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Author: JordanJordan
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:46
zzpat wrote:
> Jordan wrote:
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>> Indeed. What makes it funny is that they are utterly incompetent on
>> the field of battle.
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>> - Jordan
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> Did I miss something here?
>
> Didn't Lebanon kick Israel's ass a few months ago?
No.
What happened is that terrorists successfully inflicted siginificant
casualties on the Israelis, and _we_ pressured the Israelis to stop
attacking.
> When one thinks how
> small armies are defeating technologically advanced armies in Iraq and
> Lebanon, one has to wonder why we spend so much and get so little.
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Author: johacjohac
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:39
> Athiest worship Satan.
Still can't spell 'atheist'?
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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Author: James A. DonaldJames A. Donald
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:37
"Mike Schilling"
> There was no such regulation. Ever.
federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was given power
over basketball by team owners in fear of prosecution,
and used that power to ensure that basketball was clean
- clean from blacks, among other things.
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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.
http://www.jim.com/ James A. Donald
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Author: Jim EJim E
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:28
> On 6 Dec 2006 09:08:59 -0800, last_post@ rogers.com wrote:
> >>The World According to Carter, the Worst President in US History
>
> LOUSY president ... but one of our better EX-presidents,
> tainted only by his overly 'liberal' perspective
Who just published an " I hate Israel" book.
The loon is a muzzie supporting anti Semite, and a threat to America.
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Author: Wayne ThroopWayne Throop
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:27
: James A. Donald echeque.com>
: He accepts it where it does not matter and has no
: significant or observable effects - which is not in fact
: accepting it.
No, he rejects it where it is not observed.
Wayne Throop throopw@sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
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Author: Mike SchillingMike Schilling
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:26
"James A. Donald" echeque.com> wrote in message
news:4q8vn2pov2no1b2mt4vb9jp36pr3uth1o0@4ax.com...> Stephen Graham
>>>> Landis was an employee of a private organization
>>>> and acted in a private capacity.
>
> James A. Donald:
>>> Landis was a federal judge employed in that
>>> nominally private capacity as part of a settlement
>>> of federal prosecutions.
>
> "Mike Schilling"
>> Nope, there were no federal charges of any sort.
>
> I know what the accusation was - that the owners were
> complicit in fixing the games.
Any cites for that? Nope, thought not.
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Author: James A. DonaldJames A. Donald
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:15
James A. Donald
>> At this very moment I am dealing with a law aimed at
>> preventing people from employing bulldozer
>> operators, myself being among those people. I have
>> so far paid out over ten thousand dollars to try to
>> get around this law, and expect to very shortly pay
>> a fair bit more.
"brique"
> And who is promoting this law and for what reason? On
> the face of it, your tale implies a campaign to
> abolish bull-dozers completely
Not completely, but by degrees, until only the specially
privileged can bulldoze stuff, the government, and those
with the right government connections. Much like guns.
The British, having been disarmed, are now starting to
feel a similar squeeze on motor cars.
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Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:14
"Adam Albright" ABC.net> wrote in message
news:pnrun2h5n7gqq7r8jbiac8p1dt8lpiju23@4ax.com...> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:59:23 GMT, "Morton Davis" go.com>
> wrote:
>>>>
>>> Adam Albright wrote:
>>>> Be HAPPY About this:
>>>
>>> Rahm Emanuel is going to resign for shopping the Foley emails around
>>> trying to create a scandal?
>>>
>>> You libbies are a laugh: you say you're all for gay rights, but if you
>>> can use someone's homosexuality against them, you gleefully whack away
>>> - but only if the guy you're trying to smear is a Republican. Barney
>>> Franks got a walk when it was found out he was letting his boy friend
>>> run a gay escort service out of his office, and since then your double ...
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Author: Mike SchillingMike Schilling
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:11
"James A. Donald" echeque.com> wrote in message
news:3a7vn25t45j8o62066rl7gc5s71tr07jjj@4ax.com...> "Stephen Graham"
>>> The color line was the action of a private
>>> organization for its own reasons and its own ends.
>>> The Federal government had nothing to do with it.
>
> "Mike Schilling"
>> Nor did Landis. The color line in baseball goes back
>> to 1868. Early on, there were some exceptions,
>
> If there were some exceptions, then no color line
Nonsense.
>
> In fact, the color line started in 1897, when the owners
> in the international league voted six to four to forbid
> the hiring of any new black players.
In 1868 the National Association of Base Ball Players decided to bar "any
club including one or more colored persons." That's before 1897.
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Author: James A. DonaldJames A. Donald
Date: Dec 12, 2006 23:07
James A. Donald:
>> The color line was the action of Kenesaw Mountain
>> Landis, and the owners gave federal judge Kenesaw
>> Mountain Landis despotic powers over themselves in
>> order to stay out of jail.
Stephen Graham
> a) he wasn't a federal judge at the time; b) they
> hired him, they could fire him;
They could also go to jail.
> c) what law in existence at the time would allow their
> conviction for segregation?
They could not be convicted for segregation, but if they
had fired Kenesaw Mountain Landis, they were likely to
be convicted for conspiracy to fix games.
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of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
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