Why do you believe that these posts by me have anything to do with you?
It seemed like a reasonable standalone question (for anyone to answer) which occurred to me while reading your post(which I am loath to repeat due to redundancy checks).
Since you believe that replies to your message are somehow remarks upon the messenger (you), I'll make other comments on this theme as replies to the main post.
So you're claiming that when Mr. T visited the White House that no background check was performed because Mr. T isn't his real name?
"Though McClellan has admitted he knew Gannon wasn't even his real name, so therefore no real background check had been performed? "
I didn't say you said anything about Helen Thomas.
Why do you claim that I assume that you would condemn one without condemning the other?
How would I know what you would condemn in order for me to make an assumption based on my beliefs about your predicted behavior?
I asked a general question of the world at large/Slashdot: "Why are those questions lowlights, but Helen Thomas' questions are celebrated by antiwar.com and others?"
Why are those questions lowlights, but Helen Thomas' questions are celebrated by antiwar.com and others?
In a November 2002 talk at MIT, Thomas revealed: "I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'"
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080034/
Helen Thomas the Pundit writes a sharply partisan syndicated White House column about what she thinks--as opposed to Helen Thomas the Reporter, who wrote about what she'd learned.
HELEN THOMAS: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.
MS. THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
In many years of playing baseball games I've grown weary of them altogether. Seems that major improvements have been made in gameplay and graphics, but the games still have a boring aspect to them - nothing really new.
Sounds like they finally got it just like real baseball.
If anyone is tempted by this topic to go out and read Logan's Run and then its two sequels...
Don't do it!
The original book Logan's Run is pretty good. The sequels (Logan's World and Logan's Search) are terrible. My personal opinion is the author took a lot of drugs, messed up his mind and then needed to make some money fast.
Also interesting is that the original novel was written by two people (William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson) while the sequels were written just by William Nolan.
The author William Nolan has a Logan's Run website here: http://www.williamfnolan.com/[williamfnolan.com]
Note: I have no idea if drugs were involved, but it would explain why the sequels were so lousy compared to the first novel.
Have you read the moderation guidelines - did you just finish high school chemistry and are eager to apply your knowledge of the periodic table?
It was kooky nonsense, not a troll! You probably hate the Three Stooges!
Plutonium has an atomic number of 94 and an atomic weight of 244. It is one of the most delicate elements in the periodic table. The only thing (up to now) that has saved it from becoming extinct is that it is difficult to locate.
The plutonium atom is so delicate that a fall (in Earth's gravity) of a distance of 10cm onto a hard surface will cause a plutonium atom to be broken into 3 iron atoms, one sulphur atom, and a number of neutrons. Plutonium is commonly found in the stink bombs that kids throw in the hallway at school.
Plutonium has an atomic number of 94 and an atomic weight of 244. It is one of the most delicate elements in the periodic table. The only thing (up to now) that has saved it from becoming extinct is that it is difficult to locate.
The plutonium atom is so delicate that a fall (in Earth's gravity) of a distance of 10cm onto a hard surface will cause a plutonium atom to be broken into 3 iron atoms, one sulphur atom, and a number of neutrons. Plutonium is commonly found in the stink bombs that kids throw in the hallway at school.
Don't read Logan's Run sequels - they're terrible!
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If anyone is tempted by this topic to go out and read Logan's Run and then its two sequels...
Don't do it!
The original book Logan's Run is pretty good. The sequels (Logan's World and Logan's Search)
are terrible. My personal opinion is the author took a lot of drugs, messed up his mind and then needed to make some money fast.
Also interesting is that the original novel was written by two people (William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson) while the sequels were written just by William Nolan.
It's "Were you being sarcastic?" for fuck's sake!
Christ, look up the words in a fucking dictionary. Irony is a completely different concept.
I believe that you are mindlessly repeating the meme started by non-fans of Alanis Morissette who claimed that none of the events in that song were actually ironic.
