RE: South Park - all new levels of wrongness.

2004-01-22 Thread ChadCooper
-Original Message- From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:59 PM To: Brin Mail List Subject: South Park - all new levels of wrongness. I don't watch South Park very often, but every time I do, they seem to reach all new levels of

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

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- 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 counterargument to robotic exploration. It took a week to

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

2004-01-22 Thread Deborah Harrell
Spirit isn't answering sensibly, it seems... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=514e=1u=/ap/20040123/ap_on_sc/mars_rover_34 NASA's Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars in an ominous turn that baffled engineers and sent them scrambling Thursday to figure out what

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

2004-01-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
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 counterargument to

Suddenly Everyone Has an Opinion about Space

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.space.com/news/nasa_comments_040122.html What a difference a few billion dollars and a little vision makes. Before President Bush announced plans to increase NASA's budget to support manned missions to the Moon and Mars, few bothered to editorialize about space. Now it seems every

Giant tumour removed from woman

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3419373.stm A Romanian woman has had a giant tumour the weight of a person removed in a marathon operation. The tumour weighed 80 kilograms (176 pounds) - twice as much as Lucica Bunghez now weighs without it. The 47-year-old suffers from a genetic disorder

Priorities

2004-01-22 Thread William T Goodall
I find myself warming to Shrub :) http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040122-5.html Nothin' Fancy Cafe Roswell, New Mexico 11:25 A.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs. Q Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some ribs. Q What would you

RE: South Park - all new levels of wrongness.

2004-01-22 Thread Gary Nunn
You must not watch South Park very often. The creators are doing their job by not discriminating who they offend. If you are not offended, you aren't paying attention ... There are way too many things to comment about with regard to the offensiveness of South Park. Being offensive is

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

2004-01-22 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/22/2004 6:02:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course this doesn't refute the arguments against manned missions, but it does show that the alternative is itself quite problematic. And the ART BELL type websites are having a

ribs

2004-01-22 Thread The Fool
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040122-5.html Remarks by the President to the Press Pool Nothin' Fancy Cafe Roswell, New Mexico 11:25 A.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs. Q Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some ribs

Energy Independence

2004-01-22 Thread Trent Shipley
I have seen a couple of liberal foreign policy wonks say the real strategic asset in the Middle East would be energy independence. The logic goes something like this. The Middle East has four major strategic factors. 1) Petroleum. a distant 2) Israel a distant 3) Location. It's next to

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-22 Thread Bryon Daly
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:42 AM 1/21/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: It's not, actually. None of the people I had in mind were in any way involved in politics. Most of them were doctors, actually. Massachusetts politics is very retail. But again, doctors aren't exactly