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Two Scotsmen Claim Free Energy Development STEORN - Lindy - 8/19/2006 2:35:13 PM
- What if they DID do it? - ER - 8/21/2006 12:43:12 AM
  - re: What if they DID do it? - Publius - 8/21/2006 1:26:34 PM
- Learn some Thermodynamics. - David F Mayer - 8/20/2006 4:17:56 AM
  - re: Learn some Thermodynamics. - Hans - 8/20/2006 4:28:24 AM
    - They are just con-men. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/22/2006 3:04:05 PM
    - re: I'm sure we will find out eventually (n/t) - Johannes - 8/20/2006 8:21:15 PM
- If they have it the world will beat a path 100 miles wide. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/19/2006 10:33:33 PM
  - re: If they have it the world will beat a path 100 miles wide. - Hans - 8/20/2006 9:21:27 AM
- As they say in Scotland..."Roobish". - ER - 8/19/2006 4:13:34 PM
  - re: It seems to me that they are doing pretty well what you say - Johannes - 8/20/2006 2:54:38 AM
    - Fine, then they can do it without my help. (n/t) - ER - 8/20/2006 3:28:22 AM
      - re: If no one is willing to evaluate it, then--- - Johannes - 8/20/2006 8:13:22 PM
        
        They do not not need outside evaluators. - ER - 8/20/2006 8:56:16 PM
- Heavy burden of proof. - Tom Brosz - 8/19/2006 3:45:49 PM
  - re: Heavy burden of proof. - Lindy - 8/19/2006 4:43:15 PM
    - re: Heavy burden of proof. - Tom Brosz - 8/19/2006 9:55:14 PM
      - Patent for "all designations"......... - Lindy - 8/20/2006 1:12:30 AM

Experts: U.S. is spending its way to financial ruin - Donald - 11/6/2005 3:01:55 PM
- Not to worry. The Clintons will be back in office in 2009 - Hillary - 11/6/2005 11:36:03 PM
  - When pigs crack Mach 2. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/7/2005 12:16:39 AM
    - re: When pigs crack Mach 2. (n/t) - GHGFHFJHJ - 8/22/2006 6:01:27 AM
- I expect the IRS will be waiting anxiously for... - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/6/2005 5:34:53 PM

Hezbollah disarmament plan? - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 5:56:09 AM
- Hezbo sold SHORT? - carl - 8/21/2006 10:13:52 PM
  - Larger missiles can't be launched from civilian back yards. - Tom Brosz - 8/21/2006 10:39:20 PM
- Hezbollah can't disarm - it would be against their beliefs - sz - 8/17/2006 2:59:35 AM
  - Actually a measure of success legitimatizes groups..... - Publius - 8/22/2006 2:26:07 AM
  - Republicans can't vote for liberal Democrats for the same reason - alcaray - 8/17/2006 6:10:29 PM
    - There are very few religious fundamentalists among Connecticut Republicans - sz - 8/18/2006 1:35:03 AM
      - re: "...they don't cross over" - alcaray - 8/18/2006 3:18:37 PM
        
        re: "...they don't cross over" - Tom Brosz - 8/19/2006 4:54:03 AM
        
        Kruchev said something similar about us. Things change. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/21/2006 2:56:44 PM
- Still more - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 6:44:14 PM
- Could not work any worse than the Israeli plan. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/16/2006 6:12:43 PM
- re: Hezbollah disarmament plan? BWAHAAHAAHAAAHAAAAA! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/16/2006 4:35:16 PM
  - re: Hezbollah disarmament plan? BWAHAAHAAHAAAHAAAAA! - Hans - 8/16/2006 6:07:42 PM
    - I am fine, Hans. It is too bad that - David F Mayer - 8/16/2006 6:57:59 PM
      - re: I am fine, Hans. It is too bad that - Hans - 8/17/2006 6:49:53 AM
        
        The power thing is on hold. It seems to be impossible to - David F Mayer - 8/17/2006 7:26:48 PM
        
        re: The power thing is on hold. It seems to be impossible to - Hans - 8/17/2006 7:29:44 PM
        
        It IS a great idea. I think that Liquid Hydrogen is - David F Mayer - 8/18/2006 3:48:27 PM
        
        Transport is an issue, isn't it? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 6:09:22 PM
        
        Not really. Undersea cables have been shown to be reliable. - David F Mayer - 8/20/2006 4:28:06 AM

US programs are saving lives - gbaikie - 8/21/2006 12:16:32 PM
- Our government is firmly against the spread of... - alcaray - 8/21/2006 4:55:08 PM

