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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/1/2002 5:32:28 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

My dentist (as you can see, this is a very new subject) says that the amalgam fillings are harmless, and the alarmist reports to the contrary are ridiculous. But my brother in law had all his amalgam taken out, at great expense and, I'm sure, unpleasantly, and replaced with... whatever they replace it with. This discusses kidney damage from amalgam fillings. I'm sure if I show it to my dentist he'll laugh at it. rense.com What is one to think? BTW, my dentist has really weird looking teeth.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/1/2002 5:47:09 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

There's a lit-tul too much agreement going on here. How about this piece on Bush from the Financial Times?: COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A callow cowboy stumbles at a cultural divide By Gerard Baker Financial Times; May 30, 2002 For a moment it looked as if Jacques Chirac had swallowed something unpleasant. The French president gazed uncomprehendingly at George W.Bush, his lips pursing and then opening in what looked like a Gallic gasp for air. It was halfway into a press conference in the Elysýe Palace on Sunday afternoon and Mr Bush had just stumbled his way through another answer, forgetting part of the question and joking at his own lack of focus. "That's what happens when you get past 55," he cracked. Not only is Mr Chirac about to turn 70 but his advanced age was, for a while, a sensitive issue in the presidential election campaign just finished. It was as though Mr Chirac had gone to Washington a few weeks after Mr Bush's inauguration and made flippant remarks about the unreliability of recounts and the role of patrimony in American presidential politics. Mr Bush's insult was unintentional, of course, but it was not the only jaw-dropping moment in Sunday's performance by the travelling American president. Earlier Mr Bush had said he was looking forward to trying some French food, because "[Jacques] is always telling me the food here is fantastic", apparently indicating that he had not heard about the quality of French cuisine in his previous 54 years on the planet. Later he got into a peevish exchange with an American reporter who had graciously asked Mr Chirac a question in French. "He memorises four words and plays like he's all intercontinental," Mr Bush sneered. Reporters shuffled their notebooks and looked at their feet, embarrassed by this spectacle of an American president jeering at a fellow American for speaking their host's language. Mr Bush's clownish performance was attributed by some to fatigue. It was Day Five of his European trip and for the past three nights he had been up way past his normal bedtime of 9.30pm. But there had been other moments, earlier in the trip, when his comments and demeanour had been a little less than that normally expected of visiting schoolchildren, let alone heads of state. On Day Two in Berlin, he had declared that he wanted to "securitise" dismantled Russian nuclear weapons. On Day Three in Moscow, he said retaining a strategic nuclear force was necessary at least in part for reasons of "quality control". In St Petersburg, taken to see the magnificent art collection at the Hermitage Museum, the president had looked gloomily at his watch as the tour rolled on past 20 minutes. He seemed to perk up only when his guide stopped to talk about a portrait of a semi-naked Venus, causing Mr Bush to smirk as he tried to catch the eye of each of the reporters accompanying him. The St Petersburg tour provided an intriguing contrast. When Vladimir Putin came to Texas, he was treated to a barbecue and a hoe-down on the ranch. In the old capital of the Romanovs, Mr Bush got the Hermitage and the ballet. Since September 11, we have got used to seeing and appreciating the serious, inspiring side of Mr Bush's plain-spoken simplicity. His simple moral leadership and evident compassion and strength shoved aside snobbish doubts about whether he was up to the job. But this last week was a reversion to the troubling callowness of the campaign aeroplane. It was hard not to see in the performance a barely concealed, swaggering Texan contempt for Europe and all its high-flown diplomatic niceties and high-brow cultural sensibilities. And it was revealing, perhaps above all else, for what it said about the strained relations between western Europe and the Bush administration. For all the talk - justified talk - of substantive transatlantic differences over Iraq, the "axis of evil", the environment, trade, multilateralism and the global system, onlookers were reminded that a large part of the issue is Mr Bush himself. Europeans - not just the elites but much of their populations - simply find Mr Bush irredeemably uncouth, a walking, talking version of every American clichý they love to hate. In cartoons, this figure plays any number of roles: the loudmouth at the restaurant, haranguing the waiter because his hamburger is insufficiently well done; the man who sits next to you on the transatlantic flight with endless stories about the size of his car, mispronouncing the names of European cities. It is an easy step to make between the First Tourist displaying vast chasms of ignorance about the world beyond the Bible Belt and the unilateralist president pursuing American hegemony in ways that Europeans do not like. Such attitudes, of course, betray the same sort of unsophisticated chauvinism on the part of Europeans as was on display at times from Mr Bush this last week. There are forces and arguments driving US foreign policy - many of them deserving of the sort of serious hearing they do not get in Europe. But those arguments have a hard time getting through to Europeans when it is Mr Bush who is putting them. Europe's leaders may understand the difference - but with agitated electorates on the Old Continent expressing dissatisfaction with their own and American leadership, these popular caricatures transmit quickly through the media and opinion polls into policy constraints. In the end, painful though it is to admit it, this is Europe's problem, rather than Mr Bush's. The American president is not going to become suddenly a model of cosmopolitan sophistication, putting an urbane case for US conservatism as he sashays, Kennedy-like, through the drawing rooms of Europe. Europeans are just going to have to get over it and display the kind of sang-froid Mr Chirac so admirably demonstrated last Sunday.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 4:28:10 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 21057

