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CEOs Profit from Layoffs, Pension Shortfalls, and Tax Dodges (PRESS RELEASE FROM UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY & INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES) (URL) Congress fueled runaway CEO pay and helped U.S. companies avoid paying their fair share of taxes by (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Moore foolishness than ever
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(...) Jesus did not tell you to respect to authority, he said, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and render unto to God that which is God's." (quoting from memory here) In my opinion, and probably a lot of readers' opinions, that's a very (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Moore foolishness than ever
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(...) As a Christian, I'm 'outraged' about this situation. I mean, in the Bible it tells us to 'respect' the authority of the land. So not only is what Roy doing 'unconstitutional', but is going contrary to sound Biblical teachings. I'm not a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I've resisted introducing this topic because we've been over it before, and the main issue is, to me, entirely resolved and crystal clear. But (URL) Roy Moore> still keeps going on about his unconstitutional monument to his hubris. So what's the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: It must be just me...
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(...) ... by another "maniac" who is developing 1st strike nukes. ;) That's the true irony. Scott A (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I love irony... Like Dubya and co. trying to pin 9/11 on SH when it was AQ and OBL, and then trying to pin the bombing of the UN in Iraq on AQ and OBL when it'll probably be found that the cohorts of SH did it--sure, I'll even give the 'they (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The hyprocrisy runneth over... Why worry about a merely incipient program in another country, when we could just start by disarming ourselves? "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Point taken. But don't confuse stated purposes with actual purposes! (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I still can't get over the sheer irony of how often people use the Nuclear Disarmament symbol to protest sending troops with the stated purpose of preventing some maniac from being able to develop a nuclear arsenal... (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I'll be wearing some of these from now on: (5 URLs) You might want to visit: (3 URLs) -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Or are the conservatives of America all doing their best to raise a stink about anythinkg to deflect attention from the man in charge. Between the California recall (and the resultant circus thereof) to the 10 commandments in a courthouse, and then (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: You don't like what I like - you are a.....
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(...) <snip> (...) I think I missed the smiley--it was like, "Oh I'm calling people who call people "idiots", idiots", not realizing that, in that process, therefore I'm an idiot--see, funny, eh? Well, maybe not so much now... ;) Dave K (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I can't argue with that. I really should have very carefully qualified that first statement and probably omitted the word idiot (yeah, probably). Far from being an idiot, Terry often has off-topic.debate opinions and ideas that I respect and (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron wrote: <snip> (...) I like it! If it's just not that big a deal, why get chagrin about it? Or, as we found out in a WKRP ep. when Les said, "I couldn't care less about your stupid award!" Well, if one could (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I call it the 'movie critic' or 'Bay Area Radio Talk Show Host' syndrome, a malady suffered generally by bright and witty people who cannot resist short quips and zingers, even though the resulting posts are less than tactful. The small (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Papenfuss wrote: <snip> (...) Where did I hear this--if everyone sang the same tune, did the same thing, etc, it would be monotony. When people do their own thing, and we all do different things, it can be cacaphony, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I just wanted to throw this out here to see what people think about this... When somebody does not like something that I may care for I really have no problem with that. I know this world is made up of many types of people with many types of likes (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Spinnage from Dubya
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(...) You're probably right, he's probably a shoo-in and he's pretty LCD all right, but every time I think I've seen the worst politician yet, politicians prove me wrong. Sigh. (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's probably a combination of things. They have converters for that medival metric electricity, but it's the convertion factor we forget about. If you check it today, 50 up and running servers is equal to 1.65 digital answering machines. Try (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Spinnage from Dubya
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Yeah, I didn't put it in... but we all know it to be true so it's redundant... DU... what a great site! Again I ask, is there a conservative couterpoint to this site? Just wondering... From (URL) most important thing is for us to find Osama bin (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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