that happens to agree with your pre-conceived notions?
JDG - What percentage of Kerry supporters believe that Kerry would continue
the Mexico City policy, for example?
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At 11:58 AM 10/22/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
Clinton, on the other hand, stands out for increasing normalized revenues
Presuming, of course, that you consider increasing federal revenues to 21%
of GDP for the first time since World War II to be a good thing.
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pacifist and who managed to vote against
the first Gulf War with its gold-plated UNSC endorsement and perhaps the
largest international coalition the world has ever seen.
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? The air is cleaner and the
water is cleaner under Bush - the fact that you can even pretend to call it
the worst record with a straight face speaks volumes about your
credibility in assessing this Administration's Record.
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poll
results from the rest of the world indicate.
And besides, didn't the rest of the world want to elect George McGovern,
Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis too
JDG - And if I know nothing else, I know that the rest of the world sure as
hell would never vote Libertarian - or does
At 09:57 AM 10/23/2004 -0400 JDG wrote:
At 11:58 AM 10/22/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
Clinton, on the other hand, stands out for increasing normalized revenues
Presuming, of course, that you consider increasing federal revenues to 21%
of GDP for the first time since World War II to be a good
deny Bush's record - cleaner air and cleaner
water during his term, tougher federal regulations on diesel emissions,
etc. Yet, you still call it the worst without any supporting evidence.
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campaigning all week on precisely the
opposite point in particular, Kerry is arguing that Bush is planning on
making this generation to pay for their own retirement expenses, rather
than imposing the burden of their retirement on their children.
So, which is it?
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candidates to make their cases to pretty much
the same geographical group of voters... and again forces attention on the
center, rather than the extremes.
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The liberty we
At 01:55 PM 10/20/2004 -0500 Gary Denton wrote:
If you believe in democracy shouldn't you favor abolishing the
Electoral College?
But I don't believe in democracy. I believe in republicanism.
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, and not Pat Robertson.
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to win
games. Calling each other names isn't conducive to winning.
Get it now?
I, for one, don't consider Pat Robertson my teammate.
JDG - And at this point, I am sure that the President doesn't either.
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to the US Supreme Court.
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surprising. Moreover, it is a little disingenious to call it the
designated leadership of their side.
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the science of genetics a long
time ago to name but one example
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://www.justfacts.com/abortion.htm
Also, I highly recommend the following fascinating organization:
http://www.feministsforlife.org/
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, in an
adoptive home, or in an abortion clinic? Who are we? Who are we America?
That question deserves an answer. And what woman is truly empowered, I ask
you, the woman who takes life, or the woman who gives life?
http://www.democratsforlife.org/dfla/govcasey.htm
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to what Pat Robertson has to say
about salvation as well?
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity
noting that the UK and their nationalized health care system is
in the same boat that we are.
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step of the way.
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1/29/03
At 06:05 PM 10/20/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:
JDG - Amazing how Democrats have suddenly discovered an interest in
Presidential military service in the past five years - but *I'm* the
shill on this List, Maru
IMO, it is a subject that has been in the air for months lately. A
little
with whatever
they need, from baby clothes to housing.
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At 04:17 PM 10/21/2004 -0500 Gary Denton wrote:
I'm interested if you are defending the White House calling a minister a
liar?
The White House has already said as much.
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. A zygote is clearly human. A sperm or ovum is clearly not.
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At 07:14 AM 10/21/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote:
JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 09:54 PM 10/18/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote:
Stopping baby killers (without ever doing anything to help the babies you
then stick
poor moms with)
This is just plain false. Pro-Life activists donate extensively
to start a War with
France, almost single-handedly.
JDG - Amazing how Democrats have suddenly discovered an interest in
Presidential military service in the past five years - but *I'm* the shill
on this List, Maru
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to the Saudis.
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it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1/29/03
in those cases?
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in full speech
length?
