A Stunner

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Seeberger
True Stella Awards #36: 30 July 2003 www.StellaAwards.com Madera, Calif., police officer Marcy Noriega had arrested Everardo Torres, 24, and had him handcuffed in the back of her police cruiser. The charge was not too extreme: he was arrested "on suspicion of resisting and delayin

Re: The immorality of the Ten Commandments

2003-08-28 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/28/2003 1:59:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Moore's Law > The immorality of the Ten Commandments. > By Christopher Hitchens > Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 2:04 PM PT George Carlin did this first and it was funnier

I get the most interesting spam [ was: Fw: Buy drugs, Heroin,Tomohawk rockets, cocaine and other shit

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Seeberger
Outstanding!!! Anyone else getting love notes like this? rob - Original Message - From: "Alexis Isabella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:44 AM Subject: Buy drugs, Heroin, Tomohawk rockets, cocaine and other shit > Welcome to the site http

Re: unconstitutional House vote sanctifies religion

2003-08-28 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/27/2003 5:01:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On the flip side, many are claiming that to forcibly remove the Ten > Commandments monument would violate _their_ First Amendment rights of > freedom of religion. > > (I'm not arguing one way or the othe

Re: Global Warming

2003-08-28 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > >--- William T Goodall wrote: > > > > >http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4072 > > > > > > "Europe may be breathing a sigh of relief as its > > > record-breaking > > > heatwave eases, but there is still plenty to > worry about.

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-28 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Creative spam Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:06:21 -0700 (PDT) --- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > Lo, these many

How the RIAA tracks songs

2003-08-28 Thread Horn, John
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/28/downloading.music.ap/ind ex.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The recording industry is providing its most detailed glimpse into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as part of its secretive campaign against online music swappers. The disclosure

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-28 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic > > Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem >>Personality Wheel,' with categories from Ortho-normal > > (your basic staid and sedate microbiology major) on > > to Para-nor

The Inquisition in Alabama

2003-08-28 Thread The Fool
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICL E_ID=538904 The Inquisition in Alabama By Susan Dunn (2003-08-27) WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS. - In 1784, Patrick Henry, then a Virginia legislator, proposed a bill that imposed a moderate annual tax on all citizens of Virginia

The immorality of the Ten Commandments

2003-08-28 Thread The Fool
http://slate.msn.com/id/2087621/ Moore's Law The immorality of the Ten Commandments. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 2:04 PM PT The row over the boulder-sized version of the so-called "Ten Commandments," and as to whether they should be exhibited in such massive

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-28 Thread Reggie Bautista
Bryon wrote: I've read Gaiman's Neverwhere, but had no idea they made a series out of it until I saw it listed at Amazon. Is the series any good? Faithful to the book? Worth buying the DVD set? My understanding is that the series came first, and then Gaiman made a book out of it. I could be

shrubCo cuts AIDS funding for africa / asia again

2003-08-28 Thread The Fool
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1030583,00.html US ends funds for African Aids programme Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Thursday August 28, 2003 The Guardian The US government has cut off funds to an Aids programme for refugees in Africa - six weeks after President George Bush to

Re: Why extra virgin olive oil is so healthy

2003-08-28 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Coffey wrote: > > --- Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Try a breakfast of fruit (apple, pear, peach, sometimes the less "good" > >>banana) and cottage cheese, I'm addicted to *that*! You also need to eat > > >>some nuts with that for the right f

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-28 Thread Bryon Daly
From: "Jim Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: Matt wrote: >>It looks like we'll be able to download all our favorite old BBC shows! >I sense an imminent _Dr Who_ binge. And _Neverwhere_ and _Red >Dwarf_ and >_Hitch Hiker's Guide_ and... Strange timing, considering that Neverw

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-28 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > No, I think the guy that has an audience of millions > that take him > very seriously and lies about a hell of a lot more > than the poverty > rate in the '50s is far worse than some guy most of > us haven't even > heard of

Something else for the Fool....

