[OT] Making The Cosmos Safe for Trial Lawyers

2007-09-17 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297121,00.html - - - Obviously, the courts cannot possibly have enough frivolous lawsuits. - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

[OT] Please bear with me as I feign disbelief, shock, surprise...

2007-09-16 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/2brcph No great gift of prevision required to have foreseen this one. - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

[OT] Treason doth prosper

2007-09-07 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57506 - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech

[OT] Do As I Say Not As I Do

2007-09-07 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.drudgereport.com/gore.htm How is Gore (Mr. Carbon Offset) any different than Craig, in terms of hypocrisy? (Assuming of course he really was trolling for gay sex, which appears to be likely.) How is Edwards (Mr. Poverty Tour) any different? Why aren't they being run out of town

[OT] Well, Hang My Chad!

2007-08-05 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/2vwdqu - - - Ah, democracy under the Democrats! In other news, Hugo Chavez will be nominated by Pelosi as Speaker Pro Tem for life, to make sure the Republicans never again get close to winning a vote (much simpler and less embarrassing than having to cheat in plain

[OT] Sean Penn, and other Useful Idiots

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/ypsaqc - - - Stalin enjoyed their ilk back in the day. These days the pleasure is all Hugo's. Penn and the Hollywood elite flocking to this thug's side should all be charged with treason, because Hugo Chavez is a sworn enemy of this country, not merely a political

Re: [OT] Invest in American Labor?

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Calco
On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:41 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Nicholas Geti wrote: - Original Message - From: Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Correct me if I'm wrong. But in other times there were schools in USA that were 50% Irish, or Scandinavian, or German. What's the difference?

Re: [OT] Plan B; Kill 2 million babies A YEAR, in complete

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Calco
On Jul 17, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Robert Calco wrote: On Jul 16, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Pete Theisen wrote: Everyone is a heartbeat away from this. Should I be killed, or supported? Killed. It's wishy-washy liberals like Ricardo that make the whole lot

Re: [OT] Plan B; Kill 2 million babies A YEAR, in complete privacy

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Calco
On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Monday 16 July 2007 15:41, Ed Leafe wrote: snip Despite the efforts of the anti-choice forces to confuse the language, keep in mind that pro-choice and pro-life are not mutually exclusive. I know lots of people who personally

Re: [OT] Plan B; Kill 2 million babies A YEAR, in complete

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Calco
On Jul 16, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Pete Theisen wrote: Everyone is a heartbeat away from this. Should I be killed, or supported? Killed. It's wishy-washy liberals like Ricardo that make the whole lot seem so... indecisive. LOL! BTW Pete for future reference never

Re: [OT] How about a real first lady?

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Calco
On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Kristyne McDaniel wrote: Pete, Fred Thompson's wife the prettiest since Jackie? http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/144288.aspx It is only a matter of time until the 'other' photos come out. She's known for dressing like a hooker. Not what people usually expect in

[OT] Unanimity Is Diversity

2007-07-10 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/3a7cj7 - - - However, Etheridge aside, it was nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about demanding action for the environment. Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies, said

Re: [OT] Al Gore for Father of the Year!

2007-07-05 Thread Robert Calco
It's George Bush's fault that Gore's son is addicted to drugs. If only he'd signed Kyoto! (Come on man, get with the program.) - Bob On Jul 5, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Michael Madigan wrote: Instead of saving the world from global warming, maybe he should save his drug addict son.

Re: [OT] Scooter scoots!

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Calco
No, she _really_ wasn't a covered agent. The RNC could have put out a commercial denouncing Joe Wilson and telling the country his wife was the CIA agent who suggested he go to Niger, and nobody would have gone to jail.. Moreover, the so-called leaker was Richard Armitage at the State

[OT] Scientists Discover That A Surprisingly Significant Driver of Climate Change is... The Sun

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/35x68k - - - Oh, and the threat in the next century is actually global cooling, not warming. Go figure. Actually, this article is more alarming and makes more sense than any of the politically driven hooey about carbon emissions from the L. Ron Gore cult. If this article

[OT] Al Gore Before His Brain Melted

2007-06-12 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/1602.html - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive:

[OT] They Call This a Consensus?

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/3a7b7s - - - Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled. So said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time

Re: [OT] They Call This a Consensus?

