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sophie996 Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 04:49 PM
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24. thanks ...
SarahBelle and Lolly, for pointing that out! One of the biggest hypocrisies of the current administration is their determination to poison and destroy the environment, as if they didn't live in it. Maybe they're space aliens. ;)
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  -The handmaid's tale will soon be prophecy not fiction Christ was Socialist  Apr-25-04 01:39 PM   #0 
  - so basically  7th_Sephiroth   Apr-25-04 01:42 PM   #1 
  - it's more than that  Christ was Socialist   Apr-25-04 01:51 PM   #2 
  - I saw a movie recently based on it.  Cleita   Apr-25-04 01:54 PM   #4 
     - Oh man, you MUST read the book  Scairp   Apr-25-04 07:50 PM   #30 
        - I'll check to see if my library has it.  Cleita   Apr-25-04 08:31 PM   #33 
        - Of course your name will go on "the list" if you do that.  Iceburg   Apr-26-04 05:38 AM   #44 
        - I don't care.  Cleita   Apr-26-04 05:08 PM   #59 
           - Just Kiddin' Cleita ....  Iceburg   Apr-26-04 05:51 PM   #60 
        - It's still in print.  Iris   Apr-26-04 09:00 AM   #52 
        - I agree with that  MaRadix   Apr-26-04 02:00 AM   #36 
        - The movie wasn't that bad  mandyky   Apr-26-04 04:35 AM   #42 
           - I didn't think the movie was that bad either.  CalamityJane   Apr-26-04 07:33 AM   #48 
  - Margaret Atwood got the idea for the book after visiting there.  libertad   Apr-26-04 09:21 AM   #53 
  - Worse than the Stepford Wives,  Liberal Gramma   Apr-25-04 01:52 PM   #3 
  - Hi Liberal Gramma!!  newyawker99   Apr-25-04 01:55 PM   #5 
  - Greetings and welcome, Liberal Gramma  MaRadix   Apr-26-04 02:13 AM   #38 
  - Women in the US need to arm themselves  Mari333   Apr-25-04 01:56 PM   #6 
  - I don't really like having guns around.  Cleita   Apr-25-04 02:02 PM   #8 
  - Maybe so but if Afghan women had them now  Mari333   Apr-25-04 02:08 PM   #9 
     - If they kill you, you can't fight for anything.  Cleita   Apr-25-04 03:59 PM   #20 
     - but these women like their burqua  Marianne   Apr-25-04 04:19 PM   #22 
     - I know women who dont like the burqua  Mari333   Apr-25-04 07:05 PM   #27 
        - I know where you live  Marianne   Apr-25-04 07:11 PM   #28 
           - Canada is hard to get into I hear  Mari333   Apr-25-04 08:01 PM   #31 
              - Not if you have a boat and come from Michigan  noonwitch   Apr-26-04 08:15 AM   #51 
                 - really! I am 4 hours from Canada  Mari333   Apr-26-04 09:24 AM   #54 
     - Except that one of the most disturbing ideas in the Handmaid's Tale  MaRadix   Apr-26-04 02:09 AM   #37 
        - That's what happened in Rawanda  Iceburg   Apr-26-04 05:44 AM   #46 
  - theoretically...  syrinx9999   Apr-25-04 02:11 PM   #10 
  - It isn't about sex, it's about power.  Catshrink   Apr-25-04 02:20 PM   #15 
  - I think its ironic  FizzFuzz   Apr-25-04 06:20 PM   #26 
     - I know I know  Mari333   Apr-25-04 08:28 PM   #32 
     - That is such an interesting question  lapislzi   Apr-26-04 08:12 AM   #50 
  - think about this novel every time you use a Diebold ATM  havocmom   Apr-25-04 01:59 PM   #7 
  - Oh Yeah  Crisco   Apr-25-04 07:15 PM   #29 
  - And isn't it interesting  saracat   Apr-25-04 02:11 PM   #11 
  - I read that book........it IS chilling.....and very possible.  Th1onein   Apr-25-04 02:11 PM   #12 
  - It's the blueprint for TODAY and it was written in 1986.  JanMichael   Apr-25-04 02:13 PM   #13 
  - In moderate ways in society, it is here already  SarahBelle   Apr-25-04 02:16 PM   #14 
  - There's also the Defense of Marriage Act and earlier  MaRadix   Apr-26-04 02:22 AM   #40 
  - As I recall from the book....  terrya   Apr-25-04 02:21 PM   #16 
  - We toxified ourselves  SarahBelle   Apr-25-04 02:25 PM   #17 
  - Upper-class men rendered sterile  lolly   Apr-25-04 03:12 PM   #19 
     - thanks ...  sophie996   Apr-25-04 04:49 PM   #24 
  - All people of color were "evil", religious racism, from fundamentalists  bobthedrummer   Apr-26-04 02:18 AM   #39 
  - I thought it was science fiction when I read it 15 years ago...  Jeebo   Apr-25-04 03:04 PM   #18 
  - Creepy story--but not likely, IMO.  davsand   Apr-25-04 04:18 PM   #21 
  - people said the same about the holocaust b4 it happened  Christ was Socialist   Apr-25-04 04:29 PM   #23 
  - When the takeover happens, Offred notes that the military people  CalamityJane   Apr-26-04 07:49 AM   #49 
  - Thanks, Laura!  BiggJawn   Apr-26-04 10:18 AM   #57 
  - more akin to the Taliban or the Islamic fundametalists...  Waverley_Hills_Hiker   Apr-25-04 04:53 PM   #25 
  - The Taliban surely took notes from that book  indigo32   Apr-26-04 05:17 AM   #43 
  - anyone know any producers? They need to remake the movie  Mari333   Apr-25-04 08:32 PM   #34 
  - Just finished watching the movie, and  smirkymonkey   Apr-26-04 12:53 AM   #35 
  - Franks is a moran! They will have to pry the Constitution outta  Rex   Apr-26-04 02:36 AM   #41 
  - Robert A. Heinlein  Babel_17   Apr-26-04 05:40 AM   #45 
  - Read the book, saw the movie,  Nobody   Apr-26-04 06:01 AM   #47 
  - When I first read the book  skippysmom   Apr-26-04 09:30 AM   #55 
  - When the book came out, it was reviewed on NPR...long time ago.  Neshanic   Apr-26-04 10:08 AM   #56 
  - Terrifying because it can happen  cmf   Apr-26-04 10:31 AM   #58 
 

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