----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 22:23 Subject: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:07:01AM +0000, ben wrote: > [snip] > > whatever about the rest, a theocracy in a century! bush has already made > > public statements about how god instructed him to invade afghanistan and > > iraq. what the hell happend to separation of church and state? > > compared to the taliban and the islamists, I cannot believe you are > acusing *US* of advocating a theocracy. talk about head up the ass. > > > not only do you have an unelected head of state, but those in power at > > the present time are doing all they can to hastily invalidate the basic > > tenets of democracy. > > here's where I have to appeal to those with formal logical training > (particularly, tri-valued logic systems): > > It is true that margin of votes in Florida in the last election was > below the statistical limits. It is neither a true statement that "Bush > won the election" nor is it a true statement that "Bush lost the > election." > > That is, the outcome was indeterminate. So anybody else who could have > potentially been said to "win" would be equally illegitmate. It kind of > sucks when you have a country without a president, so we had to do some > Solomonic justice. Any outcome would have been equally arbitrary, this > one was least constitutionally harmful. > Its not often that I agree with Tom. Should I be worried? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