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Calco
On Jun 4, 2007, at 8:58 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: Robert Calco wrote: http://tinyurl.com/3a7b7s - - - Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled. So said Al Gore ... in 1992

[OT] Watch LIVE as Totalitarianism Takes Hold in a So-Called Democracy

2007-05-30 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/yvnplt - - - Enemies of the homeland, particularly those behind the scenes, I will give you a name: Globovision. Greetings gentlemen of Globovision, you should watch where you are going, Chavez said in a broadcast all channels had to show. I recommend you take a tranquilizer

[OT] Good Riddance Attention Whore

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/28/12530/1525 - - - I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called Face of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have

Re: [OT] Good Riddance Attention Whore

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Calco
On May 29, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Bill Arnold wrote: The America extremists love exists only in their megalomaniacal fantasies. They hate the real one because they can't control it, or shout or legislate it into conformance with their ideological biases. That's great. Extremists start a war

[OT] Hugo's Arnold-style Democracy Solution

2007-05-28 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18903331/ - - - Chavez says he is democratizing the airwaves by turning a “coup- plotting” network’s signal over for public use. ... The new channel, TVES, began its transmission with an orchestra playing the national anthem. Actors and producers involved in

RE: [OT] Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics, Shiite Woos Sunnis, PurgesExtremists

2007-05-28 Thread Robert Calco
Adam: I disagree with your characterization somewhat. It's the inverse: The morality is what makes people think it's economical but this is short-sited and in no wise economic reasoning at its core. What do I mean? The morality part comes in when we posit (as these days we do) that a

Re: [OT] Cleric targets surge plans

2007-05-26 Thread Robert Calco
Your notion that Al Sadr is some kind of 'moderate' who's interested in united Iraq is what's wrong with this picture. - Bob On May 26, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: I wonder why British and Iraq troops were trying to arrest the leader of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia?

Re: [OT] Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics, Shiite Woos Sunnis, PurgesExtremists

2007-05-26 Thread Robert Calco
No, you're instincts are correct. Leland is preposterous. :) - Bob On May 25, 2007, at 1:50 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: Pete Theisen wrote: On Friday 25 May 2007 9:15 am, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: snip 1) Al-Sadr is opposed to terrorism, especially al Qaeda

Re: [OT] Cities struggle with wireless Internet

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Calco
On May 25, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Chet Gardiner wrote: There is no compelling evidence that the observed overall warming in the 20^th Century is anything but man-made. What an extraordinary statement. Talk about a Procrustian argument... The burden of proof is on those who would have us

Re: [OT] GWB: Al-Qaeda Fund Raiser

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Calco
On May 24, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Bill Arnold wrote: On the other hand the same people clammering for us to leave Iraq are wanting to go into Darfur and save the civilians. The crybabies can't have it both ways. It's all about attitude. There's a world of difference between: (1) invading

Re: [OT] GWB: Al-Qaeda Fund Raiser

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Calco
Actually I view Bill as a sort of harmless, tragicomic character like those in Umberto Eco's hilarious satire, Foucault's Pendulum. The Neo-Cons are his Rosicrucians. Only unlike the characters in the book, he didn't start his conspiracy theory as a joke, and he doesn't have a computer

Re: [OT] GWB: Al-Qaeda Fund Raiser

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Calco
I revise and extend one of my remarks: On Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 01:19PM, Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I view Bill as a sort of harmless, tragicomic character like those in Umberto Eco's hilarious satire, Foucault's Pendulum. The Neo-Cons are his Rosicrucians. Only

Re: [OT] GWB: Al-Qaeda Fund Raiser

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Calco
On May 24, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Reality Bob is that as of today you have 9 less G.I.'s.. alive I mean. Somebody better inform Sen. Edwards. He thinks it's just a bumper sticker war. How many fewer al Qaeda terrorists do we have today? Oh, that's right, martyrs

Re: [OT] GWB: Al-Qaeda Fund Raiser

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Calco
Iraqis don't need to keep track. It's not a business for them. They cannot retreat. They are defending their country. Wait a minute, I thought they were fighting over it in a barbaric civil war in which we have no business? Now they're helpless defenders? Which is it? The reality is

Re: [OT] Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics, Shiite Woos Sunnis, Purges Extremists

