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Hurricane Katrina in General
Demented Munster
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 written Saturday, September 3 2005 13:14 Profile #29
In regards to people not leaving during the mandatory evacuation: how did you expect everyone to leave? It hit at the very end of the month. The poorest people live from paycheck to paycheck, which typically comes at the beginning of the month. At the end of the month, many people are flat broke. This means no money for a bus ticket, for gas, or for any other way.

With regard to the leeves, they were only build with anti-erosion material on the lake side for cost reasons, so when the water spilled over, the leeves eroded from the other side until the anti-erosion material just toppled over.

Also, has anyone seen any overhead images of southern Louisiana after Katrina? Seems to me that area would have lost a lot of land, furthering the previous sinking problem already present.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Official Election Final Round Voting in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Wednesday, July 20 2005 16:44 Profile #118
I vote Stughalf.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Elections: The Registration Thread in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Monday, June 27 2005 13:51 Profile #131
It's not just people who registered "cryptically" that missed the second list. (I also made the first list.) "I will vote" is awfully similar to "I'm voting."

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Elections: The Registration Thread in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Sunday, June 26 2005 16:45 Profile #123
You are also missing me on that list.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
I want to frolic in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Saturday, June 25 2005 17:47 Profile #39
The Great Potato is Drakefyre, ben.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Harry Potter in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Monday, June 20 2005 07:38 Profile #41
quote:
Originally written by Multiple Monikers:

This allows less intelligent people to actually find the book interesting . . . It also has the side-effect of making people who are already somewhat intelligent able to finish the book in less than a week.[/QB]
Intelligence doesn't dictate reading speed or interest. Interest, however, does have a more relevant effect reading speed.

I'll probably be found at some bookstore at midnight with a group of friends, where several of us will dress up and most will buy the book. It appears the plan is then to proceed to someone's house and make a party of it. I'd buy it anyway sometime, but probably not at midnight with friends wearing who-knows-what--if not for rather obsessed friends.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Elections: The Registration Thread in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 17:01 Profile #50
I will vote.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Sexual Orientation in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Tuesday, March 22 2005 12:38 Profile #24
heterosexual/aye.

When it's truely used as an insult, yes. It has nothing to do with offending individuals. It's probably in your bests interests not to offend the folks around you, but that's up to you. It has to do with making the equation "homosexual=negative" widespread, common, accepted, etc. (There's a wide range that the "negative" in there means.) Especially without many people people being aware of this equation, even as they promote it and deny they promote it.

That being said there are many people who use slang for homosexuals (that are often insults) ironically, use a parody of it, or otherwise commicate it in a way that isn't this equation. That, I have no problem with.

[ Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:41: Message edited by: Demented Munster ]

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
New Abortion Laws in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Tuesday, March 22 2005 12:25 Profile #39
Ack. double post, sorry.

[ Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:26: Message edited by: Demented Munster ]

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
New Abortion Laws in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Tuesday, March 22 2005 12:24 Profile #38
I have several different points to add.

Responding and adding to Andrew Miller: I don't have a source for the number of abortions, but I do have them for STDs in the South, where abstinence education was taught long before the federal legislation and continues to be more likely to be taught. CDC Maps If you look at the maps by county of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea (in particular), the point is made clearly. NC, SC, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Louisianna all have county after county with high rates. It certainly show the effect of the type of sex ed (Abstinence vs. comprehensive). However, on the subject of abortion--everyone pro-life group I'm aware of (certainly the ones that get attention) also objects to comprehensive sex education.

On the subject of what Lord Baron von Toast said about offering free tubal ligations: here's a major intersection of issues of reproductive rights and race. I'm speaking of the United States, because that's what I know the most about. Tubal ligations were indeed given free to many women until around 1975--without consent, without knowledge, and also coerced (as a condition for getting a job, or getting government aid). The woman getting tubal ligations? African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, etc. Also when the pill first became avaliable it was indeed offered freely--many African American women remarked that it was easier to get the pill than an aspirin. (This was back when the pill had 10 times the doses of hormones than today and occasionally killed women.) The people suggested to get tubal ligations free? Most likely, just the same. Groups that are disproportionally lower income, racial minorites, with less education and access to contraceptives.

