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(...) Have you forgotten what it was like down there;-) (...) Yes, but in your case, we'd make an exception;-D JOHN (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Your explanation of hot air movement and how it affects weather and climate matches my memory of the facts a lot better than the previous hot air explanation did. Thanks for posting that! (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Clearly it was for the...um... . . . Maybe we blackmailed them? ;P (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's a good question. The closest precedent I could think of is that if you weren't a natural born citizen, you could still be eligible by being a citizen of the US before the constitution was adopted, but I remember reading that that was (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Stepping off my 'trash Dubya' soap box... K, Canada is assimilated by the US-- Can I run for Prez? Is being 'born in the US' retroactive for Canadians if Canada becomes 51-64 states? Dave K (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Last I remember of Halley, Hadley and Coriolis that's not how it works, but it's been quite some time since I last looked at that kind of thing. The basic physics as I remember the model is that the heated air around the equator rises (the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Holy Cow! I'm in New Jersey...when did we get sold to Canada? And why would they want us? Chris (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I must admit I have never checked, so I can't even say "last I checked", but since Long Jumpers don't slaver at setting world records on a west facing runway let me be the first official doubter. Going east helps getting into orbit since that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That'd never happen. Conservative corporate interests wouldn't want to see it happen because it'd mean that all of those companies that have moved production plants down there would have to start paying US minimum wage (or worse, Union wage), (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Lincoln was in a very different situation than what we have now. There was a war being waged on US soil, but there probably wasn't much concern about terrorist attacks specifically aimed at disrupting the elections. The people being (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Evidentally not, since passengers on the ill-fated 9/11 flights were telling friends/family that the pilots had to lock their fellow-terrorists out of the cockpit to prevent them from retaking control of the planes to save their lives. You've (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Canada is going to have to take a number. I'd rather have (the rest of) Mexico first:-) JOHN (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Irish you hadn't setter straight; for puns, I grousely outnumber you Dave! JOHN (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Of course not. We'd annex you while noone was looking. And noone would pay any attention to your protests because everyone in the US is already too busy complaining about their own problems to pay attention to anyone else's complaints, and (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am with Lincoln on this matter (from the article): == Abraham Lincoln was urged by some aides to suspend the election of 1864 - during the US Civil War - but despite the expectation that he would lose, he refused. "The election is a (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) (Enters the public toilet) Within Australia: All mainland states & territories, lived in Tasmania, NSW and Victoria Countries: USA, Canada, Indonesia, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, UK (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland) USA: California, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I object to that on the grounds that while Bush was understandably interested in keeping the vote in his favor, Gore only presented an alternative that was decidedly biased in his favor (selectively recounting only known pro-Dem counties in a (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And I liked the quote from Ciro Rodriguez: "If they do this, boy, my God, they're extremely desperate". I'm wondering if strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing it up, or flying a plane into a building only requires you to be a little bit (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Two straight weeks in salt-water? That can't be good for your skin... ;P (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You have to know that if the US is embroiled in a bloody civil war, Canada will not be unaffected. Chris (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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