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[dr_lew]

First noting that this was a very interesting probe into the past ...

This seems to be it:

To: cornelis

In The Descent of Man, published in 1871, Darwin outlined the basic reasoning that still stands today concerning the races of mankind. Darwin pointed out that if we used the techniques that naturalists used to identify race in nonhuman species, we would conclude that there really were no races in anatomically modern humans.

This is an outrageous misrepresentation. Here's Darwin:

There is however no doubt that the various races, when carefully compared and measured, differ much from each other, - as in the texture of the hair, the relative proportions of all parts of the body, the capacity of the lungs, the form and capacity of the skull, and even in the convolutions of the brain. ... The races differ also in constitution, in acclimatisation, and in liability to certain diseases. Their mental capacities are likewise very distinct; chiefly as it would appear in their emotional, but partly in their intellectual, faculties.

What Darwin argues, and what makes him liberal for his time, is that these differences are not enough to make different species out of the races, and that the variation among races is small compared to the features which distinguish humans from the other animals.

190 posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:10:48 PM by dr_lew

[wita]

I remember once having access to that member number, but have long since forgotten how to access it. I used to copy early posts to a 3.5 inch drive and still have a computer with one but that computer has been parked for years.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I signed on in 1999. I clearly remember participating from the get-go, but the earliest comment from me that has been retained by the servers is from 2001. It was a typically snarky one in response to reports of a new more virulent strain of HIV/AIDS. Enjoy:

"falsely thinking that an AIDS cocktail will save you"

No cocktail will save anyone from cock-in-tail! ;-)

[deks]

Ah... the Javelin.
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Cool Javelin video... Javelin missile system test fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIlROqW0fnc

Also noticed this interesting line in your first comment thread on December 4, 2001 [I guess the fundraiser started on Dec 1 back then]

“4 days into the fundraiser and we are 59% there.”

[knarf]

eyes ............... glazing .................. over .................. mind is ................... mumbling .................... I want .................. my mommy ...................... I AM ..................... off your frikkin’ ................. lawn .....................

[TigersEye]

IIRC you used to be able to see your member number in the URL of a particular page. I just went through every page connected to my account that I could think of and couldn’t find it. If there is still a way to do it I didn’t figure it out.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Recently there was a report on FR about newly redesigned incandescent light bulbs that are much more efficient than the current technology.

Supposedly this is a new technology, but look why I dug up from the memory hole...

Tungsten Light Bulbs Redesigned

[Persephone Kore]

Abdul Qadeer Khan: We've not yet seen all the fallout of Pakistan's nuclear proliferation.
2/18/2004, 1:58:35 AM ^. 35 of 46
Persephone Kore to angkor; Khan Noonian Singh

nugan hand is another whose inner secrets are still hidden well.

[Politicalkiddo]

To: Dr. Sivana

Well, they are both from GA....

369 posted on 11/4/2011, 8:43:04 PM by Politicalkiddo

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Discussion about Lazamataz and Herman Cain being one and the same.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2802522/posts?page=63#63

[Former War Criminal]

00/00/0000

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

[Captainpaintball]

That's going back almost 16 years. It would take me hours, and I know not all my posts are still there.

And I am nowhere near the prolific poster 50% of other freepers are or were. Imagine the time it would take them...

Now if you had a program to automatically search and find everybody's first post, that would be cool!

[alexander_busek]

I'd be happy to repost my first posting, but the long S is garbled, and all the "ye"s and "thou"s get pretty tiring after a while.

Regards,

[Former War Criminal]

To: Sacajaweau
School Motto: “Jones Beach or Bust” - Class of ‘60

27 posted on 6/28/2007, 8:57:17 AM by Former War Criminal
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[texas_mrs]

Found it by doing a bing search of “freerepublic Texas.mrs Ben Barnes”, since I remembered the subject. I had lurked for several years and when Bush was under fire from Dan Rather, etc I finally had to sign up to post what I knew about Ben Barnes:

The Austin Review ^ | August 8, 2002 | CHARLES GANSKE
Posted on September 3, 2004 at 9:58:05 AM CDT by texas_mrs

