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To: eastforker

We have far more reformers here than we once did; something in the water, perhaps.

This story has been up at least three times now and the neo-prohibitionists jump in around the first 10 posts with their hair shirts on fire.

Seems we are going from pro-active to pre-emptive in our zest to ward off evil spirits; about the only thing left is to take an oath of purity.


100 posted on 03/23/2006 9:10:30 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer
Seems we are going from pro-active to pre-emptive in our zest to ward off evil spirits; about the only thing left is to take an oath of purity.

This demonstrates the problem with allowing the neo-Calvinists to assume policy or decision-making positions in the body politic.

These people are at risk of making the Taliban look mainstream.

They are trying to make a world in which relatively few people would care to live.

293 posted on 03/23/2006 3:01:24 PM PST by surely_you_jest
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To: Old Professer
Seems we are going from pro-active to pre-emptive

As of about three years ago, I haven't noticed any dearth of folks on this board willing to cheerlead pre-emption as policy. What goes around comes around, even it that's news to some.

404 posted on 03/24/2006 11:11:15 AM PST by Romulus (Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo.)
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