Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, This thread is becoming downright argumentitively unscientific and fallen into the realm of they said, who said. Even a kid from North Zulch Texas ( and it don't get any dumber than that) knows talking to sum'buddy that loves to argue is like rasslin with a pig in the mud,,,

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:27 PM, thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the beginning G-d (Yahweh) created the heavens and the earth. Some time later, his choir director, Lucifer, rebelled against him. You seem to equate Lucifer with Satan. This is an incorrect reference. In the KJV of

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread Edmund Storms
Thanks Terry for clearing this up. So many similar misinterpretations, bad translations, and conflicts with knowledge of history and science exist in the Bible that a literal belief is hard to accept, at least for me. While many wise and useful concepts are in the Bible, I have to ask

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
If a million people believe a false thing, it is still false. Terry On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM, thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Blanton wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:27 PM, thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the beginning G-d (Yahweh) created the heavens and the

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread thomas malloy
R C Macaulay wrote: Howdy Vorts, This thread is becoming downright argumentitively unscientific and fallen into the realm of they said, who said. Even a kid from North Zulch Texas ( and it don't get any dumber than that) knows talking to sum'buddy that loves to argue is like rasslin with a

Re: [Vo]:OT: Obamanomics and science

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Is it unfair to high earners? Not if it works. The tax code is all about redistribution of wealth because wealth-accumulation is unfair to begin with. I do not think fair or unfair is the proper metric for this. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the US should

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Perceptive ... or were you kidding? Its sounds almost like the kind of shrug where John Galt/Gordon Gekko is thinking about dumping a past-life of laissez-faire, greed-is-good capitalism in favor of the B-team? This actually happened the other day. Alan Greenspan more

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread thomas malloy
Jed Rothwell wrote:. Anyway, Obama is a conservative person and I am sure he will not go for anything radical. His proposals for health care will not put the insurance companies out of business, the way many European plans did, decades ago. Whatever the What I remember from B Husein's

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Terry Blanton And everyone thought I was kidding when I posted this: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg28652.html Perceptive ... or were you kidding? Its sounds almost like the kind of shrug where John Galt/Gordon Gekko is thinking about

Re: [Vo]:[Humor] Night of the Living Dead

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
That's hysterical! It is making the rounds. Several young insufferable Obama supporters -- including my daughter -- forwarded it to me with comments such as: bwahhahahhahaha Sadly, this feels accurate for me. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jed's comments are interesting as usual. Loosely, the man who invents the paradigm-shifting energy source is not John Galt, but Randy Mills. Good point! And unlike Fleischmann and company, he *does *resemble a Rand character. The function promised by

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Mike Carrell
- Original Message - From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile... snip And, yes, Greenspan admitted he FU. He opened the gates expecting the banks to

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
Indeed, Dr. Erhman wrote of hundreds of thousands of variations in the NT is his book: http://www.amazon.com/Misquoting-Jesus-Story-Behind-Changed/dp/0060738170 What was interesting were the *reasons* behind the misquotes including intentional changes due to the personal opinion of the scribe

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread thomas malloy
Terry Blanton wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:27 PM, thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the beginning G-d (Yahweh) created the heavens and the earth. Some time later, his choir director, Lucifer, rebelled against him. You seem to equate Lucifer with Satan. This is an

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
I reviewed the plan linked to this article. I do not think they are talking about confiscating anything, but only setting up new plans for people who are not covered by 401(k) plans. I see nothing here about converting existing plans or changing the management of them. Anyway, Obama is a

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Mike Carrell
Jed's comments are interesting as usual. Loosely, the man who invents the paradigm-shifting energy source is not John Galt, but Randy Mills. The function promised by Hyperion is also the target of BLP. Hyperion is using 'old' technology, BLP 'new' technology about to hatch out of the egg with

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
Time will tell. Who *is* John Galt? ;-) Terry On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Terry Blanton And everyone thought I was kidding when I posted this: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg28652.html

Re: [Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which

Re: [Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Edmund Storms
On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Terry Blanton wrote: Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists

[Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Iverson
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House discuss confiscating 401(k)s, IRAs By Karen McMahan November 04, 2008 RALEIGH — Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
And everyone thought I was kidding when I posted this: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg28652.html Terry shrugs On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Mark Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Democratic leaders in the U.S. House discuss confiscating 401(k)s, IRAs By Karen McMahan

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: I'm impressed, Jed. You are absolutely correct. However, I think you might wish to reconsider your opinion of AR. She *lived* socialism/communism. You mean she was Russian and lived through the revolution until 1925. Yes, that is obvious! She is a pure Russian

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread thomas malloy
Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Perceptive ... or were you kidding? Its sounds almost like the kind of shrug where John Galt/Gordon Gekko is thinking about dumping a past-life of laissez-faire, greed-is-good capitalism in favor of the B-team? I don't care for Rand or her books,

[Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/09/miniature-nuclear-reactors-los-alamos Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years,

Re: [Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: My reservations are not about making and using small reactors but the design and promise made by the Hyperion Company. . . . The problem is with a promise that the reactor requires no attention and can be scattered over the countryside as local heat sources. Too much

Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, to answer the famous question reiterated by Terry Blanton, Who *is* John Galt? the answer is: You're look at 'im, kiddo. We are him. We are the ones we have been waiting for, as Obama puts it. [*] Not me, actually, but

Re: [Vo]:Colin Powell and Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

2008-11-09 Thread OrionWorks
From Thomas: ... I have reason to believe that it's 5997, something significant is supposed to happen at the end of the 6000th year, so eini mimi mini mo, pick your plan it's time to go. Dang! Someone forgot to authorize a freeze on the version upgrade. There will be hell to pay for this

[Vo]:OT: Obamanomics and science

2008-11-09 Thread Jones Beene
Economics has been, until 2008, as much political as scientific. I label this posting as Off-topic because it is only marginally related to physics and alternative energy. (i.e. future funding of these two more noble pursuits will depend on avoiding a recession, and smart economics may be able

[Vo]:[Humor] Night of the Living Dead

2008-11-09 Thread Terry Blanton
The silence of the aftermath: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive :-) Terry