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A Rather Blunt Postscript
Sorry you feel that way
alcaray
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12/8/2005 6:10:58 PM
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The reason lawyers get no respect - or - What Gary's definition of a traitor should have been
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Buck Galaxy
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12/6/2005 8:30:12 AM
re: The reason lawyers get respect -
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Publius
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12/7/2005 4:40:14 PM
Meh...
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Todd
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12/11/2005 3:31:55 PM
I agree with the principle, but
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Buck Galaxy
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12/8/2005 3:50:43 AM
Agreed...
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McFly
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12/7/2005 7:13:19 PM
The problem is...
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 10:41:32 PM
You may be right. Let's wait and see.
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 11:30:09 PM
Your friend is correct.......
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Publius
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12/8/2005 6:46:18 PM
I think that is pretty much what Gary had in mind
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FrankC
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12/7/2005 5:43:07 AM
I see. People here were defending Saddam Hussein.
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Daniel
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12/7/2005 6:22:47 AM
As I stated at the time
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FrankC
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12/8/2005 4:29:56 AM
agreed on this point:
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 6:03:10 AM
Actually some were. They know who they are.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/7/2005 9:32:23 AM
"I have here in my hands a list of domestic Saddamists..."
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DSAI-etch-1000
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12/7/2005 6:03:48 PM
BS. Put up or shut up.
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alcaray
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12/7/2005 4:06:54 PM
Short term memory must be a blessing of sorts.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 2:59:56 AM
A Rather Blunt Postscript
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 6:06:40 PM
Yeah, some people have a rapier wit, but Techie's is a blunt instrument
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Robert
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12/9/2005 5:04:19 PM
Love the wealth of input generated. Guess I finally pinned em to a point they can't defend.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/9/2005 3:06:30 AM
Why argue with you? You have already concluded that dissent from Bush's opinion is treason.
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Mary Anne
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12/10/2005 7:38:30 PM
Re: treason, sedition and subversive elements
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/10/2005 10:07:34 PM
“That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â€
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Theodore Roosevelt
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12/11/2005 6:33:49 PM
My apologies to Bowser.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/11/2005 11:20:32 AM
re: My apologies to Bowser.
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Lindy
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12/11/2005 6:18:08 PM
"A subversive is easily spotted once one knows what to look for"
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Lindy
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12/11/2005 7:35:13 AM
Personally I think Bowser is much more patriotic than thou
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Laurie Street
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12/11/2005 1:55:56 AM
Palestine needs all the patriots it can get.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/11/2005 3:46:40 AM
Note that no one is actually worked up about this insulting stuff of yours.
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alcaray
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12/9/2005 5:35:11 PM
Amazingly, it's generated the longest sub-thread.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/10/2005 3:51:57 AM
Defend what exactly?
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Tony
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12/9/2005 5:07:43 PM
pathetic and hysterical drivel
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Daniel
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12/9/2005 2:16:19 AM
"It's laughable."
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Tony
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12/8/2005 7:30:49 PM
;~) Double ;~) ;~)
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 6:39:06 PM
Sorry you feel that way
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 6:10:58 PM
I only have time to get thru F, but just wanted to point out what an insulting crock this is.
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 4:05:05 PM
Shorter Techie - Meinungsverschiedenheit ist verboten
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Tony
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12/8/2005 3:07:09 PM
And another thing...
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Robert
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12/8/2005 4:41:16 AM
Life's tough
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 5:36:01 AM
Oh gawd, It's worse than I thought
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Robert
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12/9/2005 5:08:24 PM
just use a simple generic word for the lot of them
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 4:56:16 AM
So have you traced your lineage there Daniel...
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/10/2005 4:01:03 AM
our horses are scrupulously honest
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Daniel
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12/10/2005 10:45:18 PM
Good one!
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Robert
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12/8/2005 4:57:31 AM
NOT ONE of those posts were remotely pro-Saddam Hussein. You'd better start being more careful; you're obviously lying and slandering here
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 4:28:25 AM
You know Techie personally?
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Tony
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12/8/2005 3:02:59 PM
it's a 'generic' diatribe, meant for anyone who fits the description
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 4:13:51 PM
Go Daniel
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 6:21:46 AM
no more
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 6:34:40 AM
That's fine with me...just so long as...
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 7:10:24 AM
Style is a crucial element in the art of flaming
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Robert
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12/8/2005 4:56:36 AM
style is irrelevant Robert. Here's some more CONTENT:
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 5:04:09 AM
Irrationality must be an even greater comfort
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Robert
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12/8/2005 4:24:39 AM
"Ninny? NINNY??"
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 6:35:39 AM
Thank goodness this is flame
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 5:23:37 AM
Well sharpen your knife: I'm pro-Muslim.
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 7:03:55 PM
re: Well sharpen your knife: I'm pro-Muslim.
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 9:15:48 PM
Yes, it is
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Robert
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12/8/2005 6:52:17 PM
"You have your head jammed so far up your ass, Techie, that you won't see daylight the rest of your life."
