Has it been a great week or what?
Ken Shaw
all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
Ken
Mike
How many times has the party in power actually gained seats in the
midterms? I heard 'two' but I'm not sure.
rupert....@gmail.com
It's not as rare as a shutout - where one party gains no seats in the
House, no seats in the Senate, and no Governorships - which happened
today.
Marc
Ken Shaw wrote:
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
I'd still prefer seanpit back over drdach, if there was a way.
It hasn't really been an improvement.
(signed) marc
Koppe
Ken Shaw wrote:
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
Make you wonder if there maybe really *is* a God?
-Koppe
Nashton
That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
hand.
--
Nicola
er...@swva.net
> Ken Shaw wrote:
> > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
> > Ken
> >
>
> That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
Sorry, it is legitimate to cheers whan good triumphs and evil is
foiled. If you weren't enamored with the side of wrong, you could be
cheering, too.
> Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
> hand.
>
> --
>
> Nicola
Boo hoo hoo.
Eric Root
Marc
Hundreds of us are just soooo happy here in T.O. and if the
gods are just then evolution will never be questioned by any
school board again.
Nicky, you need to understand some biology and then you
will learn to appreciate that evolution unifies all of biology
in a way that you have so far failed to see. Forget those
creationism web sites - they have no understanding of the
truth that evolution brings to biology. Free your mind!
(signed) marc
SeppoP
I'm not sure if anybody mentioned, but your mentor, Anne Coulter might also be facing slight problems... :)
--
Seppo P.
What's wrong with Theocracy? (a Finnish Taliban, Oct 1, 2005)
Hoof-Hearted
SeppoP wrote:
> Nashton wrote:
> > Ken Shaw wrote:
> >> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> >> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >
> > That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
> > Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
> > hand.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Nicola
> >
>
> I'm not sure if anybody mentioned, but your mentor, Anne Coulter might also be facing slight problems... :)
Toss in a bit of Haggard playing hide the sausage with a male
prostitute and it's definitely been a bad week for the Christian Right.
Scooter the Mighty
Nashton wrote:
> Ken Shaw wrote:
> > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
> > Ken
> >
>
> That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
All joy is relevant
> Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
> hand.
If you had any idea what "proof" meant you'd have a chance of knowing
some science.
Lee Jay
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
Not really. The country is still highly divided thanks to a highly
divisive president, that same president will prevent any real change
from coming out of the Democratic Congress, and the highly partisan
political atmosphere created by the moron in the white house will make
the Democrats scared of doing anything more than the status quo.
Ballot inititives have gone anti-gay across the country (except
Arizona) showing the country is still full of bigots and racists. One
bright spot is the abortion ban that could have led to a Roe-v-Wade
challenge was defeated in South Dakota, but only by 55.6% to 44.4%
which isn't all that much.
Hovind going to jail is certainly good. Hopefully that idiot Coulter
will soon follow. But the country has decades of healing to do after
the bush grenades have been dropped on it over the last 6 years. In
fact, it would surprise me if the damage this one man has done to the
US could be reversed in my lifetime (I'm 36).
The September 11 attacks weren't as damaging to this country as was the
election in Florida in November of 2000. And it's not close.
Lee Jay
Andrew Arensburger
> Nashton wrote:
> > Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
> All joy is relevant
But not all joy is on-topic.
--
Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy University of Maryland
arensb.no-...@umd.edu Office of Information Technology
Today I am feeling ept, ane, and sipid.
Desertphile
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
Unfortunately it is very unlikely the traitors will be hanged.
Desertphile
> Ken Shaw wrote:
> > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
BZZZZ! Oh, not even close! Try again: "Duh you wan' fries wid' dat?"
> Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
> hand.
Working to end evil is indeed an "ideology," but I for one find it
extremely interesting that you believe only educated and well-informed
people are happy at seeing evil thwarted.
Perplexed in Peoria
"Ken Shaw" <ksha...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
It just got better. Rumsfeld just resigned (or was fired).