I shall be MOST INTERESTED in hearing jttmab's response to that. I shall be MOST INTERESTED in hearing your response to this. Message 17545588 jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 4:43:55 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 21057

His otherwise excellent memory seems to have dropped the fact that race riots and discrimination are hardly unknown in Europe. My otherwise excellent memory does recall saying to you that any type of crime that exists in the US has also occurred in Europe. You apparently forgot that. jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 4:48:25 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 21057

His otherwise excellent memory seems to have dropped the fact that... My otherwise excellent memory does recall that I pointed you to the deaths [by violence] of Belfast over such American cities as Baltimore over several decades...you were safer in Belfast than in Baltimore...you never bothered to respond to that as I recall. Belfast has some serious rioting. jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 4:57:36 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 21057

His otherwise excellent memory seems to have dropped the ... I've really got to thank you for that line. It's jogged my memory on a lot of loose ends... You never did answer the question about what your opinion would be for a certified pubilic accountant to dictate the curriculum for software engineering. There's some other loose ends as well. <s> jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 5:26:46 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Do you know whether the KKK has chapters outside of the US or is it strictly an American flag waving institution? jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 5:39:41 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 21057

Perhaps you can explain to me what seems to be a paradox. The US has taken the position that it's a human rights violation to use prison labor in China to manufacture products. The UN agrees; I agree. The US doesn't appear to think it's a human rights violation to use prison labor in the South as chain gangs working the roads. Do you see this as a paradox? Perhaps, being an American, I'm not supposed to ask such a question. jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 6:02:06 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

You'll be pleased to know that the KKK is a law biding organization and will not tolerate people of immoral character... k-k-k.com We from the Imperial Klans of America are a law abiding organization that are seeking honorable Aryan men and women. Ones who we can count on for the future, Christ, Race and our great Aryan Nation. Men and women who have courage and principles, who will take a stand for what they believe in when the times get hard. We want people who are not afraid to speak their minds about what is wrong with America. We need those who will stand tall and proud for the future of Faith, Folk, Klan and Nation. We will NOT tolerate drug users/dealers, thieves, child molesters/abusers or anyone with immoral character in our movement. Our purpose is to UNITE, ORGANIZE, and EDUCATE the White Aryan masses world wide to the dangers that face our Race, Culture and our great Christian Civilization. For more info.... The Imperial Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are a legal and law abiding organization that will NOT tolerate illegal acts of any sort yet more news.... How to: Join the Imperial Klans of America [application] kkkk.net jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13825)	6/2/2002 6:08:34 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21057

Test time ..... How many of these do you agree with? Partial answers/agreements are welcomed. Total score possible: 7 1. America First! The very first responsibility of our government is to protect the welfare(jobs, health, future) of AMERICANS - not those in Mexico, Vietnam, Somalia, Haiti, or some other third world country. It is time to take America back. 2. Drug testing for Welfare Recipients. Not everyone who is on welfare is taking drugs. We are aware of that,but there are many, especially in housing projects in large urban areas,who are taking drugs. If they have enough money for drugs, they don't need your money. If a welfare recipient is a drug user, their welfare check,food stamps, public housing, and etc. should be cut. 3. Protect America's Birthright. Laws would be enacted that would prevent American industry and property from being sold to foreigners. Americas should be owned by Americans - not Japanese, Arabs or Jews. 4. Do away with Affirmative Action Programs. People in America should be hired, promoted or given scholarships based on ability, not because they have the right color of skin or because we feel sorry for them or because we are trying to appease some kind of self-inflicted guilt. 5. Protect American Jobs. Americans are loosing jobs to foreign nations because our industry is moving to Mexico to obtain cheap labor which is often only 60 or 70 cents an hour. American industry is also enticed to move to Mexico in order to save millions because of non-existing environmental laws. The criminals in Washington have passed NAFTA and are now selling us out with GATT. 6. Close our Border. The flood of illegal aliens coming across our borders needs to be stopped.If we can put 43,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect their borders,500,000 soldiers in Saudi Arabia to protect their borders. Why can we not put troops on our borders to protect our country from the invasion of illegal aliens? We must protect the future of our children, not the future of the children of Mexico. 7. Outlaw homo-sexuality and inter-racial marriages. Until 20 or so years ago, nearly all states had 'sodomy' and miscegenation laws and statutes that were strictly enforced. Since that time they have been repealed or are ignored, the results are obvious with the plague of AIDS now ravaging our land. Both of these abominations against God and nature must be stopped if America is ever to return to the great Christian nation it once was. jttmab