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1/29/03
interesting is, it's a threat that has grown while the president has been
preoccupied with Iraq, where there wasn't a threat.
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is a difficult task, but the
War on Islamic Terror can only be won with a free Iraq and a free Middle
East, and I do believe that the US remains up to that task.
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The liberty
At 09:28 PM 10/13/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote:
Is there time to remind divisive voices of both left
and right about another neglected word? Union. Ponder
our present bitterness, next time you see a map of
Red-vs Blue States, and recall the most dire
unspoken phrase of all.
Civil War.
At least
?
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1/29/03
in generations.
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1/29/03
to military
transformation as Donald Rumsfeld - could have executed it successfully,
even if they had planned it - well, that idea simply defies plausibility.
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stated that I find being elected without a plurality to be no more
objectionable than being elected with a mere 43.01% of the vote.
JDG
P.S. In paticular, I do not agree that Gore won the popular vote in 2000,
since no popular vote was taken or counted. Suffice to say, that if the
popular vote
and discuss education policy to name just one example.
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity. - George W
person lost a minute's sleep over him going off the deep end. Wasn't
gonna happen.
During W's, it will be a very tense time.
I'm more worried about how the Moveon.org types of the world are going to
react to the Bush win.
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and on what media markets to buy air time.You may wish to
consider recent voting results in your answer.
It should be self-evident that your advice would be to concentrate on the
largest States.
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reduce the number of error.
That is, while one poll of 50-46 would be within the margin of error -
having six such polls would lead you to say with some confidence that
candidate A is slightly ahead, probably by around 50-46.
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, a bit more precision and a bit less
steam would go a long way in helping us obtain your meaning.
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their
case.If this is failure under John Kerry's global test, if Gulf War I
is failure under John Kerry's global test - then what is a passing
grade?
The world may never know.
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At 02:34 PM 10/11/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote:
They aren't lies if you sincerely believe them to be
true.
Far, far, far worse. To be led into war by men who
believed such fantasies.
History shows they are following the Tonkin Gulf
script to the letter.
And now imaginary blueprints for
of curiosity, which websites would these be?
JDG
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The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush 1
for all nations of
the world? Would the world be a safer place?
This article was a caricature of the doctrine of pre-emption.
JDG
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The liberty we prize is not America's
, and
totalitarianism of the Chinese State do make a Civil War much more likely
in China than in India.
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that the presence of spaceships or aliens necessarily
requires the use of science.Certainly not in the way Erik proposed.
For example, a novel set entirely on an alien planet - without
interplanetary travel. To me, this woudl still be science fiction.
JDG
outer space or alien life forms.Of course, this definition
would make things like _Red Storm Rising_ and Isaac Asimov's short story
about sugar-based aliens part of the science fiction genre, but I don't
have a problem with that.
JDG
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the horrible choice presented - maybe even worse
than the choices we had in 1996, 1992, or 1988 - in my mind.
But that is the nature of living in a republic of 150 million - you can
please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the
people - let alone all of the time.
JDG
- something Bill Clinton was very adept at.
JDG
P.S. Please change the subject-header in follow-up replies.
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figure also only represents the number of names submitted - not
all of those names were actually removed from voter roles.
JDG - Who wonders if the reason that Ivan didn't sink New Orleans into the
sea is that God likes Democratic election cheating but not Republican
At 08:51 PM 9/13/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote:
Consider. JDG implies that to agree with anything
said by another person makes you in agreement with
EVERYTHING they say.
No Dr. Brin, I imply no such thing. For example, I do not imply that by
quoting Pat Buchanan, you now share Pat Buchanan's pro
for whether they are
positive or negative.
Is there really any question as to what the results would look like?
Is there another definition of what balance should look like I should be
aware of?
JDG
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to agreement with anyone who will bash President Bush and the
Republicans?
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using the INS to register immigrants
in 1996.
And that's just the top of my head.
JDG - Saint Donkey, Maru.
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in
Florida as well as nationally.