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Calco
On May 24, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: I've been reading about Sheik Mugtada al -Sadr, a shiite cleric, that might provide President Bush with a solution to stabilize Iraq. You're kidding right? Al-Sadr is the leader of the 2nd biggest army in Iraq behind the US lead

[OT] Path to national suicide

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article55810.html Stick a fork in the Union if this bill passes. Or in any case, turn and twist it---it seems already to have been inserted some time ago. - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [OT] Ending Battle, Wolfowitz Resigns From World Bank

2007-05-18 Thread Robert Calco
Maybe the truth is rather more complicated, Leland: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010050 - Bob On May 18, 2007, at 1:18 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: Paul Wolfowitz left the Bush Administration in 2005, as a high ranking official in the Pentagon and

RE: [OT] Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Calco
I concur, Steve. Everything is indeed the way God wants it. We are confounded by this because it rather goes against how we, in our imagined capacity as God, would have done just about everything from the beginning of time. Would the pot say to the potter, 'Why have you made me so?' Some

Re: [OT] Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Calco
On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 11:01AM, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 15, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Wolfe, Stephen S YA-02 6 MDSS/SGSI wrote: The point I'm making is pretty simple: if God is omnipotent, then every single thing that he creates is exactly as he intended it to be. Does this

Re: [OT] Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Calco
Hey Bob! Got news for you. I AM GOD! And whatever you say to prove I am not is because you in your human frailty and fallibility can not conceive the REAL reasons I have to be as I AM. So please, from now on you'll pray to me from 9 to 9:30 pm . It must start with Heil Ricardo the

Re: [OT] Race to the Bottom

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Calco
Pete: On May 9, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Pete Theisen wrote: Hi Everybody! Interesting that the phrase was coined by US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case, Ligget Co. v. Lee (288 U.S. 517, 558-559). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom We have had ten years of

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Calco
On May 3, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: No amount of proof, though, can ever turn a Theory into a Law. True enough; but Congress can, and that's precisely the concern that gave birth to this thread in the first place. :) - Bob -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com --

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Calco
Perhaps you simply are uneducated about earth's elliptical orbit around the sun that becomes, as it were, more or less so based on where it is in a known cycle? Perhaps you are just unaware that the sun also follows patterns of activity that affect the warmth and other features of the

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Calco
Leland: Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties. -- Federalist Papers #31 ) - Bob On May 1, 2007, at 2:45 PM,

Re: [NF] Microsoft announces IronRuby

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Calco
If anyone is game for an IronFox project based on the DLR, I'd be interested in helping to build such a thing. - Bob On May 2, 2007, at 6:35 AM, MB Software Solutions wrote: Andy Davies wrote: At their MIX07 conference Microsoft has just announced IronRuby Same naming scheme like

Re: [OT] Joe Biden, We're gonna shove it down his throat

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
They have a way of projecting their own totalitarian impulses on Bush, while pretending to be inclusive and altruistic, that is almost Arnold-esque. We're about to get a good dose of what truly arrogant, autocratic leadership is all about from the Dems in Congress. - Bob On Tuesday, May 01,

[OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
This one is for you, Leland, ol' buddy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece - - - Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
global warming, right Leland? O, if only we'd signed on to Kyoto! Why, the oceans would calm, Mars would get its southern ice cap back, and we wouldn't have any more natural disasters! How could it be clearer? /sarcasm - Bob On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, at 09:42AM, Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
the 2000 election are saying. - Bob On 5/1/07, Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one is for you, Leland, ol' buddy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece - - - Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, at 09:58AM, Virgil Bierschwale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the ice age ? That doesnt sound very constant, unless of course they are rewriting history and that never happened Just like the 2 debates and overwhelming bipartisan votes in favor of the Iraq war

Re: [OT] Joe Biden, We're gonna shove it down his throat

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
Pete: Hi Bob! Or not. All Bush has to do is veto. Yeah, sure, they'll override. In their dreams. I'm off tommorrow if you were serious about lunch. Know any place central to all of us? I am serious but weekends are best for me. It's hard for me to get away from the barrage of meetings

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
Helio: On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, at 10:07AM, Helio W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually regarding global warming I don't believe in anything. I'm not sure what side is wrong. You seem pretty sure. I'm sure warming is happening, and I have no reason to believe it's primarily man-made. To you

