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To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 9:46:11 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<-fl@yup,he'sbaaack.com> And we've all been bad boys and girls on this deist thread, while you were gone. Welcome back.

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 9:53:52 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

FL: Welcome back...The entire thread missed you. -s2

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 9:58:10 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Great to read you again.

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 10:13:21 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 281500

Welcome back, Ken! I am so glad to see you feeling well enough to wade back into the fray. You were sorely missed, maybe more than you know. Ken

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 10:38:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

For some reason the theme from "Welcome Back Kotter" just started going through my head. Glad to see you posting again.

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 10:56:44 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Omigawd, dawlin', you're back! Shrieking, jumping up and down. Woo-hooo! Hugs all around! Virtual champagne for everyone! We missed you!

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 11:21:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

You are most welcome back, ken. How are you feeling?

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/10/2003 11:52:21 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 281500

Welcome back FL! Taylor's gone....... Taylor Videotapes Resignation By Samson Mulugeta Africa Correspondent August 10, 2003, 8:57 PM EDT Monrovia, Liberia -- In a rambling 20-minute farewell speech in which he compared himself to Jesus Christ, President Charles Taylor said Sunday he would leave office Monday because the United States wanted him out. "I am being forced into exile by the world's superpower," Taylor said in an address videotaped at his home. "I see myself as in the case of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... . I hold myself in the same position." The performance was typical of a man whose messianic quest for power has wrecked this nation and destabilized the entire region. While Taylor's message was recorded for airing Sunday night, few Liberians were likely to hear it: Most of Monrovia lacks functioning televisions or electricity to keep TV and radio stations on the air. Now, as Taylor faces his political demise with the routing of his fighters by rebel forces, he appears to have accepted the inevitable. He has said he will leave office one minute before noon Monday, handing power to his vice president, Moses Blah. It is unclear when, or if, Taylor will leave the country, although Nigeria has offered him asylum. Rebels don't want Blah, a Taylor loyalist, to assume office, but mediators are pressuring them to accept him until arrangements for an interim government can be finalized. There was a perceptible sense of tension in Monrovia Sunday as people braced themselves for last-minute maneuvers by Taylor that could continue the state of war. "He's a man we say 'big, big talks,'" said an unemployed man named Joseph sheltering from a drizzle near the U.S. Embassy. "He's so tricky we don't believe anything he says until it actually happens." Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc. nynewsday.com

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 12:23:45 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Welcome back; hope you're doing well and that you'll be here more frequently than I am these days...

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 2:33:59 AM
From: Doc Bones	Respond to of 281500

-fl@yup,he'sbaaack.com That's great, and like Ahnold on his holy mission to save California, you may have to do some serious butt-kicking. ;-) Doc

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 3:11:27 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Welcome BACK, FL!!!! Can't top CB's footstompin' cheers, but I can, and do, wholeheartedly second the thought!!! Yippee!!!

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 3:17:59 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 281500

I was saving exactly my 7000th post "anniversary" just for this occasion. Welcome home. -MrB (and "thanks" to Uncle Frank for the updates)

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 4:43:13 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Welcome back, Ken. How are you doing?

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 5:17:33 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh no! Don't say you're back. I was just getting into the swing of being Globocop. You've been replaced. I quite like that Saladin, Saddam, King George II megalomania trip. I can see how rulers get a taste for it. I held my coronation here: Message 19152984 While you were away, that barbarian LindyBill was rooting in public, claiming he was doing it for you, and offered no apology. Gross! So I banned him. Along with some others: Message 19154753 And came up with a money-making scam. We can go halves. You give me the trapdoor lever to pull and I'll give you half the profits. I suspect some of the Evil Doer posters figured out that I couldn't really ban them because they haven't sent me any PayPal loot and have gone right on with their rule-breaking posts. I admit I've been a bit lackadaisical at times, but we could have an election and see whether they want me or the crusty old Faultline geezer who wags work during the summer months. All those in favour of Mqurice The Great having the lever, click here ...... mquricethegreat.com All those in favour of Lazy Faultline taking over from my excellent ajudication click here ..... lazyfaultline.com Mqurice PS: Those who vote for me will each get 1% of the profits from bannings and excommunications and will be entitled to nominate posters to be punished. Edit... I should also point out I saved my 12500th post especially to welcome you back. And ALSO, grubbed a good post number for you, 110944, which has some nice symmetry about it. Whoaaa... I just noticed, 11 September in that post number [we write the day first, then the month, unlike crazy Americans] - how's that for a Foreign Affairs number?

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 9:48:23 AM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

Miracles happen. Prayer works.* Your recovery is evidence of both. I hope you realize and accept the positive impact you have had on the diverse group of individuals on FADG. The only idea on FADG on which all agreed was the idea of your recovery and importance. Miracles happen. Prayer works. I hope our great country experiences the same miraculous recovery. *(I know there were many prayers sent your way just from the rabble of FADG.) Rascal @thankful.com

To: FaultLine who wrote (110903)	8/11/2003 10:11:05 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 281500

Welcome back to the greatest thread in si.... you were in our prayers,, nice to see your recovery... best now watch out for what I post.. g