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Pro-Life: a Chink in Our Armor

2009-11-08T08:31:02Z

The House of Representatives has just passed a "health care reform"
bill. As I read the news story that describes the drama that led to
the narrow vote, I was horrified that it was support of a bad position
that enabled the democrats to get enough votes. The opposition to
government health care was compromised away in the name of upholding

Re: National Crisis in British Health Care

2009-11-08T08:05:40Z

Don't let the fact that there are degrees of toxicity with poison, obscure
the fact that it is poison nonetheless.
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2009-11-08T08:04:39Z

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Re: Do computers need feelings?

2009-11-08T04:52:48Z

I've not seen that conclusion drawn. I have seen the conclusion
that they cannot. Our intelligence apparently includes emotion
at a very core level.

Re: National Crisis in British Health Care

2009-11-08T04:35:41Z

acar <acarm...@mail.com> wrote in news:78aee8dc-8d00-4ac8-b22f-
5cde9a0bc...@v25g2000yqk.googl egroups.com:
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Statism is not at the extreme left, anarchy and not the state lies at the
extremes. In between the extremes are degrees of state control, this
translates to lack of freedom. The welfare state is a socialist form of

Re: National Crisis in British Health Care

2009-11-08T03:58:14Z

On Nov 7, 2:25 pm, Sergeant Malenoid
What do you mean by welfare statism? Is statism consistent with the
freedoms that we enjoy in the U.S.? Are you confusing the proper
functions of a government with statism?
What I call statism is the extreme left. Are you confusing the center
with the extreme left?

Re: National Crisis in British Health Care

2009-11-07T19:25:49Z

acar <acarm...@mail.com> wrote in news:3ec7939a-121c-4b9d-9eaa-b 8d969f16901
@g23g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:
I´m not a laissez-faire-ist, that is the same as anarcho-capitalism and
more or less just Marxism´s anti-pole.
I think you meant to say "one" function of government. And really, I don't
see citizens taking care of capitalism-generated problems (such as

Re: Who is John Galt?

2009-11-07T12:51:47Z

On Nov 6, 12:30 am, Sergeant Malenoid
. . . can't be bothered to apologize for her vicious maligning of
Sarah Palin, so she ascribes the current "historic" failure of
governance she helped bring about to a failure of the American people
to ignore her and other "intellectuals" like David Brooks.
x.
xx.

Maricruz Onorato

2009-11-07T12:49:07Z

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Re: Republicans against competition and free choice

2009-11-07T12:01:48Z

I think it is *at least* possible under a GOP Congress in 2011 to
return to an expanding economy, low unemployment, low inflation, and
succeeding in face of our overseas enemies provided the proportion of
RINO's in the GOP is lowered, fundamentally changing the GOP away from
Lincoln-Grant-Harrison Northern crony-capitalist Party, Obama is

Re: Do computers need feelings?

2009-11-07T05:05:25Z

It makes perfect sense. How does one make a decision without some
motivating factor? Where does that initial push or purpose come from
other than what we broadly term "feelings"? Reason is the mechanism
humans use to fulfill our purposes. Where do purposes like the urge to
live come from?
There is of course constant feedback via reason also. I might desire

Re: A step from despair

2009-11-07T04:34:35Z

Neat trick. Do tell.
jk

Re: Do computers need feelings?

2009-11-07T01:59:34Z

Les Cargill <lcargil...@comcast.net> wrote in
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Or they just don´t want to.

Re: Obama and marijuana

2009-11-07T01:41:15Z

heh
I was musing... arguing both sides - you
eavesdropped and got confused - none but
yourself to blame-
I oppose the War on Politically Unprotected Drugs,
as does any intelligent person. Let them smoke
pot, as Marie Antoinette might say -
However, the ban on mary jane is the law;
since when can the executive choose

Re: Do computers need feelings?

2009-11-07T01:40:18Z

<snip>
Prior to Moore's Law, this is exactly how it was. And a computer
is nothing but a large collection of distinct controllers and
devices - they've just been made ruthlessly cheap.
Your basic premise... "feelings" figure prominently in human
decision making. People who have had strokes which disable the