Sarcasm implies an intentional inflicting of pain (which was absent in the post that I replied to).
Irony implies an attempt to be amusing or provocative by saying the opposite of what is meant.
The referenced statement:
"Yeah, it's unfortunate that more time is spent bashing than anything else. It's too bad they learned from Rush, A.C. , O'Reilly, etc etc. Hell, those right wing media nutjobs have made entire CAREERS out of whining about liberals."
lacks an intent to inflict "pain" on me and therefore does not meet the definition of sarcasm.
I believe that the author was intending to be provocative by using words that carried a meaning opposite to what was said - which is irony.
If you listen to Air America radio or other progressive programs
I've listened to Air America (AM1360 in San Diego) multiple times, and they almost never cover anything progressive. All they ever do is bash Bush or other Republicans. They may think that that counts as being progressive, but it sure doesn't benefit any of the many progressive causes out there.
It would benefit them (Air America) and U.S. progressives if they occasionally had actual progressives on to talk about the good they are doing and how listeners can join in and become a part of the progressive movement.
But it must be easier and more fun to do show after show after show of the setting up and the knocking down of Republican boogieman strawmen.
The source of the forged documents was on the French Payroll.
"The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs has admitted that he was in the pay of France."
"After being exposed in the international press, French intelligence can hardly be amused or happy with him," one western diplomat said. "Martino may have thought the safest thing was to hand himself over to the Italians." Investigators in Rome suspect that Mr Martino was first engaged by the French secret services five years ago, when he was asked to investigate rumours of illicit trafficking in uranium from Niger."
Great - with your kind of thinking, when the last ice age ended, everyone would have stayed in Florida.
During the period from about 120,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet grew much larger than it is today. This was the last glacial phase. Since about 20,000 years ago, the ice sheet has been retreating to its present size. This marks the present interglacial phase of the cycle. A similar change occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, with ice sheets expanding across large areas of North America, Asia, and Europe. Shifts in climatic conditions occur across the globe accompany these cycles. This cycle of advance and retreat of the ice sheets in the Northern and Southern hemispheres has occurred many times in the past and will occur again in the future.
All but small remnants of the continental ice sheets retreated from North America thousands of years ago. Although it may appear that the Ice Age has ended, many scientists argue that our present relatively warm period represents but a brief interlude and that the glaciers may again advance in the future.
Re:Where the checkpoints are - magic explained
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The checkpoints do in fact only apply to palestinians and the israelis can bypass.
How come everyone doesn't go through the bypass line if there is no checking there?
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Ah - I get it - the checkpoints apply to anyone (Israeli or Palestinian) who travels between certain points. I thought that the original post was trying to imply that the checkpoints only applied to Palestinians.
Israeli companies have a walk in the park compared to Palestinian companies. Many more Palestinians have been shot or bombed than Israelis. Israelis don't have to spend hours going through multiple checkpoints to get from one town to the next.
Do they have a special checkpoints for Israelis? (Kindof like the First Class checkin at the airport)
If so, doesn't that imply that Isrealis do have to go through checkpoints?
If not, do the Isrealis magically go around the checkpoint?
Seriously. "I was pointing out stars. Yeah, I suppose the plane might've flown past" counts as an admission but doesn't prove anything.
Are you seriously claiming that you believe that he went outside on two different days to point at stars, and both days he accidentally flashed an aircraft while flashing the stars?
Do you also believe that George's dad accidently sat on the statue of Jerry and got it stuck in his rectum?
Banach, who said he bought the laser pointer over the Internet to use at work, later admitted he had shined the laser at both aircraft.
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Why do you believe that these posts by me have anything to do with you?
It seemed like a reasonable standalone question (for anyone to answer) which occurred to me while reading your post(which I am loath to repeat due to redundancy checks).
Since you believe that replies to your message are somehow remarks upon the messenger (you), I'll make other comments on this theme as replies to the main post.
