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(...) Well now don't be silly. If drugs were legal we wouldn't have near as much crime to blame other things on. -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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I am SO hogging the newsgroup, Babies! Anyway, I thought these articles might interest y'all: Bad grades for a voting-machine exam (URL) (if you arrive at a page that makes it look like you have to pay for the content, look for the links towards the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Personally I don't understand why they want to keep her body alive when all of the doctors agree she is brain dead. What good is the empty shell? (...) The interesting part is I was thinking this might actually happen eariler today. (...) Well (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's true, and more than once I went to great lengths to make the point crystal clear too, with lots of historical references: (URL) 2nd Amendment -- Bare Bones> And gee, that cite is not even that old...last year. I find it annoying when a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Rhetorically, you've come to the right place. You also slam-dunked it each time. I have nothing to add. Tragic story from every angle. -- Hop-Frog (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Why should the horrors of real war be off-topic for off-topic? I couldn't willingly look extensively at that material right now, but a brief look at the front page told me enough. OBL? At large. People beyond the very small group in the U.S. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) How did I know there would be a site about this? (URL) He's been convicted of selling smoking accessories online or something like that. Considering what I see for sale in Berkeley every time I'm there I was kind of astonished at his (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I'd have to say the recent (last 50-75 years) histories of many South American countries is also proof that not having guns makes a country ripe for a dictatorship. So yeah, if that's not proof I don't know what is... I think Kooties (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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So here's an interesting thought exercise related to this... Let's say the husband gets sick of this and brings a gun to the hospital to try and shoot his wife, but gets stopped by a nurse. So then, the state of Florida decides that that sounds like (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) case is pretty disturbing. It seems that folks want to go to no end of efforts to keep people alive. Are we headed for a future where we can't have our LEGO because someone feels that the energy that is spent to develop, purchase, and play (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, as Hop-Frog has pointed out numerous times, our founding fathers stated quite clearly when asked that a militia was anyone that is not a government offical. (...) Perhaps that is the modern day definition, but what does that have to do (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Perhaps the smoke you smell is the char of civilian Iraqi flesh. Take a look at these (URL) horrifying images> to see the real payoff of the oil war that Dubya has pushed so enthusiastically. Do not click this link if you are upset by graphic (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You didn't say anything new in there at all, Mike. Lets have a looksee-- " Are you joking? “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” What (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Uh... The Simpsons. Homer: "Hey Apu, you wanna join our Civil War re-enactment, we need plenty of Indians to shoot." Apu: "Mr. Simpson, I don't know which part of that sentance to correct first." Smallville is probably the best live action (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Crappy parents raise stupid kids. (...) Well throughout history we have yet to see a country prove otherwise. Oh wait, that's not proof?! (...) You know you still have not replied to (URL) this> -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'll give you my list so you don't feel so bad. In addition to Survivor (which I only followed religiously the first time but it is on in our house so I tune in and out) the only shows I have actually sat through so far this season are two (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) My favotites are "The Fairly OddParents" and "Futurama". And that's the heavy intellectual stuff! I go rapidly downhill from there: Smallville, Jake 2.0, and the lowest of the low, Survivor (you had to be a Diplomacy player to get off on all (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Love '70's Show! The looks that Red gives... He's so much like my dad when i was growing up. Isn't Tommy Chong Canadian? ;) Those pot smoking socialist people! I put that modifier in there because I've been in a few discussions, not (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The cohesion is there. I think you're just blinded to it. It's an inherent factor in your culture--it's something I noticed when I was in Chicago last week. In one breath a guy I was in a meeting with spoke of 'socialism' as if it was dung on (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Kooties: Hey, there's nothing wrong with television viewing -- just as long as it's not your whole life and primary source of information. Fair enough? Personally, I watch "That 70's Show," "Everwood," and "The Practice" with shocking regularity. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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