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Re: Libertarians are silly, guns should be outlawed, and there is no God
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Date: 
Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
I miss the good old days in ot.debate when we discussed [{real}] issues, and
our opinions had wide-ranging impact well beyond the bounds of LUGNET.

Why, my musings on the virtues of government subsidized medicine led directly
to Canada's implementation of a national healthcare program, and John Neal's
qualms about the Big Bang theory helped to broaden the field of cosmology in
new and unforeseen directions.  Even Dave Koudys' ramblings about the
impossibility of a circle offered groundbreaking insight in the field of
theoretical geometry.

Boy, those were the days!


Dave!

I miss those days.

Just 10 minutes ago I was reading a blog--

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/06/dispatches-from-asylum-all-propaganda.html

and was quite 'educated' about this Zarqawi guy.  According to the blog,
basically we killed a straw man--he really wasn't much of anything.

And then I went and read this one about Churchill--

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/04/shattering-churchill-myth-facing-facts.html

A bit of an eye opener.

Now these are opinion pieces, but they made me think anyway.  And, though there
was much pain involved, that can only be a good thing.

Dave K



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  Libertarians are silly, guns should be outlawed, and there is no God
 
I miss the good old days in ot.debate when we discussed real issues, and our opinions had wide-ranging impact well beyond the bounds of LUGNET. Why, my musings on the virtues of government subsidized medicine led directly to Canada's implementation (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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