From: Jim Thompson on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:02:56 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
<zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
>message news:vn9ct596un5cab1pgra4d4fhj1ddqak3qe(a)4ax.com...
>> I'll wager the Dems will retain control of Congress in 2010, and Obama
>> will get a second term.
>>
>> To see how that will happen, just look at Florida... loser Repubs will
>> run as independents, splitting the vote, allowing Dem wins.
>
>Good point... republicans might do it to themselves; no Ross Perot needed!
>
>> You'll all love it, and deserve it... suckers!
>
>Still firming up those plans to leave the country, eh?
>
>---Joel

Yup!

...Jim Thompson
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From: Joel Koltner on
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
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> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:02:56 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
>>Still firming up those plans to leave the country, eh?
> Yup!

Details, details! ...what date do you have in mind? 2011? Further out?

From: krw on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:48:46 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
<zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

><krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:32:30 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
>> <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> -- the
>>>vast majority of people don't value the extra bit of control that manual
>>>transmissions, engine controls, etc. might given them.
>> Truckers do.
>
>It helps to keep them awake on those long hauls if they have a few
>switches/controls to move around, even if it doesn't actually do much anymore?
>:-)
>
>I really don't know much of anything about modern trucks, though (other than
>that some of them do still have glow plug switches). For the average trucker,
>what controls are still found to be useful?

Clutch.

>> I don't believe you. The government will make sure that never happens.
>
>Could be. What are your predictions for the types of cars that'll be common
>in the coming decades?

Have you ever watched the Flintstones?

>Would you wager any money yet on Obama being a one-term president? :-)

I was willing to put that wager down before the last election.

>> I put together a utility to generate our capital requests (using TSO CLISTs
>> and PDF calls), then print FOILs (transparencies to real people) and
>> handouts
>> in the appropriate fonts. The counters of beans were quite impressed. If
>> the
>> computer said we needed toys we must really need toys.
>
>Nice!

A few years later the words they wanted to hear was "saving headcount". I
invented jobs "headcount saved or avoided" long before anyone had heard of
Obummer. Beancounters and academics are so predictable.
From: krw on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:55:08 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:48:46 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
><zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>
>>Would you wager any money yet on Obama being a one-term president? :-)
>[snip]
>>---Joel
>
>I'll wager the Dems will retain control of Congress in 2010, and Obama
>will get a second term.

I'll take the bet.

>To see how that will happen, just look at Florida... loser Repubs will
>run as independents, splitting the vote, allowing Dem wins.

I thought so at first too, but the Tea Partiers don't seem to be that stupid.
They'll be fragged, first. If Crist ran as an independent, he could easily
come in second, but the Rubio would still win.

>You'll all love it, and deserve it... suckers!

The suckers are paying now. They are seeing the light.
From: Jim Thompson on
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:25:35 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
<zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
>message news:g3bct51jk2pvrv1qf8qjeegsqmpic18oll(a)4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:02:56 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
>>>Still firming up those plans to leave the country, eh?
>> Yup!
>
>Details, details! ...what date do you have in mind? 2011? Further out?

When the tax rates get obtrusive. If the Dems keep Congress this
mid-term I'll be packing.

...Jim Thompson
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The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy