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Does anyone here have basic principles?
Do you? What are they?
Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 3:24:59 AM
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Just curious...
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Does anyone here have basic principles?
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Buster
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10/13/2003 1:45:50 PM
Libertarian principles
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Tom Brosz
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10/24/2003 5:12:28 PM
Doncha just hate it
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Tony
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10/24/2003 9:25:37 PM
Not really surprised...
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Tom Brosz
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10/25/2003 1:13:18 AM
Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
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Mary Anne
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10/25/2003 1:32:56 AM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:05:26 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:05:11 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:04:56 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:04:41 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:04:26 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:03:50 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:03:32 PM
re: Hey!! I LIKE Kool-Aid!
(n/t)
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koako
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11/18/2003 6:03:17 PM
They're giving it away in Jonestown, look for The People's Temple
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SteveS
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11/19/2003 2:07:57 AM
OK? I LIKE KOOL-AID!! its not kool to have aids o ya and have you every thoaght a purple omlete to sing??
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Rockie Munky
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11/14/2003 7:02:44 PM
Lot's of argueing, few principles.
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Buster
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10/20/2003 10:29:58 PM
re: Lot's of argueing, few principles.
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/23/2003 4:26:24 AM
two wrongs don't make a right
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Buster
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10/23/2003 7:42:22 PM
You didn't read closely enough...
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/23/2003 9:52:20 PM
course I didn't read closely
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Buster
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10/23/2003 9:58:22 PM
I have stock in Bristol-Meyer...
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/23/2003 10:07:06 PM
Robert's feedback
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Mary Anne
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10/23/2003 9:07:12 PM
Wrong feedback
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Buster
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10/23/2003 9:56:02 PM
Geez, I would have thought mine were obvious...
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Tom Brosz
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10/21/2003 12:11:20 AM
Sorry generic labels don't cut it
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Buster
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10/21/2003 12:54:22 AM
Read Ayn Rand, then. Why do I need to bust my butt repeating it all?
(n/t)
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Tom Brosz
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10/21/2003 3:59:24 AM
Read 2 Ayn Rand books once a long time ago. All I strongly remember was they both sucked
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Buster
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10/21/2003 4:16:23 AM
Cliff's Notes version:
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Tom Brosz
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10/21/2003 7:57:23 AM
Good approach - bad books
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Buster
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10/21/2003 10:06:37 PM
re: Good approach - bad books
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Luis F**
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12/23/2003 9:18:15 PM
re: Good approach - bad books
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Luis F**
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12/23/2003 8:56:54 PM
re: Good approach - bad books
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Tom Brosz
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10/21/2003 10:40:31 PM
Good Job. n/t
(n/t)
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Todd
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10/20/2003 1:24:22 AM
Do you? What are they?
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 3:24:59 AM
I'm trying to get people to think for a change
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Buster Socrates
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10/17/2003 1:06:43 PM
-grin- Fair enough!
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 1:10:26 PM
what are you waiting for?
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Buster
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10/21/2003 1:05:40 AM
Still thinking about the question.
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Mary Anne
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10/21/2003 1:21:43 PM
pretty please no poems
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Buster
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10/21/2003 10:58:07 PM
re: pretty please no poems
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Mana'olana
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12/13/2003 7:31:24 AM
LOL -- aw, why not?
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Mary Anne
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10/21/2003 11:45:32 PM
Not bad.
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Tom Brosz
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10/22/2003 12:05:38 AM
You're both on the left...
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/21/2003 1:14:57 AM
Whoosh right over my head
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Buster
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10/21/2003 1:30:01 AM
re: Whoosh right over my head
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/21/2003 2:23:03 AM
To clarify...
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Fox
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10/23/2003 2:26:20 PM
re: To clarify...
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/25/2003 4:50:56 AM
Mary Anne's belief to the contrary
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Mary Anne
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10/26/2003 2:33:40 PM
If we appear to be in boxes, Tech, it could be that boxes are all you have to put us in.
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Mary Anne
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10/21/2003 11:27:09 PM
I see the problem
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Buster
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10/21/2003 4:09:38 AM
Zen and the art of principled behavior.
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Zen Man
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10/16/2003 4:23:49 AM
Hardly Zen
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Buster
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10/20/2003 10:46:53 PM
The inviolate sanctity of individual human beings
(n/t)
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Fox
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10/16/2003 2:38:31 AM
Unless they get in the way of your career. Then Abort them...
(n/t)
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Anne Leftleaner
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10/21/2003 3:48:01 PM
Except for their wallets
(n/t)
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 1:38:47 AM
"Farnham's Freehold" is fiction, Tom
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Fox
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10/17/2003 5:09:59 PM
Fiction and facts
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 6:04:48 PM
re: Fiction and facts
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SDAI-Tech1
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10/18/2003 10:40:27 PM
See "mush-headed partisan" remark, at beginning of thread.
(n/t)
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 3:26:48 AM
Doesn't make it any less true
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 7:04:35 AM
You'd better hand in your Libertarian badge ;-)
(n/t)
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Tony
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10/17/2003 3:44:32 PM
Do you use the roads?
