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15833There is too much bigotry and ignorance squeezed into that short post to argue wone_less-6/28/2002
15832Tucson, Arizona Thursday, 27 June 2002 Well-heeled Grans can afford meds By Lane3-6/28/2002
15831Today, CNN is framing this as a matter of rehabilitation vs. punishment. <i&Lane3-6/28/2002
15830Thanks Win. I'd <I>thought</I> retinal scanning was available.Poet-6/28/2002
15829As long as they're separated by a corridor.Poet-6/28/2002
15828Bottom line - this is NOT Medina. I find it ludicrous that there would be an exMichael M-6/27/2002
15827On that general topic, off the AP wire today <b>In Future, Ads Could RelyWin Smith-6/27/2002
15826If you two can't play nicely, we will have to send you to your rooms.Constant Reader-6/27/2002
15825It has to do with the country meeting any challenge.Michael M-6/27/2002
15824I've been reading up on this driver's license case and I found out that Lane3-6/27/2002
15823LOL! Me, the odometer? Hardly. It has struck me that your posts on this topic Poet-6/27/2002
15822<i>"In THAT case, why do the pull over the 78-year-old Caucasian granone_less-6/27/2002
15821<i>Oh my. Way over the top again. </i> Have you been designated thrLane3-6/27/2002
15820<i>It allows police officers to identify her as the actual holder of the lLane3-6/27/2002
15819I agree with you, Jewel. Isn't it about time we found an effective way to iPoet-6/27/2002
15818<i>This issue is more about what the covered, veiled women represent to WeLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15817<I>-not unlike the feeling an atheist kid might have in a class where the Poet-6/27/2002
15816What I wouldn't have given to see <I>that</I> little meeting ofPoet-6/27/2002
15815I'm watching Ann Coulter on Fox right now talking about her book, Slander. Lane3-6/27/2002
15814<i>"There is an overriding public safety concern here. At least at thone_less-6/27/2002
15813<I>....counter in equivalent tone the cavalier way you assumed you knew whone_less-6/27/2002
15812I think Karen is overstating the problem. I lived with those two words all throLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15811<i>The analogies offered here are condescendingly inappropriate.</i>Lane3-6/27/2002
15810I saw some discussion today about Jehovah's Witnesses. Apparently they don&Lane3-6/27/2002
15809Betcha didn't know Ken Lay is behind Martha Stewart's problems. MessageLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15808<i>Another example would be the Amish, whose religious views require that Lane3-6/27/2002
15807Far from a similar comparison. Women who have made a commitment to cover feel vone_less-6/27/2002
15806We provide an invaluable and much appreciated (well, not by the mutts, maybe) seLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15805That's a big stretch. An atheist child can simply not say two words and not Constant Reader-6/27/2002
15804I met Ann Coulter a few times before she became famous (She was the girlfriend oOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15803WOW! Sorry I missed that catfight! :-) Send the survivor over to the clinic aLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15802This could be a do-over, as one of the judges, Alfred Goodwin, seems to be cominBill-6/27/2002
15801<i>In the case of the latter (fellowship) you become disassociated with yoLane3-6/27/2002
15800Actually I wrote that first part you responded to, not kholt. Why should the Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15799<i>"It isn't the state that is taking away her driving privilegesone_less-6/27/2002
15798<b>Coulter vs. Couric Not Affable in 'Today' Fray </b> Thu JOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15797I always figured that if you graduated, it would have been from the only school Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15796Better hope so. 'Cause all your arguments against capital punishment donLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15795I think you're overstating the case here.Poet-6/27/2002
15794vodkapundit.com June 26, 2002 Get It? Even if the entire world consisted of notLane3-6/27/2002
15793Our public schools here are great, because there is a very high degree of parentOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15792<i>Now what LW group did you say I was a part of? <g> </i> Oh,Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15791I can run faster than you can waddle, Mr. Dog Catcher. <g>Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15790Subject 53070Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15789I am hard pressed to think of any situation where putting power in the hands of Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15788Yeah. On YOUR plastic. No more luxury island resorts for you on MY dime! VoucLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15787<i>I am appalled that 12 states issue "identification" cards thaLane3-6/27/2002
