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Originally posted by Cueball:
I wish that guy would shave.

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I think though if you are going to adopt all the trappings of a mainstream TV in an effort to undermine it, and use its motif as a means of selling a different product, you would also shave and wear a tie. I think.

Anyway, on the topic, there will be no permanent bases in Iraq. The Iraqi people will keep fighting until every last U.S. invader and their so-called and ever-diminishing "coalition" has run screaming from there.

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Originally posted by unionist:
Cueball, you are way too sensitive my friend. Where in my post did you see any hint that I thought you were offended?

Anyway, on the topic, there will be no permanent bases in Iraq. The Iraqi people will keep fighting until every last U.S. invader and their so-called and ever-diminishing "coalition" has run screaming from there.

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Originally posted by writer:
I know enough about Paul Jay. [Sneaks off, snickering quietly to self while replaying old times in mind.]

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Let me simply say that the experience informs my next novel, which someday I will begin to write outside my head. Like, on paper.

You are in a story meeting. Suddenly your boss is seriously, earnestly discussing a hot news topic, and what he says makes you ask whether he wants you to try to book Charlton Heston.

Not about guns.

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On July 27, 1995 the federal Health Minister, Diane Marleau, announced her government's response to the report of the Royal Commission on the New Reproductive Technologies, which was released in November 1993 (Canadian Bioethics Report, Humane Medicine 10 (1994), 136-137). The Minister called for a voluntary moratorium on nine reproductive and genetic technologies and practices: sex selection for non-medical purposes; commercial pre-conception ("surrogacy") arrangements; buying and selling of eggs, sperm and embryos; egg donation in exchange for in vitro fertilization services; germ-line genetic alteration; ectogenesis (creation of an artificial womb); the cloning of human embryos; formation of animal-human hybrids by combining animal and human gametes; and the retrieval of eggs from cadavers and fetuses for donation, fertilization or research.

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