Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not picking a fight with you, but what is the basis of this claim? My question remains unanswered.

What the Heck Is a Neocon?

2005-08-17 Thread Doug Pensinger
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/180 What the Heck Is a Neocon? by Max Boot Wall Street Journal December 30, 2002 Conclusion This is, in case you haven't guessed, my own view too. So I guess that makes me a neocon. It's a designation I'm willing -- nay, honored -- to accept, if it

Re: What the Heck Is a Neocon?

2005-08-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/180 I think this is largely correct, except for this: The most prominent champions of this view inside the administration are Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Their

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ritu
Gautam Mukunda wrote: What makes you say he _was_ a major player in getting us involved? He was the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Can you name the Deputy Secretary of a single other Department? Have any other Deputy Secretaries given major interviews on the most controversial topic of

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: Wolfowitz is more important than I am (this is not hard). He's much, much less important than the people who _actually made the decision_. None of whom were Jewish. It was convenient for some war opponents to create a Jewish conspiracy.

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Dan Minette wrote: From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:48:24 -0500, Dan Minette wrote So, saying that GWB was influenced by traitorous Jews to hurt the US in order to support Israel is not anti-Semitic? What a straw man we have here!

Re: Physics question

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Andrew Paul wrote: [Robert, I believe] And for an object to have absolute zero momentum in a relativistic universe the entire universe and every object in it would also have to have absolute zero momentum. I would have thought that was the case anyway. Surely

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: What I would ask also is, has the anti-war movement no sense of decency, using this poor woman as a prop in its attempts to attack the

RE: Physics question

2005-08-17 Thread Andrew Paul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Andrew Paul wrote: [Robert, I believe] And for an object to have absolute zero momentum in a relativistic universe the entire universe and every object in it would also have

RE: Extreme Plants...for Mars?

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin Street
Kevin Street wrote: One thing I wonder about though that isn't addressed by this research is the importance of symbiotic bacteria and little one-celled critters in soil. Your average handful of dirt is teeming with microscopic life, so it would be kind of a shock to the system to put

RE: Extreme Plants...for Mars?

2005-08-17 Thread Andrew Paul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Street Maybe little chip size radio transmitters could be buried with each plant. They say that houseplants grow better when Beethoven is played, but what composer would be best suited for Mars? I would suggest

RE: Physics question

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin Street
Andrew Paul wrote: I would have thought that was the case anyway. Surely the universe does have zero momentum? Doesn't it? Warren Ockrassa wrote: Relative to what? Andrew Paul wrote: Yes, exactly... I guess I was taking the view that kinda by definition, it would have to have

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ritu
Dan Minette wrote: Whether one agrees with Sheehan or not is beside the point here. Anti-semitism is the dislike/hatred of Jews, not necessarily the criticism of of any group of Jews politics. Would even the lightest criticism of the NAACP be racist? No. There are plenty of

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: What makes you say he _was_ a major player in getting us involved? He was the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Can you name the Deputy Secretary of a single other Department? Have any other Deputy Secretaries given major

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ritu
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Yes, of course. Everybody in the Administration supported the war, Ritu. It was sort of a job requirement. Really? Who'd have thunk governments work that way...Live and learn... The others just don't get the same amount of press. Maybe they're just better at

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are fudging a bit here, Gautam, unless Bush appointed you as the Chairman of the Defense Policy Review Board sometime in the recent years and you just forgot to mention that here. :) Ritu Not really :-). Who is the current Chairman of the

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:31:58 -0500, Horn, John wrote An honest question: had Sheehan not used the words to benefit Israel in the first sentence or not Israel in the second, would this still be anti-semitic? The still flows without those words, I believe. More to the point, I think, she

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:36:34 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote So, saying that GWB was influenced by traitorous Jews to hurt the US in order to support Israel is not anti-Semitic? Dan, that's just wrong. Pointing at the NeoCons influencing our foreign policy is not the same thing as

