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openeyes · 12-17-2002, 12:55 PM

Good letter, Admiral!

Ab_Normal · 12-17-2002, 02:43 PM

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Originally posted by Toto:
<strong>That's the idea. Filling out the registration is free, but you give a certain amount of marketing information to the New York Times. You can sign up your cat, claim that he has an income of $5,000 a year and has 16 children, and the marketers will not bother you.</strong>

Shoot, I told the truth and the marketers don't bother me. Sometimes being lower lower lower lower middle class has it's advantages.

Splat · 12-17-2002, 05:49 PM

Excellent letter.

Don't worry about the NYT. I've been signed up since the first day they required registration. I've never gotten any junk email to the address I gave them.

scombrid · 12-18-2002, 06:12 AM

Out of the whole essay this jumped out at me the most:

Quote:

After the Columbine school shootings, Mr. DeLay suggested that the tragedy had occurred "because our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial mud."

I missed this when it was spoken and it angers me on many levels.

12-18-2002, 07:37 AM

I'm sure that DeLay and his ilk want children to be taught that they're nothing but filthy, worthless sinners who deserve eternal torture in the flames of Hell.

openeyes · 12-18-2002, 02:39 PM

One really wonders how we can move forward as a nation with people like DeLay, Lott, Nickles, and Ashcroft in power. Speaking of "mud", it seems to have infiltrated their brains. What do they do with all this science information concerning human/other species genetics and other advances? Just enjoy the benefits of science but ignore anything which doesn't jive with their unexamined belief systems? And furthermore, impose their ignorance on others? My kids are being raised without the god fairytale and they're doing just fine. How many kids get messed up because they are fed this illogical line of spiritual reasoning instead of getting better insights into action/consequence here on earth?

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12-17-2002, 12:55 PM	#11
openeyes Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Minnesota Posts: 4,215	Good letter, Admiral!

12-17-2002, 05:49 PM	#13
Splat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hell, PA Posts: 599	Excellent letter. Don't worry about the NYT. I've been signed up since the first day they required registration. I've never gotten any junk email to the address I gave them.

12-18-2002, 07:37 AM	#15
atheist_in_foxhole Guest Posts: n/a	I'm sure that DeLay and his ilk want children to be taught that they're nothing but filthy, worthless sinners who deserve eternal torture in the flames of Hell.

12-18-2002, 02:39 PM	#16
openeyes Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Minnesota Posts: 4,215	One really wonders how we can move forward as a nation with people like DeLay, Lott, Nickles, and Ashcroft in power. Speaking of "mud", it seems to have infiltrated their brains. What do they do with all this science information concerning human/other species genetics and other advances? Just enjoy the benefits of science but ignore anything which doesn't jive with their unexamined belief systems? And furthermore, impose their ignorance on others? My kids are being raised without the god fairytale and they're doing just fine. How many kids get messed up because they are fed this illogical line of spiritual reasoning instead of getting better insights into action/consequence here on earth?

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