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(...) Yeah, if it isn't football or some part of the local government badmouthing or suing another part, we pretty much don't hear about it. I didn't hear about this either. I don't listen to NPR, though. Can you get the over the net? -- The parts (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) into (...) read (...) kids! Spoken like a true conservative! Bash those liberals! Hey, just think, as long as those "left-wing tree-hugging environmentalist wackos" wear their free rubbers and don't use dirty needles everything will be all (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John Neal wrote in message (...) <snip> (...) without (...) because (...) one can (...) David, I think you are using definition #1, while we are using definition #2... 1 : a natural or inherent aptitude, impulse, or capacity <had an instinct for the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher Weeks wrote in message <37DD1065.31A4EEC8@e...se.net>... (...) in (...) I covered this a little in my other post. I like cats, and I like the Eliot poem that ends like this: pondering the thought of thought of thought of his name... his (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) crime (...) close. (...) I -did- hear this one on the news.. It was on National Public Radio News the other morning. It likely didn't make your local news, though. It didn't make ours either, but then, if it did, they would have to cut some of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I must imagine so. I just wanted to make certain that killing a person is totally different when you are a soldier, and that they have training for that. I have the highest regards for the armed services, I am glad they are there! Murder is (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Do you think that it is unworkable because of a problem with the auction mechanics, or because too many people believe too strongly in Capitalism? (...) I agree. Equal rights implies that at some level we are equal, that we deserve the same (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Two relatively weak reasons... - economies of scale in media buys reduces ad cost which is a producer cost - increased volume of the underlying product reduces cost per unit produced, typically and one that's not usually in play - shifting (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh, that's a helluva understatement. Rather than say the military trains soldiers not to feel "bad" about killing the enemy (they're not people), I'd say we were trained to enjoy, even long for doing it. Luckily, a lot of that brainwashing (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hrmmm.... I'm a soldier (was, anyway) and I don't think of myself as being able to kill without thought. Kill without hesitation, if the situation requires it, but certainly not without thought. Killing's a horrible thing, no matter how much a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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