Marc
Oh, I'm sure they'll invite him back for a picnic, BBQ or perhaps
just to have a chat with the new congress... answer some questions
("when did you know it was a lie to go to war on?"), more questions
("where did all the money go") and perhaps quite a few sips of water
betwen questions. All on CNN, of course. (Fox will find something
else to show no doubt.)
One worry - is the person in Virginia who signs off on the results of
the election a republican?
(signed) marc
.
Perplexed in Peoria
"Marc" <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote in message news:1163020007.8...@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
It is going to be interesting. Lets see, we have 49 Democrat senators,
49 Republicans, one Independent, one recount, and one Republican VP
who is rumored to want to resign/retire for reasons of health.
If I were the Dems, I would be more worried about whether Jim Baker
has bought an airline ticket to Connecticut than about whether he
travels to Virginia.
dgen...@hotmail.com
Hoof-Hearted wrote:
> SeppoP wrote:
> > Nashton wrote:
> > > Ken Shaw wrote:
> > >> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > >> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> > >>
> > >> Ken
> > >>
> > >
> > > That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
> > > Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
> > > hand.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Nicola
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure if anybody mentioned, but your mentor, Anne Coulter might also be facing slight problems... :)
>
> Toss in a bit of Haggard playing hide the sausage with a male
> prostitute and it's definitely been a bad week for the Christian Right.
>
I saw the announcement about Haggard through this CNN link
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/05/haggard.allegations/index.html
(click on the video link within the article)
Watch for the associate pastor, making his statement.
Am I the only one who thought the associate pastor looked...
watch for yourself, to see if you know what I'm thinking.
Dave
dgen...@hotmail.com
Now that the Democrats have taken the House (and perhaps the Senate)
would they kindly send someone to educate Mr Bush about the correct
adjective form of their party name
Democratic party
Democratic leadership
Democratic majority
Not "The Democrat Party" as Mr Bush likes to say. He sounds like an
idiot every time he says it.
Dave
Mike
I think the gist of this is that governments (or the ruling party) are
always unpopular, but this one has been a little less popular than
normal.
Does anyone have any idea of when the Senate result is going to come
in? I have no idea how long these things normally take.
Jeffrey Turner
> "Marc" <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote in message news:1163020007.8...@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
>>
>>>"Ken Shaw" <ksha...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>>First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
>>>>all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
>>>
>>>It just got better. Rumsfeld just resigned (or was fired).
>>
>>Oh, I'm sure they'll invite him back for a picnic, BBQ or perhaps
>>just to have a chat with the new congress... answer some questions
>>("when did you know it was a lie to go to war on?"), more questions
>>("where did all the money go") and perhaps quite a few sips of water
>>betwen questions. All on CNN, of course. (Fox will find something
>>else to show no doubt.)
>>
>>One worry - is the person in Virginia who signs off on the results of
>>the election a republican?
>
> It is going to be interesting. Lets see, we have 49 Democrat senators,
> 49 Republicans, one Independent, one recount, and one Republican VP
> who is rumored to want to resign/retire for reasons of health.
Technically, you've got two independents. But that doesn't really mean
anything.
> If I were the Dems, I would be more worried about whether Jim Baker
> has bought an airline ticket to Connecticut than about whether he
> travels to Virginia.
Lieberman is a conservative Democrat, but he's still to the left of the
Republicans. Even if he did get 70% of the Republican vote. If Allen
loses this is all academic. If not, we'll be seeing a lot more of Mr.
Cheney.
--Jeff
--
Often war is waged only in order to
show valor; thus an inner dignity is
ascribed to war itself, and even some
philosophers have praised it as an
ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the
pronouncement of the Greek who said,
"War is an evil in as much as it produces
more wicked men than it takes away."
--Immanuel Kant
rupert....@gmail.com
Apparently, if Allen asks for a recount in Virginia, it can not begin
before November 27th, and can last for up to ten days. Current best
guess is that he will not. Not so much that he sees the hypocricy in
doing so after he was so vociferous about ending the recount in Florida
in 2000, but more that he realizes that protracting the election is
going to bring his dirty tricks back into focus. He presumably also
realizes that his chances in the 2008 Presidential election have now
evaporated, and since he spent all summer telling people in Iowa and
New Hampshire that he hates being a senator, perhaps he's glad that he
won't be.
