Why Abortion is Moral http://elroy.net/ehr/abortionanswers.html Abort ion questions answered
Quick answer: A fetus does not develop a brain or a central nervous system until the 4th month of pregnancy! That means no consciousness, thought, feelings or anything! Before it's born, it's a potential person, not yet a conscious, independent person.
Why Abortion is Biblical http://elroy.net/ehr/abortion.html
How anti-abortion activists misrepresent the biblical record
Moulder and Scully go back in time (to whatever time Xena takes place in) using the Lone Gunmen's time machine to investigate how the hell they were able to keep their bangs so trim in primitive days.
"I don't know that the shrub should be considered president, nor should he be considered a patriot."
- me (an ashamed-because-of-Bush patriot who's a happy atheistic-leaning agnostic) 7/2001
That's a pretty assumptious claim you make... that no one here cares for him (J. Katz). No one's right all the time, and besides, a little paranoia can be good sometimes. Otherwise, you won't notice something until it's too late and damage has already been done! Would you be the type of person that says to Orwell, "Look Georgie, nobody likes that doom 'n' gloom you're rambling on about; go stuff it!"? Instead of automatically dissing everything he says, why not look at some themes and see if there's any validity there. Personally, I'm afraid of the damage that greed can do in a person's (ie corporatation) quest for money. People incorporate their business as a type of shield, so there's not many winners when they do as they please. I would rather my Bush tax cut go towards funding renewable energy sources, education, and other worthy conservation causes. Where has trusting companies gotten us? A very high cancer rate! (sorry to ramble.:) )
a good current events collection...
http://www.commondreams.com
The Thought Police! (1984)
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yep, that sounds just like 1984's thought police. I was frightened to learn a co-worker around 30 years old didn't know about that Orwell book !!! I took it for granted most everyone knew about it... guess not.:(
>How fast was NT4 Service Pack 6a posted after 6?
I vividly remember it being pretty much one working day (maybe 2 or 3). I was pretty surprised to see it pop up the next day after I had just installed 6 using Windows Update. (yes, I was a freak about checking for updates... also, I installed updates for other machines a LOT)
I believe that the windows update tool used in IE4 or 5 can offer to update IE-related fixes and a basic Service Pack offering, but it doesn't offer OS-related hotfixes. That's where the gold is. Go to http://www.microsoft.com and in the upper-right there's a black bar with a fancy menu that can take you to Downloads. Select your product, sort by date and start the madness.
I'm by no means a hacker (or cracker), but I can recognize their importance. If well-intentioned hackers are afraid to help the companies out, then a foreign crackpot will inevitably find the flaw out and exploit it before anyone realizes it. So, I would hope that AOL found some reasonable evidence of fair wrongdoing before blindly prosecuting. The courts are becoming an evil tool of people with more money. Justice will never be served as long as money can buy it.
Here's the BEST voting method we NEED...
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Seriously.
Try to think about this one-it's actually pretty simple (unless it's done by hand). We need to be able to RANK our votes. Mine would go like this - 1. Nader, 2. Gore, 3. Harry Browne. This way, if my #1 pick doesn't win, my vote goes to Gore instead, since I would really prefer him over Bush any day. In this system, no one would have the excuse of being afraid of wasting their vote, thereby solving the 2 party monopoly on our gov't.
If this happened, in the present circumstances, Nader would've gotten well over 5%, and Gore would be acknowledged for what he is - by far, the popular winner!
Search for Instant Runoff Vote or IRV to find others who agree with this.
Re:The Muppets Explain IRV !-oops, forgot the link
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Yay! It looks like Bush will lose! Whew, that was a close one! Or is that what they wanted us to think? Mwaa-hahahahahaha!;P
Your vote is only wasted if it doesn't reflect your true feelings. The ones with your heart & logic, not the wallet & rich religious leaders! The environment is more important than corporations...
The St. Louis polls are now officially closed. The reason the judge here upheld the decision to keep them open until 10, because the elections were so screwed up! There were countless people who have put in a change 6 month-6 YEARS ago, that weren't able to vote due to state screw-ups!!! And the REPUBLICAN(t's) are calling the very idea of bending the rules (because of gov't screw-up) an evil Democratic plot to try to get more votes! Boy, are they afraid of what the people think! I bet they're also really afraid of having an idea like the IRV system established... The Muppets explain IRV!
I was voting with my girlfriend at 3945 Flad in St. Louis, MO, finishing up around 5 minutes to 7 when I heard workers in the gymnasium aruguing loudly "They ain't making us stay open 'till 10!" and so forth from a few of them (but not all). Two African-American males were turned away at 6:59! They mentioned to us that Bush had better not win, and I hope they're right. On TV, I'm now watching two head Republicans (Senator & Ms. Chairman) and they are really worked up in a frenzy yelling how great it is that the 3 federal judges overturned the local (and more in tune with the cirmumstances) judge's motion to keep the faulty polls open late. I can't believe the "lady" is so arrogant to not see another side of the story - it's clear she doesn't feel sorry for the polls not operated properly, giving good reason to allow everyone to make an important choice. How many votes have been killed?
