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From: Eeyore on 10 Nov 2006 09:01 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > My folks, > who will not see 80 again, dug a dry well by hand in the > summer of 2005. Dare I ask why ? Graham
From: lucasea on 10 Nov 2006 09:01 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ej1qbp$8ss_006(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <9HG4h.11569$B31.1808(a)newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>news:eivamt$8qk_008(a)s839.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>> In article <BM14h.8314$B31.7002(a)newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, >>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>>> >>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>>news:eiq0h1$8qk_012(a)s900.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>>> In article <dGS3h.5355$7F3.3682(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>, >>>>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>"krw" <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote in message >>>>>>news:MPG.1fb9bd1d862e8abb989ab0(a)news.individual.net... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Dry wood burns very cleanly. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It still stinks to hell. >>>>>> >>>>>>Not if you're using a good, modern wood stove, and good dry >>>>>>(particularly >>>>>>hard) wood. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> I burn some in a fairly efficient stove, >>>>>> >>>>>>It's not just efficiency, it's also related to pollution control >>>>>>devices. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> but unless there is a wind blowing it's a mess. It stinks if it's >>>>>>> still, >>>>>> >>>>>>Not if you're using a good, modern wood stove, and good dry >>>>>>(particularly >>>>>>hard) wood. >>>>> >>>>> How do you make everybody do this? >>>> >>>>Why your desparate need to "make everybody do" things. Why not just let >>>>them make their own decisions, and you make yours? >>> >>> Because there are never "do not burn" stamps on wood filled >>> with arsenic. Because there isn't any pollution controls >>> on burning wood. The ones who "sin" the worst are those >>> who are rabid anti-smokers of cigarettes, consider the need >>> for oil to be a mortal sin, and are against nuclear power plants. >>> >>> Yet these people have no problems with filling a whole neighborhood >>> with smoke and arsenic. This is another example of perfection >>> of inability to think. >> >>Why do you presume that it is the anti-smokers who burn pressure-treated >>lumber illegally? That is a rather illogical, quite misanthropic, and >>*very* disingenuous assumption. > > Why do you assume that I have no personal experience at all? It > appears that, unless I can point you at some web site, you won't > accept any fact at all. STop evading the point. Why do make the extremely disingenuous assumption that it is only (or even predominantly) anti-smokers who illegally burn pressure treated lumber? Or is this more of your circular reasoning....you assume someone must be evil, so therefore that proves that they are evil, thereby justifying your assumption. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 10 Nov 2006 09:06 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ej1qf8$8ss_007(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <t9q6l29vs3eu6l4hii0h5l4duja5rqt80h(a)4ax.com>, > Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >>On Thu, 09 Nov 06 13:33:17 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>Yet these people have no problems with filling a whole neighborhood >>>with smoke and arsenic. This is another example of perfection >>>of inability to think. >> >>You know this for a fact, do you? It's only the anti-smokers who burn >>arsenic-treated wood? Amazing. > > It was anti-smokers in my work area who boasted about burning > wood and not committing the sin of burning oil. Guess what > kinds of wood they burned? Anything that didn't cost much. > My neighborhood had one guy who burnt his old deck wood. I > was very ill. And you use this act of one person to indict *all* antismokers? Nice. Eric Lucas
From: jmfbahciv on 10 Nov 2006 09:06 In article <455485EB.84F083F4(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Raising the minimum wage is stupid and insane. > >Why ? It causes all other prices to eventually go up, especially housing. It eliminates wage competition. People's real productivity is no longer measured nor rewarded with wage. > >I saw it can be a slow as $5 an hour. > >Can anyone actually live on that ? $10k/year? Yes. /BAH
From: John Fields on 10 Nov 2006 09:11
On Fri, 10 Nov 06 12:37:25 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >In article <45535A1F.F229D5D9(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>The best way to avoid a 'mess' is to behave intelligently and avoid provoking >>hostility. --- I think Theodore Roosevelt summed it up quite nicely with "Speak softly and carry a big stick" --- >You are considered to be the equivalent of vermin in a certain >interpretation of the Koran. You do not merit hositility since >that would give you an equal standing. --- I agree. -- JF |