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"struggle?"
Don't these folks worry about their kids becoming Applewhiteians or Raelians or whatever?
alcaray
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12/16/2004 12:21:22 AM
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Why support the arguements of the lunatics?
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The struggle continues
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Fox
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12/15/2004 12:24:22 AM
Maybe they'll have a "science" fair
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jms
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12/19/2004 1:34:03 AM
That's a hoot.
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Tom Brosz
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12/19/2004 4:31:38 AM
"struggle?"
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 1:54:38 AM
Pumping "sh*t" down childrens'throats?
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Lindy
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12/16/2004 3:47:06 PM
Gotta admit, I can't disagree with that statement.
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Tom Brosz
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12/16/2004 6:23:52 PM
Don't these folks worry about their kids becoming Applewhiteians or Raelians or whatever?
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alcaray
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12/16/2004 12:21:22 AM
Speaking of education
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ebnelson
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12/15/2004 3:46:48 PM
I would suggest Bob Jones University is an appropriate choice.............
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Publius
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12/17/2004 2:28:46 AM
Maybe for your kids?
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ebnelson
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12/17/2004 10:44:05 PM
and to the point
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 3:26:34 PM
You ask........
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Publius
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12/17/2004 10:54:24 PM
re: "struggle?"
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 1:46:42 PM
Jeez that felt good!
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alcaray
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12/18/2004 1:00:24 AM
Probably what they feel like when they listen to Rush or ORiley.
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alcaray
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12/18/2004 1:02:08 AM
ROTFLMAO
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Lindy
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12/16/2004 3:50:07 PM
Oh, and PS (and help me out, Fox, Tony, Alcary, Mary Anne- I only have a limited memory)
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 2:53:15 PM
Add everything that appeared below since I was last here, and I'd say it was well covered.
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Fox
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12/16/2004 4:38:27 AM
re: That countries with borders are sovereign, is a meaningless notion
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Raoul
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12/15/2004 10:27:27 PM
Only line I'm waiting for now is "Laugh it up hairballs" ;-)
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Tony
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12/15/2004 9:59:08 PM
Or howabout: "That Space-Alien UFOlogy reasoning tecniques apply to decisions regarding war and national security"
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 11:22:55 PM
That slippery slopes only exist for gun control and creeping socialism
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Tony
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12/15/2004 8:29:54 PM
That human life begins at conception, despite the underdetermination, and upon that faith-based assertion or opinion, laws should be passed that make everyone act accordingly
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 8:54:19 PM
that Republicans are desperate for careers in teaching the humanities, but the liberals won't let them.
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alcaray
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12/15/2004 6:52:48 PM
LOL!!!!
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 6:58:05 PM
re: Oh, and PS
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 6:38:14 PM
You have to expand the scope to the entire "left" over an entire century to match
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alcaray\
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12/15/2004 6:51:29 PM
You think this is just about Bush?
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 7:07:40 PM
I remember talking to someone who asserted that FDR was going to be the end of the world.
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Mary Anne
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12/15/2004 9:37:48 PM
It would be interesting to write an alternate history about what would have happened if Roosevelt had not died in 1945.
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 11:33:55 PM
Interesting - but no less a fantasy than all your other lines.
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LJ
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12/16/2004 12:20:39 AM
Whatever. To argue against fantasy counterfactuals requires I rejoin with other fantasies. Then we get into an argument about imagined events. Its like a sandbox argument about 'Spiderman could kick…
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 8:42:14 PM
Sometimes figuring out what might have been is fantasy.
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 11:58:30 PM
and you are arguing fantasy
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 1:45:04 AM
The boy has had a lot of 10th times lately---perhaps it's the hundredth monkey effect?
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Publius
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12/17/2004 2:32:55 AM
But I'm right about Iraq and the Gulf War, aren't I?
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Tom Brosz
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12/16/2004 1:57:14 AM
What part of: 'not going to indulge in faulty reasoniong' is not clear?
