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(...) See my other reply to you. (...) Thanks for clearing that up. I really appreciate it. (...) I'm condemning them for their arrogance, not their education! It takes an arrogant person to say that we all must have toilets that flush no more than (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Showing that they have an agenda: what is their comparable study on the psychological causes of liberalism? It starts from an inferred premise that liberalism is simply right, and there must be deficiencies in conservatives to make them (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) For the last time, can we lay this red herring to rest? The issue is not "what does 'is' mean in casual parlance?" but rather "what is the implication of 'is' according to the accepted and rigid strictures of legal discourse as established in (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Never meant to imply that it excluded anyone else. I tend to lean towards libertarianism, and there go I but for a couple of reservations. First, I can't stomach the de-criminalize all drugs argument. Some drugs are too bad (harmful to health) (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) First of all, you're inferring an underlying agenda simply because you don't like the results of the study. To verify the presence of an agenda, you have to do more than simply object to the findings. Secondly, where in the article to you see (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I think the belief in the 'sacredness of human life' applies to more than conservatives' I've been told that I'm a Canadian Liberal, but I 'believe' in the sacredness of life. Whether the other points are 'just conservative', i.e. smaller (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I love the part where Hitler and Mussolini are termed conservatives. They believed in the cornerstones of conservatism, smaller government, free markets, less regulation, the sacredness of human life, etc. That just shows the agenda behind the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) True, but it's very difficult to refute Goldberg's claims in the book. He makes several good points, such as: 1) Why conservatives are always labelled and liberals are not, e.g., why it's always "conservative" Antonin Scalia but never (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Oh, as an aside, I'm going to quantify it every time-- Dubya the moron... Dubya the moron... Actually that kinda works... comes off smooth to the typing and smooth to the saying... Dubya the moron... Who's that knocking at my door? Dave K (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Right from DU-- (URL) of the 25 things listed, all of which are scary enuf... For the first time *ever*, I'm glad y'all have yer guns in yer house--when the next election happens, and y'all come to the realization that Dubya the moron bamboozled the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Alas, Bruce hasn't discussed anything about it, other than to ask a leading question and say that he won't provide any more information about it! (...) I don't think it could be characterized as a close friendship in any way. They associated (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) but it can't. "simple" physics determines the properties of matter. "simple" physics determine what will happen when you remove the control rods from the reactor- either it speeds up, slows down, or does nothing. The design of TRIGA is such (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) By being offensive. Have you stopped beating your wife? ;p James (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh, I guess I'd agree about the spin they put on the write-up. After all, see how I called it "decisiveness"? You can take "decisive" either positively or negatively. Up to you as the reader. But "fear", "aggression", and "intolerance"? Those (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 8^) I don't give a lot of credence to interpretive personality assessments, such as psychoanalysis, palmistry, or Myers-Briggs tests, since such tests seem generally to reveal more about the expectations of the reviewers than about the actual (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Huh. Looks to me like a souped-up personality test indicating 'decisiveness'. There's $1.2m that they coulda done for free. Although granted that decisive people themsleves would be less convinced by such a study unless it had big numbers and (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) I knew it!> Dave! (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) A long while back, I was driving home one night and I just happened to be behind a rig hauling propane. Well, the light goes red up ahead of the rig so he starts putting on his brakes. The trailer full of propane starts skewing sideways so he (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Natural gas storage is a pretty serious one. Back a while ago, the Navy wanted to station some nuclear vessels in Boston. People were all up in arms about the dangers. Someone pointed out that the natural gas facility in South Boston was an (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So now here we are a few days after the fact and a few things are becoming clearer (politically) To start (and I have no idea of this is going to be a one point rant or a many point rant so I'll start by saying 'to start', but there may be no (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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