From: The Moonshadow Area: Night Side To: Steven Craig 18 Nov 93 21:15:48 Subject: Annie Greensprings UpdReq |SC} I've had the same reaction to Tequila; I used to drink it straight | |SC}without problems, until I drank about half a liter of it one night. I | |SC}didn't get sick, but oi vey what a hangover! :-) | good grief. didja eat the worm too? |SC} Now it's goat's blood and seltzer water all the way, thank you very | |SC}much! (g) | yum! i'll have a double, please, with a lemon wedge. ___ MegaMail 2.10 #0 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Jonathon Blake Area: Night Side To: Rose Dawn 16 Nov 93 01:53:10 Subject: Cultcha UpdReq quoting ROSE DAWN To: JONATHON BLAKE ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ RD}>middle class white grrlz criticize a tradition that has to RD}>do with 'women of color'? type thing. Easy position to having lived enough around those who felt guilty simply because they were white, i have little sympathy for any advocate of a position, which won't actually partake of what they are advocating. xan jonathon * OLX 2.1 TD * Is there a Lawyer in the House? *BLAM!* Any more? 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Jonathon Blake Area: Night Side To: Christeos Pir 17 Nov 93 15:18:12 Subject: Cultcha UpdReq quoting CHRISTEOS PIR To: ROSE DAWN ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ CP}> Lorena Bobbitt and "female circumcision", which I regard as an CP}> women in Islamic countries in Africa. It's my opinion that John Q. CP}> Public, and probably Jane, too (we won't get into the area of the actually, in Canada, it is now illegal to perform that operation on a minor. << Is considered to be child abuse. >> There was a major outcry, when the RCMP actually did prosecute somebody for that. Don't remember the outcome, but was wondering how it would play down here. CP}> reminds them of the days of the Mandarins. You don't see anyone wearing CP}> a queue (sp), do you? actually, i have seen a few people around here wearing a queue. << yes, you did get the right spelling. >> Somehow, i doubt that they are first or second or even third generation chinese. xan jonathon * OLX 2.1 TD * Point taken, although I thought I made it pretty clear in 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Jonathon Blake Area: Night Side To: Rose Dawn 17 Nov 93 15:21:36 Subject: Rico UpdReq quoting ROSE DAWN To: KAYLA BLOCK ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ RD}>I think a lot of the "power of RICO" comes from people who cave at the RD}>"threat of RICO." IOW, how many people would actually be you just made one false assumption. Under RICO, you are guilty untill, and unless you can prove yourself innocent. << it is one of the four --- currently --- bits of american law, which gives you, the innocent victim, no rights at all. RD}>condemn 'totalitarian government actions' in *other* RD}>countries are pretty pleased to see the constitution RD}>blithely ignored and superceded right here, right now, as you have to realise that since the vast majority of the people living in this country haven't lived under a totalitarian regime, they don't realize that virtually all the legislation passed in this country, is subtly influencing this country to become a totalitarian state, both de jure, and de facto.. << As things stands, this country is on the brink of becoming a dictatorship, de facto. Given a few presidents who have the willingness to staned up for what they gbeleive in, and use the laws currently on the books, this country could very easilly slide into a totalitarian, repressive regime, that makes The People's Republic of China, during the days of the "Cultural Revolution" look like a sunday school picnic. >> xan jonathon RD}>long as the citizens being abused are not nice, comfy RD}>white-collar types. Yikes, I feel my latent activist RD}>tendencies awakening...be very afraid! ;> RD}>--- TBBS v2.1/NM RD}> * Origin: Modem Magick /Multi-line/ (619) 447-5010 (1:202/311) * OLX 2.1 TD * Do you understand? Keep it in mind in future posts. 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Jonathon Blake Area: Night Side To: Kayla Block 17 Nov 93 15:23:38 Subject: Rico UpdReq quoting KAYLA BLOCK To: ROSE DAWN ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ KB}>whether the bill of rights should be upheld, when they're KB}>not told that the question pertains to the bill of rights, reread Jack parson's _Freedom is a Two Edged Sword._ I was struck by its approach, and it took me days to realise that Jack was not describing 1990 PC speech, but 1940's thought patterns. Given half a chance, most people in this country would vote for a dictatorship, over a democracy, and would vote for the state, over the individual, and would prefer to see no civil rights for anybody. but them most people in this country are slaves, and feel that slavery is the greatest institution ever created. xan jonathon * OLX 2.1 TD * I thought so :) 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Kayla Block Area: Night Side To: Jonathon Blake 19 Nov 93 01:02:18 Subject: Rico UpdReq 93 jonathon, JB> was struck by its approach, and it took me days to realise JB> that Jack was not describing 1990 PC speech, but 1940's JB> thought patterns. i think that much of what is in 'freedom is a 2-edged sword' is absolutely brilliant. much of it seems to me, to be describing what thelema is all about. (i loved that book---though parts of it left me scratching my head, and saying 'huh'!) 93, --kayla 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Grendel Grettisson Area: Night Side To: NaChaSh 18 Nov 93 15:38:00 Subject: Night Side Echo UpdReq > Greetings and welcome to the Night Side echo. I would like to thank > everyone who has supported this echo with your messages throughout the > past few years! And thanks one and all for making this echo a great > unmoderatorless place. > Nachash > UnModerator After being gone for more than a year, how exactly can you show up here and claim to be the moderator? We've been doing quite fine without one. -= Grendel Grettisson =- 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718