So you're claiming that when Mr. T visited the White House that no background check was performed because Mr. T isn't his real name? "Though McClellan has admitted he knew Gannon wasn't even his real name, so therefore no real background check had been performed? "
Why do you claim that I assume that you would condemn one without condemning the other?
How would I know what you would condemn in order for me to make an assumption based on my beliefs about your predicted behavior?
I asked a general question of the world at large/Slashdot: "Why are those questions lowlights, but Helen Thomas' questions are celebrated by antiwar.com and others?"
Why are those questions lowlights, but Helen Thomas' questions are celebrated by antiwar.com and others?
In a November 2002 talk at MIT, Thomas revealed: "I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'"
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080034/ Helen Thomas the Pundit writes a sharply partisan syndicated White House column about what she thinks--as opposed to Helen Thomas the Reporter, who wrote about what she'd learned.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0108-05.htm http://www.antiwar.com/comment/helen.html Helen Thomas Socks it to the White House
HELEN THOMAS: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.
MS. THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
In many years of playing baseball games I've grown weary of them altogether. Seems that major improvements have been made in gameplay and graphics, but the games still have a boring aspect to them - nothing really new.
Sounds like they finally got it just like real baseball.If anyone is tempted by this topic to go out and read Logan's Run and then its two sequels...
Don't do it!The original book Logan's Run is pretty good. The sequels (Logan's World and Logan's Search) are terrible. My personal opinion is the author took a lot of drugs, messed up his mind and then needed to make some money fast.
Also interesting is that the original novel was written by two people (William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson) while the sequels were written just by William Nolan. The author William Nolan has a Logan's Run website here: http://www.williamfnolan.com/[williamfnolan.com]
Note: I have no idea if drugs were involved, but it would explain why the sequels were so lousy compared to the first novel.Perhaps - you could find enough like minded people to raise the money to get it fixed with private funds.
My valve radio is still working fine
Have you read the moderator guidelines?
You thought that was a troll?
Have you read the moderation guidelines - did you just finish high school chemistry and are eager to apply your knowledge of the periodic table?
It was kooky nonsense, not a troll! You probably hate the Three Stooges!
Plutonium has an atomic number of 94 and an atomic weight of 244. It is one of the most delicate elements in the periodic table. The only thing (up to now) that has saved it from becoming extinct is that it is difficult to locate. The plutonium atom is so delicate that a fall (in Earth's gravity) of a distance of 10cm onto a hard surface will cause a plutonium atom to be broken into 3 iron atoms, one sulphur atom, and a number of neutrons. Plutonium is commonly found in the stink bombs that kids throw in the hallway at school.
If Penthouse magazine can go bankrupt even with naked boobies, what hope is there for a magazine without any boobies?
Plutonium has an atomic number of 94 and an atomic weight of 244. It is one of the most delicate elements in the periodic table. The only thing (up to now) that has saved it from becoming extinct is that it is difficult to locate.
The plutonium atom is so delicate that a fall (in Earth's gravity) of a distance of 10cm onto a hard surface will cause a plutonium atom to be broken into 3 iron atoms, one sulphur atom, and a number of neutrons. Plutonium is commonly found in the stink bombs that kids throw in the hallway at school.
If anyone is tempted by this topic to go out and read Logan's Run and then its two sequels...
Don't do it!The original book Logan's Run is pretty good. The sequels (Logan's World and Logan's Search) are terrible. My personal opinion is the author took a lot of drugs, messed up his mind and then needed to make some money fast.
Also interesting is that the original novel was written by two people (William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson) while the sequels were written just by William Nolan.The author William Nolan has a Logan's Run website here: http://www.williamfnolan.com/
Note: I have no idea if drugs were involved, but it would explain why the sequels were so lousy compared to the first novel.
It's "Were you being sarcastic?" for fuck's sake! Christ, look up the words in a fucking dictionary. Irony is a completely different concept.
I believe that you are mindlessly repeating the meme started by non-fans of Alanis Morissette who claimed that none of the events in that song were actually ironic.Sarcasm implies an intentional inflicting of pain (which was absent in the post that I replied to).
