RE: TV Guide

2005-05-03 Thread Andrew Paul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Julia Thompson >Dave Land wrote: >> Yo, >> >> Far from the Cereal Aisle, is the computer department, where you can >> find the Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition PCs, available in Dark Side >> (Darth Vader) and Light Side (Obi Wan Kenobi) versions: >> >> http:/

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Land
On May 3, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:25 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and

Re: Medicaid Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Medicaid Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis On 5/3/05, Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/2/05, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:25 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to serious

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Land
On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to seriously rethink their attitudes and opinions; hold

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to seriously rethink their attitudes and opinions; hold them accountable for what they say and do on this lis

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Erik Reuter
* Robert J. Chassell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If that is the case, it would be a good idea to figure out the > overshoots. (I can think of several, such as commercial strip > developments, regional schools, ...) I'm not sure where you got that. It is not what I meant, although I was oversimp

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Robert J. Chassell
* Robert J. Chassell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * What would be the current GDP and median per capta US at the > growth rate that Republican administrations achieved historically? > Presume they were the only administration in power since 1948 (or > whatever is the base year) and th

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Robert J. Chassell
* Robert J. Chassell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * What would be the current GDP and median per capta US at the > growth rate that Republican administrations achieved historically? > Presume they were the only administration in power since 1948 (or > whatever is the base year) and th

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-05-03 Thread Damon Agretto
If anyone has pointers to decent numeric data, please let me know. What sort of numeric data are you looking for, though? Number of battles a year? Number of participants? Economic impact? The last two would be notoriously difficult to research, the former unreliable due to the custom of inflat

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Keith Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons > At 12:40 PM 03/05/05 -0400, Damon wrote: > > >>BTW, a prediction I have not checked out is that there would have been > >>f

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-05-03 Thread Keith Henson
At 12:40 PM 03/05/05 -0400, Damon wrote: BTW, a prediction I have not checked out is that there would have been far fewer wars than average in Europe in the decades following the Black Death. Somehow I doubt that. The Late Middle Ages was in part typified by the frequency, and the new brutality o

Re: TV Guide

2005-05-03 Thread Julia Thompson
Dave Land wrote: Yo, Far from the Cereal Aisle, is the computer department, where you can find the Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition PCs, available in Dark Side (Darth Vader) and Light Side (Obi Wan Kenobi) versions: http://www.alienware.com/starwars_pages/awswaurora.aspx From the site: "Alienwar

Re: Attn Brin: Re: anti modernism blog continues.

2005-05-03 Thread David Brin
My own riffs on the Straussians begin at http://www.davidbrin.com/neoromantics.html What follows are snippet extracts: In "A Classicist's Legacy: New Empire Builders" James Atlas describes the impact of Professor Leo Strauss on many leading neoconservatives, Bush administration officials, journal

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:33 AM Subject: US riches, actual and hypothetical > Here is a question that Dan Minette may be able to answer quickly. > > My goal is to get some grasp of the consequences of long term

Re: Attn Brin: Re: anti modernism blog continues.

2005-05-03 Thread Gary Denton
On 5/3/05, Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 2005-05-02 17:39, d.brin wrote: > > Break for new subject. > > > Leo Strauss Leo Strauss was a professor of political philosophy at > > the University of Chicago. > > > > Leo Strauss: A Neo-Conservative > > At the same time Leo Stra

Re: Permission SlipsRe:RhetoricalQuestionsRE:RemovingDictatorsRe:PeacefulchangeL3

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Land
On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of God Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions that would force them to seriously rethink their attitudes and opinions; hold them accountable for what they say and do on this list. Then see how many (or rather: how few) of

Re: TV Guide

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Land
Yo, Far from the Cereal Aisle, is the computer department, where you can find the Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition PCs, available in Dark Side (Darth Vader) and Light Side (Obi Wan Kenobi) versions: http://www.alienware.com/starwars_pages/awswaurora.aspx From the site: "Alienware recommends Micro

Re: A very good NYT article on "intelligent design"

2005-05-03 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 5/3/05, Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/2/05, Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ~Maru > > The wordless teaching, neh? > > Actually he is GOH at the Houston ApolloCon coming up so I hope to > hear a few words. > > -- > Gary Denton The speech which can be spoken is

radicalism

2005-05-03 Thread d.brin
Trent seems to have thought that the passages that I was quoting, from that TV show, were a draft article BY me. Actually, I know little about Qutb and was simply passing on these passages so people could go to the link if they wanted more. But yes, Qutb was clearly in part a creature made by

Re: Medicaid Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-05-03 Thread Gary Denton
On 5/3/05, Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/2/05, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:18:41 -0400, JDG wrote > > > > > Feel free to refer to the inconvenient figures you snipped without > > > response > > > from my last message in your answer. > > > > Pas

Re: Medicaid Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-05-03 Thread Gary Denton
On 5/2/05, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:18:41 -0400, JDG wrote > > > Feel free to refer to the inconvenient figures you snipped without response > > from my last message in your answer. > > Past figures don't address today's problems unless we're limiting oursel

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Gary Denton
On 5/3/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical > > > At 08:33 AM 5/2/2005 -0400, Bob Chassell wrote: > > >A wh

Re: A very good NYT article on "intelligent design"

2005-05-03 Thread Gary Denton
On 5/2/05, Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ~Maru > The wordless teaching, neh? Actually he is GOH at the Houston ApolloCon coming up so I hope to hear a few words. -- Gary Denton Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com ___

RE: Permission SlipsRe:RhetoricalQuestionsRE:RemovingDictatorsRe:PeacefulchangeL3

2005-05-03 Thread Horn, John
> Behalf Of God > > Try this: ask people like Nick, Erik and JDG some questions > that would force > them to seriously rethink their attitudes and opinions; hold them > accountable for what they say and do on this list. Then see > how many (or > rather: how few) of those questions will actually

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-05-03 Thread Damon Agretto
BTW, a prediction I have not checked out is that there would have been far fewer wars than average in Europe in the decades following the Black Death. Somehow I doubt that. The Late Middle Ages was in part typified by the frequency, and the new brutality of war. In Western Europe alone we still

Re: Permission Slips

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:33 PM Subject: Re: Permission Slips > At 11:45 PM 5/1/2005 -0500, Dan M. wrote: > >> O.k., here is the famous Kerry quote: > >> > >> "No president, though all of American histor

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:25 PM Subject: Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical > At 08:33 AM 5/2/2005 -0400, Bob Chassell wrote: > >A while back, Dan figured out the rate of measured economic growth in

Re: TV Guide

2005-05-03 Thread Julia Thompson
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On May 2, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: I was at the store today buying groceries. While in the checkout line I noticed the new TV Guide had a Revenge Of The Sith pic with a whole mess of Wookies ready for battle. In cheesy 3D! Looked pretty awesome actually.

RE: anti modernism blog continues.

2005-05-03 Thread Andrew Paul
Warren Ockrassa wrote >On May 2, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: >> Khadafy, Qadaffi, Gadafhy Maru >You say Khadafy and I say Qadaffi >You say Al Koran and I say al-Q'ran >Jihad, Fatwah, Meatwad, Frylock >Let's call the crusades off... LOL, Well Warren, if the book selling business s

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-05-03 Thread Keith Henson
At 09:00 PM 02/05/05 -0400, Maru wrote: On 4/26/05, Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:53 PM 26/04/05 -0400, Maru wrote: snip > >US- just about any war. See the Civil War. Was the enthusiasm on > >both sides for a blood bath a result of disastrous, prolonged > >depression? > > That o