No on both counts.
Since no election was held for the national popular vote, we will never
know who would have won the most popular votes in a popular vote election.
JDG
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as winnable just about every other day since 9/11.
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be. ;-)
And Captain Kirk just met God on UPN right now to boot... ;-)
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At 12:45 AM 9/11/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
Maybe if they nuked NYC _and_ DC?
That's a low blow. :-(
JDG
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At 10:44 AM 9/10/2004 -0500 Gary Denton wrote:
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:02:32 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) The Head of Elections for Palm Beach County, also a Democrat, who
designed the butterfly ballot that arguably may have resulted in a number
of intended votes for Al Gore being
pathetic if you believe she actually did that as part of
brilliant blot to institute a butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County - with
the amazing predictive ability of its ultimate effects, despite its
widespread previous inconsequential use.
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frauduantly using the Immigration and Naturalization Service
to generate Democratic votes.
JDG - Mirror Image, Maru.
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to the Sainted Democrats, of course, who have no history of
illegal election activity.
JDG - Pluh-eaze.
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whether the War on Terror
was winnable in the next four-year Presidential term.
Its pretty difficult to argue that A is the most reasonable. Then again,
you've shown an alarming propensity to believe *any* negative allegation
about Republicans
JDG
important than any of the other 80-90% of houses in Grenada.
If the White House were destoyed by Hurricane Isabel, it would certainly be
news.
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are better,
and they're at home - and I just don't have a feel yet for the Cowboys'
modus operandi this year to start picking them as an upset.
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At 11:54 AM 9/9/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:
Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben helping George Bush get into the National
Guard was the worst thing I ever did Barnes was to be interviewed.
he forgot to add the worst thing I ever did before becoming a Kerry
fundraiser.
;-)
JDG
of most of the world's terrorism.
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?
And invoking hurricanes as the wrath of God?
JDG - Insensitive, Maru.
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At 04:15 PM 9/9/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:
On Sep 9, 2004, at 4:04 PM, JDG wrote:
At 11:20 AM 9/9/2004 -0700 d.brin wrote:
Well, it doesn't take Hollywood to explain this. How about just some
old fashioned election year Wrath of God for what Florida did to the
world four years ago
is it OK to laugh again? You
and David and I may have different ideas about when that period ends
with respect to the hurricanes.
I'm not sure that anyone in this country still considers it appropriate to
make jokes *about* 9/11... let alone to do so on 9/12.
JDG
under both species.
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At 11:35 PM 9/6/2004 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote:
JDG wrote:
At 10:32 PM 9/6/2004 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote:
I dunno John. There are even a lot of republicans talking trash
about
Bush.
Like who?93% of Republicans claim to be voting for him.And I
know of no Republican who has
At 07:13 PM 9/7/2004 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote:
Lets make a point of looking at the voter breakdown after the
election.
Sure. In the meantime, Bush is consistently polling the support of 90%+
of Republicans, which is quite good by historical standards.
JDG
is for the
transformation of the politics of the Middle East, the other Party is for
the status quo, or at best incremental change, in the Middle East.
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deceitful. The Butler Commission in the UK *still* stands by
those 16 words.
But then again, you probably still think that the Supreme Court changed the
outcome of the last election.
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and comfort to the enemy, IMO.
Not that you would *ever* question the patriotism of _your_ political
opponents.
JDG - Uh huh, Maru
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At 02:42 PM 8/19/2004 +0200 Jean-Marc Chaton wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, that is not true only an ordained priest
is capable of saying Mass in the Catholic Church.
JDG
I think everyone is able to christen everyone if no priest isn't
reachable.
That is correct. In fact, I
is not actively seeking to force
liberation of unborn children on pro-choice States today as well - another
policy Lincoln would have approved of.)
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, the wine is both fully
the body and the blood of Christ.