Re: [OT] George Bush Is Destroying Mars Too

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Calco
fine scotch and enjoy a beautiful evening on my lanai. It's the only thing a rational person can do in the face of the absurd. God bless you Leland! - Bob Regards, LelandJ Robert Calco wrote: This one is for you, Leland, ol' buddy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-28 Thread Robert Calco
Pete: On Apr 27, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: , I never hated the man to the core of my being Hi Bob! I did. I can't abide it when a man cheats on his wife. He is basically taking twice his share of the women, while I (and many other men) don't have one woman he has two. I

RE: [OT] More Evidence of Intelligent Life on Earth

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Calco
On Friday, April 27, 2007, at 06:23AM, Wolfe, Stephen S YA-02 6 MDSS/SGSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only have a Masters in Physics so I won't say much, but where is this 'vast majority'? Those would be the voices in Leland's head. ;-) - Bob v/r //SIGNED// Stephen S. Wolfe, YA2, DAF 6th

Re: [OT] More Evidence of Intelligent Life on Earth

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Calco
It's beautiful! Nature is so full of marvels. I wonder at it every day. A human mind, almost completely bereft of the capacity of reason, and thus uniquely suited to survival in a state of total cognitive dissonance. It's not a common thing at all. You are unique, Leland, you really are!

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Calco
On Apr 27, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Yep! Small island, with the greatest world power waging economic war against it. Yet they have some of the best Hospital and medical treatments, very high alphabetization, very high education rates. And if you consider that when it belonged

Re: [OT] This is classic

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Robert Calco wrote: On Apr 25, 2007, at 5:48 AM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Don't have a standing on this issue of French internal politics, France is not dangerous to the rest of the world. But. I disagree. Consider the Muslim youth riots

[OT] More Evidence of Intelligent Life on Earth

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/39kcck - - - Patterson said much of the up-to-date research indicates that changes in the brightness of the sun are almost certainly the primary cause of the warming trend since the end of the Little Ice Age in the late 19th century. Human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2),

Re: [OT] This is classic

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
On Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 04:25PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The riots themselves are as I see it a sign of a deeper threat to European civilization. France may be no threat in the narrow sense you insist on imposing on the discussion, but its cultural demise is.

[OT] Name Those Voices

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/38w4sy - - - A good exercise for people with short-term memory loss. For the hearing impaired, try the lip-sync version---can you read their lips? - - - http://tinyurl.com/37pxtc And another version: http://tinyurl.com/yoccz9 - Bob

Re: [OT] More Evidence of Intelligent Life on Earth

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
I just realized in the last few exchanges involving Leland how much I miss ProFox! Leland's capacity for ratiocination is startling even for an accountant. I simply don't run into such high quality specimens of non sequiturs and false inference, not to mention absurdity, even in all the

Re: [OT] Name Those Voices

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
The first link is an MP3 file and the other two are YouTube... - bob On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007 9:16 pm, Robert Calco wrote: Hi Bob! Crashes my audio. Must be a Winders only site/ http://tinyurl.com/38w4sy - - - A good exercise

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: Hi Leland! Well, the only ones complaining only complain when an R does what the president is doing. C-man was all over Kosovo, rocket attacked Al Qaeda in the desert and not a peep from the Ds. Pete: That's not entirely accurate. Fix

Re: [OT] More Evidence of Intelligent Life on Earth

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
On 04/26/2007 Robert Calco wrote: Leland's capacity for ratiocination is startling even for an accountant. I simply don't run into such high quality specimens of non sequiturs and false inference, not to mention absurdity, even in all the daily 'team meetings' I endure

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007 11:26 pm, Robert Calco wrote: On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: Hi Leland! Well, the only ones complaining only complain when an R does what the president is doing. C-man was all over Kosovo

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
In all seriousness, that half our population has forgotten -- literally forgotten -- our collective complicity in debating whether to invade Iraq not once, but twice, and accepting the argument of pre- emption (not immanent threat as some like to recast the past) as sufficient grounds to do

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
AM, Michael Madigan wrote: When the Islamofascists celebrated the Democratic Victory in November, you know the Bush administration did the right thing in invading Iraq. --- Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all seriousness, that half our population has forgotten -- literally

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
Can't fix it. What did they say? Surely it wasn't the outcry we have today, I would have remembered that! They were wholly behind him and sounded outright neo-conservative! Hi Bob! snip... I think Leland knew what I meant LOL. That should have been your first clue that what you said