Watson’s supporters even include the scandal-ridden former Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, who has been an Austin developer and is now a lobbyist for the controversial Longhorn Pipeline. The nearly completed Pipeline, which is designed to transport gas from the Gulf Coast to El Paso, has been derided by environmentalists because it runs through many of Austin’s most environmentally sensitive areas and residential neighborhoods. Barnes’ checkered past includes the Sharpstown scandal in the 1970s and his lucrative and ethically questionable lobbying contract for GTECH, the company that runs the embattled Texas Lottery. During the 1980s, he developed the controversial Estates of Barton Creek, a subdivision opposed by environmentalists. Barnes has donated more than $28,000 in cash and auction items to the Watson campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at austinreview.com ...

TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Click to Add Topic
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I remember this guy and the Sharpstown scandal in the news when I was a kid. We lived near Brownwood, Texas and my father actually did some work with Mr. Barnes and said then he was one of the most crooked persons he had ever known & couldnt be trusted. Dad distanced himself from Barnes before the scandal era. Barnes also was widely known as a blatant womanizer and cheated on all his wives. It is just like him to crawl out from under a rock now to help the Dems.............
1 posted on September 3, 2004 at 9:58:05 AM CDT by texas_mrs
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[Dagnabitt]

I first registered in 2002, but was "zotted" a few yeas later with the simple reason "Troll" for pointing out that George W. Bush was trying to shove a massive illegal-alien amnesty down our throats.

Glad FR has come around regarding that president and that family.

[unlearner]

Interesting exercise.

Tough to get back that far.

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Police: 6 People Beat Up Alleged Peeping Tom
8/18/2004, 1:45:05 PM - 32 of 62
unlearner to esryle
I am fairly new to freerepublic.com. It is a great site. This is my first post.

After reading so many responses to this article a little while ago I just had to get in my two-cents worth.

Everyone just seems to take for granted that this peeping tom is a pedophile. I think that is being naive...

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Don’t want to post the whole thing because it is long.

Here is the link to the whole post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1194013/posts?page=32#32

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For me, I had to go here

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings?more=67000000

to get to my first post. I do not know if this link will work for anyone else, but I am including it in case it helps.

[Bullish]

Uh, yeah... Not happening

[EasySt]

This was my first post...

Veterans continue campaign against Kerry
August 22, 2004 at 7:09:08 PM PDT · 57 of 70
EasySt to Guillermo

“Didn’t John Edwards himself say to “spend 3 minutes with anyone who served with John Kerry?”

Well, so far I’ve spent 60 seconds with some of them, having seen the first and now the second of the Swift Vets 30 second ads.

That was enough to get me to send them $100, thus doing my little part to aid them in giving the country the much needed remaining two minutes worth.... ;-)

[major-pelham]

Too hard to find. After lurking all through the impeachment years I registered. Can’t recall my first post but I can recall my first article.

I did a live FReep at the NH Baseball writers dinner where W was appearing as the NH campaign 1999-2000 was getting into full swing. Ted Williams RIP was there that night too.

[EasySt]

This was some time later, but one of my favorites:

US on the moon ‘by 2020’
September 19, 2005 at 6:20:39 PM PDT · 107 of 222
EasySt to Aussie Dasher

Why?

Because the last time we went, we didn’t stay.

We need to stay because we need to respond to the challenge of this Millennia. We need to open up the new frontier and reap the economic, societal, environmental and cultural benefits of space based manufacturing, energy production, research, exploration, tourism, jobs and ultimately, emigration. This can actually be better than tax cuts. It’s not a zero sum game. Property rights, however, are considerably more difficult to enforce when one is not in “residence”. Especially if someone else (China?), is.

Space, the Moon, planets, asteroids, comets, all offer resources and possibilities to lift the human condition, and preserve it.

Assuming we don’t perish by our own hand, or suffer extinction from some Texas sized asteroid, we already know that ultimately, our own sun will do this planet in.

So, are we gonna be a space faring race, or not?

The longer we stay anchored to this rock, the more scarce its resources become. We have a window of opportunity to jump start the species into space and let the limitless potential there fuel our imagination and progress, or we can squabble here until we scrape this ball clean, and get real creative with population controls so we have just the right number of people here to watch that last sunset.