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To: Poohbah
Oh 19 they just caused the massacre of 3000 what's the big deal.
554 posted on 11/23/2003 5:34:32 PM PST by missyme
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To: missyme
Oh 19 they just caused the massacre of 3000 what's the big deal.

When I was in the Marine Corps, with some of the itmes I was responsible for keeping secure...one man could incinerate a couple of MILLION people in less than a microsecond.

Numbers mean very little in this day and age.

So, if tomorrow's terrorist outrage is someone popping off a nuclear bomb in the name of Jesus and killing many times more people than Muslims did on 9/11, would you demand that Christianity be forbidden from public expression?

558 posted on 11/23/2003 5:39:08 PM PST by Poohbah ("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
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To: missyme
there
(click to hear the word) (âr)
adv.
  1. At or in that place: sit over there.
  2. To, into, or toward that place: wouldn't go there again.
  3. At that stage, moment, or point: Stop there before you make any more mistakes.
  4. In that matter: I can't agree with him there.
pron.
  1. Used to introduce a clause or sentence: There are numerous items. There must be another exit.
  2. Used to indicate an unspecified person in direct address: Hello there.
adj.
  1. Used especially for emphasis after the demonstrative pronoun that or those, or after a noun modified by the demonstrative adjective that or those: That person there ought to know the directions to town.
  2. Nonstandard Used for emphasis between a demonstrative adjective meaning "that" or "those" and a noun: No one is sitting at that there table. Them there beans ought to be picked.
n.
That place or point: stopped and went on from there.
interj.
Used to express feelings such as relief, satisfaction, sympathy, or anger: There, now I can have some peace!
their
(click to hear the word) (âr)
adj. The possessive form of they.
  1. Used as a modifier before a noun: their accomplishments; their home town.
  2. Usage Problem His, her, or its: "It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex" (Virginia Woolf). See Usage Notes at he1, they.

563 posted on 11/23/2003 5:41:02 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Gift Is To See The Trout.)
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