Mike
rupert....@gmail.com wrote:
> Apparently, if Allen asks for a recount in Virginia, it can not begin
> before November 27th, and can last for up to ten days. Current best
> guess is that he will not. Not so much that he sees the hypocricy in
> doing so after he was so vociferous about ending the recount in Florida
> in 2000, but more that he realizes that protracting the election is
> going to bring his dirty tricks back into focus. He presumably also
> realizes that his chances in the 2008 Presidential election have now
> evaporated, and since he spent all summer telling people in Iowa and
> New Hampshire that he hates being a senator, perhaps he's glad that he
> won't be.
So, you're pretty certain that the democrats have got the Senate?
Walter Bushell
dgen...@hotmail.com wrote:
That's the way he likes it.
--
Divided we stand!
Walter Bushell
"Ken Shaw" <ksha...@gmail.com> wrote:
And to top it off the Redskins beat the Cowboys. (NFL--American Football)
--
Divided we stand!
Walter Bushell
In article <awk4h.16216$cz.2...@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>,
Nashton <nan...@nb.ca> wrote:
--
Divided we stand!
Tom McDonald
It's not entirely irrelevant. The 'Publicans have egregiously inserted
politics into science, and their spin has made it almost impossible to
have useful discussions about many things science.
For instance, the embryonic stem cell nonsense. The 'Publicans have
fought hard against it using the contention that it would mean the
killing of viable embryos.
But what exact embryos are being used? It's only 'spare' embryos left
over from in vitro fertilization. What would happen if the embryos were
*not* used in research? Loving cryogenic life for eternity?
Nope. The would be thrown out. Some might be 'adopted' and implanted in
other women. The majority, though, would be tossed out like so much
garbage.
But we haven't been able to have a real national debate on the issues
because it has suited the 'Publicans to cloud the issue in a way that
appeases their pro-life (well, except for war, and state-sponsored
executions. Oh, and all the folks that will have their lives shortened
and laid waste by diseases that could be ameliorated or cured by stem
cells. And of course the poor who...but even you get the idea)
constituency.
I look forward with relish to the real debate on the various scientific
issues that have been hijacked by the increasingly inaptly-named Right.
rupert....@gmail.com
Tester and Webb are both claiming victory, and that gives the Democrats
49 and the Republicans 49. Since both independents (Lieberman (CT) and
Sanders (VT)) have said they'll caucus with the Democrats, that gives
them 51 seats. There's much horse trading yet to be done. Joe Lieberman
in particular expects to be rewarded for remaining in the caucus. I
imagine he would be cut loose in a second if one of the moderate Maine
Republicans (Snowe or Collins) could be flipped.
Allen and Burns (Montana) have yet to concede, as far as I know, but
Burns is behind by more than twice the margin for a recount. Allen
could get a recount, but he'd have to pay for it (between 0.5% and 1.0%
difference the challenger pays for the recount in VA.)
Frank J
And it is neatly falsified because many "Darwinists" like me are
disappointed at the outcome.
>
> --
>
> Nicola
Frank J
George Allen must be pleased with that at least.
>
> --
> Divided we stand!
Tom McDonald
Marc wrote:
> Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
> > "Ken Shaw" <ksha...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
> > It just got better. Rumsfeld just resigned (or was fired).
>
> Oh, I'm sure they'll invite him back for a picnic, BBQ or perhaps
> just to have a chat with the new congress... answer some questions
> ("when did you know it was a lie to go to war on?"), more questions
> ("where did all the money go") and perhaps quite a few sips of water
> betwen questions. All on CNN, of course.
Under hot, hot lights. Very hot lights. Bright, shadowless lights.
Footlights, too.
> (Fox will find something
> else to show no doubt.)
If there is any justice, O'Reilly bitching about the impeachments.
> One worry - is the person in Virginia who signs off on the results of
> the election a republican?
This might not be the very best year for a 'Publican election official
to fiddle with the returns. Look what happened to Katherine 'Get Two,
Two, Two Tits On One' Harris.
