us to war to pay off your buddies would, > again, be treason in my book - maybe not legally, but > morally. Teddy

Re: My Dad

At 10:31 PM 2/1/04, Reggie Bautista wrote: My father has had another heart attack. One of his bypasses from about 15 years ago had gotten clogged and he had been ignoring the symptoms for a couple of weeks. Some of the symtoms may have been masked by the pain he's been feeling from having shin

Re: No Child's Behind Left

That's Michael Jackson's motto . . . One Line Sufficient Maru -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: gud ol Repgnatcan suthrn edukasion

At 01:57 PM 2/2/04, The Fool wrote: <> It ain't just history, but biology: <> From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 1/29/04 Georgia may shun 'evolution' in schools

MyDoom, Despair, and Agony on . . .

From PC World <>[] Mydoom Takes Down SCO Site Distributed denial of service attack is one of the largest on record, experts say. Paul Roberts, IDG News Service Monday, February 02, 2004 Computers infected with the Mydoom worm

Re: and we thought we had too much snow...

At 06:35 PM 2/2/04, Gary Nunn wrote: Some interesting pictures of Newfoundland and their snow... or more accurately, some pictures of very deep snow.. http://www.edu.gov.nf.ca/snow/photo.htm "These images were taken just recently as they try and open the highway that has been closed all winter.

Re: gud ol Repgnatcan suthrn edukasion

At 10:37 AM 2/3/04, The Fool wrote: > From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 06:47 PM 2/2/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote: > >As Ronn already posted another article--Which I read several days > >ago--that explains in more detail about changes made to Georgia's science > >Curriculum by the Elect

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 06:04 PM 2/3/04, Travis Edmunds wrote: Prove to me however, that evil is a substantial thing and I may change my view of evil being a man-made concept. What do you mean by "evil being a man-made concept"? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 05:49 PM 2/3/04, The Fool wrote: > > > Well depend which gospel you read doesn't it? They > > say different things. > > Also where is the proof that this so-called Yeshua > > ever lived? > [...snip...] Imagine if the First records of Abraham Lincoln came 35 years after he supposedly lived / Di

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 07:11 PM 2/3/04, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Feb 2004, at 12:22 am, Damon Agretto wrote: Have you also thought that the concept of Original Sin is an allegorical to the inherent imperfection of Human Beings? One of the Catholic interpretations of this concept that I heard is that it demonstra

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 06:52 PM 2/3/04, William T Goodall wrote: [...snip...] asshat [...snip...] I've learned a new word today . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 07:58 PM 2/3/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The P

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 07:58 PM 2/3/04, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Feb 2004, at 1:39 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:11 PM 2/3/04, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Feb 2004, at 12:22 am, Damon Agretto wrote: Have you also thought that the concept of Original Sin is an allegorical to the inherent imperfection of

Re: Janet Jackson: 1, George Bush: 0

At 08:08 PM 2/3/04, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Feb 2004, at 9:15 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: David Land wrote: President falls asleep, misses the whole thing: http://tinyurl.com/2szso How do you fall asleep during the *Super Bowl*? Even at my worst for napping, I never fell asleep during the *

Re: gud ol Repgnatcan suthrn edukasion

At 08:13 PM 2/3/04, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Feb 2004, at 12:56 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:37 AM 2/3/04, The Fool wrote: History, specifically The Civil Fucking War. I missed hearing about that one in my history classed, too. That would have been the 60's? You mean that

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 08:18 PM 2/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thou shalt not kill. > To translate the Hebrew accurately, it says, "Don't murder." Agreed. I frequently quote from the KJV because a lot of people have heard the familiar passages from that translation, even if they're not very familiar with the

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 08:56 PM 2/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Agreed. I frequently quote from the KJV because a lot of people have heard > the familiar passages from that translation, even if they're not very > familiar with the Bible. Many experts will say that more modern translations like > the NIV may ind

Re: Janet Jackson: 1, George Bush: 0

At 10:17 PM 2/3/04, Julia Thompson wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: > > Bryon Daly wrote: > >Their best guess was that GWB is a baseball guy and doesn't care so > >much for football. > > That would only serve to prove that the President isn't really a > Texan. Football is like a second religion there, is

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 12:59 AM 2/4/04, Reggie Bautista wrote: Tom Beck wrote: >I understand that most people cannot read either the Hebrew Tanakh or the >Greek New Testament. I'm just saying that where I _do_ know that there is a >mistranslation, I don't feel unjustified in pointing it out. Have you ever read any par

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 01:54 AM 2/4/04, Jan Coffey wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/3/2004 6:02:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > If a group of Jews make a movie about WWII in the year 3950 will there be > > Germans complaining that it sheds them

Re: Good and evil (was Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ")

At 03:49 PM 2/4/04, Travis Edmunds wrote: -Travis "hindsight is always 20/20" Edmunds Only if you wear size 40 pants. -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 03:51 PM 2/4/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Blasphemy > against the Jewish God, which they believed Jesus guilty of, while a > capital offense in the Law of Moses, was not any sort of offense at all > under Roman law. So those Jews (note that I am not saying all Jews were > responsible, just as

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SCOUTED: The entertainment industry and your civil rights

<> The Girl Scouts were sued for singing "Happy Birthday" without paying license fees. Disney got Congress to extend the standard term of copyright by 20 years. (Mickey Mouse was about to enter the public domain). Book publishers demanded that pu