15786This has something to do with two words in the Pledge of Allegiance?Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15785We agreed on my usual and customary rates: $100 per word plus all the pizza andOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15784It goes beyond lifting the veil for the driver's license. The photo lets heOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15783<i>our liberal leader</i> Watch your tongue, girl! OMD is cheap. JLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15782Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. If she doesn't like the rules, shConstant Reader-6/27/2002
15781I don't know. I never had the stomach to watch Beavis and Butthead. Human Lane3-6/27/2002
15780heh heh heh heh That show is off the air by now, isn't it?Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15779<i>That's just it....it's "God and country", not "GLane3-6/27/2002
15778That's just it....it's "God <i>and</i> country", nOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15777<i>(b) have nothing to do with patriotism or the flag</i> This is tLane3-6/27/2002
15776That is a great post, OMD. I particularly like <I> What do we accomplishPoet-6/27/2002
15775<i>You know, there is a large and growing Hindu population in this countryOriginal Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15774<i>How do I file charges of Gross Stupidity against the 9th Circuit? </Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15773<b>Semites</b> The term Semites is applied to a group of peoples claverage joe-6/27/2002
15772Well, I disagree with your statistics about what people are referring to when thPoet-6/27/2002
15771Sure, but I was going with the current usage of the word "anti-Semitic"Thomas M.-6/27/2002
15770I do know that understood perfectly well that they were intentionally allowing tLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15769How do I file charges of Gross Stupidity against the 9th Circuit?Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15768<i> Labour Zionism has no expansionist design</i> Wrong! "AftThomas M.-6/27/2002
15767<I> the misperception of this phenomenon is not accidental, it is intentioPoet-6/27/2002
15766Evasion. What did you mean by "retaliation"?Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15765<i> It's a mistake to see the current European far-right as anti-SThomas M.-6/27/2002
15764<i> It's a mistake to see the current European far-right as anti-SThomas M.-6/27/2002
15763Lieberman disappointed me, too. In other times, it might be amusing to watch thLane3-6/27/2002
15762Well, the last thing we need is a constitutional amendment. Liberman dissapointTigerPaw-6/27/2002
15761What did you think about the full-face photo on the driver's license?Lane3-6/27/2002
15760I think that those arguments are a way to rationalize the conflict. Rather likeLane3-6/27/2002
15759<i>Had the judges stepped back from their law books and legal precedents aTigerPaw-6/27/2002
15758<i>A generic two-word reference to God tucked inside a rote civic exerciseTigerPaw-6/27/2002
15757I've just read three editorials on the subject and I think they're all pLane3-6/27/2002
15756For the benefit of the (WHOOPS! Almost used the "L" word), ah, ladiesLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15755RE-EDIT! <G> I'll go along with anything the courts will. I just doLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15754I'd say the Court probably should have left well enough alone. Those words Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15753<i>And if your religious beliefs are that there is no god? </i> OddWin Smith-6/27/2002
15752<i>does not make them so. </i> It doesn't mean much of anything.TigerPaw-6/27/2002
15751<i>By handing you those papers, the doctor is discussing a later possible Original Mad Dog-6/27/2002
15750June 27, 2002 Lifting Veil for Photo ID Goes Too Far, Driver Says By DANA CANEDYLane3-6/27/2002
15749Another non sequitir. You're in fine (well, typical) form. Ignoring your Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15748<i>Was that supposed to be a logical argument? </i> It's not aTigerPaw-6/27/2002
15747Hi Laz, Re: "The Republic will survive. It has survived much worse."Poet-6/27/2002
15746But not by sitting on its butt. eomMichael M-6/27/2002
15745See my previous post for view re "adaptation" eomMichael M-6/27/2002
15744Don't get your knickers all twisted, E. IMO, some members of the 9th CircMichael M-6/27/2002
15743I've been rather plain spoken in the past about multi-culturalism. ImmigrMichael M-6/27/2002
15742No, E, I would not. Although I would not object to those references in a nationMichael M-6/27/2002
15741<i>"This thread is SO blessed to have brilliant geniuses like you to Solon-6/27/2002
15740Uh oh! Another 50 years of war?Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15739jislamia.org Hamas kindergarten graduation. Scroll down.E-6/27/2002
15738<i>I've got a couple of forest fires out here that we could drop them Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15737I know that. He knows that. You know that. But we don't admit that in frLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15736Wrong. Mr. Dog and I are old pals. Except when we fight. And except when trieLazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15735The Republic will survive. It has survived much worse.Lazarus_Long-6/27/2002
15734He won't help you. He will be on my side in this, so very wrong are you--eveE-6/27/2002
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