2003-08-28 Thread Jon Gabriel
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Re: Book Reccomendations

2003-08-28 Thread G. D. Akin
Damon asked: > With the growing presence of Mars I've become more interested in Astronomy > as of late. What are some good books on the subject that has both breadth > and depth, more than my ASTRO 001 Intro to Astronomy textbook? - The one book I've re

Re: Why extra virgin olive oil is so healthy

2003-08-28 Thread Ticia
Jan Coffey wrote: --- Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try a breakfast of fruit (apple, pear, peach, sometimes the less "good" banana) and cottage cheese, I'm addicted to *that*! You also need to eat some nuts with that for the right fats... I make my own oatmeal & almond muffins which are easy

Classified Spending On the Rise

2003-08-28 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50108-2003Aug26?language=printer "Black," or classified, programs requested in President Bush's 2004 defense budget are at the highest level since 1988, according to a report prepared by the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The

Re: [KillerBzzz] Virus count

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:35 PM 8/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: At 10:19 PM 8/26/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: I got my deer head mount back today, the cat is not impressed. How did (s)he react? -- Ronn! :) First, the cat has spent 90% of this summer in the basement. It's not cooler down there, at least I don't t

always follow the money, esp. Scaife's money

2003-08-28 Thread The Fool
'Arkansas Project' Led to Turmoil and Rifts Washington Post Staff Sunday, May 2, 1999; Page A24 The "Arkansas Project" that did so much to increase the visibility of Richard Mellon Scaife caused great turmoil at the American Spectator magazine. It skirted close to the tax laws, and failed to lea

Re: Global Warming

2003-08-28 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:16 PM 8/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: --- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4072 > > "Europe may be breathing a sigh of relief as its > record-breaking > heatwave eases, but there is still plenty to worry > about. Temperature > chan

Re: mongomery protestor demographics

2003-08-28 Thread William T Goodall
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:08 pm, The Fool wrote: Meanwhile, in the crowd was our good friend Neal Horsley, along with his scary sidekick, Jonathan Toole. The First Freedom, Olaf Childress' patently racist (and now anti-Semitic, complete with references to the "Jew World Order") and neo

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-28 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: > > Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic > Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem > Personality Wheel,' with categories from Ortho-normal > (your basic staid and sedate microbiology major) on to > Para-normal (included mushroom-tea drinkers) and > Epi-normal

secret that keeps French slim

2003-08-28 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1028800,00.html "Scientists have another solution for the notorious "French paradox" - the riddle of how a nation of alcohol-quaffing, croissant-munching gourmands stays healthy and slim, while a disproportionate number of health-obsessed Americans ar

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-28 Thread Jim Sharkey
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: Matt wrote: >>It looks like we'll be able to download all our favorite old BBC shows! >I sense an imminent _Dr Who_ binge. And _Neverwhere_ and _Red >Dwarf_ and >_Hitch Hiker's Guide_ and... Strange timing, considering that Neverwhere is being released on DVD Septemb

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: I sense an imminent _Dr Who_ binge. And _Neverwhere_ and _Red Dwarf_ and _Hitch Hiker's Guide_ and... This was all I could see when I saw the subject line. No matter how I tried to read the subject, all I could see was "access to ..." As a secondary thought, there a

Re: mongomery protestor demographics

2003-08-28 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_08_24_dneiwert_archive.html#106179567260601299 > > Behind the tablets > One guy had a sign that read, "The 10 Commandments > or..." then, on the > other side, "The 10 Planks of the Communist > Manifesto." Now, there's a

Re: Why extra virgin olive oil is so healthy

2003-08-28 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Coffey wrote: > > > --- Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > >> > >> From newsletter Zone Diet Weekly Tip from Dr. Barry Sears > >> > > > > > > Zone bars are adictive. I had one for breakfast every morning for a week. > The > > next day I ran out a

Book Reccomendations

2003-08-28 Thread Damon
With the growing presence of Mars I've become more interested in Astronomy as of late. What are some good books on the subject that has both breadth and depth, more than my ASTRO 001 Intro to Astronomy textbook? Damon. Damon Agretto [E

Re: Interesting little tidbit

2003-08-28 Thread Julia Thompson
"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 06:52 AM 8/27/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > > > > > At 03:24 PM 8/26/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > >Sometime earlier this year, I'd stumbled across a webpage that listed > > > >all the mascots used by Texas high schools, g

Re: Interesting little tidbit

2003-08-28 Thread Julia Thompson
Julia Thompson wrote: > > Sometime earlier this year, I'd stumbled across a webpage that listed > all the mascots used by Texas high schools, giving the number of schools > having each mascot. At the very bottom of the page was the list of > unique mascots. "Hippo" was on that list. > > Someone