Re: [OT] Signs of the Times

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Calco
On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 12:27 am, Robert Calco wrote: Incidentally the degree to which Democrats have managed to transfer their collective neuroses entirely to one person -- the person of George W. Bush -- is truly a mass-psychological

Re: [OT] This is classic

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Calco
to at least care about European politics. - Bob Robert Calco wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2mzy2v - - - Ségolène Royal, the first woman with a chance of leading France, began re-shaping her campaign yesterday as she faced a runoff with the clear favourite in the presidential election, the rightwing

Re: [OT] This is classic

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Calco
Thanks Bill! I appreciate your kind words. :) - Bob On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:02 PM, William Sanders / EFG wrote: Heya Bob - Good observations and commentary. I had watched the French political news rebroadcast on C-Span re: the election, and of course NONE of what you mentioned was covered

[OT] The VP was way too diplomatic

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/36pb7o A week or so ago I was of the opinion that the Right Hon. Sen. Reid was, at worst, and empty suit---Pelosi's poodle---with not even a scary bark compared to Cruella herself. But peering a little more deeply into his beady little eyes as he has been uttering the

[OT] Looking for hope in all the wrong places

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/2484m4 Maybe we'll find intelligent life there. The supply on earth is obviously running low, for example: http://tinyurl.com/2ah438 Ah, humanity! - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [OT] Looking for hope in all the wrong places

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Calco
On Apr 24, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 7:51 pm, Robert Calco wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2484m4 Maybe we'll find intelligent life there. The supply on earth is obviously running low, for example: http://tinyurl.com/2ah438 Hi Bob! What an a55hole

[OT] This is classic

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/2mzy2v - - - Ségolène Royal, the first woman with a chance of leading France, began re-shaping her campaign yesterday as she faced a runoff with the clear favourite in the presidential election, the rightwing former interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Ms Royal began the

Re: [OT] This is classic

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Calco
: Same old story. Here in Brazil with a bit of a twist: leftist union leader Lula won presidency by lying to public on both sides of the ideological spectrum. He betrayed even his dumb socialist supporters. On 4/25/07, Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2mzy2v

Re: [OT] The NY Post contacted me today regarding Imus-relatedT-Shirts

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Calco
Wow, somebody mark the calendar. Ed may have said something I can agree with... On Monday, April 16, 2007, at 11:47AM, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Derek Kalweit wrote: snip If free speech didn't offend people, we wouldn't need laws defending it

Re: [OT] Global Warming Test

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Calco
warming is over with the vast majority of world scientists agreed global warming has been accelerated by CO2 pollution to the planet and is the number one greatest threat to humanity. All that is left now is the political argument to be decided in 2008. Regards, LelandJ Robert Calco

Re: [OT] Global Warming Test

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Calco
The art of verbal Pa Kua can reduce any a-hole teacher to a babbling idiot even in his native environment---the captive classroom. :) I really don't worry about them vis a vis teachers. If I can teach them to think for themselves for real and eat from the tree of life, they'll know when

[OT] Global Warming Test

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/Q1.html There are 10 questions in all. - Bob ___ Post Messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: [OT] Testify, but not under oath

2007-03-22 Thread Robert Calco
On Mar 22, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 9:56 pm, Robert Calco wrote: On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: Let me get this straight: Bush's current and former staff members can testify before Congress, but there can't be any sort of record kept

Re: [OT] Who said this?

2007-03-22 Thread Robert Calco
On Mar 22, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:45 PM, David Crooks wrote: -- In what can safely be termed a total departure from the definition of resignation, Dubya explains the firing of 8 U.S. Attorneys by the Attorney General. White House, Mar. 20, 2007

Re: [OT] Who said this?