It's important not to forget when we're debating one aspect of reproductive health that it's related to all the rest. Reproductive rights are as much as about the right to have children (and to choose when, how, and with whom) as the right NOT to have children. I'd love to see a pro-life group more interested in the REASONS why a woman chooses abortion (educational and economic opportunities, childcare costs, avaliability and cost of contraceptives, social view of contraceptive use, etc) and working from that angle than in just changing legal status.

As this thread started with Partial Birth Abortions, I'll make a note on that in the US (again, sharing what I know). The bill states:
"Congress has reached its conclusion that a ban on partial-birth abortion is not required to contain a `health' exception." (It does include an exception in case the mother's life is that risk.) This is despite the fact that the US Supreme Court already struck down a state law banning PBA also without a health exception in Stenberg v. Carhart. ANY partial birth abortion bans in any contry should have exceptions for the life AND health of the mother. (This is also consistent with the US Roe v. Wade).

[ Tuesday, March 22, 2005 13:05: Message edited by: Demented Munster ]

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General
Demented Munster
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 written Sunday, September 12 2004 15:20 Profile #32
American kids are supposed to learn the metric system. However, I can tell you from recent experience with fourth graders that it doesn't work. They spend so much time trying to figure out miles, feet, yards, gallons, quarts, pints, everything that they don't spend long on metric. It doesn't really improve in later grades.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Fair Fun in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Tuesday, September 7 2004 14:35 Profile #4
The North Carolina State Fair. I enjoy it, even if Demonslayer doesn't. The food is probably my favorite part, as well. Otherwise, I just like looking at everything. It's got lots of rides and related booths that are entirely uninteresting to me. But there are a lot of crafts and other sorts of displays around that I do enjoy.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Favourite SPIDWEB game in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Tuesday, September 7 2004 14:30 Profile #28
few weeks ago I would have said A3. But I finally found the BoE CD I knew was around somewhere. So, BoE.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Aspirations in General
Demented Munster
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 written Thursday, September 2 2004 12:53 Profile #9
I just entered college about a week and a half ago.
My two concrete ideas are to major in Elementary Education--I spent quite a good deal of time in a fourth grade classroom last year and that really appeals, or to go into some branch of Library Science. I am (a bit) considering other ages for education--younger would be quite interesting, middle schools scare me, high school is a possibility but I'd have to decide what to teach and I have to clue. I really haven't experienced it at the college level myself, so I don't know about that. Education has always appealed to me (despite lack of decent pay.)

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
Recommend me books! in General
Demented Munster
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 written Thursday, June 19 2003 15:34 Profile #17
The Flowers for Algernon I read was a novel, not a short story.

I would recomend books by Dorothy Gilman.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
If You Had To Be Stranded On A Desert Island... in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Sunday, June 15 2003 17:56 Profile #68
Apparently not. Here.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
If You Had To Be Stranded On A Desert Island... in General
Demented Munster
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Member # 3004
 written Saturday, June 14 2003 20:18 Profile #50
I' d have to choose Djur. He's the nicest person there.

Some of those others are scary. Very scary. Staying away from them.

The rest, I just don't know.

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00
The ever classic "what did you have for dinner" topic in General
Demented Munster
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 written Thursday, May 22 2003 11:38 Profile #50
Undine: Because he is Chinese.

I had spaghetti squash with a tomato sauce, mixed salad with things like feta cheese and soy beans, and steamed broccoli and califlower.

[ Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:40: Message edited by: Demented Munster ]

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Sandwichs and Apples.
Posts: 19 | Registered: Tuesday, May 20 2003 07:00