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To: Lane3 who wrote (84094)	9/13/2008 9:43:17 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544204

Here's Palin's request for earmarks. stevens.senate.gov It's hard to tell just what that is. She calls it a notebook. There's no cover letter so we don't know to whom it was addressed so we don't know how it fits into the process. We don't know if it's a comprehensive list of all Alaska requests or some subset of interest to her. But, clearly, she saw fit to gather and forward a list of earmark requests.

To: Lane3 who wrote (84094)	9/13/2008 10:33:52 AM
From: Stan J. Czernel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544204

My take is that the article was a political response rather than a philosophic one. The guy seems to me more an advocate than a teacher. He wants to increase and consolidate his ranks. Agnosticism rejects atheism as too strident and hostile, thus aligning even agnostics with the vast ranks of those who are negative about atheism. A larger atheist demographic is in his interests. There is a lot of difference between Madalyn Murray O'Hair and an inherently innocuous agnostic, particularly politically. Lane, I offered the article, IN GOOD FAITH, to provide some outside source that (I hoped) would help us sharpen our discussion about the difference between Atheism versus Agnosticism. THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE POST. If you are aware of a better article ON THAT SUBJECT I would welcome having you post it.