Fraudelent Anti-Israel Press Coverage - David F Mayer - 8/18/2006 11:47:36 PM
- Sorta like Bush's announcement that Hezbollah was defeated? (n/t) - Publius - 8/20/2006 3:00:28 PM
  - Oh, dd we accomplish another mission? - Fox - 8/21/2006 3:08:45 AM
- More on this... - Tom Brosz - 8/19/2006 10:21:41 PM
  - After reading about this outright fraud, I wonder if - David F Mayer - 8/20/2006 4:21:03 AM
    - Wouldn't go that far. - Tom Brosz - 8/20/2006 8:51:05 PM
      - The Hezbollah deaths DO show up in the news -- as civilan deaths! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/21/2006 4:38:03 PM
  - re: And more... - Tom Brosz - 8/20/2006 4:01:38 AM
  - And here's a test... - Tom Brosz - 8/19/2006 10:34:47 PM
    - The test is - - - - ? - Bowser - 8/20/2006 1:45:07 AM

The real teachings of the Koran - sz - 8/19/2006 5:28:26 PM
- re: The real teachings of the Koran - Publius - 8/21/2006 1:15:20 PM
- Christian counterpart - Bowser - 8/19/2006 7:27:43 PM
  - I actually agree with you that Christian beliefs can also be harmful and counterproductive - sz - 8/21/2006 12:44:31 AM

The Blowing of Zolfaqar - gbaikie - 8/20/2006 11:48:43 PM
- And the US is conducting wargames, too. - Bowser - 8/20/2006 11:54:02 PM

French having second thoughts on peacekeeping role. - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 10:24:31 PM
- The French Role As A World Leader Quiz - Mark Eby - 8/20/2006 9:01:28 PM
- re: More French Cowardice in the face of...Oh nevermind.on peacekeeping role. - Scott Evil - 8/18/2006 2:22:23 PM
- re: French having second thoughts on peacekeeping role. - Hans - 8/18/2006 7:04:54 AM
- Probably don't want the Israelis blowing hell out of them. For example - - - - Bowser - 8/18/2006 3:09:13 AM
  - re: Probably don't want the Israelis blowing hell out of them. For example - - - - Hans - 8/18/2006 7:36:23 AM

Update from Saddam's Iraq - Tom Brosz - 8/20/2006 3:50:42 AM
- Iraq Body Count: War dead figures - The Iraqis deserve better than Saddam or Bush. - Bowser - 8/20/2006 6:18:28 PM

Iran shutting down access to the outside world - Tom Brosz - 8/19/2006 10:41:59 PM
- Welcome to Advanced Totalitarianism. - David F Mayer - 8/20/2006 4:06:49 AM

We all knew this, didn't we! - Bowser - 8/17/2006 6:47:28 PM
- MSNBC: Is Bush an "Idiot"? - Jack Herer - 8/18/2006 12:12:24 PM
  - re: MSNBC: Is Bush an "Idiot"? - gbaikie - 8/19/2006 8:52:24 PM
  - This video should be required viewing daily by all schoolchildren - azstrummer - 8/18/2006 11:31:48 PM
  - "Intelligence - - - think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language," - Bowser - 8/18/2006 2:06:08 PM
- Finally! The difference between "warrantless" and "unwarranted" explained: - Fox - 8/18/2006 1:32:31 AM
  - Addendum, if you don't mind. - Bowser - 8/18/2006 3:51:31 AM
- We all knew this and so did BushCo - Eric - 8/17/2006 11:38:02 PM
- re: I guess you think we should let all those terrorists go now because they were captured using illegally obtained evidence (wire-taps). (n/t) - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 9:06:38 PM
  - We're a nation of laws, or a dictatorship. Conservatives choose the latter. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:27:26 PM
  - All which terrorists? (n/t) - alcaray - 8/17/2006 9:14:00 PM
    - You'll never know... We will just sell the tapping technology to the Mossad. - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 9:29:48 PM
- re: We all knew this, didn't we! - azstrummer - 8/17/2006 8:12:32 PM
  - re: Good thing she didn't strike down the secret NSA plan to wire tap your brain using a secret spy-sat - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 9:08:33 PM
    - I don't know about that program. Please explain. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:36:06 PM
  - re: We all knew this, didn't we! - gbaikie - 8/17/2006 9:00:52 PM
    - Yo gbaikie! - Lindy - 8/17/2006 9:49:16 PM
      - re: Yo gbaikie! - gbaikie - 8/17/2006 11:14:49 PM
        