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 12:21:15 PM
Yes, and I pay for it with gas taxes, not the income tax.
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 5:22:23 PM
Guess again.
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 6:37:12 PM
re: Good point on the highways
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 11:23:41 PM
I love it when the heavy-hitters step up to the plate
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McFly
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10/17/2003 11:23:09 PM
Me too!
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 11:27:07 PM
the do nothing principle
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Buster
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10/16/2003 1:45:17 PM
Sophistry will get you nowhere
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Fox
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10/16/2003 10:58:16 PM
Don't think so
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Buster
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10/20/2003 10:41:00 PM
To kill a Mockingbird, dude.
(n/t)
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Cap'n Tar
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11/24/2003 2:05:41 PM
re: Don't think so
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Fox
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10/21/2003 4:37:37 AM
Good Answers And Point - Moving Ahead of Raoul
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Buster
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10/21/2003 10:19:18 PM
More
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Fox
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10/24/2003 12:56:01 AM
If you want a utopia, elect me as your Imperious Leader.
(n/t)
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Lee
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10/14/2003 3:24:39 AM
re: A basic principle
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Raoul
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10/13/2003 10:25:17 PM
Not good either
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Buster
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10/14/2003 12:09:52 PM
re: Sorry
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Raoul
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10/14/2003 10:33:12 PM
Sorry missed the twist on the classic
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Buster
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10/16/2003 1:54:57 PM
re: "Fourth, if we accept the proverb, no need for a religion to tell us more."
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alcaray
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10/15/2003 5:40:49 PM
Depends on whether you see it as a proverb or an instruction.
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Tom Brosz
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10/16/2003 1:34:22 AM
re: "Fourth, if we accept the proverb, no need for a religion to tell us more."
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Raoul
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10/15/2003 11:45:19 PM
re: Not bad, Skywatcher . . .
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D. Spires
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10/15/2003 1:32:43 AM
re: Not bad, Skywatcher . . .
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Raoul
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10/15/2003 10:26:35 AM
re: "Either you are with US, or you are against US" . . .
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D. Spires
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10/15/2003 10:32:22 PM
Sometimes you've got to push people's buttons to get them to take action.
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Scott Evil
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10/15/2003 2:45:52 PM
re: Black and white
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Raoul
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10/15/2003 3:49:30 PM
re: Black and white
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Tom Brosz
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10/15/2003 4:40:02 PM
Care to be more specific?
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FrankC
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10/13/2003 10:20:40 PM
Let me rephrase
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Buster
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10/14/2003 12:12:10 PM
My principle after 9/11/2001
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Scott Evil
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10/13/2003 5:25:24 PM
Case in point
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Buster
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10/13/2003 8:58:31 PM
I see where you're comming from.
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et
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10/13/2003 7:06:18 PM
Well gee et
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FrankC
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10/13/2003 10:25:46 PM
Yep, I understood that from the get-go.
(n/t)
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et
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10/14/2003 4:51:28 PM
Meant nto say left and right
(n/t)
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FrankC
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10/13/2003 10:30:00 PM
I care.
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Scott Evil
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10/13/2003 9:04:02 PM
I can tell, just don't bleed all over the place.
(n/t)
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et
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10/14/2003 4:52:41 PM
I think quite a few, actually, on both sides. Just my opinion.
(n/t)
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Tom Brosz
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10/13/2003 5:18:28 PM
Look out, Tom -- the self-appointed philosophy police are after you . . .
(n/t)
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D. Spires
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10/16/2003 11:21:58 PM
You know what's interesting...
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Tom Brosz
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10/17/2003 6:34:27 PM
No...
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 6:48:49 PM
It isn't about the money.
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Tom Brosz
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10/19/2003 5:52:32 AM
Love Canal
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Mary Anne
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10/19/2003 10:25:34 PM
project
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tamara jones
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12/10/2003 7:07:22 PM
re: Love Canal
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Larry J
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10/20/2003 1:22:14 AM
The Jungle
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Mary Anne
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10/20/2003 2:32:16 AM
re: The Jungle
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Tom Brosz
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10/20/2003 7:05:40 AM
Ignore the one below: this is the whole post. (HTML lesson: never use the "greater than" sign to mean "greater than"...)
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Mary Anne
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10/20/2003 12:43:46 PM
Involvement
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Tom Brosz
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10/20/2003 4:32:55 PM
What I was promoting
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Mary Anne
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10/22/2003 12:12:14 AM
re: What I was promoting
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Tom Brosz
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10/22/2003 4:28:25 AM
environmentalists = socialist buttmonkeys
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Mary Anne
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10/20/2003 12:40:04 PM
Sure you want your kids and students reading your recent titles? ;-)
(n/t)
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Buster
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10/21/2003 12:58:24 AM
My kids are all old enough, and the ones I teach...
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Mary Anne
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10/22/2003 12:36:06 AM
They would be related to the self-appointed patriotism police...
(n/t)
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Mary Anne
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10/17/2003 5:39:35 PM
just aren't willing to admit what they are eh?
(n/t)
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Buster
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10/16/2003 1:41:51 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.