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  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) As an outsider looking in, they read like they will make worse most of the things which I perceive as being problems in the US - Drugs, Gun Ownership and lack of what we in the UK call a welfare state. Further, has anyone asked him how such a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) <snip> (...) Well, swing thru Seattle on your way so I can at least meetcha before you leave. ;^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
You put too much importance on politics. I'm encouraged this morning because it looks like four more years of gridlock! The thing Ross Perot taught us was BAD! is the only outcome that can keep us at all safe from ravenous power-hungry politicians (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Treacleheads
 
(...) Parts one and three of this argument only hold true if you decide in advance that they're true. If, as a LEGO user, I identify a single brick as "a Lego," why is it grammatically incorrect to refer to several bricks as "Legos?" Forget about (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) Nah. We both know which is better, the one that NEVER sees snow... -Dave (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) Prolly. (...) I won't bother to respond to that. ;-} (...) Oui, Except I do like their salad dressing. Is this going to turn into a valley vs. the beach argument? ;-} Peace out. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) Yes, but as a candidate running for office, would you spend your war chest in Los Angeles or Des Moines? Chicago or Olympia? My point is that you'd spend your money where there is a greater concentration of people so as to reach a larger (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) Yes, in retrospect, it is a little simplistic. (...) No. Things would be too reactive - cute puppies would get all the $$$. Ugly issues like Aids Research etc would be moved town the agenda. (...) That is your perspective, others will differ. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Something not right about Captain Ahnee and the Dipwads?
 
(...) I think that is worthy of research. (...) Me too. :-) I'm the proud owner of most of Tarantino's works on laser disc. (...) When you first took in a "cinematic bloodbath" were you shocked, horrified, impressed, etc. more than you are now? As (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) Brocaw Brocaw. He's off by now. Hey der (practicing my Canadian), Not sure the smaller states would become irrelevant, they would still get added to the total popular vote. Or the Electoral college could change to an apportioned system like a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: From Harry Browne
 
Chris wrote:(with snippage) (...) how (...) You _are_ doing that (educating the illiterate). You are _paying_ to do it with your time at another job rather than doing it directly. Don't try to say you are _not_ doing it, because you are. It is just (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Reality == fiction?
 
(...) Actually, I do to. But that "re-phrasing" isn't what he implied before. He suggested that "these" (the concepts under discussion) were jr. high level ideas and that we ought to simply agree with his obvious conclusion. That is a horse of a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) suggests (...) I'd love to see this body of evidence. I would say that of the 2 countries which are freer with weapons (Swiss and Israel), that it is _training_ that makes the difference. It's not the body of people with guns, it is the fact (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) True. I don't dispute this. However a 1/30th of 1% lead is tenuous at best. (...) Perhaps, but that would take an amendment to the Constitution as a best-case scenario. Worst case being a re-write of the COnstitution which I don't believe is (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) I'm not fully prepared to defend this stance, since I'm not sure what he means either. However, it might be a reference to the body of evidence that suggests that _everywhere_ that guns become more accesible and free, the armed and violent (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: From Harry Browne
 
Oddly, I'm with both of you :-) (...) I don't think so. I think your life can be about many things, including both of those. They are in no way mutually exclusive. (...) Great! I, for one, am truely glad that you've hooked up with a system that (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  (canceled)
 
 
  Treacleheads (was Re: Sticking it to Todd (was Re: Clones Database))
 
(...) Warning: exactly the kind of post that should go to .o-t.vent follows. So I've o-t.d'ed, but since this <treacley juggernaut> of a thread is still in .au, I'm not holding back. And I should say that I'm more than a bit <treacley>'d off with a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) OK, I'll admit it - I may have jumped the gun in my sorrow :c) I remain *cautiously* optimistic, as I have heard they (the Democrats, and probably the Greens, too) have called for a recount. I guess this could take days, weeks, even *months* (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: It's All Over...
 
Timmy for President!!?? With the election this close a vote for Nader is a vote for Nader. Gore is winning the popular vote by 277,000 votes. Whoever wins Florida however, wins the Electoral vote and is thus the President no matter what the popular (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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