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:40:02 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote I have to agree with Gautam. Claims of moral authority tend to be a bit self serving no matter which side of the political divide one is on. I hope that you realize who brought up the notion of the moral authority of the parents of

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ritu
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Not really :-). Who is the current Chairman of the Policy Review Board? Who is any other previous Chairman? Can you name any other members of the Board? Haven't the faintest idea. :) But might have heard of them had any of them been as vocal as Perle in the run up

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Horn, John
Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda --- Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are fudging a bit here, Gautam, unless Bush appointed you as the Chairman of the Defense Policy Review Board sometime in the recent years and you just forgot to mention that here. :) Not really :-). Who is

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:11:35 -0500, Dan Minette wrote No. There are plenty of criticisms that would not be anti-Semitic. But, accusing Jews of not being loyal to the country and controlling the country for their own ends has a long and nasty history. It's like calling blacks lazy and

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:35:10 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote Without going into the history of that particular word, the most important neocon in the Administration (was) Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. The only reason anyone has heard of him is because he is Jewish.

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:22:14 -0700, Dave Land wrote I'm remaining skeptical: there's no solid evidence that Cindy Sheehan had anything to do with this email, other than the fact that it has her name at the top. It sounds authentic to me. But there's nothing new there. Nick -- Nick Arnett

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:28:42 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote The _only_ below-Cabinet rank figures of any significance most people have ever heard of are Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. One guess as to what they have in common. More friggin' racism. Those two have far, far more in common

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:17 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote Nothing in and of itself. But the accusation that is made is that the neo-cons supported the agenda they did because it was good for Israel, even though it was bad for the United States. *You* turned it into that argument and

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:11:35 -0500, Dan Minette wrote No. There are plenty of criticisms that would

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:28:42 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote The _only_ below-Cabinet rank figures

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ritu
Dan Minette wrote: Those two have far, far more in common than being Jewish, under the assumption that that's what you're dancing around. You are choosing to reduce these people to nothing more than their Jewishness. Horrible. Ah, why would a Jewish person do that? When did

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:06 PM Subject: RE: Mindless and Heartless Dan Minette wrote: Those two have far, far more in common than being Jewish, under the assumption that

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ritu
Dan Minette wrote: He didn't. Zimmy has been one since birth. He and Gautam are in full agreement on this point. If you want, I'll quote the relevant sections of Zimmy's posts. I just read all of Zimmy's posts in this thread and couldn't find any statement which could be construed to

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dan Minette wrote: Why not entertain the possibility, to use Brin's language, that a person who has many fine qualities and whom you like has been infected with a dangerous meme? One that has been so intertwined into the woof and warf of Western Civilization, that it is difficult to

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless Dan Minette wrote: Why not entertain the possibility, to use Brin's language, that a person

Re: Extreme Plants...for Mars?

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:30 AM, Kevin Street wrote: Maybe little chip size radio transmitters could be buried with each plant. They say that houseplants grow better when Beethoven is played, but what composer would be best suited for Mars? How about The Planets by Gustav Holst? -- Warren

RE: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I'm confused. You saying that the reason that Wolfowitz and Pearle are known is because of the fact that they are Jewish and are neo-cons. But *who* made them well-known? Surely not the vast left-wing liberal media? The anti-war liberals?

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: RE: Mindless and Heartless Dan Minette wrote: He didn't. Zimmy has been one since birth. He and Gautam are in full agreement on

Weekly Chat Reminder

2005-08-17 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Aug 2005, at 5:58 pm, Dan Minette wrote: Why not entertain the possibility, to use Brin's language, that a person who has many fine qualities and whom you like has been infected with a dangerous meme? One that has been so intertwined into the woof and warf of Western Civilization,

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Dan Minette wrote: [I elided the quotes from Benzimm because there's no point arguing with someone else's words] That is the core of the argument: the neocon caused us to go to war for the sake of Israel is a anti-Semitic argument. Gautam, Zimmy, and I are in

