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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined:
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Actor Gene Wilder Dead At 83
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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vimesey Member (Idle past 391 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined:
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A quick Kangaroo Hop this evening, I think, by way of tribute.
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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Pressie Member (Idle past 293 days) Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Thanks, Gene.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: |
My favorite Gene Wilder movie was The Frisco Kid
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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JonF Member (Idle past 486 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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A horrible person, but she had significant impact.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3978 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 5.7
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It has been said, "The greatest jazz recording engineer ever". I certainly won't argue.
Rudy Van Gelder - Wikipedia
quote: Van Gelder Studio - Wikipedia Take a scan over the list of recordings at the second link. And I suspect the list might be a fair bit incomplete. Moose
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nwr Member Posts: 6489 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined:
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A horrible person, but she had significant impact.
I never met her, so I don't know if she was a horrible person. I disagreed with her, and I got tired of hearing her voice. But she fought for what she believed in. What she won in the legislature (the defeat of ERA), she has lost in the culture at large. Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate illustrates the point.Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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Diomedes Member Posts: 998 From: Central Florida, USA Joined: |
What she won in the legislature (the defeat of ERA), she has lost in the culture at large. Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate illustrates the point. Indeed. In actuality, much of the extreme right views have been thoroughly repudiated in the new millennium. Women's rights. Gay rights. Trying to get prayer back in school. And of course, the recent court cases on Intelligent Design. Note that her son Andrew Schlafly, is still very active with conservative causes. And he runs Conservapedia. Although it's effect is marginal nowadays.
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Diomedes Member Posts: 998 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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Legendary golfer and creator of a great drink. RIP.
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Phat Member Posts: 18706 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.1 |
They always called his diehard fans Arnies Army.
now they have a charitable organization! Arnie's Army Good stories in that link! To me, Arnie represented the glory days of America...a time now lost.Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.~Proverbs 28:26
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9489 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined:
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When blacks had to sit in back of bus? Gays were beaten up? The US was overthrowing and destabilizing countries?
Yeah. Good times. Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Pressie Member (Idle past 293 days) Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
I remember being bombarded with those tracts everywhere as a young teenager, even though I just had a basic misunderstanding of English... I used to laugh at the name, though. I knew what jacked chick meant!
Just a moment... Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2641 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2641 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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Certainly one of my most influential songwriters for the music i write & play. Big loss, that it seemed he forsaw....
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2424 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Awwww.
I came to appreciate his music only lately, but liked it very much. Sorry to hear of his passing...Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity. |
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