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Tosk

6/24/2008 11:36 PM

die with honor

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My apology LC, yes you did have a valid point about a version of globalization. Another example would be the worldwide spread of fire ants or Africanized bees ... sorry I let one of my buttons get pushed ... sharing the joy includes sharing the misery I suppose, shrug. In retrospect, I suppose every little tin pot dictator, with delusions are grander, has attempted their own brand of globalization from Ancient Egypt to Hitler. As to the fact that he who has the gold makes the rules ... it has always been so. Luckily for we the people if he who has the gold forgets how he got it, and goes on a tyrannical power trip, he soon loses it ... that too has always been so. What was that quote again NC? ... oh wait it's in LC's sig. That is the reason I do not fear big business ... the ones that last are the ones that do not incur the wrath of their customers. Don't like the price of gas? don't buy it! Yeah I know, everyone has a everyone has their own excuse why they have to have it. One needn't even look outside the box to see that they are all just excuses. Gas has been around for what 200 years out of 6000 years of human history ... and yes you can just do it.
-- ****************************** Mine honor is my life; both grow in one: Take honor from me, and my life is done: Da Bard ... But something tosk would say. Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now they bleat like sheep for security. ~ Norman Vincent Peale~ We don't have to live in the kind of America the two Major parties have in store for us. Together, let us lay the foundations for an America worthy of our Founding Fathers. ~Ron Paul~

Locus Coeruleus

6/24/2008 11:37 PM

Radical Centrist

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95 percent of my response was my own! Sorry, I could not let that Pink Floyd reference pass. I think linking would be inappropriate to things like news articles and such, but the link I provided was nothing to do with such things, it was for entertainment purposes only. Sometimes libraries delve into such things!
-- Reaching out now and I touch your face, Please believe I'm only traveling. Like seeking wonder from a foreign place, It matters not from where I'm coming. -Ween, "Back to Basom".

Black Owl

6/24/2008 11:43 PM

First Lieutenant

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Yeah, I know my own libray has entertainment audio vis..................stuff. I'm just trying to head off a rush to clickety-clicks if possible. I really would like to see this happen. Just personal thoughts and beliefs. Just in this one little thread.
-- "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."---JFK Edited: 6/24/2008 11:46 PM by Black Owl

Locus Coeruleus

6/25/2008 12:07 AM

Radical Centrist

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Yes, Owl, and I must say, it is a great experiment. The nature of the discussion seems to be quite more pleasing than other threads that just become, as you say, quote- and link- fests. Tosk, no worries mate. I know the Catholic Church is a sore spot for a lot of people! Anyways, you are right, if you don't like the price of gas, don't buy it. Something Stalin said about one death being a tragedy, but one million a statistic....well, along those same lines, one person is an activist, but one million, a movement; and you are right, even in today's sorry state of affairs, we the people still do retain some power. It's just getting the rest of we the people to realize that. Of course, when you live in a county, as I do, where some 80 percent of "we the people" receive some form of government assistance (welfare, anyone? Foodstamps, maybe) it is hard to get more of we the people on board, unfortunately... But that doesn't mean you quit trying...
-- Reaching out now and I touch your face, Please believe I'm only traveling. Like seeking wonder from a foreign place, It matters not from where I'm coming. -Ween, "Back to Basom".

-M-

6/25/2008 12:58 AM

lame duck

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Sir Black, do you subscribe to Playboy or Maxim or any other gentlemen's magazins? I sure feel like flipping through one, while ya'all are discussing such grand matters.
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

Black Owl

6/25/2008 1:07 AM

First Lieutenant

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The Mens room is that way.
-- "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."---JFK

jerm

6/25/2008 2:05 AM

Elite Pathogen

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Locus, let me tell you a personal story :puffs on bubble pipe:. 4+ years ago, I lived in L.A. I commuted 35 miles to work and 35 miles home. I used up a lot of gas. I filled my gas tank up more than once a week. I made a decent amount of money so it was worth the drive. 4 years ago, I decided to move to Utah and do the same job from home. My commute consists of me putting on my slippers and heading into my [finished] basement to work (and come to 1BC way too often ). Even with $4+ gas, it's not a burden. Yes there are choices that people have to use gas. I realize not everyone has the same situation as I do but there are options. You do make a good point about the Sauds using oil funds to fund Wahabism and I have been coming round on the "Manhattan Project" type solution as well. I am leary of some of the ways the government tries to "help" though. Will the solution only make matters worse like with the Ethanol scam? 80% of the people use Welfare where you live? Wow, that is a lot.
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

Nuclearcow

6/25/2008 2:32 AM

Udderly ridiculous

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Duh! That Gandhi quote IS on LC's signature, huh? looks at his cigar and wonders again what is in it Sometimes I'm as sharp as a bowling ball. Sorry fellas. looks at Jerm's "bubble pipe" and realizes it is really some fancy bong "Jerm!" So. New topic then? How about I propose 2? 1) if you could see humanity in general, gain or lose 1 trait, or 1 tendency that people have or don't have, what would it be? This can be something for the good of mankind, or just because something annoys you and nothing 'higher' in purpose. 2nd topic. Pet peeves. What are yours? takes the pipe away from Jerm and passes him a Sprite
-- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow-lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain "Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Harold Thurman Whitman

jerm

6/25/2008 2:40 AM

Elite Pathogen

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Hey, give me back my "bubble pipe". I'll need it to answer Nuke's questions .
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences