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| | Monday Morning News Roundup
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| "Crackdown on 'fat cat' riches: Curbs loom on huge pay-offs for bosses who fail" (URL) scandal of the so-called rewards-for-failure culture, with huge pay-offs being made to bosses of ailing companies, is set to end. Amid mounting fury at the (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Monday Morning News Roundup
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| "U.S. Undermining Arms Control - Experts" (URL) says it would be advisable for U.S. military forces to forego their current search and permit an international team of arms inspectors to verify Iraq's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Such (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Should we be concerned?
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| (...) Hmmm, I find this a sticking point. I believe the right to travel by common conveyance is a right. If it were otherwise I'd be stuck at home unless I were willing to obtain whatever license is necessary to travel -- and then my right to travel (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Your Rights, Your Money...
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| "Your Rights: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em" (URL) if currently proposed legislation - PATRIOT Act II - passes, you may no longer even be a citizen. Under PATRIOT II, if you attend a legal protest sponsored by an organization the government has listed as (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, rights (score: 2.195) |
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| | Re: Newsbits
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| Being an avid X-Men reader for nearly twenty years now, I feel that I am at least somewhat qualified to speak on this. First off this guys assertion that this is an anti-Bush movie is stretching so much that even Mr. Fantastic would have trouble (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, rights (score: 2.194) |
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| all, rights (score: 2.194) |
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| all, rights (score: 2.194) |
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| | Re: Tax relief?
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| (...) I am not sure that they are at all related, but I'd rather pursue programs and measures that might actually increase security instead of merely depriving citizens of their constitutional rights or engaging in a frivolous war. "Thousands of (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, rights (score: 2.193) |
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| all, rights (score: 2.192) |
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| | Re: Possession
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| "richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:HGrsA7.BA2@lugnet.com... (...) animated (...) own it (...) friend (...) seeing as (...) the (...) A fascinating case. Personally, I say you own it since you payed money for it, but I (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, property (score: 2.191) |
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| | The Hidden Costs (was Re: It's All About Control)
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| (...) Wal-Mart Wars (URL) WOULD YOU LIKE a Wal-Mart "supercenter" store to move into your community? Think of the low prices and the convenience of one-stop shopping! You just park once and get whatever you need -- groceries, drugs, plants, toys, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| all, property (score: 2.191) |
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| | Re: Should we be concerned?
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| (...) Article 9 and 10 of the Bill of Rights. Would they license a horse? Don't they license motorcycles and bikes? Aren't the roads called "rights of way." We all have the right to travel -- this was recognized as early as Magna Carta in the common (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| all, rights (score: 2.190) |
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| | Newsbits
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| "US Compromises at UN but Keeps Control of Iraq Oil" (URL) United States is asking the Security Council to authorize it to do a series of things that would otherwise violate international law under the guise of ending sanctions," said Morton (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, rights (score: 2.190) |
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| | Re: Speaks for itself...
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| I wasn't really holding the guy up for sainthood, mind you -- there not being too many politicians on the side of the angels. I agree with your assessment of politics as usual. If Byrd is making a bid for a soundbite, at least I am not disagreeing (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, rights (score: 2.190) |
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| | Compare & Contrast
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| You decide whom to trust on the "war on terror". Bush today: "This is a time for all of us to unite in the defence of liberty, and to step up to the shared duties of free nations." Amnesty International this week: "In the name of security, politics (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| all, rights (score: 2.188) |
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| | Re: Should we be concerned?
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| (...) I need to remember to put my smily face when I am kidding. No I don't believe the sweeping generalization that all media is biased. My two favorite papers, the Orange county register and the San Bernadino Sun times are both right of center, (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Holding Hands with Satan
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| Global Exchange * CorpWatch * Public Citizen June 5, 2003 New Report Exposes Contractor Bechtel as Threat to Iraqi Environment, Human Rights and Basic Services U.S. Taxpayers Blindly Funding Post-War Corporate Profiteering and Cronyism, Public (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| all, rights (score: 2.186) |
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| | Re: Should we be concerned?
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| Man if I dont log on for just one day some of these posts just get buried by others. (...) I just had to address this statement. It actually reminded me of the way I felt about Clinton during his presidency. In 1992 when he was first elected I (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| all, rights (score: 2.186) |
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| | Re: Should we be concerned?
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| (...) "The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt. The consolidation of power that (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| all, rights (score: 2.186) |