Re: Quoting Anne Coulter is like...

2003-06-20 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 20 Jun 2003 at 16:28, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > Yesterday I caught Keith Olberman's show on MSNBC when he was > announcing that Fox News will be hiring Dennis Miller for > occasional guest commentaries. Keith Olberman is known for > his funny quips, but yesterday he did a drop-dead hila

Re: Quoting Anne Coulter is like...

2003-06-20 Thread Tim May
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 17:42, James A. Donald wrote: Watching MSNBC, one would have thought that the US was in for a Stalingrad style battle for Baghdad, at a time when Fox accurately reported that resistance had collapsed. Gulf War I m

Re: Quoting Anne Coulter is like...

2003-06-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 20 June 2003 17:42, James A. Donald wrote: > Watching MSNBC, one would have thought that the US was in for a > Stalingrad style battle for Baghdad, at a time when Fox > accurately reported that resistance had collapsed. Gulf War I made CNN a major player. The other news stations were ho

Nauru's Offshore Banking Sector Has Been 'Eliminated', Says Chief Secretary

2003-06-20 Thread Steve Schear
Nauru's newly elected government, headed by President and Foreign Affairs Minister, Ludwig Scotty has 'eliminated' the jurisdiction's offshore banking sector, according to reports. http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=12304 "A Jobless Recovery is like a Breadless Sandwich." --

Re: I love announcements like this

2003-06-20 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:27:50 -0400, you wrote: > > today... > > > SURVEILLANCE MATTERS > Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (F.R. Page 35631) > Closed meeting to discuss surveillance matters. > Location: 1155 21st St., NW, 9th Floor Conference Room, > Washington, D.C.. 11 a.m. > Contac

Re: Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Howe
Anonymous wrote: > Under the Hatch Doctrine, the computer that serves his web site > at www.senate.gov/~hatch/, is a target for elimination. It appears > that the Honorable Senator was using JavaScript code in violation > of the license: > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html > S

I love announcements like this

2003-06-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
today... SURVEILLANCE MATTERS Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (F.R. Page 35631) Closed meeting to discuss surveillance matters. Location: 1155 21st St., NW, 9th Floor Conference Room, Washington, D.C.. 11 a.m. Contact: Jean Webb, 202-418-5100 **CLOSED**

Congress & the intelligence community

2003-06-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
Date: Jul 14 - 17, 2003 Location: Washington, D.C. Event Name: Congress and the Intelligence Community Event Sponsor: The Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University Event Description: Open to Civilian and uniformed employees (GS-11 and above or military equivalent) from any department o

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-20 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:30 PM 6/19/03 -0500, John Washburn wrote: Utah is Southern? I do not want directions from you. :-) Well, it is southern w.r.t. certain states, but yeah, y'all got me. But what I meant was, a jeebus-talking, flag-waving pi

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-20 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Tim May wrote: Sorry, wrong again. Hatch is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS, aka Mormon. Not an actual Christian church. Details available with Google. Basically, Jesus is no more a divine figure in LDS than in Islam. In fact, LDS and Islam share a number of th

RE: [NTLK] OT: Dictatorial Powers (fwd)

2003-06-20 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
> Nice (offtopic to that list) discussion over on the NewtonTalk mailing > list :) [...] > >> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/6007732.htm Heh, when reading > After the Sept. 11 attacks, members of the House wrestled with the > issue of their own mortality. I actually read: > A

Quoting Anne Coulter is like...

2003-06-20 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2003-06-19, R. A. Hettinga uttered to Clippable: The detainees are in this country illegally, their co-religionists had just slaughtered thousands of Americans, and the Times is dismayed, perplexed, angry and shocked that some of t

Re: Destroying computers

2003-06-20 Thread Bill Stewart
> > > Methinks Mr Hatch is not a very bright man. > > A Southern senator. Need I say more? Utah is Southern? I do not want directions from you. :-) I think people have been mixing up Orrin Hatch with Jesse Helms. Both are right-wingers who didn't really like the 20th century, much less the 21st