From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #701 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 5 2008 Volume 16 : Number 701 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: potential "feg" spotting? [Steve Schiavo ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #700 [James Dignan ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? [James Dignan ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? [Rex ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: potential "feg" spotting? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: potential "feg" spotting? [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:22:09 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Been watching the RNC the past few days and all I can think is, Do > they allow people of color into the convention? I mean, other than > than the house band? Convention delegates are self-selecting. The RNC bunch are wetting themselves for Palin, so that should be an indication. Minority delegates are way off from 2004, Barack has drawn a good many of them his way. As a good many bloggers have pointed out, Palin = Tracy Flick. _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:39:48 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> Been watching the RNC the past few days and all I can think is, Do >> they allow people of color into the convention? I mean, other >> than than the house band? > > Convention delegates are self-selecting. The RNC bunch are wetting > themselves for Palin, so that should be an indication. Minority > delegates are way off from 2004, Barack has drawn a good many of > them his way. > > As a good many bloggers have pointed out, Palin = Tracy Flick. > All the radio and blogs I subscribe to say she will not make the final selection. Give her 2 weeks, 3 at the most, and she'll be stepping down from the ticket... Not sure what to make of it but the evidence of her abuse of power, tax evasion and flip-flopping is pretty strong... - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:51:24 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? Tom Clark wrote: > > Been watching the RNC the past few days and all I can think is, Do they > allow people of color into the convention? I mean, other than than the > house band? I actually took great heart from watching RNC coverage, for it proves that - somewhere in the world - there are worse dancers than me. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:44:58 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:39 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: >> >> As a good many bloggers have pointed out, Palin = Tracy Flick. >> I can just see her responding to Biden at the debate, "Who put you up to this?!?" > > All the radio and blogs I subscribe to say she will not make the > final selection. Give her 2 weeks, 3 at the most, and she'll be > stepping down from the ticket... As someone else pointed out, the chances of her pulling out are slim because evidence has shown that the Palins don't know much about withdrawing. OH! Tip your waitress, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:29:48 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #700 >James wrote: > >a few more to ponder: > >A song for Jeffrey - Jethro Tull > >Good one. I used to think that Tull's first album "This Was" wasn't as >good as the subsequent albums "Stand Up" or "Benefit". I don't think >that anymore, as I like the jazz and blues overtones that guitarist Mick >Abrahams brought to the band's first album. If you've warmed to Abrahams' sound, I'd suggest trying to track down "Ahead rings out" by Blodwyn Pig, the band he formed after leaving Tull. Most of their stuff is so-so, to saythe least, but ARO is quite fun. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:06:18 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? > > My wife is convinced that if McCain loses the election Cheney and/or his > > surrogate will find and/or manufacture a pretext to declare martial law and > > suspend the Constitution. I keep blithely assuring her that that couldn't > > happen. At least one of us has to be wrong. > > > >I'm not persuaded that that's likely. Any pretext would have to be pretty >enormous: 9/11, the Cuban Missile Crisis, WWII...none of them resulted in a >full-fledged declaration of martial law. Plus, the timing would be very, >very suspicious: obviously if it happened imeediately after the election, >that's way too suspicious...but nearly any action of a lame-duck >administration that would transparently extend its reign pretty >automatically fails the sniff test. Suspicious maybe, but the actuions of the desperate often don't take that sort of thing into consideration. I'd say it's enormously unlikely, but there was a time when I'd have said the same about little old constitutionally happy New Zealand - and it virtually happened in 1984 (see ). And politics in the US tends to be a lot murkier than it is here. On the subject of which, you're not the only country with an election looming. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:47:32 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:39 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: >> >>> >>> As a good many bloggers have pointed out, Palin = Tracy Flick. >>> >>> I'm just irritated because I'd previously had great affection for the names "Sara(h)" and "Palin". Please tell me nobody outside the RNC is buying this malarkey... please... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:02:27 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? i think people ARE buying this malarkey she's a horrible choice but she's a great speaker - very appealing about 25 % of the country still thinks Bush is doing a good job that's scary - but these people cannot be ignored their votes count too that's why dubbya's still in office my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 9/4/2008 8:57:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, spottedeagleray@gmail.com writes: Please tell me nobody outside the RNC is buying this malarkey... please... **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:12:30 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? James Dignan wrote: > > On the subject of which, you're not the only country with an election > looming. Yup, us too. One of the cornerstones of our guy's campaign was to fix election dates to every four years -- then when he only won a minority government he's gone all "vote early, vote often". Git. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:25:56 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:02 PM, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > but she's a great speaker - very appealing She's glib, and self-satisfied in the way that a lot of fundies are. Lincoln and King were great speakers. Palin not so much, except when judged by a much lower standard. But I admit that I don't have much use for oratory. - - Steve _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #701 ********************************