2007-03-22 Thread Robert Calco
. ;-) - Bob On Mar 22, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: if giuliani wins the Presidency, he should immediately fire every single attorney to avoid this problem in the future. --- Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 22, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: On Mar 22, 2007

[OT] Trial In Error

2007-02-18 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/ AR2007021601705_pf.html - - - Now that the real clowns are in charge, look for the circus to get even more entertaining. - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [OT] Global Warming Studies Demand More Computer Power

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Calco
Which, coincidentally, requires more government funding. Funny how that works. - Bob On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: Computers are being used to help better understand the causes and effects of Global Warming, and the role that human interferance with the

[OT] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Calco
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm - - - It's nearly impossible to have a rational debate with anybody about this anymore. Personally I don't see any point (and never did see any point) in denying a warming trend lately; but to jump from that point of common

Re: [OT] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Calco
://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/02/ DI2007020200882.html?referrer=email or http://tinyurl.com/2uvvvb Regards, LelandJ Robert Calco wrote: http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm - - - It's nearly impossible to have a rational debate

Re: [OT] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Calco
On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:23 PM, David Crooks wrote: How can anyone prove that??? Did they have the same thermometers 200 years ago that are in use today??? There is no way!!! Some global warming. I agree. I was cold in Albany, NY 200 years ago

Re: [OT] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Calco
On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: If he hates the bearing of arms, he's really going to hate the anti-abortion amendment. --- Robert Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:23 PM, David Crooks wrote: How can

Re: [OT] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Calco
for themselves, period, so they don't get sold a bill of goods in the form of some alleged altruist's agenda, whether from the ostensible right or left. - Bob Regards, LelandJ Robert Calco wrote: Leland (my friend): I read the IPCC's report. I was unimpressed. Frankly, it reeks of left-wing

Re: [OT] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Calco
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Pete Theisen wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:57 pm, Robert Calco wrote: I'm taking a new job at the end of this month with ostensibly more humane hours. The position will be Domain Architect in charge of Application Design Frameworks at Publix

[OT] Promises, Like Dust in the Wind

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Calco
http://tinyurl.com/yhfyms - - - But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in deliberations, as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, Democrats now say they will use House rules to prevent the opposition from offering alternative measures,

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Calco
Again, Helio, I can't implore you enough to read what I was actually saying. But I am a patient person. Incidentally all I was saying was that liberty is cherished more deeply when you fight for it yourself vs. having it ushered in by some mythical Knight in Shining Armor. It was something of

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Calco
On Monday, November 27, 2006, at 05:16PM, Helio W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a well known fact that people who believe in silly things like the invisible man in the sky cannot think in logical and rational terms, so a productive debate is nearly impossible. This kind of people believe in

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Calco
On Nov 26, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Helio W. wrote: OMG, you really believe the US only invaded Iraq to liberate their people from a dictatorship... That's pathetic. When you learn to read, you can try again. It's never too late to join civilized adults in a debate. - Bob P.S. Congratulations

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Calco
On Nov 26, 2006, at 10:24 PM, Helio W. wrote: I say whatever I want to say, Virgil. And your simple mindness is showing too. Said the pot to the kettle. - Bob ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Fox on.... Linux? Alternatives...

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Calco
My take on the question for what its worth is that there is no one tool you need to learn, but rather a skill set. Specifically, learn meta programming, i.e., code generation. Both Java and the CLR have rich support for two features that make meta programming relatively easy: reflection

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Calco
27, 2006, at 8:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sitting here at the cafe having some iced tea waiting fir the locals to get here for the morning bs session and I have two thoughts on the matter 1 amen 2 keys on a palm treo are way too snall -Original Message- From: Robert

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-26 Thread Robert Calco
Bill: On Nov 25, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Bill Arnold wrote: Leadership by example is the solution you're looking for. When everything is said and done, it is as self-evident and simple as that. Truisms are always 'as simple as that'. But we do make decisions every step of the way, and what we

Re: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-24 Thread Robert Calco
On Nov 23, 2006, at 7:13 AM, Bill Arnold wrote: To Bob and anyone who might read this: this situation has drained too much of my time already, but my sense of patriotism and humanity will not let me sit back and watch it all play out without saying anything. No one, least of all me, is

RE: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-22 Thread Robert Calco
On Wednesday, November 22, 2006, at 05:24AM, Bill Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3.) To your credit I believe you are 100% earnest and open about who you are and what you believe. I just regret your constant harping about certain things and wish I had more patience for your perpetual

RE: [OT] Do you think McCain is right?

2006-11-22 Thread Robert Calco
I didn't finish my final thought before accidentally hitting the send instead of save button: I believe at a motivation level we did what in our heart we know is right -- overturning dictators, bringing democracy and freedom to oppressed people (you really do ignore the positive aspects of the

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