        " I don't think baboons running the govt ............" - Lindy - 8/17/2006 11:47:55 PM

Corporate Piracy - Lindy - 8/17/2006 11:42:46 PM
- this is a round-about way of privatizing Social Security - Scott Evil - 8/18/2006 2:34:40 PM
  - All BS aside... - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 5:38:46 PM
    - I'm not BS'n you. - Scott Evil - 8/18/2006 10:07:49 PM
    - These are good tweaks. Dunno what's in the rest of the bill, though. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/18/2006 6:39:39 PM
- re: Corporate Piracy - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 11:47:06 PM

Christian Science Monitor series on Jill Carroll is fascinating. - Bowser - 8/18/2006 7:58:39 PM
- Link: - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 8:45:57 PM
  - Thanks, Tom. (The links cleared the HTML preview.) Here's the helper link. - Bowser - 8/18/2006 9:01:29 PM

Thai official: Man confesses to Ramsey murder - Bowser - 8/17/2006 6:38:05 AM
- Since I swim in that jury pool, - podrock - 8/18/2006 8:37:19 PM
- I always thought........ - Lindy - 8/18/2006 2:24:22 AM
- I Doubt It - Mark Eby - 8/18/2006 12:23:24 AM
  - re: I Doubt It - Lindy - 8/18/2006 2:22:15 AM
    - Or he doesn't want to be in a Thai jail. - Lee - 8/18/2006 5:34:40 AM
- The DA has to be a bit batty. - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:58:24 PM
  - Wackier than the JFK Conspire.......... - carl - 8/18/2006 2:25:40 PM
- I think the guy is a fraud. - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 9:10:09 PM
- probably another bogus story - Jack Herer - 8/17/2006 7:20:55 PM
- Putting two and two together - Lindy - 8/17/2006 3:59:51 PM
  - Fresh from a workshop on literacy and boys... - Mary Anne - 8/17/2006 10:34:28 PM
    - Male teachers - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 11:45:02 PM
      - When we were kids, teachers' salaries were tiny. - Mary Anne - 8/18/2006 1:51:31 AM
        
        Salaries - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 2:56:24 AM
        
        Curious - Fox - 8/18/2006 1:40:10 PM
        
        That's the works. Some more figures... - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 6:07:55 PM
      - re: Male teachers: 3 for 7 in elementary school - Fox - 8/18/2006 1:49:49 AM
- A lot still up in the air. - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 3:27:47 PM
- Bizarre - Fox - 8/17/2006 3:13:20 PM
- Beginning to wonder a bit now - - - (n/t) - Bowser - 8/17/2006 3:12:35 PM

Turkey and Iran cooperating vs. the Kurds? - alcaray - 8/18/2006 6:04:52 PM

WOW - Johannes - 8/14/2006 1:53:14 AM
- Johannes, please stop. - ER - 8/16/2006 2:49:58 AM
  - re: Why should - Johannes - 8/18/2006 4:36:47 PM
- ....Yawn.... - podrock - 8/15/2006 5:35:42 AM
  - re: Thanks for the info. - Johannes - 8/15/2006 5:10:36 PM
    - You'll note.. - podrock - 8/15/2006 6:20:37 PM
      - re: You'll note.. - Johannes - 8/16/2006 1:08:46 AM
  - Aren't magnitude 0's the kind you make by... - alcaray - 8/15/2006 3:02:37 PM
    - or a seismologist's sigh. - podrock - 8/16/2006 12:25:52 AM
  - (Sorry 'bout the spelling, it's late, been at the 'puter too long) (n/t) - podrock - 8/15/2006 5:53:04 AM
- Questions - David F Mayer - 8/14/2006 1:51:36 PM
  - Swell. Next you can ask SDAI about reincarnation. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/14/2006 7:27:18 PM
    - Or ask Tom about underground & anime comix... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/14/2006 11:13:15 PM
    - I had no idea that he was spouting such utter nonsense. - David F Mayer - 8/14/2006 8:34:09 PM
  - re: Questions - Johannes - 8/14/2006 7:12:20 PM
    - Huh???? I am sorry that you don't understand Science at all. - David F Mayer - 8/14/2006 8:33:06 PM
      - re: Huh???? I am sorry that you don't understand Science at all. - Johannes - 8/15/2006 4:42:56 AM
        
        Wow! You need to take Physics 101! Your ignorance is monumental. - David F Mayer - 8/15/2006 12:55:47 PM
        
