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To: nasdaqian who wrote (56009)	10/10/2000 7:51:02 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I agree that Ish could have used a better bartender/psych, but he says he isn't depressed. Every so often he complains that his life is worthless, and hopeless, and he thinks about eating his gun, but he's not depressed.%^* As for the Wellbutrin/orgasm thing, I would have been happy if all it did was NOT inhibit orgasm, which Zoloft does, I know, and have heard that the rest of the SSRIs do, as well. In fact, it enhances somewhat, but anything that enhances dopamine does that.

To: nasdaqian who wrote (56009)	10/10/2000 7:54:27 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I started to reply and my mouse locked up. I shook it and went back to reboot. Never piss a mouse off. <<But are the Texans mad because the demmies are pointing out a painful truth or because the demmies are throwing cow patties at Texas to make GW look bad to the "voting public". I would hope the latter is the reality. >> Dubya has done a fine job. Texas isn't #1 in a lot of areas but it sure as hell has improved since he has been Governor. <<And these politics are all very interesting, but I was more interested in seeing if Coby was going to elaborate further on the Wellbutrin/orgasm thing >> Coby has never been one to pass up an orgasm, especially her own. Enough said? <<That chess "dis"ability sounds intriguing.>> Yes it was. I got off my medication and soundly whipped a much superior opponent. I'm done with medication and with chess.

To: nasdaqian who wrote (56009)	10/11/2000 1:54:50 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I absolutely don't GET the Gore vote. It's gotta be aliens. Here's one answer, and it's pretty funny: carolontheweb.com Utopian Wolves Outnumber The Sheep REPUBLICANS CAN'T WIN THIS WAR Pity the Republicans. I heard conservative Robert Novak grouse that Al Gore's poll numbers don't mean Democrats are succeeding, but that Republicans are failing. Not true Bob. You are just outnumbered. Democracy has finally delivered the death blow to republican government. Somebody once said democracy is the honeymoon of stupidity. What a great line. I have predicted a renaissance of Utopianism as boomers begin to think about old age. Retiring boomers will demand nothing less than meals-on-wheels -delivered to their RV parks in Costa Rica as part of their Medicare+accounts. Free drugs and med-evac, delivered anywhere, any continent, anytime to any mountain. High-grade hemp will be reclassified and distributed for achy muscles or menopause. Conservatives, by definition cannot win this war. It's not Dubya's fault, really. The utopian police state has a new allure for aging boomers. When you add these particularly solipsistic and venal breed of parasites to the existing pool, you have a nasty brew. And it feeds on liberty. This election is an auction - and Al Gore may just win it. I wince when I hear Limbaugh, Medved, Coulter and company, trying to intellectualize the "mood of the country" --shaking their heads, asking where they went wrong with women. That's a no brainer. Just tell women you'll give them free day care, healthcare, and underwrite their poor choices with somebody else's money. They deserve it, and you're gonna give it to em. Truth can only hurt you. Silly GOPers criticize each other on principle when they differ, believing they can appeal to our higher natures. --Sort of like Depok Chopra without the shakedown for tapes, books and T Shirts. But Democrats know politics is not principled. Its organized crime. For 8 years the GOP has been asking, "Where is the outrage"? What outrage? Democrats don't vote for piety. They don't vote FOR Democrats. They vote AGAINST Republicans. Ask any Democrat what he/she thinks of Bill Clinton. Odds are they think he's a bit of a thug, a caricature of the boozy, lascivious and irredeemably corrupt southern pol - a thoroughly loathsome character. But no matter. He's not a Republican. So he's got their vote. Democrats should rightly be called Anti-Republicans. That's why we couldn't get rid of the Arkansas Sopranos even after the bodies started piling up, planes went boom and a statistically improbable number of FOB's committed suicide or fell out of the sky. ---See, Billy delivers the goods. I believe we could videotape the entire Clinton cabinet gang raping a kindergarten class and democrats would caution us that it was illegal to videotape them without consent. So how do they do it? How do Democrats enjoy such loyalty from Anti-Republicans? Well, it's a spoils system in a host/parasite paradigm. Anti-Republicans want more of what Republicans have, or hate what Republicans are, and will not conform to conservative expectations for citizens. So when the federal government steals 1.7 trillion a year from us, dems say --Good! Footnote: Gays are a special subsection of the anti-republican coalition. Their singular concern in this battle is legislation insuring their right to prime time, drive-by sex, while the transfer of wealth occurs. So, we have reached critical mass as we tumble toward euro-trash social democracy. The parasites outnumber the hosts and an IV drip on producers may not be enough to sate the sheer numbers of 'needy'. And each beneficiary is clamoring for more. Utopians need to legislate our thoughts and profile the aberrant among us who still believe in the privacy of thoughts, sex, and property. So who are we up against? 1. Government workers. That includes teachers. These little bloodsuckers multiply like roaches and don't like compensation tied to performance or tenure. They succeed only at our expense. [Fiercely Anti-Republican street fighters] 2. Unions. ---See above without the breeding capacity from government funding. --But hey, anything's possible. 3. Women. ---Unfortunately they see government as surrogate parent and husband. I've always said women are natural socialists. They have been trading away liberty for promises of security since we jumped out of the trees. They will vote police state utopia every time, if they think it will be easier for them. I would gladly give up my vote if they were banished as a group from electoral politics. What was Jack Nicholson's great line when asked the difference between a man and a woman? --"Take away logic and accountability," he said with signature smirk. 4. Blacks and Latinos --Too many are addicted to the drip system. Add a desire for open borders so their friends and relatives can share the spoils. [These are traditional Anti-Republicans who equate a brown man voting Republican with chickens voting Colonel Saunders.] 5. Trial Lawyers. --They feed on the conflict between warring parasites. A utopian police state guarantees that everyone is guilty of something, sometime. It's a bonanza for defense attorneys and prosecutors as well. 6. Gays. --They cling to dems, the only ones who understand their pain. ["Heterosexuals probe each other's body parts on prime time TV. Why can't we?"] Depressed readers, there is an upside to this --really. This grumpy libertarian offers that we need MORE socialism and MORE utopian blather, not less, if we're going to have the knock-down-drag-out necessary to regain the soul of our Jeffersonian Republic. It's the drip drip drip of Utopianism in the first half of this century that left us in this hazy-semi-conscious-lock-step, each time gubmint says "pay up" or else. Why not say "Bring it on mutha!" Bring it all on - all of it. Utopians in all three branches of government. Confiscate the guns. Photo cop in every intersection. Breathalyzer and retina scans at freeway ramps. 70% death tax [just to churn the economy for the benefit of the "needy".] Cradle to grave healthcare will endure only until somebody discovers that certain "behaviors" mean higher "costs". Utopians may be surprisingly niggardly with public dollars when exponential demand by the "unfit", "imperfect", and "unhealthy", drain the treasury of discretionary dollars, which could be used to rescue aging rock climbers and provide necessary paths for bicycle riding city dwellers. We will make them hate each other as much as they hate us. But wait, you say, we can't do this. It means the end of life as we know it. Utopia requires a police state. And a police state ends constitutional government. Constitutional government has already been reduced to what the meaning of is - is. It's whatever they say it is so long as they deliver the goods. Election 2000 can only be described as 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. So whaddya think is cookin? - Carole Ward