Walter Bushell
"Tom McDonald" <kil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But we haven't been able to have a real national debate on the issues
> because it has suited the 'Publicans to cloud the issue in a way that
> appeases their pro-life (well, except for war, and state-sponsored
> executions. Oh, and all the folks that will have their lives shortened
> and laid waste by diseases that could be ameliorated or cured by stem
> cells. And of course the poor who...but even you get the idea)
> constituency.
Hey, don't down the Publicans so much, Jesus frequently ate at their
table and also with sinners. (Life as a religous mendicant is rough.)
--
Divided we stand!
Steve Schaffner
If you believe the futures markets, there is now a 3% chance that the
GOP will retain control of the Senate in this election. When the
probabilities get that low, though, the futures markets probably
overestimate them.
--
Steve Schaffner s...@broad.mit.edu
Immediate assurance is an excellent sign of probable lack of
insight into the topic. Josiah Royce
Greg G.
rupert....@gmail.com wrote:
...
> Allen and Burns (Montana) have yet to concede, as far as I know, but
> Burns is behind by more than twice the margin for a recount. Allen
> could get a recount, but he'd have to pay for it (between 0.5% and 1.0%
> difference the challenger pays for the recount in VA.)
"Burns and Allen contest the election." That sounds more like a program
synopsis from a 50 year old TV Guide.
Say goodnight, Gracie.
--
Greg G.
Burns: Gracie, those are beautiful flowers. Where did they come
from?
Allen: Don't you remember, George? You said that if I went to visit
Clara
Bagley in the hospital I should be sure to take her flowers. So,
when she
wasn't looking, I did.
Ken Shaw
I keep wondering if it can get any better and then along comes
something like this.
Ken
Jim Willemin
@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
It could well be a calculated insult and/or sign of contempt, much like his
father's public and chronic mispronounciation of Saddam during the first
Gulf war. It's also the sort of minor annoyance in which those with truly
small yet mean minds take great delight.
--
Jim
"Value nothing but truth, compassion, and love"
Matt Silberstein
<ksha...@gmail.com> in
<1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> wrote:
>First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
>all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
>
And I watched Sting perform from only 20 feet away. It has been a
great week.
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
Andrew
I just successfully defended my PhD. thesis ;).
--Drew
Lee Jay
> I just successfully defended my PhD. thesis ;).
Assuming your panel is not a group of morons, a significant
achievement. Congratulations!
Lee Jay
Andrew
Thank you.
--Drew
Earle Jones
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
>
> Ken
*
AMEN!!!
(As I used to say before I was saved.)
earle
*
Tom McDonald
Major congrats. This should make it a watershed week all around for
you.
Except, how are you going to put off graduating now? ;-)
wf3h
Nashton wrote:
> Ken Shaw wrote:
> > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
> >
>
> That's nice. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of irrelevant joy with us.
> Further proof that ideology and the pseudo-science of the ToE go hand in
> hand.
>
well the arch creationist santorum lost. unfortunately gov rick perry
of the state of texas..creationist, who believes non believers will go
to hell, got re elected.
texans are as inbred as any other group of fanatics.
Andrew Glasgow
> rupert....@gmail.com wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> Allen and Burns (Montana) have yet to concede, as far as I know, but
>> Burns is behind by more than twice the margin for a recount. Allen
>> could get a recount, but he'd have to pay for it (between 0.5% and 1.0%
>> difference the challenger pays for the recount in VA.)
>
> "Burns and Allen contest the election." That sounds more like a program
> synopsis from a 50 year old TV Guide.
>
> Say goodnight, Gracie.
Goodnight, Gracie!
Glenn
Ken Shaw wrote:
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
>
John Wilkins
> On 8 Nov 2006 00:17:14 -0800, in talk.origins , "Ken Shaw"
> <ksha...@gmail.com> in
> <1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> >First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> >all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
> And I watched Sting perform from only 20 feet away. It has been a
> great week.
How did you get him in your apartment?
