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Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: New Jersey (was Re: religious/political question)
New Jersey gets bad press...mostly by people who have never actually been
here or whose personal experience is
From: Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: religious/political question
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:39:27 -0700
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bullshit. I ask again: Why should anyone consider
From: Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bullshit. I ask again: Why should anyone consider a parasitic lump
of
undifferentiated cells any differently from a cancer?
Because a cancer is defined as an abnormal and malignant cell growth.
Malignant, if
At 02:48 AM 11/2/03 -0600, The Fool wrote:
Women die all the time because of pregnacies and all kinds of related
problems with pregnacies. The that parasite can also last for more 18
years draining resources, time, energy, money, degradeing the body, etc.
You have had yourself neutered, right?
Women die all the time because of pregnacies and all kinds of related
problems with pregnacies.
And doctors try to do something about that so the death rate will decline,
just as they are trying to cure cancer.
The that parasite can also last for more 18
years draining resources, time,
On 2 Nov 2003, at 4:00 am, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: religious/political question
Unfortunately, as Dan Minette pointed out last
On 2 Nov 2003, at 3:34 am, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 2 Nov 2003 at 3:10, William T Goodall wrote:
On 2 Nov 2003, at 1:36 am, Jim Sharkey wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Considering that you have made it clear you would cheerfully
eliminate all religions if given your
http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/doj-attorney-diversity.htm
With no notice, the Justice Department recently posted to its Website a
long-awaited report. Justice spent $2 million for a study on the racial
and gender diversity of its attorney workforce. The report has been
complete for almost two
Erik Reuter wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Even a place like DC that has a great public transportation
system in the Metro winds up with loads of traffic.
In Jersey, there just aren't enough train lines to live next to
unless you just want to commute to New York or Philly, in which
case, I'd
William T Goodall wrote:
So what if some parents decided to send their kids to school in
full Nazi regalia? Would you be so eager to defend their religious
freedom?
Doesn't matter. He's not the one who claimed The freethinker's approach to
eliminating religion is through information, debate
Hi folks. I am sending out this draft of my annual (or semi) Author
Update. Let me know if anything looks seriously awkward or seems to
be missing, before I send it off to several thousand people who
asked to be put on my notification list.
Maybe you could add that GURPS Uplift
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:05:38AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
From this day forward every Mexican I meet will hear about what a
wonderful place New Jersey is and how much more money they will make
if they move there.
Actually, there are quite a few Mexicans living and working in Jersey.
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:40:07AM -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Can anyone cite me an example of good public transportation *into* a
metropolitan area?
Chicago and Cincinnati both have excellent buses from the suburbs to the
city.
But that isn't the issue. NJ has bad roads, few trains, and
At 08:40 AM 11/2/03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Even a place like DC that has a great public transportation
system in the Metro winds up with loads of traffic.
In Jersey, there just aren't enough train lines to live next to
unless you just want to commute to
On 2 Nov 2003, at 2:12 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
So what if some parents decided to send their kids to school in
full Nazi regalia? Would you be so eager to defend their religious
freedom?
Doesn't matter. He's not the one who claimed The freethinker's
approach to
Other authors may have hifalutin fan clubs. I just keep a long list of
people who seem lively and interested in the Future. I'll only get in
touch once or twice a year.
The more generally accepted spelling is highfalutin, but I'll chalk that
up to creative license. :-)
IMHO, it also might
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: New Jersey (was Re: religious/political question)
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 09:02:19 -0600
At 08:40 AM 11/2/03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Erik Reuter
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, The Fool wrote:
The CCC grew out of the racist white citizens councils that fought
integration during the civil rights movement. In yet another example of
its hatred, the CCC home page features an article titled The Racial
Compact. The article proposes a South
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:34:11PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:36:05AM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Cancer bad. Baby may be good news or not, but cancer always bad.
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, The Fool wrote:
Bullshit. I ask again: Why should anyone consider a parasitic lump of
undifferentiated cells any differently from a cancer?
Potential. The cancer doesn't have much potential for becoming something
other than a parasitic lump of cells.
Also, by the time
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Nov 2003, at 9:38 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote:
The Fool wrote:
So when andrew crystal starts building concentration camps and
death camps, for atheists, freethinkers, and rationalists
SNIP further rantings
Considering that you have
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Someone else said once in the same newsgroup Of course, since
JMS is an atheist, he doesn't believe in hell, anyway.
jms' reply was Says you. I'm FROM New Jersey
Now, why does everyone have to crack on New Jersey?
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New Jersey gets bad press...mostly by people who have never actually
been here or whose personal experience is limited to the area around
Newark Airport...which would be kind of like judging the entire state of
Alaska only by looking at Prince
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Even a place like DC that has a great public transportation system in
the Metro winds up with loads of traffic.
