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That's me.

When you stop to consider that most Americans can probably only name about half a dozen public figures, you realize how meaningless it is to say that 29% of them admire Bush.

Many have the times been that I was prepared to make a sarcastic remark about Muffy's spelling and then stopped myself. She does the best she can and my ridiculing her would only serve to piss her off. I can understand her most of the time, anyway.

Bronco, what is your point? Those guys are sort of like the poets of the math world. It takes all kinds.

We need to split this into two threads: the "Pogrom" thread, and the "Moon Landing Hoax" thread.

Who moi? My objection was not that the thread was trimmed, but that the cut material wasn't preserved elsewhere. I've already forgiven Alex after he explained how difficult it is to move posts when they branch off the original thread in so many places. I told him there ought to be a tool to convert those branches to a linear thread based on chronological order of post. There isn't any such tool that I am aware of. The reason I got pissed was I'd just written a rather long post to the Red Rocks thread and when I went to submit it, I got the message, "You cannot post to this forum", or some such. I thought I was banned at first. Well, it turns out that the thread was moved to the super secret moderators forum to which I obviously have no rights.

It's possible that a pair of skiers might also have become disoriented, but less likely. I subscribe to the adage that two heads are better than one. In this particular case, it was said that Mr. Witkowski had poor eyesight and this may have contributed to his disorientation. A partner with better eyesight might well have prevented that fateful wrong turn.

The thing about boats is that whatever boat you have, there's always a bigger, better one you wish you had.

What trask is saying is that he would be a much better person to whom to give $12 million dollars. He would be more likely to spend it wisely.

That's even worse than what the Taliban did to the giant Buddha statues.

Do you mean this face on Mars?

"On the moon, there is only one light source, the sun. This is a shot of Buzz Aldrin and Neal Armstrong planting the US flag on the moon. If the sun is the only light source used by NASA on the moon, Aldrins shadow A shadows should not be so much longer than Armstrong's " If Aldrin is standing on a hummock above Armstrong, and his shadow is cast upon a down slope, it will longer than Armstrong's, especially if the latter's shadow is cast upon an up slope. "If you will look at area B you will notice a shadow cast across Buzz Aldrin's space suit. Once again, if the Sun is the only light source used on the moon, this shadow would have been MUCH darker." It's called "flash photography". They had a remote flash positioned behind and to the right. So what? "In this picture, taken from the LEM, you can see at least two abnormalities. In section E you see an abnormal shadow on the moon's surface. NASA claims that this shadow is the shadow cast by the Lunar Module, but on earth, even when aircraft is flying low to the ground, it does not produce such a clearly defined shadow." The picture was not taken on Earth. It was taken on the Moon where there is no atmoshphere. Hello! "OK, here's the kicker... if you will look at section 3 you will notice there are no stars in the sky. In fact, you will never see any stars in any NASA Moon photographs, or hear an astronaut mention anything about the glorious stars that are visible when out of the earths atmosphere". Go take a flash picture outside at night and tell me if you see stars in the photograph. The light in the foreground is so much brighter, it swamps out the starts. I won't go on. His arguments are all half-baked.

You'll have to ask Thinker about that. He was the one who mentioned it.

I belong to a faith which has but one adherent.

The Intelligence Authorization Act will make a great political tool. The FBI and Bush will be better able to blackmail opponents into submission. They'll be able to find out which democratic congressmen are keeping mistresses and then they'll be able to manipulate them with the implicit threat of exposure. None of us will ever know what's going on.

Well put, Kurt.

I believe that great care should be taken when trimming posts. Offending material should be moved to Spray unless it violates the rules, that is, obscene or violent. I don't think it should be deleted just because it is off topic.

Push a button and get back to Spray.

Yeah, Dru, I mean ChickenShiite911, you are probably right. Still, mad cows will fly before I vote for Bush.

That is because "militant atheist" is not a religion. The closest you'll get is Unitarian Universalist, I believe.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (95%) 3. Liberal Quakers (89%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (87%) 5. Neo-Pagan (74%) 6. Nontheist (69%) 7. Bahá'í Faith (67%) 8. Theravada Buddhism (67%) 9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (61%) 10. Reform Judaism (54%)

Check out the China Forum. The Tiwanese and the Mainlanders have a go at each other. The most striking thing is that their English is much better than ours! I wonder if Harry Pi is registered there?

You must be referring to Capricorn One starring O.J. Simpson.

Pravda may be a Russian forum, but it seems to be dominated by a couple of Middle Easterners.

Here's a good one. The US sunk the Kursk.