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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The_Tom</b> <br /><small>Member # 38</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,2,16,11,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 02, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">04:11 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> All the talk about Gene Ray getting on the ballot and Nader being kicked out of the debates made me a bit curious, so I've been cruising the web... here're a few choice picks.<P>(These are all real parties running presidential candiates)<P><a href="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/7344/index.htm">United Fascist Union</a><BR>Not particularly Nazi-ist at all, actually, but very, very interesting... Especially with the UFOs...<P><a href="http://www.revolting.com/platforms.html">The Revolution! Party</a><BR>Check out the domain name... Libertarianism with a rather barbed twist.<P><a href="http://members.aol.com/fvparty/fvparty1/">Family Values Party</a><BR>As mentioned at the site, the leader apparently had a vision from God in his bedroom, which might account for the King James-ian style of presentation.<BR> <BR><a href="http://www.lightparty.com/">The Light Party</a><BR>Uses words "A magical musical gift for you" on website. Nuff said.<BR><P>------------------<BR>"...I was just up in Canada, Toronto actually. You know, they really hate you guys [Americans] up there? The funny thing is, they think you hate them back, when in fact, you just couldn't be bothered to care. Now in Ireland, it's a different story. At least we had the common decency to wait until the English invaded before we started hating them. I guess the Canadians are hating you in advance..."<BR>-Irish Comic Ed Byrne on Canada-US relations<P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The359</b> <br /><small>Member # 37</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,2,17,40,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 02, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">05:40 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Hmm...I only read a bit of that REVOLUTION! one, but they seem like whack-jobs on their own. Hypocritical too.<P><I>Stop policing the world. Become just another member of the UN, with responsibilities equivalent to our numbers. Reduce the Pentagon's budget by at least 30%.</I><P>next entry:<P><I>Tibet can�t wait. And neither can millions of other victims of state repression around the globe. Emphasize human rights in foreign policy, and be consistant about it. Representatives of human rights groups should represent the US in the UN and should be part of the State Department.</I><P>Last time I checked, in order to stop human abuse world-wide, we'd have to police the world.<P>------------------<BR>Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"<BR>Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"<P>(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)<P><A HREF="http://mustangproject.homestead.com/mainpage1.html" TARGET=_blank>Mustang Class Starship Development Project</A><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Jeff Raven</b> <br /><small>Member # 20</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,2,18,0,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 02, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:00 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I was waiting for someone to pick up on those things when I posted it. Thanks Tom <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR>Intelligence, Integrity, Responsibility.<BR>Vote Bush/Cheney 2000<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Malnurtured Snay</b> <br /><small>Member # 411</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,2,21,15,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 02, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:15 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> An interesting point: <P>When does a sovereign nation have the right to police the world? <P>The United States of America is the strongest country in the world, militarily speaking, made even stronger by the NATO alliance. <P>After WWI, we retreated into a policy of isolation, and it cost us hundreds of thousands of dead in World War II, and it cost other nations millions of dead and nations leveled. <P>We've tried helping embattered countries, most notably in South Korea and Vietnam ... neither were resounding successes, as the Korean War has never ended (no peace treaty was signed) and thousands of Allied troops still police the border; and Vietnam's failure was a tribute to our own arrogance. <P>Recently, we've fought the Gulf War, and sent troops into Kosovo. In the Gulf, America's interests were clearly threatened; not so in Kosovo ... <P>In Kosovo, the Allies went in to stop a genocide. "Learn the lesson of World War II," is a motto bandied about. People decry the intervention as substaining Milosovich in power longer, but could we as a nation -- as an ALLIANCE of nations -- stand by and allow a genocide to be committed? <P>What should the role of the Allies be in policing the world? <P>And WHY can we never finish the job? Hussein and Milosovich both remained in control of their countries after the conflicts ended. <P>------------------<BR>Gore/Lieberman 2000 <BR>***<BR>I'll hug your elephant if you'll kiss my ass.<BR>***<BR>"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." - George "Dubya" Bush<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs</b> <br /><small>Member # 239</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,2,22,36,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 02, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:36 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Quite simply, you shouldn't.<P>And this is leading towards flameboard material, my friend. Let's keep it there.<P>------------------<BR>Equality, Cooperation & Benevolence.<P>Vote <A HREF="http://www.cpusa.org" TARGET=_blank>Communist Party of America </A> 2000. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Malnurtured Snay</b> <br /><small>Member # 411</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,2,23,14,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 02, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:14 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ah, yes ... this isn't the flameboard, is it. <P>------------------<BR>Gore/Lieberman 2000 <BR>***<BR>I'll hug your elephant if you'll kiss my ass.<BR>***<BR>"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." - George "Dubya" Bush<P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>USS Vanguard</b> <br /><small>Member # 130</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,3,14,59,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 03, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:59 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Isn't there also a Constitution party? I saw a bunch of candidates from it all over a ballot.<P>------------------<BR>"Life sucks, then you die"<BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Omega</b> <br /><small>Member # 91</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,3,15,4,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 03, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:04 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Hey, Vanguard made Senior!<P>Yes, there is a Constitution Party. There pretty well exactly the same as the Libertarian Party, except the Constitution party has a strong Christian religions slant. Or maybe it's the other way around...<P>------------------<BR>Francesca: He was born on the tundra, that's where he belongs. You'll kill him if you take him to Toronto.<BR>Thatcher: That's a bit drastic, don't you think?<BR>Francesca: Look, I've been to Toronto. Trust me, nothing can survive there. - "due South" <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Sol System</b> <br /><small>Member # 30</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,3,35,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:35 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I'd say they have very little in common, Omega. I'm trying to avoid judgements here, as this isn't the Flameboard, but the Libertarians generally don't think that what the Constitution party wants protected is something that government has any right protecting or not protecting.<P>------------------<BR>love's function is to fabricate unknownnness<BR>--<BR>E. E. Cummings<BR>****<BR><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1247/story.html" TARGET=_blank>Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.</A><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Omega</b> <br /><small>Member # 91</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,11,11,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:11 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Yeah, but the basic philosophy of minimal government is the same. You know, no SS, no medicare, stuff like that.<P>------------------<BR>Francesca: He was born on the tundra, that's where he belongs. You'll kill him if you take him to Toronto.<BR>Thatcher: That's a bit drastic, don't you think?<BR>Francesca: Look, I've been to Toronto. Trust me, nothing can survive there. - "due South" <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs</b> <br /><small>Member # 239</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,11,55,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:55 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> How about that Las Vegas freedom party or something. I only saw the last end of the commercial, but it ruled.<P>------------------<BR>Equality, Cooperation & Benevolence.<P>Vote <A HREF="http://www.cpusa.org" TARGET=_blank>Communist Party of America </A> 2000. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>First of Two</b> <br /><small>Member # 16</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,12,45,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:45 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I LIKE that "Family Values Party," it seems like a great group...<P>FOR ME TO POOP ON!<P>Hey, didja know you're damned if you have a tattoo? o_O<P>------------------<BR>"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master<P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>PsyLiam</b> <br /><small>Member # 73</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,14,49,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:49 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> "FOR ME TO POOP ON!"<P>Is that from a TV show, or a web-site, cause I vaguely remember seeing/reading it before. It's still funny though. <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would've been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move." - <I>Spike, BtVS</I> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TSN</b> <br /><small>Member # 31</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,16,31,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">04:31 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I don't think we have to worry about the government having any SS. Unless Buchanan gets elected, that is...<P>------------------<BR>"Yeah...apparently Sizer is very hard to say, so they replace it with 'Is Mr. Caeser home?'<BR>Sometimes I'll say that no, he has, in fact, passed away.<BR>'My apologies.'<BR>'Oh, that's ok, I'm over it. Brutus is still a wreck though.'<BR>Then I hang up."<BR>-Simon Sizer on telemarketers, 1-Nov-2000 <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Omega</b> <br /><small>Member # 91</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,4,23,16,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 04, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:16 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> OK, I should have seen that coming...<P>------------------<BR>Francesca: He was born on the tundra, that's where he belongs. You'll kill him if you take him to Toronto.<BR>Thatcher: That's a bit drastic, don't you think?<BR>Francesca: Look, I've been to Toronto. Trust me, nothing can survive there. - "due South" <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Sidewinder</b> <br /><small>Member # 50</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,5,20,41,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 05, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:41 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Speaking of good ole Pat, he came and spoke at my university a few weeks ago. What an arrogrant fool. And the seniors love him! What really angered me was his horrible views of homosexuals. Enough said (before I get angry and get booted off this little community).<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>First of Two</b> <br /><small>Member # 16</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,10,5,22,14,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 05, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">10:14 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Liam:<P>"For Me to POOP on!" is the tagline of Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, previously seen frequently on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.. at least till sued by the Pets.com people.<P>He was also at the Friar's Club roast of Rob Reiner on 11-1, which is probably what reminded me of it to use it there.<P>------------------<BR>"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master<P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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