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
Matt Silberstein
j.wil...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) in
<1hojmyr.1djz5xbm3mflyN%j.wil...@uq.edu.au> wrote:
>Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPref...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8 Nov 2006 00:17:14 -0800, in talk.origins , "Ken Shaw"
>> <ksha...@gmail.com> in
>> <1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> >First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
>> >all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
>> >
>> And I watched Sting perform from only 20 feet away. It has been a
>> great week.
>
>How did you get him in your apartment?
Ether and a burlap sack, same way we got you.
Andrew
Actually, I'm ready for this particular episode in my life to be over.
But if I *need* to delay, I technically don't graduate until June
(although they tell me that I can start calling myself "Dr." right
now.... I'm not sure how that works exactly). And although I passed,
they asked for some minor revisions to be done to my thesis before
everything is totally kosher (again, not fully understanding why I'm
allowed to call myself "Dr." now).
So, yeah, I've got a *little* room to put it off, but honestly, I'm
ready to be done. I'm twenty-seven years old; I'm getting a little
sick of school.
--Drew
John Wilkins
Dare we ask about the topic? (There was a wonderful tee shirt on sale at
my masters uni I meant to buy, which had "Ask me about my thesis" on it.
Of course the joke is that nobody in their right mind would ever ask a
grad student about their thesis, unless they had several hours to
spare.)
skyeyes
> AMEN!!!
>
> (As I used to say before I was saved.)
That's what I used to say before I was un-saved. ;->
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
skyeyes at dakotacom dot net
UC
Ken Shaw wrote:
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
>
Ignorant pig. Al-Quida is smiling and gloating. You Democrats make me
sick. Go fuck yourself, asshole.
Turner
UC wrote:
Wow, looks like someone got up on the wrong side of bed this morning...
Perplexed in Peoria
"Turner" <joebob...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:1163186885.2...@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Nah. He is just bored and looking for a little action.
bullpup
"Turner" <joebob...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1163186885.2...@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
Or Wed. morning...
Boikat
--
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own"
-Adam Savage, Mythbusters-
>
Earle Jones
<uranium-1163186...@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"UC" <uraniumc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
*
Believe me, Al Quida is not smiling. I talked to Al this morning
and he does not sound happy at all. (By the way, I know him pretty
well -- I used to date his sister.) With a hundred thousand US
troops occupying his country, he could recruit terrorists very
easily. Now, with those pinko liberal democrats about to take over,
he's concerned that we will pull out the troops and then where will
he be?
earle
*
Earle Jones
dgen...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Ken Shaw wrote:
> > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
> > Ken
>
> Now that the Democrats have taken the House (and perhaps the Senate)
> would they kindly send someone to educate Mr Bush about the correct
> adjective form of their party name
>
> Democratic party
> Democratic leadership
> Democratic majority
>
> Not "The Democrat Party" as Mr Bush likes to say. He sounds like an
> idiot every time he says it.
>
> Dave
*
He is an idiot.
earle
*
Earle Jones
Jeffrey Turner <jtu...@localnet.com> wrote:
> Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
>
> > "Marc" <marcb...@aapt.net.au> wrote in message
> > news:1163020007.8...@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >>Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
> >>
> >>>"Ken Shaw" <ksha...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:1162973834.8...@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >>>
> >>>>First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> >>>>all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >>>
> >>>It just got better. Rumsfeld just resigned (or was fired).
> >>
> >>Oh, I'm sure they'll invite him back for a picnic, BBQ or perhaps
> >>just to have a chat with the new congress... answer some questions
> >>("when did you know it was a lie to go to war on?"), more questions
> >>("where did all the money go") and perhaps quite a few sips of water
> >>betwen questions. All on CNN, of course. (Fox will find something
> >>else to show no doubt.)
> >>
> >>One worry - is the person in Virginia who signs off on the results of
> >>the election a republican?
> >
> > It is going to be interesting. Lets see, we have 49 Democrat senators,
> > 49 Republicans, one Independent, one recount, and one Republican VP
> > who is rumored to want to resign/retire for reasons of health.
>
> Technically, you've got two independents. But that doesn't really mean
> anything.
>
> > If I were the Dems, I would be more worried about whether Jim Baker
> > has bought an airline ticket to Connecticut than about whether he
> > travels to Virginia.