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:32 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 5:58 pm, Dan Minette wrote: Why not entertain the possibility, to use Brin's language, that a person who has many fine qualities and whom you like has been infected with a dangerous meme? One that has been so

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Aug 2005, at 7:34 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:32 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 5:58 pm, Dan Minette wrote: Why not entertain the possibility, to use Brin's language, that a person who has many fine qualities and whom you like has been

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really :-). Who is the current Chairman of the Policy Review Board? Who is any other previous Chairman? Can you name any other members of the Board? I think I _might_ be able to do the last, but not

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William T Goodall wrote: Ha! If you're anti-religious, you must by definition also be anti-semitic, since TTBOMK being Jewish is not defined so much as an ethnic class as it is holding a religious tradition. (See how easy it is to throw around a charge of

Re: Physics question

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 13, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Dan Minette wrote: The real thing we can look at is the magnitude of dp and dx that we are talking about. h-bar is, roughly, 10^-34 J-s or 10^-34 kg m^2/s. Let's assume we have a 100 kg spacecraft. That gives us, dv*dx = 10^-36 m*(m/s). For the indeterminacy in

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:22:14 -0700, Dave Land wrote I'm remaining skeptical: there's no solid evidence that Cindy Sheehan had anything to do with this email, other than the fact that it has her name at the top. It sounds authentic to me.

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Dan Minette wrote: He also, IMHO, has good reason to be frustrated with the denial on this list. I deny that I am an anti-semite, therefore I am in denial of my anti-semitism. What a load of bullshit. Dave Apparently in denial about a lot of things he isn't Land

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Ritu wrote: I just read all of Zimmy's posts in this thread and couldn't find any statement which could be construed to mean that the only reason Perle and Wolfie get attention/are known to people is because they are Jews. That's because it was Gautam who made

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William T Goodall wrote: I've got nothing against the poor deluded people who are enthralled by these poisonously evil memes. It's the wicked evil obnoxious filth of the religious ideas I'm against whether they are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist,

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: The _only_ below-Cabinet rank figures of any significance most people have ever heard of are Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. One guess as to what they have in common. This is a little too much like argument form ignorance for my taste; it

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: But there's nothing new there. And there's nothing anti-semitic, either. She *includes* Israel as one of the beneficiaries of the war that cost her son's life, and never even comes close to

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Aug 2005, at 8:23 pm, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William T Goodall wrote: I've got nothing against the poor deluded people who are enthralled by these poisonously evil memes. It's the wicked evil obnoxious filth of the religious ideas I'm against whether they

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:10 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 8:23 pm, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William T Goodall wrote: I've got nothing against the poor deluded people who are enthralled by these poisonously evil memes. It's the wicked evil obnoxious

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Martin Lewis
On 8/17/05, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The _only_ below-Cabinet rank figures of any significance most people have ever heard of are Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. One guess as to what they have in common. That's not true, I've heard of David Frum. Wait a minute... Oh no, I'm a

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Aug 2005, at 9:14 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:10 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 8:23 pm, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William T Goodall wrote: I've got nothing against the poor deluded people who are enthralled by these

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:23 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 9:14 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Not a religion. Faith based initiative? ;) Anti-faith. Ant-faith, anti-Stalinist, ant-Christian, anti … hmm, wait, anti-Christian, antichristian, anti … aha! I knew it! You're the

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Dan Minette wrote: He also, IMHO, has good reason to be frustrated with the

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Dan Minette wrote: Warren's position is easy to understand: most claims of racism and anti-Semitism are worthless nonsense. That, plus it's too easy to make such a claim in the first place and get distracted in accusations, skipping the main point of the (a, any

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Dan Minette wrote: He also,

Re: 250 mile per gallon cars?

