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Tanypteryx
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Message 526 of 1282 (790369)
08-29-2016 5:23 PM


Gene Wilder
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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Message 527 of 1282 (790394)
08-30-2016 7:13 AM
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08-29-2016 5:23 PM


Re: Gene Wilder
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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Message 528 of 1282 (790395)
08-30-2016 7:20 AM
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08-29-2016 5:23 PM


Re: Gene Wilder
Thanks, Gene.

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Message 529 of 1282 (790433)
08-30-2016 10:37 AM
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08-29-2016 5:23 PM


Re: Gene Wilder
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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Message 530 of 1282 (790804)
09-05-2016 9:37 PM


Phyllis Schlafley
A horrible person, but she had significant impact.

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Message 531 of 1282 (790805)
09-05-2016 10:51 PM


Rudy Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 — August 25, 2016)
It has been said, "The greatest jazz recording engineer ever". I certainly won't argue.
Rudy Van Gelder - Wikipedia
quote:
Regarded as the most important recording engineer of jazz by some observers,[1] Van Gelder recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many recognized as classics, in a career which spanned more than half a century.
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.
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Message 532 of 1282 (790806)
09-05-2016 11:04 PM
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09-05-2016 9:37 PM


Re: Phyllis Schlafley
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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Message 533 of 1282 (790830)
09-06-2016 10:55 AM
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Re: Phyllis Schlafley
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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Message 534 of 1282 (791901)
09-26-2016 10:46 AM
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09-06-2016 10:55 AM


Arnold Palmer
Legendary golfer and creator of a great drink. RIP.

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Message 535 of 1282 (792019)
09-30-2016 1:05 PM
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Re: Arnold Palmer
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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Message 536 of 1282 (792033)
09-30-2016 4:40 PM
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Re: Arnold Palmer
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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Message 537 of 1282 (793339)
10-26-2016 7:10 AM


Non-Great Jack T. Chick gone
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...
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Message 538 of 1282 (794157)
11-10-2016 9:17 PM


Leonard Cohen, 82

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Message 539 of 1282 (794158)
11-10-2016 9:22 PM
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Re: Leonard Cohen, 82
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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Message 540 of 1282 (794159)
11-10-2016 9:37 PM


Awwww
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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