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(...) Besides, (...) I'm not splitting hairs. Words mean things, and I choose mine carefully. Most of the time - don't talk to my wife though. It is not a lack of candor, it has to do with being misrepresented and having words put in my mouth. I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) on (...) your (...) She said that they shouldn't be and your argued otherwise. You are just splitting hairs. This lack of candor is getting tiresome. (...) been (...) as (...) Shroud your argument how you will, you still want to supplant (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My apologies--I wasn't attacking your taste, just expressing (a little sharply) my own. Perhaps the fact that the song was played 40 or 50 times an hour during its peak has soured me on it... (...) 'Nuff said! Dave! (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) actually (...) Prison society is more complex than you could ever imagine. If there's something to be known they can find it out - even about the officers. Usually, an inmate will be involved with some office staffer who tells the inmate, who (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I did go back and I never used the word schools. (URL) responded to Patricia Schempp who mentioned schools. I have concictently been talking only about the concept of merely posting them, not legislating the posting of them. And I never said (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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James, (...) I heard that the molesters come in and brag about it, for the most part. Not definite, but usually indicative of the group. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's interesting that the biggest union in the country is the Union of Federal Workers. It gives a good hint of why government never gets smaller. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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James, (...) Oh, I know it is the parents whose ultimate responsibility to teach the children, but I would rather have the NRA teach about guns to my children then any government agency. (...) Indeed. Schools should not be allowed to teach that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I guess I was out smelling the roses when the ground was plowed. :-) (...) Ouch! With that one sentence you hit a nerve. You have a point that I'll have to ponder some more. If I can come to a conclusion anytime soon, I'll get back to you. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) killed (...) Talk (...) for (...) inmates (...) I saw one guy burned alive. Some guy had smuggled a cup full of gasoline from his work assignment and poured it on another guy and lit him up. Brutal! Bill (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes: As one who has worked for the State of Florida DOC, the inmates (...) I've heard that child molestors get the works in prison, but I've always wondered how the general prison pop. knows what anyone in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes: : (...) Go back earlier in this string. You specifically said schools. As to the rest, splitting hairs, or do you deny that the 10 commanmants are part of your religion? (...) see (...) Why bother (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well plowed ground alert. (...) You do. Or you should. It's not my problem if you didn't manage your affairs correctly. Maybe I'll decide to help, but it should be my decision. Medical care is a good, that is, a form of property. There are no rights (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Bill, (...) Wow, that is interesting. From what I heard, most prisoners give any child molesters murderers very bad treatment, that is even too bad for criminals. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But this is not a socialist country. It's not right for the gov't to take my money and force me to make charitable contributions as it sees fit. This is mandatory benevolence and as such ceases to be so. Beides, the gov't is so inefficient (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So who picks up the tab? Would I as an uninsured person who walked into an emergency room, get the treatment that I needed if it weren't subsidized? I doubt it. I would get the amount of care where the hospital knew it would be able to recoup (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's better when you're listening to it with small children. You just ignore the lyrics and dance around. Or is it the music you don't like? Whatever. I never *claimed* that my taste in music was well-aligned with anyone else. (...) They never (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I mostly agree with you. A dominant political philosophy of the last 8 years has been that government can & should solve all social problems. There is an inordinate amount of faith in the power of legislation, and a belief that the ends (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right, but I just meant that people will be treated when needed. Besides, federal medical care makes HMO's look divine. Bill (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) a (...) I agree, but to nitpick, that service isn't done out of the goodness of the hospital's collective heart; it's subsidized. Dave! (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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