2005-08-17 Thread Max Battcher
Gary Nunn wrote: If this is real, no doubt the Bush Administration will propose laws banning this technology on ethical or theological grounds so that their oil producing buddies won't feel the pinch from this. Not exactly real. Uses external battery sources and thus not entirely reliant on

Re: Physics question

2005-08-17 Thread Matt Grimaldi
On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:38 PM, The Fool wrote: If you could overcome the effects of gravity and slow an object's (such as a space probe's) absolute velocity to very close to but not quite zero, would the uncertanty principle cause the object's position to become so uncertain that it

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Matt Grimaldi
I'm amazed at how effectively this debate has been transformed from a discusson on just how accountable the Prez should be to his citizens into an almost flame war about anti-semitism. What will it take for trasnparency and accountability? Someone dousing himself with gasoline and burning

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:08:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And of course we need to hold people like Sheehan to the same vigorous standards we hold professional polititians.G People who pu themselves in the public eye as Sheehan has can expect to have what

Re: Not anti-Semetic?

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:12:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The discussion of anti-Semetism reminded me of a reference to Jews that I didn't think was anti-Semetic. It was in Spamalot. King Arthur was given a second task by the Knights who Say 'Ni': putting on

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:34:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gautam, I actually have sat with Cindy and heard what she has to say about Israel. I'm telling you that she's not anti-Semitic. I'm not going to go along with your notion that I need to disavow her

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:36:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see this as a statement necessarily directed against Jews, and I think people are reading a lot of stuff between the lines that may not be there. But it is an emotive subject, so that is to be

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 6:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Andrew] And does she have a point about hatred of US Mid-East policy being behind 9/11? Be that anti-Semitic or otherwise, is there any truth in it? So you are blaming the jews for 911? Yes indeed you are. Why not go all the way. The

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:40:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you really saying that for anybody to suggest that Israel has a lot of influence in Washington is the same as saying that there is a century-long conspiracy theory about the Jewish people? Nick

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:48:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shall we play The Oppressed Minority game? 'Cause unless you're ALSO gay I have you beaten fair and square on that front. Or are we going to stop being so goddamned infantile and TRY to have a

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 6:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point is there is no rationale discussion of things like this. With you, clearly not. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:50:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nobody has said anything of the sort and you're just fanning the fires by adding such language to the discussion. Keep conflating Israel and the Jewish people and you'll stir things up plenty. I

Re: This one's for Ronn!

2005-08-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:47 PM Tuesday 8/16/2005, Deborah Harrell wrote: Think of the possibilities! http://my.webmd.com/content/article/110/109535.htm Aug. 15, 2005 -- Scientists in Singapore have invented a battery powered by urine. We are striving to develop cheap, disposable, credit card-sized biochips for

A solution to anti-Semitism, was Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:21 PM Tuesday 8/16/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 16, 2005, at 6:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/16/2005 9:39:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: your people? Oh, you mean goyim. Yes in fact I do mean the goyim. Because it is an historical fact

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:42 PM Wednesday 8/17/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there truth to the notion that many arabs hate us because we support Israel. Well maybe. After all they have blaming all of their problems since world war II on the jews. They have refused to solve the problem of the palastinians

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 11:07:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cindy argues that the war deliberately serves the interests of Israel, the nation, excessively -- that Israel, the nation, has too much influence in Washington. You may choose to turn that into a vast

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 11:29:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *Sigh*. No, SHE DID NOT. Nowhere does Sheehan make that claim. Get off your high horse and argue from a perspective of reason. The implication is clear.

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 11:32:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An honest question: had Sheehan not used the words to benefit Israel in the first sentence or not Israel in the second, would this still be anti-semitic? The still flows without those words, I

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 11:34:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't the president and much, if not all of his administration Neocon? They are more oldo-cons. Neocons are a specific intellectual movement. The president may subscribe to some of their beliefs but I

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 11:37:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan, that's just wrong. Pointing at the NeoCons influencing our foreign policy is not the same thing as anti-semitism. But the neocons have influence on many aspects of foreign policy. Their suport of

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/16/2005 11:52:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Furthermore, isn't it not only possible but highly likely that the goals of the Neocons are intended to be beneficial to both Israel _and_ the U.S.? How about the US and Israel. But I don't think the

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:33 PM Wednesday 8/17/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way quick name one christian neo-con intellectual. Some would make the claim that Christian intellectual is a contradiction in terms . . . at least if one restricts Christian to meaning one who sincerely believes in Jesus

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:33 PM Wednesday 8/17/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way quick name one christian neo-con intellectual. Some would make the claim that Christian intellectual is a contradiction in terms . . . at least if one restricts

Re: Extreme Plants...for Mars?