>
> Lieberman is a conservative Democrat, but he's still to the left of the
> Republicans. Even if he did get 70% of the Republican vote. If Allen
> loses this is all academic. If not, we'll be seeing a lot more of Mr.
> Cheney.
>
> --Jeff
*
As you no doubt know by now -- Allen lost and you're right -- it's
all academic.
Earle Jones
"Mike" <mykan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> rupert....@gmail.com wrote:
> > Mike wrote:
> > > Ken Shaw wrote:
> > > > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > > > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> > > >
> > > > Ken
> > >
> > > How many times has the party in power actually gained seats in the
> > > midterms? I heard 'two' but I'm not sure.
> >
> > It's not as rare as a shutout - where one party gains no seats in the
> > House, no seats in the Senate, and no Governorships - which happened
> > today.
>
> I think the gist of this is that governments (or the ruling party) are
> always unpopular, but this one has been a little less popular than
> normal.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of when the Senate result is going to come
> in? I have no idea how long these things normally take.
*
Sen. Allen of Virginia conceded last night -- it's official. The
new Senate will be 49 Democrats and 2 independents (who will vote
with the democrats) and 49 Republicans.
earle
*
Andrew
Ooookay, the title was "A Mathematical Model of Electrotonic
Interactions Between Human Ventricular Cardiomyocytes and Cardiac
Fibroblasts."
The 30-second version is that the fibroblast has been shown to form
resistive couplings with the surrounding myocytes within the
myocardium. It also expresses a number of voltage- and time-dependent
potassium currents which are fully active during the plateau phase of
the ventricular action potential. The importance of this is that the
myocyte's input resistance is the highest during the plateau phase, so
even a tiny current generated by the relatively tiny (~6 pF) fibroblast
can significantly affect the action potential waveform of the myocyte
to which it is coupled. My thesis consisted of the characterization of
the currents expressed in the cardiac fibroblast, the derivation of the
mathematical formalisms which dictate the coupling between fibroblast
and myocyte, and a study of the possible consequences of this coupling
for myocardial excitability and contractility.
--Drew
Robert Grumbine
Congratulations on the defense!
For a game, print out your above description and get a big black marker.
Mark out every word 5 syllables or over. Then 4, then 3.
Once you're down to the 1 and 2 syllables only, you've got what I
understood. (Ok, I did get 'resistive' and a few other of the 3-4
syllables.) :-)
--
Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/ Science faqs and amateur activities notes and links.
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences
John Wilkins
He's talking, as I understand it, about modelling the nerve activations
of cell types in the heart tissues. So that's the best I can do. For
giggles, let's ask him to show his work...
Andrew
Close enough, except for the nerve part ;).
> So that's the best I can do. For
> giggles, let's ask him to show his work...
And *that's* why my thesis was 240 pages long, and not ten ;).
--Drew
Jeffrey Turner
What are you being saved for?
--Jeff
--
Often war is waged only in order to
show valor; thus an inner dignity is
ascribed to war itself, and even some
philosophers have praised it as an
ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the
pronouncement of the Greek who said,
"War is an evil in as much as it produces
more wicked men than it takes away."
--Immanuel Kant
Jeffrey Turner
The wrong side of reality.
Jeffrey Turner
I was rooting for Kinky.
Windy
Andrew wrote:
> Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
> > > First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose elections
> > > all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite a while.
> >
>
And I submitted mine to print! Defense remains to be done.
-- w.
Andrew
So the months of sitting in front of a computer, unloading your brain
onto the computer screen is over.... Now you just have to convince a
group of really, really smart people that it was all worthwhile.
Good luck, and I'm sure you'll do just fine.
--Drew
Bobby Bryant
"Ken Shaw" <ksha...@gmail.com> writes:
> First Hovind finally goes down and now the republicans lose
> elections all over the place.. I haven't been this pleased in quite
> a while.
Unfortunately they aren't losing by a lot, and there will still be
plenty of money to sponsor their character defamation next time
around.
Cue comment about eternal vigilance...
--
Bobby Bryant
Reno, Nevada
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