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 3:06:24 PM
Forget it.
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Tom Brosz
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12/16/2004 6:17:15 PM
Its fine with me, Tom, If you 'take your toys and go home' on this one.
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 6:33:23 PM
I think Davis post was about very recent history. And that you are going insanely far afield to match it.
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alcaray
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12/15/2004 7:39:37 PM
Jeez, Davis who? Sorry Davin! Further, Tom...
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alcaray
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12/15/2004 7:41:21 PM
No problem, al. You can call me Davis if you have to...
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 3:45:22 PM
HZone in general: ulktimately the litany of error speaks for itself. You can argue these individually until you are blue in the face, but at some point you have to see that its a hionking huge FORRES…
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 6:57:27 PM
Political argument is like a box of chocolates...
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 8:21:55 PM
But what about 'Tasty Spring Surprise'!?
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 8:32:45 PM
You want to take me on on missile defense, you'd better pack a lunch.
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Tom Brosz
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12/15/2004 6:33:58 PM
After the abort today, *you'd* better pack a bag . . .
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Fox
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12/16/2004 4:35:46 AM
So. Do YOU know what happened?
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Tom Brosz
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12/16/2004 5:45:54 AM
Not precisely, of course -- but I know what *didn't* happen.
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Fox
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12/17/2004 2:44:06 AM
Launch warning
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Tom Brosz
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12/17/2004 5:52:28 AM
How'd we get from anti-evolutionists to antimissle systems?
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Fox
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12/17/2004 4:16:40 PM
antimissile systems
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Tom Brosz
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12/17/2004 5:23:18 PM
Good response - thanks for a clear-headed discussion
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Fox
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12/18/2004 1:29:33 AM
I do prefer them, on the whole.
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Tom Brosz
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12/18/2004 2:45:34 AM
You are painting yourself as the expert, why are you asking Fox?
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 4:54:43 PM
LOL! Your memory appears fine to me!
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Mary Anne
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12/15/2004 6:19:48 PM
Ah! But wait! theres more! (thanks MA)
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 6:55:47 PM
Bravo, sir!
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LJ
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12/15/2004 5:10:20 PM
That Fox News is fair and balanced!
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 5:41:30 PM
That O'Reilly is not a conservative
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Tony
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12/15/2004 7:17:08 PM
re: That O'Reilly is not a conservative
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gbaikie
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12/15/2004 10:51:21 PM
My god, half baked, your right! (Also called: You MIght Be A Nihilist)
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 11:36:38 PM
Move over Jeff Foxworthy
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Tony
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12/16/2004 5:04:39 PM
Speaking as a red-neck with taste and sophistication
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 5:20:36 PM
That someone who has spent their entire career ridiculing drug addicts and suggesting Bad Things be done to them should be listened to when it turns out he was a pill-popping Oxytute
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 7:28:01 PM
Just one thing you missed
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Tony
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12/15/2004 3:36:53 PM
Oh, and another:
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Davin L.
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12/15/2004 4:19:03 PM
re: "the spectre of superstition"
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Fox
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12/15/2004 4:33:29 AM
re: "the spectre of superstition"
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gbaikie
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12/15/2004 8:43:11 AM
A link to the first draft of the KS standards document was provided.
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Mary Anne
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12/15/2004 2:56:22 PM
re: A link to the first draft of the KS standards document was provided.
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gbaikie
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12/15/2004 10:22:30 PM
Full of sound and fury
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Mary Anne
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12/16/2004 2:18:35 AM
re: Full of sound and fury
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gbaikie
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12/16/2004 4:45:26 AM
Once more, with the html tags corrected
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Mary Anne
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12/16/2004 2:26:47 AM
MA, that was one of the best posts I have ever read on the Zone.
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Davin L.
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12/16/2004 3:36:48 PM
re: Once more, with the html tags corrected
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gbaikie
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12/16/2004 5:02:32 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.