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From: Lloyd Parker on 5 Dec 2006 05:42 In article <el3tjb$8qk_004(a)s881.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >In article <200612051249.kB5CnKxU005870(a)ipp.mpg.de>, > Bruce Scott TOK <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote: >>Typical of right wingnuts to >> >>1) turn this to a thread about Hillary >> >>2) focus on her minutiae (and slick willie's) while ignoring the >> magnitude of what came after > >The US is in danger of having those two in the White House again. >We apparently never learn from previous history, especially recent >history. > > >> >>The difference in the scale of the corruption is at least three orders >>of magnitude, people. In lives as well as in money. > >I think you listen to Hillary's speeches to the Palestians >to get a handle of what she would be willing to cede. >Isarel was one of those things. > >/BAH > OK, official idiot alert!
From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 11:08 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >Talking of insane have you heard about the bunch of god-believers who > >> >think humans and dinosaurs once co-existed ? > >> > >> Sure. I even know some who think the heavens and the earth have > >> were created 10,000 years ago...IIRC, that's the number. > >> <snip> > >> > >> >There are many things I find deeply disturbing about the USA ! > >> > >> That was the problem I was working on before 9/11. > > > >Perhaps you'd like to elaborate ? > > The US religious extremists and the European socialist > extremists are trying to destroy knowledge and get the > level of knowledge back to the "good ol' days". No question about the US religious right but where do you get the ideas about Europe from ? I don't know of any 'socialist extremists'. And don't just say that's my upbringing - let's have some facts ! > I have been doing little tweaks to prevent that from > happening. I've also been doing a dump of my brain's > contents to document what I know and what I know has > already been lost. > > None of this preservation matters if extreme Islam > becomes the predominate governing and economic law. And how exactly is that ever going to happen ? Facts again please not political diatribe. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 11:11 Ken Smith wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > [....] > >Heck, even I'm old enought to have used a slide rule. I still must have one > >somewhere ! > > I own two and even know where the better one is. I ought to have two still but I really don't know for sure where they got to. I have a drawing board too but that never got that much use in the end. Graham
From: unsettled on 5 Dec 2006 11:13 krw wrote: > In article <4575811C.AEDAD6A9(a)hotmail.com>, > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: >>> >>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I rather doubt that it does happen all the time in the USA. I suspect >>>>>>>>it's just another of your fanciful folksy notions. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Nope. It's fact. >>>>>> >>>>>>I still don't believe you. Your 'facts' have been rather fanciful to date. >>>>> >>>>>All of my brothers and sisters bought their own home before they >>>>>got legal (21). They were on their second or third car. They >>>>>worked and supported themselves. All of my relatives on my mother's >>>>>side had some kind farm business before they were legal. >>>>> >>>>>None were rich. None were even middle class. Most were poor. >>>>> >>>>>/BAH >>>> >>>>Teenagers buy their own homes, and "none were right -- none were even middle >>>>class." >>>> >>>>There's your problem -- you have no idea of what "middle class" means. Hint: >>> >>>>middle-class teenagers are not able to buy their own homes. >>> >>>Right. Poor ones manage to do so. One of the lessons you learn >>>when you grow up poor is how not to spend money. >> >>Dear BAH, >> >>the 'entry price round here for even a modest single bedroom apartment, never mind >>a house is the equivalent of �300,000. >> >>Please explain how a 'poor person' can acquire one. > > > Live elsewhere. A bank is having trouble locally selling a perfectly livable house with an asking price of $19,000. I'll bet anyone with a job and $100 cash and a reasonable credit history could move in tomorrow.
From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 11:17
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > >> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >> > >> >>You really should do all that; she's now doing the preliminary > >> >>running for 2008 Presidency. The Liberals in this state want > >> >>her for President so that Bill can take over again. > >> > > >> >Yeah, we long for those days of peace > >> > >> YOu have a very odd definition of peace. > >> > >> > and prosperity, of balanced budgets, > >> > >> Budgets were not balanced. > > > >They were a heck of a lot better ! > > No, they weren't. Money was getting "saved" by stripping the > military funding. The social security chits were still getting > used. I don't remember the trade deficit ever going away. I don't see any problem with reducing military spending to realistic levels. The trade deficit has rocketed under Bush. > >I'm truly astonised. > > > >In the time GWB has been in office, the value of the dollar has dropped by > > >40% > > Based on what? Compared to the pound. It's 30% down btw - my error. It's previous value @ ~ $1.40 to the pound was 40% more than the current rate though. Graham |