You can survive a lot better in DC without a car than you can in, say,
northwest Austin. (Which is still more survivable without a car than
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:05:38AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
From this day forward every Mexican I meet will hear about what a
wonderful place New Jersey is and how much more money they will make
if they move there.
Actually, there are
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: New Jersey (was Re: religious/political question)
Texas won't stand for such insults Tom!
Texas is SO touchy. For all its size and bluster, it must really be
At 10:50 AM 11/2/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
[...] if a certain friend of mine
had gotten pregnant (and she was doing everything she could to prevent
it)
Why do I get the impression that everything she could do did not include
celibacy?
Just Wondering Maru
-- Ronn! :)
And neither of us would call Marxism a religion. I would call
Marxism-Leninism/Stalinism the official state (pseudo) religion of the
former USSR though... and it was evil, EVIL I say!
Please leave Marx out of it. He died in 1883 (34 years before the Russian
Revolution), he never expected
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please leave Marx out of it. He died in 1883 (34
years before the Russian
Revolution), he never expected (nor would he have
approved) Communism to come
first to an agrarian, largely pre-industrial country
like Russia, and he would
have been appalled,
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The DC Metro system rocks!
Julia
As someone who grew up there, I have to say, I'm
shocked to hear you say it. I always hated the DC
Metro system because it was:
1) Too expensive and
2) Not extensive
By which I meant that it cost a lot to get
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine that a number of white people in Texas who
own guns would have
something to say about this
Julia
I would imagine that a number of black and Hispanic
people in Texas who own guns would have something to
say about this as well.
I imagine that a number of white people in Texas who own guns would have
something to say about this
You would hope they would not be thinking selfishly of themselves (You can't
move them people into MY neighborhood), but that the entire idea of
apartheid for ANYONE is loathesome and
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
and have somewhat more regular work than that. Do you see many Mexicans
with more regular employment than just pick-up work?
Yes, the townhome associations seem to have all Mexicans working for
them.
--
Erik Reuter
Had an inquiry about getting travel reservations/flights with Hotwire.
I think we talked about it once upon a time, can someone remind
me if there were any negatives/know anyone who has had any
significant experiences (do you have to make more than one
stop to get a good price, etc.). Seems
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:55:52AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
but the whole thing of not being *allowed* to pump your own gas bugged us.
Me too! My first time I got yelled at for trying (there were no signs
telling me!)
--
Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
On 2 Nov 2003 at 10:34, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine that a number of white people in Texas who
own guns would have
something to say about this
Julia
I would imagine that a number of black and Hispanic
people in Texas who own
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: New Jersey (was Re: religious/political question)
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:05:38AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
From this day
On 2 Nov 2003, at 6:30 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Marx _certainly_ would have approved of Lenin's and
Stalin's anti-semitism. On the Jewish Question is
so viciously anti-semitic
It was actually written as a defense of the Jews against Bruno Bauer's
argument that Jews should not be granted full
Davd Brin wrote:
Thanks... and thank Alberto for me.
Other people also wrote comments, but they
forgot to put the Brin: in the subject line O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
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From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: New Jersey (was Re: religious/political question)
The main thing I notice when I travel is that the subway or rail systems
in
other cities is not that
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An interesting aside to this is a conversation I had with an atheist friend
of mine during a long drive at the end of a business trip. He pointed out
that the conflict between evolution and fundamentalism didn't really start
until the 20s. At that
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Dogmatism
And then there was some other rambelings by someone who clearly has not
studied Marx, and instead has listened to some
I would prefer a monorail system instead.
People of Springfield Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! /People of Springfield
Tom Beck
www.prydonians.org
www.mercerjewishsingles.org
I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the
last. - Dr Jerry Pournelle
--- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was actually written as a defense of the Jews
against Bruno Bauer's
argument that Jews should not be granted full civic
rights unless they
converted to Christianity.
That's not my interpretation at all, I'm afraid. It
was written as a
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
I would prefer a monorail system instead.
Umm, how does it go, is there a danger that the track will bend?
--
Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
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In a message dated 11/2/03 3:22:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
I would prefer a monorail system instead.
Umm, how does it go, is there a danger that the track will bend?
Not on your life, my Hindu friend!
Tom Beck
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: New Jersey (was Re: religious/political question)
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
I would
The invitation is open over here too.
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--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Davd Brin wrote:
Thanks... and thank Alberto for me.
Other people also wrote comments, but they
forgot to put the Brin: in the subject line O:-)
Were any of them useful? The mistake was mine, I
suppose, in the first place.
d
Just typos:
On 1 Nov 2003, at 10:44 pm, d.brin wrote:
species has been tested by tee best game-players and at scientific
conferences! For
'tee' should be 'the' ?
--
William T Goodall
and
d.brin wrote:
If your large organization needs a speaker, drop by
www.davidbrin.com/speaker.
