> On Aug 8, 7:11 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 7, 7:00 pm, lefty_the_r...@yahoo.ca wrote:

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>>> On Aug 5, 8:09 pm, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>> On Aug 5, 6:53 pm, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>>> On Aug 5, 7:33 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>>> On Aug 5, 1:07 am, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>>>>> On Aug 4, 2:15 pm, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>>>>> On Aug 4, 3:55 pm, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>>>>>>> On Aug 4, 7:44 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>>>>>>> I was reading the Nebula Awards stories for 2008 recently and was
>>>>>>>>>> struck by two of them:  "Echo", apparently about Global Warming; and
>>>>>>>>>> "The Woman in Schrodinger's Equations."   They seem to be related,
>>>>>>>>>> somehow.  The first presents a woman living in the Canadian arctic in
>>>>>>>>>> the near future watching the earth grow much warmer, and all
>>>>>>>>>> civilization disappearing from the rest of the planet.  No explanation
>>>>>>>>>> given.  We're just expected to "know", that this is the inevitable
>>>>>>>>>> result of Global Warming.  Canadian wishful thinking, perhaps.  The
>>>>>>>>>> second describes the amorous adventures of a Ph.D. student in Physics,
>>>>>>>>>> and how there is very little difference between art, love, and
>>>>>>>>>> mathematical physics.  Presumably, then, there is very little
>>>>>>>>>> difference between science fiction, and the mathematical physics
>>>>>>>>>> underlying Global Warming.  Get the picture?

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>>>>>>>>> LOL, that's your argument against global warming?  That science
>>>>>>>>> fiction writers are writing about it?  Damn, you're pathetic.

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>>>>>>>> Slob!  I heard you'd been travelling Greyhound Canada lately.  Is that
>>>>>>>> true?

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>>>>>>> About as true as the rumour that you've stopped whining about getting
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>>>>>> Slob!  But, clearly, beheadings on Canadian buses are central to the
>>>>>> entire concept of Global Warming.  After all, what other explanation
>>>>>> could there possibly be?  Canadians are such "nice" people.  They
>>>>>> would never lie, attack, and socially isolate people so as to drive
>>>>>> them completely insane, would they?   So, obviously, when someone
>>>>>> beheads a total stranger for no reason on a Canadian Greyhound bus,
>>>>>> why the "Global Warming Defence" is the one that comes to mind.
>>>>>> Clearly, he'd never been exposed to hot weather before, and he was
>>>>>> just trying to bathe in his seatmate's blood, in order to cool down.
>>>>>> Indeed, he even offered this opportunity to his fellow passengers.  He
>>>>>> was, obviously, concerned about their welfare, in that wonderful
>>>>>> Canadian way, and wanted to give them the opportunity to cool down in
>>>>>> human blood as well.  Indeed, I'm sure dozens of Canadian scientific
>>>>>> expert witnesses could be called to testify on the traumatic effects
>>>>>> of Global Warming on the Canadian psyche.  All based on the soundest
>>>>>> application of the current scientific method.

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>>>>> So, you're practically jumping for joy over this poor sap's murder.
>>>>> Have you no shame?

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>>>>> I hate to burst your bubble, but how many Yanks got wasted in the same
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>>>> The critical point here, Slob, is that this guy was driven crackers by
>>>> your useless society.  He didn't commit a crime.  He was totally
>>>> crackers to an extent NO ONE in any other country is.  And people in
>>>> other countries know this.  That's why it attracted so much
>>>> attention.  In the U.S., people just shoot each other.  For a reason.
>>>> They don't behead total strangers in public places while people
>>>> passively look on.  That's a Canadian specialty.

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>>> You're an ignorant ape, Jerry. The US has more bizarre, motiveless
>>> murders than any country on earth. The US non-gun murder rate is 1.9
>>> per 100,000. Canada's is 1.4. The total homicide rate of the US is
>>> 5.7. Canada is at 2.1. .

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>>> You like stories about bizarre killings, huh? These should get your
>>> juices flowing.

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>>> "Teen guilty of 'thrill kill' murder, beheading

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>>> The jury finds Jean Pierre Orlewicz guilty on all three counts in the
>>> stabbing and beheading death of Daniel Sorenson."

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>>>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a8d_1208510040

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>>>  "An ex-Marine who beheaded a retired screenwriter before murdering
>>> his neighbor has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in
>>> Los Angeles.

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>>> Keven Graff, 31, avoided the death penalty for the gruesome double-
>>> murder in June 2004 after pleading guilty to two counts of murder."

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>>>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/04/05/2008-04-05_exmari...

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>>> "Deputies responding to a 911 call in this East Texas town found a
>>> gruesome scene: a human ear boiling in a pot on a stovetop and a hunk
>>> of flesh impaled on a fork sitting atop a plate on the kitchen table.

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>>> Authorities believe that the man arrested in the death of his 21-year-
>>> old girlfriend cooked parts of her body and may have tried to eat them
>>> — actions they said he described to them in the emergency call that
>>> led them to the grisly discovery."

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>> Well, I think the critical point here is that 37 people watched the
>> guy eat his seatmate, and he invited them to join him!

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> Uh huh.  Show me where he invited anyone to join in, liar.
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>  "That trucker ... he had a crowbar and we ran and got a hammer and
> stuff. Me and the other bus driver, there, tried to guard the door;
> put our bodies up against the door and, you know, waiting for him to
> come out and whatnot."
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> http://www.thestar.com/article/470913
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>> For all we know, they did!

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> You're one sick fuck.
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>> Only in Canada?

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>> Pity.

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> I'd pity you, if you weren't such an asshole.
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> It's pretty obvious to everyone by now that whoever was responsible
> for flunking you out of university did the right thing.  Obviously,
> whatever shit you pulled to get you through your undergraduate years
> didn't wash at a Canadian university, which is why they kicked your
> ass.  Rather than owning up to it like a man would do, you've instead
> chosen to blame others for your own fuckups, including the country
> where the academics were smart enough to figure out what you are.  To
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