> 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 aboutGlobalWarming; 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 ofGlobalWarming.  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
>>>>>>>>> underlyingGlobalWarming.  Get the picture?

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>>>>>>>> LOL, that's your argument againstglobalwarming?  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 ofGlobalWarming.  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 "GlobalWarmingDefence" 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
>>>>> ofGlobalWarmingon 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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> For all we know, they did!
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> Only in Canada?
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> Pity.