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 05:40 PM 2/4/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does the movie make that claim? (That ALL Jews are guilty, etc.) Or is > that judgement in the mind of the viewer? > Again, you're completely missing the point. Whether or not the movie blames all the Jews for the death of Jesus, over two millennia m

RE: TiVo & privacy

I saw the following article in one of the tech newsletters I get, and while I have no other knowledge of the product they are discussing, the abstract makes it sound like it might be of relevance to this thread: <> -- Ronn! :)

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

[FYI, your messages are still arriving here all run together . . . ] At 07:51 PM 2/4/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/4/2004 7:22:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So IYO no one can ever make a movie about the life of Jesus -- where for Christians the main po

Re: Mice produce sperm from monkeys

At 09:11 PM 2/4/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3458533.stm Mice have been used to produce viable monkey sperm So? Sheep have been used to produce sperm from lonely humans for centuries . . . Dunno If They Were Viable Or Not, And Frankly I'm Not Going To

Re: Mice produce sperm from monkeys

At 10:05 PM 2/4/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/4/2004 8:53:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So? Sheep have been used to produce sperm from lonely humans for centuries > > . . . > > > Dunno If They Were Viable Or Not, And Frankly I'm Not Going To Inve

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 07:25 PM 2/5/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: (It pains me to find myself preaching like an old fart) I hear that products like Bean-O or Gas-X can help you with that problem . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

FWIW: <> 'Passion' actress: Film not anti-Semitic Maia Morgenstern plays Mary in controversial Gibson film BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) --The actress who plays Mary in Mel Gibson's passion-stirring biblical epic "The Pa

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 09:51 PM 2/5/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would argue that John Paul II has done precisely that. > To a large extent, yes. Certainly more than any major Christian leader before him (well, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI also did a lot). Still a long way to go, though. > But isn't judging

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

At 12:48 AM 2/6/04, The Fool wrote: > From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 08:51 PM 2/4/2004 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >So it is possible to do a story where jews > >are seen as favoring or even instigating his death wihtout implicating all > jews > >(show that the romans wanted to

Re: Good and evil (was Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ")

At 10:04 AM 2/6/04, Nick Arnett wrote: I'm not the least bit offended. I aim to take nothing personally. FWIW, ditto. -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

"Evolution" back in Georgia teaching plan

'Evolution' back in teaching plan By MARY MacDONALD The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/06/04 State Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox said Thursday she will recommend restoring the word "evolution" to Georgia's science teaching standards and apologized for taking it out. <

More Eudora Chili Pepper Nonsense

I just wrote a message in which I mentioned that Midnight was sitting in my lap licking my other hand. Eudora decided that "licking my" deserved one chili pepper . . . This Message Gets Two Because I Repeated It Maru -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.m

RE: More Eudora Chili Pepper Nonsense

At 01:08 PM 2/11/04, Bryon Daly wrote: From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just wrote a message in which I mentioned that Midnight was sitting in my lap licking my other hand. Eudora decided that "licking my" deserved one chili pepper . . . "lap" may have fac

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

No, really . . . here a couple of articles on the film that have been forwarded to me recently, so I'm passing them along . . . Jews OK Mel's film 07feb04 MEL Gibson's controversial film about the last hours of Jesus's life is unlikely to incite hostility against Jews, the Executive Council

SCOUTED: Swiss will jail for life incurable criminals

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Swiss will jail for life incurable criminals Published February 9, 2004 GENEVA (Reuters) -- Switzerland will jail for life sex offenders and violent criminals who are deemed incapable of reform under a change to the law Swiss voters approved in a

Re: Anatomy of a rape culture

It's a free country and I'll top-post if I want to . . . At 06:23 PM 2/12/04, The Fool wrote: > From: Travis Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > How about freedom? > > -Travis "as a cause I mean" Edmunds > Don't top-post. Ever. Is 'freedom' one of dr Brins 4 memes? No. Perhaps you should go find o

Re: Anatomy of a rape culture

At 12:16 AM 2/13/04, The Fool wrote: > From: David Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fool, > > Replying off-line. > > > Top-posting is never acceptable in any forum of communication, email, > > newsgroup, weblog, or otherwise. > > You are wrong. What is acceptable is determined by general agreement o >

Re: Move completed...

At 09:36 AM 2/13/04, Julia Thompson wrote: Well, if it were 41C here, instead of just under 0C, the precipitation wouldn't be sticking sleet. Everything else being equal, just now I'd prefer 41C. (Sticking sleet is complicating my plans for sanity today.) Do you find that works for you? I fin

Julius Schwartz, 1915-2004

JULIUS SCHWARTZ DEAD AT 88 Long-time DC Comics editor Julius "Julie" Schwartz died the morning of February 8, 2004, according to a eulogy on Mark Evanier's website. Schwartz had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia, according to previous posts by Evanier. Don Markstein's "Toonopedia" websit

Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?

At 10:31 AM 2/15/04, Jim Sharkey wrote: There are a number of laws and concepts that I don't heartily agree with that I also do not oppose, since I realize any difficulties with it are my problem. A*** comes immediately to mind. It's not something I think everyone ought to be doing in pl

Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?

At 11:31 AM 2/15/04, Erik Reuter wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Honestly, the fact that I don't *like* something doesn't mean > automatically that I would stop others from doing it. Place some > weights on your knees so that they won't jerk so quickly next t

Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?

At 12:32 PM 2/15/04, "Tom Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It doesn't have to be vicious or rancorous, Unfortunately, referring to "most of the American public" as "lamebrained lazyminded easily stampeded credulous dolts" comes across as "vicious" and "rancorous", whether that was your intenti

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