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| (...) I'll try to make this as simple as possible, without getting into a totally complex discussion-- If people don't have guns, people can't get shot by guns. That's as simple as it gets. Knives, hatchets, pipes, hands, and the rest all have (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) gun (...) gun (...) always (...) Except that right now it would be easier for me to purchase an AK-47 through illegal channels than it would be for me to purchase a 6-shooter through legal channels. (...) I will definately agree that if your (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I try...:-) (...) Yes. Reminds me of the People's Choice Awards. I am suspicious of those as well-- I am a believer in relying on the marketplace to define the success of many things. After all, a platinum record sold 1,000,000 (or whatever (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) "Oh well"... "A shame"... ??? Is that the best you can do, Dave? One could argue that this interview(1) was "aiding and comforting the enemy", assuming Saddam's our enemy specifically(2). This interview(1) is a perfect example of what's wrong (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes: <snip> (...) In answer to a few other points made... (URL) out the 'toon at the bottom of this page... It has been said that I'm morally 'wishy washy'. I think that, given a cut 'n dry scenario, I am (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm sorry--I'm working up from the bottom of two Tylennol Cold capsules, so fingers well very working my aren't. Yes indeed, Rather should be ridiculed/blasted/condemned for this sweeps stunt. My poorly prefaced statement should have begin (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Oh I'd love to have a black/white, right/wrong stance as clear and simplistic as the one you're proposing, Larry. But the world's a complex place, which needs complex problem solving--there is nothing cut 'n dry in life. So when I say that I (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Snippety Snip... (...) followed by... (...) What was your stance on guns again??? I think I missed something. You're ready to go vigilante on a serial killer but not support ousting someone (1) who killed hundreds of thousands (or, if you go by the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) and (...) Granted, the NRO makes no overtures of impartiality, but I don't recall anyone "rallying around" Rather prior to or following the idiotic interview. Bill Maher decried it last night on Larry King Live, and I know of at least several (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, let's back up a moment. I am suspicious of anything such as a "book of the year" award, *especially* if it is open to a public vote. What the public likes is often quite silly and rarely serious. I would hope that a winner of such an (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) With due respect, John, what book would you call "worthy" of the award? Have you read either of Moore's books, or have you only read what other conservatives have said about them? I've previously noted Moore's really unfortunate tendencies to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, that was a pretty good answer. So your complaint is a comment on the award process itself, rather than on which book received the award? I can accept that. (...) Maybe, but it's also useful to Know Thine Enemy! (...) Let's leave Franken (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Grumble. Well, your assessment is correct (based on precedent), but I still don't like it! Here's a more abstract question--if I buy a LEGO product, am I automatically entering into a "fair use" contract respecting TLG's ideas of propriety? (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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