        Welcome to the League of Frustrated Scientific Gentlemen - Fox - 8/16/2006 12:55:58 AM
        
        Don't be discouraged, David. It was a good try. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/15/2006 3:05:46 PM
        
        It is sort of like debating with a Creationist. - David F Mayer - 8/16/2006 4:39:07 PM
        
        re: There is no need to debate, all you need is--- - Johannes - 8/17/2006 2:30:36 AM
        
        Or trying to explain the concept of innocent until proven guilty to DFM........ (n/t) - Tony - 8/16/2006 7:58:28 PM
        
        Or Mayer trying to argue with Bowser. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 5:39:08 PM
        
        Where are all of those disappearing American Citizens? (n/t) - David F Mayer - 8/16/2006 7:56:37 PM
        
        re: Where are all of those disappearing American Citizens? - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 10:29:44 PM
        
        re: Where are all of those disappearing American Citizens? - Hans - 8/17/2006 5:33:35 PM
- I predict a biggie in Alaska the next few days - Lindy - 8/14/2006 2:11:20 AM
  - I predict a biggie in LA the next few days - carl - 8/14/2006 9:14:59 PM
    - I could use a few days off (n/t) - alcaray - 8/16/2006 10:22:59 PM
  - re: I predict a biggie in Alaska the next few days - Johannes - 8/14/2006 7:37:38 PM

Ford 2 close auto plants 'til end of year. - carl - 8/18/2006 2:27:33 PM

Stop the Madness. Refuse to Fly - Jack Herer - 8/16/2006 4:54:45 PM
- Good idea, it will make it easier for those who do choose to fly (n/t) - FrankC - 8/16/2006 8:33:52 PM
- No liquids on planes - Lindy - 8/16/2006 7:34:07 PM
  - Suggestion - Hans - 8/17/2006 7:00:59 AM
    - re: Suggestion - Lindy - 8/17/2006 3:03:35 PM
    - re: Suggestion - Doug Ellison - 8/17/2006 12:05:26 PM
      - re: Suggestion - Hans - 8/17/2006 5:27:16 PM
        
        re: re:Ship High In Transit;-) (n/t) - Johannes - 8/17/2006 7:38:34 PM
      - Give me a break... - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 1:34:47 PM
        
        a fairly major inconvenience actually.... - Doug Ellison - 8/17/2006 2:14:17 PM
        
        SO WHAT SOLUTION DO YOU PROPOSE? - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 6:21:34 PM
        
        EVERYONE FLY NAKED AND BLINDFOLDED - EXCEPT FOR TWO PILOTS. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/18/2006 2:41:31 AM
        
        re: SO WHAT SOLUTION DO YOU PROPOSE? - Doug Ellison - 8/17/2006 7:38:21 PM
        
        re: Great answer! - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 9:05:17 PM
        
        I really don't believe the bit about the c. bag (n/t) - alcaray - 8/17/2006 6:04:53 PM
        
        I think the main part of his question was... - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 3:33:19 PM
        
        I'd settle for competence rather than omnipotence. (n/t) - Tony - 8/17/2006 6:55:13 PM
        
        We need to stop being politically correct - Lindy - 8/17/2006 4:11:23 PM
        
        There you go showing your true racist tendancies. - Scott Evil - 8/17/2006 6:23:08 PM
        
        Profiling - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 4:55:06 PM
        
        rThere the Government goes trying to read minds again - Adam Bomber - 8/17/2006 6:25:29 PM
        
        Electronic Profiling - Lindy - 8/17/2006 6:08:42 PM
        
        Maybe the government could electrically shock those with impure thought patterns - The ACLU Don't like U - 8/17/2006 6:28:32 PM
        
        Yabbut some people like that sort of thing... (n/t) - McFly - 8/17/2006 7:51:52 PM
  - More a question of keeping explosives and nerve gas - disguised as shampoo - off of the plane. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/16/2006 8:42:12 PM
  - They used to think box cutters were harmless. - REB - 8/16/2006 8:06:28 PM
    - re: They used to think box cutters were harmless. - Lindy - 8/16/2006 9:55:41 PM

DFM thread moved to Flame-yuk (n/t) - FrankC (moderator) - 8/16/2006 8:43:53 PM
- Looks like a good move to me - Fox (moderator) - 8/17/2006 4:50:46 AM
  - Trifecta (n/t) - Robert (ubermoderator) - 8/17/2006 5:26:04 PM