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 9:20:44 PM
See my postscript above.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 7:27:21 PM
Mmmm, I'd give it about a 6.7, I think
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Robert
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12/8/2005 10:48:35 PM
You give new meaning to "the blind 'leading' the blind"
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/9/2005 2:51:55 AM
Such fine irony
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Robert
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12/9/2005 5:03:20 PM
So you're with Bowser chasing the chuck-up wagon?
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/10/2005 3:36:37 AM
if you lower the bar any further you'll have to dig a trench
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Daniel
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12/9/2005 4:14:28 AM
Can you clarify what my error about the UN was? Then I will attempt to wax eloquent.
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 9:32:40 PM
WHAT?? "Stand with Bowser and you will smell bad and need a change of clothes in short order"
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 9:26:53 PM
"You, and many others here, kindly overlook this just like you overlook the UN's culpability and coziness with Saddam's atrocities. "
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 9:23:45 PM
Yo Techie!
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 6:26:35 AM
stop referring to me as an 'Aussie leftist' just because I support free speech and the right to dissent
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 5:27:25 AM
Don't be so touchy!
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 5:30:08 AM
I was referring to your noun 'leftist', not your adjective 'Aussie'
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 5:34:54 AM
Are you a rightist? Centrist?
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 5:37:23 AM
yes, that's totally relevant here isn't it
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 6:09:14 AM
role of 'patriotism' in all this
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 5:16:07 AM
What would you expect from the descendants of criminals?
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 5:27:32 AM
ick
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 6:44:50 PM
step by step deconstruction of this dreck:
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Daniel
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12/8/2005 5:54:48 AM
Patriotism must be a blessing of sorts.
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 3:28:37 AM
Here SDAI.........
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Lindy
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12/8/2005 3:47:18 AM
Sorry D-dawg. Does not compute.
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more SDAI-wretch misattribution
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12/8/2005 3:19:49 AM
re: Sorry D-dawg. Does not compute.
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 7:03:55 AM
I don't know...
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 3:06:22 AM
You really thought those were pro-Saddam, Tom?
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 4:00:10 PM
Perhaps a more level headed conservative could explain it to us poor lefties.
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Tony
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12/8/2005 7:34:20 PM
re: explain it to us poor lefties.
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 8:24:53 PM
Question too hard?
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 9:34:46 PM
No. More like left-heavy brains are too soft...mushy even. ;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 10:03:26 PM
Mine is clearly too mushy to derive a "yes" or a "no" from Tom's response
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 10:19:07 PM
Oh, NOW we get binary! ;)
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 10:39:01 PM
Hah!
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alcaray
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12/8/2005 11:32:57 PM
re: I know...
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/8/2005 3:09:37 AM
is that so? I don't remember any posts here like that
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Daniel
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12/7/2005 12:52:19 PM
re: What Gary's definition of a traitor should have been
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Tom Brosz
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12/6/2005 8:01:49 PM
Actually it would be anti-American...........
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Publius
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12/7/2005 4:32:33 PM
Shut up.
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alcaray
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12/7/2005 6:32:39 PM
Anti-Americanism.
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et
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12/7/2005 4:09:27 AM
re: Anti-Americanism.
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Tom Brosz
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12/7/2005 7:24:06 AM
A.N.S.W.E.R. and Ramsey Clark
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et
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12/7/2005 5:31:54 PM
No. You're not familiar with either of them.
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 1:18:22 AM
Where is it then? I asked for links....
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et
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12/8/2005 5:52:11 PM
Do the work yourself for a change.
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 8:15:57 PM
You made the assertion. Put up or shut up!
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et
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12/8/2005 11:52:18 PM
All right.
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Tom Brosz
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12/9/2005 9:20:28 AM
BROsz-Bot
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SDAI-Tech1
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12/9/2005 4:37:44 AM
Interesting...
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Tom Brosz
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12/9/2005 9:01:03 AM
re: re:Not even
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Raoul
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12/6/2005 9:42:20 PM
"Ah, patriotism, that word has bad connotations over here." Believe me, it shows.
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Tom Brosz
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12/7/2005 12:25:20 AM
Shows over here too. You have redefined it to mean something partisan and dangerous.
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alcaray
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12/7/2005 5:40:43 PM
How about riots going on for months?
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gbaikie
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12/7/2005 7:10:03 PM
Huh?
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alcaray
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12/7/2005 10:20:31 PM
On the other hand...
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Fox
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12/6/2005 8:11:09 PM
re: On the other hand...John Adams
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phil
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12/7/2005 4:41:04 PM
I knew *you'd* get it, Phil
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Fox
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12/7/2005 7:11:09 PM
If the comparison of Adams and Clark was accurate...
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Tom Brosz
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12/8/2005 1:22:32 AM
"praising the British for killing some of them." Another unsupported slander. PUOSU.
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et
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12/8/2005 11:53:42 PM
See earlier answer. That's all you get.
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Tom Brosz
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12/9/2005 6:16:52 PM
Why revere #2....
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et
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12/7/2005 10:46:52 PM
re: Why revere #2?
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Fox
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12/9/2005 4:47:38 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.