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Some interesting notes from The Economist, July 15th edition:
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2921425
(requires paid subsciption)
The biggest bone of contention is PEPFAR. PEPFAR stands for the President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the president in question is
Democrats could be as reasonable about Roe vs. Wade as you
are - and support nominees who would return abortion to the States, at
minimum.
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At 05:52 PM 9/6/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
This is aid and comfort to the enemy, IMO.
Not that you would *ever* question the patriotism of _your_ political
opponents.
JDG - Uh huh, Maru
OK, John, justify the cover up. Please.
That presumes a cover-up.
All I am pointing out
At 10:32 PM 9/6/2004 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote:
JDG wrote:
President Bush knows that this country is at war. He specifically
gambled his entire Presidency on attacking Iraq because he deeply
felt it was the right and necessary thing to do. You may disagree
with the accuracy of his
primaries, and McCain has gained a reputation as being insufficiently
pro-life.
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for a while now.
So, without this welcome uproar I would never have known that this had
happened. I am curious as to what a Jeeb-O is?
Hopefully this will inspire The Fool to act like a member of a community,
let alone a civilization.
JDG
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At 11:11 PM 8/31/2004 -0400 Bryon Daly wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:44:26 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:33 PM 8/31/2004 -0400 Bryon Daly wrote:
I don't think so either. I think despite McCain's loyalty to the
party in campaigning for and endorsing Bush (and rejecting the Kerry
VP
the ability to have nuclear weapons...from
France if from nowhere else. With the same reasonable worst case
scenario
we could alliances with Islamic republics in Iraq and Iran, putting
pressure on the UAE.
Perhaps you want to rephrase that?
JDG
At 11:49 PM 8/28/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
JDG wrote:
The astounding chutzpah to imply that Bush has somehow drastically
deteriotaed AIDS policy from the golden age they had under Clinton
utterly discredits this source.
Can you substantiate that statement?
1) You supplied several
as high
as they come, I think that it would be highly unlikely. At any rate, even
if Iran were to unify with Iraq, we're still only talking around 100
million people - hardly the foundations of a superpower.
JDG
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a
global pinnacle in production - and I don't think that the Arabian
peninsula meets that standard - even if you were to throw in Egypt.
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that many religious institutions and the Bush Administration don't
exactly strongly promote the C in ABC, but I have definitely heard of
strong opposition to the AB in ABC from the anti-AIDS establishment.
JDG
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At 08:35 AM 8/28/2004 +0100 Richard Baker wrote:
JDG said:
Or how about being passive in the decades of sufferings of Iraqis
under Saddam Hussein?
Or during the decades of suffering of North Koreans under Communism?
The US sent millions to that corner of the world, so I would hardly call
our
At 09:22 PM 8/27/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:34:18 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or how about being passive in the decades of sufferings of Iraqis under
Saddam Hussein?
It's of course worth mentioning that AIDS kills as many people in a couple
of years
time during the year in which said Catholic does not engage in some
other act of remembrance.
And in answer to your question, the Eucharist may be received on any day,
given that the body of Christ is infinite and eternal.
JDG
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never reach the unipolar levels
of a Greece, Rome, Mongolia, Spain, France, Britain, or US.
4) Indonesia
5) Brazil
6) Nigeria
7) Russia
8) United States of Africa/African Union (distant future of course)
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the most dire NPS budget shortfalls under
Republican Presidents.
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in the end of the XXI century will
think about _us_, who are passive in the face of the
AIDS African Holocaust :-/
Or how about being passive in the decades of sufferings of Iraqis under
Saddam Hussein?
JDG - Don't even mention Darfur Maru
but the
use of leavened bread is not permitted in the Roman Catholic Church.
Canon 926 of the Code of Canon Law prescribes, In the Eucharistic
celebration, in accordancewith the ancient tradition of the Latin Church,
the priest is to use unleavened bread wherever he celebrates Mass.
JDG
?Are they going to Massachusetts?
JDG - Otherwise, Bush's support for a constitutional amendment is
irrelevant
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