'New Yorker' on Hezbollah - McFly - 8/17/2006 4:47:36 PM

Looks like war against Iran before November 7 - Bowser - 8/15/2006 6:02:28 AM
- What's amazing is that Israel waited 6 years before responding - sz - 8/16/2006 3:00:04 AM
- re: Hezbolla miscalculates the Israeli Response and its Bush's fault... - Scott Evil - 8/15/2006 2:44:09 PM
  - Hey, I wouldn't put it past us........... - Lindy - 8/15/2006 4:46:26 PM
    - Great Plan! - Scott Evil - 8/16/2006 10:09:16 PM
- So, they are suggesting that Hezbolla did the thing they had planned to do themselves. - SDF - 8/15/2006 9:02:29 AM

Interesting piece about moderate/liberal Islam - alcaray - 8/11/2006 8:39:24 PM
- Hmmm. - Bowser - 8/12/2006 3:21:30 AM
  - Try to use your brains. Israel PULLED OUT of the areas used for attack. - David F Mayer - 8/14/2006 9:01:11 PM
  - Answer(?) - Buck Galaxy - 8/12/2006 7:31:30 AM
    - Everyone wants to play Ghandi in the middle east - alcaray - 8/12/2006 3:27:46 PM
      - "Ghandi" only works with folks not interested in ethnic cleansing. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/12/2006 4:36:18 PM
        
        I don't think the Israelis are attempting to cleanse anything - alcaray - 8/14/2006 4:57:19 PM
        
        Oh, and I intended that my Ghandi statement should apply to Israel as well as everyone else in the region. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/14/2006 4:59:08 PM
        
        just as "the facts" only work with those not interested in malicioius dishonesty (n/t) - Daniel - 8/12/2006 4:45:48 PM
        
        The Jewish people I know acknowledge ethnic cleansing. - Bowser - 8/12/2006 5:36:11 PM
        
        the Old Testament is irrelevant to this point, and so are your acquaintainces. This is purely about survival. - Daniel - 8/12/2006 6:01:54 PM
    - you got suckered - Daniel - 8/12/2006 11:32:31 AM
      - Read the Old Testament of the Bible. Compare it to Israeli actions, words. - Bowser - 8/12/2006 2:29:14 PM
        
        irrelevant and dishonest point - Daniel - 8/12/2006 4:21:00 PM
        
        Probably needed to read the post. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/12/2006 4:35:04 PM
        
        Oh, I did. As I say, it is irrelevant and dishonest. (n/t) - Daniel - 8/12/2006 4:41:27 PM
        
        "It is an open secret that Israeli policy makers hoped for a massive emigration of Palestinians as a result of economic and demographic pressure." - Bowser - 8/12/2006 5:33:38 PM
        
        If the Palestinians would halt terrorism and make a final peace treaty - David F Mayer - 8/16/2006 4:40:40 PM
        
        Any more of this, and I would take you to Flame - Daniel - 8/12/2006 6:12:48 PM
        
        Attempt to deal with the issues raised instead of personalities. - Bowser - 8/12/2006 7:33:34 PM

Oh my great good heavens: George Will gets it! - alcaray - 8/15/2006 8:37:40 PM
- Law enforcement - Tom Brosz - 8/15/2006 11:01:52 PM
  - Duh That's Obvious - ID - 8/16/2006 12:48:45 PM
  - I don't do quagmires. (n/t) - Donald Rumsfeld - 8/16/2006 2:16:53 AM
    - re: I don't do quagmires. - Lindy - 8/16/2006 2:51:22 AM
      - Hey Lindy go ahead and reveal the secret of..... - FrankC - 8/16/2006 4:46:55 AM
      - Hey! Rumsfeld, himself, actually said that! Not me. - Bowser - 8/16/2006 4:32:28 AM
- I've always liked George. - ER - 8/15/2006 10:30:39 PM
  - Daniel Patrick Moynihan (n/t) - ER - 8/15/2006 10:52:01 PM

Is the world threatened by zombie armies of nice kids? - LJK - 8/15/2006 3:58:12 PM
- Hey, it's the Post... - Fox - 8/15/2006 11:53:38 PM

Children of the Prophet - gbaikie - 8/13/2006 10:07:28 PM
- Pure religious BS. It doesn't work like that. - SDF - 8/14/2006 12:17:16 PM
  - re: Pure religious BS. It doesn't work like that. - gbaikie - 8/14/2006 8:14:58 PM
    - Do you realize you just proved me right? - SDF - 8/15/2006 3:12:58 AM
      - re: Do you realize you just proved me right? - gbaikie - 8/15/2006 2:14:38 PM

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