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Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-22T00:34:49Z

You're thinking of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, not Law and
Order: Sports Utility Vehicle.
John Savard

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-22T00:34:35Z

I was thinking of a recent or current stage show - I can't remember
the title now, I only saw a TV review and short excerpts - that was a
contemporary human-and-Muppet-puppet drama with mature-audience themes
- and musical numbers. But what was it called? Maybe it's a whole
genre?
It may not have been a Jim Henson event - those aren't the only

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-22T00:34:10Z

The old "good guy, bad guy" trick is common enough. It got the Iran
hostages released before President-elect Ronald Reagan even took
office.
John Savard

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-22T00:32:32Z

On Nov 21, 12:02 pm, Michael Grosberg <grosberg.mich...@gmail.com>
wrote:
If that were true, after Khruschev succeeded Stalin, the crimes of
Stalin would have been made *public*, not simply discussed in a secret
speech, and the political system of Russia would have been reformed to
have free multi-party elections and a free press, to make sure that no

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-22T00:24:45Z

On Nov 21, 8:06 am, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@dcemail.com>
wrote:
There still isn't a God and religious extremist are still assholes.

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-22T00:23:47Z

No, all Russians of that era were educated in Seminaries, where they
were full of the clergy seminal fluids. So where did they learn these
31 tortures? Sister Mary Beth I would imagine.

Re: Concentrated nostalgia

2009-11-22T00:19:40Z

"Happy Birthday to You" isn't out of copyright. You must get a license
and pay royalties if you sing it publicly. This is why you tend to hear
other songs used for birthdays in TV shows and movies.
Interesting bit of trivia: Archibald Hill, professor of Linguistics at
the University of Texas, inherited the copyright from his aunts.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-22T00:00:45Z

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:42 GMT in alt.folklore.urban,
djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote,
Last time I saw one was at Foster's Freeze. If you can find one of
those.

Re: conscious ships

2009-11-21T23:06:00Z

In article <0pagg5t3hgspai0dnqlfmrksn96vp ch...@4ax.com>, ge...@ocis.net
says...
If anybody's looking for a list of names Banks has actually used,
there's one on Wikipedia here: [link]
A couple I thought of on my own:
Whimsical When Bored
I Thought YOU Brought The Potato Salad

Re: Two YASID - A menace from Earth, and truth serum coffee

2009-11-21T22:50:20Z

In message <4b083c8a.138146...@text.gigan ews.com>, Richard Harter
<c...@tiac.net> writes
Big Ancestor, by F.L. Wallace

Science Fiction Bibliography December 2009 update

2009-11-21T22:48:23Z

the December 2009 update to the Science fiction bibliography of nearly
7000 scifi books, DVDs and games is now online at :
[link]
enjoy your reading !

Re: The Definition of Islam for An Atheist

2009-11-21T22:44:22Z

<guffaw> Nice bit of revisionism on a bunch of Europeans deciding to
colonize and oppress, followed by ethnically cleansing, a bunch of
Muslims who had been minding their own business...

Re: The Definition of Islam for An Atheist

2009-11-21T22:40:10Z

In English it's "God", not "Allah". 'Allah" is not the name of the
Islamic god, as people are wont to assume. It is the Arabic word for
God. The god of Islam is the god of the Jews is the god of
Christianity. All the same god.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-21T22:25:53Z

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:44:02 -0500, Walter Bushell
The Texans themselves did it in 1845.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-21T22:21:20Z

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:09 -0800 (PST), cryptoguy
Yeah. I caught that after I posted.
I lived in Kansas for three years in the early 1980s and enjoyed
pointing out to my fellow Kansans that in "Wizard of Oz" Kansas
was appropriately in black and white.