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
Kevin Street wrote: Kevin Street wrote: One thing I wonder about though that isn't addressed by this research is the importance of symbiotic bacteria and little one-celled critters in soil. Your average handful of dirt is teeming with microscopic life, so it would be kind of a shock to the

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 12:22:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So let's see... You're not in favor of racially-motivated stereotyping when it persecutes your people, but when it comes to me, it's perfectly OK to paint me with the European-descended Christian

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think that criticisms leveled at Jews are more or lessl likely to reflect prejudice than those leveled against christians. What's the source of criticism? Comments from an atheist I would analyze differently than comments

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 1:09:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know and I don't really understand Bob's viewpoint - I wish he'd clarify. PNAC and the neoconservative movement look to me to be the foundation of the current administration so when I hear

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't think that Bush and Channey are neocons. I think they wanted to go after Sadaam and used the Neocon argruements. Hmm, so one person that uses a given argument is *not* something, but another person that uses a given

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 10:51:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for how the war benefits Israel, it doesn't take a political scholar to figure out that as a democracy and ally of the United States, Israel could benefit if we actually could turn Iraq into a

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 10:54:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, geez, don't even give the statement that much credibility. Cindy never said a word about what any Israelis may or may not have done to bring about the war. She was critizing her favorite target,

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 12:07:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: very disappointed that anybody would take Cindy's words this way. Very, very sad. One can believe that the United States acts excessively in Israel's interest without being anti-Semitic.

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 12:30:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Surely it is obvious to you as a student of international relations that our country has many, many reasons for supporting Israel than have nothing to do with the fact that it is a Jewish state. But

Re: Extreme Plants...for Mars?

2005-08-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:54 PM Wednesday 8/17/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: Kevin Street wrote: Kevin Street wrote: One thing I wonder about though that isn't addressed by this research is the importance of symbiotic bacteria and little one-celled critters in soil. Your average handful of dirt is teeming with

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 1:22:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just read all of Zimmy's posts in this thread and couldn't find any statement which could be construed to mean that the only reason Perle and Wolfie get attention/are known to people is because they are

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that is the point Nick. The connection between the neocons and Israel was made by Cindy not us. It is her simplistic notion not ours. Right; *your* simplistic notion is that she's somehow anti-semitic, as is anyone who supports her.

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Dan Minette wrote: He also, IMHO, has good reason to be

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 3:08:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I deny that I am an anti-semite, therefore I am in denial of my anti-semitism. What a load of bullshit Or you like many people in our culture do not acknowledge a subtle prejudice. That does not make

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 4:31:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, there are a lot of Christian sects which have a history of Jewish persecution. uh uh - essentially all christian sects have historically been anti-semitic. Really really anti-semitic, way more

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/17/2005 7:16:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was only when scratch any non-Jew and you'll find an anti-Semite paranoia entered this conversation that it got out of hand. It is not paronia when people really are out to get you. History tells

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is obvious to me that you don't know shit about anti-semitism It's obvious to me that you're a self-righteous, arrogant whiner with delusions of persecution. I imagine by now that Dan is wishing to hell he hadn't thrown in his lot

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the kazilioinst time, if you want to understand why this remark is hurtful read some fing history. James Carrol's Sword of Constantine, Philp Johnson's History of the Jews. Actually it's Paul M. Johnson who wrote _The History of the Jews_. (This info may make

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:56 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Julia who has read part of something else by Paul M. Johnson, but not, to the best of her knowledge, anything by Philip Johnson It's always helpful to know your johnsons. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books

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