Re:IANAL, but here is what will probably happen...
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Unfortunately, you are probably right. The courts work for whoever has the deeper pockets and better luck. If they went by true justice, well, there would be no need for lawyers and it would be free. How could someone be sued for having information unknowingly passed through their system? This forces monitoring & censorship or nothing at all. Of course, the companies (or government - any difference?) who would do the suing would only be doing it because that is the only way they could stop it. This is absurd, but kindness and understanding is one thing that greedy companies won't allow if there's $$$ to be made! Let's make some laws to protect us from ourselves! Make laws to protect COMMON SENSE!!!
Is everyone familiar with Dan Savage and his column "Savage Love"? He's the gay anti-Ann Landers (sort of) and it's often extremely amusing. Below is a snippet from the recent column that exposes a hilarious contradiction in the Republican candidates. Beware, Dan is always brutally honest (something I love).
bonus: Reagan's son trashes George W.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3 4288-2000Aug3.html
-----Original Message-----
http://avclub.theonion.com/savage.html
Mary Cheney was exposed as a carpet-munching sodomite by reporter and barbarian Matt Drudge, but some of us knew she was a lesbian before we read Matt's scooplet. When I saw a picture of Mary in The New York Times, well, let's just say I didn't need to find one of Ellen Degeneres' pubic hairs in the corner of Mary's mouth to conclude she was a dyke. Not all dykes look like dykes, of course, but the picture in The New York Times gave Mary away. Cheney is one of those looks-like-a-dyke/quacks-like-a-dyke triple threats: She has the lesbian hairdo (high and tight), lesbian polo shirt (boxy and loose), and tasteful lesbian make-up (just a little something on the lips). By contrast, Mary's straight older sister looks a Mary Kay saleswoman with an unfortunate bad perm.
So, how is the news that Dick's daughter is a dyke playing in the male-dominated, deeply homophobic, ultra-conservative environment that is Bush HQ? According to "a top Bush source" quoted by Drudge, Gov. Bush "believes Mr. Cheney has a wonderful family. Being gay or lesbian is not a liability in this campaign. The governor embraces both of Mr. Cheney's daughters and will invite them to campaign with him."
So, despite having promised Pat Robertson that he won't knowingly appoint a gay or lesbian person in his administration, George W. Bush is welcoming Mary Cheney into his campaign with open arms--provided, we have to assume, that Mary doesn't want to marry her girlfriend (which Bush opposes), pass hate-crimes legislation (which Bush opposes), adopt a child (which Bush opposes), receive domestic-partner benefits (which Bush opposes), or join the Marines (which both Bush and her daddy oppose).
At the conclusion of the 1992 Republican National Convention (in the beautiful Nuremberg Convention Center, remember?), Republicans danced around the hall while the band played "The Best Of Times Is Now." That's a song from the Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles, which is about a drag queen, his male partner, and their son's impending marriage to the daughter of a conservative politician. Watching George Bush Sr. dance with Pat Buchanan and Dan Quayle while Republican delegates waved "Family Values Forever! Gay Rights Never!" signs was odd, to say the least. It was equally odd in 2000 to watch gay-bashing Bushies insist that Mary Cheney is welcome on W's campaign bus. Has anyone told Mary that she's expected to sit all the way at the back?
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I have increasingly been upset at companies and, as a direct result, been against advertising. Stop and think of how cool this world would be without the billboards & public in-your-face advertising. I want 100% truth in advertising.
The larger a company gets, the more it pollutes our environment with ads & wastes the money we give them that could be put to so many better uses (charity, product improvement, etc.). Ads manipulate people and try to pressure people into things they don't need so they feel that they 'belong' in society. Artificial idols to worship (no, I'm not religious, I'm agnostic!).
What's great about these is what should be obvious: it's stationary. You can hold it on your lap, or conserve desk space, or use it in zero gravity! (If I had a nickel...:) ) No more worrys about flat surfaces or lifting the mouse to put back to the center of the mouse pad.
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Definitely! And only us loyal fans know the password to call it off!
Here's a picture taken by the scientists in the secret labs at NASA...
http://www.retroweb.com/prisoner/prisx05r.jpg
:)
I am not a number, I am a FREE MAN!
aaahahahahahahahahahahahhaaa!
Why Abortion is Moral
http://elroy.net/ehr/abortionanswers.html
Abor
Quick answer: A fetus does not develop a brain or a central nervous system until the 4th month of pregnancy! That means no consciousness, thought, feelings or anything! Before it's born, it's a potential person, not yet a conscious, independent person.
