re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread d.brin
Once-and-future brineller Stefan Jones has forwarded the following about dirty tricks and urges everyone to keep their eyes open. http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/breaking_news/10050609.htm Stefan also says: "I hope the folks who think Bush was appointed by God don't take a Kerry win to

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:34 PM Subject: re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath > > Infinite because - despite Ashcroft's re

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath > > - Original Message - >

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cisneros was indicted and pleaded guilty, David. I > remember being mad at > him because he seemed to have such promise. IIRC, > both the indictment and > the plea was while Clinton was in office. Yes, and I am guilty of a technical polemical sophistr

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread kerri miller
--- David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And a backdoor draft, hauling husbands and fathers > away from their families and jobs for a year+ - > turning our reserves into a shambles. ..and wives and mothers, too. Plenty of women serving in our military have had their tours extended. -k-

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- kerri miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..and wives and mothers, too. Plenty of women > serving in our military > have had their tours extended. I blush at my sexism. Now I must drive my 10 year old daughter to one of the final lessons before she tests for her black belt... before the s

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "David Brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:15 PM Subject: Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath > overwhelming victory, another quagmire fightin

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everybody, please remind friends in Ohio, > Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, that their great > grandfathers died at Antietem and Gettysburg, > fighting > for the half of the map that's blue. I beg your pardon? As Abraham Lincoln said to General M

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doc, I want to impose upon you for a second to > object to the > description of the Iraq engagement as a "quagmire". > IMO it is more accurate to describe Iraq as a "tar > baby". I see your point. But in fact, I perceive a pretty good exit strate

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- Gautam >Surely you don't mean > what you just wrote. You are right. As Eisenhower decided when he nationalized the reserves in Mississippi, it is all one nation and the red states are going to have to rejoin the Union. We'll be gentle - as Lincoln prescribed and as Martin Luther King sugges

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath > --- David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking as a homeboy in one of the reddest of the > red states, I'll > throw in with you Gautam. > This is one nation, regardless of who leads it. > Regardless of > transient divisions. > When I wake up on the third, all of you will still > be my

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "David Brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath > > --- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- Dan, I never said that all people in the south are red-necks. Tomorrow, forty % + of them will be disenfranchised. The 40% who can see and want a modern world. Of the majority, I am sure than many perceive themselves as wonderful decent people... and they probably tithe more charity than m

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread JDG
At 05:11 PM 11/1/2004 -0800 David Brin wrote: >This is a civil war and we did not start it. We are >fighting for the Union. Its only a civil war if y'all decide to leave, Dr. Brin. And, its only a civil war if your definition of democracy is one in which only your side is allowed to winl JDG

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread JDG
At 06:13 PM 11/1/2004 -0800 David Brin wrote: >I never said that all people in the south are >red-necks. Tomorrow, forty % + of them will be >disenfranchised. The 40% who can see and want a >modern world. Disenfranchised??? >Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord...

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread David Brin
--- JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, its only a civil war if your definition of > democracy is one in which > only your side is allowed to winl Typical. 1) the side that stops at nothing - and is engaged in ALL the rampant cheatin - calling this kettle black. 2) The side that was oppose

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: > xponent > Vote Ye Bloody Bastards! Maru > rob > I did. Last week. Now I, like a lot of my close friends, just want it all to be over. I think I'm going to have a beer and watch some of the travesty that is tonight's Monday Night Football game now Julia _

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "David Brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath > > --- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread JDG
At 07:03 PM 11/1/2004 -0800 David Brin wrote: >3) But above all, note the tactic. Attack me for >bigotry for pointing to a map. But by all means >IGNORE the main points of my message: > >That all the cheating in the news is one-sided >That all the defections are one sided >That we were promised i

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-01 Thread Ruben Krasnopolsky
Robert Seeberger wrote > David Brin wrote : >> >> In any event, the map MEANS something, Robert. > >Shades of Close Encounters! > > > >> Look >> at it. Whatever your dreams and mine, about a >> tolerant America that is united in joyful, moderate >> disagreement, look at it. > >Due to the natur

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-02 Thread David Brin
--- JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:03 PM 11/1/2004 -0800 David Brin wrote: > >3) But above all, note the tactic. Attack me for > >bigotry for pointing to a map. But by all means > >IGNORE the main points of my message: > > > >That all the cheating in the news is one-sided > >That all th

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-02 Thread David Brin
--- Ruben's right of course that my confederacy metaphor is a stretch. A piece of disreputable polemic for which I really oughta not be proud... but I'm nevertheless unashamed. In fact, the plains and rockies states were Dangeous Ground for the Union during the Civil War. Troops and governors k

Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath

2004-11-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Nov 2, 2004, at 1:29 PM, David Brin wrote: But no, it's all right. I am in a GREAT mood! We are going to be able - tonight - to stand up before the world and say that our government was illegally hijacked by monsters in 2000. The last four years were not America's fault. And we have proved i