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Aren't you people listening?
Charlie Self wrote:
It's hard to recall now, but Tricky Dicky had such a lock on people's minds back then that he had NO worries at all about being elected. Except those manufactured by his own paranoid fantasies. No, it's very easy for me to recall. Deja vu, almost. His approval rating soared because he appeared to be doing something to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, he found the solution and the perfect exit strategy. Declare yourself the winner and leave. And then the proof built up and he left. Whoa, did someone just download to the matrix or something? -- Ken Tough |
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It's hard to recall now, but Tricky Dicky had such a lock on people's
minds back then that he had NO worries at all about being elected. Except those manufactured by his own paranoid fantasies. If we had the Powershot G5 back then, TD would be locked onto our CF cards - and burnt to CDR, which may have faded away by now if we did not keep recopying - except those manufactured by his polaroid. Perhaps we would have developed a more permanent storage solution by now. This is a digital photography group people!!! |
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"Steven M. Scharf" wrote in news:GX2bd.2853
: Look at the price of gasoline at the end of the Clinton administration and now. It isn't an issue of supply, it's an issue of the falling value of the dollar and of speculation in oil futures. You don't think the dramatically increased demand from China has anything to do with the price increases? The dollar is at .81 Euro, but gasoline is up more than 20%... Speculation can only work to smooth out prices -- when speculators buy high and sell low they go bankrupt. Falling dollar means we will export more and import less -- most people consider those good things. The only potential downside is that it makes investments in US securities less attractive which can drive up interest rates. I agree with you that government spending in general is bad and that it should be cut wherever possible -- less taxation is always preferable, and lower deficits require less foreign investment. The deficit, while high in absolute terms, is actually "typical" from a % of GDP standpoint. And yeah, I did take a few too many courses in economics. RPD input: Falling dollar means higher digital camera prices and higher media prices. Bob -- Delete the inverse SPAM to reply |
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"Gene Palmiter" wrote in
news:5Zrbd.289$4V3.95@trndny01: Was any of the Saudis in this discussion a Bin Laden? Almost certainly. Did Bush know that 911 was coming. If he didn't it was intentional. Everyone in the world should have seen that something was coming. Maybe not planes into the WTC specifically, but something. Tom Clancy wrote about using a fueled 747 to attack the Capitol building in a novel. "They" had been killing "us" at every opportunity and without repercussions, including trying to blow up the WTC. And it started long before Bush took office. -- Delete the inverse SPAM to reply |
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Ken Tough wrote in
news Anyway, price at the pump is governed by sweet crude, and the fact that gas consumption is exponentially escalating [from huger and huger vehicles], Fuel efficiency isn't exponentially worse in "huger" vehicles. MPG would need to drop from 20 to 2 to create exponential growth. Look to another cause. Like the exponential growth of fuel usage in China. You know a lot of the reason for the demand for SUVs can be traced to fuel efficiency standards. You used to be able to buy a station wagon that could tow a trailer, but with the standards you couldn't, so the industry responded by making station wagons out of trucks. Bob -- Delete the inverse SPAM to reply |
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"bob" wrote in message . .. "Gene Palmiter" wrote in news:5Zrbd.289$4V3.95@trndny01: Was any of the Saudis in this discussion a Bin Laden? Almost certainly. Did Bush know that 911 was coming. If he didn't it was intentional. Everyone in the world should have seen that something was coming. Maybe not planes into the WTC specifically, but something. Tom Clancy wrote about using a fueled 747 to attack the Capitol building in a novel. "They" had been killing "us" at every opportunity and without repercussions, including trying to blow up the WTC. And it started long before Bush took office. -- When the administration claims the WTC attacks of 911 was unimaginable...well....the imagining part was already done by Clancy. It was just one of the warnings. Some in the FBI were worried about Saudi pilots who didn't want to learn to land. There will be terrorists attacks. If there are enough ****ed off people in the country some will find a way to express themselves. But this one? This mode of attack? It could have been prevented by locking the cabin doors! You can't open that with box cutter. |
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bob writes:
You know a lot of the reason for the demand for SUVs can be traced to fuel efficiency standards. You used to be able to buy a station wagon that could tow a trailer, but with the standards you couldn't, so the industry responded by making station wagons out of trucks. That may be the reason for some SUV sales. But the majority of SUVs I see do not have a hitch, so they haven't been used to tow anything. They aren't dirty, so they haven't been used off-road recently. They don't have a lot of people in them, so they're not a replacement for a minivan. For the most part, they have just one person inside, and are used for urban driving just like any car. They're just a big, heavy, expensive car that doesn't have to meet the same standards. Dave |
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bob writes:
You know a lot of the reason for the demand for SUVs can be traced to fuel efficiency standards. You used to be able to buy a station wagon that could tow a trailer, but with the standards you couldn't, so the industry responded by making station wagons out of trucks. That may be the reason for some SUV sales. But the majority of SUVs I see do not have a hitch, so they haven't been used to tow anything. They aren't dirty, so they haven't been used off-road recently. They don't have a lot of people in them, so they're not a replacement for a minivan. For the most part, they have just one person inside, and are used for urban driving just like any car. They're just a big, heavy, expensive car that doesn't have to meet the same standards. Dave |
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bob wrote:
"Gene Palmiter" wrote in news:5Zrbd.289$4V3.95@trndny01: Was any of the Saudis in this discussion a Bin Laden? Almost certainly. Did Bush know that 911 was coming. If he didn't it was intentional. Everyone in the world should have seen that something was coming. Maybe not planes into the WTC specifically, but something. Tom Clancy wrote about using a fueled 747 to attack the Capitol building in a novel. "They" had been killing "us" at every opportunity and without repercussions, including trying to blow up the WTC. And it started long before Bush took office. As did Clive Cussler and Dan Brown, if I recall correctly. It still left our national leadership aghast. Now they believe, or at least ONE candidate for president does. |
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Dave Martindale wrote:
bob writes: You know a lot of the reason for the demand for SUVs can be traced to fuel efficiency standards. You used to be able to buy a station wagon that could tow a trailer, but with the standards you couldn't, so the industry responded by making station wagons out of trucks. That may be the reason for some SUV sales. But the majority of SUVs I see do not have a hitch, so they haven't been used to tow anything. They aren't dirty, so they haven't been used off-road recently. They don't have a lot of people in them, so they're not a replacement for a minivan. For the most part, they have just one person inside, and are used for urban driving just like any car. They're just a big, heavy, expensive car that doesn't have to meet the same standards. Dave They are also a solution for those parents with 2 or more small children/infants. WE mandated this when child safety seats were required. Try to get a family of 5 in a typical 'family car', with a booster seat, and an infant seat. |
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