Why Abortion is Biblical
http://elroy.net/ehr/abortion.html
How anti-abortion activists misrepresent the biblical record
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.html
300 bible contradictions explained...
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contradic
Moulder and Scully go back in time (to whatever time Xena takes place in) using the Lone Gunmen's time machine to investigate how the hell they were able to keep their bangs so trim in primitive days.
"I don't know that the shrub should be considered president, nor should he be considered a patriot."
- me (an ashamed-because-of-Bush patriot who's a happy atheistic-leaning agnostic) 7/2001
:)
http://www.commondreams.org
That's a pretty assumptious claim you make... that no one here cares for him (J. Katz). No one's right all the time, and besides, a little paranoia can be good sometimes. Otherwise, you won't notice something until it's too late and damage has already been done! Would you be the type of person that says to Orwell, "Look Georgie, nobody likes that doom 'n' gloom you're rambling on about; go stuff it!"? Instead of automatically dissing everything he says, why not look at some themes and see if there's any validity there. Personally, I'm afraid of the damage that greed can do in a person's (ie corporatation) quest for money. People incorporate their business as a type of shield, so there's not many winners when they do as they please. I would rather my Bush tax cut go towards funding renewable energy sources, education, and other worthy conservation causes. Where has trusting companies gotten us? A very high cancer rate! (sorry to ramble. :) )
a good current events collection... http://www.commondreams.com
yep, that sounds just like 1984's thought police. I was frightened to learn a co-worker around 30 years old didn't know about that Orwell book !!! I took it for granted most everyone knew about it... guess not. :(
Haven't you thought that maybe it was done on purpose? Bush mangles our grammar every day...
. as p
http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms
... it will give the kiddies the idea if they haven't thought of it already! :-P
http://www.commondreams.com/
>How fast was NT4 Service Pack 6a posted after 6? I vividly remember it being pretty much one working day (maybe 2 or 3). I was pretty surprised to see it pop up the next day after I had just installed 6 using Windows Update. (yes, I was a freak about checking for updates... also, I installed updates for other machines a LOT)
I believe that the windows update tool used in IE4 or 5 can offer to update IE-related fixes and a basic Service Pack offering, but it doesn't offer OS-related hotfixes. That's where the gold is. Go to http://www.microsoft.com and in the upper-right there's a black bar with a fancy menu that can take you to Downloads. Select your product, sort by date and start the madness.
I'm by no means a hacker (or cracker), but I can recognize their importance. If well-intentioned hackers are afraid to help the companies out, then a foreign crackpot will inevitably find the flaw out and exploit it before anyone realizes it. So, I would hope that AOL found some reasonable evidence of fair wrongdoing before blindly prosecuting. The courts are becoming an evil tool of people with more money. Justice will never be served as long as money can buy it.
Seriously.
Try to think about this one-it's actually pretty simple (unless it's done by hand). We need to be able to RANK our votes. Mine would go like this - 1. Nader, 2. Gore, 3. Harry Browne. This way, if my #1 pick doesn't win, my vote goes to Gore instead, since I would really prefer him over Bush any day. In this system, no one would have the excuse of being afraid of wasting their vote, thereby solving the 2 party monopoly on our gov't.
If this happened, in the present circumstances, Nader would've gotten well over 5%, and Gore would be acknowledged for what he is - by far, the popular winner!
Search for Instant Runoff Vote or IRV to find others who agree with this.
The Muppets Explain IRV !
;P
IRV is fair for ALL, - it's TRULY NON-PARTISAN!
Yay! It looks like Bush will lose! Whew, that was a close one! Or is that what they wanted us to think? Mwaa-hahahahahaha!
Your vote is only wasted if it doesn't reflect your true feelings. The ones with your heart & logic, not the wallet & rich religious leaders! The environment is more important than corporations...
Aaa-hAHAHahaHAhAHAHHAaaa!! (tenticals waving wildly) Always twirling, twirling, twiirrling!
The St. Louis polls are now officially closed. The reason the judge here upheld the decision to keep them open until 10, because the elections were so screwed up! There were countless people who have put in a change 6 month-6 YEARS ago, that weren't able to vote due to state screw-ups!!! And the REPUBLICAN(t's) are calling the very idea of bending the rules (because of gov't screw-up) an evil Democratic plot to try to get more votes! Boy, are they afraid of what the people think! I bet they're also really afraid of having an idea like the IRV system established... The Muppets explain IRV!
I was voting with my girlfriend at 3945 Flad in St. Louis, MO, finishing up around 5 minutes to 7 when I heard workers in the gymnasium aruguing loudly "They ain't making us stay open 'till 10!" and so forth from a few of them (but not all). Two African-American males were turned away at 6:59! They mentioned to us that Bush had better not win, and I hope they're right. On TV, I'm now watching two head Republicans (Senator & Ms. Chairman) and they are really worked up in a frenzy yelling how great it is that the 3 federal judges overturned the local (and more in tune with the cirmumstances) judge's motion to keep the faulty polls open late. I can't believe the "lady" is so arrogant to not see another side of the story - it's clear she doesn't feel sorry for the polls not operated properly, giving good reason to allow everyone to make an important choice. How many votes have been killed?
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.fair.org/
http://www.nader2000.org/
http://www.billionairesforbushorgore.com/
Unfortunately, you are probably right. The courts work for whoever has the deeper pockets and better luck. If they went by true justice, well, there would be no need for lawyers and it would be free. How could someone be sued for having information unknowingly passed through their system? This forces monitoring & censorship or nothing at all. Of course, the companies (or government - any difference?) who would do the suing would only be doing it because that is the only way they could stop it. This is absurd, but kindness and understanding is one thing that greedy companies won't allow if there's $$$ to be made! Let's make some laws to protect us from ourselves! Make laws to protect COMMON SENSE!!!
Is everyone familiar with Dan Savage and his column "Savage Love"? He's the gay anti-Ann Landers (sort of) and it's often extremely amusing. Below is a snippet from the recent column that exposes a hilarious contradiction in the Republican candidates. Beware, Dan is always brutally honest (something I love).
3 4288-2000Aug3.html
bonus: Reagan's son trashes George W.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A
-----Original Message-----
http://avclub.theonion.com/savage.html
Mary Cheney was exposed as a carpet-munching sodomite by reporter and barbarian Matt Drudge, but some of us knew she was a lesbian before we read Matt's scooplet. When I saw a picture of Mary in The New York Times, well, let's just say I didn't need to find one of Ellen Degeneres' pubic hairs in the corner of Mary's mouth to conclude she was a dyke. Not all dykes look like dykes, of course, but the picture in The New York Times gave Mary away. Cheney is one of those looks-like-a-dyke/quacks-like-a-dyke triple threats: She has the lesbian hairdo (high and tight), lesbian polo shirt (boxy and loose), and tasteful lesbian make-up (just a little something on the lips). By contrast, Mary's straight older sister looks a Mary Kay saleswoman with an unfortunate bad perm.
So, how is the news that Dick's daughter is a dyke playing in the male-dominated, deeply homophobic, ultra-conservative environment that is Bush HQ? According to "a top Bush source" quoted by Drudge, Gov. Bush "believes Mr. Cheney has a wonderful family. Being gay or lesbian is not a liability in this campaign. The governor embraces both of Mr. Cheney's daughters and will invite them to campaign with him."
So, despite having promised Pat Robertson that he won't knowingly appoint a gay or lesbian person in his administration, George W. Bush is welcoming Mary Cheney into his campaign with open arms--provided, we have to assume, that Mary doesn't want to marry her girlfriend (which Bush opposes), pass hate-crimes legislation (which Bush opposes), adopt a child (which Bush opposes), receive domestic-partner benefits (which Bush opposes), or join the Marines (which both Bush and her daddy oppose).
At the conclusion of the 1992 Republican National Convention (in the beautiful Nuremberg Convention Center, remember?), Republicans danced around the hall while the band played "The Best Of Times Is Now." That's a song from the Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles, which is about a drag queen, his male partner, and their son's impending marriage to the daughter of a conservative politician. Watching George Bush Sr. dance with Pat Buchanan and Dan Quayle while Republican delegates waved "Family Values Forever! Gay Rights Never!" signs was odd, to say the least. It was equally odd in 2000 to watch gay-bashing Bushies insist that Mary Cheney is welcome on W's campaign bus. Has anyone told Mary that she's expected to sit all the way at the back?
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by Albert Yale ay@aci.qc.ca
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I have increasingly been upset at companies and, as a direct result, been against advertising. Stop and think of how cool this world would be without the billboards & public in-your-face advertising. I want 100% truth in advertising.
The larger a company gets, the more it pollutes our environment with ads & wastes the money we give them that could be put to so many better uses (charity, product improvement, etc.). Ads manipulate people and try to pressure people into things they don't need so they feel that they 'belong' in society. Artificial idols to worship (no, I'm not religious, I'm agnostic!).
Gotta get back to work...
Everyone must see "Being John Malkovich"! It's the best movie I've seen in years! I laughed, I cried, I had a great time! :)
What's great about these is what should be obvious: it's stationary. You can hold it on your lap, or conserve desk space, or use it in zero gravity! (If I had a nickel... :) )
No more worrys about flat surfaces or lifting the mouse to put back to the center of the mouse pad.