At 09:41 PM 4/9/2003 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>28% of the Texas state budget is spent on K-12 and 21% is spent on higher
>education. On the whole, state and local budgets average about 4% of the
>GDP of the US, and the federal budget averages about 20% or so.
*Averages* 20%?
Over what time period
At 10:57 AM 4/10/2003 -0500 Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
>(Although part me wonders, if it was this easy was Iraq really such a
>threat to begin with? Time and bunker-searches will tell, I suppose.)
Exactly. the US might never have attacked Iraq if we had preceived its
greatest threat to be the R
I'm going to respond to this in two parts, because
part of my original reply was cut off.
--- Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nor have I said that we can't work
> > with/use someone who is less-than-stellar in the
> > moral
> > departmen
This is the second part of a response to Gautam.
> [JDG?] But, beyond that, we worked with Stalin to
get
> rid of Hitler. Stalin was worse than Hussein.
> >
> >[D] Not the same degree of threat to the US at all
-
>the Nazis were a direct threat to us. Saddam was
not.
>
> Hitler had the abili
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I was refering to non-fiction events of the making of
> Starlost and then
> Phoenix without Ashes.
>
> Those who do not study history may be condemned to pay
> repetitive legal fees.
Not to mention "The Terminator" and "Soldier"...
- jm
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:04:38 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 08:38:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>How exactly, does the concept of sustainability preclude
>>technology?
>>Or are you reserving the term, and concept, for use only by
>>tree-hugging luddites living in commune
--- "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Shogun MacBeth? Is that anything like Kurosawa's
> "Throne of Blood?" :)
>
> When I first saw this subject line I read it as
> "Shotgun MacBeth"! Figured
> it was some sort of Texas variant
> > The babysitter likes to use my labelmaker to put
> > silly things on the back
> > of his shirt for our amusement. I think this was
> > one of the better ones.
> >
> >Julia
Oh this is too good.
If it hasn't been used before, the next time our good Dr. Brin writes
something than in
Deborah Harrell wrote:
> Your babysitter has a good sense of humor!
It's an amusing sense of humor, anyway.
> Yeah, antibiotics play havoc with our "good"
> gut bacteria. Will Sammy eat yogurt? That does help,
> usually.
He loves yogurt. So, that helped some, apparently -- but it didn't
--- Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[I asked:]
> >My understanding is that they were mere weeks away
> >from being able to bomb the US mainland - is that
> just an 'urban war myth?' (Not a rhetorical
question,
> BTW)
>
> Must be an Urban Myth, as the Germans cancelled all
> heavy bomber projects
--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Julia
> > > who came home to find her child stickered with
> "The infidels are not in my diaper"
> >
> >
> > I won't ask what you *did* find in his diaper, as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/12/2003 12:52:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > (let's just
> > say that if someone burned all the liveoak trees within 100 km, I wouldn't
> > grieve this month)
>
> It is illegal to plant new chinaberry trees i
In a message dated 4/12/2003 12:52:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> (let's just
> say that if someone burned all the liveoak trees within 100 km, I wouldn't
> grieve this month)
It is illegal to plant new chinaberry trees in Tucson. However, you can't
go about rand
In a message dated 4/12/2003 9:50:40 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Time to read some Harlan Ellison?
>
> What in particular? I read _An Edge In My Voice_ earlier this year
>
I was refering to non-fiction events of the making of Starlost and then
Phoenix w
"Gary L. Nunn" wrote:
> I have the AAA + membership and they will tow up to 100 miles for free,
> and I have 5 "incidents" that could include towing, locksmith, out of
> gas, etc.
>
> Last year, I broke a key off in the lock of my car door, and when I
> called them, I just happened to be beside a
I'm sure most of us have heard the advice, "Don't go grocery shopping when
you're hungry."
A special case of that might be, "Don't let a pregnant woman go grocery
shopping." :)
If she isn't hungry when she walks in, if she's got a long enough list,
chances are she will be hungry before she hit
--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erik Reuter wrote:
> > Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > > Debbi
> > > who wonders why
> you persist in using "Deborah" rather than the
> informal "Debbi" ;)
> >
> > Because Deborah is what is on the From: line of
> your emails? When I see
> > your emails,
--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
> >--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted:
>
>http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html
> > >
> > > Delusions of Power
> >
>>>So the task force was subject to what military
> > > types call "incestuous amplifi
Regarding Earth, I noticed last week that the trailer is formatted
according this book.
-THey start tellink of an undetectable weapon
-Then it is said that something failed.
-then they present a guy telling that he is "going to computer-hack the
Earth". This is not the context in the film, where
I can't remember who started a thread about drinking water in the USA (I
am too lazy to look it up) but this is an interesting related article I
ran across.
Water Demands Draining U.S. Rivers
By J.R. Pegg
WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 2003 (ENS) - Many of America's rivers are
suffering from
> >With the gold card, called "preferred" service or something
> like that,
>
> AAA+, at least in Missouri.
I have the AAA + membership and they will tow up to 100 miles for free,
and I have 5 "incidents" that could include towing, locksmith, out of
gas, etc.
Last year, I broke a key off in t
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