Irony implies an attempt to be amusing or provocative by saying the opposite of what is meant.
The referenced statement:
"Yeah, it's unfortunate that more time is spent bashing than anything else. It's too bad they learned from Rush, A.C. , O'Reilly, etc etc. Hell, those right wing media nutjobs have made entire CAREERS out of whining about liberals."
lacks an intent to inflict "pain" on me and therefore does not meet the definition of sarcasm.I believe that the author was intending to be provocative by using words that carried a meaning opposite to what was said - which is irony.
Were you being sarcastic?
Your response to a post favoring replacing the constant bashing with discussions on progressive topics was to do more bashing?
I'd mod you +1 funny, but I can't mod and post.I'll give you a virtual +1 funny I guess.
If you listen to Air America radio or other progressive programs
I've listened to Air America (AM1360 in San Diego) multiple times, and they almost never cover anything progressive. All they ever do is bash Bush or other Republicans. They may think that that counts as being progressive, but it sure doesn't benefit any of the many progressive causes out there.It would benefit them (Air America) and U.S. progressives if they occasionally had actual progressives on to talk about the good they are doing and how listeners can join in and become a part of the progressive movement.
But it must be easier and more fun to do show after show after show of the setting up and the knocking down of Republican boogieman strawmen.
Remember the forged documents--not the ones from CBS; the ones supposedly from Nigeria saying that Iraq tried to acquire fissionable material?
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/The source of the forged documents was on the French Payroll.
"The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs has admitted that he was in the pay of France.""After being exposed in the international press, French intelligence can hardly be amused or happy with him," one western diplomat said. "Martino may have thought the safest thing was to hand himself over to the Italians." Investigators in Rome suspect that Mr Martino was first engaged by the French secret services five years ago, when he was asked to investigate rumours of illicit trafficking in uranium from Niger."
He's being held back by Al Gore patent on the internet.
During the period from about 120,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet grew much larger than it is today. This was the last glacial phase. Since about 20,000 years ago, the ice sheet has been retreating to its present size. This marks the present interglacial phase of the cycle. A similar change occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, with ice sheets expanding across large areas of North America, Asia, and Europe. Shifts in climatic conditions occur across the globe accompany these cycles. This cycle of advance and retreat of the ice sheets in the Northern and Southern hemispheres has occurred many times in the past and will occur again in the future.
All but small remnants of the continental ice sheets retreated from North America thousands of years ago. Although it may appear that the Ice Age has ended, many scientists argue that our present relatively warm period represents but a brief interlude and that the glaciers may again advance in the future.
The checkpoints do in fact only apply to palestinians and the israelis can bypass.
How come everyone doesn't go through the bypass line if there is no checking there?
Ah - I get it - the checkpoints apply to anyone (Israeli or Palestinian) who travels between certain points. I thought that the original post was trying to imply that the checkpoints only applied to Palestinians.
Here is a link to the Heritage study - you might want to read it:
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/co untry.cfm?id=Unitedstates
The facts are that the US received the exact same score in 2004 as in 2003 and its economic freedom score has improved since the survey began in 1995.
The reason the US was ranked lower (12th) this year is because other countries are improving.
Do they have a special checkpoints for Israelis? (Kindof like the First Class checkin at the airport)
If so, doesn't that imply that Isrealis do have to go through checkpoints?
If not, do the Isrealis magically go around the checkpoint?
How do the Israelis get from one town to another?
Seriously. "I was pointing out stars. Yeah, I suppose the plane might've flown past" counts as an admission but doesn't prove anything.
Are you seriously claiming that you believe that he went outside on two different days to point at stars, and both days he accidentally flashed an aircraft while flashing the stars?
Do you also believe that George's dad accidently sat on the statue of Jerry and got it stuck in his rectum?
Banach, who said he bought the laser pointer over the Internet to use at work, later admitted he had shined the laser at both aircraft.