Needs to be
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The DC Metro system rocks!
Julia
As someone who grew up there, I have to say, I'm
shocked to hear you say it. I always hated the DC
Metro system because it was:
1) Too expensive and
2) Not
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:50 AM 11/2/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
[...] if a certain friend of mine
had gotten pregnant (and she was doing everything she could to prevent
it)
Why do I get the impression that everything she could do did not
include
Robert Seeberger wrote:
The invitation is open over here too.
Umm, did I miss an e-mail here? Isn't this issue dead and buried, then dug up, killed
again, and incinerated for good measure?
Jim
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Other people also wrote comments, but they
forgot to put the Brin: in the subject line O:-)
Were any of them useful? The mistake was mine, I
suppose, in the first place.
d
And I
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 4:32 PM
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Robert Seeberger wrote:
The invitation is open over here too.
Umm, did I miss an e-mail here? Isn't this
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine that a number of white people in Texas who own guns would have
something to say about this
You would hope they would not be thinking selfishly of themselves (You
can't move them people into MY neighborhood), but that the
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:55:52AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
but the whole thing of not being *allowed* to pump your own gas bugged us.
Me too! My first time I got yelled at for trying (there were no signs
telling me!)
We'd once driven an extra
On 2 Nov 2003 at 17:32, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Robert Seeberger wrote:
The invitation is open over here too.
Umm, did I miss an e-mail here? Isn't this issue dead and buried,
then dug up, killed again, and incinerated for good measure?
Okay, I'll head over there and see what's up.
If he's
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last time any female member of my family was on the
Boston subway after
dark, someone pointed a gun at her. So I'm a little
less enthusiastic
about after-hours use of the Boston subway than you.
Julia
Wow - I'd never heard of such a
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 5:35 PM
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On 2 Nov 2003 at 17:32, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Robert Seeberger wrote:
The
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You pinko you. You know that mass transit is the
second step on the road
to communism. :-)
Dan M.
Hey, the fact that I like it doesn't make it good
public policy :-) The question of whether it is or
not is open to debate. I _don't know_.
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda didn't come.
He went looking for her and found her body next to the shed.
She was a very nice dog, very *doggy*, utterly adoring. We're going to
miss her very much.
Julia
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 8:19 PM
Subject: Miranda died
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda didn't come.
He went looking for her and found her body next to the shed.
Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda
didn't come.
Sorry to hear that, Julia. How old was she?
Jim
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda
didn't come.
Sorry to hear that, Julia. How old was she?
She was 9. But she was the younger dog, and she was always our puppy.
Briana's 11, she'll be 12 in
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:19:57 -0600 (CST), Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda didn't
come.
He went looking for her and found her body next to the shed.
She was a very nice dog, very *doggy*, utterly adoring. We're going to
miss
Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda
didn't come.
Sorry about the loss, sucks to have a void like that in a household.
Funny how pets have so much character, and their own
personality. Good thoughts (2 and 4 legged licks from this
house).
Dee
From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
but the whole thing of not being *allowed* to pump your own
gas bugged us.
Me too! My first time I got yelled at for trying (there were no
signs
telling me!)
Imagine coming from New Jersey to another state. The first time I
went driving in
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
People of Springfield Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
/People of Springfield
HomerU...Donuts. Is there nothing they can't do?/Homer
- jmh
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In a message dated 11/2/2003 7:21:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda didn't come.
He went looking for her and found her body next to the shed.
She was a very nice dog, very *doggy*, utterly adoring.
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Miranda died
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:19:57 -0600 (CST)
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda didn't come.
He went looking for her and found her body next
Andrew Crystall wrote:
...
My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that
if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like me) are
trying to sleep,
...
My reaction to s similar incident involved the one and only time I
used an EMP generating device in the
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
She was a very nice dog, very *doggy*, utterly adoring.
We're going to miss her very much.
I'm very, very sorry. I know how much it can hurt to lose a beloved
pet.
- jmh
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Robert J. Chassell wrote:
...
Do not buy anything with less than a 6 inch (150 mm) aperture (diamter
of the lens or, more likely, main mirror). Smaller telescopes don't
gather enough light, so they are only good with bright objects like
the moon and planets, and even then, they are not so
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Perhaps people on the list can help: is the following a fair
description of the nature of the Jewish/Christian God, and how it is
different from the nature of the Moslem God?
And if so, are the fundamental political implications as described?
Are more Moslems
Dan went out to take some scraps out to the dogs, and Miranda
didn't come.
He went looking for her and found her body next to the shed.
She was a very nice dog, very *doggy*, utterly adoring.
We're going to
miss her very much.
I am sorry to hear that. My condolences.
Ritu
GCU
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Subject: Re: Dogmatism
And then there was some other rambelings by someone who clearly has
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